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Echoedmyron ( talk) 20:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby: I would appreciate if you talked to me first before reverting my recent change of photo at Jessica Watson. I spent a lot of time, setting up the photo which I uploaded, corresponding with the Australian author of the photo and giving my reasons at [[File:Jessica W.jpg]], why I could not obtain permission for the Creative Commons license, and instead had to settle for "fair use."
Please reply and tell me why you object to my photo. I thought it was a better image. The one you put back is rather dismal-looking and does not do Jessica any favours. :-)
(P.S.) ...just read your note at the Talk Page. Yes, I understand the rules, but I also believe in exceptions, and for lack of a better word, this sucks. I tried hard in three emails to convince the author to go with our Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and she would not bite. I don't see why, but she was somehow spooked by the fact that others could reproduce or modify her photo at will. Anyway, if you insist, then I will concur, as I have no stomach to put up a fight over something so trivial. -- Skol fir ( talk) 02:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
There is no confusion here. I just got an email this morning, from the manager of Jessica Watson, Andrew Fraser, that she now owns her boat. What do you mean by mixed sources? I have just updated an outdated reference by receiving personal communication as of today. I don't see why you call the sources mixed, when the original source was just wrong, as of today. It might have been right a year ago. You have a strange way of deleting a perfectly justified edit.
Bilby, if you need proof, I can forward the email from Fraser through to you on our internal email system.
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Skol fir (
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19:40, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby. Thank you for locating the original speech from January 26, for the Jessica Watson article. I was trying to remove a whole bunch of dead links and in replacing this one, all I could find was the one from the Courier Mail. Actually, if you read the entire speech, Kevin Rudd also said, "Jess Watson is a remarkable young Australian" in the paragraph following "extraordinary." So both I and the reporter had our reasons. Thanks anyway. We can leave it at "extraordinary." That's just as good, if not better! -- Skol fir ( talk) 00:46, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
User:Bilby/Bonghan system, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Bilby/Bonghan system and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Bilby/Bonghan system during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. JamesBWatson ( talk) 17:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
That's great! Thanks!-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 04:16, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your continued work on the article. I am honestly confused as to how block quotes could ever be a "copyright infringement"? Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 22:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
And this is text from http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/02/5.16.02/McDaniel-obit.html"McDaniel had finished his doctoral thesis at Cornell in 1943, researching the absorption rates of neutrons in indium. While the U.S. government did not classify the thesis as secret, McDaniel and his thesis advisor, Robert Bacher, understood its implications for weapons research. They marked each page "secret" and locked two copies away in the university's library"
Does that sound familiar to you?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 02:41, 4 February 2011 (UTC)"McDaniel had finished his doctoral thesis at Cornell in 1943, researching the absorption rates of neutrons in indium. While the thesis itself was not considered classified information by the U.S. government, McDaniel and Bacher understood its implications for weapons research. They marked each page "secret" and locked two copies away in the university's library."
February 2, 2011: Diff, with content ripped from here;
January 27, 2011: New Article, with text with content ripped from here;
January 26, 2010: New article, with content ripped from (the subject) here;
January 12, 2011: Diff, with content ripped from here;
January 9, 2011: Diff, with content ripped from here (and here, from here);
December 20, 2010: New article, with content ripped from here;
December 19, 2010. Diff, with content ripped from here;
November 27, 2010: New Article, with content ripped from here;
(arbitrary stop).
Given the above, which was not difficult (though laborious) to find, it's obvious another CCI investigation is needed, picking up the day after the last one ended. The shame is, there's lots of good edits in between, but this can't be allowed to continue.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 06:34, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Well done! Thank you very much. Cullen328 ( talk) 15:38, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Bilby, you and I have worked "together" on the Axelsson article. Peripheral to that is the page that is now nominated for deletion,
The guy that nominated this kind of makes a hobby of nominating my articles for deletion. His first attempt to get this deleted was shot down, so now he's trying again. I'd appreciate your input.
Looks like another person added some items so we now have a "keep." Can you take a look at the article and see if you concur with the keep? Thanks! PR ( talk) 01:01, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
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FYI. Pdfpdf ( talk) 13:02, 17 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 Bilby. 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) 19:10, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Bilby! :) I just want to say I totally respect that your having your say to the article, and everything. I am honestly fine with that. If I didn't think something was correct I would have no problem whatsover in changing it to make it correct. But your sources that you have so far provided, that other editors have provided, don't make a proper basis for saying that: Chadstone is not the southern hemisphere's largest. I have provided more than 10 references, include pdf. files, The Centre's own website, the centre's brochure, Newspaper articles, and so on. The only references provided against, is a website in another language and a discussion forum. I and many other users would like to see evidence. References clearly stating that Chadstone is not the largest shopping centre in the Southern Hemisphere. Please provide suitable recent (2009 onwards) references, if possible. Thank You, Best Reguards -- MelbourneStar☆ ( talk) 09:28, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. The only other thing I have is a copy of a los angeles fanzine that did an in depth feature on him but it's nowhere on the web the fanzine is called "Destroy All". It came out in 2003........I don't think the mag exists anymore. I think this article is important and it's pretty well rounded, thanks to you. I'll add to it as things come along.-- Llaneerg ( talk) 10:56, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
I believe that I have resolved your concerns. Could you please review User:Racepacket/McDaniel and let me know what you think. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 04:23, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I hope you are well. I feel bad that McDaniel biography is so truncated due to a mistake on my part. Could you please look at User:Racepacket/McDaniel when you have a chance. I believe that I did a good job of cleaning it, but I don't want to go around you in any way. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 20:51, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
I've started work on it. The problem is that you haven't really fixed any of the problems, so I thought it might be best to wait until after the RfC/U. At any rate, I've started a rewrite, but the problem is taht it will need one. For example, you start with:
Which is almost identical to the source:
I've rewritten it as:
I'm not really happy with the wording, but the main thing is that what is written has to be significantly different from the original source. Anyway, I'll keep going and see what I can do. - Bilby ( talk) 17:48, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your thoughtfulness vis a vis the RFC/U. Racepacket ( talk) 02:50, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby - Just checking in to see if you are still working on Tasmanian Devil in response to the comments at the FAR. This article has been on the page for quite a while, so it would be great to be able to get some reviewers working on it. Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 15:47, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi again, Adam! 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 Internet backbone, as well as the group working on Internet Service Provider? I thought you'd be a good fit for these two topics, since you have tangentially-related expertise and the topics themselves have a modest bit of overlap. If you can do it, thanks! If not, or you'd rather just mentor one group, please let me know.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 00:48, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi my name is Nick, and my partner Wes and I are working on this project. I just wanted to reach out to say hi to you, and I look forward to speaking with you this semester. Thanks in advance for helping us out. Pingtell ( talk) 04:32, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Jaime Peca and I'm a sophomore at Syracuse University. I am planning on working on the article for the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons primarily, but also evidence-based policy. I would really appreciate your help over the next few weeks as I try to implement some of my changes! Jep1991 ( talk) 00:13, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
So first it was
than it was
now it was a vandalism warning ....sorry Bilby, but are you keeping a close eye on me or something? I am not taking these little things into consideration of acts of good faith, because they always play a role against me. Are you trying to point out my mistakes (although I havent made any yet) just to suit your own agenda? With all due respect, I cannot do my job editing with a rope tied around my neck. Sorry If I sound harsh, it is just wherever I go, you seem to follow.-- MelbourneStar☆ ( talk) 12:58, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
I have seen that you have partcipated in the article for deletion for Techna Dye. Perhaps this AFD could be of interest to you? Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jay Marvin -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 14:28, 13 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)
Hello Bilby,
I'm Gerald and you are the online mentor for my class Wikipedia project. My group will be editing the "Internet Service Provider" article. I look forward to learning from you and appreciate your help on this project. Part of my latest assignment was to write on your discussion page so here I am. Look forward to working with you,
Gerald
Schust38 ( talk) 01:27, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey Bilby,
You are the online mentor for my Wiki project as well. In fact, Gerald and I are in the same group and would be glad to get your assistance on our topic - Internet Service Provider.
Ritvik
Sh.ritvik ( talk) 03:41, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Bilby,
Sorry for taking so long to reply to your original post on my talk page as I was still learning how to use Wikipedia :). I just wanted to thank you for volunteering to help our group with this project and I'm looking forward to our future communication.
Wes
Warnellw ( talk) 02:42, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
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Materialscientist ( talk) 16:05, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Got a message about an hour ago from Professor Obar of the Media and Telecommunication Policy project and I think it is viewed best in full:
Can you please communicate to the online mentors that I DO NOT want them moving student material into the main space for them. This is a big problem. I have noticed that this has happened with a number of the projects already, for example, in the broadband.gov article and the media cross-ownership article. We need the students to be doing this on their own, of course so they can learn how to do it, and also so that I can grade what they've done. How am I supposed to follow student submissions if the data is associated with online mentors? A BIG PROBLEM ALREADY... please help me with this. None of you responded to my post about this on the discussion page. This is about to get out of hand. Jaobar (talk) 05:27, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
With that, of course, please only give instructions on how to move, don't do it for them. Please only let them know what to do and let them do it themselves. If they run into problems, provide further instructions. Do not it for them. This seems to be making a mess of Prof. Obar's grading system and I would like to avoid that. Thanks. - Neutralhomer • Talk • Coor. Online Amb'dor • 06:10, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
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[1] "During his time with the RAAF, Bonython rose to the rank of Captain". Can you check that please? Perhaps it should be "group captain"? If it is indeed captain, then it better have a more tangible supporting reference, or there will be endless comments about "captain" not being a RAAF rank. Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 23:54, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
At the moment, especially with all the subheadings, the article isn't really about John Lavington Bonython so much as his family - I've removed six of the subheadings, and yes, that is an improvement. However, the ratio of dad to kids&wives is still too low. Reducing the "kids&wives" section seems like a bad idea to me - adding more to "dad" seems a much better idea. Your thoughts? Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 02:13, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Nice addition! [2]. Dreadstar ☥ 15:11, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bibly, I was wondering if you would be my mentor? I am a student at Syracuse University currently enrolled in a course about NGOs and global affairs. I will be making edits to a few different NGO-related articles over the next month and would appreciate your advice/help. One of the articles that I want to expand is about "Partners in Health". Let me know if you're interested. Thanks!
-Mack — Preceding unsigned comment added by Photobymack ( talk • contribs) 17:34, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi I'm the Wikipedian who got into the brouhaha with pictures. Thanks for your help with the article. I took more pictures but as you probably know I had an incident with campus police about this whole subject. But I kept the pictures. Just in case of any privacy concerns, I digitally altered them to remove faces, names, email addresses and such. If you don't mind I'll post some of the pictures here in case you wish to add them to the article; some are already in the article; others don't help much (like you pointed out); at this point I'm removing the UCC article from my watchlist and won't do much else with it so I'm glad to turn this over to others, and I have other stuff to do! btw never been to Australia but did get as far as New Zealand, and never did check if the water does, in fact, swirl down drains the opposite way! :) -- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 18:47, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Yup. Saw that and replied why I don't think it's relevant in the AfD discussion. I'm checking for deleted versions at capitalization variants. I'm going to check a couple of other projects, too. It might have been lifted from SimpleEnglish or one of our other sister projects. Rossami (talk) 01:38, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
No problem at all. I understand that this button sometime can cause trouble. And if you think my redirects aren't good and you know any better solution for them, please feel free to do as you wish. I'm not an expert in English Wikipedia.-- AM ( talk) 14:26, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby!
I was wondering if you could please take a look at a page I am working on and give me some feedback on the content/style/format of the page before I make it public. It is still in its draft form and needs a little more information but its close to being done I would say. Thanks!
Here is the link to what I have so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ka_Yaffa2/sandbox
Ka Yaffa2 ( talk) 20:55, 18 April 2011 (UTC)Ka Yaffa2
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Hey dude! Howzit? I would just like to ask you quickly if images of national sport teams are allowed to be used on Wikipedia, and if so, which category they fall under? Thanks! -- Another Type of Zombie talk 11:03, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for info about Australians within the RFC. I'm a big fan of WWI flying history so its always good here new information.-- Factchk ( talk) 17:32, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
I did a search inside the book. There's no mention of Dell on pg. 110 and existing references to Dell don't back up the edit. -- NeilN talk to me 23:51, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Revert when 5 reputable sources were quoted? You have to be kidding! Do you work for Mike Rann or the ALP? KymFarnik ( talk) 11:41, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Bilby,
This is my first ever experience with contributing to Wikipedia. I'm a doctoral student in Florida and I've been assigned to publish a page about a researcher who has made significant contributions in the field of literacy. I've been reading the guidelines and listening to other students' struggles. I have started my page in a sandbox, but realize I need some guidance at this point. Will you be able to help me ensure that my article is formatted appropriately and rigorous enough to contribute to this global project? I'm also not sure how to get it out of the sandbox.
Thanks Bejordan ( talk) 02:42, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Greetings,
Can you please nominate the Internet Backbone article that you supervised for DYK? It has certainly increased 5-fold in the last two months. If you don't feel that it should be nominated, please let me know. Thanks. Jaobar ( talk) 05:46, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Request you to look at Adarsh Housing Society Scam, where there seems to be persistent vandalism by multiple users. "Nishant Grover" and "Keshav Bansal" were never Indian environment ministers as per my recollection Oops daisy ( talk) 19:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby/Archive 7,
Your work as an Online Ambassador is making a big contribution to Wikipedia. Right now, we're trying to measure just how much student work improves the quality of Wikipedia. If you'd like contribute to this research and get a firsthand look at the quality improvement that is happening through the project, please sign up to assess articles. Assessment is happening now, just use the quantitative metric and start assessing! Your help would be hugely appreciated!
Thank you, ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 17:10, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks,
Great work on this image. I'm not one to think of watermark removal as "fun", but I almost wanted to save this image for myself (instead of putting it in the Top 4). I do have two minor tweak requests.
Those are outside of the text space, so I thought they should be as "original" as possible. Thanks so much! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 21:23, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
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Coincidence? Or are you always looking for the right moment to step in? I don't know what you want from me, but whatever it is...please stop opposing me. The 4th example, last week, I clearly told the anon. I wanted reliable internet resources and consensus...then you come and save the day, and provide a reference (Imdb; which is not reliable in this case) then an admin 'locks it in'...What is this? I know that I'm not paranoid, you obviously have me on your watchlist, which is fine...but you are going against me...4 times so far...In around 4 months. Can't wait for next month :| Look, just please stop, it's actually lucky that the admin locked the Manhood page, because if it wasn't I would have reverted, as Imdb in that case isn't reliable...which would have the caused an issue between us, yet again. Thank You -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 14:16, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Bilby: I may be retiring next week, so I would like to finalize Boyce McDaniel in the next few days and move it into article space. Could you possibly complete your review? I would appreciate it. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 08:00, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
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It's interesting that quite different IP addresses keep re-adding the military conflict infobox with pretty much the same content. We've either got a world-travelling vandal on our hands or, more likely, the original infobox is on some website somewhere and people think it's funny to re-add it (which it is - but not in a very productive way). Nick-D ( talk) 01:24, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
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Seeing as you've spammed us (correctly IMHO) on short notice re Liam Wyatt being in Adelaide, I believe you should create something at Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide (or at least its talk page) to collate responses. I'd do it but I can't guarantee I'd be coming yet. Mark Hurd ( talk) 06:33, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, we spoke last night and this is the link if you would care to contribute to the Challenge. Victuallers ( talk) 04:29, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
I've removed three non-free files from this table for failure of WP:NFCC #8 and WP:NFTABLE. The use of non-free images as 40px icons fails the #8 clause, and really the #1 clause of NFCC #1 as well. Further, the use of non-free images in a table like this is not supported by WP:NFTABLE. Please do not restore the images. If you have questions about this, please ask. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 19:41, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice and heads up, but I am confused by the image policies. What exactly are non-free images? And I really think a recent photo that is closer up on Eminem would make for a much better image. How can you get an image with a Creative Commons license? I am seriously lost here. Could you please help me out? Banan14kab ( talk) 07:11, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have opened a discussion at WT:Good article reassessment#Mandatory notification of primary editors. Perhaps you would like to contribute? Jezhotwells ( talk) 02:22, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kevin Winterbottom is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Seems User:ROxBo has a highly negative POV to push but trying to use a conviction of a family member on the Mem Fox article. I hardly see why it is relevant in the article. Bidgee ( talk) 15:15, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Ok so I went to flickr.com and searched recent and new photos of Eminem. I found some under the CC license. they are images of him performing at Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN on June 11, 2011. it took place at Bonnaroo's What Stage. Here is a link to the images that came up: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=eminem+bonnaroo&l=cc&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1 I think you shoudl be able to pick an image from there that we can use for his main article. Banan14kab ( talk) 04:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Interesting that any undue BLP content I remove John Nevard is not far behind. Bidgee ( talk) 07:25, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
I agreed to the wording in the Chadstone article - the edit you've just made is perfectly fine. No issues. -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 08:22, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
What I'm waiting for is sources (reliable) to tell us all what the largest shopping centre is, and sources like the one on Chaddy's website to change once it's well-known fact that it isn't largest anymore...that's like false advertisement. :| -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 08:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
I see you have had to battle with this guy too. Perhaps you could say something about it here. Speak up now or suffer his edits in perpetuity. Jabbsworth ( talk) 07:43, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Took me 5sec to find a source for the Ian Dowbiggin quote you spent 10 sec deleting. You should give improving the page a try. Jabbsworth ( talk) 06:33, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Ambassador Program: assessment drive
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.
In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.
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so will i be able to add in the stuff if i turn it into my own words or find the information from another Wikipedia page and give a reference to it.
I replied to your message. Hope you understand this. :) Minima © ( talk) 19:33, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I have left "Soccer" in place, even though that conversation is quite dubious in nature (apparently what the game is called by AFL fans in Victoria is what counts as 'consensus' and is worthy of replacing the completely factual Association Football title, but I digress). I have kept the Citation of it's official name as "Football" as per the FFA website (how much more 'official' can the name of Football be when the peak body for the game in Australia as well as the worldwide peak body both use it?), much in the same way as the Australian rules Football page has it's own AFL.com citation giving it's official name as "Australian Football". I trust this is acceptable, giving that it is the official name for the game despite what appears to be the "consensus" of slang or 'common usage' in Victoria (I guess if Wikipedia was around 60 years ago the 'consensus title' would be "Wogball in Australia") Should I state this on the talk page? (also, thank you for your message, I would not want to cause more issues). Macktheknifeau ( talk) 14:28, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to expand [6] the article. Jesanj ( talk) 22:19, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Dear Bilby,
I am not happy with your edits of my entry on Msr Ledwith, who is a very public figure in Ireland and a subject of various controversies. I have re-edited my article to make it objective and also referenced it with quotations from the National broadcaster RTE and a number of Government reports. Such sources must be beyond reproach and fall well within the living biography conditions of Wikipedia. The edition you have consistently revived has far less referenced material and also dwells on pointless biographical data about Msr Ledwith's post clerical career, which would not be of interest to people who would be looking for biographical data on this subject. I made a formal complaint last week about the article you keep restoring, and I have also complained to Wikipedia about your description of my edit as being vandalism. All is fair comment and well researched. I note that you take a keen interest in editing a number of entries into the subject of Catholic scandals in Ireland. If you took the time to observe you would note that some of my contribution is taken directly from other Wikipedia sources, including the entry on Msr Gerard McGinnity and the Ferns report.
Best wishes,
Neil — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neil80123 ( talk • contribs) 12:37, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:
This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.
You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.
Once you've found a class that you want to work with—especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area—you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.
If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 16:30, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!
Hi Bilby! I'm in the process of trying to find Online Ambassadors to support each of the classes for this coming term, and I thought you'd be a good fit for this one: Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Reality Check (John Farquhar). It's a philisophy class, and seems somewhat up your alley. If you're up for it, please check out the Memorandum of Understanding (linked above) which sketches the expectations for Online Ambassadors this term, and then you can sign on to class and get in touch with the professor.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 15:48, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
The course is actually a Freshman, critical-thinking seminar which happens to be paired with a Philosophy of Knowledge course and a Psychology 101 course. So, students take all three courses as a block. The seminar class for which I teach looks at paranormal phenomena and attempts to provide alternative sociopsychological explanations. We will also be looking at Wikipedia as a socially-constructed knowledge base and be experiencing the review and validation of this knowledge processes ourselves. Related wikiprojects include Wikipedia:SKEPTICISM and Wikipedia:PARANORMAL. Hope you are interested in joining us. Realityinvestigator ( talk) 21:43, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi you appear to have removed a comment of mine, why was that? I put it back it looks like a rollback twitch. No worries - Off2riorob ( talk) 03:47, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. Canberra is my local derby league so I kind of know some of the sources for it. Don't have access to sources for other teams or I might consider trying to improve those. I love the roller derby. :) If you need pictures, I can continue looking through mine to see if I have ones from the interstate bout between Canberra and the Victorians as I have pictures some where on some hard drive. (I just can't find them right now. I found badly done Sydney ones.) -- LauraHale ( talk) 07:12, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
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Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:03, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
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Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:03, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Berrick, Genevieve (Oct–Nov 2010). "Portraying roller derby". Arena Magazine (108). Fitzroy, Vic: 41–42.
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LauraHale (
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06:56, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
This user has stopped anyone from making edits to Louie Gohmert he did not agree with. First he made edits using three IP address 99.168.72.86, 75.60.185.120, 75.60.186.187 and two user names Jdblack326 and Johnnyb.3261. The IP addresses all trace back to Columbus, Ohio and have the edits are all revert attempts to edit and a section in the article entitled "Implication Obama is complicit in creating a Islamic Caliphate," with the description These statements, accurately reflected in the heading, attracted national attention and are historically significant as example of the type of inflammatory rhetoric that has been employed in the 112th Congress along with hate speech against the Presi)" He has done this thirteen times at least and at least twice today. He will not allow anyone to change this. I have thoroughly engaged in the talkpage. It is time for him to do the same.
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 01:54, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Ambassadors!
I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.
On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.
Still waiting to get involved with a class this term, or ready to take on more? We have seven classes that are already active and need OA support, and eleven more that have course pages started but don't have active students yet. Please consider joining one or more of these pods!
Active courses that really need Online Ambassadors:
Courses that may be active soon that need Online Ambassadors:
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 23:10, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your positive contribs at Being Born Again Couture Fashion Show. While I'm wholeheartedly in favor of deleting the article, I think it's important to portray content remaining in the meantime in the most favorable – and most accurate – light. Thanks for lending feedback and actual edits. JFHJr ( ㊟) 06:25, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Bilby,
Curious, I am, I was wondering, what are the notability concerns and long term problems with the Aziz Shavershian article? I, as you probably may already know, have been working on the article for a while now, and when an editor points concerns out, it makes me think that there is something wrong with my editing. Please, if you can, could you tell me what the concerns are in detail, that way I can fix the article. Thank you! -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 07:16, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
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12:53, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
No worries. :) I spotted it on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Society, sports, and culture and assumed something like that happened. :) (The other day, I accidentally gave some a huge clutch of kitties on accident because of computer problems and they had to clean them off.) -- LauraHale ( talk) 04:27, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Dear Wetman,
I and a colleague have edited a Wikipedia article as part of a class assignment, on the following topic Privacy Policy
Could you please comment on our edit and indicate your opinion of the edit? Any commentary is useful. The assignment is due oct.31 so it would be great if you could give us some input before that thank you, (Kanesham 14:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kanesham ( talk • contribs)
Hey any thoughts? If you can post something up on my user talk page or the discussion page it would be great, thanks again. (Kanesham 14:34, 31 October 2011 (UTC)) — Preceding
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How do you know that the editor is even her? Also, s/he has removed other controversies - that just happened to be sourced. Is S/he going to ask those sources to bury their information, too? -- MST☆ R (Chat Me!) 11:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby, I'm an Indian editor with a military background. I would like to take over stewardship of List of countries by military expenditures; World military spending by serial number 39, roll number 2042 Shruti Mehta (Economics of the Social Sector Year 2 Group A, Symbiosis school of Economics). Do you have any objections? What do I need to do? AshLin ( talk) 13:54, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
I've tried to give some guidance to Vkdh who has been tasked to edit Intelligent haunting regarding how Wikipedia treats supernatural claims, but judging by their latest addition they still don't quite grasp that such claims are not treated as encyclopedic fact. I'll let the student's instructor sort it out. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 22:02, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
It seems you like to be deleted and eliminated. -- ClaudioSantos ¿? 05:11, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
^Obviously what you're not interested in doing. Countless times I have been on your discussion page, and you know what? It has never turned into a good chat. I really don't know what your issue with me is - you always seem to have an axe to grind with me. Either I seem to be making a lot of mistakes, or you are intentionally gunning for me. This is getting really old; and just blantantly shows some people's maturity, at its best. Would you like me to tell you all the time which article I'm editing, just so you can go give your own opinion of it? Because I'm really thinking I should, if that's what you want. -- MST☆ R (Chat Me!) 10:08, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
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Echoedmyron ( talk) 20:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby: I would appreciate if you talked to me first before reverting my recent change of photo at Jessica Watson. I spent a lot of time, setting up the photo which I uploaded, corresponding with the Australian author of the photo and giving my reasons at [[File:Jessica W.jpg]], why I could not obtain permission for the Creative Commons license, and instead had to settle for "fair use."
Please reply and tell me why you object to my photo. I thought it was a better image. The one you put back is rather dismal-looking and does not do Jessica any favours. :-)
(P.S.) ...just read your note at the Talk Page. Yes, I understand the rules, but I also believe in exceptions, and for lack of a better word, this sucks. I tried hard in three emails to convince the author to go with our Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and she would not bite. I don't see why, but she was somehow spooked by the fact that others could reproduce or modify her photo at will. Anyway, if you insist, then I will concur, as I have no stomach to put up a fight over something so trivial. -- Skol fir ( talk) 02:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
There is no confusion here. I just got an email this morning, from the manager of Jessica Watson, Andrew Fraser, that she now owns her boat. What do you mean by mixed sources? I have just updated an outdated reference by receiving personal communication as of today. I don't see why you call the sources mixed, when the original source was just wrong, as of today. It might have been right a year ago. You have a strange way of deleting a perfectly justified edit.
Bilby, if you need proof, I can forward the email from Fraser through to you on our internal email system.
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Skol fir (
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19:40, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby. Thank you for locating the original speech from January 26, for the Jessica Watson article. I was trying to remove a whole bunch of dead links and in replacing this one, all I could find was the one from the Courier Mail. Actually, if you read the entire speech, Kevin Rudd also said, "Jess Watson is a remarkable young Australian" in the paragraph following "extraordinary." So both I and the reporter had our reasons. Thanks anyway. We can leave it at "extraordinary." That's just as good, if not better! -- Skol fir ( talk) 00:46, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
User:Bilby/Bonghan system, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Bilby/Bonghan system and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Bilby/Bonghan system during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. JamesBWatson ( talk) 17:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
That's great! Thanks!-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 04:16, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your continued work on the article. I am honestly confused as to how block quotes could ever be a "copyright infringement"? Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 22:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
And this is text from http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/02/5.16.02/McDaniel-obit.html"McDaniel had finished his doctoral thesis at Cornell in 1943, researching the absorption rates of neutrons in indium. While the U.S. government did not classify the thesis as secret, McDaniel and his thesis advisor, Robert Bacher, understood its implications for weapons research. They marked each page "secret" and locked two copies away in the university's library"
Does that sound familiar to you?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 02:41, 4 February 2011 (UTC)"McDaniel had finished his doctoral thesis at Cornell in 1943, researching the absorption rates of neutrons in indium. While the thesis itself was not considered classified information by the U.S. government, McDaniel and Bacher understood its implications for weapons research. They marked each page "secret" and locked two copies away in the university's library."
February 2, 2011: Diff, with content ripped from here;
January 27, 2011: New Article, with text with content ripped from here;
January 26, 2010: New article, with content ripped from (the subject) here;
January 12, 2011: Diff, with content ripped from here;
January 9, 2011: Diff, with content ripped from here (and here, from here);
December 20, 2010: New article, with content ripped from here;
December 19, 2010. Diff, with content ripped from here;
November 27, 2010: New Article, with content ripped from here;
(arbitrary stop).
Given the above, which was not difficult (though laborious) to find, it's obvious another CCI investigation is needed, picking up the day after the last one ended. The shame is, there's lots of good edits in between, but this can't be allowed to continue.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 06:34, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Well done! Thank you very much. Cullen328 ( talk) 15:38, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Bilby, you and I have worked "together" on the Axelsson article. Peripheral to that is the page that is now nominated for deletion,
The guy that nominated this kind of makes a hobby of nominating my articles for deletion. His first attempt to get this deleted was shot down, so now he's trying again. I'd appreciate your input.
Looks like another person added some items so we now have a "keep." Can you take a look at the article and see if you concur with the keep? Thanks! PR ( talk) 01:01, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
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FYI. Pdfpdf ( talk) 13:02, 17 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 Bilby. 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) 19:10, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Bilby! :) I just want to say I totally respect that your having your say to the article, and everything. I am honestly fine with that. If I didn't think something was correct I would have no problem whatsover in changing it to make it correct. But your sources that you have so far provided, that other editors have provided, don't make a proper basis for saying that: Chadstone is not the southern hemisphere's largest. I have provided more than 10 references, include pdf. files, The Centre's own website, the centre's brochure, Newspaper articles, and so on. The only references provided against, is a website in another language and a discussion forum. I and many other users would like to see evidence. References clearly stating that Chadstone is not the largest shopping centre in the Southern Hemisphere. Please provide suitable recent (2009 onwards) references, if possible. Thank You, Best Reguards -- MelbourneStar☆ ( talk) 09:28, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. The only other thing I have is a copy of a los angeles fanzine that did an in depth feature on him but it's nowhere on the web the fanzine is called "Destroy All". It came out in 2003........I don't think the mag exists anymore. I think this article is important and it's pretty well rounded, thanks to you. I'll add to it as things come along.-- Llaneerg ( talk) 10:56, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
I believe that I have resolved your concerns. Could you please review User:Racepacket/McDaniel and let me know what you think. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 04:23, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I hope you are well. I feel bad that McDaniel biography is so truncated due to a mistake on my part. Could you please look at User:Racepacket/McDaniel when you have a chance. I believe that I did a good job of cleaning it, but I don't want to go around you in any way. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 20:51, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
I've started work on it. The problem is that you haven't really fixed any of the problems, so I thought it might be best to wait until after the RfC/U. At any rate, I've started a rewrite, but the problem is taht it will need one. For example, you start with:
Which is almost identical to the source:
I've rewritten it as:
I'm not really happy with the wording, but the main thing is that what is written has to be significantly different from the original source. Anyway, I'll keep going and see what I can do. - Bilby ( talk) 17:48, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your thoughtfulness vis a vis the RFC/U. Racepacket ( talk) 02:50, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby - Just checking in to see if you are still working on Tasmanian Devil in response to the comments at the FAR. This article has been on the page for quite a while, so it would be great to be able to get some reviewers working on it. Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 15:47, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi again, Adam! 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 Internet backbone, as well as the group working on Internet Service Provider? I thought you'd be a good fit for these two topics, since you have tangentially-related expertise and the topics themselves have a modest bit of overlap. If you can do it, thanks! If not, or you'd rather just mentor one group, please let me know.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 00:48, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi my name is Nick, and my partner Wes and I are working on this project. I just wanted to reach out to say hi to you, and I look forward to speaking with you this semester. Thanks in advance for helping us out. Pingtell ( talk) 04:32, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Jaime Peca and I'm a sophomore at Syracuse University. I am planning on working on the article for the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons primarily, but also evidence-based policy. I would really appreciate your help over the next few weeks as I try to implement some of my changes! Jep1991 ( talk) 00:13, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
So first it was
than it was
now it was a vandalism warning ....sorry Bilby, but are you keeping a close eye on me or something? I am not taking these little things into consideration of acts of good faith, because they always play a role against me. Are you trying to point out my mistakes (although I havent made any yet) just to suit your own agenda? With all due respect, I cannot do my job editing with a rope tied around my neck. Sorry If I sound harsh, it is just wherever I go, you seem to follow.-- MelbourneStar☆ ( talk) 12:58, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
I have seen that you have partcipated in the article for deletion for Techna Dye. Perhaps this AFD could be of interest to you? Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jay Marvin -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 14:28, 13 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)
Hello Bilby,
I'm Gerald and you are the online mentor for my class Wikipedia project. My group will be editing the "Internet Service Provider" article. I look forward to learning from you and appreciate your help on this project. Part of my latest assignment was to write on your discussion page so here I am. Look forward to working with you,
Gerald
Schust38 ( talk) 01:27, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey Bilby,
You are the online mentor for my Wiki project as well. In fact, Gerald and I are in the same group and would be glad to get your assistance on our topic - Internet Service Provider.
Ritvik
Sh.ritvik ( talk) 03:41, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Bilby,
Sorry for taking so long to reply to your original post on my talk page as I was still learning how to use Wikipedia :). I just wanted to thank you for volunteering to help our group with this project and I'm looking forward to our future communication.
Wes
Warnellw ( talk) 02:42, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
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Materialscientist ( talk) 16:05, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Got a message about an hour ago from Professor Obar of the Media and Telecommunication Policy project and I think it is viewed best in full:
Can you please communicate to the online mentors that I DO NOT want them moving student material into the main space for them. This is a big problem. I have noticed that this has happened with a number of the projects already, for example, in the broadband.gov article and the media cross-ownership article. We need the students to be doing this on their own, of course so they can learn how to do it, and also so that I can grade what they've done. How am I supposed to follow student submissions if the data is associated with online mentors? A BIG PROBLEM ALREADY... please help me with this. None of you responded to my post about this on the discussion page. This is about to get out of hand. Jaobar (talk) 05:27, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
With that, of course, please only give instructions on how to move, don't do it for them. Please only let them know what to do and let them do it themselves. If they run into problems, provide further instructions. Do not it for them. This seems to be making a mess of Prof. Obar's grading system and I would like to avoid that. Thanks. - Neutralhomer • Talk • Coor. Online Amb'dor • 06:10, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
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[1] "During his time with the RAAF, Bonython rose to the rank of Captain". Can you check that please? Perhaps it should be "group captain"? If it is indeed captain, then it better have a more tangible supporting reference, or there will be endless comments about "captain" not being a RAAF rank. Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 23:54, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
At the moment, especially with all the subheadings, the article isn't really about John Lavington Bonython so much as his family - I've removed six of the subheadings, and yes, that is an improvement. However, the ratio of dad to kids&wives is still too low. Reducing the "kids&wives" section seems like a bad idea to me - adding more to "dad" seems a much better idea. Your thoughts? Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 02:13, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Nice addition! [2]. Dreadstar ☥ 15:11, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bibly, I was wondering if you would be my mentor? I am a student at Syracuse University currently enrolled in a course about NGOs and global affairs. I will be making edits to a few different NGO-related articles over the next month and would appreciate your advice/help. One of the articles that I want to expand is about "Partners in Health". Let me know if you're interested. Thanks!
-Mack — Preceding unsigned comment added by Photobymack ( talk • contribs) 17:34, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi I'm the Wikipedian who got into the brouhaha with pictures. Thanks for your help with the article. I took more pictures but as you probably know I had an incident with campus police about this whole subject. But I kept the pictures. Just in case of any privacy concerns, I digitally altered them to remove faces, names, email addresses and such. If you don't mind I'll post some of the pictures here in case you wish to add them to the article; some are already in the article; others don't help much (like you pointed out); at this point I'm removing the UCC article from my watchlist and won't do much else with it so I'm glad to turn this over to others, and I have other stuff to do! btw never been to Australia but did get as far as New Zealand, and never did check if the water does, in fact, swirl down drains the opposite way! :) -- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 18:47, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Yup. Saw that and replied why I don't think it's relevant in the AfD discussion. I'm checking for deleted versions at capitalization variants. I'm going to check a couple of other projects, too. It might have been lifted from SimpleEnglish or one of our other sister projects. Rossami (talk) 01:38, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
No problem at all. I understand that this button sometime can cause trouble. And if you think my redirects aren't good and you know any better solution for them, please feel free to do as you wish. I'm not an expert in English Wikipedia.-- AM ( talk) 14:26, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby!
I was wondering if you could please take a look at a page I am working on and give me some feedback on the content/style/format of the page before I make it public. It is still in its draft form and needs a little more information but its close to being done I would say. Thanks!
Here is the link to what I have so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ka_Yaffa2/sandbox
Ka Yaffa2 ( talk) 20:55, 18 April 2011 (UTC)Ka Yaffa2
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Hey dude! Howzit? I would just like to ask you quickly if images of national sport teams are allowed to be used on Wikipedia, and if so, which category they fall under? Thanks! -- Another Type of Zombie talk 11:03, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for info about Australians within the RFC. I'm a big fan of WWI flying history so its always good here new information.-- Factchk ( talk) 17:32, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
I did a search inside the book. There's no mention of Dell on pg. 110 and existing references to Dell don't back up the edit. -- NeilN talk to me 23:51, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Revert when 5 reputable sources were quoted? You have to be kidding! Do you work for Mike Rann or the ALP? KymFarnik ( talk) 11:41, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Bilby,
This is my first ever experience with contributing to Wikipedia. I'm a doctoral student in Florida and I've been assigned to publish a page about a researcher who has made significant contributions in the field of literacy. I've been reading the guidelines and listening to other students' struggles. I have started my page in a sandbox, but realize I need some guidance at this point. Will you be able to help me ensure that my article is formatted appropriately and rigorous enough to contribute to this global project? I'm also not sure how to get it out of the sandbox.
Thanks Bejordan ( talk) 02:42, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Greetings,
Can you please nominate the Internet Backbone article that you supervised for DYK? It has certainly increased 5-fold in the last two months. If you don't feel that it should be nominated, please let me know. Thanks. Jaobar ( talk) 05:46, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Request you to look at Adarsh Housing Society Scam, where there seems to be persistent vandalism by multiple users. "Nishant Grover" and "Keshav Bansal" were never Indian environment ministers as per my recollection Oops daisy ( talk) 19:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby/Archive 7,
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Thank you, ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 17:10, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks,
Great work on this image. I'm not one to think of watermark removal as "fun", but I almost wanted to save this image for myself (instead of putting it in the Top 4). I do have two minor tweak requests.
Those are outside of the text space, so I thought they should be as "original" as possible. Thanks so much! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 21:23, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
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Coincidence? Or are you always looking for the right moment to step in? I don't know what you want from me, but whatever it is...please stop opposing me. The 4th example, last week, I clearly told the anon. I wanted reliable internet resources and consensus...then you come and save the day, and provide a reference (Imdb; which is not reliable in this case) then an admin 'locks it in'...What is this? I know that I'm not paranoid, you obviously have me on your watchlist, which is fine...but you are going against me...4 times so far...In around 4 months. Can't wait for next month :| Look, just please stop, it's actually lucky that the admin locked the Manhood page, because if it wasn't I would have reverted, as Imdb in that case isn't reliable...which would have the caused an issue between us, yet again. Thank You -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 14:16, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Bilby: I may be retiring next week, so I would like to finalize Boyce McDaniel in the next few days and move it into article space. Could you possibly complete your review? I would appreciate it. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 08:00, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
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It's interesting that quite different IP addresses keep re-adding the military conflict infobox with pretty much the same content. We've either got a world-travelling vandal on our hands or, more likely, the original infobox is on some website somewhere and people think it's funny to re-add it (which it is - but not in a very productive way). Nick-D ( talk) 01:24, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
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Seeing as you've spammed us (correctly IMHO) on short notice re Liam Wyatt being in Adelaide, I believe you should create something at Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide (or at least its talk page) to collate responses. I'd do it but I can't guarantee I'd be coming yet. Mark Hurd ( talk) 06:33, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, we spoke last night and this is the link if you would care to contribute to the Challenge. Victuallers ( talk) 04:29, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
I've removed three non-free files from this table for failure of WP:NFCC #8 and WP:NFTABLE. The use of non-free images as 40px icons fails the #8 clause, and really the #1 clause of NFCC #1 as well. Further, the use of non-free images in a table like this is not supported by WP:NFTABLE. Please do not restore the images. If you have questions about this, please ask. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 19:41, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice and heads up, but I am confused by the image policies. What exactly are non-free images? And I really think a recent photo that is closer up on Eminem would make for a much better image. How can you get an image with a Creative Commons license? I am seriously lost here. Could you please help me out? Banan14kab ( talk) 07:11, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have opened a discussion at WT:Good article reassessment#Mandatory notification of primary editors. Perhaps you would like to contribute? Jezhotwells ( talk) 02:22, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kevin Winterbottom is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Seems User:ROxBo has a highly negative POV to push but trying to use a conviction of a family member on the Mem Fox article. I hardly see why it is relevant in the article. Bidgee ( talk) 15:15, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Ok so I went to flickr.com and searched recent and new photos of Eminem. I found some under the CC license. they are images of him performing at Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN on June 11, 2011. it took place at Bonnaroo's What Stage. Here is a link to the images that came up: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=eminem+bonnaroo&l=cc&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1 I think you shoudl be able to pick an image from there that we can use for his main article. Banan14kab ( talk) 04:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Interesting that any undue BLP content I remove John Nevard is not far behind. Bidgee ( talk) 07:25, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
I agreed to the wording in the Chadstone article - the edit you've just made is perfectly fine. No issues. -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 08:22, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
What I'm waiting for is sources (reliable) to tell us all what the largest shopping centre is, and sources like the one on Chaddy's website to change once it's well-known fact that it isn't largest anymore...that's like false advertisement. :| -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 08:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
I see you have had to battle with this guy too. Perhaps you could say something about it here. Speak up now or suffer his edits in perpetuity. Jabbsworth ( talk) 07:43, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Took me 5sec to find a source for the Ian Dowbiggin quote you spent 10 sec deleting. You should give improving the page a try. Jabbsworth ( talk) 06:33, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Ambassador Program: assessment drive
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.
In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.
Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:21, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
so will i be able to add in the stuff if i turn it into my own words or find the information from another Wikipedia page and give a reference to it.
I replied to your message. Hope you understand this. :) Minima © ( talk) 19:33, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I have left "Soccer" in place, even though that conversation is quite dubious in nature (apparently what the game is called by AFL fans in Victoria is what counts as 'consensus' and is worthy of replacing the completely factual Association Football title, but I digress). I have kept the Citation of it's official name as "Football" as per the FFA website (how much more 'official' can the name of Football be when the peak body for the game in Australia as well as the worldwide peak body both use it?), much in the same way as the Australian rules Football page has it's own AFL.com citation giving it's official name as "Australian Football". I trust this is acceptable, giving that it is the official name for the game despite what appears to be the "consensus" of slang or 'common usage' in Victoria (I guess if Wikipedia was around 60 years ago the 'consensus title' would be "Wogball in Australia") Should I state this on the talk page? (also, thank you for your message, I would not want to cause more issues). Macktheknifeau ( talk) 14:28, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to expand [6] the article. Jesanj ( talk) 22:19, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Dear Bilby,
I am not happy with your edits of my entry on Msr Ledwith, who is a very public figure in Ireland and a subject of various controversies. I have re-edited my article to make it objective and also referenced it with quotations from the National broadcaster RTE and a number of Government reports. Such sources must be beyond reproach and fall well within the living biography conditions of Wikipedia. The edition you have consistently revived has far less referenced material and also dwells on pointless biographical data about Msr Ledwith's post clerical career, which would not be of interest to people who would be looking for biographical data on this subject. I made a formal complaint last week about the article you keep restoring, and I have also complained to Wikipedia about your description of my edit as being vandalism. All is fair comment and well researched. I note that you take a keen interest in editing a number of entries into the subject of Catholic scandals in Ireland. If you took the time to observe you would note that some of my contribution is taken directly from other Wikipedia sources, including the entry on Msr Gerard McGinnity and the Ferns report.
Best wishes,
Neil — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neil80123 ( talk • contribs) 12:37, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:
This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.
You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.
Once you've found a class that you want to work with—especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area—you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.
If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 16:30, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!
Hi Bilby! I'm in the process of trying to find Online Ambassadors to support each of the classes for this coming term, and I thought you'd be a good fit for this one: Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Reality Check (John Farquhar). It's a philisophy class, and seems somewhat up your alley. If you're up for it, please check out the Memorandum of Understanding (linked above) which sketches the expectations for Online Ambassadors this term, and then you can sign on to class and get in touch with the professor.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 15:48, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
The course is actually a Freshman, critical-thinking seminar which happens to be paired with a Philosophy of Knowledge course and a Psychology 101 course. So, students take all three courses as a block. The seminar class for which I teach looks at paranormal phenomena and attempts to provide alternative sociopsychological explanations. We will also be looking at Wikipedia as a socially-constructed knowledge base and be experiencing the review and validation of this knowledge processes ourselves. Related wikiprojects include Wikipedia:SKEPTICISM and Wikipedia:PARANORMAL. Hope you are interested in joining us. Realityinvestigator ( talk) 21:43, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi you appear to have removed a comment of mine, why was that? I put it back it looks like a rollback twitch. No worries - Off2riorob ( talk) 03:47, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. Canberra is my local derby league so I kind of know some of the sources for it. Don't have access to sources for other teams or I might consider trying to improve those. I love the roller derby. :) If you need pictures, I can continue looking through mine to see if I have ones from the interstate bout between Canberra and the Victorians as I have pictures some where on some hard drive. (I just can't find them right now. I found badly done Sydney ones.) -- LauraHale ( talk) 07:12, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 29 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Adelaide Roller Derby, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the largest roller derby competition ever held outside of the United States was hosted by Adelaide Roller Derby and won by the Victorian VRDL All Stars? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Adelaide Roller Derby.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. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:03, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 29 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Victorian Roller Derby League, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the largest roller derby competition ever held outside of the United States was hosted by Adelaide Roller Derby and won by the Victorian VRDL All Stars? 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. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:03, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Berrick, Genevieve (Oct–Nov 2010). "Portraying roller derby". Arena Magazine (108). Fitzroy, Vic: 41–42.
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This user has stopped anyone from making edits to Louie Gohmert he did not agree with. First he made edits using three IP address 99.168.72.86, 75.60.185.120, 75.60.186.187 and two user names Jdblack326 and Johnnyb.3261. The IP addresses all trace back to Columbus, Ohio and have the edits are all revert attempts to edit and a section in the article entitled "Implication Obama is complicit in creating a Islamic Caliphate," with the description These statements, accurately reflected in the heading, attracted national attention and are historically significant as example of the type of inflammatory rhetoric that has been employed in the 112th Congress along with hate speech against the Presi)" He has done this thirteen times at least and at least twice today. He will not allow anyone to change this. I have thoroughly engaged in the talkpage. It is time for him to do the same.
-- Andy0093 ( talk) 01:54, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Ambassadors!
I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.
On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.
Still waiting to get involved with a class this term, or ready to take on more? We have seven classes that are already active and need OA support, and eleven more that have course pages started but don't have active students yet. Please consider joining one or more of these pods!
Active courses that really need Online Ambassadors:
Courses that may be active soon that need Online Ambassadors:
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 23:10, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your positive contribs at Being Born Again Couture Fashion Show. While I'm wholeheartedly in favor of deleting the article, I think it's important to portray content remaining in the meantime in the most favorable – and most accurate – light. Thanks for lending feedback and actual edits. JFHJr ( ㊟) 06:25, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Bilby,
Curious, I am, I was wondering, what are the notability concerns and long term problems with the Aziz Shavershian article? I, as you probably may already know, have been working on the article for a while now, and when an editor points concerns out, it makes me think that there is something wrong with my editing. Please, if you can, could you tell me what the concerns are in detail, that way I can fix the article. Thank you! -- MelbourneStar☆ (talk to me) 07:16, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
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No worries. :) I spotted it on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Society, sports, and culture and assumed something like that happened. :) (The other day, I accidentally gave some a huge clutch of kitties on accident because of computer problems and they had to clean them off.) -- LauraHale ( talk) 04:27, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Dear Wetman,
I and a colleague have edited a Wikipedia article as part of a class assignment, on the following topic Privacy Policy
Could you please comment on our edit and indicate your opinion of the edit? Any commentary is useful. The assignment is due oct.31 so it would be great if you could give us some input before that thank you, (Kanesham 14:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kanesham ( talk • contribs)
Hey any thoughts? If you can post something up on my user talk page or the discussion page it would be great, thanks again. (Kanesham 14:34, 31 October 2011 (UTC)) — Preceding
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How do you know that the editor is even her? Also, s/he has removed other controversies - that just happened to be sourced. Is S/he going to ask those sources to bury their information, too? -- MST☆ R (Chat Me!) 11:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bilby, I'm an Indian editor with a military background. I would like to take over stewardship of List of countries by military expenditures; World military spending by serial number 39, roll number 2042 Shruti Mehta (Economics of the Social Sector Year 2 Group A, Symbiosis school of Economics). Do you have any objections? What do I need to do? AshLin ( talk) 13:54, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
I've tried to give some guidance to Vkdh who has been tasked to edit Intelligent haunting regarding how Wikipedia treats supernatural claims, but judging by their latest addition they still don't quite grasp that such claims are not treated as encyclopedic fact. I'll let the student's instructor sort it out. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 22:02, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
It seems you like to be deleted and eliminated. -- ClaudioSantos ¿? 05:11, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
^Obviously what you're not interested in doing. Countless times I have been on your discussion page, and you know what? It has never turned into a good chat. I really don't know what your issue with me is - you always seem to have an axe to grind with me. Either I seem to be making a lot of mistakes, or you are intentionally gunning for me. This is getting really old; and just blantantly shows some people's maturity, at its best. Would you like me to tell you all the time which article I'm editing, just so you can go give your own opinion of it? Because I'm really thinking I should, if that's what you want. -- MST☆ R (Chat Me!) 10:08, 20 November 2011 (UTC)