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Delivered by EdwardsBot ( talk) 00:30, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Feel free to remove this, it is kinda big. Sharktopus talk 06:23, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I reassessed from stub to list. [1] Also, I think I fixed an error in the article. [2] If that wasn't what you intended, please fix. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 00:21, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure that they are different. The Alberta one is too far south from what I could see. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 19:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
On 1 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Faces of Meth, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Faces of Meth project shows before-and-after images documenting physical deterioration caused by meth use? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:05, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I moved Trout Lake (Northwest Territories) back to Trout Lake, Northwest Territories as it is a community rather than a geographic feature. As per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Disambiguation, "With the names of cities, towns, villages and other settlements, as well as administrative divisions, the tag is normally preceded by a comma, as in Hel, Poland, and Polk County, Tennessee." and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Canada-related articles)#Places, "For cities which do not qualify for undisambiguated titles, the correct title format is City, Province/Territory (the "comma convention")." It turns out there are 5 Trout Lakes in the NWT. One is the lake on which the community sits, one is Old Trout Lake and there are two more. The first is easy because it's Trout Lake (Dehcho Region, Northwest Territories) but the other two are both in the same region, North Slave Region. I've asked at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Lakes and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lakes#Disambiguating lakes. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 01:48, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Obsidian Soul seems to have cleverly figured out the map thing. I will try to put it inside the infobox.
This USGS link you gave me has scary lines like: "Buy digital format on media", "Commerical distributors", and "Pricing Information". I found this page yesterday by searching for the string "public domain" on the USGS page: Gallery. It didn't have much. Please let me know if you come up with anything. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:50, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
On 5 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pseudobiceros bedfordi, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the flatworm Pseudobiceros bedfordi uses its two penises to engage in penis fencing (pictured)? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:02, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
<--Any chance I might find you in IRC now, 1 pm-ish NYC time? Sharktopus talk 17:53, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello:
I am willing to get more involved in Wikipedia edition, for we have some projects for Wikipedia in Indiana University. I notice that you are currently in Guangzhou city, where I am come from, and now I am studying in the US. So could you please be my mentor? For our project, please leave some message to my talk page.
Thanks very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by TiMkOk ( talk • contribs) 23:29, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Anna, I want to request advice about a new bio I created for a philanthropist whose obit is in the NYT today. He sounds like a really good person. The problem is that his last name is "Slifka" and there is a much more common and similarly pronounced last name "Slivka," so a lot of non-obit news stories talk about the "Alan B. Slivka Foundation." I am pretty sure they are about the Alan B. Slifka Foundation but how should I handle this? Sharktopus talk 14:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
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Delivered by EdwardsBot ( talk) 18:20, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Anna! I'm trying to spice things up around my user page. How do I do an image? I'm not seeing an option or do not remember the coding. Thanks! PS I was testing our the "{talkback|Football1502}}" things, now I see what you mean. Football1502 ( talk) 03:09, 14 February 2011 (UTC) Football1502
[[File:Rabbit small.JPG|center|thumb|300px|A lovely cute bunny!]]
Thank you for your welcoming. I'm a veteran from catalan Viquipèdia, so I whish to contribute in catalan issues in Wikipedia and translating good stuff to Viquipèdia.-- Galazan ( talk) 14:36, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Stringbike is me, thats why i wanted to make the paige in Wikipedia. How can i make my article valuable? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stringbike ( talk • contribs) 14:48, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Anna, thanks so much for inviting me to work on this with you! I definitely think you should get DYK credit for starting the article too. Sharktopus talk 15:48, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
On 19 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alan B. Slifka, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:22, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
On 19 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Parasitic castration, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 12:18, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
On 19 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hemioniscus balani, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 12:19, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Anna! I'm working on our last assignment: editing a wiki entry. I've been researching improvements and one thing that my article needs in references. How do I do that within the article? Those are the tiny numbers at the end of the sentence, correct? Any help you could give would be great! Thanks! Football1502 ( talk) 17:21, 20 February 2011 (UTC) Football1502
<ref>{{Cite web | title = Apple tree fruit | url=http://apples.com/apple-trees.html | accessdate = 20 February 2011 }}</ref>
refTools can be added in My preferences/Gadgets/Editing gadgets simply by clicking the box to the left of it. This will add a cite button to the editing toolbar and allow users to access the citation templates from the edit window. Try it! Add the gadget, then edit a page and click Cite/Templates. A combo box will appear listing the cite web, news, book and journal templates. Viriditas ( talk) 09:35, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
This message is going out to all of the Online Ambassadors who are, or will be, serving as mentors this term.
Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!
If you aren't mentoring anyone yet, it looks like you will be soon; at least one large class is asking us to assign mentors for them, and students in a number of others haven't yet gotten to asking ambassadors to be their mentors, but may soon. -- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 20:05, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
I made my first edit to a wiki entry. Can you take a look at it? I'm wondering why the message about no references is still at the top when I added them. How does that get removed? Broadband_open_access Football1502 ( talk) 22:59, 21 February 2011 (UTC) Football1502
Hi. Thank you for your advices. Those really help a lot. I will try to improve the entry. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suisse514 ( talk • contribs) 23:09, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar | ||
For dreaming up How to Attract a Thousand New Editors! From one who was attracted even without it, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 16:39, 23 February 2011 (UTC) |
Thank you so much. It's a lovely barnstar! And thank you for your support of the proposal. I do hope it gets refined and implemented. :) :) :) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 05:33, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Anna, I'd appreciate your 2 RMB's worth in this discussion. Thanks. ► Philg88 ◄ talk 21:42, Wednesday February 23, 2011 ( UTC)
Just a note to say thanks to you and User:Philg88 for persisting in finding a table design for the List of caves in China that works. Best wishes! Verne Equinox ( talk) 21:22, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Please remember that rollback is only for clearly destructive edits and should not be used to revert content-based, good-faith edits such as the revert you performed here. Continually using rollback to revert such edits will lead to the userright being revoked. Regards So Why 13:09, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
::(
talk page stalker) Actually, SoWhy is wrong. That prohibition is actually only for using generic rollback, when no edit summary is provided. Per
WP:Rollback, "The above restrictions apply to standard rollback, using the generic edit summary. If a tool or manual method is used to add an appropriate explanatory edit summary (as described in the Additional tools section below), then rollback may be freely used as with any other method of reverting." Anna's revert was identical in every way to if she had gone back in the history to the first page and clicked edit with a summary explaining why she was going so far back. So, Anna, your use of rollback was completely appropriate per both policy and principle.
Qwyrxian (
talk) 13:31, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
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Delivered by EdwardsBot ( talk) 00:30, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Feel free to remove this, it is kinda big. Sharktopus talk 06:23, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I reassessed from stub to list. [1] Also, I think I fixed an error in the article. [2] If that wasn't what you intended, please fix. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 00:21, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure that they are different. The Alberta one is too far south from what I could see. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 19:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
On 1 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Faces of Meth, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Faces of Meth project shows before-and-after images documenting physical deterioration caused by meth use? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:05, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I moved Trout Lake (Northwest Territories) back to Trout Lake, Northwest Territories as it is a community rather than a geographic feature. As per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Disambiguation, "With the names of cities, towns, villages and other settlements, as well as administrative divisions, the tag is normally preceded by a comma, as in Hel, Poland, and Polk County, Tennessee." and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Canada-related articles)#Places, "For cities which do not qualify for undisambiguated titles, the correct title format is City, Province/Territory (the "comma convention")." It turns out there are 5 Trout Lakes in the NWT. One is the lake on which the community sits, one is Old Trout Lake and there are two more. The first is easy because it's Trout Lake (Dehcho Region, Northwest Territories) but the other two are both in the same region, North Slave Region. I've asked at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Lakes and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lakes#Disambiguating lakes. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 01:48, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Obsidian Soul seems to have cleverly figured out the map thing. I will try to put it inside the infobox.
This USGS link you gave me has scary lines like: "Buy digital format on media", "Commerical distributors", and "Pricing Information". I found this page yesterday by searching for the string "public domain" on the USGS page: Gallery. It didn't have much. Please let me know if you come up with anything. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:50, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
On 5 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pseudobiceros bedfordi, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the flatworm Pseudobiceros bedfordi uses its two penises to engage in penis fencing (pictured)? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:02, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
<--Any chance I might find you in IRC now, 1 pm-ish NYC time? Sharktopus talk 17:53, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello:
I am willing to get more involved in Wikipedia edition, for we have some projects for Wikipedia in Indiana University. I notice that you are currently in Guangzhou city, where I am come from, and now I am studying in the US. So could you please be my mentor? For our project, please leave some message to my talk page.
Thanks very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by TiMkOk ( talk • contribs) 23:29, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Anna, I want to request advice about a new bio I created for a philanthropist whose obit is in the NYT today. He sounds like a really good person. The problem is that his last name is "Slifka" and there is a much more common and similarly pronounced last name "Slivka," so a lot of non-obit news stories talk about the "Alan B. Slivka Foundation." I am pretty sure they are about the Alan B. Slifka Foundation but how should I handle this? Sharktopus talk 14:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
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Delivered by EdwardsBot ( talk) 18:20, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Anna! I'm trying to spice things up around my user page. How do I do an image? I'm not seeing an option or do not remember the coding. Thanks! PS I was testing our the "{talkback|Football1502}}" things, now I see what you mean. Football1502 ( talk) 03:09, 14 February 2011 (UTC) Football1502
[[File:Rabbit small.JPG|center|thumb|300px|A lovely cute bunny!]]
Thank you for your welcoming. I'm a veteran from catalan Viquipèdia, so I whish to contribute in catalan issues in Wikipedia and translating good stuff to Viquipèdia.-- Galazan ( talk) 14:36, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Stringbike is me, thats why i wanted to make the paige in Wikipedia. How can i make my article valuable? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stringbike ( talk • contribs) 14:48, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Anna, thanks so much for inviting me to work on this with you! I definitely think you should get DYK credit for starting the article too. Sharktopus talk 15:48, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
On 19 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alan B. Slifka, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:22, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
On 19 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Parasitic castration, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 12:18, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
On 19 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hemioniscus balani, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 12:19, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Anna! I'm working on our last assignment: editing a wiki entry. I've been researching improvements and one thing that my article needs in references. How do I do that within the article? Those are the tiny numbers at the end of the sentence, correct? Any help you could give would be great! Thanks! Football1502 ( talk) 17:21, 20 February 2011 (UTC) Football1502
<ref>{{Cite web | title = Apple tree fruit | url=http://apples.com/apple-trees.html | accessdate = 20 February 2011 }}</ref>
refTools can be added in My preferences/Gadgets/Editing gadgets simply by clicking the box to the left of it. This will add a cite button to the editing toolbar and allow users to access the citation templates from the edit window. Try it! Add the gadget, then edit a page and click Cite/Templates. A combo box will appear listing the cite web, news, book and journal templates. Viriditas ( talk) 09:35, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
This message is going out to all of the Online Ambassadors who are, or will be, serving as mentors this term.
Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!
If you aren't mentoring anyone yet, it looks like you will be soon; at least one large class is asking us to assign mentors for them, and students in a number of others haven't yet gotten to asking ambassadors to be their mentors, but may soon. -- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 20:05, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
I made my first edit to a wiki entry. Can you take a look at it? I'm wondering why the message about no references is still at the top when I added them. How does that get removed? Broadband_open_access Football1502 ( talk) 22:59, 21 February 2011 (UTC) Football1502
Hi. Thank you for your advices. Those really help a lot. I will try to improve the entry. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suisse514 ( talk • contribs) 23:09, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar | ||
For dreaming up How to Attract a Thousand New Editors! From one who was attracted even without it, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 16:39, 23 February 2011 (UTC) |
Thank you so much. It's a lovely barnstar! And thank you for your support of the proposal. I do hope it gets refined and implemented. :) :) :) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 05:33, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Anna, I'd appreciate your 2 RMB's worth in this discussion. Thanks. ► Philg88 ◄ talk 21:42, Wednesday February 23, 2011 ( UTC)
Just a note to say thanks to you and User:Philg88 for persisting in finding a table design for the List of caves in China that works. Best wishes! Verne Equinox ( talk) 21:22, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Please remember that rollback is only for clearly destructive edits and should not be used to revert content-based, good-faith edits such as the revert you performed here. Continually using rollback to revert such edits will lead to the userright being revoked. Regards So Why 13:09, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
::(
talk page stalker) Actually, SoWhy is wrong. That prohibition is actually only for using generic rollback, when no edit summary is provided. Per
WP:Rollback, "The above restrictions apply to standard rollback, using the generic edit summary. If a tool or manual method is used to add an appropriate explanatory edit summary (as described in the Additional tools section below), then rollback may be freely used as with any other method of reverting." Anna's revert was identical in every way to if she had gone back in the history to the first page and clicked edit with a summary explaining why she was going so far back. So, Anna, your use of rollback was completely appropriate per both policy and principle.
Qwyrxian (
talk) 13:31, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
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