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Not that I think you actually care, but I disagree with your reasoning at the Meghan Trainor article. The DRN really needs to be concluded first. There's been no resolution there. You can't forum shop and take the decision or consensus you like better, saying that's the decision of the community. I don't have a problem that there might be a consensus that doesn't support my viewpoint, I care that there are editors ignoring the open and in progress DRN that remains unresolved. If a DRN discussion is opened and talk page discussion goes on anyway, are we supposed to go with the one we like or the one that was opened to actually get a resolution? It seems to me that the latter is the appropriate choice. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 06:41, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, Calidum! Re: this edit, I'm not sure if you reverted by accident since you only reverted one of my edits (and with no explanation), I've undone it as there was no organization called "Negro League". Rather, it was a collection of leagues that played Negro baseball; therefore, "league" is not capitalized when referring to general leagues. See the lede of Negro league baseball for clarification. I hope this explains why I undid your reversion. Rgrds. (Dynamic IP, will change when I log off.) -- 64.85.216.2 ( talk) 17:49, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
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This was your fourth revert in a row of my simple talk paragraph. You know better. Dicklyon ( talk) 18:19, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
You're right though that I could have made my notice more neutral. I have done so now, and extended the notices that I placed earlier. It really does seem important to get some participation by editors of affected articles, as the horse guys are so naturally biased in favor of their own topic. Dicklyon ( talk) 18:43, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hey, just looked at your user page. My condolences on coming in dead last in ArbCom elections on both tries. Do you think it's because you haven't been around long enough and done enough edits? Or is that you piss off everyone you interact with, having opinions that often diametrically opposed to following guidelines and such? Dicklyon ( talk) 20:43, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Not for anything, but before you change the positions of anymore quotation marks, as you did in the Ben Franklin article, please read this section of the Manual of Style. Joys! – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 03:44, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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Come on, reverting someone's comment with the summary " shit", then replying to their earlier -- it really doesn't look too good. Especially since, after asking for help, the other editor specifically noted they weren't accusing YOU of breaching NPOV, but was expressing an opinion that the article's content may not respect NPOV. Removing their comments serve no useful purpose, so just leave them be, and continue discussing,, mk? I know you're trying to defend WP:BLP and commend your intentions, but getting into a pissing match over some maybe-not-too-relevant-but-harmless comment isn't helping. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 21:01, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
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In my memory, there is a discussion consensus in article ww2 which put USSR in front of US. The original version of Allies of World War II put USSR ahead of US [1] and the previous version of article World War II is also like this [2]. Actually current vision was changed by E-960 [3] without discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.33.242.35 ( talk)
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For this month's issue...
Making sense of a lot of data.
Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.
We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.
We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.
Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.
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The lead of tropical cyclone naming does not need a line on what a Hurricane, typhoon etc is, because it is a lot more complex than just hurricane vs typhoon vs cyclone. For example hurricanes are officially known as severe tropical cyclones in the South Pacific and very severe cyclonic storms in the North Indian Ocean. As i said in the edit summuary it jsut opens up a pandoras box on which classifications should be added. Please see Tropical cyclone scales for further details. Thanks. Jason Rees ( talk) 22:23, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
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I've been using my tablet for editing today, and the same reversion thing happened elsewhere - totally unintentional and had to be a slip of the finger. Thanks for correcting my error. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 21:29, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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Greetings! For this month's issue...
We have demos!
After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:
We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.
Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.
While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.
Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.
We need volunteers!
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[4] You may be interested in this... All About That Bass ( A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 16:12, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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I see that they reverted your reversion. Do you want to go for a block on Winkelvi? I would certainly support and a lot of others would. I don't want to make it seem like I have a problem with him but what he is doing is blockable. Just wanted to ask. Thanks so much for the barnstar by the way. All About That Bass ( A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 07:55, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hey, Calidum! What do you think should be the action taken against WV once the SPI fails? All About That Bass ( A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 18:20, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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Discuss on the talk page. I wasn't the one to change it back to mixtape. I've been blocked for a month. If you look on the talk page of the mixtape, consensus appears to be mixtape. -- Joseph Prasad ( talk) 01:23, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Calidum, I just wanted to let you know that I linked to one of your previous comments, during a current WP:AN discussion [5].-- BoboMeowCat ( talk) 21:19, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
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it is the last one, that is the 7, just like 2 is the original. SingingJoseph4MusicalFilmFans ( talk) 13:13, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, Calidum! Re: this edit, I'm not sure if you reverted by accident since you only reverted one of my edits (and with no explanation), I've undone it as there was no organization called "Negro League". Rather, it was a collection of leagues that played Negro baseball; therefore, "league" is not capitalized when referring to general leagues. See the lede of Negro league baseball for clarification. I hope this explains why I undid your reversion. Rgrds. (Dynamic IP, will change when I log off.) -- 64.85.216.2 ( talk) 17:49, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
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This was your fourth revert in a row of my simple talk paragraph. You know better. Dicklyon ( talk) 18:19, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
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You voted not to make melee a disambiguation page in a recent move request. Per the discussion, I have suggested the article be deleted due to lack of a relevant, cohesive encyclopedic definition of "melee". Your input would be appreciated. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melee.
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The lead of tropical cyclone naming does not need a line on what a Hurricane, typhoon etc is, because it is a lot more complex than just hurricane vs typhoon vs cyclone. For example hurricanes are officially known as severe tropical cyclones in the South Pacific and very severe cyclonic storms in the North Indian Ocean. As i said in the edit summuary it jsut opens up a pandoras box on which classifications should be added. Please see Tropical cyclone scales for further details. Thanks. Jason Rees ( talk) 22:23, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Since you participated in the RM discussion at Talk:Greenbelt Station#Requested move 7 February_2015, you may have thoughts worth commenting on at the related RFC at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (US stations)#RfC: some proper talkin' about station title conventions, including especially the survey at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (US stations)#Simpler questions / concise survey. If so, please comment there. Dicklyon ( talk) 05:25, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
I've been using my tablet for editing today, and the same reversion thing happened elsewhere - totally unintentional and had to be a slip of the finger. Thanks for correcting my error. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 21:29, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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[4] You may be interested in this... All About That Bass ( A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 16:12, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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I see that they reverted your reversion. Do you want to go for a block on Winkelvi? I would certainly support and a lot of others would. I don't want to make it seem like I have a problem with him but what he is doing is blockable. Just wanted to ask. Thanks so much for the barnstar by the way. All About That Bass ( A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 07:55, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
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Discuss on the talk page. I wasn't the one to change it back to mixtape. I've been blocked for a month. If you look on the talk page of the mixtape, consensus appears to be mixtape. -- Joseph Prasad ( talk) 01:23, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hey, can I borrow a few of those templates you have on your user page, like the edit count? -- Joseph Prasad ( talk) 06:16, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
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Following the closure of a recent RfC you participated in, I have started an RfC on the separate but related issue of commas after Jr. and Sr.. Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § RfC: Guidance on commas after Jr. and Sr. and feel free to comment there. Thanks! — sroc 💬 06:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed your page move request for Hough's Neck to Houghs Neck. Just wanted to give you a tip that you could add to your reasoning, most websites use the title without the apostrophe and even Google will ask "Did you mean: 'Houghs Neck'" when you type in the title with the apostrophe. This would further support your requested page move. Nick Mitchell 98 ( talk) 05:57, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
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it is the last one, that is the 7, just like 2 is the original. SingingJoseph4MusicalFilmFans ( talk) 13:13, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
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While I do not make changes often, many of my changes in the past (particularly on Eastern Catholic/Byzantium Rite Churches, the Eastern European diaspora in NE Pennsylvania, and a little-known minority that I am part of - Rusyns - have enhanced Wikipedia's knowledge in these areas.
One of our current national treasures, Jon Stewart, made a comment about adding comments to his page. I never do such things normally; however, given Stewart's imminent retirement, I thought it would be funny, and was planning to remove it myself within a half-hour.
Given my previous editing background and how long I have been a member and contributed to wiki, I would have appreciated a talk message rather than a page splash. One shoe does not fit all, even in a Perl/Python script.
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