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I would like my userpage to be redesigned, so there is a "light red" (not pink) border that fades, File:Red Apple.jpg as the background, a new navbar (current one is at User:Perseus, Son of Zeus/Navigation header), feel free to design the navbar any way you want. Also, the content of the userpage will be four orange boxes, labeled "EDITS", "TALK", "SIGN", and "STARS". The font color will be "#FFFFFF" and make the new userpage a subpage of User:Perseus, Son of Zeus. I will transclude it then. Thanks! -- Perseus, Son of Zeus ✉ sign here 16:38, 3 February 2011 (UTC) Thanks for signing my guestbook
The article
Hypsibema missouriensis you nominated as a
good article has been placed on hold
. The article is close to meeting the
good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See
Talk:Hypsibema missouriensis for things which need to be addressed. I'm mostly concerned about the potential for linkrot and possible consolidation of references.
J. Spencer (
talk)
02:53, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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I saw the link to your essay, posted on ANI. I've skimmed it now and will read it in more detail over the weekend, as it contains some valuable insights.
If you haven't already seen it, you can take a look at Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors. I did the first draft of this (there's a link to that version at the top), and it's been edited since then, partly to address the fact that I'm not very good at pitching the reading level to the target audience. Your thoughts would be welcome, here or there or anywhere. Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 18:30, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hopefully sticking around - I've got a tiny break from real life, so I'll try to help out a bit on the old Wiki. I missed you guys! :) What's new? m.o.p 22:42, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Could you restore your fixes in about half an hour, when I am done with the expansion? Sorry about that. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:56, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
I tried accessing the information online with my ECU online id. It doesn't look like it is available in electronic form. I do have access to the libray, but I am very unlikely to ever set foot on campus. I am an online master's program student. I live in Hope Mills, North Carolina and East Carolina University is in Greenville. Thanks for asking, I wish I could've been more helpful. Dincher ( talk) 00:29, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
While I somewhat understand why you closed the thread, it would have been nice to see the block proposal through. I really believe (and two others agreed) that this user either needs some time off or at the very least some good mentoring (did me wonders). How can we get things to settle down so Someone65 isn't back in another week+ asking for TWINKLE again or he starts two seperate block discussions against people who disagree with him? Another big question, after I struck my accusation that Someone65 was linked to an indef account, there was some question on whether it was ever looked up by CU. What should be done with that? There are too many questions open, to be left without answers. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 20:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm a little surprised you hatted that. The "pox on both your houses" approach doesn't really seem commensurate with the obvious, repeated disruptive behavior following multiple "final" warnings, but your call, I suppose. 28bytes ( talk) 20:18, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey, can you help me out with some formatting on my userpage? I recently added a quote, but when I change my window size, the quote is located elsewhere. Is there any way to make it right under the mouth of the kitten? Thanks, Goodvac ( talk) 22:10, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
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22:18, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. A belated reply to your question about my comment at AN/I a few days ago. I have no hard evidence about how old you are and I should not have speculated about that; I apologise for doing so. After seeing a wide variety of foolish behaviour on Wikipedia, my experience thus far is that people over 20 are just as likely to act foolishly as those under 20, and even that there is such an explosion of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT after age 60 or so, that you might be as well served writing an essay about pensioners as about pubescants. There are two big differences. First, the teenage troublemakers are mostly despatched very quickly. Secondly, a teenage troublemaker might be a useful contributor a few years later; but if a pensioner is consistently a raging POV monster at age 65 and age 66, they probably still will be at age 70. There's a lot more to be discussed on this topic. None of this excuses my random throwaway comment at AN/I, so I apologise for it. -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 03:50, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
I must thank you for the reasonable response yesterday at the controversy. Despite the tensions you managed to be cool and demonstrate your admin capibilities. I'm still pretty shocked that a simple twinkle request resulted in all that bickering. I guess i'll be avoiding ANI from now on. :) Someone65 ( talk) 10:44, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fetchcomms, I'm a Campus Ambassador in the Public Policy Initiative and found your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Online Ambassadors and was wondering whether you'd be up for mentoring User:kristal776, one of the students for Prof Gen's Environmental Policy class. I'll watch this page. Thanks! Dcoetzee 22:19, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
After following you on Twitter last night, I went to search for someone else, which resulted in Twitter giving me people who were similar to you. They gave me two people. However....one of them wasn't really similar to you at all. Here's a screencap so you can see what I mean. I sent this to you on Twitter also, but I fear you might think I'm a bot or something, so I decided to do it here, where you can see I'm not a bot, I'm a legitimate contributor.
Dear Fetchcomms, I need a mentor. I think you know me from my classes from last year which you so kindly helped with. Your name echoed frequently in our hallowed halls ... with many positive adjectives connected to it. My assignments for my classes are much more difficult for me this semester. I have one class with 8 students and we are going to be editing articles and creating a few as well. I need advice on content, if you can be of assistance in that area. Not so much on the actual content, but in terms of creating new pages vs editing existing ones. And thinking out the assignment. I'll run them by Sage as well. Thanks and no hard feelings if you've had enough of me and my students. Radavis147 ( talk) 01:09, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
How did you get "using Friendly" in your edit summary? Wayne Slam 01:42, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
I've left a message here regarding the suspicious prods of Jewish American mobsters over the past month. This seems to be an ongoing problem and which I believe involves User:Mynameisstanley. 71.184.53.150 ( talk) 17:52, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not totally sure how to go about this, but there's been some rather unpleasant vandalism on the BLP Aron Ralston. I think there's a way of removing these edits from general view. Is that appropriate in this case and is that something you're able to do? (I found your name in the category of admins happy to handle Revdels and you seem to be on-line now). Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 23:08, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
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Questions answered :) thanks. The IAR part was a toughie to answer but I gave it my best shot in an answer. -- Errant ( chat!) 23:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
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For making me spit beer all over my screen [1] Egg Centric ( talk) 18:57, 13 February 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Fetchcomms! I just wanted to say that I responded to your message by editing it and adding to the bottom. I felt I should let you know, because I'm not sure I did it the right way and that you'll see it! If you could let me know, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! Kristal776 ( talk) 04:42, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
You seem to be online can you Rev Delete things for WP:BLP violations
Thanx The Resident Anthropologist ( talk) 03:39, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
I see that you edited the Wikipedia article on Chattanooga State Community College on 3 February 2011. The article history shows that the previous edit was done in 2009. Do you know why there are no edits listed for 2010?
Several staff members at Chattanooga State collaborated to add more information to the article in 2010, so there were several edits during that year.
Thanks for looking into this.
Vicky Leather Dean of Library Services Chattanooga State Community College ````
Thank you for the guidelines and clarification. I would like to continue adding non-promotional content and appropriate documentation to the Chattanooga State article. Our librarians have digitized (with permission) and organized quite a number of newspaper articles and other documents related to the history and operations of the college. I believe that these would provide objective documentation for the article. I understand that the use of words and phrases such as "wide array," "comprehensive," "quality," "robust," "many exciting," "high," and "enhancing," appear to be promotional in nature and will try to avoid them. I understand that all Wikipedia content must be encyclopedic in form and neutral in point of view. Although I do not qualify as one of your advisees, I would like to consult with you during the editing process to ensure that all article content meets Wikipedia's standards. With those things in mind, do you think it would be appropriate for me to continue editing the article on Chattanooga State Community College? Vicky Leather Vicky102510 ( talk) 19:09, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks so much! This will be a great learning experience and an opportunity to use our digital collection to add value to published content. I appreciate your helping us find direction. Vicky Leather ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vicky102510 ( talk • contribs) 21:53, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
What is the ten your talk page is designed for? I assume I'm missing something really really obvious. Egg Centric ( talk) 17:55, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, if and when you have time, could you please reply or action this post, ps - your talkpage is not showing up clearly, regards. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:28, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
No, not that, this edited to this to reflect current working practice. Off2riorob ( talk) 15:03, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Re. two-month trial has turned into a seven-month one [2], actually, it is already over eight months; the first use was 15 June 2010. Chzz ► 06:31, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
This message is going out to all of the Online Ambassadors who are, or will be, serving as mentors this term.
Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!
If you aren't mentoring anyone yet, it looks like you will be soon; at least one large class is asking us to assign mentors for them, and students in a number of others haven't yet gotten to asking ambassadors to be their mentors, but may soon. -- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 20:06, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
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I was truly humbled by the overwhelming community support for the recent proposal to place featured sounds on the main page. The proposal closed on Tuesday with 57 people in support and only 2 in opposition. It should take a few weeks for everything to get coded and tested, and once that is done the community will be presented with a mock up to assess on aesthetic appeal. Finally, I invite all of you to participate in the featured sounds process itself. Whether you're a performer, an uploader, or just come across a sound file you find top quality, and that meets the featured sound criteria, you can nominate it at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. Featured sounds is also looking for people to help assess candidates (also at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates.)
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-- Perseus 8235 16:13, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
I know that you contacted me after my last RfA in August, and that I contacted you in early December about my plans for another RfA. I took your advice, and the advice of a few others, into consideration and did not nominate myself for another RfA in December. However, I am now once again preparing for another one. Since my last RfA, I feel that I have gotten far more experience, and I don't mean edit count. I actually managed to do something lasting that I am rather happy of- some content creation- and currently have a GAN that I think has a good chance of passing. I also took your advice and did some more work on vandalism fighting, making more reports to AIV and tagging more pages for speedy deletion, but also expanding to participating in RFPP and AFD and taking a look at UAA. Now I think that I am ready for a third, and hopefully final, RfA, and has positive results from an editor review. However, I know that you have a history of giving honest advice relating to RfA's, and I would be very grateful if you could give me some advice once again. -- Slon02 ( talk) 04:20, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Fetchcomms. My fellow group members and I are doing a social studies project to edit the wiki of Benjamin Rush and were wondering if you could check out our progress. Your criticism is welcomed. Thanks for the help.
Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitarian and a Universalist.[1] He is well known as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and for being a supporter for the scientific education of all people.(www.ushistory.org Benjamin Rush was born in the township of Byberry in Philadelphia County to John Rush and Susanna Hall, which was then about 14 miles outside Philadelphia. (The township was incorporated into Philadelphia in 1854 and now remains one of its neighborhoods). Rush's father died when he was six, leaving him to spend most of his early childhood with his uncle, the Reverend Samuel Finley. He would attended Finley's academy at Nottingham, which would later become West Nottingham Academy. In 1760, at age 15, Benjamin completed the five-year program earning him a Bachelor of Arts degree at the College of New Jersey, which is now known as Princeton University. He then went on to study medicine under Dr. John Redman in Philadelphia, who encouraged him to further his studies at the University of Edinburgh. There, he earned a medical degree. While in the United Kingdom practicing medicine, he learned French, Italian, and Spanish. Returning to the Colonies in 1769 (age 24), Rush opened a medical practice in Philadelphia and became Professor of Chemistry at the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). In 1777 he became surgeon-general of the middle department of the Continental Army. Conflicts broke out with the Army Medical service, specifically with Dr. William Shippen, Jr., and led to Rush's resignation in 1778.
Spongebob131313 ( talk) 14:01, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
It is time to fall to peer pressure and accept that the messy over-indulgent process of Userbox-spam is meant for you!!!
(P.S. You lose the game, and Penguins)
Spitfire19 T/ C 17:40, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
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Dear Fetchcomms,
I wanted to thank you for taking the time to speak out for me during the unfortunate situation I found myself in here. As a new user and also as someone who's trying to gain more tech knowledge, it meant and means so much to me to have come across so many kind and thoughtful people willing to dedicate their time to help others like myself learn the ropes! Once I become well-versed in all of this, I certainly will look forward to paying it forward! :) Thanks again!
Best Wishes, Comedybiographer ( talk) 07:35, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
I have access to Gmail this afternoon, and so I will email you this afternoon. -- Perseus 8235 15:37, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
I see that on 9 October 2010, you deleted this page. I've no way of telling what the content was, and I would like to make this page a REDIRECT to portmanteau. "Portmanteaux" is a valid plural of that word. I just want to be sure that you have no objections before I reinstate this page as a plural redirect. — Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX ) 16:05, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar | |
For acting boldly and adding the emergency email address to the page notice on ANI, I hereby award you this barnstar. Well done, Sir. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 08:17, 27 February 2011 (UTC) |
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to
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submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen
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Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.
Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) 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 23:41, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
I have a question, could I borrow your userpage design to use on my userpage and alter it? — Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 12:35pm • 01:35, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fetchcomms, Your work assessing article quality is really valuable and generated some excellent results from fall semester. The assessment process has been streamlined and dates are clearly posted for the upcoming assessment rounds. The Initiative has a lot more classes signed up for spring, so I would like to recruit some more Wikipedian assessors, and I was hoping you could help with that. I think community members would be more likely to participate if they are recruited by Wikipedians like yourself who have a good reputation. The strategy that worked last semester was to leave an individual message on the talk pages of non-adversarial Wikipedians. I looked for people by contributions to public policy related articles and those active on the 1.0 Editorial Team. I usually mentioned in the message what specifically about their work history made me think they would be a good assessment team participant. This is super time consuming to contact like 50 people, but only doing a few is not so bad. Also, I am looking for feedback about assessing with PPI, so please check out the discussion on the assessment tab, and let me know there if you have a chance to recruit some other assessors. I hope you are looking forward to another great semester working on this project. Drop me a line - ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 06:53, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Because I have noticed you commenting at the current RfC regarding Pending Changes, I wanted to invite you to the IRC channel for pending changes. If you are not customarily logged into the IRC, use this link. This under used resource can allow real time discussion at this particularly timely venture of the trial known as Pending Changes. Even if nothing can come from debating points there, at least this invitation is delivered with the best of intentions and good faith expectations. Kind regards. My76 Strat 08:38, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm okay with you unprotecting the page, because we're going to see a flood of anonymous exuberance in the next few hours. There's always an odd window when the product is being demoed and blogged about live, but before Apple.com updates and we have tangible information. In my experience, it's best to just let it go and clean it up later. This cleanup may or may not involve merging the content back into iPad; it's an editorial judgement we'll have to make over the next few days when we have reliable information, and I want you to be open to having it either way. Cheers, HereToHelp ( talk to me) 15:58, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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I would like my userpage to be redesigned, so there is a "light red" (not pink) border that fades, File:Red Apple.jpg as the background, a new navbar (current one is at User:Perseus, Son of Zeus/Navigation header), feel free to design the navbar any way you want. Also, the content of the userpage will be four orange boxes, labeled "EDITS", "TALK", "SIGN", and "STARS". The font color will be "#FFFFFF" and make the new userpage a subpage of User:Perseus, Son of Zeus. I will transclude it then. Thanks! -- Perseus, Son of Zeus ✉ sign here 16:38, 3 February 2011 (UTC) Thanks for signing my guestbook
The article
Hypsibema missouriensis you nominated as a
good article has been placed on hold
. The article is close to meeting the
good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See
Talk:Hypsibema missouriensis for things which need to be addressed. I'm mostly concerned about the potential for linkrot and possible consolidation of references.
J. Spencer (
talk)
02:53, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 4 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article National Terrorism Advisory System, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that, in April 2011, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's new two-tier National Terrorism Advisory System will replace the current color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System? 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. |
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Courcelles 06:28, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I saw the link to your essay, posted on ANI. I've skimmed it now and will read it in more detail over the weekend, as it contains some valuable insights.
If you haven't already seen it, you can take a look at Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors. I did the first draft of this (there's a link to that version at the top), and it's been edited since then, partly to address the fact that I'm not very good at pitching the reading level to the target audience. Your thoughts would be welcome, here or there or anywhere. Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 18:30, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hopefully sticking around - I've got a tiny break from real life, so I'll try to help out a bit on the old Wiki. I missed you guys! :) What's new? m.o.p 22:42, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Could you restore your fixes in about half an hour, when I am done with the expansion? Sorry about that. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:56, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
I tried accessing the information online with my ECU online id. It doesn't look like it is available in electronic form. I do have access to the libray, but I am very unlikely to ever set foot on campus. I am an online master's program student. I live in Hope Mills, North Carolina and East Carolina University is in Greenville. Thanks for asking, I wish I could've been more helpful. Dincher ( talk) 00:29, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
While I somewhat understand why you closed the thread, it would have been nice to see the block proposal through. I really believe (and two others agreed) that this user either needs some time off or at the very least some good mentoring (did me wonders). How can we get things to settle down so Someone65 isn't back in another week+ asking for TWINKLE again or he starts two seperate block discussions against people who disagree with him? Another big question, after I struck my accusation that Someone65 was linked to an indef account, there was some question on whether it was ever looked up by CU. What should be done with that? There are too many questions open, to be left without answers. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 20:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm a little surprised you hatted that. The "pox on both your houses" approach doesn't really seem commensurate with the obvious, repeated disruptive behavior following multiple "final" warnings, but your call, I suppose. 28bytes ( talk) 20:18, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey, can you help me out with some formatting on my userpage? I recently added a quote, but when I change my window size, the quote is located elsewhere. Is there any way to make it right under the mouth of the kitten? Thanks, Goodvac ( talk) 22:10, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
<div>
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22:18, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. A belated reply to your question about my comment at AN/I a few days ago. I have no hard evidence about how old you are and I should not have speculated about that; I apologise for doing so. After seeing a wide variety of foolish behaviour on Wikipedia, my experience thus far is that people over 20 are just as likely to act foolishly as those under 20, and even that there is such an explosion of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT after age 60 or so, that you might be as well served writing an essay about pensioners as about pubescants. There are two big differences. First, the teenage troublemakers are mostly despatched very quickly. Secondly, a teenage troublemaker might be a useful contributor a few years later; but if a pensioner is consistently a raging POV monster at age 65 and age 66, they probably still will be at age 70. There's a lot more to be discussed on this topic. None of this excuses my random throwaway comment at AN/I, so I apologise for it. -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 03:50, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
I must thank you for the reasonable response yesterday at the controversy. Despite the tensions you managed to be cool and demonstrate your admin capibilities. I'm still pretty shocked that a simple twinkle request resulted in all that bickering. I guess i'll be avoiding ANI from now on. :) Someone65 ( talk) 10:44, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fetchcomms, I'm a Campus Ambassador in the Public Policy Initiative and found your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Online Ambassadors and was wondering whether you'd be up for mentoring User:kristal776, one of the students for Prof Gen's Environmental Policy class. I'll watch this page. Thanks! Dcoetzee 22:19, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
After following you on Twitter last night, I went to search for someone else, which resulted in Twitter giving me people who were similar to you. They gave me two people. However....one of them wasn't really similar to you at all. Here's a screencap so you can see what I mean. I sent this to you on Twitter also, but I fear you might think I'm a bot or something, so I decided to do it here, where you can see I'm not a bot, I'm a legitimate contributor.
Dear Fetchcomms, I need a mentor. I think you know me from my classes from last year which you so kindly helped with. Your name echoed frequently in our hallowed halls ... with many positive adjectives connected to it. My assignments for my classes are much more difficult for me this semester. I have one class with 8 students and we are going to be editing articles and creating a few as well. I need advice on content, if you can be of assistance in that area. Not so much on the actual content, but in terms of creating new pages vs editing existing ones. And thinking out the assignment. I'll run them by Sage as well. Thanks and no hard feelings if you've had enough of me and my students. Radavis147 ( talk) 01:09, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
How did you get "using Friendly" in your edit summary? Wayne Slam 01:42, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
I've left a message here regarding the suspicious prods of Jewish American mobsters over the past month. This seems to be an ongoing problem and which I believe involves User:Mynameisstanley. 71.184.53.150 ( talk) 17:52, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not totally sure how to go about this, but there's been some rather unpleasant vandalism on the BLP Aron Ralston. I think there's a way of removing these edits from general view. Is that appropriate in this case and is that something you're able to do? (I found your name in the category of admins happy to handle Revdels and you seem to be on-line now). Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 23:08, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
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Questions answered :) thanks. The IAR part was a toughie to answer but I gave it my best shot in an answer. -- Errant ( chat!) 23:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
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For making me spit beer all over my screen [1] Egg Centric ( talk) 18:57, 13 February 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Fetchcomms! I just wanted to say that I responded to your message by editing it and adding to the bottom. I felt I should let you know, because I'm not sure I did it the right way and that you'll see it! If you could let me know, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! Kristal776 ( talk) 04:42, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
You seem to be online can you Rev Delete things for WP:BLP violations
Thanx The Resident Anthropologist ( talk) 03:39, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
I see that you edited the Wikipedia article on Chattanooga State Community College on 3 February 2011. The article history shows that the previous edit was done in 2009. Do you know why there are no edits listed for 2010?
Several staff members at Chattanooga State collaborated to add more information to the article in 2010, so there were several edits during that year.
Thanks for looking into this.
Vicky Leather Dean of Library Services Chattanooga State Community College ````
Thank you for the guidelines and clarification. I would like to continue adding non-promotional content and appropriate documentation to the Chattanooga State article. Our librarians have digitized (with permission) and organized quite a number of newspaper articles and other documents related to the history and operations of the college. I believe that these would provide objective documentation for the article. I understand that the use of words and phrases such as "wide array," "comprehensive," "quality," "robust," "many exciting," "high," and "enhancing," appear to be promotional in nature and will try to avoid them. I understand that all Wikipedia content must be encyclopedic in form and neutral in point of view. Although I do not qualify as one of your advisees, I would like to consult with you during the editing process to ensure that all article content meets Wikipedia's standards. With those things in mind, do you think it would be appropriate for me to continue editing the article on Chattanooga State Community College? Vicky Leather Vicky102510 ( talk) 19:09, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks so much! This will be a great learning experience and an opportunity to use our digital collection to add value to published content. I appreciate your helping us find direction. Vicky Leather ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vicky102510 ( talk • contribs) 21:53, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
What is the ten your talk page is designed for? I assume I'm missing something really really obvious. Egg Centric ( talk) 17:55, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, if and when you have time, could you please reply or action this post, ps - your talkpage is not showing up clearly, regards. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:28, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
No, not that, this edited to this to reflect current working practice. Off2riorob ( talk) 15:03, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Re. two-month trial has turned into a seven-month one [2], actually, it is already over eight months; the first use was 15 June 2010. Chzz ► 06:31, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
This message is going out to all of the Online Ambassadors who are, or will be, serving as mentors this term.
Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!
If you aren't mentoring anyone yet, it looks like you will be soon; at least one large class is asking us to assign mentors for them, and students in a number of others haven't yet gotten to asking ambassadors to be their mentors, but may soon. -- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 20:06, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
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I was truly humbled by the overwhelming community support for the recent proposal to place featured sounds on the main page. The proposal closed on Tuesday with 57 people in support and only 2 in opposition. It should take a few weeks for everything to get coded and tested, and once that is done the community will be presented with a mock up to assess on aesthetic appeal. Finally, I invite all of you to participate in the featured sounds process itself. Whether you're a performer, an uploader, or just come across a sound file you find top quality, and that meets the featured sound criteria, you can nominate it at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. Featured sounds is also looking for people to help assess candidates (also at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates.)
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-- Perseus 8235 16:13, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
I know that you contacted me after my last RfA in August, and that I contacted you in early December about my plans for another RfA. I took your advice, and the advice of a few others, into consideration and did not nominate myself for another RfA in December. However, I am now once again preparing for another one. Since my last RfA, I feel that I have gotten far more experience, and I don't mean edit count. I actually managed to do something lasting that I am rather happy of- some content creation- and currently have a GAN that I think has a good chance of passing. I also took your advice and did some more work on vandalism fighting, making more reports to AIV and tagging more pages for speedy deletion, but also expanding to participating in RFPP and AFD and taking a look at UAA. Now I think that I am ready for a third, and hopefully final, RfA, and has positive results from an editor review. However, I know that you have a history of giving honest advice relating to RfA's, and I would be very grateful if you could give me some advice once again. -- Slon02 ( talk) 04:20, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Fetchcomms. My fellow group members and I are doing a social studies project to edit the wiki of Benjamin Rush and were wondering if you could check out our progress. Your criticism is welcomed. Thanks for the help.
Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitarian and a Universalist.[1] He is well known as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and for being a supporter for the scientific education of all people.(www.ushistory.org Benjamin Rush was born in the township of Byberry in Philadelphia County to John Rush and Susanna Hall, which was then about 14 miles outside Philadelphia. (The township was incorporated into Philadelphia in 1854 and now remains one of its neighborhoods). Rush's father died when he was six, leaving him to spend most of his early childhood with his uncle, the Reverend Samuel Finley. He would attended Finley's academy at Nottingham, which would later become West Nottingham Academy. In 1760, at age 15, Benjamin completed the five-year program earning him a Bachelor of Arts degree at the College of New Jersey, which is now known as Princeton University. He then went on to study medicine under Dr. John Redman in Philadelphia, who encouraged him to further his studies at the University of Edinburgh. There, he earned a medical degree. While in the United Kingdom practicing medicine, he learned French, Italian, and Spanish. Returning to the Colonies in 1769 (age 24), Rush opened a medical practice in Philadelphia and became Professor of Chemistry at the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). In 1777 he became surgeon-general of the middle department of the Continental Army. Conflicts broke out with the Army Medical service, specifically with Dr. William Shippen, Jr., and led to Rush's resignation in 1778.
Spongebob131313 ( talk) 14:01, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
It is time to fall to peer pressure and accept that the messy over-indulgent process of Userbox-spam is meant for you!!!
(P.S. You lose the game, and Penguins)
Spitfire19 T/ C 17:40, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
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Dear Fetchcomms,
I wanted to thank you for taking the time to speak out for me during the unfortunate situation I found myself in here. As a new user and also as someone who's trying to gain more tech knowledge, it meant and means so much to me to have come across so many kind and thoughtful people willing to dedicate their time to help others like myself learn the ropes! Once I become well-versed in all of this, I certainly will look forward to paying it forward! :) Thanks again!
Best Wishes, Comedybiographer ( talk) 07:35, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
I have access to Gmail this afternoon, and so I will email you this afternoon. -- Perseus 8235 15:37, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
I see that on 9 October 2010, you deleted this page. I've no way of telling what the content was, and I would like to make this page a REDIRECT to portmanteau. "Portmanteaux" is a valid plural of that word. I just want to be sure that you have no objections before I reinstate this page as a plural redirect. — Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX ) 16:05, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
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For acting boldly and adding the emergency email address to the page notice on ANI, I hereby award you this barnstar. Well done, Sir. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 08:17, 27 February 2011 (UTC) |
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to
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submissions) (first, with 487 points) and
Hurricanehink (
submissions) (second, with 459), who stormed the first round.
Casliber (
submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen
here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to
Jarry1250 (
submissions) for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to
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submissions) for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.
Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.
Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) 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 23:41, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
I have a question, could I borrow your userpage design to use on my userpage and alter it? — Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 12:35pm • 01:35, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fetchcomms, Your work assessing article quality is really valuable and generated some excellent results from fall semester. The assessment process has been streamlined and dates are clearly posted for the upcoming assessment rounds. The Initiative has a lot more classes signed up for spring, so I would like to recruit some more Wikipedian assessors, and I was hoping you could help with that. I think community members would be more likely to participate if they are recruited by Wikipedians like yourself who have a good reputation. The strategy that worked last semester was to leave an individual message on the talk pages of non-adversarial Wikipedians. I looked for people by contributions to public policy related articles and those active on the 1.0 Editorial Team. I usually mentioned in the message what specifically about their work history made me think they would be a good assessment team participant. This is super time consuming to contact like 50 people, but only doing a few is not so bad. Also, I am looking for feedback about assessing with PPI, so please check out the discussion on the assessment tab, and let me know there if you have a chance to recruit some other assessors. I hope you are looking forward to another great semester working on this project. Drop me a line - ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 06:53, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Because I have noticed you commenting at the current RfC regarding Pending Changes, I wanted to invite you to the IRC channel for pending changes. If you are not customarily logged into the IRC, use this link. This under used resource can allow real time discussion at this particularly timely venture of the trial known as Pending Changes. Even if nothing can come from debating points there, at least this invitation is delivered with the best of intentions and good faith expectations. Kind regards. My76 Strat 08:38, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm okay with you unprotecting the page, because we're going to see a flood of anonymous exuberance in the next few hours. There's always an odd window when the product is being demoed and blogged about live, but before Apple.com updates and we have tangible information. In my experience, it's best to just let it go and clean it up later. This cleanup may or may not involve merging the content back into iPad; it's an editorial judgement we'll have to make over the next few days when we have reliable information, and I want you to be open to having it either way. Cheers, HereToHelp ( talk to me) 15:58, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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