..to patrol
this case which is a no-brainer as checkuser has confirmed sock of banned user. Those who know about this case are involved. The sock remains unblocked. Cheers,
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 18:09, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, Jayron.
I was quite surprised at the spleen with which you seem to have invested your answer to the question about the pronunciation of Celtics. On the one hand you give those who use the hard C the choice between being idiots or pretentious pricks, which is not great. But on the other hand, you say that neither /keltic/ nor /seltic/ is wrong. Those two statements just don't sit well together.
If it's not wrong to say /keltic/ - whether that be at a Boston Celtics game or anywhere else - then it seems to me that if anyone got upset about it, they'd be the ones more deserving of those names you used, not the speaker of the word.
Or are you saying that neither pronunciation is wrong per se, but one must pick and choose where to use them appropriately? I could certainly support that statement. For example, I'm a proud /kelt/ and I don't like being called a /selt/, but if I went to a Celtics game, I'd certainly be saying /seltics/ because when in Rome ...
By the way, a word to the wise. If you're going to be referring to others as idiots, writing "that's your" when you really mean "that you're" sort of invites people who have not come across you before to wonder just who the real idiot is - and we can't have that.
Cheers. -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ [your turn] 06:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
This edit summary genuinely made me laugh out loud :-) -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 19:19, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Sarah ( talk) 22:51, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
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I, Sarah, hereby award you, Jayron, the Teahouse Barnstar for your valued participation in the Teahouse pilot. Your reputation for assisting new editors precedes you, and I like to think the Teahouse has provided an additional outlet for your savvy skills at supporting others. I look forward to your continued participation at the Teahouse and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia the invaluable resource it is! Sarah ( talk) 00:32, 12 June 2012 (UTC) |
Hi! Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter for the Teahouse!
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I was just wondering if you were aware of the Teahouse Talkback Script that allows you to leave a talkback notice without having to first navigate away from the teahouse page? Ryan Vesey Review me! 15:51, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello Jayron32,
I want to write a new article about the musician Doc Jazz and got this message:
"A page with this title has previously been deleted. If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below. 03:07, 11 September 2010 Jayron32 (talk | contribs) deleted page Doc Jazz (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content): I checked the author's claims of article on Dutch Wikipedia. It is nearly identical to this one, and thus adds nothing to claims of signif)"
The version I'm writing is not the same as the Dutch one at all. I would like to upload the article can you tell me if there were any other matters that were subject to your decision to delete the article besides the content being the same as the Dutch version? Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Justice1st — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justice1st ( talk • contribs) 12:58, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32. Thank you for your suggestion on how to write the article. I took your advice and wrote the article using the userspace draft. I could use some help though. The layout looks different in the preview then it does in the space where I wrote the article. The spaces between the paragraphs are too narrow and the references are all in one line in stead of each numbered reference starting a new line. Could you please help me? And also if you have any other feedback I would love to hear it. Thank you! — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Justice1st (
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contribs) 16:34, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32. If you have time could you please check the message above this one and let me know if you can help me out with the article I wrote? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justice1st ( talk • contribs) 15:31, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32, thank you for your excellent feedback. I have submitted the article. I also wanted to let you know that all the links I refer to in my article are by mainstream media. Now all I have to do is wait for the editor to improve my article. I want to thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justice1st ( talk • contribs) 18:32, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you answered my question yesterday (in the teahouse) about making my sandbox practice into a real article (why does this sound like the Velveteen Rabbit?) by moving it. BUT the move it page information makes me think I might lose my sandbox, or that my sandbox will somehow become part of the article... Moreover, among all the reasons for moving a page, my reason doesn't seem to be on the list. So before I do something dumb, can you help me? BThomascall ( talk) 13:57, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jay. I saw that you attended a Raleigh meetup and wondered if you were interested in participating in the 2012 North Carolina PR & Marketing Seminar to educate PR professionals on COI issues. This is me and more on me here. You can see some of my COI works here, here and here. They invited me to speak on a session on Wikipedia ethics for marketing professionals in a sort of panel discussion of sorts and it would be great to get a local Wikipedian there. Are you local to the triangle and potentially interested in participating? User:King4057 01:47, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Apologies for the lateness of this letter; our usual bot wasn't working. We are now entering round 4, our semi-finals, and have our final 16. A score of 243 was required to reach this round; significantly more than 2011's 76 points, and only a little behind 2010's 250 points. By comparison, last year, 150 points in round 4 secured a place in the final; in 2010, 430 were needed. Commiserations to Pool A's igordebraga ( submissions), who scored 242 points, missing out on a place in the round by a whisker. However, congratulations to Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions), whose television articles have brought him another round victory. Pool A's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) came second overall, with an impressive list of biological did you knows, good articles and featured articles. Third overall was Pool D's Muboshgu ( submissions), with a long list of contibutions, mostly relating to baseball. Of course, with the points resetting every round, the playing field has been levelled. The most successful Pool was Pool D, which saw seven into the final round. Pool B saw four, C saw three and Pool A saw only the two round leaders.
A quick note about other competitions taking place on Wikipedia which may be of interest. There are 13 days remaining in the June-July GAN backlog elimination drive, but it is not too late to take part. August will also see the return of The Core Contest- a one month long competition first run in 2007. While the WikiCup awards points for audited content on any subject, The Core Contest about is raw article improvement, focussing heavily on the most important articles on Wikipedia. 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) 10:58, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
For legal reasons, can I get my accounts renamed or deleted?
If not, I'll have to get legal aid to remove or rename them per right to vanish policy.
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Grace Saunders/Archive
3-FreeBee ( talk) 15:19, 23 June 2012 (UTC) Moved from your user page - Dank ( push to talk) 16:17, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I have quoted you and mentioned your name at this this ANI thread. Peace.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 13:44, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Could you do a quick semi-protect on Sage Stallone?-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 02:51, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. I listed it for PP and also left a note at ANI about admin being bold and just slapping a protection on in such cases. I have seen them revert without protecting.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 03:32, 18 July 2012 (UTC) Done
What's repoly.? 14.97.56.134 ( talk) 00:37, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey, what's the meaning of this idiom more than you can shake a stick at? Xentram ( talk) 00:59, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
You may find it interesting that the recent gibberish on the miscellaneous ref desk has appeared under the name of a brand new editor who saw fit to erase his own autosignature here: [2]. I smell a duck. μηδείς ( talk) 03:55, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Please when you have a reference, please insert it into the article. Talking about american football reference
Are custom speedy deletion rationales no longer allowed or something?— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 20:57, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Your Wikification Newsletter – Volume II, Issue I, July 2012
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Hi there! I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify's
August Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. We'll be trying to reduce the backlog and we need your help! Hard-working participants in the drive will receive
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Jayron Thanks for finding this wonderful book on the Dunmore War. I am looking for Peter Hull and Peter Zickafoose. They served under a commander named Wilson who was killed at Point Pleasant. They were Roll #64 for Augusta County in West Virginia. They were listed as being paid in the Dunmore War in 1774 and not the American Revolution in 1775. We are trying to find them to verify information for acceptance in the DAR. Any other help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Moseleysr ( talk) 02:49, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X ( submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu ( submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 ( submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.
Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! 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) 22:26, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi! We're dropping you this rather unexpected message on your talk page because you signed up (either quite a while ago or rather recently) to be a member of the Vandalism Studies project. Sadly, the project fell into semi-retirement a few years ago, but as part of a new plan to fix up the Counter-Vandalism Unit, we're bringing back the Vandalism Studies project, with a new study planned for Late 2012! But we need your help. Are you still interested in working with us on this project? Then please sign up today! (even if you signed up previously, you'll still need to sign up again - we're redoing our member list in order to not harass those who are no longer active on the Wiki - sorry!) If you have any questions, please leave them on this page. Thanks, and we can't wait to bring the project back to life! - Theopolisme ( talk) & Dan653 ( talk), Coordinators
I think I piggybacked your protection somehow. I was setting it for 3 hours semi-protection. Feel free to change it to whatever it was you were setting it for. Weird, thought it would had prompted me that you had just done it. Kindly Calmer Waters 03:44, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).
The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.
I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 20:09, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
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Cheers, and thanks for your doublebuttcheekalicious answer to my half-assed query. Drmies ( talk) 05:18, 6 August 2012 (UTC) |
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I found the block reason pretty amusing. Good work! -- Luke (Talk) 00:53, 8 August 2012 (UTC) |
Hey all :)
A couple of new things.
First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.
On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right.
It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 00:12, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi! There is an ongoing proposal at the project talkpage concerning the future of wikification, including possible deprecation of the {{ wikify}} template which is being discussed at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 August 10. Your input would be greatly appreciated!
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Thought you might be interested in weighing in on the invites v. welcomes thread?
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I made i promise i wouldn't, and that's why i didn't. :P benzband ( talk) 20:21, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Jayron,
I think the question I reverted is actually pretty clear vandalism/trolling. You just have to look at the first revision the IP made to see it. Did you see this revision? - J-Mo Talk to Me Email Me 05:16, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello- Thanks for the additions and updates to this navbox! I was really hoping others would contribute to make them better. I only have up the VA and NC ones right now because I know the most about those. I made them for most states if you want to give them a look, just look for "Template:Music venues of [State]" I like that you added venues, also that you made the categories a little more accurate, I might do that with some others as well. Thanks again! UselessToRemain ( talk) 17:29, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
SarahStierch ( talk) 06:12, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hiyo. Re: that reference desk thread. I'm contemplating writing a note on the talkpage of each of those 3 existing lists (and/or their main "concert tour" lists), inviting the editors to consider merging the sub-lists, and pointing to the referencedesk thread as a rationale for merging. Good plan? Any suggestions or advice before I do so? Ta :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 07:48, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello, members of the
Vandalism Studies Project! As some of us are quite new with the Vandalism Studies project, it would make sense for us to re-read some of the past studies, as well as
studies outside the project. Please do so if you have a chance, just so we can get into the groove of things. We're planning on attempting to salvage the Obama study (or possibly simply convert it to a new Romney study), as well as hopefully begin our
third study this November. If you have any ideas for Study 3,
please suggest them! If you have any questions please post them on the
project talk page. Thanks, and happy editing - we can't wait to begin working on the project! --
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For this help desk edit summary. Really brightened up my watch list :D Mdann52 ( talk) 19:11, 24 August 2012 (UTC) |
Just want to clarify that I wasn't suggesting that you were saying what happened at that image at ITN wasn't a BLP violation. It's just that the discussion suggested the possibility there were people who did think so. (I was really not sure of the best place to indent that comment, which may have made it seem more directed at you than I meant it.) Heimstern Läufer (talk) 09:49, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
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This edit summary here: [3] genuinely made me laugh loud :-) Certainly lightened up my watchlist. Mr.Wikipediania ( Stalk • Talk) 14:44, 26 August 2012 (UTC) |
The earth, broadly construed, would include all of the oceans and land areas, but we'd probably need an RfC on whether the atmosphere is covered.
(On a more serious note, there actually have occasionally been proposals to apply DS to all national and ethnical disputes between neighboring countries or regions, rather than wait for the disputes to flare up one-by-one....) Newyorkbrad ( talk) 01:45, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 20:26, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am from the Reference Desk, and I am the asker who has inquired the following question: Is a Unitarian Universalist church a religious organization or an interfaith organization?
I just have some follow-up questions concerning your Southern Baptist faith and lifestyle, and they are of a personal nature. Hope you don't mind the personal questions. Out of curiosity, do you really, really, really allow atheists to sit in a pew at your church, and under what conditions do you allow them to sit at your church? Have you tried to advertise your faith by handing out free brochures or cards about your church? There are Christians on my college campus who love to do that and try to advertise their church group everywhere, handing out free goodies (cards, brochures, candies, sodas, freezer pops, etc.). Even if Christians are promoting charity work, they always use that time to advertise their church group. Sometimes, I wonder how these Christians obtain the money required to fund promotionals, but I suppose churches require Christians to pay tithes, an obligatory 10% of their income to serve God or the church. I also wonder if Christians tend to put a higher importance on advertisement of their church group more than actually helping people and caring about others. How many people are there in your church? I am just wondering, because I would assume that the population size of a church matters. Perhaps, smaller churches are more likely to notice someone new in the congregation, whereas bigger churches are more likely ignore newcomers/visitors. Do you attend a big church or a small church? If an unfamiliar person enters your church building on a Sunday worship day, sits in a pew in the back of the room out of sight and out of mind from the rest of the crowd and then leaves surreptitiously and continues this strange habit every Sunday due to a strange interest in hearing sermons or experiencing a culture that he may have never experienced before despite his personal irreligiosity or atheism, then would you get a little suspicious or really not bother at all? I just want to know personally, because I am wondering if it is possible to sit in a pew without getting noticed. 75.185.79.52 ( talk) 00:53, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Interesting exchange of information this is. I am not a Christian, though I grew up attending church. Both as an atheist adult and a church-going child, I have attended services in many Christian denominations, as well as Jewish synagogues, all for a variety of reasons. In none of them did I have to disguise myself in any way or pretend to any belief I did not have. When it was obvious to those around me (as when in a synagogue) I had no idea what to do or when to do it, the people around me would hand me the appropriate texts, open to the appropriate page, and point out the current readings or hymns/songs. You can pray in any posture from kneeling with a bowed head and closed eyes, hands in the "palms together, fingers at the chin" position to staring around the room while seated, eyes wide open. No one will either comment or care. As long as you are quiet during the quiet times, and not flagrantly disrespectful, you will be left with your own thoughts. If you want to talk with adherents before or after the service/gathering, anyone in the group will engage you and, if not feeling competent to respond to your queries, will direct you to someone who will be.
If you want to slip into the back row and slip out again before anyone has an opportunity to speak to you, there is no problem in doing so; just close the doors quietly behind you. (Oh, yes, on a lighter note, while you are not required to put anything into the offertory plate when it passes where you are seated, it is really bad manners to take anything out -except by way of change for a large bill.) Bielle ( talk) 03:21, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Implicit threats of violence. Thank you. Reaper Eternal ( talk) 17:28, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Two pieces of advice:
1. Please note that we italicize the parentheses in "(pictured)".
2. I assume that you uploaded a smaller version of the image under a different name (instead of uploading the full-resolution version under its Commons name) because of a slow connection speed. In such a circumstance, a better solution is to preview a 100x100px transclusion and use the resultant thumbnail. That way, the download and upload will be even faster, and there will be no extra generation loss (because the exact 100x100px file will appear on the main page, with no further scaling).
Thanks! — David Levy 19:53, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello again! Please see Wikipedia talk:In the news#Option D: Only the most recent blurb should have an image. (As reflected in the messages there, I initially believed that BorgQueen initiated the straw poll and requested this clarification from her.) Thanks! — David Levy 23:31, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Jayron, it was indeed him. Alabamaboy1992 ( talk) 19:10, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
The final is upon us! We are down to our final 8. A massive 573 was our lowest qualifying score; this is higher than the 150 points needed last year and the 430 needed in 2010. Even in 2009, when points were acquired for mainspace edit count in addition to audited content, 417 points secured a place. That leaves this year's WikiCup, by one measure at least, our most competitive ever. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:
However, we must also say goodbye to the eight who did not make the final, having fallen at the last hurdle: GreatOrangePumpkin ( submissions), Ealdgyth ( submissions), Calvin999 ( submissions), Piotrus ( submissions), Toa Nidhiki05 ( submissions), 12george1 ( submissions), The Bushranger ( submissions) and 1111tomica ( submissions). We hope to see you all next year.
On the subject of next year, a discussion has been opened here. Come and have your say about the competition, and how you'd like it to run in the future. This brainstorming will go on for some time before more focused discussions/polls are opened. 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) 00:16, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron. I don't think Keelan717 is anything other than a very new, and possibly very young user. He was asking on IRC how to transclude his RfB. Nevertheless, after checking recent edits and following up on his IP, there may be some SPI on the way. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 15:38, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
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Does our 76.16.47.115 friend need some "administrative support" to help cure his RefDesk posting habit? The Masked Booby ( talk) 03:36, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
--The Olive Branch 19:09, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm assuming this is your form of humor? Everyone knows I don't do homework. Viriditas ( talk) 03:59, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
I notice that you constantly provide high-quality responses at the reference desks. Are you always familiar with the topics that you respond to and are the resident polymath or do you perform research before responding? I am insanely envious of your erudition either way. Ankh. Morpork 15:54, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Cross-examination at court hearing:Mr. Jayron32, you "claim" to have majored in chemistry. Can you back this up? If you truly did major in the wonderful world of atoms and molecules, then please answer the following problem: 4 NH3 + 5 O2 --> 4 NO + 6 H20
Given 1.50 grams of ammonia, 2.75 grams of oxygen...
A) How many grams of NO and H2O form?
B) How many grams of the excess reactant are left over?
C) Show that the calculations in the previous two steps obey the law of conservation of mass.
Kidding, you don't have to do it! But if you want the answers...
NO = 2.06 grams
H2O = 1.86 grams
.332 grams of the excess reactant (ammonia)
If 2.75 + 1.5 = 4.25 and 4.25-3.92 = .33, then we know it obeyed the law. Alternatively, .332 + 2.06 + 1.86 = 4.25
-- Activism 1234 03:03, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Jayron. I've heard that it's impossible to delete the main page. Since I don't have the sysop permission, could you possibly go ahead and try it for me? -- Shirt58 ( talk) 03:35, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
"I'm as technical as a stale can of beer," is my new favorite quote. And you're more technical than you think, I bet. :) Enjoy a non-stale wiki beer!! SarahStierch ( talk) 04:39, 7 September 2012 (UTC) |
Interesting to see you have "chosen" to change the color of your signature: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:In_the_news&curid=485213&diff=511255697&oldid=511219722 μηδείς ( talk) 18:33, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
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I tend to be a bit shy about this interaction stuff, but I was so impressed with your tracking down the answer to this that I thought you really should have one of these. Very nice indeed. Ka renjc 21:59, 8 September 2012 (UTC) |
I'll just point out that I am being criticized for treating Dewan357 as if he is banned. You opposing his ban but saying he is already banned is going to be an interesting point in consensus finding. If you believe I was correct to treat him as banned, it might be helpful to say so, as this discussion is turning into a referendum on the way I treat indefinitely blocked editors as much as it is a discussion on this individual ban.— Kww( talk) 00:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:14, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Did you take time to read my reply to Alf in the ANI? I'll probably disagree with you on this then, but I think such hostile behauvior after banning deserves an ANI and threats about "investigating" other users and "media coverage coming" is pretty frightening. Having the chance that something may reveal your real identity – not a nice feeling to know distruptive editors acting as "investigators" are allowed to do that. I thought that was a very serious thing about what I started that ANI about. Guess I was wrong. -- Pudeo ' 00:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
I actually didn't meant to be offensive. Are you ready for IPv6? ( talk) 07:36, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Now that the article is on probation, which would seem to be the most favored option at the ANI discussion, isn't it time to drop the protection to semiprotected? Sure, there was edit warring, but a fair amount of it was consensus-seeking and productive; and protecting the article clearly threw that baby out with the bathwater. (you can reply here) Homunq ( talk) 18:00, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi!, thank you for answering my question on Humanities so fast. I'm eager to contribute to articles that I like, such as that of Canadian actor Cory Monteith, and I asked a question on the Help Desk about him and his possible categories, could you check my question please?. I won't bother you again, I promise. But I'm eager to contribute and nobody answers! LOL. Thank you. Timothyhere ( talk) 19:57, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
AndyTheGrump ( talk) 21:53, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Could you please link me to such desk? I was told it exists. Thank you. I have a couple of questions to ask. Timothyhere ( talk) 20:40, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
anyway.-- GoShow ( ...............) 04:26, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Okay, I'll admit it made me laugh. But lame or not, it's where we are. One of the case participants has expressed the concern that it's disruptive (which it obviously is — I get it, that's the point). But, the poll is the product of over a month of negotiation, so would you object very strongly if I took it out? Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 01:05, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron, This happened more than two weeks ago, so it's probably too late to do anything useful, but umm. I just noticed when going through my contributions that I apparently reverted one of your posts on the refdesk, and I have no idea why - I can see nothing whatsoever wrong with your post, plus if there was something wrong with a post I'd usually reply or bring the issue to your talkpage instead of blindly reverting. I can find no talkpage discussion about that thread or about my removal, so I really have no idea why I reverted you - the most probable explanation is that I accidentally clicked on "rollback" without noticing - and then apparently nobody else noticed what I did, so your post was removed without any comment and without ever being re-inserted - sorry about that, I have no idea how that could have happened. -- Ferkelparade π 18:32, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Please don't keep calling them my stars. The were invented by someone else long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away. I have no claim on the template. μηδείς ( talk) 18:07, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Please explain why, in your opinion, a co-operative project should have any tolerance for such blatant rudeness as you have demonstrated this evening from its administrators. Kevin McE ( talk) 21:25, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I can't prove it to you: I can only ask you to trust that IP 87.113 is not me. Thank you for your message at my talk page: hope to have more productive dealings with you in the future. Kevin McE ( talk) 06:17, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
"... but how do we get the chicken to wear the rubber pants?" -- Orange Mike | Talk 15:59, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi dear, I created his article, Toakai Teitoi, do you think it could be suitable for DYK? Please answer back. Thank you. Timothyhere ( talk) 17:46, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm not lucky today. To be honest I just wanted to make Kiribati famous because I myself am a Kiribati Islander. Timothyhere ( talk) 17:53, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Many don't even know where we are. You knew? Timothyhere ( talk) 17:55, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Yes, fortunately, and now that you know that I'm a I-Kiribati, I'm not native English speaker, it's a lie on my user page, I speak gilbertese and fluent English but didn't find the template of gilbertese I tried to look for it. Timothyhere ( talk) 18:03, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Now at Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors#Errors_in_In_the_news.-- Chaser ( talk) 02:46, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I know I already thanked you under your response to my question about COI and my Ars Nova article, but just wanted to say that your response really made me feel a lot better about the whole process. Even if my article isn't approved, everything you said about it appearing to fit in well with the Wikipedia style gave me a major lift, after spending nearly two full days worrying about it doing so. You seem like a really great person and a fair and patient editor (or, at least, newbie caretaker), and I'm happy to have interacted with you. :-) RunnerOnIce ( talk) 02:30, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Jayron32,
I noticed that you recently proposed a cage-fight to the death in helping resolve certain disputes. Another admin, The Blade of the Northern Lights, agreed with this.
It sounds to me like a fascinating idea. I was wondering, however, how would it be implemented? Would it be a real cage fight - or some online duel? The idea obviously has traction amongst editors and admins - do you think we should open an RfC on it?
Some humor can go a long way!
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Hey Jayron32. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.
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I reckon you're owed an award for niceness for this friendly, thoughtful and accurate explanation of policy to a newbie, especially when the standard impersonal advice had already been offered. Yunshui 雲 水 14:05, 25 September 2012 (UTC) |
I can see this one is going to be a challenge. That's twice within an hour he's asked the same question about conflict, I'm not sure he's grasped how to edit a section on the question page - just keeps using the ask a question button. NtheP ( talk) 20:08, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello Jayron32! I am looking into editing the Wikipedia page for a company that has a lot of outdated/old information. I am wondering what the best process for this would be - should we click the Talk button on the company page, then click the Edit button and include an upfront justification as to why we would like to change the current information, and then drop in our suggested revised version, making sure to cite each reference? Ideally, we would like the entire page revised, and not just sections.
We also want to respect how fragile the Wikipedia editing process is and would not like to be blocked from editing because we make a misstep.
Would I be able to private message you the link to the Wikipedia company page and our suggested new content, with references included, so you could let me know if it's good to submit or if you see any red flags?
Please let me know, your expertise is greatly appreciated! Best, Hailey Sept 25, 2012 @ 2:00PM PT Hailey Thompson ( talk) 21:00, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Well, if the user does it again (and he probably will, as stated by him: [4]), and again... without wanting to hear any advice, then I will come back to ANI. -- Müdigkeit ( talk) 14:27, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
A reader scanning ANI should be able to know who closed a discussion at a glance without having to go mucking through it. Please sign your post. Nobody Ent 15:22, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
How do you do it Jayron? How are you so familiar with so many things, like leaf lobation and the Canadian Shield? That Canadian Shield info really made me appreciate your contribution here. A great day to you! DRosenbach ( Talk | Contribs) 18:56, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
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I chose this barnstar because it's pretty, not for its official title, but you're getting it for posting a link to the Google Ngram tool on the Ref Desk, a great resource about which I'd never have known without your contribution. μηδείς ( talk) 03:52, 28 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hello.As a member of Wikiproject Dispute Resolution I am just letting you know that there is an RFC discussing changes to dispute resolution on Wikipedia. You can find the RFC on this page. If you have already commented there, please disregard this message. Regards, Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 08:52, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Seems he'd like a swift resolution and hasn't heard from WMF yet. -- Jprg1966 (talk) 15:51, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
SarahStierch ( talk) 22:19, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Can someone tell me how to cite correctly then?
I have several websites. I tried to cite it with the actual Mars Hill College website...I want this to be added but nobody has responded to my request for help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ncashbo ( talk • contribs) 04:50, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
OK. So, when I hit the 'cite this source' I can just add the http://www.mhc.edu/about-mhc for the citation and that will be enough? I don't know how many sources I need to use? I don't want it to look like false information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ncashbo ( talk • contribs) 04:54, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Great! Thank you a lot for your help. I just cited that source so hopefully it should be ok now. Do you think you could take a look at it and make sure for me? If not, that is quite ok. I think it should be good now though. Thanks again for your help. Ncashbo ( talk) 04:59, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello again. I thought I had it all worked out on this page but two people have pulled it from the page and I don't really understand why. One said it still wasn't cited correctly and another said it shouldn't be on there to begin with. I saw that you were a Wiki-Admin and I don't know if you can do anything about this? I thought since MHC was both the oldest college in western NC and a historic site it fit that section. Is there anything you can do about this? Thanks in advance Ncashbo ( talk) 16:43, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
..to patrol
this case which is a no-brainer as checkuser has confirmed sock of banned user. Those who know about this case are involved. The sock remains unblocked. Cheers,
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 18:09, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, Jayron.
I was quite surprised at the spleen with which you seem to have invested your answer to the question about the pronunciation of Celtics. On the one hand you give those who use the hard C the choice between being idiots or pretentious pricks, which is not great. But on the other hand, you say that neither /keltic/ nor /seltic/ is wrong. Those two statements just don't sit well together.
If it's not wrong to say /keltic/ - whether that be at a Boston Celtics game or anywhere else - then it seems to me that if anyone got upset about it, they'd be the ones more deserving of those names you used, not the speaker of the word.
Or are you saying that neither pronunciation is wrong per se, but one must pick and choose where to use them appropriately? I could certainly support that statement. For example, I'm a proud /kelt/ and I don't like being called a /selt/, but if I went to a Celtics game, I'd certainly be saying /seltics/ because when in Rome ...
By the way, a word to the wise. If you're going to be referring to others as idiots, writing "that's your" when you really mean "that you're" sort of invites people who have not come across you before to wonder just who the real idiot is - and we can't have that.
Cheers. -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ [your turn] 06:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
This edit summary genuinely made me laugh out loud :-) -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 19:19, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Sarah ( talk) 22:51, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Jayron32,
I want to write a new article about the musician Doc Jazz and got this message:
"A page with this title has previously been deleted. If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below. 03:07, 11 September 2010 Jayron32 (talk | contribs) deleted page Doc Jazz (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content): I checked the author's claims of article on Dutch Wikipedia. It is nearly identical to this one, and thus adds nothing to claims of signif)"
The version I'm writing is not the same as the Dutch one at all. I would like to upload the article can you tell me if there were any other matters that were subject to your decision to delete the article besides the content being the same as the Dutch version? Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Justice1st — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justice1st ( talk • contribs) 12:58, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32. Thank you for your suggestion on how to write the article. I took your advice and wrote the article using the userspace draft. I could use some help though. The layout looks different in the preview then it does in the space where I wrote the article. The spaces between the paragraphs are too narrow and the references are all in one line in stead of each numbered reference starting a new line. Could you please help me? And also if you have any other feedback I would love to hear it. Thank you! — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Justice1st (
talk •
contribs) 16:34, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32. If you have time could you please check the message above this one and let me know if you can help me out with the article I wrote? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justice1st ( talk • contribs) 15:31, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32, thank you for your excellent feedback. I have submitted the article. I also wanted to let you know that all the links I refer to in my article are by mainstream media. Now all I have to do is wait for the editor to improve my article. I want to thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justice1st ( talk • contribs) 18:32, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you answered my question yesterday (in the teahouse) about making my sandbox practice into a real article (why does this sound like the Velveteen Rabbit?) by moving it. BUT the move it page information makes me think I might lose my sandbox, or that my sandbox will somehow become part of the article... Moreover, among all the reasons for moving a page, my reason doesn't seem to be on the list. So before I do something dumb, can you help me? BThomascall ( talk) 13:57, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jay. I saw that you attended a Raleigh meetup and wondered if you were interested in participating in the 2012 North Carolina PR & Marketing Seminar to educate PR professionals on COI issues. This is me and more on me here. You can see some of my COI works here, here and here. They invited me to speak on a session on Wikipedia ethics for marketing professionals in a sort of panel discussion of sorts and it would be great to get a local Wikipedian there. Are you local to the triangle and potentially interested in participating? User:King4057 01:47, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Apologies for the lateness of this letter; our usual bot wasn't working. We are now entering round 4, our semi-finals, and have our final 16. A score of 243 was required to reach this round; significantly more than 2011's 76 points, and only a little behind 2010's 250 points. By comparison, last year, 150 points in round 4 secured a place in the final; in 2010, 430 were needed. Commiserations to Pool A's igordebraga ( submissions), who scored 242 points, missing out on a place in the round by a whisker. However, congratulations to Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions), whose television articles have brought him another round victory. Pool A's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) came second overall, with an impressive list of biological did you knows, good articles and featured articles. Third overall was Pool D's Muboshgu ( submissions), with a long list of contibutions, mostly relating to baseball. Of course, with the points resetting every round, the playing field has been levelled. The most successful Pool was Pool D, which saw seven into the final round. Pool B saw four, C saw three and Pool A saw only the two round leaders.
A quick note about other competitions taking place on Wikipedia which may be of interest. There are 13 days remaining in the June-July GAN backlog elimination drive, but it is not too late to take part. August will also see the return of The Core Contest- a one month long competition first run in 2007. While the WikiCup awards points for audited content on any subject, The Core Contest about is raw article improvement, focussing heavily on the most important articles on Wikipedia. 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) 10:58, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
For legal reasons, can I get my accounts renamed or deleted?
If not, I'll have to get legal aid to remove or rename them per right to vanish policy.
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Grace Saunders/Archive
3-FreeBee ( talk) 15:19, 23 June 2012 (UTC) Moved from your user page - Dank ( push to talk) 16:17, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I have quoted you and mentioned your name at this this ANI thread. Peace.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 13:44, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Could you do a quick semi-protect on Sage Stallone?-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 02:51, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. I listed it for PP and also left a note at ANI about admin being bold and just slapping a protection on in such cases. I have seen them revert without protecting.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 03:32, 18 July 2012 (UTC) Done
What's repoly.? 14.97.56.134 ( talk) 00:37, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey, what's the meaning of this idiom more than you can shake a stick at? Xentram ( talk) 00:59, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
You may find it interesting that the recent gibberish on the miscellaneous ref desk has appeared under the name of a brand new editor who saw fit to erase his own autosignature here: [2]. I smell a duck. μηδείς ( talk) 03:55, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Please when you have a reference, please insert it into the article. Talking about american football reference
Are custom speedy deletion rationales no longer allowed or something?— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 20:57, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
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Jayron Thanks for finding this wonderful book on the Dunmore War. I am looking for Peter Hull and Peter Zickafoose. They served under a commander named Wilson who was killed at Point Pleasant. They were Roll #64 for Augusta County in West Virginia. They were listed as being paid in the Dunmore War in 1774 and not the American Revolution in 1775. We are trying to find them to verify information for acceptance in the DAR. Any other help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Moseleysr ( talk) 02:49, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X ( submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu ( submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 ( submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.
Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! 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) 22:26, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi! We're dropping you this rather unexpected message on your talk page because you signed up (either quite a while ago or rather recently) to be a member of the Vandalism Studies project. Sadly, the project fell into semi-retirement a few years ago, but as part of a new plan to fix up the Counter-Vandalism Unit, we're bringing back the Vandalism Studies project, with a new study planned for Late 2012! But we need your help. Are you still interested in working with us on this project? Then please sign up today! (even if you signed up previously, you'll still need to sign up again - we're redoing our member list in order to not harass those who are no longer active on the Wiki - sorry!) If you have any questions, please leave them on this page. Thanks, and we can't wait to bring the project back to life! - Theopolisme ( talk) & Dan653 ( talk), Coordinators
I think I piggybacked your protection somehow. I was setting it for 3 hours semi-protection. Feel free to change it to whatever it was you were setting it for. Weird, thought it would had prompted me that you had just done it. Kindly Calmer Waters 03:44, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).
The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.
I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 20:09, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hey all :)
A couple of new things.
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On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right.
It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 00:12, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thought you might be interested in weighing in on the invites v. welcomes thread?
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I made i promise i wouldn't, and that's why i didn't. :P benzband ( talk) 20:21, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Jayron,
I think the question I reverted is actually pretty clear vandalism/trolling. You just have to look at the first revision the IP made to see it. Did you see this revision? - J-Mo Talk to Me Email Me 05:16, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello- Thanks for the additions and updates to this navbox! I was really hoping others would contribute to make them better. I only have up the VA and NC ones right now because I know the most about those. I made them for most states if you want to give them a look, just look for "Template:Music venues of [State]" I like that you added venues, also that you made the categories a little more accurate, I might do that with some others as well. Thanks again! UselessToRemain ( talk) 17:29, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
SarahStierch ( talk) 06:12, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hiyo. Re: that reference desk thread. I'm contemplating writing a note on the talkpage of each of those 3 existing lists (and/or their main "concert tour" lists), inviting the editors to consider merging the sub-lists, and pointing to the referencedesk thread as a rationale for merging. Good plan? Any suggestions or advice before I do so? Ta :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 07:48, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
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For this help desk edit summary. Really brightened up my watch list :D Mdann52 ( talk) 19:11, 24 August 2012 (UTC) |
Just want to clarify that I wasn't suggesting that you were saying what happened at that image at ITN wasn't a BLP violation. It's just that the discussion suggested the possibility there were people who did think so. (I was really not sure of the best place to indent that comment, which may have made it seem more directed at you than I meant it.) Heimstern Läufer (talk) 09:49, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
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This edit summary here: [3] genuinely made me laugh loud :-) Certainly lightened up my watchlist. Mr.Wikipediania ( Stalk • Talk) 14:44, 26 August 2012 (UTC) |
The earth, broadly construed, would include all of the oceans and land areas, but we'd probably need an RfC on whether the atmosphere is covered.
(On a more serious note, there actually have occasionally been proposals to apply DS to all national and ethnical disputes between neighboring countries or regions, rather than wait for the disputes to flare up one-by-one....) Newyorkbrad ( talk) 01:45, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 20:26, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am from the Reference Desk, and I am the asker who has inquired the following question: Is a Unitarian Universalist church a religious organization or an interfaith organization?
I just have some follow-up questions concerning your Southern Baptist faith and lifestyle, and they are of a personal nature. Hope you don't mind the personal questions. Out of curiosity, do you really, really, really allow atheists to sit in a pew at your church, and under what conditions do you allow them to sit at your church? Have you tried to advertise your faith by handing out free brochures or cards about your church? There are Christians on my college campus who love to do that and try to advertise their church group everywhere, handing out free goodies (cards, brochures, candies, sodas, freezer pops, etc.). Even if Christians are promoting charity work, they always use that time to advertise their church group. Sometimes, I wonder how these Christians obtain the money required to fund promotionals, but I suppose churches require Christians to pay tithes, an obligatory 10% of their income to serve God or the church. I also wonder if Christians tend to put a higher importance on advertisement of their church group more than actually helping people and caring about others. How many people are there in your church? I am just wondering, because I would assume that the population size of a church matters. Perhaps, smaller churches are more likely to notice someone new in the congregation, whereas bigger churches are more likely ignore newcomers/visitors. Do you attend a big church or a small church? If an unfamiliar person enters your church building on a Sunday worship day, sits in a pew in the back of the room out of sight and out of mind from the rest of the crowd and then leaves surreptitiously and continues this strange habit every Sunday due to a strange interest in hearing sermons or experiencing a culture that he may have never experienced before despite his personal irreligiosity or atheism, then would you get a little suspicious or really not bother at all? I just want to know personally, because I am wondering if it is possible to sit in a pew without getting noticed. 75.185.79.52 ( talk) 00:53, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Interesting exchange of information this is. I am not a Christian, though I grew up attending church. Both as an atheist adult and a church-going child, I have attended services in many Christian denominations, as well as Jewish synagogues, all for a variety of reasons. In none of them did I have to disguise myself in any way or pretend to any belief I did not have. When it was obvious to those around me (as when in a synagogue) I had no idea what to do or when to do it, the people around me would hand me the appropriate texts, open to the appropriate page, and point out the current readings or hymns/songs. You can pray in any posture from kneeling with a bowed head and closed eyes, hands in the "palms together, fingers at the chin" position to staring around the room while seated, eyes wide open. No one will either comment or care. As long as you are quiet during the quiet times, and not flagrantly disrespectful, you will be left with your own thoughts. If you want to talk with adherents before or after the service/gathering, anyone in the group will engage you and, if not feeling competent to respond to your queries, will direct you to someone who will be.
If you want to slip into the back row and slip out again before anyone has an opportunity to speak to you, there is no problem in doing so; just close the doors quietly behind you. (Oh, yes, on a lighter note, while you are not required to put anything into the offertory plate when it passes where you are seated, it is really bad manners to take anything out -except by way of change for a large bill.) Bielle ( talk) 03:21, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Implicit threats of violence. Thank you. Reaper Eternal ( talk) 17:28, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Two pieces of advice:
1. Please note that we italicize the parentheses in "(pictured)".
2. I assume that you uploaded a smaller version of the image under a different name (instead of uploading the full-resolution version under its Commons name) because of a slow connection speed. In such a circumstance, a better solution is to preview a 100x100px transclusion and use the resultant thumbnail. That way, the download and upload will be even faster, and there will be no extra generation loss (because the exact 100x100px file will appear on the main page, with no further scaling).
Thanks! — David Levy 19:53, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello again! Please see Wikipedia talk:In the news#Option D: Only the most recent blurb should have an image. (As reflected in the messages there, I initially believed that BorgQueen initiated the straw poll and requested this clarification from her.) Thanks! — David Levy 23:31, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Jayron, it was indeed him. Alabamaboy1992 ( talk) 19:10, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
The final is upon us! We are down to our final 8. A massive 573 was our lowest qualifying score; this is higher than the 150 points needed last year and the 430 needed in 2010. Even in 2009, when points were acquired for mainspace edit count in addition to audited content, 417 points secured a place. That leaves this year's WikiCup, by one measure at least, our most competitive ever. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:
However, we must also say goodbye to the eight who did not make the final, having fallen at the last hurdle: GreatOrangePumpkin ( submissions), Ealdgyth ( submissions), Calvin999 ( submissions), Piotrus ( submissions), Toa Nidhiki05 ( submissions), 12george1 ( submissions), The Bushranger ( submissions) and 1111tomica ( submissions). We hope to see you all next year.
On the subject of next year, a discussion has been opened here. Come and have your say about the competition, and how you'd like it to run in the future. This brainstorming will go on for some time before more focused discussions/polls are opened. 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) 00:16, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron. I don't think Keelan717 is anything other than a very new, and possibly very young user. He was asking on IRC how to transclude his RfB. Nevertheless, after checking recent edits and following up on his IP, there may be some SPI on the way. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 15:38, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
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Does our 76.16.47.115 friend need some "administrative support" to help cure his RefDesk posting habit? The Masked Booby ( talk) 03:36, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
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I'm assuming this is your form of humor? Everyone knows I don't do homework. Viriditas ( talk) 03:59, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
I notice that you constantly provide high-quality responses at the reference desks. Are you always familiar with the topics that you respond to and are the resident polymath or do you perform research before responding? I am insanely envious of your erudition either way. Ankh. Morpork 15:54, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Cross-examination at court hearing:Mr. Jayron32, you "claim" to have majored in chemistry. Can you back this up? If you truly did major in the wonderful world of atoms and molecules, then please answer the following problem: 4 NH3 + 5 O2 --> 4 NO + 6 H20
Given 1.50 grams of ammonia, 2.75 grams of oxygen...
A) How many grams of NO and H2O form?
B) How many grams of the excess reactant are left over?
C) Show that the calculations in the previous two steps obey the law of conservation of mass.
Kidding, you don't have to do it! But if you want the answers...
NO = 2.06 grams
H2O = 1.86 grams
.332 grams of the excess reactant (ammonia)
If 2.75 + 1.5 = 4.25 and 4.25-3.92 = .33, then we know it obeyed the law. Alternatively, .332 + 2.06 + 1.86 = 4.25
-- Activism 1234 03:03, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Jayron. I've heard that it's impossible to delete the main page. Since I don't have the sysop permission, could you possibly go ahead and try it for me? -- Shirt58 ( talk) 03:35, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
"I'm as technical as a stale can of beer," is my new favorite quote. And you're more technical than you think, I bet. :) Enjoy a non-stale wiki beer!! SarahStierch ( talk) 04:39, 7 September 2012 (UTC) |
Interesting to see you have "chosen" to change the color of your signature: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:In_the_news&curid=485213&diff=511255697&oldid=511219722 μηδείς ( talk) 18:33, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
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I tend to be a bit shy about this interaction stuff, but I was so impressed with your tracking down the answer to this that I thought you really should have one of these. Very nice indeed. Ka renjc 21:59, 8 September 2012 (UTC) |
I'll just point out that I am being criticized for treating Dewan357 as if he is banned. You opposing his ban but saying he is already banned is going to be an interesting point in consensus finding. If you believe I was correct to treat him as banned, it might be helpful to say so, as this discussion is turning into a referendum on the way I treat indefinitely blocked editors as much as it is a discussion on this individual ban.— Kww( talk) 00:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:14, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Did you take time to read my reply to Alf in the ANI? I'll probably disagree with you on this then, but I think such hostile behauvior after banning deserves an ANI and threats about "investigating" other users and "media coverage coming" is pretty frightening. Having the chance that something may reveal your real identity – not a nice feeling to know distruptive editors acting as "investigators" are allowed to do that. I thought that was a very serious thing about what I started that ANI about. Guess I was wrong. -- Pudeo ' 00:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
I actually didn't meant to be offensive. Are you ready for IPv6? ( talk) 07:36, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Now that the article is on probation, which would seem to be the most favored option at the ANI discussion, isn't it time to drop the protection to semiprotected? Sure, there was edit warring, but a fair amount of it was consensus-seeking and productive; and protecting the article clearly threw that baby out with the bathwater. (you can reply here) Homunq ( talk) 18:00, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi!, thank you for answering my question on Humanities so fast. I'm eager to contribute to articles that I like, such as that of Canadian actor Cory Monteith, and I asked a question on the Help Desk about him and his possible categories, could you check my question please?. I won't bother you again, I promise. But I'm eager to contribute and nobody answers! LOL. Thank you. Timothyhere ( talk) 19:57, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
AndyTheGrump ( talk) 21:53, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Could you please link me to such desk? I was told it exists. Thank you. I have a couple of questions to ask. Timothyhere ( talk) 20:40, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
anyway.-- GoShow ( ...............) 04:26, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Okay, I'll admit it made me laugh. But lame or not, it's where we are. One of the case participants has expressed the concern that it's disruptive (which it obviously is — I get it, that's the point). But, the poll is the product of over a month of negotiation, so would you object very strongly if I took it out? Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 01:05, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron, This happened more than two weeks ago, so it's probably too late to do anything useful, but umm. I just noticed when going through my contributions that I apparently reverted one of your posts on the refdesk, and I have no idea why - I can see nothing whatsoever wrong with your post, plus if there was something wrong with a post I'd usually reply or bring the issue to your talkpage instead of blindly reverting. I can find no talkpage discussion about that thread or about my removal, so I really have no idea why I reverted you - the most probable explanation is that I accidentally clicked on "rollback" without noticing - and then apparently nobody else noticed what I did, so your post was removed without any comment and without ever being re-inserted - sorry about that, I have no idea how that could have happened. -- Ferkelparade π 18:32, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Please don't keep calling them my stars. The were invented by someone else long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away. I have no claim on the template. μηδείς ( talk) 18:07, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Please explain why, in your opinion, a co-operative project should have any tolerance for such blatant rudeness as you have demonstrated this evening from its administrators. Kevin McE ( talk) 21:25, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I can't prove it to you: I can only ask you to trust that IP 87.113 is not me. Thank you for your message at my talk page: hope to have more productive dealings with you in the future. Kevin McE ( talk) 06:17, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
"... but how do we get the chicken to wear the rubber pants?" -- Orange Mike | Talk 15:59, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi dear, I created his article, Toakai Teitoi, do you think it could be suitable for DYK? Please answer back. Thank you. Timothyhere ( talk) 17:46, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm not lucky today. To be honest I just wanted to make Kiribati famous because I myself am a Kiribati Islander. Timothyhere ( talk) 17:53, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Many don't even know where we are. You knew? Timothyhere ( talk) 17:55, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Yes, fortunately, and now that you know that I'm a I-Kiribati, I'm not native English speaker, it's a lie on my user page, I speak gilbertese and fluent English but didn't find the template of gilbertese I tried to look for it. Timothyhere ( talk) 18:03, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Now at Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors#Errors_in_In_the_news.-- Chaser ( talk) 02:46, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I know I already thanked you under your response to my question about COI and my Ars Nova article, but just wanted to say that your response really made me feel a lot better about the whole process. Even if my article isn't approved, everything you said about it appearing to fit in well with the Wikipedia style gave me a major lift, after spending nearly two full days worrying about it doing so. You seem like a really great person and a fair and patient editor (or, at least, newbie caretaker), and I'm happy to have interacted with you. :-) RunnerOnIce ( talk) 02:30, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Jayron32,
I noticed that you recently proposed a cage-fight to the death in helping resolve certain disputes. Another admin, The Blade of the Northern Lights, agreed with this.
It sounds to me like a fascinating idea. I was wondering, however, how would it be implemented? Would it be a real cage fight - or some online duel? The idea obviously has traction amongst editors and admins - do you think we should open an RfC on it?
Some humor can go a long way!
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For helping out in answering many of my questions at the Reference Desk. You deserve this barnstar. :) Futurist110 ( talk) 20:22, 23 September 2012 (UTC) |
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To go with your Ref desk barnstar. You deserve it. -- Activism 1234 00:12, 24 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hey Jayron32. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.
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I reckon you're owed an award for niceness for this friendly, thoughtful and accurate explanation of policy to a newbie, especially when the standard impersonal advice had already been offered. Yunshui 雲 水 14:05, 25 September 2012 (UTC) |
I can see this one is going to be a challenge. That's twice within an hour he's asked the same question about conflict, I'm not sure he's grasped how to edit a section on the question page - just keeps using the ask a question button. NtheP ( talk) 20:08, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello Jayron32! I am looking into editing the Wikipedia page for a company that has a lot of outdated/old information. I am wondering what the best process for this would be - should we click the Talk button on the company page, then click the Edit button and include an upfront justification as to why we would like to change the current information, and then drop in our suggested revised version, making sure to cite each reference? Ideally, we would like the entire page revised, and not just sections.
We also want to respect how fragile the Wikipedia editing process is and would not like to be blocked from editing because we make a misstep.
Would I be able to private message you the link to the Wikipedia company page and our suggested new content, with references included, so you could let me know if it's good to submit or if you see any red flags?
Please let me know, your expertise is greatly appreciated! Best, Hailey Sept 25, 2012 @ 2:00PM PT Hailey Thompson ( talk) 21:00, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Well, if the user does it again (and he probably will, as stated by him: [4]), and again... without wanting to hear any advice, then I will come back to ANI. -- Müdigkeit ( talk) 14:27, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
A reader scanning ANI should be able to know who closed a discussion at a glance without having to go mucking through it. Please sign your post. Nobody Ent 15:22, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
How do you do it Jayron? How are you so familiar with so many things, like leaf lobation and the Canadian Shield? That Canadian Shield info really made me appreciate your contribution here. A great day to you! DRosenbach ( Talk | Contribs) 18:56, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
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I know it must be quaint for you to receive a barnstar, but I just figured, "Why not!" Who knows -- maybe they'll come back in style in the future and you can use it to purchase important things like hydro. :) DRosenbach ( Talk |
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I chose this barnstar because it's pretty, not for its official title, but you're getting it for posting a link to the Google Ngram tool on the Ref Desk, a great resource about which I'd never have known without your contribution. μηδείς ( talk) 03:52, 28 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hello.As a member of Wikiproject Dispute Resolution I am just letting you know that there is an RFC discussing changes to dispute resolution on Wikipedia. You can find the RFC on this page. If you have already commented there, please disregard this message. Regards, Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 08:52, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Seems he'd like a swift resolution and hasn't heard from WMF yet. -- Jprg1966 (talk) 15:51, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
SarahStierch ( talk) 22:19, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Can someone tell me how to cite correctly then?
I have several websites. I tried to cite it with the actual Mars Hill College website...I want this to be added but nobody has responded to my request for help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ncashbo ( talk • contribs) 04:50, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
OK. So, when I hit the 'cite this source' I can just add the http://www.mhc.edu/about-mhc for the citation and that will be enough? I don't know how many sources I need to use? I don't want it to look like false information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ncashbo ( talk • contribs) 04:54, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Great! Thank you a lot for your help. I just cited that source so hopefully it should be ok now. Do you think you could take a look at it and make sure for me? If not, that is quite ok. I think it should be good now though. Thanks again for your help. Ncashbo ( talk) 04:59, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello again. I thought I had it all worked out on this page but two people have pulled it from the page and I don't really understand why. One said it still wasn't cited correctly and another said it shouldn't be on there to begin with. I saw that you were a Wiki-Admin and I don't know if you can do anything about this? I thought since MHC was both the oldest college in western NC and a historic site it fit that section. Is there anything you can do about this? Thanks in advance Ncashbo ( talk) 16:43, 29 September 2012 (UTC)