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You tagged the article on Patriarch Zoilus of Alexandria as unreferenced. I know it has only one reference, added by myself, but are you questioning a specific part of the text? Dimadick ( talk) 10:09, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Re Category:People from Squamish, the reason for my previous edit comment about that category needing deletion is not because as a hyphenated version of the name, vs the current (but contested, by me) version that uses a dash, but because classifying people by regional district is just wrong, wrong, wrong but dates back to Wiki-ancient times when someone thought RDs were a valid way to indicate where people were from and/or for other reasons geographic subdivisions of BC. The RM for the re-hyphenation of RD names is at Talk:Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District (see Requested Move 2 there, that's a redirect to a "dashified" version of the page, but I refuse to type dashes when they're not where they should be; all sources - all - use a hyphen, as does the enabling legislation). I'll create Category:People from the Sea to Sky Country which will have the Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton Valley and Gates Valley people categories (whichever exists, I think Whistler's does only at this point). Skookum1 ( talk) 02:18, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I read in the section above that you are "just working through Wikipedia:Database reports/Categories categorized in red-linked categories and removing the redlinked cats as I see them". This you seem to be doing rather indiscriminately as a number of the categories which you are removing should in fact be created as they are established parts of existing hierarchies. Perhaps you should inquire at Wikipedia talk:Categorization before proceeding in this endeavour. __ meco ( talk) 10:20, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Please try to fix redline categories, rather than just deleting them as you did to Mark Murphy (ice hockey). Thank you. Dolovis ( talk) 04:56, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am a James Madison University student and one of my classes is working on a Public Policy article this semester. I don't have a mentor yet and was wondering if you would be interested. Thank you, Kimberly — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimberly wymer ( talk • contribs) 19:24, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you! If you would like to add our page for the class it is WP:USPP I do have one question. I was trying to add a photo to a page and I read through all of the how to add a picture and it wouldn't work. What is the code for it? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimberly wymer ( talk • contribs) 17:49, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
[[File:Filename.JPG|thumb|Caption text]]
. This will only work if the file is already uploaded to Wikipedia (or it's sister website, Commons). Note that the filename is case sensitive. For an example, If I add [[File:Wiki.png|thumb|Wikipedia]]
to this page, I'll get the image to the right. If you haven't already, you might want to check out
Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. It's got a lot of good info and more advanced examples, if you want to experiment a little bit. :) Hope that helps!
Avic
ennasis @ 18:03, 1 Adar I 5771 / 5 February 2011 (UTC)Thank you for your help on the picture. I got it to work, I appreciate it. My next question is would you mind looking at my article on food policy? I have added some information but I am not sure what else should be included within the article. Such as what information is still needed or is there something I am missing for sure. Thank you! Kimberly wymer ( talk) 00:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC)Kimberly Wymer
Can I ask you to please not remove the auto= parameter from very short one-line stubs? There's really no point as the stub tag already conveys that the article is woefully incomplete, which would include referencing, it's redundant to have an unreferenced tag in addition to a stub tag, and totally unnecessary if there's only one sentence such as "<blank> is a village in <blank>" as there's nothing to cite anyway. I already updated the instructions at the category page. -- œ ™ 22:46, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
In case you're free, the next Pittsburgh Wikipedia meetup is this Sunday. Hope you can make it!-- ragesoss ( talk) 01:33, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hey dude, I reverted your deletion of the move-protect icon from monopoly on violence. I called it vandalism in the revert description, but that was more of a general term to denote that something that was an integral part of the page was deleted. I just wanted to know why you deleted the icon? 138.246.7.70 ( talk) 22:05, 13 February 2011 (UTC)talonx
Could you please refrain from removing stub tags with AWB, many of the ones you are removing are clearly stubs such as The Night of Kadar. Novels are an interesting case, because plot sections are exactly what the stub definition defines "very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition," whereas to become a start it requires additional information thus providing " some meaningful content." Length simply isn't a good judge of novels articles, Sadads ( talk) 10:40, 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)
Hey Avicennasis. One of the classes working with the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, Jonathan Obar's Media and Telecommunication Policy, is working in small groups and would like us to assign a mentor to each group (rather than having students request the mentors they'd like, as other classes are doing).
I invite you to sign on as the mentor for one or more groups, especially if any of the topics catch your interest. To sign up, go to the course page and add yourself as "Mentor: you" in the section for that group. They students and/or professor or campus ambassadors should be cleaning things up soon to list all the usernames for each group and add a few more groups. Once you know who the students are in the group, you can leave them each a quick introduction to let them know you'll be mentoring their group.
Thanks!-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 19:07, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Just a quick note to point out a couple of taggings that appear to have been in error, namely [1] and [2]. As you'll notice, the stub was categorized prior to the first tagging, which is why I reverted the first diff and have also reverted the second diff. I don't want to approach the 3RR line over the situation, so I thought I might bring it here to sort out! (No need to reply to my page via tb, I'll be watching this page) Cheers! Strikerforce ( talk) 11:12, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear, I think I am trying level best to improve the "Castle Age" page. I had already placed stub on it. I do not think It needs to be tagged orphan. I would rather request you to help readers by improving this page. Arshan.abbas ( talk) 15:19, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dear, I think it is ok now. Kindly review. Arshan.abbas ( talk) 18:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Avicennasis! I'm a grad student at Indiana University, and my trade econ class is working with Wikipedia this semester. I was hoping you could mentor me through the process. Cheers - Pubpolliz ( talk) 19:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
This edit is of the minor type of edits, for which we should not use AWB. Debresser ( talk) 08:47, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Interested in possibly having you as a Wikipedia mentor for my PPI article. Aelarini ( talk) 15:15, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, and thanks for expressing an interest in my recent post about getting some AWBers to help out with the categorization project. I've written up a page, User:Bearcat/AWB categorization and tagging, which provides a basic walkthrough of how to do the task, but of course feel free to ask me if you have any further questions or need advice or clarification. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 23:51, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I left a rather snotty edit summary at JDP, which was supposed to be directed at an earlier ISP-number editor, not at you. Sorry! — HarringtonSmith ( talk) 00:59, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
It would be very helpful if you could say where additional citations are needed for this article. Thanks. Cg2p0B0u8m ( talk) 20:21, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi again, Avic! I'm currently trying to assign mentors to all the remaining groups in Professor Obar's class. Would you be the mentor for the group of students working on United States 2008 wireless spectrum auction and the group working on National Broadband Plan (United States)? If you can do it, thanks! If not, please let me know.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 01:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Please take a look at this project page and see if you can be a mentor to one of the many Areas of Study. If you can, please put your name in the "Online Mentor" area of the Area of Study of your choice and then contact the students you will be working with. As the Coordinating Online Ambassador for this project, please let me know if I can be of assistance. Take Care... Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:29, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Re. Wikipedia:Botreq#moving articles and User:Avicennasis/sandbox6
I was having a look at that, at the same time.
I've added a list of the nine with the specific concern you'd also noted - ie articles under "computer" and "video".
Beware two entries on your list; Blaby Computer Games, Star Wars computer and video games.
I'll leave you to it; poke me if needed. Cheers, Chzz ► 16:50, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
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Re your removal of stub tags, stub is not a stub, but it used to be. SpinningSpark 00:28, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
The above article is not worthy of space on wikipedia. This presenter has a little tin pot job on a local radio station and i dont think this will benefit anybody who should read it, only to massage the already over inflated ego of a cheesy disc jockey who went out with the arc
Try reading tags which have already been added which requests the removal of this pointless article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.163.252 ( talk) 11:13, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Cheers for that list. I've never mastered AWB myself - if you could remove the categories from the 92 living that would be the best start to getting them all in line. Timrollpickering ( talk) 20:49, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Avicennasis: I concur with the recent CFD on bias categories. I notice you removed many individuals from several of those categories. Another category that may be appropriate is Category:Antisemitism in the United States which has quite a few living persons in it, who are implicitly accused of being biased, simply by being mentioned in the Category, hence a BLP issue. If you have time, you may want to scrub that category also. -- Noleander ( talk) 00:54, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
[[Category:Living people]]
. Not sure how that one slipped through - I've removed it now as well. :)
Avic
ennasis @ 01:41, 2 Adar II 5771 / 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Avicennasis, please use a standardised timestamp so that bots such as archive bots can interpret it correctly. I think your use of the Hebrew calendar is a nifty trick, but your sig must contain the timestamp in this format *somewhere*: "19:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)". Thanks! Graham 87 03:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I was just wondering why this name did not warrant a block at this time considering there is no evidence of name change and their SPA contributions to Home Entertainment Suppliers which the name appears to represent and promote? Thanks Fæ ( talk) 13:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
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You have been trouted for: going on vacation. Didn't you know that you're not allowed to do that without offering to purchase a shot glass for me to add to my collection? Shame on you! ;) Strikerforce ( talk) 02:29, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to say hello, as you're my group's online mentor for the Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. Looking forward to working with you! I'm a junior at Michigan State majoring in Computer Science. My group members should leave a comment here soon, also. Tuoheyjo ( talk) 19:03, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive
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Just wanted to say hello, as you're my group's online mentor for the Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. I'm a senior at Michigan State majoring Media Communication Technologies. Look forward to working with you!. Gruszyn1 ( talk) 15:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
My name is David Gill and i am a student at Michigan State University, working on the following project: Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. I'm a senior at Michigan State majoring Media Communication Technologies and minoring in computer science. Gilldav2 ( talk) 15:22, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
{{ Vacation}} tag removed 15:40, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Howdy, Online Ambassador!
This is a quick message to all the ambassadors about marking and tracking which articles students are working on. For the classes working with the ambassador program, please look over any articles being worked on by students (in particular, any ones you are mentoring, but others who don't have mentors as well) and do these things:
And of course, don't forget to check in on the students, give them constructive feedback, praise them for positive contributions, award them {{ The WikiPen}} if they are doing excellent work, and so on. And if you haven't done so, make sure any students you are mentoring are listed on your mentor profile.
Thanks! -- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 18:10, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
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I was wondering if the stubsensor program could be used to do a custom project. There is a list of articles at Category:Articles automatically tagged as unreferenced. Virtually all these are marked as stubs, but some are more stubby than others. Is there a way the stubsensor could try to distinguish between the articles that are really microscopic (essentially one or two sentences of prose) and the ones that are longer? I'm thinking it would need to ignore infobox code, which can add a lot of bytes to the source. If the stubsensor isn't written to do that, I can write a script to do it, but I thought I would ask if you already have code that can do it. We just need some sort of rough division of the stubs in that category. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 13:42, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi; is there a reason you are adding two spaces between the end of text and templates at the bottom of an article and labelling such edits "clean up"? One space should be sufficient, no? Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:22, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding your AWB edit. Where there are a number od ships with a similar name, there is a "Ship Index" page - in category "Disambig-Class Ships articles". Editors are advised not to link to such pages, but to link to the individual ship articles. Is it then appropriate for you to add "dead end", advising editors to link to such pages? Please reconsider your edit to SS Irish Oak Lugnad ( talk) 08:46, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Please don't add {{ stub}} to disambiguation pages. PamD ( talk) 09:14, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
From the AWB Rules of Use:
A few days ago you made this edit to John Burgee. I revert that edit, and today you restored it . An edit which has been reverted by another editor is, by definition, controversial, and therefore should not be done using AWB. Please do not revert again. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 20:52, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I thought I'm not gonna make Bot request, because it takes time to get answer. Could you redirect templates from Category:Fb round templates, Category:Fb round templates UEFA and Category:Fb round templates England. Just simply "-" to "–" between years according to dashes rule in Wikipedia? Thanks in advance. Pelmeen10 ( talk) 14:52, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey again! Are you up for mentoring one more student? If so, I'll ask you to take over for My76Strat's mentee,
User:Kimberly wymer. Please let me know either way. Whoops, nevermind, someone already volunteered for this. Sorry for the bother.--
Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (
talk) 15:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Also, please list your mentees in your profile at Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Mentors when you get a chance.
Thanks!-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 15:30, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hey! This is just a friendly reminder about the Wikipedia 10th anniversary celebration in Pittsburgh tomorrow. The meeting time has been moved up to 4:00 so that we can gather before the game starts and stake out places, and it may be a good idea to get there even sooner, if you can. Pittsburgh bars are likely to be a little crazy and very crowded. See you there!-- ragesoss ( talk) 02:18, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
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You tagged the article on Patriarch Zoilus of Alexandria as unreferenced. I know it has only one reference, added by myself, but are you questioning a specific part of the text? Dimadick ( talk) 10:09, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Re Category:People from Squamish, the reason for my previous edit comment about that category needing deletion is not because as a hyphenated version of the name, vs the current (but contested, by me) version that uses a dash, but because classifying people by regional district is just wrong, wrong, wrong but dates back to Wiki-ancient times when someone thought RDs were a valid way to indicate where people were from and/or for other reasons geographic subdivisions of BC. The RM for the re-hyphenation of RD names is at Talk:Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District (see Requested Move 2 there, that's a redirect to a "dashified" version of the page, but I refuse to type dashes when they're not where they should be; all sources - all - use a hyphen, as does the enabling legislation). I'll create Category:People from the Sea to Sky Country which will have the Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton Valley and Gates Valley people categories (whichever exists, I think Whistler's does only at this point). Skookum1 ( talk) 02:18, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I read in the section above that you are "just working through Wikipedia:Database reports/Categories categorized in red-linked categories and removing the redlinked cats as I see them". This you seem to be doing rather indiscriminately as a number of the categories which you are removing should in fact be created as they are established parts of existing hierarchies. Perhaps you should inquire at Wikipedia talk:Categorization before proceeding in this endeavour. __ meco ( talk) 10:20, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Please try to fix redline categories, rather than just deleting them as you did to Mark Murphy (ice hockey). Thank you. Dolovis ( talk) 04:56, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am a James Madison University student and one of my classes is working on a Public Policy article this semester. I don't have a mentor yet and was wondering if you would be interested. Thank you, Kimberly — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimberly wymer ( talk • contribs) 19:24, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you! If you would like to add our page for the class it is WP:USPP I do have one question. I was trying to add a photo to a page and I read through all of the how to add a picture and it wouldn't work. What is the code for it? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimberly wymer ( talk • contribs) 17:49, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
[[File:Filename.JPG|thumb|Caption text]]
. This will only work if the file is already uploaded to Wikipedia (or it's sister website, Commons). Note that the filename is case sensitive. For an example, If I add [[File:Wiki.png|thumb|Wikipedia]]
to this page, I'll get the image to the right. If you haven't already, you might want to check out
Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. It's got a lot of good info and more advanced examples, if you want to experiment a little bit. :) Hope that helps!
Avic
ennasis @ 18:03, 1 Adar I 5771 / 5 February 2011 (UTC)Thank you for your help on the picture. I got it to work, I appreciate it. My next question is would you mind looking at my article on food policy? I have added some information but I am not sure what else should be included within the article. Such as what information is still needed or is there something I am missing for sure. Thank you! Kimberly wymer ( talk) 00:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC)Kimberly Wymer
Can I ask you to please not remove the auto= parameter from very short one-line stubs? There's really no point as the stub tag already conveys that the article is woefully incomplete, which would include referencing, it's redundant to have an unreferenced tag in addition to a stub tag, and totally unnecessary if there's only one sentence such as "<blank> is a village in <blank>" as there's nothing to cite anyway. I already updated the instructions at the category page. -- œ ™ 22:46, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
In case you're free, the next Pittsburgh Wikipedia meetup is this Sunday. Hope you can make it!-- ragesoss ( talk) 01:33, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hey there Avicennasis, thank you for your contributions. I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Avicennasis/sandbox10. In the future, please refrain from adding fair-use files to your user-space drafts or your talk page.
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Hey dude, I reverted your deletion of the move-protect icon from monopoly on violence. I called it vandalism in the revert description, but that was more of a general term to denote that something that was an integral part of the page was deleted. I just wanted to know why you deleted the icon? 138.246.7.70 ( talk) 22:05, 13 February 2011 (UTC)talonx
Could you please refrain from removing stub tags with AWB, many of the ones you are removing are clearly stubs such as The Night of Kadar. Novels are an interesting case, because plot sections are exactly what the stub definition defines "very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition," whereas to become a start it requires additional information thus providing " some meaningful content." Length simply isn't a good judge of novels articles, Sadads ( talk) 10:40, 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)
Hey Avicennasis. One of the classes working with the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, Jonathan Obar's Media and Telecommunication Policy, is working in small groups and would like us to assign a mentor to each group (rather than having students request the mentors they'd like, as other classes are doing).
I invite you to sign on as the mentor for one or more groups, especially if any of the topics catch your interest. To sign up, go to the course page and add yourself as "Mentor: you" in the section for that group. They students and/or professor or campus ambassadors should be cleaning things up soon to list all the usernames for each group and add a few more groups. Once you know who the students are in the group, you can leave them each a quick introduction to let them know you'll be mentoring their group.
Thanks!-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 19:07, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Just a quick note to point out a couple of taggings that appear to have been in error, namely [1] and [2]. As you'll notice, the stub was categorized prior to the first tagging, which is why I reverted the first diff and have also reverted the second diff. I don't want to approach the 3RR line over the situation, so I thought I might bring it here to sort out! (No need to reply to my page via tb, I'll be watching this page) Cheers! Strikerforce ( talk) 11:12, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear, I think I am trying level best to improve the "Castle Age" page. I had already placed stub on it. I do not think It needs to be tagged orphan. I would rather request you to help readers by improving this page. Arshan.abbas ( talk) 15:19, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dear, I think it is ok now. Kindly review. Arshan.abbas ( talk) 18:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Avicennasis! I'm a grad student at Indiana University, and my trade econ class is working with Wikipedia this semester. I was hoping you could mentor me through the process. Cheers - Pubpolliz ( talk) 19:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
This edit is of the minor type of edits, for which we should not use AWB. Debresser ( talk) 08:47, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Interested in possibly having you as a Wikipedia mentor for my PPI article. Aelarini ( talk) 15:15, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, and thanks for expressing an interest in my recent post about getting some AWBers to help out with the categorization project. I've written up a page, User:Bearcat/AWB categorization and tagging, which provides a basic walkthrough of how to do the task, but of course feel free to ask me if you have any further questions or need advice or clarification. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 23:51, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I left a rather snotty edit summary at JDP, which was supposed to be directed at an earlier ISP-number editor, not at you. Sorry! — HarringtonSmith ( talk) 00:59, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
It would be very helpful if you could say where additional citations are needed for this article. Thanks. Cg2p0B0u8m ( talk) 20:21, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi again, Avic! I'm currently trying to assign mentors to all the remaining groups in Professor Obar's class. Would you be the mentor for the group of students working on United States 2008 wireless spectrum auction and the group working on National Broadband Plan (United States)? If you can do it, thanks! If not, please let me know.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 01:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Please take a look at this project page and see if you can be a mentor to one of the many Areas of Study. If you can, please put your name in the "Online Mentor" area of the Area of Study of your choice and then contact the students you will be working with. As the Coordinating Online Ambassador for this project, please let me know if I can be of assistance. Take Care... Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:29, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Re. Wikipedia:Botreq#moving articles and User:Avicennasis/sandbox6
I was having a look at that, at the same time.
I've added a list of the nine with the specific concern you'd also noted - ie articles under "computer" and "video".
Beware two entries on your list; Blaby Computer Games, Star Wars computer and video games.
I'll leave you to it; poke me if needed. Cheers, Chzz ► 16:50, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
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Re your removal of stub tags, stub is not a stub, but it used to be. SpinningSpark 00:28, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
The above article is not worthy of space on wikipedia. This presenter has a little tin pot job on a local radio station and i dont think this will benefit anybody who should read it, only to massage the already over inflated ego of a cheesy disc jockey who went out with the arc
Try reading tags which have already been added which requests the removal of this pointless article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.163.252 ( talk) 11:13, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Cheers for that list. I've never mastered AWB myself - if you could remove the categories from the 92 living that would be the best start to getting them all in line. Timrollpickering ( talk) 20:49, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Avicennasis: I concur with the recent CFD on bias categories. I notice you removed many individuals from several of those categories. Another category that may be appropriate is Category:Antisemitism in the United States which has quite a few living persons in it, who are implicitly accused of being biased, simply by being mentioned in the Category, hence a BLP issue. If you have time, you may want to scrub that category also. -- Noleander ( talk) 00:54, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
[[Category:Living people]]
. Not sure how that one slipped through - I've removed it now as well. :)
Avic
ennasis @ 01:41, 2 Adar II 5771 / 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Avicennasis, please use a standardised timestamp so that bots such as archive bots can interpret it correctly. I think your use of the Hebrew calendar is a nifty trick, but your sig must contain the timestamp in this format *somewhere*: "19:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)". Thanks! Graham 87 03:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I was just wondering why this name did not warrant a block at this time considering there is no evidence of name change and their SPA contributions to Home Entertainment Suppliers which the name appears to represent and promote? Thanks Fæ ( talk) 13:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
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Just wanted to say hello, as you're my group's online mentor for the Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. Looking forward to working with you! I'm a junior at Michigan State majoring in Computer Science. My group members should leave a comment here soon, also. Tuoheyjo ( talk) 19:03, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive
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March 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.
So far, 79 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 64 have participated. Interest is high due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page, and many new and first-time copy editors have joined us for the drive. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can
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We have already achieved our target of reducing the overall backlog by 10%; however, we have more work to do with the 2009 backlog. We have almost eliminated May 2009 and we only have some 700 articles left from 2009. It is excellent progress, so let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!
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Just wanted to say hello, as you're my group's online mentor for the Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. I'm a senior at Michigan State majoring Media Communication Technologies. Look forward to working with you!. Gruszyn1 ( talk) 15:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
My name is David Gill and i am a student at Michigan State University, working on the following project: Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. I'm a senior at Michigan State majoring Media Communication Technologies and minoring in computer science. Gilldav2 ( talk) 15:22, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
{{ Vacation}} tag removed 15:40, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Howdy, Online Ambassador!
This is a quick message to all the ambassadors about marking and tracking which articles students are working on. For the classes working with the ambassador program, please look over any articles being worked on by students (in particular, any ones you are mentoring, but others who don't have mentors as well) and do these things:
And of course, don't forget to check in on the students, give them constructive feedback, praise them for positive contributions, award them {{ The WikiPen}} if they are doing excellent work, and so on. And if you haven't done so, make sure any students you are mentoring are listed on your mentor profile.
Thanks! -- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 18:10, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
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I was wondering if the stubsensor program could be used to do a custom project. There is a list of articles at Category:Articles automatically tagged as unreferenced. Virtually all these are marked as stubs, but some are more stubby than others. Is there a way the stubsensor could try to distinguish between the articles that are really microscopic (essentially one or two sentences of prose) and the ones that are longer? I'm thinking it would need to ignore infobox code, which can add a lot of bytes to the source. If the stubsensor isn't written to do that, I can write a script to do it, but I thought I would ask if you already have code that can do it. We just need some sort of rough division of the stubs in that category. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 13:42, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi; is there a reason you are adding two spaces between the end of text and templates at the bottom of an article and labelling such edits "clean up"? One space should be sufficient, no? Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:22, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding your AWB edit. Where there are a number od ships with a similar name, there is a "Ship Index" page - in category "Disambig-Class Ships articles". Editors are advised not to link to such pages, but to link to the individual ship articles. Is it then appropriate for you to add "dead end", advising editors to link to such pages? Please reconsider your edit to SS Irish Oak Lugnad ( talk) 08:46, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Please don't add {{ stub}} to disambiguation pages. PamD ( talk) 09:14, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
From the AWB Rules of Use:
A few days ago you made this edit to John Burgee. I revert that edit, and today you restored it . An edit which has been reverted by another editor is, by definition, controversial, and therefore should not be done using AWB. Please do not revert again. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 20:52, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I thought I'm not gonna make Bot request, because it takes time to get answer. Could you redirect templates from Category:Fb round templates, Category:Fb round templates UEFA and Category:Fb round templates England. Just simply "-" to "–" between years according to dashes rule in Wikipedia? Thanks in advance. Pelmeen10 ( talk) 14:52, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey again! Are you up for mentoring one more student? If so, I'll ask you to take over for My76Strat's mentee,
User:Kimberly wymer. Please let me know either way. Whoops, nevermind, someone already volunteered for this. Sorry for the bother.--
Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (
talk) 15:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Also, please list your mentees in your profile at Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Mentors when you get a chance.
Thanks!-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 15:30, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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