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14:29, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Do you know the length of time between filling out the survey and getting a response? No problem is it is expected to take days, but I get use to password reset requests being instantaneous, so I wonder if it didn't work. I filled out my survey yesterday. If it normally takes a day or a few, I'll just wait.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 01:33, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Bummed to learn that I didn't get selected for a Credo account, but I still appreciate the work you do. I noticed that Credo is supposed to have images as well as articles. Was wondering if you could tell me if they have many (any?) portraits by Matthew Harris Jouett. That's one of the things I had hoped to look for had I gotten approved. All of Jouett's portraits are out of copyright because he's been dead a long time, but he painted lots of important Kentuckians, so I'm interested to find a large collection of his to find out which unillustrated articles I might be able to illustrate with them. Thanks, and hoping for your success in persuading Credo to offer a few more accounts. Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 14:22, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so match for your work! I'll activate the accounts on September. Bye! -- Pequod76 ( talk-ita.esp.eng) 14:38, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
hi.
sorry for my language speak. can you help persian wikipedia? Milad77 ( talk) 17:14, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello again. A couple of years ago, Mike Christie ( talk · contribs) did a pretty thorough copyedit on Bert T. Combs for me. In it, he mentioned a resource from Credo Reference that gave the date of Combs' first marriage, which was not in any other sources I had. After two successive Combs FACs crashed and burned, I lost interest in the article, so I didn't ask Mike to pass along the reference then. I'm thinking of giving it another crack now that I'm getting close to my goal of a Kentucky Governors featured topic, but Mike said he no longer has his Credo account and doesn't know the title of the resource he was referencing. Could you poke around a little and see what resources Credo may have on Combs? (BTW, a public domain image of him would be great, if one exists. He was in the military and was a federal judge for a while, so there might be one. That was one source of contention during the failed FACs.) If you'll contact me via the "Email this user" feature, I'll get you an email address to send them to. Thanks. BTW, if you don't have time, can you point me to another Credo-enabled editor that might be able to help? Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 14:27, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, with regards to the Credo account, how long does it take to receive the password after taking the survey? Samar Talk 14:49, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Long-winded, incoherent title from me, but that's what I do. There is an active effort to get a real collaboration going at Wikipedia talk:Today's article for improvement. As a lot of articles need basically referencing help, and the databank subscribers are among those with the best access to referencing sourceds, I was wondering if you think that there might be any way to nudge those who get the free databank subscriptions to get involved in some collaboration effort, maybe like the one above. John Carter ( talk) 16:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
What happens in instances such as User talk:Meowy? Lihaas ( talk) 04:04, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, first of all thank you for your work in getting these partnerships up. Last week, I was notified that my Credo account was approved. I filled in the Survey form but am yet to recieve my details. Is this normal? -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 12:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
I was awarded a Credo account a week ago. I filled out the survey as directed on my talk page, but I still haven't received an invitation to create a Credo account via e-mail. I've searched my spam for "Credo" and found nothing. Does it take longer than a week for the survey to get processed? Thanks. — TedPavlic ( talk/ contrib/ @) 15:19, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Sir, I submit my sincere thanks for providing us with the free Highbeam account. It is so kind of you. Once again thank for your tireless contributions to Wikipedia :) Keep going. Cheers. -- Bharathiya ( talk) 15:54, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the Highbeam account! :X AlleinStein ( talk) 16:47, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
I received a note that my HighBeam account is approved. I have sent you an email with my Wikipedia username. Please send me the access code. Thank you for the approval! -- XrieJetInfo ( talk) 18:09, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi I dropped in just to say thank you for the Highbeam account. Thanks a lot. रोहित रावत ( talk) 18:08, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
I´ll add my thank you for the HighBeam Account. I have activated it and think it will be very useful. iselilja 18:12, 30 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iselilja ( talk • contribs)
Thanks from me, too. I've had a chance to try Highbeam and it looks very useful. - Thoughtfortheday ( talk) 20:11, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the HighBeam Account! Hungda ( talk) 02:35, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Accept my thanks as well for the High Beam account.-- Vyom25 ( talk) 03:33, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi - a problem occured with my email inbox this morning. Can you resend the Highbeam notification to me, as the original was overwritten somehow in our system. Sorry to have to bother you. NealeFamily ( talk) 03:40, 31 August 2012 (UTC) Thanks NealeFamily ( talk) 03:53, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for notifying me about HighBeam account. I 've registered without problems. Thanks again for your help. -- Ttzavaras ( talk) 10:56, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Sir, Sorry to disturb you. As you are aware that the Wiki editors always differ on the subject of acceptance of references as WP:RS. My inquiry is that can we always take, consider and defend HighBeam references as reliable sources as per WP:RS or not?..Thanks. - Bharathiya ( talk) 03:22, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
BTW I have signed for Wikipedia Library Project. Probably the first one to sign. Thumbs Up. Thank you.. -- Bharathiya ( talk) 03:22, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Sir, Thank you for your kind clarification. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Cheers! -- Bharathiya ( talk) 03:34, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I've translated High Beam user access template into Hindi. Regards and thank you for the account, Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 10:29, 3 September 2012 (UTC).
Hi, I filled out the "survey" with my info and nothing has come - it's been a while. Any suggestions? I got the email notice from wikipedia the whole setup was in so that part is working and I didn't do anything tricky with the survey inputs and I've been watching the junk mail filtering.... Smkolins ( talk) 12:29, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
--The Olive Branch 19:20, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I didn't realize that I was the 441st most frequent contributor at WP:ANI. Is that a lot? But I don't remember subscribing to a newsletter of any kind. I do try to help resolve problems, when I can, but I'm not at all active in the WP:DR process. It seems very odd that I would be automatically added to a newsletter's list- or that I would even need to 'opt out' of such a list. I feel unpleasantly spammed at. I would have preferred that you create your newsletter as an opt-in newsletter, like the WP:SIGNPOST. To be honest, I prefer to use my talk page for talk, and follow Wikipedia news through my watchlist. - FisherQueen ( talk · contribs) 19:47, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) I can't help but notice the irony that a dispute has arisen over a dispute resolution newsletter. :) Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 20:13, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
--The Olive Branch 18:58, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Which is a good thing (how it should have been done to begin with) but I was a little disturbed to see you informing someone who'd opted out on their talk page that this is now the case. Please tell me you are not now spamming people telling them you will no longer be spamming them. KillerChihuahua ?!? 21:38, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi. I just wanted to drop a thank-you for all the work you do with Highbeam, Credo, and all that other research stuff. Looks like you could use a kind word today - so ...... Thanks. :) — Ched : ? 22:01, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the Credo accout! Mugginsx ( talk) 22:17, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?
Did not find a place to vote on this but I definitely agree. Mugginsx ( talk) 22:21, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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For your great newsletter, The Olive Branch! I love it! Electric Catfish 21:05, 4 September 2012 (UTC) |
(They gave this to me, but you deserve the credit for the newsletter as you wrote it and all. Thanks again - sorry this whole invite thing got out of hand.) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 23:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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For managing to stay cool and resolve the situation with the newsletter, despite throngs of angry torch and pitchfork-wielding Wikipedians angrily knocking at your door. Everyone screws up here from time to time. Sometimes it's a little screw up, sometimes it's a big one. Whichever one you feel this one was, I think you handled it in exemplary fashion. Trusilver 04:26, 5 September 2012 (UTC) |
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Sir, Thank you for everything you do for/on Wiki and keep it Up...We all need your support...God Bless you..Cheers! Bharathiya ( talk) 04:35, 5 September 2012 (UTC) |
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Your sincerity in responding to complaints about matters regarding the notification to users about the new newsletter Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution Improvement Project/Newsletter that you created is commendable. Furthermore, thanks for taking the initiative to create the newsletter, and also the The Wikipedia Library. It's clear that your intentions are to improve Wikipedia. Northamerica1000 (talk) 11:16, 5 September 2012 (UTC) |
Just popping in to thank you for showing leadership in respect of this new newsletter. I'm hard pressed to suggest that I'm not involved in dispute resolution. :-) I don't guarantee to comment on the articles (or even read them!), but it's good to know that this effort is being made. Risker ( talk) 16:32, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
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Good job at staying cool and dealing with other editors' concerns, whether civilly expressed or otherwise. My hat's off to you. Van Isaac WS Vex contribs 05:01, 6 September 2012 (UTC) |
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My Credo account still has not been activated – MrX 16:12, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the awesome welcome
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Hi Ocaasi, Thank you for the sources on notability of Kumar Parakala in AFD discussion. Can you please help edit the article and point out how should the references be included. 27.34.241.154 ( talk) 04:43, 27 September 2012 (UTC)Priyanka Lewis
Hi Ocaasi. I filled out the survey form a little while back, but I must have made an error because I still have not received any details by email. When I click on the survey link it simply tells me that I have completed the survey, but doesn't allow me to check the details. Can you look into this for me? Regards SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:11, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know, and thanks for chasing it up. I'll let you know when I get a response. SilkTork ✔Tea time 20:02, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
I've got it! Thanks for looking into it. SilkTork ✔Tea time 10:58, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
Do you still want review of these? If so, I'll try to find somebody to take a look at them. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:03, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi GLAM PMA folks! I wanted to update you about some recent events related to our fantastic Museum. I met Jessica Milby, PMA Collections Information Project Manager, at Wikimania in July. Jessica was looking for ways to improve articles on Wikipedia about the Museum and its artists/collections. We followed up a few weeks later at the Perelman Building in downtown Philadelphia where we discussed ways to increase participation in the GLAM/PMA project.
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It's exciting to have a partner in Jessica Milby and there should be a lot of good work coming out the collaboration within the next 3-6 months. Please stop by the GLAM/PMA project page and leave your thoughts. What ideas do you have? How can we move forward on the above projects? I Hope you're all well. Cheers! Ocaasi 19:05, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for getting involved with PMA/Glam. I've been super busy with WLM-US, but recognize that we need to move forward with the PMA articles. Do please let me know what I can do (especially after Oct. 7)! Smallbones( smalltalk) 19:13, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, It's a good idea to have offered to be Blake Bailey's contact with Wikipedia. I don't think he really has a COI on Roth material because I believe he is going beyond Roth in his sourcing and isn't writing a hagiography. I just hope that no clown starts slapping warning for editing his own BLP.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 22:08, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
See if this works for you. Kaldari ( talk) 23:31, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Trying out this mechanism...
Dear Ocassi,
Thanks for the e-mail. I hope you don't mind my responding here; I prefer to keep correspondence on-wiki unless there are pressing reasons for confidentiality.
Don't worry about the mass mailing problem; I'm sure you had the best of intentions and am glad that the issue has now been fixed.
Regarding your queries, yes and no, respectively—I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Reddit. (I've heard of it but don't know anything about it.)
Regards, Psychonaut
Please tell me what I'm missing. I just got my Credo account. I did advanced searches on many subjects I've needed information on. Listings on the NRHP properties, biographies, sculpture, etc. And on every one, it came up empty. Quite frankly, I've run those same searches on Google books and at least come up with a phrase or two about the subject. Credo seems to be good at coming up with information about subjects that are already well known. i.e., author Robert Louis Stevenson. Now that I have it, I'm not sure what the big deal is.
Maile66 (
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Ocaasi, please see Dr. Blofeld's comment at User_talk:Maile66#Credo. Is it possible for my relinquished Credo account to go to User:Nvvchar? Maile66 ( talk) 10:57, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Ocassi, How should I respond to this message? I have already listed myself on the 'give back your CREDO acct' list.
Re: Credo account. Thanks so very much! Please see my Talk Page. Mugginsx ( talk) 15:42, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Missed the opt-in opt-out drama, because I don't follow the bot boards much. But I think you did a good job, and fixed the problems quickly. People really need to get their eye back on the ball. I look forward to DR actually improving with a focus for discussion.
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Farmbrough, 12:16, 14 September 2012 (UTC).
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Hi. I'd like to bring your attention to a new learning project in Wikiversity. As you have been involved with the discussion on the wikipedia Parkinson's disease page I felt you might be interested in looking at the project and perhaps even contributing material to it. Please see my Talk page, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:Droflet#The_Science_Behind_Parkinson.27s_learning_project , the subpage, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:Droflet/ProjectDescription or the project itself , http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:The_Science_Behind_Parkinson%27s . It would be great if you could bring the project to the attention of others who might be interested in helping us develop it. Thanks.
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Good news! You are approved for access to 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, newspaper articles, and encyclopedia entries. Check your Wikipedia email!
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Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi EdwardsBot ( talk) 05:10, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
hi. i've fixed the wikipedia e-mail now. ~thanks, -- Soman ( talk) 07:15, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Sir, thanks a lot for free Questia Account. Again Hat's up to you. Thank you for everything you do and contribute to Wikipedia and its editors. You're the most valuable asset of/on Wikipedia. Cheers :) -- Bharathiya ( talk) 14:15, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
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I suspect you'll be getting a lot of wiki-love in the next several days as folks begin using their awesome new Questia accounts. Have a Bluegrass Barnstar from Wikipedia's resident Kentucky geek. I've already used Questia to buff and polish my next FAC. It is proving way more helpful than Highbeam, although I appreciate that one too. Keep up the amazing work in helping content creators get access to much-needed resources about lesser-known subjects. Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 15:06, 19 September 2012 (UTC) |
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As Acdixon gives the Kentucky barnstar, why not have the Baseball Barnstar as well for helping us in the Baseball Wikiproject have access to one of the sources we can. Secret account 07:24, 21 September 2012 (UTC) |
What a wonderful collection Questia has on the topic of baseball history, as most of the academic books that is written on that subject, is either printed, or reprinted from a respectable University Press publishing company, most of whom Questia works with. While I have a few of these books in my private library already, many of them that Questia has, are nearly impossible to find or too costly in flawless condition to bother getting it. I even found four books that was required for my classes in the university in Questia! Now if you can convince Paper of Record to give Wikipedians access to their The Sporting News archives, that would be amazing. If that's the case expect hundreds of featured articles written about baseball in the next year or so.
On a serious note if it wasn't for the Questia access, I probably would have burned out from the project within a few months as I was getting frustrating on how the project was heading, and how they treat their top content contributors, that so many of them left or became inactive lately, especially in key areas like medicine, and humanities (though astrology seems to be making a comeback here), and we still have our top popular culture writers producing GAs and FAs in droves. For the past six months or so, my editing had been reduced to just checking my huge watchlist daily, which mainly consists of reverting junk from high profile hip hop artists BLPs, or finding out what's new in sports AFDs or in RFAs. That might have been fun when I was younger, but everyday I seemed to get more annoyed with each poor edit that comes up, and when I try to focus on something else in the project, like major article writing ( Doug Ault, Don Larsen, Eddie Bennett, etc) or cleaning out junk from categories, I kinda give up after a day or two as my watchlist gets extremely long of unchecked edits again. I grown too mature for it, not to mention how it impacted my health as I was wasting my time checking my watchlist instead of doing something more productive with my life, like working out or sleeping early. I was first suspicious of Questia as my University had no access to it, and I was hoping it wasn't a HighBeam type of source, while its amazing for current topics, HighBeam was truly lacking anything prior to the late 1980s. With Questia and any other resource, I could go back to my original intentions helping out with my speciality on the history of baseball and its colorful players, and start expanding new articles for myself and future Wikipedians to enjoy. So thank you and the websites for giving me, and all the other article writers who contribute their time to this project, this truly special opportunity. I will volunteer to help out with the Wikipedia Library project as well.
One last thing I noticed you aren't a administrator, I'm curious to know why you haven't attempted an RFA yet. You clearly need the tools in handy based on your OTRS work, and the monumental Wikipedia Library project you helping create. The community will agree with me there. Thanks Secret account 07:24, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Have you contacted http://newspaperarchive.com/ by any chance? I think it could potentially be the most valuable research tool with 120 million papers. I think newspaper archives are probably the best ones we can get. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ also would be highly valuable. Dr. Blofeld 13:21, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
I thank you for the communication regarding allotment of Questia account. As before, I've translate the Questia user template into Hindi at this link. Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 10:32, 24 September 2012 (UTC).
Thanks for your continued support in helping me get off the ground! GT67 ( talk) 16:43, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
This edition The Olive Branch is focusing on a 2nd dispute resolution RfC. Two significant proposals have been made. Below we describe the background and recent progress and detail those proposals. Please review them and follow the link at the bottom to comment at the RfC. We need your input!
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Until late 2003, Jimmy Wales was the arbiter in all major disputes. After the Mediation Committee and the Arbitration Committee were founded, Wales delegated his roles of dispute resolution to these bodies. In addition to these committees, the community has developed a number of informal processes of dispute resolution. At its peak, over 17 dispute resolution venues existed. Disputes were submitted in each venue in a different way. Due to the complexity of Wikipedia dispute resolution, members of the community were surveyed in April 2012 about their experiences with dispute resolution. In general, the community believes that dispute resolution is too hard to use and is divided among too many venues. Many respondents also reported their experience with dispute resolution had suffered due to a shortage of volunteers and backlogging, which may be due to the disparate nature of the process. An evaluation of dispute resolution forums was made in May this year, in which data on response and resolution time, as well as success rates, was collated. This data is here.
Leading off from the survey in April and the evaluation in May, several changes to dispute resolution noticeboard (DRN) were proposed. Rather than using a wikitext template to bring disputes to DRN, editors used a new javascript form. This form was simpler to use, but also standardised the format of submissions and applied a word limit so that DRN volunteers could more easily review disputes. A template to summarise, and a robot to maintain the noticeboard, were also created. As a result of these changes, volunteers responded to disputes in a third of the time, and resolved them 60% faster when compared to May. Successful resolution of disputes increased by 17%. Submissions were 25% shorter by word count.(see Dispute Resolution Noticeboard Statistics - August compared to May) Outside of DRN other simplification has taken place. The Mediation Cabal was closed in August, and Wikiquette assistance was closed in September. Nevertheless, around fifteen different forums still exist for the resolution of Wikipedia disputes.
Given the success of the past efforts at DR reform, the current RFC proposes we implement: 1) A submission gadget for every DR venue tailored to the unique needs of that forum.
2) A universal dispute resolution wizard, accessible from Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.
3) Additionally, we're seeking any ideas on how we can attract and retain more dispute resolution volunteers. |
Please share your thoughts at the RfC.
--The Olive Branch 18:43, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
I am facing little trouble to add Questia citation. For example, I want to cite page 2–4 here, but, unlike Google Books, it does not have unique URL for every page. So, the link will take you to the main page. And I also can't find quick way to get ISBN of a book! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 23:08, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, never got the email that was predicted in the message on my talk page. Faulty bot? Tony (talk) 03:48, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
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Emailed you on a SP [Signpost] matter. Tony (talk) 15:35, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Will this be the last interview? If so, I think this is needed, and we may need to find another word for "ongoing". :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:17, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
I noticed that you placed some citation needed tags on the 1-800-GET-THIN article. I couldn't agree more, and further, I think the entire article is confusing and needs help. If you like, you can review my comments on the article's talk page. I'd appreciate your thoughts on how to reconcile the issues I've addressed. Thanks! Rinkle gorge ( talk) 23:48, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
I meant to thank you for arranging the free Questia and Highbeam accounts. I don't know how you did that, but I am very grateful; I had been paying for both out of my own pocket for years. As for the other conversation we're just having elsewhere, on the relationship between paid editing and the lack of a working complaints system, please note User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Brainstorming:_How_can_we_improve_the_Wikipedia_complaints_system.3F. -- Andreas J N 466 16:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
15:39, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
I have not gotten much use from my Credo 250 research account, and am currently editing Wikipedia much less than I had been. What is the procedure for donating this account? Please reply on my talk page or via email, whichever you prefer. / edg ☺ ☭ 17:57, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
I have tried to explain to a new editor how to go about making controversial changes at the chiropractic article, however, I have been unsuccessful! WOuld you please be willing to help explain to him/her how they are violating policy with these [1] changes? Puhlaa ( talk) 15:44, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, friend. Could you please send me the full versions of this, this, and this from JSTOR? If you don't still have my email address, just "email user", and I'll send it to you again. Thanks. Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 18:19, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I thought I'd ask your opinion on an issue I've seen recently, since you're an experienced editor and I think I should trust your judgement. On the page concerning the Death of Mark Duggan a number of editors have been pushing in the term "black man" and "black people" in ways that make me very uncomfortable with the article, especially since some (not all) of these editors appear to favor the police when it comes to understanding what happened. I might be totally wrong on this, in which case I should leave off. I can't tell if my sensitivity regarding the race question is way off base and just a personal issue. There is one other problem I thought of asking you about regarding the Houla massacre but I suspect it's more straightforward, and I'll probably have to take it to dispute resolution. Thanks, - Darouet ( talk) 15:03, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocassi. Per this discussion, would you be able to send:
Hi
I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.
Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.
Hope to see you there! -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 05:24, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
to this list for me with Edward's Bot, or show me how to do it if I'm allowed to? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 05:24, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for trying. James and I have already notified Wikiproject Medicine several times, and the active regulars there are all pretty aware of WM:MED, it was the medical editors who aren't regulars on that talk page that I was wanting to notify. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 20:01, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Regarding your question on the incidents noticeboard about the message you sent out, I noticed that the link in the message, being a bare URL, got linked to WP:COI and not the page you wanted to notify people about. I don't know if the message went out that way; you may wish to double-check. isaacl ( talk) 15:44, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Sorry if it seems like I'm pestering you, but I really would appreciate your input on our WP:Conflict of interest/draft rewrite. Someone who has put as much thought into the issue as you would be an extremely valuable resource. Gigs ( talk) 14:11, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Ocaasi, I'm disappointed with the way you're proceeding with your proposal, particularly userfying it to prevent others from editing it. If the situation continues, I will consider beginning dispute resolution between us, though I hope that can be avoided.
As I see it, you are misdescribing the current guideline, misdescribing your proposal, and hiding it all within hundreds of words of verbiage that you must know people are unlikely to read carefully. When others arrive to edit, you userfy it to prevent those edits, yet you intend to present your version to the Signpost as though it's a regular proposal, for an RfC in which you alone will draft questions that give no indication of the seriousness of what you are suggesting. This is very poor form. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:52, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
[2] Especially the last one. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 19:43, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I had thoughts about identifying and processing paid content and paid editors at User:Lexein/Paid content tax. My notion is that potential promo should be taxed at the same rate as new articles from brand new editors with no track record, and paid editors, as professionals, can afford such a tax, as well as permanent identification in categories. This may fit in with COI+ (though I still prefer COIP - COI paid). Calling all the procedures part of the tax is a preemption of complaints. -- Lexein ( talk) 15:06, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Since your successes with Questia et al., I wondered: have you approached NewsBank? They seem to have a lot of smaller papers "locked up" behind a paywall. Cheers. (We can disagree about details of COI editor and content management, but can agree on this). Lexein ( talk) 05:05, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
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Hi Ocaasi, I have finally seen your message on my talk page. I no longer use my Credo account and would like it to be reassigned to someone else, if possible. Karanacs ( talk) 22:13, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi - is there any update on HighBeam round six? Also Questia and Credo? Thanks. Tvoz/ talk 08:48, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Ocaasi! I saw your message and I checked more than twice my gmail account but I cannot find the email with my Credo activation code... Being sysop on itwiki, I am registered in some of the local newsletter, therefore I receive many messages on this account. Maybe I deleted the email by mistake, or it is gone in the spam filter... Do you know if it is possible to receive a copy of the activation code? Thank you very much for any advice! ;) -- Lucas ( talk) 03:46, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
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See you there!
-- EpochFail( talk| work) 22:44, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
I've seen your name around, no doubt about it, but have we ever interacted? We seem to have similar interests when it comes to articles: for instance, I was the original creator of Bahraini uprising (2011–present), [3] essentially started the Human rights in Qatar article back in 2008, and I've made several contributions to Arab Spring-related content. I feel as if we may have crossed paths at some point or another, but I don't really remember it if we did (and by all accounts, my long-term memory is considered exceptional). Just so you're aware, I formerly edited under the monicker "Master&Expert". Kurtis (talk) 12:17, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
You, my friend, are naughty for not telling me about your RFA :-( Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 04:41, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi. I came across your RfA by chance and wanted to say congratulations!! Even though you haven't been awarded admin status yet, the outcome looks pretty obvious. Nice work! I keep hearing how awful and grueling the RFA process is, so such unanimous support seems like quite an achievement. CorporateM ( Talk) 22:32, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
While replying, do it via email not editing through your user page on my talk page, Thank You Greatuser ( t@lk) My edits 15:15, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Congratulations on becoming a sysop. Now take your mop and start scrubbing the toilets. There's vomit. ~~ Ebe 123~~ → report 01:32, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Congratulations, I have just closed your RfA as successful and made you an administrator. Take a look at the administrators' how-to guide and the administrators' reading list if you haven't read those already. Also, the practice exercises at the new admin school may be useful. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch on my talk page. WJBscribe (talk) 01:31, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
A very belated congratulations; not just running the gauntlet in these maybe-broken-RfA times, but even being the first of 2013. Very well deserved. Cheers, WWB Too ( Talk · COI) 14:54, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
I used a book Romans: From Village to Empire in a number of new articles I wrote. I have a real copy, but provided a link to the google books page for the book so there was an online link. I found the book on Questia. Would it be preferable to add a link to questia instead of google books? I didn't actually access it using questia, so I don't exactly know how to apply WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT. Ryan Vesey 23:07, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I was wondering if you could tell me the current status of the Wikipedia:Turnitin project. It sounds really interesting. Thanks! - ʈucoxn\ talk 04:23, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your appreciation re the editing-it's the busiest edit (tidy-up actually as are most of my edits) I've ever done, quite a dance to get it down. I hope I didn't give you any trouble-you've done a lot for the article, as are others. It's something to remember Aaron Swartz by - gone much too soon. He did a lot right, but... Cheers matey! DadaNeem ( talk) 06:27, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Is anyone still working on The Wikipedia Adventure? Sage Ross (WMF) is working on Wikipedia:Training and you might want to see what he's doing there. -- Pine ✉ 21:07, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
My email hates me today. I made a page User:Canoe1967/Raw text or link that may work and left a note at wp:rx. I will remove any text after I have expanded the article, if it does help. I won't copyvio. Should the link to that notice board be put at the top of some Highbeam pages so others can find it?-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 22:30, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Regarding this article: Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch. Can someone please italicize the name/title of the article? I have tried a million things, and nothing seems to work. You can check the edit history of that article, to see what I have tried. Thanks! ( Joseph A. Spadaro ( talk) 22:46, 2 June 2011 (UTC))
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Hi Ocaasi. Do you know when/if is the next round of fulfilling Highbeam applications? I noticed they were given out each month in July/August and have trailed off since. I might just purchase one - they seem to have a lot of articles I need. CorporateM 14:57, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Stopping by to follow-up on this - I see you've been busy (good luck with the RfA - it's looking good), but I thought I'd check in here. Hoping these will come through soon! Cheers Tvoz/ talk 06:04, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Friendly reminder to get Questia going too. Thanks! -- JFH ( talk) 15:45, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Much appreciate your help with High Beam--not to mention your very successful efforts to set up that resource for all the editors. Great work! EMP ( talk 18:20, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
Triple! thanks Tvoz/ talk 21:09, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the generous welcome to Wikipedia. I hope my contributions will help make Wikipedia the prime resource for information for generations to come. Ukspacecadets ( talk) 16:36, 19 January 2013 (UTC) |
Interesting question you brought up, Ocaasi! I found some helpful material in Black’s Law Dictionary (9th ed. 2009):
publish. To distribute copies (of a work) to the public.
publication. 2.Copyright term. The offering or distribution of copies of a work to the public.
Fifteen of the court filings for the federal case are indeed published, on electronic databases like Westlaw. The latest one being Defendant’s Reply in Support of Motion To Dismiss Counts 1 & 2 of Superseding Indictment, United States v. Swartz, [Docket] No. 11-CR-10260, [database identifier] 2012 WL [Westlaw] 6210355 (Dec. 3, 2012).
The documents are offered to the public. So we can consider them published. But you do have to buy a plan. Too bad Aaron didn’t... (Ouch!! Sorry!!!)
With my plan I get to look at the header and 100 words of text, but that’s all I can afford. To most of the public, the documents are practically unavailable.
Likely none of the filings for the state case are published in any of the commercial electronic databases. But a few are readily available on the Internet. And it looks like the authorities do count that as publication!
In The Bluebook: A Uniform System of [Legal] Citation (19th ed. 2010), Rule 10.8.1(d) (“Other pending and unreported cases”) says, “Cases that are not available … on electronic databases may be cited to services [topical compilations], periodicals, or the Internet (rule 18.2.2).”
Rule 18.2.2 (“Direct Citations to Internet Sources”) says, “An Internet source may be cited directly when it does not exist in a traditional printed format or when a traditional printed source exists but cannot be found or is so obscure that it is practically unavailable.”
Internet sources, most preferred to least preferred:
1. Authenticated or official Internet source.
2. Unaltered scanned copy of official print source.
3. (Unofficial but stable) online-only source.
4. Dynamic webpage, such as a blog.
5. Online source requiring a form or query.
Also, it doesn’t seem to matter much who the (re)publisher is.
Dervorguilla ( talk) 05:48, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
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Looks like we’re covered.
1.3 Examples
_ A transcript … of a … court trial
_ A webpage on the Internet
Dervorguilla ( talk) 18:36, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
Thank you for visiting my profile. Have a great experience in Wikipedia.
By, Writeindia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Writeindia ( talk • contribs) 13:05, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Greatly look forward to being involved with this, since so many scholarly articles on opera are invaluable resources for some of the more obscure primo ottocento era opera by composers such as Donizetti and Rossini, even early Verdi. Viva-Verdi ( talk) 18:41, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the good news. The message says " Check your Wikipedia email! Then go to..."
I checked my mail but there is no message in my inbox. Should I be more patient and wait for a while or ....? -- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 19:02, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
In case you need to know - me too on no email re Questia. Thanks! Tvoz/ talk 21:08, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Ocaasi, see http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/german-community-project-about-paid-editing-starts/
The Signpost ought to cover this as well, in my view. Would you be interested in getting in touch with Dirk, who runs this project? He's created a RL name account for his work on this project, and the best talk page to get hold of him for this is http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Dirk_Franke#Signpost
Best, Andreas JN 466 23:27, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 08:49, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Happy New Year and Happy Editing ! Have a good day ! Mike Coppolano ( talk) 10:31, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Who are you working with in UPenn for the Wikipedia adventure (mentioned at Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure/Timeline)? Ryan Vesey 21:27, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Yes, I didn't receive the email. My preferences allow the email sending/receiving. Do I have to wait or send some request to someone? Thanks ;) -- Lucas ( talk) 14:46, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I'm going to expand "AIDS" in Persian Wikipedia and probably make it FA. Since there are a few Farsi RS about AIDS, I have to translate the English article with all the citations. But first of all I must ascertain whether the citations are really correct or not, it means that I should check all of the sources and verify its contents. I don't know how I can access to the journals, and most of the references are journals, would you please guide me how to access them? Regards ● Mehran Debate● 18:50, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 20:05, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Everything's ok now. Thanks for your help. Octave.H ( talk) 01:01, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
I've been making some progress on Snuggle development recently and I could use your feedback. Specifically, I've created a work log that I plan to update every time I get a chance to work on Snuggle. My intention is that you'll be able to watch that page to track my progress so I can get your feedback on features when they are early in development. The most recent entry (also the only entry) discusses new functionality for interacting with newcomers via Snuggle. I posted some mockups in the work log that show how I imagine the new features to work and I could use some feedback before I start writing the code. Thanks! -- EpochFail( talk • work) 20:30, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for awarding me the Great Question Badge at the TeaHouse! Cheers! Zalunardo8 ( talk) 12:13, 29 January 2013 (UTC) |
That's right. You did. :) Even if it wasn't exactly solving issues on the Wishlist.
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Cheers! — madman 02:21, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the WikiLove you gave me on my talk page. If I can bug you with one additional question, I notice that you have a template to display WikiLove you receive on your main user page. Is there a place where the template for that is posted? I'd like to try to use it myself. Once again, thank you so much. Reinana kyuu ( talk) 13:33, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the wikilove and for helping me get the barnometer code on my page! There was no way I wouldn't give you something in return. Reinana kyuu ( talk) 02:23, 31 January 2013 (UTC) |
Great job here. [5] Sometimes trenches like this go unnoticed, but they're very much appreciated by those in the medical community who lend their time, energy and emotions to making Wikipedia the best it can be. DVMt ( talk) 04:58, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments and encouragement. I will take another look at the article's talk page and possibly post something there, per your suggestion, and go from there. Thanks again! Gershtenblurber ( talk) 02:04, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I have just sent you an email re the above. Rangoon11 ( talk) 22:47, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
Thanks for signing up to join the Individual Engagement Grants Committee, it will be fun, I promise! It is my pleasure to confirm your
membership. We’ve got a lot to accomplish together, particularly during the next
6 weeks, and it will be awesome to have your help. Here is how to get started:
To make your membership official, please do 2 things by February 11th:
Then there are 2 first tasks' for active committee members to start on right away:
Our formal review of proposals starts February 22nd. I’ll be posting information about scoring and selection of proposals on the committee mailing list and in the Workroom soon, so please keep an eye there!
Thanks again for joining this new grantmaking program...I hope we’re going to see some amazing impact from these grants! :-) Siko (WMF) ( talk) 06:24, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanna thank you personally for awarding me The Great Question Badge for my Question in the Teahouse!!! That was my 1st badge, not that I wanna collect loads of them, but the 1st means a lot... I was mistaken about senior editors, U guys are actually the nicest guys to deal with... I also wanted to know if you do take up User Adoption... Cause I was searching for one... Anyways, Thanks a lot, U made my Wikipedia experience a lot more meaningful!!!!
And like I said-
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This one's for your judgement, kindness and generosity!!! Ajayupai95 ( talk) 09:05, 7 February 2013 (UTC) |
For the sake of wiki, love and WikiLove !!! bc-ndra ( talk) 11:34, 7 February 2013 (UTC) |
HI Ocaasi! Thanks for checking in at chiropractic. I couldn't use either Palmer picture because of the religious and dogmatic that was their "philosophy" which has been rejected by the majority of mixers. I reasoned that because the topic itself must be NPOV, as well as the rest of the article, I chose an image that is universally recognized as philosophy. The image also nicely 'stylizes' the page, enhancing readability. Would you be opposed if I re-inserted it based on my above rationale? Regards, DVMt ( talk) 01:43, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I left some questions there. (Some it.wiki editors asked me the same things.) Thanks, Nemo 08:57, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks again! Ocaasi 01:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi! As a previous editor at chiropractic (and a major helping hand (haha)) to me personally, I would appreciate if you have the time to take a peek at the re-write. Any comments, suggestions, criticisms are welcomed. Hope you're having a good weekend. Regards, DVMt ( talk) 02:04, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
By some of the other questions in the Teahouse, I think I might have more of a wild west approach to Wikipedia. I'm not sure I want to ask this in the Teahouse, but, I created a page for Dan P. McAdams a few weeks ago and I noticed an outside link to his wikipedia page that predated my page creation, which might mean he had a wikipedia page that got deleted. So, two questions, 1) is there any way to find out if there once was a page, but it got deleted. 2) How should I have gone about creating a page for Dan P. McAdams?
On the other hand, every time I get a miss in the WP search, it invited me to create a page.
Bodysurfinyon ( talk) 00:50, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, today I tried to activate my 1-year Questia account with a code I got in an e-mail from early january. The problem is that the website rejects my code and states "We encountered a problem. We could not find a promotion matching the promotion code you provided.". I'm pretty sure I didn't already create an account with that code. Could you help me? Thanks. -- Manjel ( talk) 18:13, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at Wikipedia talk:Editor engagement experiments's talk page. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:19, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
You mentioned you were interested in Kurzweil, etc. I massively edited the article on his book The Singularity is Near over the last 2 weeks, I posted here asking for feedback, since I didn't hear anything at all while editing or posting to the talk page. I don't know if anyone is paying attention to that page. Some of the old content was from 2005, so I'm nervous was I wrong to remove it, etc. since I'm still new. Eventually I'd like to improve the article up to 'C' level, it's not there yet but hopefully is on the way. Any comment as far as what I did so far (good or bad), and suggestions of what I should do next. Thanks! Silas Ropac ( talk) 18:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Do you have OpenAthens on your radar, for The Wikipedia Library? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:24, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
As a new admin, I hope that I can encourage you to take a stab at closing a dozen of the RM backlog requests. The way WP:RM is set up, requests can be closed at any time, but are not intended to remain open for longer than seven days, meaning that all should be closed before they reach the WP:RM#Backlog. In other words, after the backlog is cleared out, standard procedure should be to close all of the requests just before they reach the backlog. In some cases, though, this means relisting, which also should be done before reaching the backlog. Closing instructions are at WP:RMCI. If each new admin closes a few requests the backlog can be cleared. Apteva ( talk) 04:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Where would you like me to send you a reply? I want to give you a well thought out considered and considerate reply, so I will probably get back to you tonite (west us time) after the tike goes to bed. Gtwfan52 ( talk) 22:46, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Ocaasi, please stop trying to create facts on the ground. It's reaching a point that I really find unacceptable. If you want paid advocacy to be allowed in some fashion, the place to start is by arguing in favour of changing the guideline, WP:COI, not by creating POV forks. I would really appreciate it if you would focus on doing that, if you feel change is something that would be supported. SlimVirgin (talk) 01:36, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
I'd like to hear that idea. Also, just to explain a language discrepancy that keeps coming up: I see a distinction between a) a "paid advocate", in other words a PR/corporate rep-- the editor... and b) "paid advocacy"--promotional/biased editing by a paid advocate. A PR/corporate rep still has a financial COI and neutrality will be a challenge for them, but in my reading they are not guilty of advocacy until they actually do something non-neutral. Anyway, that's how I use the term and it partly explains our discrepancy. That is why I frequently just use "PR/corporate rep" rather than editor/advocate, because it keeps the distinction. I think you think I'm playing doublespeak because I don't consider PR/Corporate reps automatically under paid advocacy, and that is the reason why I don't. I say this knowing that the Public Relations Society of America ethical code of conduct requires advocacy, yet it still seems like a meaningful difference to me, and I know several others who have commented in the most recent COI RfC. For many Wikipedians neutrality is a property that lies in the edit, not the editor. This is a defensible position, even if it's one that you do not hold, because you view certain editors as inherently "advocactes" just by their external relationships. Let's keep clearing that up so we can provide guidance. Ocaasi t | c 04:15, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Yunshui 雲 水 08:58, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your appreciation of my question, however I can't now recall what the question was and can't find it anywhere. Could you please remind me? Jodosma ( talk) 20:06, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks again for appearing on the discussion panel at Social Media Week NYC; it was a great conversation and I'm glad you were part of it! WWB Too ( Talk · COI) 13:01, 26 February 2013 (UTC) |
It's been a full year since the Teahouse opened, and as we're reflecting on what's been accomplished, we wanted to celebrate with you.
Teahouse guests and hosts are sharing their stories in a new blog post about the project.
1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:
Metric | Control group | Teahouse group | Contrast |
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Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit) | 5.02 weeks | 8.57 weeks | 1.7x retention |
Average number of articles edited | 58.7 articles | 116.9 edits | 2.0x articles edited |
Average talk page edits | 36.5 edits | 85.6 edits | 2.4x talk page edits |
Average article space edits | 129.6 edits | 360.4 edits | 2.8x article edits |
Average total edits (all namespaces) | 182.1 edits | 532.4 edits | 2.9x total edits |
Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper
Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.
Come by the Teahouse to share a cup of tea and enjoy a Birthday Cupcake! Happy Birthday to the Teahouse and thank you for a year's worth of interest and support :-)
About statistics related to "Number of edits per..." etc. It seems to me that this kind of stat may have little significance in cases where churlish/childish/puerile or just lazy editors may simply edit their own sandboxes etc., over and over again, just to increase their total number of edits for whatever reason. Jodosma ( talk) 21:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
It's been an exciting year for the Teahouse and you were a part of it. Thanks so much for visiting, asking questions, sharing answers, being friendly and helpful, and just keeping Teahouse an awesome place. You can read more about the impact we're having and the reflections of other guests and hosts like you. Please come by the Teahouse to celebrate with us, and enjoy this sparkly cupcake badge as our way of saying thank you. And, Happy Birthday!
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From the first months, through its first birthday, you have stuck with the Teahouse, nurtured its community, learned and helped, shared and improved. Simply put, the Teahouse would not be what it is without you. Stick around, because we need your lovely attitudes, sincere dedication, sharp minds, crafty design, caring reform, technical wits, and good humor. Display this delicious badge with honor, for you are a Teahouse Founder.
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Hey Ocaasi! Your work at the Wikipedia Teahouse is really amazing! I hereby award you this Barnstar for your tireless efforts and also for you really deserve it! Thanks again and keep it up my bro! Thanks again. ;) Mediran ( t • c) 09:05, 28 February 2013 (UTC) |
Hi Ocaasi,
Thank you for contacting me on this issue. My main reason for rephrasing the hatnote was to remove the extraneous links; according to Wikipedia guidelines, only Realism (arts) is an appropriate link for a hatnote on the Aesthetic Realism article. My hatnote was not intended to be a commentary on Aesthetic Realism in any way. If your concern is with respect to how the subject of the Realism (arts) article is to be summarized in the hatnote, I would be glad to rephrase. How about "the attempt to represent subject matter while avoiding artistic conventions"?
Neelix ( talk) 17:55, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the great question badge! I plan to join you guys for a cup of tea everytime I feel lost or unsure while editing haha. Also your user page is awesome. Keep up the great work! CityMorgue ( talk) 19:38, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Research status on manual and manipulative therapy. Hi Ocaasi! I've asked you and several other editors I trust to take a peek here [6]. It's a revised update on the effectiveness and safety of manipulative therapy. You can definitely help with language issues or potential bias. Would love to hear from you. Regards, DVMt ( talk) 04:05, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
I think that the draft is fair, except I would say that it is inaccurate to suggest that the 2012 RFC had any impact on current policy beyond failing to come to any consensus, leaving the prior policy and guidelines in place.
As for useful, I have disabused myself of any notion that consensus can be reached on COI policy because there are too many competing agendas out there and too many editors and administrators whose agenda appears to be simply assuring that no consensus is reached.
Thanks for soliciting my input. Fladrif ( talk) 19:02, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
t | c 20:46, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Well that depends on their contributions. If they correct errors, that could be useful, or if they provide sources that are appropriate but lacking. I don't advise pharma folks to go around editing the articles on their own medications. But if they propose suggestions on talk pages and contribute neutral, well-written content, then it gives us the opportunity to evaluate whether or not it's in fact an improvement and a reflection of the best available secondary literature on the medications. Great care is needed in the selection and presentation of sources, of course, as many individual primary studies or even single meta-analyses would not convey a full view of the current literature. So, again, it depends on the caliber of the contributions and how they align with our policies. I generally point those editors to WP:MEDRS and tell them to exercise great care and deference in how they approach our community. So, in short, if a corporate communicator presents a draft which is better sourced, more informative, and as or more neutral than the current version, then it gives us the opportunity to improve the article. That's the best case scenario. Typically an obvious attempt to whitewash an article is rebuffed and results in backlash, so I advise folks not to go down that path. Then there are gray area questions, such as how much coverage to give to one aspect of the article or another, and those as always need editorial discretion to get right. Ocaasi t | c 22:15, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Slim, I've gotten your message and proposal, but I'm busy the rest of today and possibly tomorrow. I will try to give a response early this week. Ocaasi t | c 19:39, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
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Do you know the length of time between filling out the survey and getting a response? No problem is it is expected to take days, but I get use to password reset requests being instantaneous, so I wonder if it didn't work. I filled out my survey yesterday. If it normally takes a day or a few, I'll just wait.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 01:33, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Bummed to learn that I didn't get selected for a Credo account, but I still appreciate the work you do. I noticed that Credo is supposed to have images as well as articles. Was wondering if you could tell me if they have many (any?) portraits by Matthew Harris Jouett. That's one of the things I had hoped to look for had I gotten approved. All of Jouett's portraits are out of copyright because he's been dead a long time, but he painted lots of important Kentuckians, so I'm interested to find a large collection of his to find out which unillustrated articles I might be able to illustrate with them. Thanks, and hoping for your success in persuading Credo to offer a few more accounts. Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 14:22, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so match for your work! I'll activate the accounts on September. Bye! -- Pequod76 ( talk-ita.esp.eng) 14:38, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
hi.
sorry for my language speak. can you help persian wikipedia? Milad77 ( talk) 17:14, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello again. A couple of years ago, Mike Christie ( talk · contribs) did a pretty thorough copyedit on Bert T. Combs for me. In it, he mentioned a resource from Credo Reference that gave the date of Combs' first marriage, which was not in any other sources I had. After two successive Combs FACs crashed and burned, I lost interest in the article, so I didn't ask Mike to pass along the reference then. I'm thinking of giving it another crack now that I'm getting close to my goal of a Kentucky Governors featured topic, but Mike said he no longer has his Credo account and doesn't know the title of the resource he was referencing. Could you poke around a little and see what resources Credo may have on Combs? (BTW, a public domain image of him would be great, if one exists. He was in the military and was a federal judge for a while, so there might be one. That was one source of contention during the failed FACs.) If you'll contact me via the "Email this user" feature, I'll get you an email address to send them to. Thanks. BTW, if you don't have time, can you point me to another Credo-enabled editor that might be able to help? Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 14:27, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, with regards to the Credo account, how long does it take to receive the password after taking the survey? Samar Talk 14:49, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Long-winded, incoherent title from me, but that's what I do. There is an active effort to get a real collaboration going at Wikipedia talk:Today's article for improvement. As a lot of articles need basically referencing help, and the databank subscribers are among those with the best access to referencing sourceds, I was wondering if you think that there might be any way to nudge those who get the free databank subscriptions to get involved in some collaboration effort, maybe like the one above. John Carter ( talk) 16:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
What happens in instances such as User talk:Meowy? Lihaas ( talk) 04:04, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, first of all thank you for your work in getting these partnerships up. Last week, I was notified that my Credo account was approved. I filled in the Survey form but am yet to recieve my details. Is this normal? -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 12:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
I was awarded a Credo account a week ago. I filled out the survey as directed on my talk page, but I still haven't received an invitation to create a Credo account via e-mail. I've searched my spam for "Credo" and found nothing. Does it take longer than a week for the survey to get processed? Thanks. — TedPavlic ( talk/ contrib/ @) 15:19, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Sir, I submit my sincere thanks for providing us with the free Highbeam account. It is so kind of you. Once again thank for your tireless contributions to Wikipedia :) Keep going. Cheers. -- Bharathiya ( talk) 15:54, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the Highbeam account! :X AlleinStein ( talk) 16:47, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
I received a note that my HighBeam account is approved. I have sent you an email with my Wikipedia username. Please send me the access code. Thank you for the approval! -- XrieJetInfo ( talk) 18:09, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi I dropped in just to say thank you for the Highbeam account. Thanks a lot. रोहित रावत ( talk) 18:08, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
I´ll add my thank you for the HighBeam Account. I have activated it and think it will be very useful. iselilja 18:12, 30 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iselilja ( talk • contribs)
Thanks from me, too. I've had a chance to try Highbeam and it looks very useful. - Thoughtfortheday ( talk) 20:11, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the HighBeam Account! Hungda ( talk) 02:35, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Accept my thanks as well for the High Beam account.-- Vyom25 ( talk) 03:33, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi - a problem occured with my email inbox this morning. Can you resend the Highbeam notification to me, as the original was overwritten somehow in our system. Sorry to have to bother you. NealeFamily ( talk) 03:40, 31 August 2012 (UTC) Thanks NealeFamily ( talk) 03:53, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for notifying me about HighBeam account. I 've registered without problems. Thanks again for your help. -- Ttzavaras ( talk) 10:56, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Sir, Sorry to disturb you. As you are aware that the Wiki editors always differ on the subject of acceptance of references as WP:RS. My inquiry is that can we always take, consider and defend HighBeam references as reliable sources as per WP:RS or not?..Thanks. - Bharathiya ( talk) 03:22, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
BTW I have signed for Wikipedia Library Project. Probably the first one to sign. Thumbs Up. Thank you.. -- Bharathiya ( talk) 03:22, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Sir, Thank you for your kind clarification. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Cheers! -- Bharathiya ( talk) 03:34, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I've translated High Beam user access template into Hindi. Regards and thank you for the account, Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 10:29, 3 September 2012 (UTC).
Hi, I filled out the "survey" with my info and nothing has come - it's been a while. Any suggestions? I got the email notice from wikipedia the whole setup was in so that part is working and I didn't do anything tricky with the survey inputs and I've been watching the junk mail filtering.... Smkolins ( talk) 12:29, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
--The Olive Branch 19:20, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I didn't realize that I was the 441st most frequent contributor at WP:ANI. Is that a lot? But I don't remember subscribing to a newsletter of any kind. I do try to help resolve problems, when I can, but I'm not at all active in the WP:DR process. It seems very odd that I would be automatically added to a newsletter's list- or that I would even need to 'opt out' of such a list. I feel unpleasantly spammed at. I would have preferred that you create your newsletter as an opt-in newsletter, like the WP:SIGNPOST. To be honest, I prefer to use my talk page for talk, and follow Wikipedia news through my watchlist. - FisherQueen ( talk · contribs) 19:47, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) I can't help but notice the irony that a dispute has arisen over a dispute resolution newsletter. :) Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 20:13, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
--The Olive Branch 18:58, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Which is a good thing (how it should have been done to begin with) but I was a little disturbed to see you informing someone who'd opted out on their talk page that this is now the case. Please tell me you are not now spamming people telling them you will no longer be spamming them. KillerChihuahua ?!? 21:38, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi. I just wanted to drop a thank-you for all the work you do with Highbeam, Credo, and all that other research stuff. Looks like you could use a kind word today - so ...... Thanks. :) — Ched : ? 22:01, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the Credo accout! Mugginsx ( talk) 22:17, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?
Did not find a place to vote on this but I definitely agree. Mugginsx ( talk) 22:21, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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For your great newsletter, The Olive Branch! I love it! Electric Catfish 21:05, 4 September 2012 (UTC) |
(They gave this to me, but you deserve the credit for the newsletter as you wrote it and all. Thanks again - sorry this whole invite thing got out of hand.) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 23:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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For managing to stay cool and resolve the situation with the newsletter, despite throngs of angry torch and pitchfork-wielding Wikipedians angrily knocking at your door. Everyone screws up here from time to time. Sometimes it's a little screw up, sometimes it's a big one. Whichever one you feel this one was, I think you handled it in exemplary fashion. Trusilver 04:26, 5 September 2012 (UTC) |
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Sir, Thank you for everything you do for/on Wiki and keep it Up...We all need your support...God Bless you..Cheers! Bharathiya ( talk) 04:35, 5 September 2012 (UTC) |
The Resilient Barnstar | ||
Your sincerity in responding to complaints about matters regarding the notification to users about the new newsletter Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution Improvement Project/Newsletter that you created is commendable. Furthermore, thanks for taking the initiative to create the newsletter, and also the The Wikipedia Library. It's clear that your intentions are to improve Wikipedia. Northamerica1000 (talk) 11:16, 5 September 2012 (UTC) |
Just popping in to thank you for showing leadership in respect of this new newsletter. I'm hard pressed to suggest that I'm not involved in dispute resolution. :-) I don't guarantee to comment on the articles (or even read them!), but it's good to know that this effort is being made. Risker ( talk) 16:32, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Welcome to the sixth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
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Good job at staying cool and dealing with other editors' concerns, whether civilly expressed or otherwise. My hat's off to you. Van Isaac WS Vex contribs 05:01, 6 September 2012 (UTC) |
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My Credo account still has not been activated – MrX 16:12, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the awesome welcome
Anyashy (
talk) 22:13, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, Thank you for the sources on notability of Kumar Parakala in AFD discussion. Can you please help edit the article and point out how should the references be included. 27.34.241.154 ( talk) 04:43, 27 September 2012 (UTC)Priyanka Lewis
Hi Ocaasi. I filled out the survey form a little while back, but I must have made an error because I still have not received any details by email. When I click on the survey link it simply tells me that I have completed the survey, but doesn't allow me to check the details. Can you look into this for me? Regards SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:11, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know, and thanks for chasing it up. I'll let you know when I get a response. SilkTork ✔Tea time 20:02, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
I've got it! Thanks for looking into it. SilkTork ✔Tea time 10:58, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
Do you still want review of these? If so, I'll try to find somebody to take a look at them. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:03, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi GLAM PMA folks! I wanted to update you about some recent events related to our fantastic Museum. I met Jessica Milby, PMA Collections Information Project Manager, at Wikimania in July. Jessica was looking for ways to improve articles on Wikipedia about the Museum and its artists/collections. We followed up a few weeks later at the Perelman Building in downtown Philadelphia where we discussed ways to increase participation in the GLAM/PMA project.
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It's exciting to have a partner in Jessica Milby and there should be a lot of good work coming out the collaboration within the next 3-6 months. Please stop by the GLAM/PMA project page and leave your thoughts. What ideas do you have? How can we move forward on the above projects? I Hope you're all well. Cheers! Ocaasi 19:05, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for getting involved with PMA/Glam. I've been super busy with WLM-US, but recognize that we need to move forward with the PMA articles. Do please let me know what I can do (especially after Oct. 7)! Smallbones( smalltalk) 19:13, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, It's a good idea to have offered to be Blake Bailey's contact with Wikipedia. I don't think he really has a COI on Roth material because I believe he is going beyond Roth in his sourcing and isn't writing a hagiography. I just hope that no clown starts slapping warning for editing his own BLP.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 22:08, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
See if this works for you. Kaldari ( talk) 23:31, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Trying out this mechanism...
Dear Ocassi,
Thanks for the e-mail. I hope you don't mind my responding here; I prefer to keep correspondence on-wiki unless there are pressing reasons for confidentiality.
Don't worry about the mass mailing problem; I'm sure you had the best of intentions and am glad that the issue has now been fixed.
Regarding your queries, yes and no, respectively—I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Reddit. (I've heard of it but don't know anything about it.)
Regards, Psychonaut
Please tell me what I'm missing. I just got my Credo account. I did advanced searches on many subjects I've needed information on. Listings on the NRHP properties, biographies, sculpture, etc. And on every one, it came up empty. Quite frankly, I've run those same searches on Google books and at least come up with a phrase or two about the subject. Credo seems to be good at coming up with information about subjects that are already well known. i.e., author Robert Louis Stevenson. Now that I have it, I'm not sure what the big deal is.
Maile66 (
talk) 22:22, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Ocaasi, please see Dr. Blofeld's comment at User_talk:Maile66#Credo. Is it possible for my relinquished Credo account to go to User:Nvvchar? Maile66 ( talk) 10:57, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Ocassi, How should I respond to this message? I have already listed myself on the 'give back your CREDO acct' list.
Re: Credo account. Thanks so very much! Please see my Talk Page. Mugginsx ( talk) 15:42, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Missed the opt-in opt-out drama, because I don't follow the bot boards much. But I think you did a good job, and fixed the problems quickly. People really need to get their eye back on the ball. I look forward to DR actually improving with a focus for discussion.
Rich
Farmbrough, 12:16, 14 September 2012 (UTC).
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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hi. i've fixed the wikipedia e-mail now. ~thanks, -- Soman ( talk) 07:15, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Sir, thanks a lot for free Questia Account. Again Hat's up to you. Thank you for everything you do and contribute to Wikipedia and its editors. You're the most valuable asset of/on Wikipedia. Cheers :) -- Bharathiya ( talk) 14:15, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
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I suspect you'll be getting a lot of wiki-love in the next several days as folks begin using their awesome new Questia accounts. Have a Bluegrass Barnstar from Wikipedia's resident Kentucky geek. I've already used Questia to buff and polish my next FAC. It is proving way more helpful than Highbeam, although I appreciate that one too. Keep up the amazing work in helping content creators get access to much-needed resources about lesser-known subjects. Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 15:06, 19 September 2012 (UTC) |
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As Acdixon gives the Kentucky barnstar, why not have the Baseball Barnstar as well for helping us in the Baseball Wikiproject have access to one of the sources we can. Secret account 07:24, 21 September 2012 (UTC) |
What a wonderful collection Questia has on the topic of baseball history, as most of the academic books that is written on that subject, is either printed, or reprinted from a respectable University Press publishing company, most of whom Questia works with. While I have a few of these books in my private library already, many of them that Questia has, are nearly impossible to find or too costly in flawless condition to bother getting it. I even found four books that was required for my classes in the university in Questia! Now if you can convince Paper of Record to give Wikipedians access to their The Sporting News archives, that would be amazing. If that's the case expect hundreds of featured articles written about baseball in the next year or so.
On a serious note if it wasn't for the Questia access, I probably would have burned out from the project within a few months as I was getting frustrating on how the project was heading, and how they treat their top content contributors, that so many of them left or became inactive lately, especially in key areas like medicine, and humanities (though astrology seems to be making a comeback here), and we still have our top popular culture writers producing GAs and FAs in droves. For the past six months or so, my editing had been reduced to just checking my huge watchlist daily, which mainly consists of reverting junk from high profile hip hop artists BLPs, or finding out what's new in sports AFDs or in RFAs. That might have been fun when I was younger, but everyday I seemed to get more annoyed with each poor edit that comes up, and when I try to focus on something else in the project, like major article writing ( Doug Ault, Don Larsen, Eddie Bennett, etc) or cleaning out junk from categories, I kinda give up after a day or two as my watchlist gets extremely long of unchecked edits again. I grown too mature for it, not to mention how it impacted my health as I was wasting my time checking my watchlist instead of doing something more productive with my life, like working out or sleeping early. I was first suspicious of Questia as my University had no access to it, and I was hoping it wasn't a HighBeam type of source, while its amazing for current topics, HighBeam was truly lacking anything prior to the late 1980s. With Questia and any other resource, I could go back to my original intentions helping out with my speciality on the history of baseball and its colorful players, and start expanding new articles for myself and future Wikipedians to enjoy. So thank you and the websites for giving me, and all the other article writers who contribute their time to this project, this truly special opportunity. I will volunteer to help out with the Wikipedia Library project as well.
One last thing I noticed you aren't a administrator, I'm curious to know why you haven't attempted an RFA yet. You clearly need the tools in handy based on your OTRS work, and the monumental Wikipedia Library project you helping create. The community will agree with me there. Thanks Secret account 07:24, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Have you contacted http://newspaperarchive.com/ by any chance? I think it could potentially be the most valuable research tool with 120 million papers. I think newspaper archives are probably the best ones we can get. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ also would be highly valuable. Dr. Blofeld 13:21, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
I thank you for the communication regarding allotment of Questia account. As before, I've translate the Questia user template into Hindi at this link. Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 10:32, 24 September 2012 (UTC).
Thanks for your continued support in helping me get off the ground! GT67 ( talk) 16:43, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
This edition The Olive Branch is focusing on a 2nd dispute resolution RfC. Two significant proposals have been made. Below we describe the background and recent progress and detail those proposals. Please review them and follow the link at the bottom to comment at the RfC. We need your input!
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Until late 2003, Jimmy Wales was the arbiter in all major disputes. After the Mediation Committee and the Arbitration Committee were founded, Wales delegated his roles of dispute resolution to these bodies. In addition to these committees, the community has developed a number of informal processes of dispute resolution. At its peak, over 17 dispute resolution venues existed. Disputes were submitted in each venue in a different way. Due to the complexity of Wikipedia dispute resolution, members of the community were surveyed in April 2012 about their experiences with dispute resolution. In general, the community believes that dispute resolution is too hard to use and is divided among too many venues. Many respondents also reported their experience with dispute resolution had suffered due to a shortage of volunteers and backlogging, which may be due to the disparate nature of the process. An evaluation of dispute resolution forums was made in May this year, in which data on response and resolution time, as well as success rates, was collated. This data is here.
Leading off from the survey in April and the evaluation in May, several changes to dispute resolution noticeboard (DRN) were proposed. Rather than using a wikitext template to bring disputes to DRN, editors used a new javascript form. This form was simpler to use, but also standardised the format of submissions and applied a word limit so that DRN volunteers could more easily review disputes. A template to summarise, and a robot to maintain the noticeboard, were also created. As a result of these changes, volunteers responded to disputes in a third of the time, and resolved them 60% faster when compared to May. Successful resolution of disputes increased by 17%. Submissions were 25% shorter by word count.(see Dispute Resolution Noticeboard Statistics - August compared to May) Outside of DRN other simplification has taken place. The Mediation Cabal was closed in August, and Wikiquette assistance was closed in September. Nevertheless, around fifteen different forums still exist for the resolution of Wikipedia disputes.
Given the success of the past efforts at DR reform, the current RFC proposes we implement: 1) A submission gadget for every DR venue tailored to the unique needs of that forum.
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I am facing little trouble to add Questia citation. For example, I want to cite page 2–4 here, but, unlike Google Books, it does not have unique URL for every page. So, the link will take you to the main page. And I also can't find quick way to get ISBN of a book! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 23:08, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, never got the email that was predicted in the message on my talk page. Faulty bot? Tony (talk) 03:48, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
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Will this be the last interview? If so, I think this is needed, and we may need to find another word for "ongoing". :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:17, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
I noticed that you placed some citation needed tags on the 1-800-GET-THIN article. I couldn't agree more, and further, I think the entire article is confusing and needs help. If you like, you can review my comments on the article's talk page. I'd appreciate your thoughts on how to reconcile the issues I've addressed. Thanks! Rinkle gorge ( talk) 23:48, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
I meant to thank you for arranging the free Questia and Highbeam accounts. I don't know how you did that, but I am very grateful; I had been paying for both out of my own pocket for years. As for the other conversation we're just having elsewhere, on the relationship between paid editing and the lack of a working complaints system, please note User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Brainstorming:_How_can_we_improve_the_Wikipedia_complaints_system.3F. -- Andreas J N 466 16:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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I have not gotten much use from my Credo 250 research account, and am currently editing Wikipedia much less than I had been. What is the procedure for donating this account? Please reply on my talk page or via email, whichever you prefer. / edg ☺ ☭ 17:57, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
I have tried to explain to a new editor how to go about making controversial changes at the chiropractic article, however, I have been unsuccessful! WOuld you please be willing to help explain to him/her how they are violating policy with these [1] changes? Puhlaa ( talk) 15:44, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, friend. Could you please send me the full versions of this, this, and this from JSTOR? If you don't still have my email address, just "email user", and I'll send it to you again. Thanks. Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 18:19, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I thought I'd ask your opinion on an issue I've seen recently, since you're an experienced editor and I think I should trust your judgement. On the page concerning the Death of Mark Duggan a number of editors have been pushing in the term "black man" and "black people" in ways that make me very uncomfortable with the article, especially since some (not all) of these editors appear to favor the police when it comes to understanding what happened. I might be totally wrong on this, in which case I should leave off. I can't tell if my sensitivity regarding the race question is way off base and just a personal issue. There is one other problem I thought of asking you about regarding the Houla massacre but I suspect it's more straightforward, and I'll probably have to take it to dispute resolution. Thanks, - Darouet ( talk) 15:03, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocassi. Per this discussion, would you be able to send:
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I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.
Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.
Hope to see you there! -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 05:24, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
to this list for me with Edward's Bot, or show me how to do it if I'm allowed to? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 05:24, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for trying. James and I have already notified Wikiproject Medicine several times, and the active regulars there are all pretty aware of WM:MED, it was the medical editors who aren't regulars on that talk page that I was wanting to notify. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 20:01, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Regarding your question on the incidents noticeboard about the message you sent out, I noticed that the link in the message, being a bare URL, got linked to WP:COI and not the page you wanted to notify people about. I don't know if the message went out that way; you may wish to double-check. isaacl ( talk) 15:44, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Sorry if it seems like I'm pestering you, but I really would appreciate your input on our WP:Conflict of interest/draft rewrite. Someone who has put as much thought into the issue as you would be an extremely valuable resource. Gigs ( talk) 14:11, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Ocaasi, I'm disappointed with the way you're proceeding with your proposal, particularly userfying it to prevent others from editing it. If the situation continues, I will consider beginning dispute resolution between us, though I hope that can be avoided.
As I see it, you are misdescribing the current guideline, misdescribing your proposal, and hiding it all within hundreds of words of verbiage that you must know people are unlikely to read carefully. When others arrive to edit, you userfy it to prevent those edits, yet you intend to present your version to the Signpost as though it's a regular proposal, for an RfC in which you alone will draft questions that give no indication of the seriousness of what you are suggesting. This is very poor form. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:52, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
[2] Especially the last one. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 19:43, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I had thoughts about identifying and processing paid content and paid editors at User:Lexein/Paid content tax. My notion is that potential promo should be taxed at the same rate as new articles from brand new editors with no track record, and paid editors, as professionals, can afford such a tax, as well as permanent identification in categories. This may fit in with COI+ (though I still prefer COIP - COI paid). Calling all the procedures part of the tax is a preemption of complaints. -- Lexein ( talk) 15:06, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Since your successes with Questia et al., I wondered: have you approached NewsBank? They seem to have a lot of smaller papers "locked up" behind a paywall. Cheers. (We can disagree about details of COI editor and content management, but can agree on this). Lexein ( talk) 05:05, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi - is there any update on HighBeam round six? Also Questia and Credo? Thanks. Tvoz/ talk 08:48, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Ocaasi! I saw your message and I checked more than twice my gmail account but I cannot find the email with my Credo activation code... Being sysop on itwiki, I am registered in some of the local newsletter, therefore I receive many messages on this account. Maybe I deleted the email by mistake, or it is gone in the spam filter... Do you know if it is possible to receive a copy of the activation code? Thank you very much for any advice! ;) -- Lucas ( talk) 03:46, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
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See you there!
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I've seen your name around, no doubt about it, but have we ever interacted? We seem to have similar interests when it comes to articles: for instance, I was the original creator of Bahraini uprising (2011–present), [3] essentially started the Human rights in Qatar article back in 2008, and I've made several contributions to Arab Spring-related content. I feel as if we may have crossed paths at some point or another, but I don't really remember it if we did (and by all accounts, my long-term memory is considered exceptional). Just so you're aware, I formerly edited under the monicker "Master&Expert". Kurtis (talk) 12:17, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
You, my friend, are naughty for not telling me about your RFA :-( Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 04:41, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi. I came across your RfA by chance and wanted to say congratulations!! Even though you haven't been awarded admin status yet, the outcome looks pretty obvious. Nice work! I keep hearing how awful and grueling the RFA process is, so such unanimous support seems like quite an achievement. CorporateM ( Talk) 22:32, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
While replying, do it via email not editing through your user page on my talk page, Thank You Greatuser ( t@lk) My edits 15:15, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Congratulations on becoming a sysop. Now take your mop and start scrubbing the toilets. There's vomit. ~~ Ebe 123~~ → report 01:32, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Congratulations, I have just closed your RfA as successful and made you an administrator. Take a look at the administrators' how-to guide and the administrators' reading list if you haven't read those already. Also, the practice exercises at the new admin school may be useful. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch on my talk page. WJBscribe (talk) 01:31, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
A very belated congratulations; not just running the gauntlet in these maybe-broken-RfA times, but even being the first of 2013. Very well deserved. Cheers, WWB Too ( Talk · COI) 14:54, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
I used a book Romans: From Village to Empire in a number of new articles I wrote. I have a real copy, but provided a link to the google books page for the book so there was an online link. I found the book on Questia. Would it be preferable to add a link to questia instead of google books? I didn't actually access it using questia, so I don't exactly know how to apply WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT. Ryan Vesey 23:07, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I was wondering if you could tell me the current status of the Wikipedia:Turnitin project. It sounds really interesting. Thanks! - ʈucoxn\ talk 04:23, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your appreciation re the editing-it's the busiest edit (tidy-up actually as are most of my edits) I've ever done, quite a dance to get it down. I hope I didn't give you any trouble-you've done a lot for the article, as are others. It's something to remember Aaron Swartz by - gone much too soon. He did a lot right, but... Cheers matey! DadaNeem ( talk) 06:27, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Is anyone still working on The Wikipedia Adventure? Sage Ross (WMF) is working on Wikipedia:Training and you might want to see what he's doing there. -- Pine ✉ 21:07, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
My email hates me today. I made a page User:Canoe1967/Raw text or link that may work and left a note at wp:rx. I will remove any text after I have expanded the article, if it does help. I won't copyvio. Should the link to that notice board be put at the top of some Highbeam pages so others can find it?-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 22:30, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Regarding this article: Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch. Can someone please italicize the name/title of the article? I have tried a million things, and nothing seems to work. You can check the edit history of that article, to see what I have tried. Thanks! ( Joseph A. Spadaro ( talk) 22:46, 2 June 2011 (UTC))
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Hi Ocaasi. Do you know when/if is the next round of fulfilling Highbeam applications? I noticed they were given out each month in July/August and have trailed off since. I might just purchase one - they seem to have a lot of articles I need. CorporateM 14:57, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Stopping by to follow-up on this - I see you've been busy (good luck with the RfA - it's looking good), but I thought I'd check in here. Hoping these will come through soon! Cheers Tvoz/ talk 06:04, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Friendly reminder to get Questia going too. Thanks! -- JFH ( talk) 15:45, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Much appreciate your help with High Beam--not to mention your very successful efforts to set up that resource for all the editors. Great work! EMP ( talk 18:20, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
Triple! thanks Tvoz/ talk 21:09, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the generous welcome to Wikipedia. I hope my contributions will help make Wikipedia the prime resource for information for generations to come. Ukspacecadets ( talk) 16:36, 19 January 2013 (UTC) |
Interesting question you brought up, Ocaasi! I found some helpful material in Black’s Law Dictionary (9th ed. 2009):
publish. To distribute copies (of a work) to the public.
publication. 2.Copyright term. The offering or distribution of copies of a work to the public.
Fifteen of the court filings for the federal case are indeed published, on electronic databases like Westlaw. The latest one being Defendant’s Reply in Support of Motion To Dismiss Counts 1 & 2 of Superseding Indictment, United States v. Swartz, [Docket] No. 11-CR-10260, [database identifier] 2012 WL [Westlaw] 6210355 (Dec. 3, 2012).
The documents are offered to the public. So we can consider them published. But you do have to buy a plan. Too bad Aaron didn’t... (Ouch!! Sorry!!!)
With my plan I get to look at the header and 100 words of text, but that’s all I can afford. To most of the public, the documents are practically unavailable.
Likely none of the filings for the state case are published in any of the commercial electronic databases. But a few are readily available on the Internet. And it looks like the authorities do count that as publication!
In The Bluebook: A Uniform System of [Legal] Citation (19th ed. 2010), Rule 10.8.1(d) (“Other pending and unreported cases”) says, “Cases that are not available … on electronic databases may be cited to services [topical compilations], periodicals, or the Internet (rule 18.2.2).”
Rule 18.2.2 (“Direct Citations to Internet Sources”) says, “An Internet source may be cited directly when it does not exist in a traditional printed format or when a traditional printed source exists but cannot be found or is so obscure that it is practically unavailable.”
Internet sources, most preferred to least preferred:
1. Authenticated or official Internet source.
2. Unaltered scanned copy of official print source.
3. (Unofficial but stable) online-only source.
4. Dynamic webpage, such as a blog.
5. Online source requiring a form or query.
Also, it doesn’t seem to matter much who the (re)publisher is.
Dervorguilla ( talk) 05:48, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
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Looks like we’re covered.
1.3 Examples
_ A transcript … of a … court trial
_ A webpage on the Internet
Dervorguilla ( talk) 18:36, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
Thank you for visiting my profile. Have a great experience in Wikipedia.
By, Writeindia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Writeindia ( talk • contribs) 13:05, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Greatly look forward to being involved with this, since so many scholarly articles on opera are invaluable resources for some of the more obscure primo ottocento era opera by composers such as Donizetti and Rossini, even early Verdi. Viva-Verdi ( talk) 18:41, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the good news. The message says " Check your Wikipedia email! Then go to..."
I checked my mail but there is no message in my inbox. Should I be more patient and wait for a while or ....? -- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 19:02, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
In case you need to know - me too on no email re Questia. Thanks! Tvoz/ talk 21:08, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Ocaasi, see http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/german-community-project-about-paid-editing-starts/
The Signpost ought to cover this as well, in my view. Would you be interested in getting in touch with Dirk, who runs this project? He's created a RL name account for his work on this project, and the best talk page to get hold of him for this is http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Dirk_Franke#Signpost
Best, Andreas JN 466 23:27, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 08:49, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Happy New Year and Happy Editing ! Have a good day ! Mike Coppolano ( talk) 10:31, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Who are you working with in UPenn for the Wikipedia adventure (mentioned at Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure/Timeline)? Ryan Vesey 21:27, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Yes, I didn't receive the email. My preferences allow the email sending/receiving. Do I have to wait or send some request to someone? Thanks ;) -- Lucas ( talk) 14:46, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I'm going to expand "AIDS" in Persian Wikipedia and probably make it FA. Since there are a few Farsi RS about AIDS, I have to translate the English article with all the citations. But first of all I must ascertain whether the citations are really correct or not, it means that I should check all of the sources and verify its contents. I don't know how I can access to the journals, and most of the references are journals, would you please guide me how to access them? Regards ● Mehran Debate● 18:50, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 20:05, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Everything's ok now. Thanks for your help. Octave.H ( talk) 01:01, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
I've been making some progress on Snuggle development recently and I could use your feedback. Specifically, I've created a work log that I plan to update every time I get a chance to work on Snuggle. My intention is that you'll be able to watch that page to track my progress so I can get your feedback on features when they are early in development. The most recent entry (also the only entry) discusses new functionality for interacting with newcomers via Snuggle. I posted some mockups in the work log that show how I imagine the new features to work and I could use some feedback before I start writing the code. Thanks! -- EpochFail( talk • work) 20:30, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for awarding me the Great Question Badge at the TeaHouse! Cheers! Zalunardo8 ( talk) 12:13, 29 January 2013 (UTC) |
That's right. You did. :) Even if it wasn't exactly solving issues on the Wishlist.
Anyashy (
talk) 18:11, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Cheers! — madman 02:21, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the WikiLove you gave me on my talk page. If I can bug you with one additional question, I notice that you have a template to display WikiLove you receive on your main user page. Is there a place where the template for that is posted? I'd like to try to use it myself. Once again, thank you so much. Reinana kyuu ( talk) 13:33, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the wikilove and for helping me get the barnometer code on my page! There was no way I wouldn't give you something in return. Reinana kyuu ( talk) 02:23, 31 January 2013 (UTC) |
Great job here. [5] Sometimes trenches like this go unnoticed, but they're very much appreciated by those in the medical community who lend their time, energy and emotions to making Wikipedia the best it can be. DVMt ( talk) 04:58, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments and encouragement. I will take another look at the article's talk page and possibly post something there, per your suggestion, and go from there. Thanks again! Gershtenblurber ( talk) 02:04, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I have just sent you an email re the above. Rangoon11 ( talk) 22:47, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
Thanks for signing up to join the Individual Engagement Grants Committee, it will be fun, I promise! It is my pleasure to confirm your
membership. We’ve got a lot to accomplish together, particularly during the next
6 weeks, and it will be awesome to have your help. Here is how to get started:
To make your membership official, please do 2 things by February 11th:
Then there are 2 first tasks' for active committee members to start on right away:
Our formal review of proposals starts February 22nd. I’ll be posting information about scoring and selection of proposals on the committee mailing list and in the Workroom soon, so please keep an eye there!
Thanks again for joining this new grantmaking program...I hope we’re going to see some amazing impact from these grants! :-) Siko (WMF) ( talk) 06:24, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanna thank you personally for awarding me The Great Question Badge for my Question in the Teahouse!!! That was my 1st badge, not that I wanna collect loads of them, but the 1st means a lot... I was mistaken about senior editors, U guys are actually the nicest guys to deal with... I also wanted to know if you do take up User Adoption... Cause I was searching for one... Anyways, Thanks a lot, U made my Wikipedia experience a lot more meaningful!!!!
And like I said-
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For the sake of wiki, love and WikiLove !!! bc-ndra ( talk) 11:34, 7 February 2013 (UTC) |
HI Ocaasi! Thanks for checking in at chiropractic. I couldn't use either Palmer picture because of the religious and dogmatic that was their "philosophy" which has been rejected by the majority of mixers. I reasoned that because the topic itself must be NPOV, as well as the rest of the article, I chose an image that is universally recognized as philosophy. The image also nicely 'stylizes' the page, enhancing readability. Would you be opposed if I re-inserted it based on my above rationale? Regards, DVMt ( talk) 01:43, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I left some questions there. (Some it.wiki editors asked me the same things.) Thanks, Nemo 08:57, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks again! Ocaasi 01:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi! As a previous editor at chiropractic (and a major helping hand (haha)) to me personally, I would appreciate if you have the time to take a peek at the re-write. Any comments, suggestions, criticisms are welcomed. Hope you're having a good weekend. Regards, DVMt ( talk) 02:04, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
By some of the other questions in the Teahouse, I think I might have more of a wild west approach to Wikipedia. I'm not sure I want to ask this in the Teahouse, but, I created a page for Dan P. McAdams a few weeks ago and I noticed an outside link to his wikipedia page that predated my page creation, which might mean he had a wikipedia page that got deleted. So, two questions, 1) is there any way to find out if there once was a page, but it got deleted. 2) How should I have gone about creating a page for Dan P. McAdams?
On the other hand, every time I get a miss in the WP search, it invited me to create a page.
Bodysurfinyon ( talk) 00:50, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, today I tried to activate my 1-year Questia account with a code I got in an e-mail from early january. The problem is that the website rejects my code and states "We encountered a problem. We could not find a promotion matching the promotion code you provided.". I'm pretty sure I didn't already create an account with that code. Could you help me? Thanks. -- Manjel ( talk) 18:13, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at Wikipedia talk:Editor engagement experiments's talk page. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:19, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
You mentioned you were interested in Kurzweil, etc. I massively edited the article on his book The Singularity is Near over the last 2 weeks, I posted here asking for feedback, since I didn't hear anything at all while editing or posting to the talk page. I don't know if anyone is paying attention to that page. Some of the old content was from 2005, so I'm nervous was I wrong to remove it, etc. since I'm still new. Eventually I'd like to improve the article up to 'C' level, it's not there yet but hopefully is on the way. Any comment as far as what I did so far (good or bad), and suggestions of what I should do next. Thanks! Silas Ropac ( talk) 18:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Do you have OpenAthens on your radar, for The Wikipedia Library? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:24, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
As a new admin, I hope that I can encourage you to take a stab at closing a dozen of the RM backlog requests. The way WP:RM is set up, requests can be closed at any time, but are not intended to remain open for longer than seven days, meaning that all should be closed before they reach the WP:RM#Backlog. In other words, after the backlog is cleared out, standard procedure should be to close all of the requests just before they reach the backlog. In some cases, though, this means relisting, which also should be done before reaching the backlog. Closing instructions are at WP:RMCI. If each new admin closes a few requests the backlog can be cleared. Apteva ( talk) 04:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Where would you like me to send you a reply? I want to give you a well thought out considered and considerate reply, so I will probably get back to you tonite (west us time) after the tike goes to bed. Gtwfan52 ( talk) 22:46, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Ocaasi, please stop trying to create facts on the ground. It's reaching a point that I really find unacceptable. If you want paid advocacy to be allowed in some fashion, the place to start is by arguing in favour of changing the guideline, WP:COI, not by creating POV forks. I would really appreciate it if you would focus on doing that, if you feel change is something that would be supported. SlimVirgin (talk) 01:36, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
I'd like to hear that idea. Also, just to explain a language discrepancy that keeps coming up: I see a distinction between a) a "paid advocate", in other words a PR/corporate rep-- the editor... and b) "paid advocacy"--promotional/biased editing by a paid advocate. A PR/corporate rep still has a financial COI and neutrality will be a challenge for them, but in my reading they are not guilty of advocacy until they actually do something non-neutral. Anyway, that's how I use the term and it partly explains our discrepancy. That is why I frequently just use "PR/corporate rep" rather than editor/advocate, because it keeps the distinction. I think you think I'm playing doublespeak because I don't consider PR/Corporate reps automatically under paid advocacy, and that is the reason why I don't. I say this knowing that the Public Relations Society of America ethical code of conduct requires advocacy, yet it still seems like a meaningful difference to me, and I know several others who have commented in the most recent COI RfC. For many Wikipedians neutrality is a property that lies in the edit, not the editor. This is a defensible position, even if it's one that you do not hold, because you view certain editors as inherently "advocactes" just by their external relationships. Let's keep clearing that up so we can provide guidance. Ocaasi t | c 04:15, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Yunshui 雲 水 08:58, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your appreciation of my question, however I can't now recall what the question was and can't find it anywhere. Could you please remind me? Jodosma ( talk) 20:06, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
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Average talk page edits | 36.5 edits | 85.6 edits | 2.4x talk page edits |
Average article space edits | 129.6 edits | 360.4 edits | 2.8x article edits |
Average total edits (all namespaces) | 182.1 edits | 532.4 edits | 2.9x total edits |
Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper
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Come by the Teahouse to share a cup of tea and enjoy a Birthday Cupcake! Happy Birthday to the Teahouse and thank you for a year's worth of interest and support :-)
About statistics related to "Number of edits per..." etc. It seems to me that this kind of stat may have little significance in cases where churlish/childish/puerile or just lazy editors may simply edit their own sandboxes etc., over and over again, just to increase their total number of edits for whatever reason. Jodosma ( talk) 21:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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Hey Ocaasi! Your work at the Wikipedia Teahouse is really amazing! I hereby award you this Barnstar for your tireless efforts and also for you really deserve it! Thanks again and keep it up my bro! Thanks again. ;) Mediran ( t • c) 09:05, 28 February 2013 (UTC) |
Hi Ocaasi,
Thank you for contacting me on this issue. My main reason for rephrasing the hatnote was to remove the extraneous links; according to Wikipedia guidelines, only Realism (arts) is an appropriate link for a hatnote on the Aesthetic Realism article. My hatnote was not intended to be a commentary on Aesthetic Realism in any way. If your concern is with respect to how the subject of the Realism (arts) article is to be summarized in the hatnote, I would be glad to rephrase. How about "the attempt to represent subject matter while avoiding artistic conventions"?
Neelix ( talk) 17:55, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the great question badge! I plan to join you guys for a cup of tea everytime I feel lost or unsure while editing haha. Also your user page is awesome. Keep up the great work! CityMorgue ( talk) 19:38, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Research status on manual and manipulative therapy. Hi Ocaasi! I've asked you and several other editors I trust to take a peek here [6]. It's a revised update on the effectiveness and safety of manipulative therapy. You can definitely help with language issues or potential bias. Would love to hear from you. Regards, DVMt ( talk) 04:05, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
I think that the draft is fair, except I would say that it is inaccurate to suggest that the 2012 RFC had any impact on current policy beyond failing to come to any consensus, leaving the prior policy and guidelines in place.
As for useful, I have disabused myself of any notion that consensus can be reached on COI policy because there are too many competing agendas out there and too many editors and administrators whose agenda appears to be simply assuring that no consensus is reached.
Thanks for soliciting my input. Fladrif ( talk) 19:02, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
t | c 20:46, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Well that depends on their contributions. If they correct errors, that could be useful, or if they provide sources that are appropriate but lacking. I don't advise pharma folks to go around editing the articles on their own medications. But if they propose suggestions on talk pages and contribute neutral, well-written content, then it gives us the opportunity to evaluate whether or not it's in fact an improvement and a reflection of the best available secondary literature on the medications. Great care is needed in the selection and presentation of sources, of course, as many individual primary studies or even single meta-analyses would not convey a full view of the current literature. So, again, it depends on the caliber of the contributions and how they align with our policies. I generally point those editors to WP:MEDRS and tell them to exercise great care and deference in how they approach our community. So, in short, if a corporate communicator presents a draft which is better sourced, more informative, and as or more neutral than the current version, then it gives us the opportunity to improve the article. That's the best case scenario. Typically an obvious attempt to whitewash an article is rebuffed and results in backlash, so I advise folks not to go down that path. Then there are gray area questions, such as how much coverage to give to one aspect of the article or another, and those as always need editorial discretion to get right. Ocaasi t | c 22:15, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Slim, I've gotten your message and proposal, but I'm busy the rest of today and possibly tomorrow. I will try to give a response early this week. Ocaasi t | c 19:39, 10 March 2013 (UTC)