This is the list of dicussion that are filed as of 19 January 2006.

Welcome edit

Hello Slivester, welcome to Wikipedia.

You might find these links helpful in editing pages or creating new ones: Tutorial, How to write a great article, Naming conventions, Manual of Style. You should read our policies at some point too.

But don't feel you have to read every policy document before you do anything. I see you've already done good work on Sellapan Rama Nathan. That's great - dive in, be bold in editing, and if you do anything wrong, someone will be quick to correct it and let you know (hopefully, politely!)

If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!

You may have already noticed that you can sign your name using three tildes, like this: ~~~. If you use four, you can add a datestamp too, as I've done below. This is mostly useful, and is considered good etiquette, on talk pages. But be aware that the actual wikipedia articles should never be signed - they belong to the community, rather than the individual who created them.

Again, welcome! --ALargeElk 09:54, 20 May 2004 (UTC)Reply

Hi there edit

We don't agree about meritocracy! I'd like to chat about it sometime. Cheers, [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Wants you to vote!]] 23:07, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My reply is @ User_talk:Sam_Spade#Meritocracy. Cheers, [[User:Sam Spade|Sam]] Spade wishes you a merry Christmas! 11:37, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Reply @ User_talk:Sam_Spade#Meritocracy. Cheers, [[User:Sam Spade|Sam]] Spade wishes you a merry Christmas! 17:28, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello edit

You may be interested in adding your name to Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Singapore and Wikipedia:SGpedians' notice board. Thanks. Mr Tan 15:26, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

MSN Messenger edit

Hey Silvester!

I just realized that you were on my MSN Messenger list, but hardly chatted with you. =P Anyway, a warm welcome to Wikipedia! Hope to hear from you more often in the future! =)

- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 09:12, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello there, of course, hope to hear you soon!

Renaming of József Dudás' page edit

Hi, is there a precise reason you renamed József Dudás to Jozsef Dudas? The first one is the correct spelling in Hungarian, I think. --Orzetto 14:02, 22 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hi Slivester, again on that article... I checked out this page, it's a bit unclear about accents (a bit more on the talk page however). It says that one should use the "latin translitteration", or "English name" instead of the "native spelling", but I think it refers rather to Christopher Columbus instead of Cristoforo Colombo, or Joseph Stalin instead of Iosif Stalin. While "József Dudás" contains accents that are not commonly used in English, others (like Façade, or even the recently front-page featured Căile Ferate Române) maintain the title with their original accents.

I think you understood the policy correctly, since the English Wikipedia could, until June 2005, use only latin-1 characters, but this has recently changed, and UTF-8 titles are now acceptable. I would therefore suggest moving the content to József Dudás, and keeping Jozsef Dudas as a redirect to the article. Cheers, --Orzetto 19:27, 23 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

Yang di-Pertuan Negara edit

Why did you remove references to Sir William Goode from this article? While it may not be a source of great national pride to Singaporeans that the first person to hold the post was the last British Governor, it is a fact! See here and here

Quiensabe 2005-08-29 00:40 UTC

It is to my understanding, that the governor has little representation in this article, the article is regarding the Yang di-Perturn Negara, which has little relation with the governor as politically-corrected in 1959. As for the first Yang di-Pertuan Negara, it was indeed Sir William Goode, of which I have omitted accidentally. However, its worth to be noted that Sir William Goode was sworn in to become the first head of state before democratic election, which under contexts I have referred, do not consider Singapore the State of Singapore, but still a crown colony.
As for the correction you have made, there is no 1959 constitution, but a revised version of 1955, of which was based on the recommendations of the Renden Commission.
As for your comments, it was our honour to have Sir William Goode as our last British head of state; he had himself propagated the independence of Singapore. Slivester 09:05, 30 August 2005 (UTC)Reply
Thank you - I have put 'revisions to the Constitution in 1959' in place of '1959 Constitution'. I think it was the Rendel Commission, and while Sir William Goode may have advocated, supported or promoted the independence of Singapore, he didn't propagate it.

Quiensabe 2005-08-29 9:27 UTC

Propagating as in extending its effects, in which was widely agreed by Singapore historians today. Maybe a vague concept, but some of the most influential historians whom I read about actually attribute "the initial" success of the full self-governance talks to Sir William Goode. Slivester 09:32, 30 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Maps of Singapore edit

Thanks for your kind comment, I will continue to produce those locator maps. As for the local maps of Towns, it will require much more effort, but I would like to do it also if there is already a good article; SengKang and Woodlands are among the good candidates :D. But this will have to be after the locator maps are completed, a project which I'm currently neglecting. You are making very good contributions on Woodlands and cool pictures too! --Vsion 08:44, 11 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Slivester, I would very much like to be part of this map project, although I am not too sure where to atart. What software do you guys use, for instance?--Huaiwei 12:48, 12 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Heya edit

Nothing important, just asking how you found my homepage. I don't think I put it up anywhere on my userpage. :? --Miborovsky 02:53, 12 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

I knew you were familiar. Somehow. Anyway, my MSN is haomin at erpz dot net if you want to discuss anything. -Miborovsky 22:41, 12 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Current events in Malaysia and Singapore edit

In case you havn't notice, you may wish to look at Current events in Malaysia and Singapore for your daily dose of Singaporean News Headlines, with links to wikipedia articles providing background information of these news events. Feel free to contribute too! It's not restricted to national news. Local news from Woodlands, your school, sports and cultural events are also welcomed to be listed there. --Vsion 12:50, 13 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

I will certainly take a look at it. :) Slivester 22:27, 13 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

I cant resist thanking you profusely for your contributions and assistance rendered in the above article. Its a shit job few want to do, and takes up alot of effort and time, but imagine its power when all these info are permanantly archived and forms our very own knowledge throve which can be referenced for the rest of our articles. I hope your contributions will be a sustained one, and lets hope more will join us in the near future! :D--Huaiwei 15:18, 22 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Not a problem at all, and similarily here, I hope more users do contribute, :) Slivester 15:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Erm sil, while I appreciate your efforts in the above page, I have to point out that your creation of the article December 2005 in Malaysia and Singapore has frustrated the normal procedures of archiving and updating Current events in Malaysia and Singapore. The normal procedure is to move from Current events in Malaysia and Singapore to XXX 2005 in Malaysia and Singapore at the end of the month, and then edit the redirect for use in the current month. By creating and making 2 further edits in that page, it is no longer to do a page move, and I have to end up asking an admin to do the move for me.

Hope you may understand how the system works and help to do the maintainance work in future as well! ;)--Huaiwei 14:07, 1 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Image:Mahinda rajapakse.jpg has been listed for deletion edit

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Mahinda rajapakse.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Thuresson 19:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

COTW edit

Hi, if you haven't noticed the COTW page. You may like to take a look here. --Terence Ong Talk 10:19, 26 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

The Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) article is now on FAC. You may like to take a look and vote here. --Terence Ong Talk 08:49, 27 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

thanks edit

  Greetings Slivester,
I wish to offer my gratitude supporting me on my recent momination for adminship, which passed with the final tally of 65/4/3. If you would ever desire my assistance in anything, or wish to give me feedback on any actions I take, feel free to let me know. Cheers! Elle vécut heureusement toujours dorénavant (Be eudaimonic!) 08:03, 1 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Image:Woodlandsday.jpg has been listed for deletion edit

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Woodlandsday.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Admrboltz 01:04, 7 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Image:WoodlandsNight.jpg has been listed for deletion edit

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:WoodlandsNight.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Admrboltz 01:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hominid Emotion Deficiency edit

Hi, Slivester. I was looking over the article you created on Hominid Emotion Deficiency. This is a very interesting concept, but for some reason the reference link you've included isn't working, at least for me. I didn't have any luck on google with "Hominid Emotion Deficiency", and the only references I can find to a "Theodore Syndrome" are about a form of conjunctivitis, so I've added a {{verify}} tag to the page, to see if anyone else could find a source or citation to add, because articles without citations may eventually be listed for deletion. I see you speak a number of languages - are some of your references in non-english sources? If so, that would probably explain why I can't find them. Thanks! -- Vary | Talk 16:48, 7 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

I believed its first released by in Barlonder Nederlandse by a Professor named somthing like H.R Dowrijstadt. I will sort out the sources again. Slivester 02:58, 13 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

relicense your images edit

"Cannot be redistributed without permission" images aren't going to work well for Wikipedia, because of it's GFDL nature (ie. free to redistribute and sell [to recoup any costs of printing, etc.], but not public domain, BUT someone can't just modify it and claim copyright to it). I hope you relicense them, otherwise some will get unnecessarily deleted. Elle vécut heureusement toujours dorénavant (Be eudaimonic!) 09:46, 9 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

The photos that I have uploaded are free to be redistributed, released under public domain. I am still trying to get to bottom on when in heaven does the images get listed for deletion. Thanks for the notice though. Slivester 02:43, 13 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
Your images Image:WoodlandsNight.jpg, Image:Woodlandsday.jpg will still be deleted soon as they are orphans and not attached to any articles. Wikipedia is not an image repository so the articles need to be used or be deleted. -Thanks Nv8200p talk 00:13, 16 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
Appreciate the notice. I believe they are previously used in Woodlands, Singapore before alternatives were selected. Thus, it should do right to be listed for deletion. Slivester 05:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
  • With respect to your wishes on your photoalbum userpage, I've re-tagged your collection as GFDL and removed the CC-SA license. If you also like to dual-license/license under CC/other, feel free to let me know on my talkpage. :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 21:14, 18 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
Ah, thank you for that effort. I am intending to release all into public domain anyway, enough of those copyright hassles. Slivester 02:50, 19 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Image Tagging Image:Lithuanian.ogg edit

 
This image may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Lithuanian.ogg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 06:55, 18 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Technically, it was tagged for deletion on the 9th, so a week has passed but since it doesn't like you were given any real warning, I will give you a chance to keep it from deletion. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
Ah, and I thank you for bringing that to my attention. Slivester 15:50, 18 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to Esperanza! edit

 

Welcome, Slivester/Filed, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. Redwolf24 runs the spam to keep members up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of FireFox, Flcelloguy, Titoxd, and Karmafist. The next set of elections will be in February, and I would be glad to see you vote, or even consider running for a position.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

REDVERS 09:51, 20 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Comment on user page edit

I hope is meant to be a joke. :D Nice one. --Terence Ong 15:08, 20 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

RE:Photographer's Barnstar edit

Thank you very much for the barnstar. I will not let you down and will continue to grow my collection of photos. --Terence Ong (恭喜发财) 16:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

An Esperanzial note edit

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpower háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
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Another Esperanzial note... edit

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)Reply
(message delivered by FireFox using AWB on Celestianpower's behalf)

Barnstar edit

An award for you, Slevelsoin cor Bounifeuisc dénuenenorl on your page.Cheers! Tan DXTdxiang's Official Talk Page on Wikipedia!Tdxiang on IRC09:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Your participation at WP:INWNB edit

Hi, saw your note on INWNB where you wrote "Based in Singapore, but I am very interested in Indian-related articles; editing Delhi Metro now." You may also want to have a go at related articles, such as E. Sreedharan, Mass Rapid Transit System (Chennai) and Chennai suburban railway. --Gurubrahma 06:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

My RFA withdrawal :( edit

Hello Slivester, it is my apologies to bring you that I've withdrawn my RFA. Due to the lack of experience, I would go under admin coaching first before trying again later. I would thank you for your vote in this RFA whether you voted support, oppose or neutral for me. I appreciate your comments (if you do have) you made and I hope to see you here in future. --Terence Ong 10:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1 edit

Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience:
"No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention."
The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them.
Note from the editor
Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!
  1. Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before.
  2. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log.
  3. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time.
  4. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified.
  5. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community.
  6. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially.
  7. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on.
  8. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen.
Signed...
Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2 edit

The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date:
"Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. 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 un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated."
The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them.
Information
Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!
  1. The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details.
  2. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page.
  3. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly.
A plea from the editor...
The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there.
Signed...
Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Old Skool Esperanzial note edit

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)Reply

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3 edit

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.
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!
  1. Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel.
  2. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect.
  3. 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.
  4. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop.
  5. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon.
Signed...

Woodlands, Singapore edit

Sorry for the delay!

If you need new narrations, do ask me! :)-- 贡献 Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 10:19, 11 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Chat Day edit

Hello, we have decided to notice all of you at the eleventh hour. Today its Chat Day and its where SGpedians' go to and have a casual off-topic chat. It is held at our very own Singapore IRC Channel from 2000 (SST) to late. Do come to the channel if you have the time and it is greatly appreciated that you turn up at the channel. --Terence Ong 11:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

A short Esperanzial update edit

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)Reply

Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange edit

Hello! Thanks for the very neat input of the route table in this page. Shall apply this over to other bus interchanges/terminals pages. =) Jinhua 14:17, 8 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

August Esperanza Newsletter edit

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.
  1. 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!
  2. The In development section of the proposals page has been created.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.
  6. 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)Reply
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.

September Esperanza Newsletter edit

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.
  1. The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
  2. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage.
  3. 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!
  4. The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
  5. 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)Reply
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November Esperanza Newsletter edit

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 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...
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Meetup on 24 November edit

Hello, please confirm yourself for the meetup on the 24th by November 18. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please list them at the meetup page yourself. Thanks. --Terence Ong (C | R) 04:17, 12 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hello, just a reminder for you to confirm your attendance for our meetup as soon as you can. Eight people have confirmed their participation so far. Couldn't reach you by e-mail, though. Thanks. —Goh wz 05:04, 19 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Proposed meetup: Singapore 3 edit

Hi Slivester, it was regrettable that you couldn't attend our second meetup on Friday.

The third Singapore Wikipedians' meetup will be held either on 10 March 2007 or on 11 March 2007 in Chaerani's residence, a piece of landed property in Queenstown, Singapore. An estimated ten to fifteen users in the Singapore Wikipedian community are expected to turn up. Please visit the meetup page to indicate your interest for attending this meetup. —Goh wz 06:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

ASCAMI edit

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Spam in MediaCorp Radio edit

 

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on MediaCorp Radio, by Kerrow, another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because MediaCorp Radio is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article.

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Singapore Meetup 4 date changed edit

 
Singapore Meetup

Meetup 14

  • Status: Upcoming
  • Date: Friday, 7 July 2023
  • Time: 7:00pm
  • Place: Aperia Mall Level 1

Please indicate your interest on the meetup page.

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Hi Slivester, you were originally invited to Singapore meetup 4. However, due to the lack of response, the date of the meetup has been changed to November. Please refer to this page for more information. -- ZhongHan (Email) 05:10, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

TfD nomination of Template:Estate edit

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Wikipedia:Meetup/Singapore 4 edit

 
Singapore Meetup

Meetup 14

  • Status: Upcoming
  • Date: Friday, 7 July 2023
  • Time: 7:00pm
  • Place: Aperia Mall Level 1

Please indicate your interest on the meetup page.

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Hi Slivester/Filed, you have been invited to attend the SGpedians' meetup on 29 December 2007. We are planning to make this a full day event, but you may join/leave at anytime you wish. If you can or cannot make it, please leave your name here. It will be good to have you at the meetup. Terence (talk) 08:28, 10 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Sbc sg logo.jpg) edit

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Tcs small low.jpg) edit

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Nomination of Vesyolye Rebyata for deletion edit

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