I've sent you an email. Bred Ivy ( talk) 20:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
I think you should keep the word selection. I does make no sense to change it now!! It's traditon for years! When you watch NFL Network and Let's just say example Josh Cribbs under his it's say 2 time Pro Bowl Selection.
For the Major league profiles you have just put all-star in their profiles!! I understand selection for Major League Baseball players is odd but At least put MLB All-Star instead!! I think that's more appropriate. Just for in Blake Griffin's profile it says NBA All-Star not just typical All-Star. You know what I mean?
All I'm saying is why change it now!!! Putting Pro Bowl selection it's been on there for years and now all of a sudden it's to tacky to put the word selection now!! You see what I'm saying?
Now you are trying to take out the word selection now!! To me to take out selection and just putting typical Pro Bowl on theses NFL players Wikipedia profiles make's it tacky and wired. It doesn't fit well with the concept.
Pro Bowl selection is a traditional way!! When they put Deion Sanders info on NFL Network it says 8 time Pro Bowl Selection not 8 time Pro Bowl!!.
I think you should the word selection. Why change it now?!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.180.203.153 ( talk) 07:52, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Jayron, I was a little surprised at your recent response on the reference desk. I'm not a fan of bowdlerization or censorship, even applied to the lower tiers of academia; but perhaps you might review WP:TONE, given the situation? Unless the assignment is a review-paper of various cultural slangs and jargons about reproduction, a more encyclopedic term should probably be used. Even if this kid is trying to get out of doing his homework currently, we shouldn't provide him (or his teacher) any reason to discredit the Wikipedia reference desk. Nimur ( talk) 17:15, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Would you mind doing it again? Toddst1 ( talk) 03:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed you have edited and deleted some of my info on the Dumb Blondes page, although some of this may have been necessary I find most of it unnecessary and would have appreciated you informing or asking me first. I find wikipedia very complicated to use and admit there may need some 'tidying' to do, but find that some of the details you have deleted and/or edited were totally unnecessary. Why have the song links to youtube been removed? I thought there wasn't a problem with 'public' domains? also the link to the Sabbath website www.thesabbath.co.uk .
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Why the heck did you remove my question about Mega Man Legends 3? I am not a troll. I said please which is the magic word. I want answers please. I just want my question answer. That all I wanted. So please answer me. That the only that will make me happy. 69.131.127.253 ( talk) 05:10, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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"Please do not personally attack other users, or be incivil to them in any way..." As you did here: [1]. It would be best if you chose different ways to interact with other Wikipedia users. -- Jayron 32 01:35, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
is understood. While I have no time to check, I hope you also warned the "poor victim" to get off my back, especially after another skilled editor tried to defend me from him.-- Djathinkimacowboy what now?! 16:19, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Trivia question: Why does that user's name sound familiar? Hint: It's an old pop-culture reference. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:20, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I'm hoping I can get some advice or help in dealing with a new article pasted into the existing Needmore article. Needmore was a disambiguation page, and Needmore (disambiguation) redirects to it. An editor has inserted info about a band named Needmore in place of that disambiguation text. It seems to me that the disambiguation content should be moved to Needmore (disambiguation) and the band content created at either Needmore or Needmore (band). I frankly prefer the later. Advice? Thanks! -- Tgeairn ( talk) 04:36, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi could you rev del this pls? — Abhishek Talk 04:47, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
I've improved the edit notice on Wikipedia talk:Signatures. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:00, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
That CNN article I found says that Paterno is still a faculty member at Penn State. Check it out: [2] It quotes a statement by the board which says he is being allowed to retire. HangingCurve Swing for the fence 04:24, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. The IP 90.195.244.157 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) that you blocked a couple days ago has, sadly come back and resumed the exact same editing style. I place one more request to stop and learn rather than a warning but this has been ignored. I came to you first since you had some familiarity with the situation but if you would prefer me to go to AIV I will be happy to do so. Thanks for your time and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 16:00, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
User talk:184.22.125.24 vandalized John P. Surma again in the same way. Any ideas?
WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X ( submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 ( submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun ( submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
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[4]. Partly because I agree with the result, of course, but mostly because it was so well-thought out and well-explained. A well-considered close like that I'd be happy with even if I were on the opposite side. Let's hope she makes it worth the effort. 28bytes ( talk) 05:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
You can swipe their talk acccess as well - Calabe 1992 05:14, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
...for watching out for me. :) Freakin' neo-Nazis. >:( Reminds me of this [5] scene in The Blues Brothers. :) ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:51, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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This is concerning the revert on University of Tennessee Health Science Center from Feb 1. You referenced the page to use low resolution, but on the image page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:University_of_Tennessee_Health_Science_Center_logo.gif, it says "The logo is of a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the company or organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution." I admit to working for the organization, and the organization not being happy with the quality that is portrayed. The resolution used is 320x98, but since it is scaled done so much (the uploaded image is 942 × 288) the quality seriously degrades. I know that many other logos have both low resolution and high quality. Even changing out the logo from .gif to .jpg or .png would probably solve both of our concerns. I don't want to start changing the page since I am an employee, but want your advice in how to adhere to Wikipedia's policy but also allow for the quality of the brand to be reflected on the page. Thanks for the guidance. Ctbarber ( talk) 16:28, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I don't think that's quite what I said. I would restrict it to issues I am directly involved with. For example, the Russian IP farm that keeps trying to post copyright-violating Beatles recordings. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:58, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
39 to 25 in an on-going discussion, in which people were still debating the topic shortly before you closed it. And as was pointed out, at least a couple of those opposes seem to be ironic and not really serious. As it is, 60% is not an overwhelming majority, but the community was in the middle of the debate. Bugs voluntarily offering to avoid the boards for 1 month is irrelevant because people weren't discussing a 1 month topic ban. Knee-capping community discussions like this really doesn't help the community take care of itself. Why would people want to get involved in debate and solving problems if someone is just going to come along, close it down and declare the entire discussion null and void because the subject being discussed saw the writing on the wall and tried to make a plea bargain at the last minute?-- Crossmr ( talk) 23:42, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Jayron, need some help at David Larson. The article is under attack by multiple IP users and two newly registered editors, all of whom may be the same Miami area person. Page protection and vandalism warnings are needed. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 05:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Sure, Roux was the only one to technically break 3RR, but I was not a fan of the behavior of anyone involved in editing that section title. Can we unblock Roux or make things a little more equitable? NW ( Talk) 05:17, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I was in favor of unblocking until I saw this in the template talk history: [6]. It also appears he created a biased "straw poll" after the RFC to compete with the RFC. That was very confusing and that is what started the ANI thread in the first place. These tactics and his rank incivility are unacceptable and I request that you update his talk page so that he serves the entire 24 hours. – Lionel ( talk) 05:56, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
When a user deletes a discussion from his own user talk page, do not restore it. See WP:BLANKING. -- Jayron 32 05:28, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Jayron32,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:16, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
...and kudos for putting forward a concrete proposal. May I suggest supporting "as proposer" rather than "as nominator", however? It is a bit pedantic, I know, but there is no candidate editor (or article) here... Geometry guy 02:27, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron. I'm not sure how I managed it, but I did not see your post to my talk page until recently. I can clearly see you posted it several days ago, but for some reason, I failed to see it somehow. My apologies; I normally try to respond in a more timely fashion. I also normally try to respond like an adult who isn't missing his medication and I've failed at that as well. Your points are well considered and completely correct; regardless of whether your initial actions were right or wrong, there was no call for me to fly off the handle in that manner. I apologize completely. Matt Deres ( talk) 01:25, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I left you a message on the Entertainment Reference Desk. This is in regards to Nick Rodwell. I referred Google to you regarding that matter. I hope you got my message. 24.90.204.234 ( talk) 08:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron! A few updates for you about Wikipedia:Teahouse, since you're one of our awesome Teahouse hosts!:
Very exciting things are taking place, and we'll be opening the Teahouse no later than Monday. Feel free to ping me on or off wiki, and I can't wait to work with you to welcome new editors with a warm cup of tea :) SarahStierch ( talk) 03:29, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Carl Wilson.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 05:06, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
This was an article to which I was hounded to leading to an interaction ban at ANI. That user has now nominated this article (to which I was a major contributor) for deletion to further escalate as per his talk page note he made before and acknowledging it on talk, is this a ban violation? [11]. -- lTopGunl ( talk) 23:03, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Carl Wilson.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 06:49, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron! Great news: The Teahouse is open for business! We're ready to start inviting new users, answering questions and inspiring one another. If you haven't already taken a look at the links provided in the most recent Teahouse update, posted on your talk page, please do! Don't forget to add yourself to the Host page if you haven't already. What's next? Inviting hosts and reporting your invitation information.
See you at the Teahouse! SarahStierch ( talk) 18:41, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
would you like to join our diccuion at: User Talk:Worm That Turned/Adopt/Walter55024?-- Walter55024 ( talk) 22:15, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
okay.-- Walter55024 ( talk) 23:21, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was Grapple X ( submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was Tigerboy1966 ( submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were Ruby2010 ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), Miyagawa ( submissions) and Casliber ( submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 ( submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.
The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.
The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 00:00, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your queries ,hope I have clarified to you.I support retaining both WP:COI and WP:COIN in short . Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 14:03, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
On the Teahouse about image uploads! It's amazing how much I can learn from you and other Hosts about teaching others. I was overwhelming myself on figuring out a response :) Thanks! SarahStierch ( talk) 17:53, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Something sweet Ava Carrasco ( talk) 06:48, 6 March 2012 (UTC) |
I hate kittens. They're freaky.
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What was the Teahouse for? I really didn't know where it was,and i was looking towards it. :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ava Carrasco ( talk • contribs) 06:51, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
At the Teahouse. Thanks for helping us handle the swarm of new editor's! (A good kind of swarm!) Be sure to let new editor's know that you responded to them, I dropped off talkbacks for all the folks you answered. We have fancy Talkback for the Teahouse here: Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host_lounge/Templates#Teahouse_talk_back. I've been using the headline "You have a response at the Teahouse!" when I post one. Thanks again...viva le Teahouse! Sarah ( talk) 20:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
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A barnstar for your efforts at Wikipedia:Teahouse to help people navigate Wikipedia! Northamerica1000 (talk) 10:42, 8 March 2012 (UTC) |
Hi! Welcome to the first edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. Sarah ( talk) 16:05, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Have a look at User talk:Mauri96. Can you think of a reason why an autoblock would be firing for a user you blocked back in 2008? -- Step hen 04:00, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron, Thanks for that. I'm a Teahouse host, too, and as I received a question through email, I just wanted to make sure that others with that question could see an answer, so I added it to the question page. Thanks, again.-- Rosiestep ( talk) 04:48, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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Nice work at the Teahouse Q&A page. Tony (talk) 03:49, 17 March 2012 (UTC) |
I don't know what to tell ya Jayron. I think it's great that you went and tried to talk to him - and the fact that his "fail" at communication is a reflection on him .. not you. I guess fall back to the S.O.P.. ... develop consensus on the talk page >> wp:3o >> RfC, etc. The account has a block log history for edit warring, .. so you're likely up against someone who is going to dig his heels in. He's obviously not here to edit in a collaborative manner, so perhaps an RfC/U is in his future. The MOS guidelines have always been a tough sell here, be it dash vs. hyphens, if birds get "caps", or the format and linking of dates is the issue ... it often leads to a long, almost pathetic, exercise in trying to find a common ground or common sense. Personally I agree with The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American alternative rock band due to the nature of the "name" of the band being plural. I also understand that the "band" is considered a single entity - so I'm not sure how much I'd be willing to go to the mat on that individual item without some consensus building on the talk page. IMO - see what others have to say on the AN/I thread; but my red flag was the blatant attack on another editor. I understand that YOU personally don't get worked up over it, but it's simply not acceptable behavior, regardless of who the attack is on. (would you be so indifferent if he had responded to a new user that way?). Anyway - best of luck on it all, I'll watchlist a couple things for a few weeks and see how it goes. cheers. — Ched : ? 20:30, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Regarding this, [12] the bottom line is that you've got it right and he's got it wrong. And his insults about your alleged "ignorance" of English makes me think he's channeling Cuddy. (Speaking of which, whatever happened to Cuddly?) ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:30, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear Jayron32, I just asked a question at the Teahouse that you might have interest in! I hope you'll stop by and participate! Sarah ( talk) 01:29, 21 March 2012 (UTC) |
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Just look up the history of this article via user:fasttimes68 as far back as 2006 and you will see the abuse. I'm far from an expert on here and yes, I created an account today. I viewed but never signed on before until now because Wikipedia should not be used as a personal battleground for people who do not know the celebrities they are editing articles about, but have bizarre and frivolous issues regarding them. MikeHasIssues ( talk) 18:22, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
I've played with "sandboxes" and apparently they work. My username identifies my first name and that is more than other editors say for themselves. Is your name Jay? Did you read this user's long time history with the subject matter? If Wikipedia is to be taken seriously, users like that one need to be dealt with accordingly. MikeHasIssues ( talk) 18:56, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
???? What is you email? I can email you directly if that is what you mean. MikeHasIssues ( talk) 19:11, 28 March 2012 (UTC) |
Jayron, I'm new to Wikipedia and would like some advice from an Admin. Please feel free to be as critical as possible as I'm sure all that you suggest will be very helpful. Thank you for your time in advance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Awc32/sandbox Awc32 ( talk) 22:21, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Grapple X ( submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Casliber ( submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.
Congratulations to Matthewedwards ( submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to 12george1 ( submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Miyagawa ( submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!
It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:21, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sarah's Choice 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/Sarah's Choice (2nd nomination) 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 good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article.. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 22:17, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Jayron, I'm impressed with your knowledge of 19th-century European diplomatic history. Marco polo ( talk) 15:36, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there! I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify's
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Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:
coding
All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.
Stuff to look at
We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.
I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.
I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 17:19, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron32,
I dare you to block
me indefinitely and revoked talk page access as well! Also while you are here, get
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Would you be able to help at Allied Artists International? You appear to have familiarity with the problem. The article as it was "developed" by COI Warriorboy55, aka Kimball Dean Richards, gave a false impression that it had anything to do with Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists Pictures Corppration. It does not. This was all corrected, but Warrioboy55 simply used an anon IP to revert construction tags and every Los Angeles Times source in the reference section here [13], replacing the sources with self promoting web pages. I put a notice about it here [14], but I do have never posted at the Admin notice board before, and I do not know if this is the place I should ask for help. I have not had this kind of thing arise before. The behavior of Warriorboy55 and his proxy anon IP is exactly the same as the behavior of Allied Artists Kimball Dean RiIchards in the LA TiImes news stories in the properly sourced version here [15]. It might be helpful to read the quotes in the sources and you will understand what is going on. Thank you. PPdd ( talk) 06:39, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Kind of an odd question. I would have said that there is plenty of advice out there to never rub or otherwise touch your eyes without washing your hands first. Easier said than done, obviously. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:47, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
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Back on 28 March I closed a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, which I thought was finished with. You were one of the contributors to the discussion. Another editor later posted a further comment below the closed section, and, having read that comment, I decided that the issue was perhaps not as unambiguously finished as I had thought, so I reverted my closure. Nobody posted any more comments to the section, and it is now archived at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive744#Wiki user:Fasttimes68 is vandalizing pages referencing celebrity model Stephanie_Adams. However, an editor has now suggested that I should have informed those who contributed to the discussion that it had been reopened, so I am doing so. It is very likely that nobody had any more to add, but if you would have done so then I apologise for not informing you at the time. If you do wish to say any more about it then it will be necessary to open a new section at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, since the old one is archived. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron, I left you a note at Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Katie_piper_discussion. BTW, you've been here since dinosaurs roamed the earth, and your "32" confirms that. Don't you think it's time to upgrade, to at least 128 bits? I understand there's already a 512-bit Era! Get with it! Drmies ( talk) 16:57, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Well i just want to discuss with you individual for convenient. I have long known that electoral college is the one that count. I know how it works. Each state has its own amount of electoral college votes. Popular vote from each state will determine the electoral college votes from each state toward the president. I still confused on the results of 12th amendment. Before 12th amendment, the one who got the most electoral vote became president and the second runner up became VP. What you said is confusing: "the twelfth amendment seperated the elections for President and Vice President, so that each elector selects one person for President and another person for Vice President." This should says each elector selects both P and VP in a pair. "You vote for a President and his/her running mate together. That essentially assures that the electoral college will do so as well, however that isn't a product of the 12th amendment." Why isn't it part of 12th amendment? To keep it simple, the 12 amendment basically allow president and VP to run as a pair and voters have to vote for them in pair, right? (just respond on this page) 65.128.159.201 ( talk) 03:44, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, just a friendly notice. Please don't edit war to restore comments to talk pages that others have deleted as unhelpful, as you do here. [16] There's no reasonable way that this line of discussion on that page is going to lead to a change in the article or anything else productive. You're an admin so you're probably aware of the tension in WP:TALK between the caution about deleting comments, and another caution about using talk pages to make accusations against other editors. You may also be aware of article probation on the Obama pages here: WP:GS/BO. That balance has fallen, many times on the Obama pages, in favor of aggressively channeling talk page discussion in a productive direction. Whereas deleting comments is disfavored and controversial, contentiously reinserting deleted comments is often a bad idea too. There's a lot of history behind that including a rather botched arbcomm case, so it's best not to become WP:INVOLVED in that fray. I've been leaving friendly reminders on everybody's talk page, urging any editors who are there in good faith to take a step back and choose the least inflammatory thing to do rather than escalating things. Cheers, - Wikidemon ( talk) 01:34, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Speaking of good bass lines, I've thought for a while that if it were possible to bottle the bass line from the opening of Bob Marley's "Could You Be Loved", then the coffee business would go bankrupt. It sounds great first thing in the AM! Dismas| (talk) 02:06, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I notice you recently gave User:Bowei Huang 2 a final warning about some disruptive editing. He recently made a similar edit at Rights, and I thought you might like that brought to your attention. Nothing too harsh, but strange enough for me to look him up, and it seems like you're tracking a pattern, so... head up. -- Pfhorrest ( talk) 07:39, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's Casliber ( submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's Muboshgu ( submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.
65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both Matthewedwards ( submissions) and Grandiose ( submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, Ealdgyth ( submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article, Dana Boomer ( submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by Stone ( submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. Jarry1250 ( submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.
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Hey Jayron32/Archive22 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.
On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).
On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 23:37, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Keep comments such as the one you left me on ITN/c to yourself. I don't claim to be an expert in grammar usage, and for your information I am dyslexic and have always had trouble with my grammar. -- Τασουλα ( talk) 17:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron32! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 03:47, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
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Separate. S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E. With a f*cking A. Got it now? God damn. -- Broadside Perceptor ( talk) 20:57, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.
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Thanks, Jayron! If I interpret the guidelines correctly, the links are permissible. They do have a direct relevance to the substance of the article. I'm a newbie to Wikipedia (although not to writing), so I'm going to be asking lots of questions! Shandong44 ( talk) 21:21, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader, Grapple X ( submissions), is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall. Miyagawa ( submissions) leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by Casliber ( submissions), our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.
This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user, Muboshgu ( submissions), claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:35, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
I've sent you an email. Bred Ivy ( talk) 20:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
I think you should keep the word selection. I does make no sense to change it now!! It's traditon for years! When you watch NFL Network and Let's just say example Josh Cribbs under his it's say 2 time Pro Bowl Selection.
For the Major league profiles you have just put all-star in their profiles!! I understand selection for Major League Baseball players is odd but At least put MLB All-Star instead!! I think that's more appropriate. Just for in Blake Griffin's profile it says NBA All-Star not just typical All-Star. You know what I mean?
All I'm saying is why change it now!!! Putting Pro Bowl selection it's been on there for years and now all of a sudden it's to tacky to put the word selection now!! You see what I'm saying?
Now you are trying to take out the word selection now!! To me to take out selection and just putting typical Pro Bowl on theses NFL players Wikipedia profiles make's it tacky and wired. It doesn't fit well with the concept.
Pro Bowl selection is a traditional way!! When they put Deion Sanders info on NFL Network it says 8 time Pro Bowl Selection not 8 time Pro Bowl!!.
I think you should the word selection. Why change it now?!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.180.203.153 ( talk) 07:52, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
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Would you mind doing it again? Toddst1 ( talk) 03:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed you have edited and deleted some of my info on the Dumb Blondes page, although some of this may have been necessary I find most of it unnecessary and would have appreciated you informing or asking me first. I find wikipedia very complicated to use and admit there may need some 'tidying' to do, but find that some of the details you have deleted and/or edited were totally unnecessary. Why have the song links to youtube been removed? I thought there wasn't a problem with 'public' domains? also the link to the Sabbath website www.thesabbath.co.uk .
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Why the heck did you remove my question about Mega Man Legends 3? I am not a troll. I said please which is the magic word. I want answers please. I just want my question answer. That all I wanted. So please answer me. That the only that will make me happy. 69.131.127.253 ( talk) 05:10, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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"Please do not personally attack other users, or be incivil to them in any way..." As you did here: [1]. It would be best if you chose different ways to interact with other Wikipedia users. -- Jayron 32 01:35, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
is understood. While I have no time to check, I hope you also warned the "poor victim" to get off my back, especially after another skilled editor tried to defend me from him.-- Djathinkimacowboy what now?! 16:19, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Trivia question: Why does that user's name sound familiar? Hint: It's an old pop-culture reference. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:20, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I'm hoping I can get some advice or help in dealing with a new article pasted into the existing Needmore article. Needmore was a disambiguation page, and Needmore (disambiguation) redirects to it. An editor has inserted info about a band named Needmore in place of that disambiguation text. It seems to me that the disambiguation content should be moved to Needmore (disambiguation) and the band content created at either Needmore or Needmore (band). I frankly prefer the later. Advice? Thanks! -- Tgeairn ( talk) 04:36, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi could you rev del this pls? — Abhishek Talk 04:47, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
I've improved the edit notice on Wikipedia talk:Signatures. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:00, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
That CNN article I found says that Paterno is still a faculty member at Penn State. Check it out: [2] It quotes a statement by the board which says he is being allowed to retire. HangingCurve Swing for the fence 04:24, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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Re your comment at WP:HD about userspace protection: see WP:UPROT, which permits userspace protection upon request from the user. Nyttend ( talk) 00:52, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello. The IP 90.195.244.157 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) that you blocked a couple days ago has, sadly come back and resumed the exact same editing style. I place one more request to stop and learn rather than a warning but this has been ignored. I came to you first since you had some familiarity with the situation but if you would prefer me to go to AIV I will be happy to do so. Thanks for your time and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 16:00, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
User talk:184.22.125.24 vandalized John P. Surma again in the same way. Any ideas?
WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X ( submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 ( submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun ( submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
[4]. Partly because I agree with the result, of course, but mostly because it was so well-thought out and well-explained. A well-considered close like that I'd be happy with even if I were on the opposite side. Let's hope she makes it worth the effort. 28bytes ( talk) 05:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
You can swipe their talk acccess as well - Calabe 1992 05:14, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
...for watching out for me. :) Freakin' neo-Nazis. >:( Reminds me of this [5] scene in The Blues Brothers. :) ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:51, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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This is concerning the revert on University of Tennessee Health Science Center from Feb 1. You referenced the page to use low resolution, but on the image page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:University_of_Tennessee_Health_Science_Center_logo.gif, it says "The logo is of a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the company or organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution." I admit to working for the organization, and the organization not being happy with the quality that is portrayed. The resolution used is 320x98, but since it is scaled done so much (the uploaded image is 942 × 288) the quality seriously degrades. I know that many other logos have both low resolution and high quality. Even changing out the logo from .gif to .jpg or .png would probably solve both of our concerns. I don't want to start changing the page since I am an employee, but want your advice in how to adhere to Wikipedia's policy but also allow for the quality of the brand to be reflected on the page. Thanks for the guidance. Ctbarber ( talk) 16:28, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I don't think that's quite what I said. I would restrict it to issues I am directly involved with. For example, the Russian IP farm that keeps trying to post copyright-violating Beatles recordings. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:58, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
39 to 25 in an on-going discussion, in which people were still debating the topic shortly before you closed it. And as was pointed out, at least a couple of those opposes seem to be ironic and not really serious. As it is, 60% is not an overwhelming majority, but the community was in the middle of the debate. Bugs voluntarily offering to avoid the boards for 1 month is irrelevant because people weren't discussing a 1 month topic ban. Knee-capping community discussions like this really doesn't help the community take care of itself. Why would people want to get involved in debate and solving problems if someone is just going to come along, close it down and declare the entire discussion null and void because the subject being discussed saw the writing on the wall and tried to make a plea bargain at the last minute?-- Crossmr ( talk) 23:42, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Jayron, need some help at David Larson. The article is under attack by multiple IP users and two newly registered editors, all of whom may be the same Miami area person. Page protection and vandalism warnings are needed. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 05:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Sure, Roux was the only one to technically break 3RR, but I was not a fan of the behavior of anyone involved in editing that section title. Can we unblock Roux or make things a little more equitable? NW ( Talk) 05:17, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I was in favor of unblocking until I saw this in the template talk history: [6]. It also appears he created a biased "straw poll" after the RFC to compete with the RFC. That was very confusing and that is what started the ANI thread in the first place. These tactics and his rank incivility are unacceptable and I request that you update his talk page so that he serves the entire 24 hours. – Lionel ( talk) 05:56, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
When a user deletes a discussion from his own user talk page, do not restore it. See WP:BLANKING. -- Jayron 32 05:28, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Jayron32,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:16, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
...and kudos for putting forward a concrete proposal. May I suggest supporting "as proposer" rather than "as nominator", however? It is a bit pedantic, I know, but there is no candidate editor (or article) here... Geometry guy 02:27, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron. I'm not sure how I managed it, but I did not see your post to my talk page until recently. I can clearly see you posted it several days ago, but for some reason, I failed to see it somehow. My apologies; I normally try to respond in a more timely fashion. I also normally try to respond like an adult who isn't missing his medication and I've failed at that as well. Your points are well considered and completely correct; regardless of whether your initial actions were right or wrong, there was no call for me to fly off the handle in that manner. I apologize completely. Matt Deres ( talk) 01:25, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I left you a message on the Entertainment Reference Desk. This is in regards to Nick Rodwell. I referred Google to you regarding that matter. I hope you got my message. 24.90.204.234 ( talk) 08:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron! A few updates for you about Wikipedia:Teahouse, since you're one of our awesome Teahouse hosts!:
Very exciting things are taking place, and we'll be opening the Teahouse no later than Monday. Feel free to ping me on or off wiki, and I can't wait to work with you to welcome new editors with a warm cup of tea :) SarahStierch ( talk) 03:29, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Carl Wilson.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 05:06, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
This was an article to which I was hounded to leading to an interaction ban at ANI. That user has now nominated this article (to which I was a major contributor) for deletion to further escalate as per his talk page note he made before and acknowledging it on talk, is this a ban violation? [11]. -- lTopGunl ( talk) 23:03, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Carl Wilson.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 06:49, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron! Great news: The Teahouse is open for business! We're ready to start inviting new users, answering questions and inspiring one another. If you haven't already taken a look at the links provided in the most recent Teahouse update, posted on your talk page, please do! Don't forget to add yourself to the Host page if you haven't already. What's next? Inviting hosts and reporting your invitation information.
See you at the Teahouse! SarahStierch ( talk) 18:41, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
would you like to join our diccuion at: User Talk:Worm That Turned/Adopt/Walter55024?-- Walter55024 ( talk) 22:15, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
okay.-- Walter55024 ( talk) 23:21, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was Grapple X ( submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was Tigerboy1966 ( submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were Ruby2010 ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), Miyagawa ( submissions) and Casliber ( submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 ( submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.
The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.
The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 00:00, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your queries ,hope I have clarified to you.I support retaining both WP:COI and WP:COIN in short . Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 14:03, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
On the Teahouse about image uploads! It's amazing how much I can learn from you and other Hosts about teaching others. I was overwhelming myself on figuring out a response :) Thanks! SarahStierch ( talk) 17:53, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Something sweet Ava Carrasco ( talk) 06:48, 6 March 2012 (UTC) |
I hate kittens. They're freaky.
Ava Carrasco (
talk) 06:50, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
What was the Teahouse for? I really didn't know where it was,and i was looking towards it. :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ava Carrasco ( talk • contribs) 06:51, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
At the Teahouse. Thanks for helping us handle the swarm of new editor's! (A good kind of swarm!) Be sure to let new editor's know that you responded to them, I dropped off talkbacks for all the folks you answered. We have fancy Talkback for the Teahouse here: Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host_lounge/Templates#Teahouse_talk_back. I've been using the headline "You have a response at the Teahouse!" when I post one. Thanks again...viva le Teahouse! Sarah ( talk) 20:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
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A barnstar for your efforts at Wikipedia:Teahouse to help people navigate Wikipedia! Northamerica1000 (talk) 10:42, 8 March 2012 (UTC) |
Hi! Welcome to the first edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. Sarah ( talk) 16:05, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Have a look at User talk:Mauri96. Can you think of a reason why an autoblock would be firing for a user you blocked back in 2008? -- Step hen 04:00, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron, Thanks for that. I'm a Teahouse host, too, and as I received a question through email, I just wanted to make sure that others with that question could see an answer, so I added it to the question page. Thanks, again.-- Rosiestep ( talk) 04:48, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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Nice work at the Teahouse Q&A page. Tony (talk) 03:49, 17 March 2012 (UTC) |
I don't know what to tell ya Jayron. I think it's great that you went and tried to talk to him - and the fact that his "fail" at communication is a reflection on him .. not you. I guess fall back to the S.O.P.. ... develop consensus on the talk page >> wp:3o >> RfC, etc. The account has a block log history for edit warring, .. so you're likely up against someone who is going to dig his heels in. He's obviously not here to edit in a collaborative manner, so perhaps an RfC/U is in his future. The MOS guidelines have always been a tough sell here, be it dash vs. hyphens, if birds get "caps", or the format and linking of dates is the issue ... it often leads to a long, almost pathetic, exercise in trying to find a common ground or common sense. Personally I agree with The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American alternative rock band due to the nature of the "name" of the band being plural. I also understand that the "band" is considered a single entity - so I'm not sure how much I'd be willing to go to the mat on that individual item without some consensus building on the talk page. IMO - see what others have to say on the AN/I thread; but my red flag was the blatant attack on another editor. I understand that YOU personally don't get worked up over it, but it's simply not acceptable behavior, regardless of who the attack is on. (would you be so indifferent if he had responded to a new user that way?). Anyway - best of luck on it all, I'll watchlist a couple things for a few weeks and see how it goes. cheers. — Ched : ? 20:30, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Regarding this, [12] the bottom line is that you've got it right and he's got it wrong. And his insults about your alleged "ignorance" of English makes me think he's channeling Cuddy. (Speaking of which, whatever happened to Cuddly?) ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:30, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear Jayron32, I just asked a question at the Teahouse that you might have interest in! I hope you'll stop by and participate! Sarah ( talk) 01:29, 21 March 2012 (UTC) |
find someone else to discuss this with. We are through interacting |
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Just look up the history of this article via user:fasttimes68 as far back as 2006 and you will see the abuse. I'm far from an expert on here and yes, I created an account today. I viewed but never signed on before until now because Wikipedia should not be used as a personal battleground for people who do not know the celebrities they are editing articles about, but have bizarre and frivolous issues regarding them. MikeHasIssues ( talk) 18:22, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
I've played with "sandboxes" and apparently they work. My username identifies my first name and that is more than other editors say for themselves. Is your name Jay? Did you read this user's long time history with the subject matter? If Wikipedia is to be taken seriously, users like that one need to be dealt with accordingly. MikeHasIssues ( talk) 18:56, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
???? What is you email? I can email you directly if that is what you mean. MikeHasIssues ( talk) 19:11, 28 March 2012 (UTC) |
Jayron, I'm new to Wikipedia and would like some advice from an Admin. Please feel free to be as critical as possible as I'm sure all that you suggest will be very helpful. Thank you for your time in advance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Awc32/sandbox Awc32 ( talk) 22:21, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Grapple X ( submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Casliber ( submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.
Congratulations to Matthewedwards ( submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to 12george1 ( submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Miyagawa ( submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!
It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:21, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sarah's Choice 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/Sarah's Choice (2nd nomination) 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 good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article.. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 22:17, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Jayron, I'm impressed with your knowledge of 19th-century European diplomatic history. Marco polo ( talk) 15:36, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there! I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify's
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Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:
coding
All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.
Stuff to look at
We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.
I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.
I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 17:19, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron32,
I dare you to block
me indefinitely and revoked talk page access as well! Also while you are here, get
MuZemike to indefinitely block my IP address as well! —Preceding
undated comment added 02:11, 5 April 2012 (UTC).
Would you be able to help at Allied Artists International? You appear to have familiarity with the problem. The article as it was "developed" by COI Warriorboy55, aka Kimball Dean Richards, gave a false impression that it had anything to do with Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists Pictures Corppration. It does not. This was all corrected, but Warrioboy55 simply used an anon IP to revert construction tags and every Los Angeles Times source in the reference section here [13], replacing the sources with self promoting web pages. I put a notice about it here [14], but I do have never posted at the Admin notice board before, and I do not know if this is the place I should ask for help. I have not had this kind of thing arise before. The behavior of Warriorboy55 and his proxy anon IP is exactly the same as the behavior of Allied Artists Kimball Dean RiIchards in the LA TiImes news stories in the properly sourced version here [15]. It might be helpful to read the quotes in the sources and you will understand what is going on. Thank you. PPdd ( talk) 06:39, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Welcome to the second edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
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Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Jayron32. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click
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Kind of an odd question. I would have said that there is plenty of advice out there to never rub or otherwise touch your eyes without washing your hands first. Easier said than done, obviously. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:47, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32, just pinging you from the land of the Teahouse to say hi and that we haven't seen you for a while! We'd still love to have you participate as a host, but I also understand that we (Wikipedians!) do get busy sometimes with other things, on and off-wiki. If you'd like to still participate, great! We'd love your help answering questions and inviting editors to the Teahouse. If you don't think you have the time to participate right now, no problem, just please let me know! Thanks Jayron32! Sarah ( talk) 22:57, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Back on 28 March I closed a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, which I thought was finished with. You were one of the contributors to the discussion. Another editor later posted a further comment below the closed section, and, having read that comment, I decided that the issue was perhaps not as unambiguously finished as I had thought, so I reverted my closure. Nobody posted any more comments to the section, and it is now archived at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive744#Wiki user:Fasttimes68 is vandalizing pages referencing celebrity model Stephanie_Adams. However, an editor has now suggested that I should have informed those who contributed to the discussion that it had been reopened, so I am doing so. It is very likely that nobody had any more to add, but if you would have done so then I apologise for not informing you at the time. If you do wish to say any more about it then it will be necessary to open a new section at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, since the old one is archived. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron, I left you a note at Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Katie_piper_discussion. BTW, you've been here since dinosaurs roamed the earth, and your "32" confirms that. Don't you think it's time to upgrade, to at least 128 bits? I understand there's already a 512-bit Era! Get with it! Drmies ( talk) 16:57, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Well i just want to discuss with you individual for convenient. I have long known that electoral college is the one that count. I know how it works. Each state has its own amount of electoral college votes. Popular vote from each state will determine the electoral college votes from each state toward the president. I still confused on the results of 12th amendment. Before 12th amendment, the one who got the most electoral vote became president and the second runner up became VP. What you said is confusing: "the twelfth amendment seperated the elections for President and Vice President, so that each elector selects one person for President and another person for Vice President." This should says each elector selects both P and VP in a pair. "You vote for a President and his/her running mate together. That essentially assures that the electoral college will do so as well, however that isn't a product of the 12th amendment." Why isn't it part of 12th amendment? To keep it simple, the 12 amendment basically allow president and VP to run as a pair and voters have to vote for them in pair, right? (just respond on this page) 65.128.159.201 ( talk) 03:44, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, just a friendly notice. Please don't edit war to restore comments to talk pages that others have deleted as unhelpful, as you do here. [16] There's no reasonable way that this line of discussion on that page is going to lead to a change in the article or anything else productive. You're an admin so you're probably aware of the tension in WP:TALK between the caution about deleting comments, and another caution about using talk pages to make accusations against other editors. You may also be aware of article probation on the Obama pages here: WP:GS/BO. That balance has fallen, many times on the Obama pages, in favor of aggressively channeling talk page discussion in a productive direction. Whereas deleting comments is disfavored and controversial, contentiously reinserting deleted comments is often a bad idea too. There's a lot of history behind that including a rather botched arbcomm case, so it's best not to become WP:INVOLVED in that fray. I've been leaving friendly reminders on everybody's talk page, urging any editors who are there in good faith to take a step back and choose the least inflammatory thing to do rather than escalating things. Cheers, - Wikidemon ( talk) 01:34, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Speaking of good bass lines, I've thought for a while that if it were possible to bottle the bass line from the opening of Bob Marley's "Could You Be Loved", then the coffee business would go bankrupt. It sounds great first thing in the AM! Dismas| (talk) 02:06, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I notice you recently gave User:Bowei Huang 2 a final warning about some disruptive editing. He recently made a similar edit at Rights, and I thought you might like that brought to your attention. Nothing too harsh, but strange enough for me to look him up, and it seems like you're tracking a pattern, so... head up. -- Pfhorrest ( talk) 07:39, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's Casliber ( submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's Muboshgu ( submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.
65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both Matthewedwards ( submissions) and Grandiose ( submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, Ealdgyth ( submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article, Dana Boomer ( submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by Stone ( submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. Jarry1250 ( submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.
An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, " Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank Jarry1250 ( submissions) and Stone ( submissions), for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:14, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Jayron32/Archive22 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.
On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).
On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 23:37, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Keep comments such as the one you left me on ITN/c to yourself. I don't claim to be an expert in grammar usage, and for your information I am dyslexic and have always had trouble with my grammar. -- Τασουλα ( talk) 17:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron32! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 03:47, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
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Separate. S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E. With a f*cking A. Got it now? God damn. -- Broadside Perceptor ( talk) 20:57, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.
The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.
Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 13:31, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you!
Vibhabamba (
talk) 06:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi! We're seeking your feedback as a current or formal host at the Teahouse about the project. Please stop by and lend your voice at your convenience, here. Thanks :) Sarah ( talk) 20:02, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, Jayron! If I interpret the guidelines correctly, the links are permissible. They do have a direct relevance to the substance of the article. I'm a newbie to Wikipedia (although not to writing), so I'm going to be asking lots of questions! Shandong44 ( talk) 21:21, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader, Grapple X ( submissions), is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall. Miyagawa ( submissions) leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by Casliber ( submissions), our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.
This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user, Muboshgu ( submissions), claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:35, 31 May 2012 (UTC)