Hello Eisfbnore. An SPI could be tried, but I need to know why this is trolling. What is the background of the dispute? You link to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sju hav/Archive. Is this someone who is constantly re-adding the name of the same person to articles? How does this relate to the new addition by Kollibris at WT:Norway, where he is asking if there are articles about Knut Braa? Is this connected to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bjørn Sagvolden? Is the sockmaster trying to promote Sagvolden's case? I have looked at no:Kategori:Mistenkte sokkedukker for Sju hav. Is there a sockpuppet investigation in the no.wiki that we could link to ? Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:33, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
On 28 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Einar Hoffstad, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian newspaper editor Einar Hoffstad went from classical liberalism to collectivism and Fascism in the late 1930s? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:03, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Are you going to go all around the place with "page needed" tags? It will be a hell of a job, hundreds or thousands of instances. I often leave it out when it comes to Aftenposten. The reason is that for some years, Aftenposten has been published in three parts with their own pagination. Instead of using page numbers like "2/part 3", which looks strange to most readers, it's better to omit it. The articles have not been found in a paper search anyway, but in a web search (retriever.no). In yet other cases, the page numbers are not mentioned at all. (this goes for many papers, I remember Journalisten and Økonomisk Rapport off the top of my head). Of course, I use Aftenposten page numbers when they obviously give a legit page number belonging to "part 1". Geschichte ( talk) 16:15, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Added a cite. Connormah ( talk) 19:04, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Howdy, when you say "unfree image", could you be more specific? The license at the file's page does indeed seem free and compatible, and it has not been tagged for deletion. Do you feel it was copied from elsewhere? Do we need to delete it and warn the uploader? Would appriciate something more to go on. Kuru (talk) 23:47, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your review. I have changed the hook. Could you re-ok it for me. Thanks. A friend called - -- CrossTempleJay → talk 13:34, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Merkantilt biografisk leksikon at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Paul Bedson ❉ talk❉ 13:54, 30 May 2011 (UTC) ==
Paul Bedson ❉ talk❉ 13:54, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
We're half way through round 3 of the 2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. Casliber ( submissions), of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by Racepacket ( submissions), Hurricanehink ( submissions) and Canada Hky ( submissions) respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.
A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:26, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, Eisfbnore, for your kind comments about the quality of my work on the new page, Dan Savage bibliography. It is most appreciated. ;) You really think it is of a quality to be considered at WP:Featured list candidates? -- Cirt ( talk) 14:55, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Okay, all that formatting stuff is done. :) Any other suggestions before proceeding to FLC? -- Cirt ( talk) 18:16, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Decided to do Peer Review first, now at Wikipedia:Peer review/Dan Savage bibliography/archive1. Feel free to comment. -- Cirt ( talk) 19:05, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Removing references. The discussion at WP:CITE may indicate there is no consensus at enforcing one-ref-per-sentence, but it also shows there is certainly no consensus for removal of such references while they are added. I appreciate your other helpful edits, but please stop removing references. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:52, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
On 6 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jens Bache-Wiig, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian Jens Bache-Wiig, a former professor of engineering, resigned from his position at IT&T in 1935 in protest against New York head office intervention in his area of responsibility? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:03, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
On 7 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Olaf Alfred Hoffstad, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian botanist and politician Olaf Alfred Hoffstad taught at Sandefjord Upper Secondary School for almost 43 years? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Re: [1]. Unsourced ones are commented out until someone inserts a source. The two in question were lifted from no:wiki.. Geschichte ( talk) 13:30, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
On 10 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Finn Wischmann, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian botanist Finn Wischmann wrote more than 45,000 herbarium sheets and 21,000 checklists, recording more than half a million plant discoveries? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:02, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I have reviewed your nomination at Template talk:Did you know#Hjalmar Pettersen, Bibliotheca Norvegica and just have a quick suggestion before I approve it. Could you respond at the suggestions page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crisco 1492 ( talk • contribs)
Hi Eisfbnore, I threw up a flag on Merkantilt biografisk leksikon at DYK as lacking secondary sources. Sorry to do this to you two months in a row! Let me know if you find some and I'll be glad to change my vote. Cheers, Khazar ( talk) 16:37, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
On 12 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel, a non-profit association for the benefit of Norway's capital city, celebrates its 200-year anniversary this year? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 12:03, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Please do not change the citation style of an article without discussion on the article's talk page, especially when that article is an FA. I consider your edit to have been deliberate vandalism and I have rolled it back accordingly. Malleus Fatuorum 13:22, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
On 13 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hjalmar Pettersen, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian librarian and bibliographer Hjalmar Pettersen registered every work in the 3,300 page-long Bibliotheca Norvegica himself? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 06:28, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
On 13 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bibliotheca Norvegica, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian librarian and bibliographer Hjalmar Pettersen registered every work in the 3,300 page-long Bibliotheca Norvegica himself? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 06:29, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that you made some changes (thank you!) to move commas in refs from inside the bracket to outside the bracket. Can you show me where a WP guideline indicates to do this? I used to do it but encountered a lot of resistance from others. Thanks for any advice. Also, why should "vol" have an initial cap? What about "no." for number? All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 15:00, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Eisfbnore! I have nominated Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil to FAC. I know you enjoy working more on references and similar (or at least, it's what I noticed), but if you have the interest, could you review the article and share your thoughts about it? If there is something to improve, please say it. If not, give your support. I'm only inviting you because I know you have been keeping an eye on Pedro II of Brazil and Empire of Brazil. However, don't feel obliged to do it, if you don't want to. Regards, -- Lecen ( talk) 22:29, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Såner Station at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! OCNative ( talk) 02:23, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Eisfbnore. I'm going away for a week from tomorrow, and I would appreciate any help you could give in keeping the FAC moving forward. Regards, - Jarry1250 Weasel? Discuss. 10:06, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Was wondering if you could come give some literary insight for Olegkagan on Winesburg, Ohio (novel). Also, the literature WikiProject really needs to set up a talk page, I've never seen a project with >100 participants and no talk page! Cheers, Res Mar 02:47, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
On 29 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nils Collett Vogt, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian poet Nils Collett Vogt wrote newspaper articles at the age of 17? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 06:03, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
On 30 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Såner Station, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the disused Såner Station was purchased by a family for 1.3 million Norwegian kroner in 2003? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 18:04, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was Casliber ( submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by Wizardman ( submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by Eisfbnore ( submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by Hurricanehink ( submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.
No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.
We would again like to thank Jarry1250 ( submissions) and Stone ( submissions) for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.
Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:30, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
On 4 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nils Vogt (journalist), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that journalist Nils Vogt was the first chairman of the Norwegian Press Association? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that the article you requested has been copyedited. It's very good; I especially like the vintage photos, and the layout is pleasing to the eye. Good luck!-- Miniapolis ( talk) 02:53, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Please teach me something: what's the difference, the significance, in omitting or including them? Tony (talk) 15:22, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
With Vidkun Quisling. Obviously there is no connection between Quisling and kittens, but how can anyone dislike receiving a kitten! :)
-
Jarry1250
Weasel?
Discuss. 17:05, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
On 7 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bjørn Bjørnsen, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian journalist Bjørn Bjørnsen started his journalistic career when 15 years old? 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) 00:03, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks a lot for reviewing the
Werner Kaegi article. I amended it according to your comments. I'm not familiar with
citation templates yet, but I tried my best to comply. Let me know what you think. Cheers. (PS: I'm a French-speaking Wikipedia contributor from France.)
Tellus archivist (
talk) 12:20, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the additional c/e on the
Werner Kaegi article. Just out of curiosity: are you going to make a lot of modifications in the near future? Mostly, I reckon your c/e does improve the article as a whole, but I can't say I feel too comfortable with your English
Bruno Spoerri mini-article, because it doesn't mention electronic music at all, as opposed to the German
article. This is a small problem because my point is that Kaegi predates Spoerri and Boesch in the field of Swiss electronic music. So, do you possibly plan to expand your Spoerri article at a later date so as to include his electronic forays? Is there a rule that says an en.wiki article isn't supposed to link to a de.wiki article?
One last thing: do you think the Kaegi article could survive a Featured Article process and would you support it if necessary? Regards,--
Tellus archivist (
talk) 17:59, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
On 10 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ellef Ringnes, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Norwegian brewery owners Ellef and Amund Ringnes have had two islands in Canada named after them? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
On 10 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Amund Ringnes (brewery owner, 1840), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Norwegian brewery owners Ellef and Amund Ringnes have had two islands in Canada named after them? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Military history reviewers' award | ||
By order of the
Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your good work helping with the WikiProject's
Peer and
A-Class reviews for the period April-June 2011, I hereby award you this
Military history WikiProject Reviewers' award.
HJ Mitchell |
Penny for your thoughts? 20:41, 16 July 2011 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste |
Hi - sorry, I've been mega busy with a summer course....could you extend the review perhaps another week or two and harass me on my talk if I do forget it? Thanks. Connormah ( talk) 20:53, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are Adabow ( submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and PresN ( submissions) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article ( White-bellied Sea Eagle, from Casliber ( submissions)) and two featured lists ( Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from Another Believer ( submissions)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!
There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:28, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
What Flickr source? Volunteer Marek ( talk) 20:44, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
A while ago you reviewed List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Japanese books) for featured list. I think, I replied to all of your comments/questions/suggestions. If you still have any comments on the list, please leave them on the nomination page. If not, I'd be happy if you could leave a vote ("support" or "oppose") on the nomination page. Thanks. bamse ( talk) 23:47, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Not trying to be a jerk, but I reverted you. Seriously: please let me know if there's something that I've missed here. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 20:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the changes to Background of the Spanish Civil War. I just wondered whether you had any further comments on its ACR ( here), since it's close to the provisional 28-day period. Thanks, Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 13:16, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me out with this article – I really appreciate it. I've been rather busy with moving back up to college, seeing old friends, and shifting my circadian rhythm from 4pm->1am to 7am->3:30pm shifts, so my on-wiki time has basically disappeared. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:53, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Re Sju hav, thanks for showing the template to use, that proved more efficient than my attempt. :) I'll remember that the next time the sailor appears Paaln ( talk) 15:13, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent tweaks to these references. I shall try to follow the same format in future articles. Can you kindly point me in the direction of the relevant WP page from which to get these encyclopaedia template refs? Tim riley ( talk) 12:29, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:
We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists, Another Believer ( submissions), Piotrus ( submissions), Grandiose ( submissions), Stone ( submissions), Eisfbnore ( submissions), Canada Hky ( submissions) and MuZemike ( submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.
In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha ( talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.
A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:58, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
We seem to have photos of all the Schirmers but this one--though we have one made by him: File:Arkitektstudine på Bjølstad, Heidal.png. I saw that it was used in the German article, but didn't want to just stick it in 'your' article. Thanks, BTW, for improving our Nordic coverage. Drmies ( talk) 18:16, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
You're on a roll! Thanks very much for catching all of these errors, not only on Moreno. :-) 19:53, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Eisfbnore. There is quite sometime since we talked for the last time. I know that second paragrahy is way too large and I did it on purpose. I was unsure if I would be able to explain the historian's idea with my own words. So I transcribed them and Astynax will read it and simplify it. See here. Regards, -- Lecen ( talk) 23:51, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
The Railways Barnstar | ||
For your excellent work on Norway railway stations. – Lionel ( talk) 10:17, 27 September 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Eisfbnore! A WPConservatism article, Southern Adventist University, was nominated for GA but seems to be dying on the vine. I noticed you have experience at GAR, and was wondering is there any way to expedite the process? Thanks! – Lionel ( talk) 10:21, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
On 27 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ernst G. Mortensen, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian publisher Ernst G. Mortensen founded Norway's first correspondence school? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ernst G. Mortensen.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 23:22, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
By
Lionelt
Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Right Stuff, the newsletter of
WikiProject Conservatism. The Project has developed at a breakneck speed since it was created on February 12, 2011 with the edit summary, "Let's roll!" With over 50 members the need for a project newsletter is enormous. With over 3000 articles to watch, an active talk page and numerous critical discussions spread over various noticeboards, it has become increasingly difficult to manage the information overload. The goal of The Right Stuff is to help you keep up with the changing landscape.
The Right Stuff is a newsletter consisting of original reporting. Writers will use a byline to "sign" their contributions. Just as with The Signpost, "guidelines such as ' no ownership of articles', and particularly ' no original research', will not necessarily apply."
WikiProject Conservatism has a bright future ahead: this newsletter will allow us tell the story. All that's left to say is: "Let's roll!"
By
Lionelt
A new style guide to help standardize editing was rolled out. It focuses on concepts, people and organizations from a conservatism perspective. The guide features detailed article layouts for several types of articles. You can help improve it
here. The Project's Article Collaboration currently has two nominations, but they don't appear to be generating much interest. You can get involved with the Collaboration
here.
I am pleased to report that we have two new members: Rjensen and Soonersfan168. Rjensen is a professional historian and has access to JSTOR. Soonersfan168 says he is a "young conservative who desires to improve Wikipedia!" Unfortunately we will be seeing less of Geofferybard, as he has announced his semi-retirement. We wish him well. Be sure to stop by their talk pages and drop off some Wikilove.
By
Lionelt
On August 3rd
Peter Oborne, a British journalist, became the Project's 3,000th tagged article. It is a tribute to the membership that we have come this far this quickly. The latest Featured Article is
Richard Nixon. Our congratulations to
Wehwalt for a job well done. The article with the most page views was
Rick Perry with 887,389 views, not surprising considering he announced he was running for president on August 11th. Follwing Perry were
Michele Bachmann and
Tea Party movement. The Project was ranked 75th based on total edits, which is up from 105th in July. The article with the most edits was
Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2012 with 374 edits. An RFC regarding candidate inclusion criteria generated much interest on the talk page.
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa ( submissions), Hurricanehink ( submissions) and Sp33dyphil ( submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles ( 1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.
If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 12:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons | ||
By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer, A-Class and Featured article reviews for the period Jul-Sept 2011, I am delighted to award you the WikiChevrons. Cheers, Buggie111 ( talk) 17:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC) |
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As a commenter on the ACR for this article, and with the FAC in need of further input, I would welcome you to comment there. Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 09:05, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Looks like we have an edit conflict for the Common Tunnel, as I was working on it when you did the improvements. I've tried to incorporate your changes, left out one sentence which was a bit awkward, and my apologies if I left out anything else you did to the article. Arsenikk (talk) 20:21, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is Hurricanehink ( submissions), who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009) and Sturmvogel_66 (2010). The final standings were as follows:
Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.
No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.
Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:37, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
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Lionelt
The Right Stuff caught up with Dank, the recently elected Lead Coordinator of WikiProject Military History. MILHIST is considered by many to be one of the most successful projects in the English Wikipedia.
Q: Tell us a little about yourself.
A: I'm Dan, a Wikipedian since 2007, from North Carolina. I started out with an interest in history, robotics, style guidelines, and copyediting. These days, I'm the lead coordinator for the Military History Project and a reviewer of Featured Article Candidates. I've been an administrator and maintained
WP:Update, a summary of policy changes, since 2008.
Q: What is your experience with WikiProjects?
A: I guess I'm most familiar with
WP:MILHIST and
WP:SHIPS, and I'm trying to get up to speed at
WP:AVIATION. I've probably talked with members of most of the wikiprojects at one time or another.
Q: What makes a WikiProject successful?
A: A lot of occasional contributors who think of the project as fun rather than work, a fair number of people willing to write or review articles, a small core of like-minded people who are dedicated to building and maintaining the project, and access to at least a few people who are familiar with reviewing standards and with Wikipedia policies and guidelines.
Q: Do you have any tips for increasing membership?
A: Aim for a consistent, helpful and professional image. Let people know what the project is doing and what they could be doing, but don't push.
If you've got a core group interested in building a wikiproject, it helps if they do more listening than talking at first ... find out what people are trying to do, and offer them help with whatever it is. Some wikiprojects build membership by helping people get articles through the review processes.
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Lionelt
The arbitration request submitted by
Steven Zhang moved into its second month. The case, which evaluates user conduct, arose from contentious discussions regarding the naming of the
Pro-life and
Pro-choice articles, and a related issue pertaining to the inclusion of "death" in the lede of
Abortion. A number of members are involved. On the
Evidence page
ArtifexMahem posted a table indicating that
DMSBel made the most edits to the Abortion article. DMSBel has announced their semi-retirement. Fact finding regarding individual editor behavior has begun in earnest on the
Workshop page.
Last month it was decided that due to the success of the new Dispute Resolution Noticeboard the Content Noticeboard would be shut down. Wikiquette Assistance will remain active. The DRN is primarily intended to resolve content disputes.
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Lionelt
Was your article deleted in spite of your best efforts to save it? You should consider having a copy
restored to the
Incubator where project members can help improve it. Upon meeting content criteria, articles are graduated to mainspace. The Incubator is also ideal for collaborating on new article drafts.
Star Parker is the first addition to the incubator. The article was deleted per WP:POLITICIAN.
WikiProject Conservatism is expanding. We now have a satellite on Commons. Any help in categorizing images or in getting the fledgling project off the ground is appreciated.
We have a few new members who joined the project in September. Please give a hearty welcome to Conservative Philosopher, Screwball23 and Regushee by showing them some Wikilove. Screwball23 has been on WikiPedia for five years and has made major improvements to Linda McMahon. Regushee is not one for idle chit chat: an amazing 93% of their edits are in article space.
It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 21:05, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
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Lionelt
On October 7, WikiProject Conservatism was nominated for deletion by member Binksternet. He based his rationale on what he described as an undefinable scope, stating that the project is "at its root undesirable". Of the 40 participants in the discussion, some agreed that the scope was problematic; however, they felt it did not justify deletion of the project. A number of participants suggested moving the project to "WikiProject American conservatism". The overwhelming sentiment was expressed by Guerillero who wrote: "A project is a group of people. This particular group does great work in their topic area[,] why prevent them from doing this[?]" In the end there was negligible opposition to the project and the result of the discussion was "Keep". The proceedings of the deletion discussion were picked up by The Signpost, calling the unfolding drama "the first MfD of its kind". The Signpost observed that attempting to delete an active project was unprecedented. The story itself became a source of controversy which played out at the Discuss This Story section, and also at the author's talk page.
Two days after the project was nominated, the Conservatism Portal was also nominated for deletion as "too US-biased". There was no support for deletion amongst the 10 participants, with one suggestion to rename the portal.
In other news, a new portal focusing on conservatism has been created at WikiSource. Wikisource is an online library of free content publications with 254,051 accessible texts. One highlight of the portal's content is Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke.
October saw a 6.4% increase in new members, bringing the total membership to 58. Seven of the eight new members joined after October 12; the deletion discussions may have played a role in the membership spike. Mwhite148 is a member of the UK Conservative Party. Stating that he is not a conservative, Kleinzach noted his "lifetime interest in British, European and international politics." Let's all make an effort to welcome the new members with an outpouring of Wikilove.
Click
here to keep up to date on all the happenings at WikiProject Conservatism.
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Lionelt
Timeline of conservatism, a Top-importance list, was
nominated for deletion on October 3. The nominator stated that since conservatism in an "ambiguous concept", the timeline suffers from original research. There were a number of "Delete", as well as "Keep" votes. The closing administrator reasoned that consensus dictated that the list be renamed. The current title is
Timeline of modern American conservatism.
Do you think EUR-pallet ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is the recurring contributor (the one who always spams WT:NORWAY)? Based on his contributions? Geschichte ( talk) 12:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
What about Toriland ( talk · contribs)? Geschichte ( talk) 12:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
What about Riambrid ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? Geschichte ( talk) 12:54, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
I will look into the Sørensen thing. In the meantime, what about Chadburrey ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? See for instance at Satellittkrigen where the name is translated, much in the style of Sju hav. Geschichte ( talk) 12:45, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
What about 24 moto ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? Same style of talk page and project talk page edits. Geschichte ( talk) 08:37, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Your removal of the "long lead" template without discussing it was inappropriate and has been reverted. If you had looked at the Talk page first, you would have noticed there was not only a discussion on whether or not the template should stay, it had evolved into a very productive discussion where three editors reached compromise and consensus on improving the lead. Also, your edit summary "Rubbish" was uncivil. As the civility guideline states:
Future uncivil edit summaries will result in a Wikiquette Alert discussion being opened about your actions. Mmyers1976 ( talk) 21:30, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article Broder Knudtzon you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. -- Sp33dyphil © hat ontributions 05:09, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! As you've previously expressed interest in the competition, I'm just letting you know that the 2012 WikiCup is due to start in less than 24 hours. Signups are open, and will remain so for a few weeks after the beginning of the competition. The competition itself will follow basically the same format as last year, with a few small tweaks to point costs to reflect the opinions of the community. If you're interested in taking part, you're more than welcome, and if you know anyone who might be, please let them know too- the more the merrier! To join, simply add your name to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2012 signups, and we will be in touch. Please feel free to direct any questions to me, or leave a note on the WikiCup talk page. Thanks! You are receiving this note as you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Please feel free to add or remove yourself. J Milburn ( talk) 01:43, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
In regards to your question at Template:Did you know nominations/Silvio (horse), Blair Athol (horse), traditionally DYK has not required all articles to fully support a hook fact. I can even remember cases where none of the articles fully supported the hook fact but required the reviewer to pull factoids from multiple articles (e.g. a set of biology articles about plants where the hook mentions all the listed plants share a common trait and the individual articles only mentioning the trait for the plant described by said article, thus requiring the reviewer to confirm the trait for each plant one article at a time). -- Allen3 talk 10:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Hei Eisfbnore. I came to apologise for the sarcastic point I made at DYK, but I was surprised to find you summarised another editors article as "shoddy". If this is someone's 2nd go at DYK then do you think they will try a 3rd? DYK is intended to be a collaborative project with a pleasant atmosphere. Actually the whole of Wikipedia is meant to be like that. Please reconsider whether you could help this editor or maybe leave it for a few days to see if someone who wants to help comes along. I'nm not going to threaten as someone did above. Please have a think. Victuallers ( talk) 18:20, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
On 4 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian businessman and patron of the arts Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon met Napoleon and Lord Byron in his trips in Europe? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon.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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:03, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Niels Wulfsberg, Tiden (newspaper) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Mikenorton ( talk) 00:49, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
On 9 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Niels Wulfsberg, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that owing to his declining popularity as a priest in Christiania, Niels Wulfsberg decided to make a journalistic career, establishing amongst other newspapers the royal friendly Tiden? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:05, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
On 9 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tiden (newspaper), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that owing to his declining popularity as a priest in Christiania, Niels Wulfsberg decided to make a journalistic career, establishing amongst other newspapers the royal friendly Tiden? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:05, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
The Content Review Medal of Merit | ||
By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer, A-Class and Featured article reviews for the period October–December 2011, I am delighted to award you the Content Review Medal. Buggie111 ( talk) 17:29, 14 January 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, Noticed your change from due to to owing to on Dreyfus affair. I'm a bit of a language maven like you are (do you insert periods inadvertently left off the end of sentences in printed books, like I do?) but you're beating a dead horse here.
There's certainly no reason to change it back, as they're basically equivalent now, but the time for this distinction is past, just like, say, the stricture of not ending a sentence with a preposition. Plenty of stuff all over the web about due/owing to, here's one for your amusement. Happy editing! Mathglot ( talk) 00:25, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
On 28 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Christian Friele, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian newspaper editor Christian Friele was an honorary member of the Conservative Press Association, despite not attending any of its meetings? 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) 00:02, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
On 28 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Conservative Press Association, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian newspaper editor Christian Friele was an honorary member of the Conservative Press Association, despite not attending any of its meetings? 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) 00:03, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted your revert on Stian Heimlund Skjæveland, the problem is not weasel words, but lack of references, if the content is backed up by reliable references from good sources in Norway it can of course be added. The problem is that there seems to be very little such content about this artist, thus there is not much to write about, from our point of view. Best regards, Ulflarsen ( talk) 13:19, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X ( submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 ( submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun ( submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:04, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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Lionelt
On January 21,
The Conservatism Portal was promoted to
Featured Portal (FP) due largely to the contributions of Lionelt. This is the first Featured content produced by WikiProject Conservatism. The road to Featured class was rocky. An earlier nomination for FP failed, and in October the portal was "Kept" after being nominated for deletion.
Member Eisfbnore significantly contributed to the successful Good Article nomination of Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor Nils Vogt in December. Eisfbnore also created the article. In January another Project article was promoted to Featured Article. Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, a president of Brazil, attained Featured class with significant effort by Lecen. The Article Incubator saw its first graduation in November. A collaboration spearheaded by Mzk1 and Trackerseal successfully developed Star Parker to pass the notability guideline.
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Lionelt
Another
discussion addressing the project scope began in December. Nine alternatives were presented in the contentious, sometimes heated discussion. Support was divided between keeping the exitsing scope, or adopting a scope with more specificity. Some opponents of the specific scope were concerned that it was too limiting and would adversely affect project size. About twenty editors participated in the discussion.
Inclusion of the article Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was debated. Supporters for inclusion cited sources describing the KKK as "conservative." The article was excluded with more than 10 editors participating.
Project membership continues to grow. There are currently 73 members. Member Goldblooded (pictured) volunteers for the UK Conservative Party and JohnChrysostom is a Christian Democrat. North8000 is interested in libertarianism. We won't tell WikiProject Libertarianism he's slumming. Let's stop by their talkpages and share some Wikilove.
Click here to keep up to date on all the happenings at WikiProject Conservatism.
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Lionelt
Articles about the GOP presidential candidate and staunch traditional marriage supporter have seen an explosion of discussion. On January 8 an RFC was opened (here) to determine if Dan Savage's website link should be included in Campaign for "santorum" neologism. The next day the Rick Santorum article itself was the subject of an RFC (here) to determine if including the Savage neologism was a violation of the BLP policy. Soon after a third was opened (here) at Santorum controversy regarding homosexuality. This RFC proposes merging the neologism article into the controversy article.
The Abortion case closed in November after 15 weeks of contentious arbitration. The remedies include semi-protection of all abortion articles (numbering 1,500), sanctions for some editors including members of this Project, and a provision for a discussion to determine the names of what are colloquially known as the pro-life and pro-choice articles. The Committee endorsed the "1 revert rule" for abortion articles.
... they all knew what I meant. ;-) Thank you! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:43, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
see User talk:Ctatkinson where the primary author has thanked me for my help. Alarbus ( talk) 11:11, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
I noticed your comment on the Washington Quarter FAC page. I believe I am right in thinking that there is a difference in British usage and American usage. In British usage "He was late due to snow" is wrong and should be "...owing to". But, I am pretty sure, in American usage "He was late due to snow" is OK. Tim riley ( talk) 07:52, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Eisfbnore. An SPI could be tried, but I need to know why this is trolling. What is the background of the dispute? You link to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sju hav/Archive. Is this someone who is constantly re-adding the name of the same person to articles? How does this relate to the new addition by Kollibris at WT:Norway, where he is asking if there are articles about Knut Braa? Is this connected to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bjørn Sagvolden? Is the sockmaster trying to promote Sagvolden's case? I have looked at no:Kategori:Mistenkte sokkedukker for Sju hav. Is there a sockpuppet investigation in the no.wiki that we could link to ? Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:33, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
On 28 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Einar Hoffstad, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian newspaper editor Einar Hoffstad went from classical liberalism to collectivism and Fascism in the late 1930s? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:03, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Are you going to go all around the place with "page needed" tags? It will be a hell of a job, hundreds or thousands of instances. I often leave it out when it comes to Aftenposten. The reason is that for some years, Aftenposten has been published in three parts with their own pagination. Instead of using page numbers like "2/part 3", which looks strange to most readers, it's better to omit it. The articles have not been found in a paper search anyway, but in a web search (retriever.no). In yet other cases, the page numbers are not mentioned at all. (this goes for many papers, I remember Journalisten and Økonomisk Rapport off the top of my head). Of course, I use Aftenposten page numbers when they obviously give a legit page number belonging to "part 1". Geschichte ( talk) 16:15, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Added a cite. Connormah ( talk) 19:04, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Howdy, when you say "unfree image", could you be more specific? The license at the file's page does indeed seem free and compatible, and it has not been tagged for deletion. Do you feel it was copied from elsewhere? Do we need to delete it and warn the uploader? Would appriciate something more to go on. Kuru (talk) 23:47, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your review. I have changed the hook. Could you re-ok it for me. Thanks. A friend called - -- CrossTempleJay → talk 13:34, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Merkantilt biografisk leksikon at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Paul Bedson ❉ talk❉ 13:54, 30 May 2011 (UTC) ==
Paul Bedson ❉ talk❉ 13:54, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
We're half way through round 3 of the 2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. Casliber ( submissions), of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by Racepacket ( submissions), Hurricanehink ( submissions) and Canada Hky ( submissions) respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.
A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:26, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, Eisfbnore, for your kind comments about the quality of my work on the new page, Dan Savage bibliography. It is most appreciated. ;) You really think it is of a quality to be considered at WP:Featured list candidates? -- Cirt ( talk) 14:55, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Okay, all that formatting stuff is done. :) Any other suggestions before proceeding to FLC? -- Cirt ( talk) 18:16, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Decided to do Peer Review first, now at Wikipedia:Peer review/Dan Savage bibliography/archive1. Feel free to comment. -- Cirt ( talk) 19:05, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Removing references. The discussion at WP:CITE may indicate there is no consensus at enforcing one-ref-per-sentence, but it also shows there is certainly no consensus for removal of such references while they are added. I appreciate your other helpful edits, but please stop removing references. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:52, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
On 6 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jens Bache-Wiig, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian Jens Bache-Wiig, a former professor of engineering, resigned from his position at IT&T in 1935 in protest against New York head office intervention in his area of responsibility? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:03, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
On 7 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Olaf Alfred Hoffstad, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian botanist and politician Olaf Alfred Hoffstad taught at Sandefjord Upper Secondary School for almost 43 years? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Re: [1]. Unsourced ones are commented out until someone inserts a source. The two in question were lifted from no:wiki.. Geschichte ( talk) 13:30, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
On 10 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Finn Wischmann, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian botanist Finn Wischmann wrote more than 45,000 herbarium sheets and 21,000 checklists, recording more than half a million plant discoveries? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:02, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I have reviewed your nomination at Template talk:Did you know#Hjalmar Pettersen, Bibliotheca Norvegica and just have a quick suggestion before I approve it. Could you respond at the suggestions page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crisco 1492 ( talk • contribs)
Hi Eisfbnore, I threw up a flag on Merkantilt biografisk leksikon at DYK as lacking secondary sources. Sorry to do this to you two months in a row! Let me know if you find some and I'll be glad to change my vote. Cheers, Khazar ( talk) 16:37, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
On 12 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel, a non-profit association for the benefit of Norway's capital city, celebrates its 200-year anniversary this year? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 12:03, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Please do not change the citation style of an article without discussion on the article's talk page, especially when that article is an FA. I consider your edit to have been deliberate vandalism and I have rolled it back accordingly. Malleus Fatuorum 13:22, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
On 13 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hjalmar Pettersen, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian librarian and bibliographer Hjalmar Pettersen registered every work in the 3,300 page-long Bibliotheca Norvegica himself? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 06:28, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
On 13 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bibliotheca Norvegica, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian librarian and bibliographer Hjalmar Pettersen registered every work in the 3,300 page-long Bibliotheca Norvegica himself? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 06:29, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that you made some changes (thank you!) to move commas in refs from inside the bracket to outside the bracket. Can you show me where a WP guideline indicates to do this? I used to do it but encountered a lot of resistance from others. Thanks for any advice. Also, why should "vol" have an initial cap? What about "no." for number? All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 15:00, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Eisfbnore! I have nominated Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil to FAC. I know you enjoy working more on references and similar (or at least, it's what I noticed), but if you have the interest, could you review the article and share your thoughts about it? If there is something to improve, please say it. If not, give your support. I'm only inviting you because I know you have been keeping an eye on Pedro II of Brazil and Empire of Brazil. However, don't feel obliged to do it, if you don't want to. Regards, -- Lecen ( talk) 22:29, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Såner Station at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! OCNative ( talk) 02:23, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Eisfbnore. I'm going away for a week from tomorrow, and I would appreciate any help you could give in keeping the FAC moving forward. Regards, - Jarry1250 Weasel? Discuss. 10:06, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Was wondering if you could come give some literary insight for Olegkagan on Winesburg, Ohio (novel). Also, the literature WikiProject really needs to set up a talk page, I've never seen a project with >100 participants and no talk page! Cheers, Res Mar 02:47, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
On 29 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nils Collett Vogt, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian poet Nils Collett Vogt wrote newspaper articles at the age of 17? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 06:03, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
On 30 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Såner Station, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the disused Såner Station was purchased by a family for 1.3 million Norwegian kroner in 2003? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 18:04, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was Casliber ( submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by Wizardman ( submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by Eisfbnore ( submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by Hurricanehink ( submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.
No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.
We would again like to thank Jarry1250 ( submissions) and Stone ( submissions) for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.
Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:30, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
On 4 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nils Vogt (journalist), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that journalist Nils Vogt was the first chairman of the Norwegian Press Association? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that the article you requested has been copyedited. It's very good; I especially like the vintage photos, and the layout is pleasing to the eye. Good luck!-- Miniapolis ( talk) 02:53, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Please teach me something: what's the difference, the significance, in omitting or including them? Tony (talk) 15:22, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
With Vidkun Quisling. Obviously there is no connection between Quisling and kittens, but how can anyone dislike receiving a kitten! :)
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Jarry1250
Weasel?
Discuss. 17:05, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
On 7 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bjørn Bjørnsen, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian journalist Bjørn Bjørnsen started his journalistic career when 15 years old? 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) 00:03, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks a lot for reviewing the
Werner Kaegi article. I amended it according to your comments. I'm not familiar with
citation templates yet, but I tried my best to comply. Let me know what you think. Cheers. (PS: I'm a French-speaking Wikipedia contributor from France.)
Tellus archivist (
talk) 12:20, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the additional c/e on the
Werner Kaegi article. Just out of curiosity: are you going to make a lot of modifications in the near future? Mostly, I reckon your c/e does improve the article as a whole, but I can't say I feel too comfortable with your English
Bruno Spoerri mini-article, because it doesn't mention electronic music at all, as opposed to the German
article. This is a small problem because my point is that Kaegi predates Spoerri and Boesch in the field of Swiss electronic music. So, do you possibly plan to expand your Spoerri article at a later date so as to include his electronic forays? Is there a rule that says an en.wiki article isn't supposed to link to a de.wiki article?
One last thing: do you think the Kaegi article could survive a Featured Article process and would you support it if necessary? Regards,--
Tellus archivist (
talk) 17:59, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
On 10 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ellef Ringnes, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Norwegian brewery owners Ellef and Amund Ringnes have had two islands in Canada named after them? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
On 10 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Amund Ringnes (brewery owner, 1840), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Norwegian brewery owners Ellef and Amund Ringnes have had two islands in Canada named after them? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Military history reviewers' award | ||
By order of the
Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your good work helping with the WikiProject's
Peer and
A-Class reviews for the period April-June 2011, I hereby award you this
Military history WikiProject Reviewers' award.
HJ Mitchell |
Penny for your thoughts? 20:41, 16 July 2011 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste |
Hi - sorry, I've been mega busy with a summer course....could you extend the review perhaps another week or two and harass me on my talk if I do forget it? Thanks. Connormah ( talk) 20:53, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are Adabow ( submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and PresN ( submissions) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article ( White-bellied Sea Eagle, from Casliber ( submissions)) and two featured lists ( Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from Another Believer ( submissions)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!
There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:28, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
What Flickr source? Volunteer Marek ( talk) 20:44, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
A while ago you reviewed List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Japanese books) for featured list. I think, I replied to all of your comments/questions/suggestions. If you still have any comments on the list, please leave them on the nomination page. If not, I'd be happy if you could leave a vote ("support" or "oppose") on the nomination page. Thanks. bamse ( talk) 23:47, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Not trying to be a jerk, but I reverted you. Seriously: please let me know if there's something that I've missed here. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 20:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the changes to Background of the Spanish Civil War. I just wondered whether you had any further comments on its ACR ( here), since it's close to the provisional 28-day period. Thanks, Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 13:16, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me out with this article – I really appreciate it. I've been rather busy with moving back up to college, seeing old friends, and shifting my circadian rhythm from 4pm->1am to 7am->3:30pm shifts, so my on-wiki time has basically disappeared. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:53, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Re Sju hav, thanks for showing the template to use, that proved more efficient than my attempt. :) I'll remember that the next time the sailor appears Paaln ( talk) 15:13, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent tweaks to these references. I shall try to follow the same format in future articles. Can you kindly point me in the direction of the relevant WP page from which to get these encyclopaedia template refs? Tim riley ( talk) 12:29, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:
We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists, Another Believer ( submissions), Piotrus ( submissions), Grandiose ( submissions), Stone ( submissions), Eisfbnore ( submissions), Canada Hky ( submissions) and MuZemike ( submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.
In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha ( talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.
A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:58, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
We seem to have photos of all the Schirmers but this one--though we have one made by him: File:Arkitektstudine på Bjølstad, Heidal.png. I saw that it was used in the German article, but didn't want to just stick it in 'your' article. Thanks, BTW, for improving our Nordic coverage. Drmies ( talk) 18:16, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
You're on a roll! Thanks very much for catching all of these errors, not only on Moreno. :-) 19:53, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Eisfbnore. There is quite sometime since we talked for the last time. I know that second paragrahy is way too large and I did it on purpose. I was unsure if I would be able to explain the historian's idea with my own words. So I transcribed them and Astynax will read it and simplify it. See here. Regards, -- Lecen ( talk) 23:51, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
The Railways Barnstar | ||
For your excellent work on Norway railway stations. – Lionel ( talk) 10:17, 27 September 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Eisfbnore! A WPConservatism article, Southern Adventist University, was nominated for GA but seems to be dying on the vine. I noticed you have experience at GAR, and was wondering is there any way to expedite the process? Thanks! – Lionel ( talk) 10:21, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
On 27 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ernst G. Mortensen, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian publisher Ernst G. Mortensen founded Norway's first correspondence school? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ernst G. Mortensen.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 23:22, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
By
Lionelt
Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Right Stuff, the newsletter of
WikiProject Conservatism. The Project has developed at a breakneck speed since it was created on February 12, 2011 with the edit summary, "Let's roll!" With over 50 members the need for a project newsletter is enormous. With over 3000 articles to watch, an active talk page and numerous critical discussions spread over various noticeboards, it has become increasingly difficult to manage the information overload. The goal of The Right Stuff is to help you keep up with the changing landscape.
The Right Stuff is a newsletter consisting of original reporting. Writers will use a byline to "sign" their contributions. Just as with The Signpost, "guidelines such as ' no ownership of articles', and particularly ' no original research', will not necessarily apply."
WikiProject Conservatism has a bright future ahead: this newsletter will allow us tell the story. All that's left to say is: "Let's roll!"
By
Lionelt
A new style guide to help standardize editing was rolled out. It focuses on concepts, people and organizations from a conservatism perspective. The guide features detailed article layouts for several types of articles. You can help improve it
here. The Project's Article Collaboration currently has two nominations, but they don't appear to be generating much interest. You can get involved with the Collaboration
here.
I am pleased to report that we have two new members: Rjensen and Soonersfan168. Rjensen is a professional historian and has access to JSTOR. Soonersfan168 says he is a "young conservative who desires to improve Wikipedia!" Unfortunately we will be seeing less of Geofferybard, as he has announced his semi-retirement. We wish him well. Be sure to stop by their talk pages and drop off some Wikilove.
By
Lionelt
On August 3rd
Peter Oborne, a British journalist, became the Project's 3,000th tagged article. It is a tribute to the membership that we have come this far this quickly. The latest Featured Article is
Richard Nixon. Our congratulations to
Wehwalt for a job well done. The article with the most page views was
Rick Perry with 887,389 views, not surprising considering he announced he was running for president on August 11th. Follwing Perry were
Michele Bachmann and
Tea Party movement. The Project was ranked 75th based on total edits, which is up from 105th in July. The article with the most edits was
Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2012 with 374 edits. An RFC regarding candidate inclusion criteria generated much interest on the talk page.
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa ( submissions), Hurricanehink ( submissions) and Sp33dyphil ( submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles ( 1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.
If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 12:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons | ||
By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer, A-Class and Featured article reviews for the period Jul-Sept 2011, I am delighted to award you the WikiChevrons. Cheers, Buggie111 ( talk) 17:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC) |
New page patrol – Survey Invitation Hello Eisfbnore/Archive 2! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you.
Please click
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As a commenter on the ACR for this article, and with the FAC in need of further input, I would welcome you to comment there. Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 09:05, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Looks like we have an edit conflict for the Common Tunnel, as I was working on it when you did the improvements. I've tried to incorporate your changes, left out one sentence which was a bit awkward, and my apologies if I left out anything else you did to the article. Arsenikk (talk) 20:21, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is Hurricanehink ( submissions), who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009) and Sturmvogel_66 (2010). The final standings were as follows:
Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.
No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.
Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:37, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
By
Lionelt
The Right Stuff caught up with Dank, the recently elected Lead Coordinator of WikiProject Military History. MILHIST is considered by many to be one of the most successful projects in the English Wikipedia.
Q: Tell us a little about yourself.
A: I'm Dan, a Wikipedian since 2007, from North Carolina. I started out with an interest in history, robotics, style guidelines, and copyediting. These days, I'm the lead coordinator for the Military History Project and a reviewer of Featured Article Candidates. I've been an administrator and maintained
WP:Update, a summary of policy changes, since 2008.
Q: What is your experience with WikiProjects?
A: I guess I'm most familiar with
WP:MILHIST and
WP:SHIPS, and I'm trying to get up to speed at
WP:AVIATION. I've probably talked with members of most of the wikiprojects at one time or another.
Q: What makes a WikiProject successful?
A: A lot of occasional contributors who think of the project as fun rather than work, a fair number of people willing to write or review articles, a small core of like-minded people who are dedicated to building and maintaining the project, and access to at least a few people who are familiar with reviewing standards and with Wikipedia policies and guidelines.
Q: Do you have any tips for increasing membership?
A: Aim for a consistent, helpful and professional image. Let people know what the project is doing and what they could be doing, but don't push.
If you've got a core group interested in building a wikiproject, it helps if they do more listening than talking at first ... find out what people are trying to do, and offer them help with whatever it is. Some wikiprojects build membership by helping people get articles through the review processes.
By
Lionelt
The arbitration request submitted by
Steven Zhang moved into its second month. The case, which evaluates user conduct, arose from contentious discussions regarding the naming of the
Pro-life and
Pro-choice articles, and a related issue pertaining to the inclusion of "death" in the lede of
Abortion. A number of members are involved. On the
Evidence page
ArtifexMahem posted a table indicating that
DMSBel made the most edits to the Abortion article. DMSBel has announced their semi-retirement. Fact finding regarding individual editor behavior has begun in earnest on the
Workshop page.
Last month it was decided that due to the success of the new Dispute Resolution Noticeboard the Content Noticeboard would be shut down. Wikiquette Assistance will remain active. The DRN is primarily intended to resolve content disputes.
By
Lionelt
Was your article deleted in spite of your best efforts to save it? You should consider having a copy
restored to the
Incubator where project members can help improve it. Upon meeting content criteria, articles are graduated to mainspace. The Incubator is also ideal for collaborating on new article drafts.
Star Parker is the first addition to the incubator. The article was deleted per WP:POLITICIAN.
WikiProject Conservatism is expanding. We now have a satellite on Commons. Any help in categorizing images or in getting the fledgling project off the ground is appreciated.
We have a few new members who joined the project in September. Please give a hearty welcome to Conservative Philosopher, Screwball23 and Regushee by showing them some Wikilove. Screwball23 has been on WikiPedia for five years and has made major improvements to Linda McMahon. Regushee is not one for idle chit chat: an amazing 93% of their edits are in article space.
It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 21:05, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
By
Lionelt
On October 7, WikiProject Conservatism was nominated for deletion by member Binksternet. He based his rationale on what he described as an undefinable scope, stating that the project is "at its root undesirable". Of the 40 participants in the discussion, some agreed that the scope was problematic; however, they felt it did not justify deletion of the project. A number of participants suggested moving the project to "WikiProject American conservatism". The overwhelming sentiment was expressed by Guerillero who wrote: "A project is a group of people. This particular group does great work in their topic area[,] why prevent them from doing this[?]" In the end there was negligible opposition to the project and the result of the discussion was "Keep". The proceedings of the deletion discussion were picked up by The Signpost, calling the unfolding drama "the first MfD of its kind". The Signpost observed that attempting to delete an active project was unprecedented. The story itself became a source of controversy which played out at the Discuss This Story section, and also at the author's talk page.
Two days after the project was nominated, the Conservatism Portal was also nominated for deletion as "too US-biased". There was no support for deletion amongst the 10 participants, with one suggestion to rename the portal.
In other news, a new portal focusing on conservatism has been created at WikiSource. Wikisource is an online library of free content publications with 254,051 accessible texts. One highlight of the portal's content is Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke.
October saw a 6.4% increase in new members, bringing the total membership to 58. Seven of the eight new members joined after October 12; the deletion discussions may have played a role in the membership spike. Mwhite148 is a member of the UK Conservative Party. Stating that he is not a conservative, Kleinzach noted his "lifetime interest in British, European and international politics." Let's all make an effort to welcome the new members with an outpouring of Wikilove.
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Timeline of conservatism, a Top-importance list, was
nominated for deletion on October 3. The nominator stated that since conservatism in an "ambiguous concept", the timeline suffers from original research. There were a number of "Delete", as well as "Keep" votes. The closing administrator reasoned that consensus dictated that the list be renamed. The current title is
Timeline of modern American conservatism.
Do you think EUR-pallet ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is the recurring contributor (the one who always spams WT:NORWAY)? Based on his contributions? Geschichte ( talk) 12:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
What about Toriland ( talk · contribs)? Geschichte ( talk) 12:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
What about Riambrid ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? Geschichte ( talk) 12:54, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
I will look into the Sørensen thing. In the meantime, what about Chadburrey ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? See for instance at Satellittkrigen where the name is translated, much in the style of Sju hav. Geschichte ( talk) 12:45, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
What about 24 moto ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? Same style of talk page and project talk page edits. Geschichte ( talk) 08:37, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Your removal of the "long lead" template without discussing it was inappropriate and has been reverted. If you had looked at the Talk page first, you would have noticed there was not only a discussion on whether or not the template should stay, it had evolved into a very productive discussion where three editors reached compromise and consensus on improving the lead. Also, your edit summary "Rubbish" was uncivil. As the civility guideline states:
Future uncivil edit summaries will result in a Wikiquette Alert discussion being opened about your actions. Mmyers1976 ( talk) 21:30, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article Broder Knudtzon you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. -- Sp33dyphil © hat ontributions 05:09, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! As you've previously expressed interest in the competition, I'm just letting you know that the 2012 WikiCup is due to start in less than 24 hours. Signups are open, and will remain so for a few weeks after the beginning of the competition. The competition itself will follow basically the same format as last year, with a few small tweaks to point costs to reflect the opinions of the community. If you're interested in taking part, you're more than welcome, and if you know anyone who might be, please let them know too- the more the merrier! To join, simply add your name to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2012 signups, and we will be in touch. Please feel free to direct any questions to me, or leave a note on the WikiCup talk page. Thanks! You are receiving this note as you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Please feel free to add or remove yourself. J Milburn ( talk) 01:43, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
In regards to your question at Template:Did you know nominations/Silvio (horse), Blair Athol (horse), traditionally DYK has not required all articles to fully support a hook fact. I can even remember cases where none of the articles fully supported the hook fact but required the reviewer to pull factoids from multiple articles (e.g. a set of biology articles about plants where the hook mentions all the listed plants share a common trait and the individual articles only mentioning the trait for the plant described by said article, thus requiring the reviewer to confirm the trait for each plant one article at a time). -- Allen3 talk 10:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Hei Eisfbnore. I came to apologise for the sarcastic point I made at DYK, but I was surprised to find you summarised another editors article as "shoddy". If this is someone's 2nd go at DYK then do you think they will try a 3rd? DYK is intended to be a collaborative project with a pleasant atmosphere. Actually the whole of Wikipedia is meant to be like that. Please reconsider whether you could help this editor or maybe leave it for a few days to see if someone who wants to help comes along. I'nm not going to threaten as someone did above. Please have a think. Victuallers ( talk) 18:20, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
On 4 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian businessman and patron of the arts Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon met Napoleon and Lord Byron in his trips in Europe? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon.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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:03, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Niels Wulfsberg, Tiden (newspaper) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Mikenorton ( talk) 00:49, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
On 9 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Niels Wulfsberg, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that owing to his declining popularity as a priest in Christiania, Niels Wulfsberg decided to make a journalistic career, establishing amongst other newspapers the royal friendly Tiden? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:05, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
On 9 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tiden (newspaper), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that owing to his declining popularity as a priest in Christiania, Niels Wulfsberg decided to make a journalistic career, establishing amongst other newspapers the royal friendly Tiden? 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:05, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
The Content Review Medal of Merit | ||
By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer, A-Class and Featured article reviews for the period October–December 2011, I am delighted to award you the Content Review Medal. Buggie111 ( talk) 17:29, 14 January 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, Noticed your change from due to to owing to on Dreyfus affair. I'm a bit of a language maven like you are (do you insert periods inadvertently left off the end of sentences in printed books, like I do?) but you're beating a dead horse here.
There's certainly no reason to change it back, as they're basically equivalent now, but the time for this distinction is past, just like, say, the stricture of not ending a sentence with a preposition. Plenty of stuff all over the web about due/owing to, here's one for your amusement. Happy editing! Mathglot ( talk) 00:25, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
On 28 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Christian Friele, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian newspaper editor Christian Friele was an honorary member of the Conservative Press Association, despite not attending any of its meetings? 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) 00:02, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
On 28 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Conservative Press Association, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Norwegian newspaper editor Christian Friele was an honorary member of the Conservative Press Association, despite not attending any of its meetings? 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) 00:03, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted your revert on Stian Heimlund Skjæveland, the problem is not weasel words, but lack of references, if the content is backed up by reliable references from good sources in Norway it can of course be added. The problem is that there seems to be very little such content about this artist, thus there is not much to write about, from our point of view. Best regards, Ulflarsen ( talk) 13:19, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X ( submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 ( submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun ( submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
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Lionelt
On January 21,
The Conservatism Portal was promoted to
Featured Portal (FP) due largely to the contributions of Lionelt. This is the first Featured content produced by WikiProject Conservatism. The road to Featured class was rocky. An earlier nomination for FP failed, and in October the portal was "Kept" after being nominated for deletion.
Member Eisfbnore significantly contributed to the successful Good Article nomination of Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor Nils Vogt in December. Eisfbnore also created the article. In January another Project article was promoted to Featured Article. Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, a president of Brazil, attained Featured class with significant effort by Lecen. The Article Incubator saw its first graduation in November. A collaboration spearheaded by Mzk1 and Trackerseal successfully developed Star Parker to pass the notability guideline.
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Lionelt
Another
discussion addressing the project scope began in December. Nine alternatives were presented in the contentious, sometimes heated discussion. Support was divided between keeping the exitsing scope, or adopting a scope with more specificity. Some opponents of the specific scope were concerned that it was too limiting and would adversely affect project size. About twenty editors participated in the discussion.
Inclusion of the article Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was debated. Supporters for inclusion cited sources describing the KKK as "conservative." The article was excluded with more than 10 editors participating.
Project membership continues to grow. There are currently 73 members. Member Goldblooded (pictured) volunteers for the UK Conservative Party and JohnChrysostom is a Christian Democrat. North8000 is interested in libertarianism. We won't tell WikiProject Libertarianism he's slumming. Let's stop by their talkpages and share some Wikilove.
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Lionelt
Articles about the GOP presidential candidate and staunch traditional marriage supporter have seen an explosion of discussion. On January 8 an RFC was opened (here) to determine if Dan Savage's website link should be included in Campaign for "santorum" neologism. The next day the Rick Santorum article itself was the subject of an RFC (here) to determine if including the Savage neologism was a violation of the BLP policy. Soon after a third was opened (here) at Santorum controversy regarding homosexuality. This RFC proposes merging the neologism article into the controversy article.
The Abortion case closed in November after 15 weeks of contentious arbitration. The remedies include semi-protection of all abortion articles (numbering 1,500), sanctions for some editors including members of this Project, and a provision for a discussion to determine the names of what are colloquially known as the pro-life and pro-choice articles. The Committee endorsed the "1 revert rule" for abortion articles.
... they all knew what I meant. ;-) Thank you! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:43, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
see User talk:Ctatkinson where the primary author has thanked me for my help. Alarbus ( talk) 11:11, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
I noticed your comment on the Washington Quarter FAC page. I believe I am right in thinking that there is a difference in British usage and American usage. In British usage "He was late due to snow" is wrong and should be "...owing to". But, I am pretty sure, in American usage "He was late due to snow" is OK. Tim riley ( talk) 07:52, 29 February 2012 (UTC)