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I placed my vote there but that's all. He ignored an ongoing discussion on the article's talk page and will force his way through regardless of what others said. Opening a move request without listening to editors who actually contribute to the article (and to others related to it) reveals that he had and has no interest on talking; he just doesn't like the name and will do whatever he needs to change it. I can't deal with this kind of people, sorry. -- Lecen ( talk) 16:24, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
The move request has been frauded. Take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/-Ilhador-. This is too much for me, I can't accept this kind of behavior. -- Lecen ( talk) 12:34, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Cuchullain,
There is again vandalism on the page Saint Thomas Christians. User: Ashley thomas80 is deleting even the term Nasrani from the page. It shows his hatred towards a people. If you are indeed a unique user and not Ashley himself as a sock Puppet then please look into it as this is against the consensus on which the pages Syrian Malabar Nasrani and Saint Thomas Christians were merged. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 17:16, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Cuchullain,
I am glad that you would look into it. I understand it is not pleasant to be suspected as a sock puppet. Thanks for your reassurance. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 17:27, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain,
It seems all your efforts in rewriting the section on Portuguese persecution of the Nasranis has been in vain. User:Ashley thomas80 has added all the material deleted by you to another page Synod of Diamper. This is stealth vandalism. I know I have been accused of engaging in personal attacks on editors. But the persistent adding of deleted materials by User:Ashley thomas80 is a demonstration of his bullying tactics. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 19:58, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
It is true that the passage dealing with knanaya traditions need not be there in the section on portuguese persecution. However the sources are legitimate especially the one by Shalva Weil from Hebrew University Jerusalem published in an academic Journal of Sociology. The text has to be added in the appropriate section. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 16:51, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
These text are well sourced and yet have been deleted by User:Ashley thomas80.
It should be noted that according to Kerala Brahmin Namboothiri tradition [1] and several scholars [1] the kerala brahmin Namboothiris first settled in Kerala only in the eight century CE, [1] while Christianity arrived in kerala in the first century CE [2], after St Thomas landed in Kerala in 52 CE to evangelize Jewish settlers in the Malabar Coast [2]
please stop this vandalism. I dont know why he is given special treatment and allowed to add and delete passages with outdated and suspect sources and delete whatever he does not personally like. please stop this bullying. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 14:32, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
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not just for Saint Thomas Christians; would welcome this kind of quality input on many/any other pages. In ictu oculi ( talk) 03:37, 31 January 2012 (UTC) |
Hello. I'm very skeptical about the assertion in this article that New England French is the same as Acadian French. Most francophones in New England are descended from Quebecers, not Acadians, as far as I know. I don't have access to the source you quoted. Could you please double check? Thanks. 96.46.204.126 ( talk) 05:48, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain,
Could you please revert the destruction of the article Hadath (West Syrian Diocese), which someone has bodily moved into the article on the city of Hadath without the slightest consultation. The move, besides involving the deletion of several passages, has seriously unbalanced the Hadath article, and is a thoroughly unconstructive edit. I agree that there should be a mention in the Hadath article of the city's Christian heritage, but this should be addressed by a short paragraph containing a link to the main article Hadath (West Syrian Diocese). I will deal with this myself once the change has been reverted.
The article Hadath (West Syrian Diocese) is one of a series of articles on Syrian Orthodox dioceses I have been compiling (see Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church), and should never have been deleted.
I am becoming thoroughly sick of the ill-bred teenagers who seem to do most of the editing on Wikipedia these days, and I can't say I'm surprised that scholars like Roger Pearse have left as a result of this kind of vandalism. It's very sad that more can't be done to control unhelpful edits.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello. Some time ago, you made this edit to the article on Paraguay, which states that only 8% speak Guaraní, as opposed to the 92% that speak Spanish. Which suggests that no one (or hardly anyone) speaks both languages. I think you've made a misstep here. The sentence leads with "official languages are Spanish and Guaraní, both being widely spoken in the country" (emphasis mine).
Please note that I don't pretend to know what the exact figures are. But a brief Google suggests that Guarani is not the minority language that the article now states it is. -- Several Pending ( talk) 20:35, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain,
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
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If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 02:43, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Cooch, we have a problem with an IP user who has made a series of edits to the David Larson article. The same user started editing the article under multiple IP addresses 24 hours ago, and is now editing under at least two newly registered accounts, Sandalmaster and Sandalm. The user has inserted odd and unsourced anecdotes about a purported child of Larson's, and seems to be pushing the edges of the envelope to see what he can get away with by inserting more unsourced statements about the article's subject. I would be grateful if you could put this one on your watch list. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 00:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Cooch, Dirtlawyer is obviously attempting to revert true information. To what purpose, I know not. It is true that there is no citable source to the information edited onto the page. However, if you will notice, the page ratings have risen significantly. I'm sure that this could only lead to one logical conclusion: The addition is true and known to a select few. This must be changed. After all, Wikipedia's core values are based on sharing little known information with the entire world. According to logic, the first person to possess information cannot cite any source except himself. He is then used as the source by which other people cite their information. I am the first source. If you would like, I could have the person the page is featured on, David Larson, contact you in some way to assert the information. Thank you very much for your attention and time. You can contact me directly at this email: nlopezcon@aim.com.
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I am new to wikipedia and just have a question about a page, I really want to know who has added "The Magiciain Meryre " to the "Descent to the underworld" article ? very important for me. I would be really grateful of your help Parmida Ladyparmida ( talk) 17:44, 10 February 2012 (UTC) |
Looks like you are one of the few people who was around during the mediation for Shining Path that is still active on wikipedia. Check out my contribs and you can see just how active I am. Anyway, Shining Path has been edited so that the narrative voice of the article bluntly states that they were terrorists, and the article Internal Conflict in Peru has been moved to Terrorism in Peru. I've requested that it be moved back. I don't know if you have any interest in participating in these discussions. -- Descendall ( talk) 04:31, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain, I have made some changes to the very 1st sentence of the article. I firmly believe the term Syrian Christians needs more attention since it is used in most of the govt records. For example, in my School Certificates, the community name is Roman Catholic Syrian Christian. I request you to review the changes, especially the word "colloquial" in the new edit pl. Now only I'm seeing the accusations on me by user Robin. Actually I respect his knowledge in the area of Jewish traditions but helpless to co-operate with him in many aspects. Hope for better things ahead. -- AshLey Msg 16:34, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain and Ashley,
This is the first time in a long time that I had so much edit problems. It is possible that I might have been forceful. But I think we all play our part and have to be sensitive to each other. If I have been offensive then I should and do indeed apologize. Yes I too look forward for a better future with edits on this page. One last, I am removing the last remaining portion of WP:SYN that was left as hidden text after my addition of supposed WP:SYN was deleted. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 15:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain,
There is vandalism deletion of infobox/table on the page Saint Thomas Christians by User:Linguisticgeek. Please help in sorting this vandalism. He is constantly deleting and reverting. Need your help to stop deletion of inforbox/table. Thanks Robin klein ( talk) 17:28, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Cuchullain :-)
I now live in Saint Augustine, Florida, and plan to work with cultural heritage organizations and institutions in the area. I'm reaching out to you because you edit loads of articles about FL and you live close by to me.
Do you have any interest in doing either outreach to cultural heritage organizations in FL or on wiki assistance to new editors from this sector.
In particular, I want to get the ball rolling planning Florida events related to Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 that will happen in September 2012. This years focus in the US is images of places on the National Register of Historic Places. While living in Kentucky, my husband and I took and uploaded images of places on the NRHP so I have a general idea of the process. I'm most interested in finding the gaps in coverage of historical sites in FL, and figuring out the best way to get these covered with local events. Maybe road trips to get some images in the outlying areas. We have a good amount of lead time so I think that this is doable.
Additionally, I plan to work with the Saint Augustine 450 Commemoration (a four year initiative to celebrate the founding of Saint Augustine and settlement of FL through educational and legacy projects) to see how that we can add value to their current events, and possibly plan some joint initiatives.
I'm also working with User:LoriLee, the U.S. Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation, to create an listing of cultural organizations and institutions in the United States, and WMF volunteers interested in working with these organizations. The beginning stages of it are at Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Connect. We also plan to have State specific pages that link to the Wikiproject for each state.
Would love to hear your thoughts and idea, and to see if you have an interest in one or more of these projects? FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 15:49, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Cooch. Hope you're doing well. Small bone to pick: could you use the established citation format in the article, rather than rearranging the publication date to match one of the WP cite templates? There are already 50+ newspaper footnote cites formatted consistently within the article, as well as consistently with the vast majority of other Florida Gators articles. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 21:37, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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When you have a moment, can you move this from my subpage (User:RepublicanJacobite/Call Me Burroughs) into article space? Thanks! --- RepublicanJacobite TheFortyFive 19:34, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Cuchullain, I hope you are enjoying this wonderful weather (hopefully where you are!). I was messaging you to ask if you would like to be interview through email about what it is like to be a Wikipedia Admin. I am doing this for a project through Wikipedia's Education Program. I am a Junior at Michigan State University and I would be representing the University for this interview. I would like to interview you some time next week. I could send you the questions and you could answer them as you would like. So far, it seems that the format will be that I allow you to review the questions before I ask you to answer and then you can send them back to me. If anything changes, I will let you know. You can contact me formally through my MSU email at armste11@msu.edu. I look forward to hearing from you!
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The Durham Bulls brand themselves as the "The Triangle's Team" which represents the whole Research Triangle. It says it on their banner of their website ( Durham Bulls site). Respectfully, it should be that the Mudcats share the fanbase with the Bulls. C.J. Ratt ( talk) 14:12, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
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Well, thank you so much! This is unexpected. I really appreciate that, as I appreciate the work you've done to make the article better. Thanks again!-- Cúchullain t/ c 12:18, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Cuchullain,
Its been a while since I've spoken to you. I emailed you the questions for the interview last saturday. We must have lost touch so I was wondering if you've received my email?
Thank you,
Letia Armstead
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This might interest you. Your reversion here [2] - see [3] and [4]. I've put a COI warning on his talk page and edited one article, but there's still quite a bit of this for instance left in that article and I have only looked at a couple of his edits. Dougweller ( talk) 09:14, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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I've done a fair amount of clearing out etc at STC but since you are editing now, I'll leave it for a few hours & let you get on with things. No point in hitting edit conflicts etc. - Sitush ( talk) 19:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I put in a semi-protection request at WP:RFPP some hours ago wrt the anon disruption at Saint Thomas Christians. As far as I am concerned, this now constitutes vandalism and I will be using rollback. It seems clear to me that there is either some campaign going on or a quite dramatic bit of IP hopping. - Sitush ( talk) 12:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Yes, the NALL template was outdated. However, I updated it and restored it to its pages. (Next time, when a template's outdated, update it, don't remove it!) Tom Danson ( talk) 14:04, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
This was a good catch, although doubtless it will be inserted again. I had a word at User talk:Robin klein a few days ago re: obsessing with the Jewish connection, following this edit. - Sitush ( talk) 15:42, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello there! Just to let you know I've deleted a redirect placed at Matilda Betham, given they are actually different authors (Matilda Betham-Edwards). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Matilda_Betham-Edwards#Untitled FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 19:13, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Ummm, what was this about? [5]
I reverted your edit, because it didn't make any sense. Horologium (talk) 20:33, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
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I placed my vote there but that's all. He ignored an ongoing discussion on the article's talk page and will force his way through regardless of what others said. Opening a move request without listening to editors who actually contribute to the article (and to others related to it) reveals that he had and has no interest on talking; he just doesn't like the name and will do whatever he needs to change it. I can't deal with this kind of people, sorry. -- Lecen ( talk) 16:24, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
The move request has been frauded. Take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/-Ilhador-. This is too much for me, I can't accept this kind of behavior. -- Lecen ( talk) 12:34, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Cuchullain,
There is again vandalism on the page Saint Thomas Christians. User: Ashley thomas80 is deleting even the term Nasrani from the page. It shows his hatred towards a people. If you are indeed a unique user and not Ashley himself as a sock Puppet then please look into it as this is against the consensus on which the pages Syrian Malabar Nasrani and Saint Thomas Christians were merged. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 17:16, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Cuchullain,
I am glad that you would look into it. I understand it is not pleasant to be suspected as a sock puppet. Thanks for your reassurance. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 17:27, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain,
It seems all your efforts in rewriting the section on Portuguese persecution of the Nasranis has been in vain. User:Ashley thomas80 has added all the material deleted by you to another page Synod of Diamper. This is stealth vandalism. I know I have been accused of engaging in personal attacks on editors. But the persistent adding of deleted materials by User:Ashley thomas80 is a demonstration of his bullying tactics. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 19:58, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
It is true that the passage dealing with knanaya traditions need not be there in the section on portuguese persecution. However the sources are legitimate especially the one by Shalva Weil from Hebrew University Jerusalem published in an academic Journal of Sociology. The text has to be added in the appropriate section. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 16:51, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
These text are well sourced and yet have been deleted by User:Ashley thomas80.
It should be noted that according to Kerala Brahmin Namboothiri tradition [1] and several scholars [1] the kerala brahmin Namboothiris first settled in Kerala only in the eight century CE, [1] while Christianity arrived in kerala in the first century CE [2], after St Thomas landed in Kerala in 52 CE to evangelize Jewish settlers in the Malabar Coast [2]
please stop this vandalism. I dont know why he is given special treatment and allowed to add and delete passages with outdated and suspect sources and delete whatever he does not personally like. please stop this bullying. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 14:32, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. I'm very skeptical about the assertion in this article that New England French is the same as Acadian French. Most francophones in New England are descended from Quebecers, not Acadians, as far as I know. I don't have access to the source you quoted. Could you please double check? Thanks. 96.46.204.126 ( talk) 05:48, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain,
Could you please revert the destruction of the article Hadath (West Syrian Diocese), which someone has bodily moved into the article on the city of Hadath without the slightest consultation. The move, besides involving the deletion of several passages, has seriously unbalanced the Hadath article, and is a thoroughly unconstructive edit. I agree that there should be a mention in the Hadath article of the city's Christian heritage, but this should be addressed by a short paragraph containing a link to the main article Hadath (West Syrian Diocese). I will deal with this myself once the change has been reverted.
The article Hadath (West Syrian Diocese) is one of a series of articles on Syrian Orthodox dioceses I have been compiling (see Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church), and should never have been deleted.
I am becoming thoroughly sick of the ill-bred teenagers who seem to do most of the editing on Wikipedia these days, and I can't say I'm surprised that scholars like Roger Pearse have left as a result of this kind of vandalism. It's very sad that more can't be done to control unhelpful edits.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello. Some time ago, you made this edit to the article on Paraguay, which states that only 8% speak Guaraní, as opposed to the 92% that speak Spanish. Which suggests that no one (or hardly anyone) speaks both languages. I think you've made a misstep here. The sentence leads with "official languages are Spanish and Guaraní, both being widely spoken in the country" (emphasis mine).
Please note that I don't pretend to know what the exact figures are. But a brief Google suggests that Guarani is not the minority language that the article now states it is. -- Several Pending ( talk) 20:35, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain,
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 02:43, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Cooch, we have a problem with an IP user who has made a series of edits to the David Larson article. The same user started editing the article under multiple IP addresses 24 hours ago, and is now editing under at least two newly registered accounts, Sandalmaster and Sandalm. The user has inserted odd and unsourced anecdotes about a purported child of Larson's, and seems to be pushing the edges of the envelope to see what he can get away with by inserting more unsourced statements about the article's subject. I would be grateful if you could put this one on your watch list. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 00:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Cooch, Dirtlawyer is obviously attempting to revert true information. To what purpose, I know not. It is true that there is no citable source to the information edited onto the page. However, if you will notice, the page ratings have risen significantly. I'm sure that this could only lead to one logical conclusion: The addition is true and known to a select few. This must be changed. After all, Wikipedia's core values are based on sharing little known information with the entire world. According to logic, the first person to possess information cannot cite any source except himself. He is then used as the source by which other people cite their information. I am the first source. If you would like, I could have the person the page is featured on, David Larson, contact you in some way to assert the information. Thank you very much for your attention and time. You can contact me directly at this email: nlopezcon@aim.com.
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I am new to wikipedia and just have a question about a page, I really want to know who has added "The Magiciain Meryre " to the "Descent to the underworld" article ? very important for me. I would be really grateful of your help Parmida Ladyparmida ( talk) 17:44, 10 February 2012 (UTC) |
Looks like you are one of the few people who was around during the mediation for Shining Path that is still active on wikipedia. Check out my contribs and you can see just how active I am. Anyway, Shining Path has been edited so that the narrative voice of the article bluntly states that they were terrorists, and the article Internal Conflict in Peru has been moved to Terrorism in Peru. I've requested that it be moved back. I don't know if you have any interest in participating in these discussions. -- Descendall ( talk) 04:31, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain, I have made some changes to the very 1st sentence of the article. I firmly believe the term Syrian Christians needs more attention since it is used in most of the govt records. For example, in my School Certificates, the community name is Roman Catholic Syrian Christian. I request you to review the changes, especially the word "colloquial" in the new edit pl. Now only I'm seeing the accusations on me by user Robin. Actually I respect his knowledge in the area of Jewish traditions but helpless to co-operate with him in many aspects. Hope for better things ahead. -- AshLey Msg 16:34, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain and Ashley,
This is the first time in a long time that I had so much edit problems. It is possible that I might have been forceful. But I think we all play our part and have to be sensitive to each other. If I have been offensive then I should and do indeed apologize. Yes I too look forward for a better future with edits on this page. One last, I am removing the last remaining portion of WP:SYN that was left as hidden text after my addition of supposed WP:SYN was deleted. thanks Robin klein ( talk) 15:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Cuchullain,
There is vandalism deletion of infobox/table on the page Saint Thomas Christians by User:Linguisticgeek. Please help in sorting this vandalism. He is constantly deleting and reverting. Need your help to stop deletion of inforbox/table. Thanks Robin klein ( talk) 17:28, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Cuchullain :-)
I now live in Saint Augustine, Florida, and plan to work with cultural heritage organizations and institutions in the area. I'm reaching out to you because you edit loads of articles about FL and you live close by to me.
Do you have any interest in doing either outreach to cultural heritage organizations in FL or on wiki assistance to new editors from this sector.
In particular, I want to get the ball rolling planning Florida events related to Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 that will happen in September 2012. This years focus in the US is images of places on the National Register of Historic Places. While living in Kentucky, my husband and I took and uploaded images of places on the NRHP so I have a general idea of the process. I'm most interested in finding the gaps in coverage of historical sites in FL, and figuring out the best way to get these covered with local events. Maybe road trips to get some images in the outlying areas. We have a good amount of lead time so I think that this is doable.
Additionally, I plan to work with the Saint Augustine 450 Commemoration (a four year initiative to celebrate the founding of Saint Augustine and settlement of FL through educational and legacy projects) to see how that we can add value to their current events, and possibly plan some joint initiatives.
I'm also working with User:LoriLee, the U.S. Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation, to create an listing of cultural organizations and institutions in the United States, and WMF volunteers interested in working with these organizations. The beginning stages of it are at Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Connect. We also plan to have State specific pages that link to the Wikiproject for each state.
Would love to hear your thoughts and idea, and to see if you have an interest in one or more of these projects? FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 15:49, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Cooch. Hope you're doing well. Small bone to pick: could you use the established citation format in the article, rather than rearranging the publication date to match one of the WP cite templates? There are already 50+ newspaper footnote cites formatted consistently within the article, as well as consistently with the vast majority of other Florida Gators articles. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 21:37, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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When you have a moment, can you move this from my subpage (User:RepublicanJacobite/Call Me Burroughs) into article space? Thanks! --- RepublicanJacobite TheFortyFive 19:34, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Cuchullain, I hope you are enjoying this wonderful weather (hopefully where you are!). I was messaging you to ask if you would like to be interview through email about what it is like to be a Wikipedia Admin. I am doing this for a project through Wikipedia's Education Program. I am a Junior at Michigan State University and I would be representing the University for this interview. I would like to interview you some time next week. I could send you the questions and you could answer them as you would like. So far, it seems that the format will be that I allow you to review the questions before I ask you to answer and then you can send them back to me. If anything changes, I will let you know. You can contact me formally through my MSU email at armste11@msu.edu. I look forward to hearing from you!
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The Durham Bulls brand themselves as the "The Triangle's Team" which represents the whole Research Triangle. It says it on their banner of their website ( Durham Bulls site). Respectfully, it should be that the Mudcats share the fanbase with the Bulls. C.J. Ratt ( talk) 14:12, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
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Long overdue... I've been meaning to thank you for your work to continue improving Florida–Georgia football rivalry. It's a topic about which both sides have strong passions, and you've helped reach compromises that were acceptable to both sides and made the article better. Thanks for your work! - Jhortman ( talk) 07:19, 10 April 2012 (UTC) |
Well, thank you so much! This is unexpected. I really appreciate that, as I appreciate the work you've done to make the article better. Thanks again!-- Cúchullain t/ c 12:18, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Cuchullain,
Its been a while since I've spoken to you. I emailed you the questions for the interview last saturday. We must have lost touch so I was wondering if you've received my email?
Thank you,
Letia Armstead
SpartyParty ( talk) 16:39, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
This might interest you. Your reversion here [2] - see [3] and [4]. I've put a COI warning on his talk page and edited one article, but there's still quite a bit of this for instance left in that article and I have only looked at a couple of his edits. Dougweller ( talk) 09:14, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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I've done a fair amount of clearing out etc at STC but since you are editing now, I'll leave it for a few hours & let you get on with things. No point in hitting edit conflicts etc. - Sitush ( talk) 19:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I put in a semi-protection request at WP:RFPP some hours ago wrt the anon disruption at Saint Thomas Christians. As far as I am concerned, this now constitutes vandalism and I will be using rollback. It seems clear to me that there is either some campaign going on or a quite dramatic bit of IP hopping. - Sitush ( talk) 12:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Yes, the NALL template was outdated. However, I updated it and restored it to its pages. (Next time, when a template's outdated, update it, don't remove it!) Tom Danson ( talk) 14:04, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
This was a good catch, although doubtless it will be inserted again. I had a word at User talk:Robin klein a few days ago re: obsessing with the Jewish connection, following this edit. - Sitush ( talk) 15:42, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello there! Just to let you know I've deleted a redirect placed at Matilda Betham, given they are actually different authors (Matilda Betham-Edwards). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Matilda_Betham-Edwards#Untitled FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 19:13, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Ummm, what was this about? [5]
I reverted your edit, because it didn't make any sense. Horologium (talk) 20:33, 28 May 2012 (UTC)