User talk:Fuzheado/Archive 5

This is an archive of past discussions with User:Fuzheado. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

←

→

Copyright tags

Hello. This map is going to be deleted because of lacking copyright information. Do you think there's any way to fix all these images that are uploaded by HKU students? Thanks. — Insta ntnood 16:23, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Images keep being deleted

Hello could you please remind your students to tag the images they uploaded with the appropriate copyright information? Four images have been deleted for the article on The Standard alone [1]. Thanks. — Insta ntnood 17:12, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Semi-Protection

Hey Fuzheado, I saw you just reverted vandalism on the article George W. Bush, and, not to sound too much like a TV announcer, but "Are you sick and tired of constant reversions? Do you wish there were a better way?...Well, there is! And it's called semi-protection!" In all seriousness, any thoughts/edits you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mys e ku rity 05:54, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I like the idea of semi-protection, as it's clear the GWB page is 90% vandalism. I'd raise the threshold a bit more, like the old SPAT (Sock Puppet Avoidance Threshold) of old, of 25 or 50 edits. Fuzheado | Talk 05:59, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Well the point is that we have more than one level; there could be a 10, 25, 50, or 500 threshold, all which could be incorperated pretty easily. -Mys e ku rity 06:02, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

What basis was homosexuality semi-protected on? It gets vandalised, but no more than usual, and I don't really see a justification for the ugly header. Ambi 10:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

While I understand where you're coming from, that's really not what semi-protection is for. Semi-protection is meant for short-term vandalism sprees - not permanent use on an article. There was no particular vandalism spree at homosexuality - at the very least, nothing to justify the ugly header. If that is going to be plastered all over the top of our most heavily viewed articles, it's really not going to do wonders for our credibility. Ambi 11:12, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia

When you semi-protect a page, please remember to list it at WP:PP. It's especially important at the moment as the policy and technology are new. Also remember that semi is not a solution to apply to an article that is simple high-profile; it needs to have a serious vandalism problem. Also remember that protected pages are still considered harmful and that semi should be a temporary measure just as full-protection is. Admins must work hard to not allow Wikipedia to creep towards a uniformly semi-protected state. -Splash^talk 12:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

You seem to have semi'd quite a number of pages, without giving any reasons or noting the fact on talk pages. Semi-protection is not a "thank god, now anons can't edit anymore' option. Please don't overuse it. Ambi has unprotected Homosexuality and I've unprotected Evolution. Neither show then-current vandalism problems and so any level of protection at all is unnecessary. Evolution does show an IP address hitting the article yesterday, but then a block should be used. Protection is a last resort: and semi should be used no more often than full-protection as a rule. If you can block, block, if you can't and they won't go away, semi-protect for a little while. -Splash^talk 12:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

How long should an article be semi-protected?

I've raised this question here, as now it's actually real and happening I expect more people will want to comment. Dan100 (Talk) 15:11, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Careful with others' comments

Please don't add things before people's sigs. It makes it look like they made the comment. Please add your stats underneath the entry, with your own sig next to them. Thanks.

But I wonder why they are relevant. SP's purpose is to temporarily stand in the way of drive-by vandalism. It is not to walk around prohibitnig anonymous editing widely, and is not dependent on some history of vandalism. If an article needs protecting, it's because of a current vandalism problem, not an historic one. -Splash^talk 18:08, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Santa Claus

I clicked on recent changes and saw you reverted edits by 69.166.128.57...but his edits were not vandalism. All that he did was add links...please explain why you reverted.KI 22:45, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Semi-protection of my user page

I already listed it under Wikipedia:Protected_page#User_pages. I think it makes much more sense to sort pages based on their type (e.g. Article, Talk page, User page), rather than based on which kind of protection was applied to them. However, I specifically marked the entry for it on WP:PP, as well as that of many others I reduced from full- to semi-protection, as "semi-protected". The Wikipedia:Protected_page#Semi-protection section is specifically for real articles being semi-protected, not for Talk, User or other types of pages. Owen× ☎ 23:49, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Block

Well, the person I blocked had been adding unsubstantiated rumours to an article on a candidate in the Canadian federal election. While I didn't warn the individual my previous edit to the article made it clear this wasn't acceptable (particularly since that article was the subject of a news report in the Ottawa Citizen accusing Wikipedia of allowing gossip in its biographical articles of election candiates (see Free online encyclopedia fuels gossip on candidates Speculation, innuendo rampant on Wikipedia)

The reason I blocked the IP for a month was a) it was a dedicated IP that had done this over a period of time and b) the election will be done in a month. Homey 03:12, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I also see that after you unblocked the person they went on to do the same thing one more time to the Cheryl Gallant article. Homey 03:14, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Tofu photo

Can you confirm that the change that was just made to the "tofu flower" photo you uploaded to the Tofu page is correct? Please take a look. Badagnani 16:31, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Disco Demolition Night

Leave the page semi-protected for a while longer. I'm hoping the vandal will lose interest in a week or soAce-o-aces 14:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Hank Williams dips into the surreal

Thanks for your previous comment on my semi-protection of Hank Williams. The issue with the vandal has now taken a surreal turn--the guy posted on the article's talk page that he witnessed these events and that I'm part of the conspiracy to cover up the facts he keeps inserting into the article (he also made a comment that I'm a "very stupid hillbilly indeed" but I can't help but laugh at that). Anyway, could you please advise me what to do. This is no longer a clear-cut vandalism case but instead a case of no original research. Since the user can't be blocked b/c he keeps using sock puppets, how do you suggest dealing with this? I have no desire to keep reverting the page, which is what previous experience with this user suggests will happen when the page is unprotected. Best, --Alabamaboy 16:20, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

AOL/Coolie vandal

Is there no way to stop this AOL coolie vandal? I suppose you can't block all AOL IPs, there needs to be a better way or some tool to use. -- MicahMN | μ 01:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Louis Epstein's user page

What was the reason for this revert? Owen× ☎ 01:16, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

McDull and Dae Jang Geum

Hello! I would like to take a closer look at the cultural impact of these two shows in Hong Kong, but it seems that there is not much written regarding this except in newspapers and such. Do you know of a more centralized resource for this? Thanks! --HappyCamper 12:56, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

I've updated your post count link (which had expired) as a little thank you for helping in reverting the vandalism on Robert Koch. Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs 15:03, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks for the speedy cleanup! xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 06:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Hong Kong meetup

Hi Fuzheado. HK Wikipedians are organising a gathering some time around Chinese New Year. The meetup'll held on January 21, 2006 in City University of Hong Kong canteen. Please visit the Chinese site: zh:Wikipedia talk:聚会/2006香港春聚報告 for details. :)--Simon Shek 14:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

1.0 Collaboration of the Week

Hi, I noticed you signed up as a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. Recently, a 1.0 Collaboration of the Week was created to work on essential topics that are in need of improvement, which will ultimately go in a release version of Wikipedia. You can help by voting, contributing to an article, or simply making a comment. Thank you for your support. :) Gflores ^Talk 08:06, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

User page

Thanks for the revert. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:16, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. --Nlu (talk) 07:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Quote

I recently found what I thought was a great quote by you that was part of the Wikipedia Discussion at PoynterOnline [2]. I hope you don't mind that I've put it on my user page. If you would prefer that I do not use the quote, or would prefer that I use the larger quote to show the context, that would be okay with me as well. ^Blank ^Verse 20:49, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Katelyn Faber

Could you weigh in at the bottom of the Talk Page for Katelyn Faber regarding the inclusion of an image of her? User:Tufflaw, who unsuccessfully tried to have the entire article deleted back in December 2005 insists on censoring/deleting it for extremely specious reasons, and I've been asked to gather a consensus. Please read the bottom two sections of that page. Thanks. Nightscream 18:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Meeting

Hi Andrew, just on the m:Special projects committee, you might want to know that we're having our first IRC meeting on Sunday. Anthere said she hadn't heard from you, and I have a few email addresses for you, so thought this was the best way of getting through. Ant should be able to help you if you can't get through to the spcommittee-l list - maybe give her or myself (cormaggio at gmail dot com), an email before then. Talk to you soon.. Cormaggio ^@ 23:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Aha! Best of luck with that move. Talk to you Sunday... Cormaggio ^@ 11:29, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Or soon, at least... +sj + 18:56, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Are you giving up on the SPC? The next meeting is Tuesday... give me a ping. Sj

About Chinese Wikimania 2006

Hi, Fuzheado! You become one of the candidate in the election of Chinese Wikimania 2006's Hong Kong Working Group(Temporary name), you can see over here --zh:Wikipedia:2006中文維基年會/香港工作小組/負責人選舉. I have left a message in your Chinese version user page and send you an email, but still haven't receive any response. Hope you can see this message and join the part in this event. You can contact me by this page--zh:User talk:Stewart. Thank you.Stewartcc 14:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:Meeting

Hi, Fuzheado. Umm...I don't know a lot about the meeting going on now, since I havn't joined last online meeting. We should find some university or company to support the meeting, therefore we think HK maybe a best place to held this meeting. They are still discussing about where to held the meeting and how to find university or company to support the meeting. :)--Simon Shek 15:36, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I'm Chungpui from Chinese Wiki. Now they plan to hold the Chinese Wikipedia Meeting on 26 and 27 August 2006. The location is still under election. Although Hong Kong gets alot of support, we don't have a solid plan on finance and veune, and seems that we lack core members who are mature (age18+) and willing to dedicate tehir time. At the same time Taipei have some core members and a possible support from Academia Sinica. So seems that now only Taipei has a realistic plan. I notice that you are from HKU. Do you think it's possible to get support from HKU (finance and veune) if HK hosts the meeting? If we can solve these 2 problems I think it will be very realistic to launch a HK meeting. The only thing is that 26-27 August will be in the orientation period of HKU and most facilities will be occupied by student societies.Chungpui 21:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I guess it's a firm date, as it was voted from the last meeting. But if we have a sound reason (say the veune only available in that that and that day blar blar blar) maybe we can alter the date a little bit. May I visit your office to have a brief talk on the meeting? I mean, if you don't mind. I'm not the "core" of the HK bidding committee as I'll leave HK very soon, but seems that they (or we) really need some advice in this stage.Chungpui 12:33, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

BTW I'm also a HKUian in fact I'm a firend of Alice. ;)Chungpui 12:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Fuzheado, I am a Hong Kong Wikipedian, you probably knew this already but Hong Kong has been selected to hold the Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006. A HK Workgroup has been formed to organize the event but we lack two persons to lead us. These two persons are responsible for reporting to the central organizing committee and representing the HK Workgroup. As you have so much experience in Wikimedia, are you interested in being one of the two persons? --Lorenzarius 14:58, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

「香港工作小組籌備工作」及「2006香港維基人第二次春聚」通知

Hope you can join! －－Stewart~惡龍 (Chat&講！) 15:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Version 1.0 "Release Version Qualifying"

Hi, Andrew, hope you're doing well.

I'm interested in your feedback on Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Qualifying. It's essentially an idea to use a process similar to WP:FAC to identify and handle articles and lists that would go in a release version. Maurreen 19:28, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

WP 1.0

I thought since you are interested in this project you might be interested to see a CD version of en now exists see Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download & 2006 WP CD Selection. This is being discussed on the 1.0 project pages but progress breeds enthusiasm so I thought I would let you know. --BozMo talk 09:04, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Journawiki

Hi, Andrew. Thanks for your note and for bring more people to Journawiki. Hope you're doing well.

In case you or anyone is curious about the topics that I have so far in comparison to the topics I don't -- Since it got little attention initially, I decided to build a niche and eventually use that as a foundation to draw more people. Maurreen 15:45, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Of course your plans is no problem; I think it's great. Maurreen 15:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Conference in the Philippines

Hello. Thanks for inviting us to your conference. It says in the PCIJ blog that it is free for "Journalists from the mainstream media." How about for non-journalists from non-mainstream media?--Nino Gonzales 06:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I was there yesterday. I hope the journalists spread the word and get more Filipinos to contribute to Wikipedia. I'm looking forward to your book! --Nino Gonzales 01:57, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Establishment of The Wikimedia Hong Kong

Fuzheado/Archive 5 ：

The planning of the establishment of Wikipedia Hong Kong as a society has entered the final stage.

From 27th April 2006, every Hong Kong Wikimedians is welcomed to participate in the discussion on the vote on the official name of the chapter. Then a one-week nomination period and a three-week voting period will be held. At the same time, you are also welcomed to join in the discussion on the draft constitution of the chapter.

After an official name is decided, the recruitment of member will be started and the first general meeting will be held (Please refer to the schedule). If you're interested to join, please sign your name on this page so that an estimation on the number of member could be done.

WIKIMEDIA HONG KONG NEED YOUR CONTRIBUTION AND SUPPORT NOW.

I am the Wikipedian who invites you:encyclopedist 09:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

James Carey

You recently created a page for an academic named James Carey. I will admit I know nothing about the man, but I do see that another user has redirected your James Carey page to the article about American actor Jim Carrey. This would seem to be a serious error. I thought you would like to know. --Charles 03:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Lawrence Brahm

Someone has recently nominated your article Lawrence Brahm for deletion. If this Lawrence Brahm is the same person here [3] and who wrote several books about doing business in China [4], it is likely he meets the inclusion criteria at WP:BIO and therefore should not be deleted. Please visit and contribute to the discussion here. Also, please modify the article to show how this person meets WP:BIO criteria (and make sure it is verifable information from reliable sources. This will avoid future nominations for deletion. I would make the changes myself, but I'm not really sure this is the same person who is an author... and to be honest I have zero interest in writing about businessmen, journalists, and CEOs.--Isotope23 17:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Better?

How is the old image better? ~Rangeley (talk) 06:57, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Libya

Hi,

I've recently added Libya to the list of featured article candidates. Overall the candidature is going well with many of the objections now sorted out. The final concrete objection is with the article's prose. I have been the main contributor to the article and have been looking at it for the previous 9 - 10 months. My eyes no longer see it freshly, so I am not a suitable copy-editor!

To meet the final demand of copy editing, I have been advised to ask different people to edit parts of the article.

I would really love to get this article featured as you can probably see from the page's history! I've worked very hard on it and I see this as possibly being the final hurdle.

You can see the prose objections, mostly raised by Sandy, on the candidature page. If you have the time, please choose a section (Politics, Religion, Culture etc.) and ~~copyedit~~, ~~perfect~~, ace it! I would be very grateful with any help I can get.

Thanks a lot,

--Jaw101ie 16:53, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikimania image licensing

I was wondering if, in the spirit of Wikipedia, you might license one of your pictures with me in it under a free license, say, GFDL or CC-by-sa. Thanks. --Cyde Weys 03:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Also, this image of Sheldon Rampton would be good to have. -- Zanimum 17:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Great to meet you...

...at Wikimania. And you did a great job (it was evident without even knowing exactly what you were responsible for)!

Peace, BCorr|Брайен 17:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Project: Teach the Teachers

Hi Fuzheado! I would like to ask for your support to a project I'm proposing to the Philippine Wikipedia Community. Your experience in using Wikipedia for education would be very helpful. I drafted a project plan: User:Nino Gonzales/TTT. There is also a discussion about it in our notice board: Wikipedia_talk:Tambayan_Philippines#Manila Meet-up and Project: TTT--Nino Gonzales 05:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Piano

I didn't understand: wasn't the piano invented in Italy? 84.222.8.168 08:11, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

User talk:84.222.8.168

Good message! You beat me on the rv to Art in the same minute, and I didn't realise you'd already done it. Tyrenius 08:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Danny's contest

Please email me, my email link works. As co judges we will need to coordinate. Thanks... ++Lar: t/c 01:19, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Churen Fuzheado, please give us our blessing!

To facilitate the TTT project, we need to have financial sources, and for which we are to make a Wikifoundation. I am aware that there in Hong Kong you are now having proposals about a Wikifoundation. Why not together with Japan, Singapore and Taiwan we create a big Pan-Asian Foundation to make our pool of resources bigger. If possible, I wish your affirmation to fill the role of the Filipino Community's bridge there. Xi Xie. --Justox dizaola 12:03, 15 September 2006 (UTC) ^_^

Podcast

James tells me you've been looking at starting up a Wikipedia podcast of some sorts. I had some thoughts about launching a podcast as well (I even got to setting up an RSS feed for it) - perhaps we can join forces? -- Tawker 17:37, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

On the other hand... your email address appears to be dead... maybe you need to confirm it -- Tawker 17:47, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Need guidance about biased edits of California Air Resources Board

Fuzheado, I am asking for your guidance because you were the originator of California Air Resources Board (CARB) and because you have been a Wikipedian for very much longer than I have been.

I hope that you can advise me what to do about what are, in my opinion, some highly biased diatribes edited into the California Air Resources Board (CARB) article. The two edits involved were made today (October 6, 2006) by User:67.160.235.141 at 14:40 and 16:30 respectively. You should read them in that time order to see what he has done. I realize that there are people who disagree with CARB for many different reasons, but these two edits use some very biased, sarcastic and derogatory comments. What is the best way of handling this? Is there anything that you can do or will do? I will watch for your response here on your talk page. Thanks, - mbeychok 05:54, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of subpages

Please see [5], as this concerns several pages that I have deleted from your userspace for being in violation of WP:NOT. Naconkantari 04:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

0101

I have unblocked all the ones that I have blocked after the AIV report, and a great deal of others, but there are still quite a lot left (blocked mostly by Naconkantari (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves)).--Konst.able 07:17, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Looking at User:Fuzheado/jmsc0101/instructions#ASSIGNMENT_GOALS, I am somewhat nervous that you require your students to use a particular format of username, which includes their first name. Many people are nervous about posting their name online. In addition, the format of the username would allow people to identify them as JMSC students. Many people who have disclosed their real name online have regretted it. See Wikipedia:Username and m:Right to vanish. As an alternative, I would suggest asking your students to email their chosen usernames. Armedblowfish (talk|mail) 22:49, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

High school alum

Thanks for the help... Tdanthony 02:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Images in Civic Exchange

Regarding the images in that page, which you seem to have directed, maybe you should tell your students there that taking photographs of brochures, as opposed to scanning them, looks rather ugly in the article, wouldn't you agree? Other than that, I am impressed at the work. Peter O. (Talk) 20:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

October statistics

Hi there! It's been a while since I last heard from you, so it was a pleasant surprise to see your query on my talk page tonight. I have an account with all 250 wikipedia language projects, with an article counter on my user page. I have a special browser (IE2) which automatically opens multiple windows (my user page in the various languages) simultaneously. I then transferred them to a spreadsheet. Normally, I then copy them to the Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics tables, each month. I will get around to doing that in the next day or two. David Cannon 09:47, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Transcripts

Hey Andrew, how lovely of you to come thank me for something that trivial! :) I'm glad I could help out. I'd love to take part in one of the actual podcasts, but I'm rather short on time right now - perhaps sometime next year. It's going really well, you guys should all be very proud of yourselves. All the best, riana_dzasta 05:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

My talk page

Thanks for the revert, however I prefer to leave all messages on my talk page. If someone edits somebody elses comments then I will revert it but if the message is a comment or even an insult I prefer to leave it on as it is still a message. It's nice to see someone else on RC patrol though. See you round. James086^{Talk | Contribs} 09:02, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I would consider that a very sound policy especially with the number of people who vandalise wikipedia. James086^{Talk | Contribs} 09:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Statistics

Hi there! Did you get my e-mail the other day (I enclosed the spreadsheet as an attachment). I was a bit worried that the size of the file might be rejected by your e-mail server, so I wanted to make sure you got it. I haven't heard back from you, so I just want to be sure. If you didn't get it, I'll break the file down and send it in manageable chunks. Please let me know. David Cannon 11:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

That's great. I'm glad you got it - that's all I wanted to know. Yes, it's great to see the statistics page is live again! David Cannon 12:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Gillmor Gang

A tag has been placed on Gillmor Gang, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is an article about a certain web site, blog, forum, or other community of web users that does not assert the importance or significance of that web location. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles, as well as notability guidelines for websites. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on Talk:Gillmor Gang. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Jemiller226 05:24, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Daveydweeb RfA

I noticed you struck Wiki Warfare to Infinity's !vote - he's actually !voted on several RfAs this morning, and left this on David's talk. Just thought someone should know. Cheers, riana_dzasta 03:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Britney Spears article protection

Thank you, I welcome your concern. This article, in my view, was correctly protected due to the repeated inclusion of potentially damaging data without proper justification for its inclusion—indeed, the lack of justification seemed instead to increase—that appeared to be intended to circumvent the discussion thereof. Rather than a matter of a "content dispute" in which I am involved, this is a matter of abject (if not intentional) failure to abide by policy. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 06:46, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

The creation of "notability" when news organizations accept tabloid "wire" stories is not in and of itself notability (did you actually read the links, I wonder?); the "effect" in the cause-and-effect equation remains missing. Nevertheless, I accept your decision. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 07:09, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

McDonalds Vandalism

That IP you blocked was one of many IPs being used to vandalize McDonalds right now. Could you please semi the article? Thanks! Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 17:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Human readable pronounciations

Aren't, especially if English isn't the reader's first language. They aren't helpful. Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

The Germans pronounce his name as if it were German (and that's how I'd pronounce it, German name == German pronounciation). The only people who'd be helped by your version are people who talk more or less like you and who care how it the name is supposed to sound. My suspicion is that most readers couldn't care less how John L. pronounces his name, any more than they'll care how to pronounce Łódź, Reims or Beaulieu. For those that really do care we have IPA. The set of people who care, and share your manner of speaking, is unlikely to be large. If you really feel that the IPA needs supplementing, why not add a recording ? Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

wikipediaweekly

hey-o. just letting you know, the new episode is out but the wikispace isn't updated, and neither is Template:WikipediaWeekly-subscription (only that ep 8 is out and not it's summary). I'd do it but im rather involved right now in non-computery things for the next couple of weeks. JoeSmack ^Talk 05:52, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikiweekly

~~Way for singling me out and missing the point.~~ -- Steel 16:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, just to clarify that. There's currently a semi-protection backlog over at WP:PP and CAT:SEMI (people have brought it up on ANI and such and asked people to help out). The reason I was unprotecting en masse was due to this backlog. In fact, I know of one other admin who unprotected more than the 30 I did that day. I will accept that unprotecting Anus was a bad idea and poor judgement on my part, but one other of those you highlighted on my talk page (Asshole), has had very little vandalism since unprotection. One gripe I do have is with your statement that I unprotected articles "without even looking at why they were protected in the first place". I actually skipped over numerous articles on CAT:SEMI because I didn't feel unprotection would be beneficial (in cases where it was protected to prevent sockpuppetry or banned users editing and the like). Poop deck was ultimately unprotected after consensus was reached on ANI. At any rate, if I have to be a fundamentalist of any kind I think I'd like to be a wiki fundamentalist over the other possibilities. :)
Summary: I made a few poorly thought out calls with Anus and Douche, but I think you may have mistaken backlog clearing for indiscriminate unprotection of dozens of articles. -- Steel 17:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm the "other admin". I was planning on letting your latest criticism of my unprotections go unremarked upon, but since I've been referred to on the podcast and here...

Like Steel, I found a notice on ANI that there was a backlog of unreviewed protections. It was not an indiscriminate unprotection as I evaluated both the reason given by the protecting admin, the amount of time that had passed, as well as looking at the talk to see if there is was relevant discussion. In cases where the protection was recent, where the protecting admin stated that it was in effect an IAR exception to the guideline against indefinite semiprotection, or where there was current discussion on issues relating the reason for the protection, I did not unprotect. In the case of Jimmy Wales, the protecting admin's edit summary ("recent vandalism") clearly assumed that it would eventually be unprotected. The article had been unprotected about half the time over the previous two months, so there is no "It's always been protected so it should stay protected" argument to be made.

As Steel notes, protection review is an inexact process. In response to concerns from other users, I carried out an review six days after my 84 unprotects to J through M. Of these, 11 had been reprotected and 14 had not been edited at all. You can argue that I should be able to know that the 11 (and several others that I've noted returned to protection since) shouldn't have been unprotected, but how do you know that the 14 (as well as the dozens that returned to editing normality) should have, unless you unprotect them and see? (I did try to be a bit more conservative with the marginal calls in subsequent review.) There are a number of issues tangled up with this, one of which is that some users seem to think that protection is an inviolate action that should not be questioned, while at the same time admins are clearly protecting pages and forgetting about them. If an admin states in their edit summary that a page deserves indefinite protection, and I disagree, I would certainly discuss it before unprotecting. If an admin thinks that an article should be indefinitely protected but instead writes "+sprotect, lots of vandalism" as the reason, he or she should not be surprised if other admins can't mindread and eventually remove the protection in accordance with policy.

I have no desire to drag this topic back into your fine podcast, where I think your repeated criticism of unprotection is beginning to verge on off-wiki lobbying. If you do think it is worth comment, I trust that you will represent my reasoning above fairly, rather than using it as a entry point to restate your own position. No response is necessary; I'm prepared to walk away from this one. Regards, Banyan Tree 16:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

BanyanTree and Steel359, I see your side of the issue, and I don't mean for WikipediaWeekly to be a bully pulpit for my viewpoint. As we've mentioned many times, we seek out a multitude of voices and issues, so I heartily invite you both to come onto the podcast to either talk about protection specfically, or as part of the greater discussion on the long-term trajectory of Wikipedia with regards to quality, openness and the participation of anons. It's an issue that we have talked about in passing many times:

As Wikipedia (en: at least) moves forward, past 1.5 million articles and as articles reach more "finished" states, will protection only be used in the way it is used now, only as a last resort and a temporary measure?
Is semi-protection a state that should be used as an article matures?
What can we reasonably expect an anon to add to "poop deck" or "anus" that would be useful, as innovations in those particular subjects are not likely?
Or should protection stay the domain of emergency measures when we get real "stable versions" in place with a "publicly approved version" and a "draft version"?

It's a conversation we want to have on WW, and we welcome your participation.

It may either be by chance or because "birds of a feather flock together" but the podcast crew for the last few weeks don't seem to vary much on this issue. But that could well be that the panel seems to have a preponderance of RC patrollers, who would likely favor protection earlier and longer than the average admin.

The only thing needed is a Skype account to participate, and again, we welcome your views on this. Let me, Tawker or Daveydweeb know, thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 22:10, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I definitely would... if I had Skype. -- Steel 00:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

course assignments

Fuzheado, you might be interested in these: User:Ragesoss/HIST 236 and User:Ragesoss/Assignments. It's a Wikipedia assignment that just wrapped up in the course I'm the teaching assistant for.--ragesoss 08:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

A DB-Bio Article

Hello Fuzheado, this db-bio article has been up for quite some time. Could you take a look at it please? Thank you.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 00:47, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I totally respect your work man

Man, you are the genius behind the most awesome page on wikipedia: Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars. I am not worthy to type on the same talk page as you type on.

I was wondering if you could include a couple of links to the edit history for your additions:

Wikipedia_talk:Lamest_edit_wars#New_contributors:_Help_other_wikipedians_enjoy_the_lame_edit_war_even_more

This one: Cauliflower

thanks. Best wishes, Travb (talk) 12:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Page for instructors

Hi Fuzheado, I'm looking for a page on Wikipedia which describes a little bit about how instructors can use Wikipedia and incorporate Wiki editing into course materials. Do you know where this page is? Many thanks, --HappyCamper 12:15, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protection of talk page?

I find it's a very, very bad idea to semi-protect your talkpage. By being an administrator, you need to allow anonymous editors to talk to you for a variety of reasons.

There are a few anonymous editors with thousands of edits who are as respectable as any Wikipedian with a username.
If you warn an anonymous editor, they can't ask you for help.

Unless a troll is trying to vandalize (if so, put a message explaing the sprotect), I strongly urge you to unprotect this page. -- Chris is me _(u/c/t) 02:29, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Eh, sorry to jump on you. -- Chris is me _(u/c/t) 05:08, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Wish you all the best in the year of the pig. Wish you a year full of knowledge and energy. As nurtured as a pig, as content as a pig. Greetings from Hong Kong. --Der yck C. 16:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly...

When is production resuming? ShakespeareFan00 14:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Great to see that you are back. I was looking forward for it for a long time. I hope you could get back your normal Internet service. Greetings, Longbow4u 20:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Lamest edit wars

Thanks for starting this page - it beats the Bad jokes section hands down.--Shtove 21:21, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

You should be ashamed

I thought better of you. You should be fighting against the very idea of the Counter Vandalism Unit, not participating in it. I can't think of anything better designed to encourage juvenile antagonism than paramilitary affectations about "protecting" Wikipedia. --The Cunctator 07:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Didn't Cunctator oppose Larry Sanger's proposal of a Wikipedia militia?--Shtove 21:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

"Context"

Hi, Fuzheado. Upon further reflection, I'm not as sure as I was earlier that there is any context that sufficiently justifies Essjay misrepresenting himself to the New Yorker reporter. Earlier, I thought that he had created the "professor" persona after being stalked by Daniel Brandt, but now it seems that is not the case. I'm not sure why he created the "professor" persona, but it was quite early in his Wikipedia activities (see here). Given that Brandt did subsequently stalk many prominent Wikipedians, it is understandable that Essjay would choose to maintain the professor persona, but it's not quite so understandable why he would then choose to speak to a reporter at length under false pretenses.

I also don't think that Essjay's current position of leaving any comment to Wikia's PR firm is particularly beneficial, to him or to Wikipedia's reputation. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:37, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly

You are a great radio host. —Centrx→talk • 20:12, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree! Although the Essjay episode came about about 14 hours too early... :( I wish I could do something like the Wikipedia Weekly hehe, that would be really fun to do. Do you guys have anything like a signup sheet where I could come on sometime in the future? Hehe that'd be really fun. GofG _|^|_| Contribs 02:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

For your response. --CSTAR 03:18, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Jalt

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Jalt, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Squids'and'Chips 01:12, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Multimedia and Wikimania

Hi Fuzheado. Thanks for including me in the discussion. See my comments here. --Charley • Q ^#o • 23:56, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Prague

In about two weeks I could be available for you, but I can't say it for sure unless I know the date of your visit. Most probably I will be available. Am I enough for you, or you need more people? Please reply on my cs:User talk:Zirland page. --Zirland 08:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Great, let's try to rendezvous then -- Fuzheado | Talk 18:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

God (expression)

Back in September, you speedy deleted God (expression). The deletion reason given was "short and stupid". Would you mind undeleting this article? Thanks. --- RockMFR 22:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Poke poke... --- RockMFR 04:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Contest judge

Hello! You've been listed as a judge in Messedrocker's Contest. If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. —Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 20:11, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

km.wikipedia.org backlog

Could you please check km:Category:Delete? There are several pages that need to be deleted. Thanks. -- ReyBrujo 04:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Nice, hearing from you again. I will find some time to fill it. Thank you. BTW do you still have pictures from Wikimania 2005 with me showing a magazine to Jimbo Wales and giving lecture? Cheers! Meursault2004 12:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Videos of Wikimania Taipeh 2007

Hi Fuzheado, when I remember correctly from Wikipedia Weekly, you said that you plan to make the Wikimania 2007 more interactive, so that Wikipedians who cannot participate can at least watch the conference on video. I do not know if you organize the videos, or if you know the person who will be responsible. There were some glitches at Wikimania Boston 2006, and perhaps it is possible to not repeat them.

The videos should be taken in a free video format, at least as an alternative format. --> Ogg Theora. (Real media is not a good format)
They should be freely licenced with a Wikimedia Commons compatible licence --> e. g. dual-licenced GFDL/CC-BY-SA 2.5 or later. Even though Commons at the moment limits filesize at about 20 MB, it is very likely that in the future also bigger files will be supported, and then we need these files for documentation.

I hope this can be arranged. Many wikipedians from Germany are very interested in the conferences and discussions, but will not be able to participate, because Taiwan is so far away. And you do a good job at Wikipedia Weekly ! I listen in regularly.

Greetings, Longbow4u 10:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I LOVE YOUR PODCAST!

I LOVE YOUR PODCAST ! IT IS THE GREATEST EVER!WikiaAlexC 00:39, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination

I thought you'd be interested in this project.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 20:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC) ==Why did you remove my edits on the Keith Urban discography page? I was updating it to include his current single. I am a fan, and wanted to spread the information...make wikipedia work man... kylie minogue is awesome also... so dont hate her too.

207.69.137.21 03:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Why was the Skunk Bush page deleted?

Why was the Skunk Bush page deleted? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bukujutsu (talk • contribs) 04:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC).

Wikipedia Weekly...

Do you have 'in blood' permission in respect of the music you are using for the podcast? ShakespeareFan00 14:53, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

A valid question, but there should be no problem. According to Apple:

Every podcast sound included with GarageBand is 100% royalty-free, so you can use what you want at will. Add them in during your post-production, or, if you prefer a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-podcast approach, you can even trigger effects during live recording.

Link can be found here [1]. The profesional music that is bundled makes Apple's software a bargain. -- Fuzheado | Talk 09:06, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

That says podcast, but taken to mean explicit license. ShakespeareFan00 12:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

You would do as well to link to your above comments, in your next WW, and credit..ShakespeareFan00 12:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Clarification?

Hi ShakespeareFan00, can you elaborate on the note you left on my page? I'm afraid I'm missing something, as I believe it's pretty clear re: the Apple Garageband permissions to use the clips, and the three main folks who do editing all have Macs/Garageband. Feel free to tell me otherwise. -- Fuzheado | Talk 13:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

OK Then. It's "royalty-free' in respect of podcast doesn't quite mean that given the current

debate in the US concerning royalties... ShakespeareFan00 15:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Recent podcast on vandalism study

Fuzheado, I was thrilled to see you cover the results of the first stufy for the Vandalism Studies WikiProject in the recent Wikipedia Weekly podcast. I had proposed this WikiProject just this past winter and I was lucky enough to get some people to help me start this project. Specifically, users User:JoeSmack, and User:JackSparrow Ninja were instrumental in helping me set up and complete the first study, which you referred to in the podcast. If you would be interested, I believe that either User:JoeSmack or myself would be willing to talk to you on the podcast regarding our past efforts and our second study which we hope to begin on June 1. If that interests you, please let me know. Best regards, Remember 21:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Video blog article

Hi Fuzheado,

I'm looking to get the video blog article expanded and I noticed you've contributed to the article in the past. It would be great if you could check it out again. It could use some help. Thanks. Pdelongchamp 22:26, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I know you're online :o

Why doesn't your skype show it. We've been looking for you but you've been MIA :o -- Tawker 22:32, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Michael Getler

Just a note, someone proposed Michael Getler for speedy deletion. I expanded it a bit to (hopefully) allay come concerns about the length, but if you have other plans for expanding it you may want to do it soon. Cmprince 04:19, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but it was one sentence long when I added the tag. Chris9086 02:28, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

DRV for "Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story"

Dear Fuzheado, this upcoming Wikidocmentary film article is currently under discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review on today, because a recent decision to retain it on Wikipedia has been appealed and it is in progress in reaching an ultimate consensus. You may wish to support for restoration by contributing it to the review. Since you had involved into it in regards to this upcoming Wikidocumentary film by Nic Hill, so please do help out and try not to hesitate to voice out your advocated opinion! Otherwise without you commenting about it, this article would never had existed. Pole Heinz Tower 14:28, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Pownce

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Pownce. Since you undeleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Corvus cornix 23:56, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania stream mock up

Please check your emails re my mock up. This is because i only have limited spare time and this week i should have a lot free so if i can get your comments then i can act on it this week. Thanks --Markie 20:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Comments from NobutoraTakeda

I don't think that the deletion page needs to have you be condescending about me just registering my name. You do know that you are able to do just about anything on Wikipedia besides put forth deletions without a screen name, right? If you have a problem about me, why don't you ask me for information instead of saying things like that? NobutoraTakeda 01:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Doubts? That gives you the right to be rude and bite? NobutoraTakeda 01:34, 16 July 2007 (UTC) Factual? So I should say on your delete talk pages "this guy has 4 archives on his talk page" after your posts? Don't use an excuse to hide from an apology for your rudeness. NobutoraTakeda 02:04, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello! Nobutora, instead of focusing on practically only nominating articles for deletion, I strongly urge you to consider working to improve to Wikipedia by contributing to making articles better. Too often it seems articles are nominated without editors attempting to improve them instead. I think more actual constructive edits would be much appreciated. For some good articles, please see:

Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 23:30, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Pownce Re-deletion

As I created the Pownce article, I've had a notice put on my talk page saying it's been put up to be speedily deleted again. I'm relatively new here, I don't know the best way to combat these - any chance you could have a look? Alexlmuller 07:56, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Coincidence

Hi Fuzheado. I happened to read your piece, linked from the current signpost, after my punk attempt at 'article rescue' on Radio Monash, a top^[1] universities online radio station. They happen to be part of academic courses in new journalism, which I assume would interest you. I have seen projects roused to rescuing articles with great effect, but a lot of stuff is beyond their scope and is trashed and added to a nominators 'score'. I hope this 'sport' is stopped. It is highly detrimental to the community and the work. Thanks for your opinion piece on the subject. Regards, Fred ☻ 11:08, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Reversion of Edward McSweegan

I noticed that you just reverted an edit to Edward McSweegan. Thanks! Would you please consider dropping a serious warning (maybe a uw-vandalism3 or uw-vandalism4 on the editor's Talk page? At least two other editors are trying to engage this editor with dialog and warnings but he doesn't seem to get it. I'm afraid that if I or Studerby place another warning on Emcsweegan's talk page he will just ignore it and figure that we're pestering him. --ElKevbo 21:07, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

how the community is changing

This quick interaction I had reminded me of the thread a couple of weeks ago, your questions, and the upcoming wikimania discussion; how *do* we inculcate new(ish) editors? and into what do we guide them? Precedent is strongly set by people doing the jobs many older editors don't want, like RC patrol, and this may not always be ideal. phoebe/(talk) 21:45, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Jalt

Jalt, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Jalt satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jalt and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Jalt during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Eliz81 ^(talk)^(contribs) 18:34, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

WP Zimbabwe

Together we can make the world a better place.

You have been invited to join the WikiProject Zimbabwe, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Zimbabwe. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading!

Part 03:56, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Venue suggestion needed for a meet-up in Yuen Long

Dear: Fuzheado/Archive 5 ：

In the past meet-ups, we always had our meeting in the centre of Kowloon, either Kowloon Tong or Mong Kok. However, apart from these places, I am sure that alternative venues in other region would be suitable.

This is the time for your suggestion! According to some discussion on Chinese Wikipedia, from August of 2007, the Hong Kong Wikimedians’ meet-up would be held in all districts of Hong Kong in a circulation basis.

Here is the tentative information of the first meet-up：

Date：11, August, 2007 (Saturday)

Time：After 5:00pm

Proposed region：Yuen Long

The community would request for ideas of where we should hold the meet-up , in order to have a better decision. If you have any good ideas, don’t hesitate to give your opinions, million thanks!

Please don't hesitate to give your good suggestion to us

Regards,

Hong Kong Wikimedian

Sith lord darth vader

04:44, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Khmer Wikipedia

As you are still sysop on the Khmer Wikipedia - can you protect the page km:វីគីផេឌា:Protected titles with the Cascading protection switched on, and then delete the garbage pages like km:w/index.php created by a spambot? This spambot really gets annoying... andy 10:53, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

WP:CVU status

The Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to {{inactive}} and/or {{historical}} status. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU#Inactive.3F. Thank you. Delivered on behalf of user:xaosflux 01:07, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Convincing the Powers that Be at my School that Wikipedia assignments are worth it

I am very impressed by your work at Hong Kong University. Im hoping you are still active enough here to help a newbie instructor. I have a current project at Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects#ITESM_Campus_Toluca_-_Advanced_B_English_Course_.28Profesional.29. As you probably know, it is a LOT easier to convince students of the value of using computer and Internet-based projects than it is teachers and administrators. While I have managed to get this semester's course based on Wikipedia and they have been pretty good about letting me experiment, they have let me know that they are "indulging" me. Ah politics! I also noticed that you got your Hong Kong project reported on CNN. How did you manage that? Something similar (not CNN so much but maybe a Mexico news outlet) would go a long way to helping my case as ITESM sure wouldnt mind positive publicity. So how do I go about getting the attention of the news without looking like Im just looking for attention? Thelmadatter 14:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter

Dim sum spoken article

Hey can I re-record the dim sum article since the last one was done in 2005? Or if you wanna redo it I can hold back. Davumaya 08:52, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

Stubs: Frank Wells; Midget; Exosphere; Malaspina University-College; Trial of Saddam Hussein; Corpus Christi, Texas; Frédéric Chopin; USS Hull (DD-7); Top-down perspective; John-Paul Clarkin; North America Cup; Cool (aesthetic); John-Paul Langbroek; King (TTC); USS Rhode Island (BB-17); College (TTC); Oliver Stone; Random access memory; Labrador Peninsula

Cleanup: Jimmy Choo; Pokhara University; Nuclear option
Merge: Wikipedia Watch; Insert (SQL); Central Coast Campuses
Add Sources: List of the most popular names in the 1890s in the United States; Immigration reform; Tom DeLonge
Wikify: Honeymoon; El Vacilón de la Mañana; Jesse James Northfield Raid
Expand: Boston Market; Entrance examination; Zinedine Zidane

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better -- thanks for helping.

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from ForteTuba, SuggestBot's caretaker.

P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on the SuggestBot request page. If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- SuggestBot 16:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of Korean Americans

List of Korean Americans, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that List of Korean Americans satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Korean Americans and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of List of Korean Americans during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Leuko 17:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of Japanese Americans

List of Japanese Americans, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that List of Japanese Americans satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Japanese Americans and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of List of Japanese Americans during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Leuko 18:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

responded

Responded on my talk. If you feel like you should unprotect it, I'm not going to stop you. However given the edit warring and reversions, the unreliable sourcing, and the OTRS complaint, and considering this involves potentially sensitive information, I don't think it should be unprotected. ⇒ SWATJester ^{Denny Crane.} 03:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Responded again. ⇒ SWATJester ^{Denny Crane.} 03:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

The book?

Your user page says book coming out in Fall 07 - how's it coming along?--Shtove 09:27, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Dozens of bad-quality edits as a result of a coursework assignment

I read on your blog that you had given assignments to students, so I thought that your input in this discussion might be valuable.--victor falk 20:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

In Remembrance...

--nat ^{Alo! Salut! Sunt eu, un haiduc?!?!} 06:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Perdida de permisos en la gl.wp

Estimado amigo. En la actualidad se esta a llevar la votación de perdida de permisos por parte de su usuario en la enciclopedia gallega. El plazo concluye este 22/11/2007. Para mas información le envio un correo y, de paso le invito a que vea la propuesta en la pagina correspondiente (http://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_Taberna_%28propostas%29#Publicaci.C3.B3n_de_Petici.C3.B3ns_e_Votaci.C3.B3ns_para_a_revogaci.C3.B3n_do_status_de_administrador_de_administradores_inactivos.). Saludos --83.50.133.72 01:29, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Farid Babayev

Farid Babayev, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Farid Babayev satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farid Babayev and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Farid Babayev during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 13:44, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Melissa Herndon

A tag has been placed on Melissa Herndon requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Jeanenawhitney 14:06, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I did it because 1. The article was very short and really showing no or little notability. 2. After doing a google search I found she is usually a low ranking billiards player. 3. The external link was or is broken. --Jeanenawhitney 14:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Suzanne Fournier

Suzanne Fournier, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Suzanne Fournier satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suzanne Fournier and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Suzanne Fournier during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. β^_command 15:39, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Rafael Robb

Rafael Robb was created Dec. 1 by User:Lyonspen, I've improved it after listening to ep. 36 (sorry:); however unfortunately, the article seems to be slated for deletion soon due to the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rafael Robb. -Kain Nihil 19:09, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Fuzheado, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! -- Tawker (talk) 03:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Wethedmedia.info

I have just bought this wiki back to life [6]

Since nobody complained... well I guess nobody tried to complain, then, we really should close it down.

Waddyasay? Gordo (talk) 17:48, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly

I just wanted to say that earlier this month, I subscribed to Wikipedia Weekly on Itunes - I'm one of about 10 people who use their Ipod for podcasts ;) - and I really like it. Raul654 (talk) 21:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Also: Ehime Maru - USS Grenville collision was the featured article on December 10 ;) Raul654 (talk) 23:10, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

WikiEN-l

User:Phil Sandifer has suggested I ask another list moderator about this. Can you tell me, is there a set period of time that a new subscriber becomes "unmoderated", or is it just whenever one of the list admins "approve" them? The reason I ask is I've made a couple replies to the list within the last 2 days and none of them have went through. Thanks for your help! - Rjd0060 (talk) 02:20, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Please reply on my talk page. Thanks, Rjd0060 (talk) 22:21, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind. It seems to be all set now. Thanks anyways. - Rjd0060 (talk) 00:23, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Have you heard of Hoodong wiki-encyclopedia? How does it compare to wikipedia? It seems to be quite large and of good quality. I can't find much news about the site, except for here. 40fifw0 (talk) 20:56, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Wiki Doctorates

Wiki Doctorate is a new scheme designed to recognise the people who "do all the work" on Wikipedia. It has been mainly developed for Wikipedia administrators however if you have done lots to keep Wikipedia on "the straight and narrow", including being members of different groups which help Wikipedia i.e "The Welcoming Committee. We have selected to email you because you can apply for the doctorate and we would be very grateful if you did and put the userbox on your user page to boost advertising. The following link will take you straight to our homepage.

Yours sincerely

--Dr.J.Wright MD (talk) 23:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Deletionist versus Inclusionist Controversy

I'd like to invite you to weigh in on the--somewhat ironic--AfD discussion on the Deletionist_versus_Inclusionist_Controversy. Tarinth (talk) 20:33, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello Fuzheado !

Hello Fuzheado ! My account on khmer wikipedia is Khmer user

I found you as sysops(administrator) of Khmer Wikipedia. Now some users and anonymous users are trying to delete the text in the articles, templtates, user, user talk....We now can't do anythings to stop these actions because we are simple users, there are no Khmer sysops(Administrator) and only two administrators on Khmer wikipedia, You and User:Bookofjude. But the 2 administrators are not Khmer (Cambodian). If you are the administrator and you have permission on khmer wikipedia I hope you can help us to deal with these problem. Sorry for any inconvenience! Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by តឹក ប៊ុនលី (talk • contribs) 08:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Space missions WikiProject

Hi, I noticed that you are a member of the Space missions WikiProject. A couple of weeks ago, I proposed that the Space missions and Space travellers projects, which both appear to be inactive be merged into the Human Spaceflight project. Whilst this is being done, the capitalisation of the Human spaceflight project's title would also be corrected (ie. Human Spaceflight → Human spaceflight). The projects are all doing the same/very similar things, and in my opinion, a single, larger, project would be more effective than three smaller, and somewhat inactive projects.. In light of very little response to messages on the project talk pages, I am now sending this message to all members of all three projects, inviting them to discuss the proposal on the Human Spaceflight project's talk page. I would appreciate your opinion on this. Thanks. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 21:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

? about your book and need advice about my own project

I dont know if you remember me... last summer I contacted you about the work on Wikipedia you had done with your classes in Asia. I am an English teacher in Mexico and I based my last semesters advanced English classes on participating in Wikipedia. I am working on an article/paper about the experience and I was wondering if you would be willing to give me some feedback. Ive done the analysis of the surveys I conducted and just about finished the first draft.

If your book is out, how do I get a copy?Thelmadatter (talk) 21:03, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:Goings-on introduction

A tag has been placed on Template:Goings-on introduction requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:46, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Turning deletion into a good faith process‎

Hi Andrew - I chatted to you in Taipei, and have noticed since then that you take an interest in the deletionism issue.

I'd like to explore the idea of turning deletion into a good faith process - I've made a few notes at User:Chriswaterguy/Turning deletion into a good faith process already.

If I'm reinventing the wheel, please let me know so I can support what others are doing instead - thanks! --Chriswaterguy talk 12:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Technical structure of Wikipedia

I heard your description of the technical side of Wikipedia on the Wikipedia Weekly podcast and I was wondering if you would be willing to expand on that description in an email or over Skype. I need to better understand the technical side of Wikipedia for a conference paper that I'm working on about online communities. I would greatly appreciate it! Awadewit | talk 04:55, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for agreeing to help me out! What is a good time for you and what time zone are you in? Awadewit | talk 02:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly 42

I disagree vehemently with some of the things you said in the recent WW episode. Specifically:

I think it is fairly obvious that the "sum of human knowledge" is finite. That is to say, even if you define it extremely broad - every idea in every person's head, every concept from all fields (both technical and non-technical), every creative work/story/fable/song/bit of lore - that you still end up with a large but finite number of things. An appropriate analogy here might be to all the grains of sand on the earth - there are lots and lots of them, seemingly (and metaphorically) infinite, but not literally infinite.
Wikipedia not nearly as big as you seem to think it is. Looking at the image here, Wikipedia is roughly the size of one shelf you might find in a library. That is nowhere near the sum of human knowledge - any half-decent library has many dozens of times that in both the fiction and non-fiction sections. Wikipedis is, in effect, the cliffs note version of human knowledge - a high-level, easily searchable summary of what's out there.
As for future trends in growth, you're right that we seem to be hitting the top of the S-curve (at least that is what Dragonly67's data seemed to indicate). This is not, as you implied, because we've got most of what's out there. I cannot stress this enough. We're hitting the top of the S-curve because we have effectively maxed out what a normal non-specialist contributor is capable of contributing; that Wikipedia has sufficiently good coverage of every-day topics that any average person who sits down to edit Wikipedia. At the risk of immodesty, I will use myself as a counter-example. I consider myself bright and well-versed in a number of fields. I've written many articles on Wikipedia over many years. Here are the articles I started prior to June 2004 (some because they were listed at Wikipedia:Requested articles, some because I wrote them of my own volition). While obviously this list represents, to some extent, the biases of my own education and propensity to write, some of these are so common-place that I'm still surprised that by 2004 they didn't already exist: Investigative journalism, Jacket, Hepatitis E, Social pressure, Socket, Special education, Special prosecutor. Now look at the ones I've created since November: with the possible exception of Van dyke beard, all of them are very niche articles, and most of them are highly specialized (and mostly technical) - not the sort that we can expect the average contributor to have ever heard of, let alone write about.

So as I said, I think we're hitting the top of the S-curve because we've maxed out what most of our contributors are able to contribute, not because we've maxed out what there is to write about. Raul654 (talk) 20:31, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Greetings from the united federation of planets

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#“The battle for Wikipedia's soul” might be of interest to you given you were featured on the economist's article. -- Cat ^chi? 03:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Skype

Do you have time to talk today or tomorrow about the structure of Wikipedia on Skype? Awadewit (talk) 22:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Andrea Parhamovich

Please do not make personal attacks. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks. Attack pages and images are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images in violation of our biographies of living persons policy will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Chris19910 (talk) 10:59, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

It was aimed at a page that had been created by you not personally at you. Chris19910 (talk) 13:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I cant remember what exactly was on the page because it has already been deleted Chris19910 (talk) 13:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Under the terms of an attack page the content falls into that catagory im not going to argue about it. Chris19910 (talk) 14:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Why not come join us?

[7]--Filll (talk) 02:19, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Mickey Kantor

I've upgraded your protection for the article, looks like an autoconfirmed decided to join the "lets link to videos on youtube" parade. ~Kylu (u|t) 01:55, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

A quote you might like

Having read the quotes on your userpage I thought you might be interested in this one. Unforetuneately I can't confirm its authenticity absolutely. I have both heard the quote and read a sourced reference to the original but no less than 20 years ago. If you go looking and find a source I would like to know.

"I pity the average man who, having read his morning paper, feels he knows something of what has gone on in the world"
~Henry Ford (from memory but accurate in meaning and tone) Eoag (talk) 05:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Presentation

Hi Andrew. The Philippine Wikipedia Community is planning to be part of the first Philippine Open Source Summit in Cebu City, Philippines, on June 23-24. Would you know where we could get ready-made flyers, 1-pagers, power-point presentations, and other marketing materials on Wikipedia? This will be very useful for educating more people in the Philippines about Wikipedia.--Nino Gonzales (talk) 08:00, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Edit war

This is the sequence of diffs that concerned me, especially in light of current events: [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] I have left responses for you on my talk page. Next time you have concerns about my, or another administrator's actions, please discuss before undoing administrative actions. Thanks. Jehochman ^Talk 00:48, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Edit warring resumed today after you unprotected the page. Unless you object, I will reprotect the page if the edit warring continues. If you do object, I recommend we take this straight to arbitration, because it is an extremely sensitive situation. Jehochman ^Talk 14:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

RE: WikiProject on closed proxies

Hi, I've just signed up for WP:WikiProject on closed proxies and was wondering whether is project is still active and whether you are still an active member. Atyndall93 | talk 01:08, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Broken link

The link on the external site to the OGG version of Wikipedia Weekly #50 actually points to the MP3 version of #49. -AndrewBuck (talk) 16:44, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. The Placebo Effect (talk) ^{How's my editing? Please contribute to my editor review.} 17:26, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Doh, thanks! Both of you. -- Fuzheado | Talk 01:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Early History of similar projects from around the world

New Zealand had a fore runner to wikipedia at Waikato University in the form of an online club called 'oNeness of Humanity Club' RoddyYoung (talk) 20:46, 31 May 2008 (UTC) This information could be of interest to the wikipediastory.RoddyYoung (talk) 20:48, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Everything leads to Philosophy

Heard about it in the podcast. May I ask where to find the announcement/discussion on this? It's really fascinating. --Nino Gonzales (talk) 11:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

wikipedia usage stats

Hi -- I'm writing another post about deletionism, and I heard you mention on the podcast that user participation is way down this year (or flat, by other metrics). I wanted to know -- where did you get the stats from? Cheers, Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 10:26, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

meta:Image:Phoebe1.jpg

This message relates to meta:Image:Phoebe1.jpg on Meta but I note that you're more active on Wikipedia so I'm bringing this to your attention here. According to the image page, this image was taken by you and is currently "used with permission". Would you be able to clear things up and release this image under a free license according to the definition of free content at foundation:Resolution:Licensing policy. If you have any queries about this then please let me know. Regards. Adambro (talk) 18:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Aha! Just saw this. If it's not used with permission by all means take it down, of course :) There was some specific reason I needed a picture of myself back then, not necessary now, though it is still by far my favorite image of myself. phoebe / (talk to me) 16:23, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Weird stuff on your web site

I'm not sure what happened, but when I googled "Andrew Lih" and saw the list of hits, the heading of your home page was talking about a certain pharmaceutical product. Should I assume spammers rather than the long arm of the wall? Andjam (talk) 12:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Lamest: SPORE release dates

You created Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars, right? If so, thanks much - it's one of the best things on Wikipedia.

I think that the recent debate at Talk:Spore_(2008_video_game)#Stop_it_with_the_Australian_release_date is worthy of inclusion, but I'm not sure how to go about it. If you agree, please add it to WP:Lamest. (There's already an entry for Spore there, so this would be Part II.) -- 201.17.36.246 (talk) 13:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Lamest: Talk:Christian_the_lion#Viral_video_as_its_own_section

Another good (as in "really bad") one: Talk:Christian_the_lion#Viral_video_as_its_own_section (featuring Godwin's Law - can't tell if this whole thing was intended simply as trolling or not). -- 201.17.36.246 (talk) 18:54, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Ashley Todd

An article that you have been involved in editing, Ashley Todd, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashley Todd (2nd nomination). Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? -- Kendrick7^talk 18:53, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

You are right, I don't think the speedy deletion was really the right approach (or else, obviously, I would have tagged it that way in the first place). I've chimed in on that to Order's talk page. -- Kendrick7^talk 21:24, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Ashley Todd

I only placed the tag because someone had placed it at United States presidential election, 2008 already. I have no opinion either way, I was just trying to make sure both articles were included.--Cúchullain ^t/c 16:46, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Article tagged for rescue

The Story of Maths has been tagged for rescue. -- IRP ☎ 22:18, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

User page

You might want to update the "due to be released in Fall 2007" on your talk page. Just pointing that out. ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 01:24, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Andrea Parhamovich

I have nominated Andrea Parhamovich, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrea Parhamovich. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Burzmali (talk) 15:28, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not "Journalism" vs. "First-hand accounts"

You might care to weigh in at Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_.22Journalism.22_vs._.22First-hand_accounts.22.--ragesoss (talk) 19:15, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Is this the place?

I would like to take part in WikipediaWeekly #70. My contribs speak for themselves, I'd wager. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Need your help

I have created an article:User Arilang1234/Lao Baixing, is about 老百姓, I think this article is needed. Could you help me to build it up? Arilang ^talk 08:26, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

International Space Station

Hi! You might be interested in the discussion at Talk:International Space Station#The Failed FAC. Thank you. Colds7ream (talk) 22:28, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia not journalism - latest podcast

Your comments about Wikipedia and journalism greatly concerned me. I can see why you would say that Wikipedia is journalism. It clearly bleeds into journalism as it reports on-going news events as they unfold, however I wasn't sure whether or not you thought it should be journalism. In my opinion, Wikipedia should unequivocally not be journalism. It is my understanding that journalists investigate and interview sources and then put together a story about that material. They have been trained (to some extent) to do this and have a code of ethics (again, to some extent). However, Wikipedia editors have no such training and are bound by no such ethical code. They have no journalistic qualifications. Why would we want them analyzing material and reporting on it? (By the way, I greatly enjoy the podcasts.) Awadewit (talk) 04:13, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

How's Your News?

No problem. I saw that on your twitter feed and thought it wouldn't be too difficult. Then I had a hard time trying to write a blurb about that show in a way that wouldn't be offensive, patronizing, or otherwise controversial - which is why it is just a stub now. That is why I think there had been articles created for all of MTV's Sunday lineup except How's Your News? (although Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory was CSDed twice). Stu ^(aeiou)_{I'm Researching Wikipedia} 21:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Your user page

It says you're writing a book due to be out in 2007! Isn't one of Wikipedia's strengths supposed to be that it's up to date before other sources? :) Lookie Louis (talk) 00:56, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

What is Wikipedia?

I thought you might be interested in the debate here. Although it is complicated by the fact that the article was created by a sockpuppet, the issue of "what to include in a bibliography" and "what is Wikipedia" is interesting. Awadewit (talk) 02:41, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Salon.com interview

Hello:

Are you indeed Andrew Lih, author of The Wikipedia Revolution and recently interviewed by Salon.com?

If so, I am looking forward to reading your book.

Thanks, Adam Stanhope Kingston, Massachusetts --AStanhope (talk) 01:49, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

File:Jack-russell.mov listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Jack-russell.mov, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. NanohaA'sYuri^{Talk, My master} 01:15, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of John Carney (radio)

A tag has been placed on John Carney (radio), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. R3ap3R.inc (talk) 12:17, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of John Carney (radio)

A tag has been placed on John Carney (radio) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

Proposed deletion of John Carney (radio)

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article John Carney (radio), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

It has been previously deleted

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. R3ap3R.inc (talk) 15:08, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Award

		The Real Life Barnstar
		For going above and beyond the HTML to give Wikipedia its place among the stars with your book The Wikipedia Revolution. Ipatrol (talk) 04:11, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Plagiarism dispatch and ensuing debate

I had no idea plagiarism was such a hot topic on Wikipedia! :) I was wondering if this issue might warrant a mention on the podcast? Awadewit (talk) 21:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Revolution

I've just ordered for a copy and waiting for its arrival. Anyways thanks for bringing the efforts of us into a book ! I will let you comments when I read it. -- Tinu Cherian - 16:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

New Zealand Interview

Hi Fuzheado, I enjoyed your interview with Kim Hill last Saturday, you did another great job of explaining what this whole big thing is all about. Lisiate (talk) 01:14, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

the RFA gauntlet

Hi Andrew, nice meeting you and your lady in BA. I thought you ought to know there's a discussion at wikipedia Talk:RFA#Activity update: under 900 where I've mentioned your talk at Wikimania. TTFN Ϣere SpielChequers 20:00, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Going Rogue

Good spot finding the wikilink here[14] -- thanks! - Wikidemon (talk) 07:13, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

King Cobra and Black Mamba

There is an anonymous editor that is constantly vandalizing these two pages. He/she keeps taking out referenced material and replaces them with his own opinions. He has been doing this for quite sometime now. His IP address is: 218.188.1.55 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.43.168.133 (talk) 15:41, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Repeated problematic edits to Russ Mitchell

Fuzheado, would you be so kind to check out the edits that User_talk:24.159.187.122 has made to Russ Mitchell. I am contacting you since you are an admin in the Journalism project. It appears that this editor is causing formatting problems with his/her edits. I've reverted his/her edits twice and placed a warning on this editor's talk page after the second edit. However, this editor continues to make the same edit and has done so for the third time. I do not wish to get into an edit war with this editor. If I am mistaken in my assessment, I would appreciate it if you would tell me this. If you would prefer not to review these edits, please suggest an alternate admin. Please reply on your talk page. Thank you in advance for your assistance, --Dan Dassow (talk) 12:23, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Redoxon

The article Redoxon has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Blatant advertising. No sources.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. causa sui × 08:30, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Redoxon

I have nominated Redoxon, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Redoxon. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. causa sui × 00:09, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

You may give back your admin permission

For more information, please see ko:사용자토론:Fuzheado. --관인생략 (talk) 00:52, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

about your right of sysop in ko.wikipedia

there is discussion about you as administrator of ko.wikipedia who did not contribute ko.wikipedia for almost 6 years. Whatever you have decided about your right as ko.wikipedia administrtor, please leave your opinion in my ko.wikipedia talk page, ko:사용자토론:윤성현. I hope you reply soon and I am grateful that you helped ko.wikipedia in 2003-2004. -- Shyoon1 (talk) 01:51, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Fuzheado! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 3 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 16 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Roland Joffé - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Jeffrey Wigand - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Peng-Peng Gong - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 23:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Edward Seitz

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Edward Seitz. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward Seitz. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:07, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

about your right of sysop in ko.wikipedia again

Plese respond my question, thank you. -- Shyoon1 (talk) 03:52, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Macau church.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Macau church.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. IngerAlHaosului (talk) 14:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Martin-lee-campaign2004.JPG

Thanks for uploading File:Martin-lee-campaign2004.JPG. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 14:33, 17 March 2010 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. IngerAlHaosului (talk) 14:33, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Pastry-france-2004.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Pastry-france-2004.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 15:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. IngerAlHaosului (talk) 15:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Pastry-france-2004.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Pastry-france-2004.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here.

Speedy deletion of Seven dirty words

Hello Fuzheado, this is a message from an automated bot to inform you that the page you created on July 31 2003, Seven dirty words, has been marked for speedy deletion by User:Sophie (page has mainspace links, and more than 49 edits). This has been done because the page provides no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent (see CSD). If you think the tag was placed in error, please add "{{hangon}}" to the page text, and edit the talk page to explain why the page should not be deleted. If you have a question about this bot, please ask it at User talk:SDPatrolBot II. If you have a question for the user who tagged the article, see User talk:Sophie. Thanks, - SDPatrolBot II (talk) on behalf of Sophie (talk · contribs) 00:25, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Levitt Institute

Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Levitt Institute. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Hungry Beast. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Hungry Beast - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think that the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Sroc (talk) 14:51, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikimania 2010 program review

Hello, thanks for volunteering to review Wikimania 2010 submissions. We would like to send you an email, but there is no email address on your account on the Wikimania 2010 wiki. Could you consider adding your email address to your preferences? Thank you in advance! « Saper // @talk » 21:23, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Teaching essay

I thought you might be interested in this essay I co-wrote about teaching with Wikipedia: User:Awadewit/TeachingEssay. Awadewit (talk) 03:13, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikimania panel

Would you please urgently confirm your panel here: [15]? The reminders may have gone to the spambox, especially if you are using gmail. Thanks.--Yaroslav Blanter (talk) 10:24, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly

I case you were not yet aware, it seems the domain name expired User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:36, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

the Public Policy Initiative Assessment Team wants You!

Hi Fuzheado, I got your name from the Editorial Team participant list, and wanted to tell you that we will be testing out assessment metrics in the Wikiproject: United States Public Policy, and I was hoping you would be interested in assessing articles with the Public Policy Initiative. If you are not interested in assessment, i hope you will check out the project in some other areas, we could really use input from professors who have experience using Wikipedia in the classroom. There is more info about assessment on the 9/13/2010 Signpost. If you're interested or just curious you can sign up on the project page or just contact me. Thanks! ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 21:16, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Spaceflight portals

Hello! As an member editor of one or more of the Spaceflight, Human spaceflight, Unmanned spaceflight, Timeline of spaceflight or Space colonisation WikiProjects, I'd like to draw to your attention a proposal I have made with regards to the future of the spaceflight-related portals, which can be found at Portal talk:Spaceflight#Portal merge. I'd very much appreciate any suggestions or feedback you'd be able to offer! Many thanks,

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Human spaceflight at 08:44, 9 November 2010 (UTC).

Translating your book

Greetings Mr Lih! A few days ago I sent you an e-mail concerning the translation of your book, and you still didn't reply. I would greatly appreciate if you do respond ASAP. Thanks PIL1987 (talk) 14:49, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Human spaceflight activity

Hello there! As part of an effort to determine how many active editors are present in the spaceflight-related WikiProjects, I have made some changes to the list of members of WikiProject Human spaceflight. If you still consider yourself to be an active editor in this project, I would be grateful if you would please edit the list so that your name is not struck out - thus a clearer idea of the critical mass of editors can be determined. Many thanks in advance!

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Human spaceflight at 19:07, 17 November 2010 (UTC).

WikiProject Spaceflight reboot

Hello there! As you may or may not be aware, a recent discussion on the future of the Space-related WikiProjects has concluded, leading to the abolition of WP:SPACE and leading to a major reorganisation of WP:SPACEFLIGHT. It would be much appreciated if you would like to participate in the various ongoing discussions at the reorganisation page and the WikiProject Spaceflight talk page. If you are a member of one of WP:SPACEFLIGHT's child projects but not WP:SPACEFLIGHT itself, it would also be very useful if you could please add your name to the member list here. Many thanks!

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Spaceflight at 00:09, 6 December 2010 (UTC).

The Downlink: Issue 0

The Downlink

Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight

Issue 0, December 2010

Welcome to The Downlink · Reorganisation of Space WikiProjects · User Activity Checks
Welcome to The Downlink
Welcome to The Downlink, a new monthly newsletter intended to inform members of WikiProject Spaceflight about the latest developments in the project and its articles. Future issues will contain information on issues under discussion, newly featured content, and articles written by members of the project to appear in the newsletter. All members of WikiProject Spaceflight are invited to contribute any content that they would like to see in the newsletter. If you were not aware of being a member of WikiProject Spaceflight, membership of the former Human spaceflight, Unmanned spaceflight, Timeline of spaceflight and Space colonization WikiProjects was merged into WikiProject spaceflight during the reorganisation of the spaceflight projects, for more details, please see below.
Reorganisation of Space WikiProjects
The ongoing discussion of the future of Space WikiProjects has been making progress. WikiProject Space was abolished on 5 December 2010, with the Spaceflight, Astronomy and Solar System projects becoming independent of each other. On the same day, an assessment banner, {{WikiProject Spaceflight}} was created for WikiProject Spaceflight to replace the generic space one which had been used previously. On 9 December, WikiProject Space Colonization was abolished, with its tasks being subsumed into WikiProject Spaceflight. On 12 December, the Human spaceflight and Unmanned spaceflight WikiProjects became task forces of WikiProject Spaceflight, whilst WikiProject Timeline of spaceflight became a working group. A number of issues are still under discussion: Introducing better defined assessment criteria and an A-class review process Setting clearer importance criteria for assessing articles Establishing a joint task force with the Astronomy and Solar System projects to cover space telescopes and planetary probes Defining the roles of projects, taskforces and working groups, and processes for establishing new ones Improving the profile and activity of the project Much of the current discussion is taking place on the WikiProject Spaceflight talk page, however there is still some discussion on the original proposal page.
User Activity Checks
A series of checks are underway to establish the numbers of users who are still active within WikiProject Spaceflight, its task forces and working group. All usernames on the members lists were struck out, and members were asked to unstrike their own names if they were still an active member of the project. If you wish to do so, and have not already, please unstrike your name from the master list, plus the lists on any applicable task forces or working groups
Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

You have recieved this newsletter because you are currently listed as a member of WikiProject Spaceflight, or because you are not a member but have requested it. If you do not wish to receive future issues, please add your name to the opt-out list.

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Spaceflight at 16:12, 16 December 2010 (UTC).

The Downlink: Issue 1

The Downlink

Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight

Issue 1, January 2011

Welcome to The Downlink · Project News · News from Orbit · Article News · Space Stations and the Push for Featured Topics · Salyut 2

Welcome to The Downlink

Welcome to the first full issue of The Downlink, a new monthly newsletter intended to inform members of WikiProject Spaceflight about the latest developments in the project and its articles. Below you will find information about happenings within the project, our recognised content, spaceflight in the news and events needing to be covered in articles. You will also find an editorial about the first concerted effort to develop featured topics related to spaceflight, and an article in need of your help and improvements.

Project News will provide details of discussions about and changes in the organisation and structure of the project, newly recognised content, and changes in membership. News from Orbit will summarise spaceflight news and upcoming events, and list suggestions for articles in need of updating as a result. Article News will give details of requests for assistance within articles, and discussions regarding content.

All members of WikiProject Spaceflight are invited to contribute any content that they would like to see in the newsletter, and we would particularly welcome the submission of editorials, or an article about an area of spaceflight which you are working on, or particularly interested in. Please see The Downlink page for more details.

Project News

A new working group has been formed. The space stations working group is expected to work towards creating Featured topics related to space stations. It currently has three members.

Discussion within the project is still dominated by the reorganisation proposals. A discussion over the formation and roles of working groups and task forces has led to some clarification regarding working groups, however the roles of the task forces remain vague, and several proposals to abolish them have surfaced. The Human Spaceflight to-do list has been merged into the main project to-do list, with the combined list currently located on the Tasks page of the Spaceflight portal.

A discussion regarding opening relations with the Aerospace biography task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation was held, but no conclusions were reached. The Article Alerts bot has resumed operation, and a problem with the information the bot had been delivering was discussed and resolved.

New assessment criteria for importance and quality have been implemented, and refinements continue to be made to the importance scale. The scope of the project was redefined to exclude astronomical objects explicitly. Although A-class criteria have been defined, a review process is yet to be discussed or implemented.

Colds7ream conducted an analysis of open tasks related to the reorganisation which four major issues remain unresolved: Discussion concerning the existence and roles of task forces within the project; recruitment of new editors; updating guidelines and whether the project or the task forces should be responsible for maintaining them; and the continued existence of the Human spaceflight portal six weeks after consensus was reached to abolish it.

Discussion about the structure of the project is ongoing, with several proposals currently on the table. One proposal calls for the abolition of task forces in favour of increased emphasis on working groups, whilst another calls for the task forces to become a list of topics. The idea of a formal collaboration system has been suggested, however opposition has been raised.

One of the main open tasks at the moment is replacing the older {{WikiProject Space}} and {{WikiProject Human spaceflight}} banners with the new {{WikiProject Spaceflight}} banner. Articles which need to be retagged are currently listed in Category:WikiProject Spaceflight articles using deprecated project tags. ChiZeroOne is doing a very good job replacing them, but as of the morning of 31 December, there are still 1,424 left to be converted. Additionally, the implementation of a new B-class checklist built into the template has necessitated the reassessment of former B-class articles, which the template has automatically classified as C-class.

News from Orbit

On 3 December, USA-212, the first X-37B, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base after a successful mission. On 5 December Proton-M with a Blok DM-03 upper stage failed to place three Glonass-M satellites into orbit, the first of three failures in less than forty eight hours. The NanoSail-D2 spacecraft was supposed to have been ejected from FASTSAT in the early hours of the next morning, however it does not appear to have separated. Finally the Akatsuki spacecraft failed to enter orbit around Venus in the evening of 6 December. The Proton launch was the maiden flight of the Blok DM-03, which does not currently have an article.

On 8 December the Dragon C1 demonstration mission was conducted, with the SpaceX Dragon making a little under two orbits of the Earth on its maiden flight, before landing in the Pacific Ocean to complete a successful mission. The Falcon 9 rocket which launched the Dragon spacecraft also deployed eight CubeSats: SMDC-ONE 1, QbX-1, QbX-2, Perseus 000, Perseus 001, Perseus 002, Perseus 003 and Mayflower. The CubeSats do not currently have articles.

On 15 December, a Soyuz-FG launched Soyuz TMA-20 to the International Space Station, carrying three members of the Expedition 26 crew. It docked two days later. The Soyuz TMA-20 article is currently short, and could use improvements to bring it up to the same level as articles for US manned spaceflights. On 17 December, a Long March 3A launched Compass-IGSO2. There is currently no article for this satellite.

17 December saw Intelsat regain control of the Galaxy 15 satellite, which had been out of control since a malfunction in April. The Galaxy 15 article is in need of serious cleanup and a good copyedit. On 25 December a GSLV Mk.I failed to place GSAT-5P into orbit. A Proton-M with a Briz-M upper stage successfully launched KA-SAT on 26 December. Barring any suborbital launches at the end of the month which have not yet been announced (a NASA Black Brant was scheduled for December but does not appear to have flown), 2010 in spaceflight concluded on 29 December when an Ariane 5ECA launched the Hispasat-1E and Koreasat 6 spacecraft. These do not currently have articles.

Four launches are currently scheduled to occur in January 2011. A Delta IV Heavy is expected to launch NRO L-49 on 17 January. The satellite is expected to be an Improved Crystal electro-optical imaging spacecraft. Two launches are planned for 20 January, with Kounotori 2, the second H-II Transfer Vehicle, being launched by an H-IIB, and the Zenit-3F making its maiden flight to deploy Elektro-L No.1, the first Russian geostationary weather satellite to be launched since 1994. On 28 January Progress M-09M will be launched by a Soyuz-U. 28 January will also be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L.

Article News

It was requested that the article Walter Haeussermann be expanded. Haeussermann, a member of the von Braun rocket group, died on 8 December. Although the article has been updated following his death, a user requested that more information about the engineer be added. Another user requested that the articles Commercial Space Launch Act and Launch Services Purchase Act be created, to cover laws of the United States concerning spaceflight.

Articles related to methods of taking-off and landing were discussed. The term VTVL currently has an article whilst VTHL and HTHL do not. It was suggested that the existing article should be merged, and each term be covered by the article for the equivalent aviation term, however some distinction between use in the fields of aviation and spaceflight should remain.

Concern was raised that a large scale deletion request could cause many images to be lost from articles, help was requested to investigate whether any of the images were not subject to copyright, or if they were then whether they could be uploaded to the English Wikipedia under a claim of fair use.

Concerns were raised about a large amount of content in the newly-created article deorbit of Mir duplicating existing content in existing Good Article Progress M1-5. A proposal to merge deorbit of Mir into Progress M1-5 was made, however objections were raised, and discussion has since stalled without reaching a consensus. It has also been requested that the article Mir be copyedited.

The existence of separate categories for "spaceflight" and "space exploration" has been questioned, with a suggestion that some of the exploration categories, including Category:Space exploration iteslf, should be merged into their spaceflight counterparts.

Missile Range Instrumentation Ship is currently listed at requested moves, with a proposal to rename it tracking ship. The only open good article nomination is of the book Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet, which is currently awaiting review.

Editorial – Space Stations and the Push for Featured Topics

There has recently been much talk about trying to increase the activity of the project. To this end, a major reorganisation effort has been undertaken, which has seen the space WikiProjects separated into the Astronomy, Solar System and Spaceflight groups, with WikiProject Space being abolished. We have also seen the child projects of WikiProject Spaceflight being abolished, with Timeline of Spaceflight becoming a working group, and the Unmanned and Human Spaceflight projects becoming task forces for now, with some suggestions that they should be abolished outright. The problem with the previous structure was that there were too many different groups of editors, and nobody was sure which projects were supposed to be doing what. Now there is only one project, this is somewhat clearer, but spaceflight is still a huge topic.

Another way to improve the activity of the project is to attract more editors. Spaceflight is a topic which many people have at least a very casual interest in, and therefore it is strange that there are only about four or five people regularly participating in discussions on the project talk page. Evidently action is needed to raise the profile of the project.

One way in which the project's profile can be raised is to have a major success associated with it. The creation of a featured topic could be one such success, and would also be hugely beneficial to articles in the area that it relates to. Space Stations are one of the most high-profile and notable areas of spaceflight, and are therefore a logical choice to spearhead such an initiative.

To this end, in late December a working group was established to concentrate and coordinate efforts to establish featured topics related to space stations. An initial proposal calls for topics on Skylab, Salyut, Mir and the International Space Station, as well as one on space stations in general. There is currently an effort to get Mir promoted to Good Article status; the article currently requires a copyedit, after which it will be sent for peer review and then to GAN.

This is by no means a short-term project. There are many articles, particularly for the larger space stations such as the ISS and Mir, which are currently nowhere near becoming recognised content. Skylab is the smallest of the proposed featured topics, but it still requires that three C-class articles, two Start-class articles and a redirect all reach at least Good Article status, with at least three becoming Featured Articles. The ISS topic is so large that it may have to be subdivided.

I don't expect that we will have any featured topics by the end of the year, but I believe that a Good Topic, which requires all articles reach at least GA status, but does not require any featured articles, may be possible. I also believe that several articles on the subject can easily be improved to Good Article status, and some articles may be at featured level by the end of the year. In the long term, having featured topics will benefit the project and its content.

Selected Article – Salyut 2

Salyut 2 was an early space station, launched in 1973 as part of the Salyut and Almaz programmes. It malfunctioned two days after launch, and consequently was never visited by a manned Soyuz mission.

The Salyut 2 article describes the station:

“

Salyut 2 (OPS-1)(Russian: Салют-2; English: Salute 2) was launched April 4, 1973. It was not really a part of the same program as the other Salyut space stations, instead being the highly classified prototype military space station Almaz. It was given the designation Salyut 2 to conceal its true nature. Despite its successful launch, within two days the as-yet-unmanned Salyut 2 began losing pressure and its flight control failed; the cause of the failure was likely due to shrapnel piercing the station when the discarded Proton rocket upper stage that had placed it in orbit later exploded nearby. On April 11, 1973, 11 days after launch, an unexplainable accident caused the two large solar panels to be torn loose from the space station cutting off all power to the space station. Salyut 2 re-entered on May 28, 1973.

”

The article is currently assessed as start class, and is in need of attention. It consists of the above paragraph, along with a list of specifications and an infobox. The article needs to be rewritten in a more encyclopaedic style, and with more information about the space station. It has not yet been determined whether Salyut 2 would have to be included in a featured topic about the Salyut programme, or whether since it was never manned it is less integral to the topic, however if its inclusion were necessary then in its current form it would be a major impediment to this. Downlink readers are encouraged to improve this article, with a view to getting it to B-class and possibly a viable Good Article candidate by the end of the month.

Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Spaceflight at 14:58, 1 January 2011 (UTC).

warning

your administrator's 권한 will be disappear. please pay attention in Korean Wikipedia.-In Palace 01:12, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

This user is blocked in kowiki.--Seco (Ta./con.) 08:44, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

WP:WOCP

Hello, this is a notice that wp:WOCP is currently revitalizing to conform with new technology standards and there is currently a call out to all older members to come back and help out. You were listed as a member of the project, and thus contacted. If you want to help with the efforts, please make contact on the projects talk page. Regards, Phearson (talk) 15:45, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Tung Lin Kok Yuen

This is just to let you know I have just been going through the text at Tung Lin Kok Yuen, and noticed that there appears to be significant amounts of thinly disguised copyright violations or Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing, which may have been by one of your students. I may start working on it shortly. Cheers, --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 10:14, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

The Downlink: Issue 2

The Downlink

Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight

Issue 2, February 2011

Project News · News from Orbit · Article News · The Charts · Yuri Gagarin

Project News

A report on popular pages from December 2010 revealed surprising trends in readers' interests. Boeing X-37 was the most popular article within the project's scope, with SpaceX Dragon in second with Global Positioning System in third place. The top seven articles were all assessed as C-class, with the remainder of the top ten being Good Articles. It was noted with some concern that moon landing conspiracy theories was more popular than moon landing.

A discussion regarding whether missiles warranted inclusion within the project scope was conducted, and resulted in the continued inclusion of missiles.

The last remaining articles tagged with the banner of the former Human Spaceflight WikiProject were re-tagged with the WikiProject Spaceflight banner. The last banner was removed on 8 January, and the template has since been deleted. The project is thankful to ChiZeroOne for his work in this field.

Concerns were raised that the new article reporting system was not working correctly, however it was noted that there is sometimes a delay before articles appear on the list.

Discussion regarding the existence of the separate spaceflight and space exploration category structures led to a mass CfD being filed on 10 January to abolish the space exploration categories, merging them into their counterparts in the spaceflight category structure. This was successful, and the exploration categories have been removed. Several other categorisation issues remain unresolved.

A proposal was made to standardise some of the infoboxes used by the project, the future of Template:Infobox spacecraft (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) was discussed, and design work began on a replacement. Template:Rocket specifications-all (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) was nominated for deletion and subsequently kept due to extant substitutions, however it was noted that the template had been deprecated by WikiProject Rocketry. Concerns were also raised that the existing infoboxes were not well-equipped to handle spacecraft which operated in more than one orbit, or whose orbits changed over the course of their missions (which in practise is most of them).

Five members of the project gave interviews for the Wikipedia Signpost, and a report on the project, authored by SMasters (talk · contribs), is expected to be published in the 7 February edition of the Signpost. It is hoped that this will raise interest in and awareness of the project.

News from orbit

Four orbital launches were conducted in January, beginning on 20 January with the launch of Elektro-L No.1 on the first Zenit-3F rocket. This was followed later the same day by the launch of a Delta IV Heavy with the USA-224 reconnaissance satellite. The articles for USA-224 and the Zenit-3F rocket could use some expansion, whilst the Elektro-L No.1 satellite needs its own article.

On 22 January, an H-IIB launched the second H-II Transfer Vehicle, Kounotori 2, to resupply the International Space Station. It arrived at the station on 27 January. Less than a day after its arrival, another cargo mission was launched to the station; Progress M-09M departed Baikonur early in the morning of 28 January, docking on 30 January. In addition to payloads to resupply the station, the Progress spacecraft is carrying a small subsatellite, Kedr, which will be deployed in February. Kedr does not currently have an article. Progress M-08M departed on 24 January to make the Pirs module available for Progress M-09M, and has since reentered the atmosphere. Its article needs to be updated to reflect the successful completion of its mission.

The NanoSail-D2 satellite, which failed to deploy from FASTSAT in December, unexpectedly separated from its parent craft and began operations on 18 January, with its solar sail deploying on 21 January.

Nine orbital launches are scheduled to occur in February, beginning with the launch of the first Geo-IK-2 satellite; Geo-IK-2 No.11, atop a Rokot/Briz-KM, on the first day of the month. Articles need to be written for the Geo-IK-2 series of satellites, as well as for Geo-IK-2 No.11 itself, and the Briz-KM upper stage that will be used to insert it into orbit.

A Minotaur I rocket will launch NRO L-66, a classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office, on 5 February. The payload has not yet been identified, however once more details are known, it will need an article. Iran is expected to launch the Rasad 1 and Fajr 1 satellites in February, with 14 February the reported launch date. The satellites will fly aboard a single rocket; either the first Simorgh or the third Safir. Once this launch occurs, the satellites will need articles, and the article on their carrier rocket will require updating.

The second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, is scheduled to launch on 15 February to resupply the ISS. Docking is expected to occur on 23 February. 23 February will also see the much-delayed launch of Glory atop a Taurus-XL 3110 rocket. This will be the first Taurus launch since the launch failure in early 2009 which resulted in the loss of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. In addition to Glory, three CubeSats will be deployed; KySat-1, Hermes and Explorer-1 [PRIME]. KySat and Hermes require articles, whilst the article on Explorer-1 [PRIME] needs to be updated.

On 24 February, a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat rocket will launch the first Glonass-K1 satellite; Glonass-K1 No.11. Articles are needed for the series of spacecraft, as well as for the specific satellite being launched. It is likely that a Kosmos designation will be given to the payload when it reaches orbit. In the evening of 24 February, Space Shuttle Discovery will begin its final mission, STS-133, carrying the Permanent Multipurpose Module, a conversion of the Leonardo MPLM, to the ISS. Other payloads include an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier, and the Robonaut2 experimental robot. The first manned mission of 2011, Discovery's six-man crew will transfer equipment to the station, and two EVAs will be performed. The launch has already been scrubbed five times, before Discovery was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to inspect and repair cracks on its External Tank.

At some point in February, a Long March 3B rocket is expected to launch two navigation satellites; Compass-M2 and Compass-M3, as part of the Compass navigation system. The date of this launch is currently unknown. Both satellites will require articles once more information is available. A PSLV launch, carrying the Resourcesat-2, X-Sat and YouthSat spacecraft, is expected to launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre towards the end of the month, probably between 20 and 23 February.

Stop press: The Rokot launch was conducted at 14:00 UTC on 1 February, and at the time of writing it appears to have ended in failure, due to a suspected upper stage malfunction. The spacecraft is in orbit, it is not clear at the time of writing whether it will be salvageable.

Article news

Reaction Engines Skylon is currently undergoing peer review, its discussion page can be found at Wikipedia:Peer review/Reaction Engines Skylon/archive1. A user requested feedback on major changes which had been made to the article, however at the time of writing no responses have been offered.

Following up on the issues covered in the last issue, the requested move of Missile Range Instrumentation Ship to Tracking ship was successful, with the article being renamed. The discussion concerning types of launch and landing resulted in a proposal to merge VTVL into VTOL, however this has been met with some opposition. Several other options have been suggested on Talk:VTVL. The large scale deletion of mis-tagged Soviet images on Commons went ahead, with most of the useful ones having already been backed-up locally under fair use criteria.

Discussion was held regarding the naming of spaceflight-related articles. Concerns were raised regarding inconsistency in article titles and disambiguators. A project guideline was adopted to standardise titles, with the parenthesised disambiguators "(satellite)" and "(spacecraft)" being adopted as standards for spacecraft, and the exclusion of manufacturers' names from article titles was recommended. Issues regarding Japanese spacecraft with two names, the correct names for early Apollo missions, and dealing with acronyms and abbreviated names remain unresolved.

A large number of articles were moved to conform to the standard disambiguation pattern. In addition, several Requested Moves were debated. A proposal to move SpaceX Dragon to Dragon (spacecraft), which began prior to the adoption of the standardised disambiguators, was successful. Atmospheric reentry was subject to two requested moves, firstly one which would have seen it renamed spacecraft atmospheric reentry, which was unsuccessful, however a second proposal shortly afterwards saw it moved to atmospheric entry. A proposal currently under discussion could see Lunar rover (Apollo) renamed Lunar Roving Vehicle

Questions surrounding the transliteration of Russian names resurfaced, with a proposal to rename Vladimir Chelomey to Vladimir Chelomei being closed with no consensus, and a proposal to rename Yury Usachov to Yuri Usachev ongoing.

Several long-standing merger proposals were closed. A proposal to merge Venera 15 and Venera 16 into Venera 15 and 16 was closed as no consensus, with the combined page being moved to Venera 4V-2 to reduce the overlap in the articles' scopes. Returnable satellite was merged into Fanhui Shi Weixing.

Experimental Assembly of Structures in EVA and Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures was nominated for Good Article reassessment due to concerns over the article's quality. Doubts were also expressed over the thoroughness of the original review conducted upon its nomination for GA status. It was also suggested that the article's title may not be the most common name for the experiment, and that it might be necessary to move the page. Concerns were also raised regarding whether Space Interferometry Mission was up-to-date, however these are being addressed. Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet looks likely to be promoted to GA status.

Help was requested for adding citations to List of Mir spacewalks. A request was made that STS-88 be reviewed against the B class criteria, and suggestions for improvements made. Another user requested improvements to the article Yuri Gagarin, with a view to having the article promoted to featured status in time for the fiftieth anniversary of his Vostok 1 mission. As a result of this request, Yuri Gagarin is this month's selected article.

Questions were raised as to whether an article or category should be created to cover derelict satellites. The categorisation of spacecraft by the type of rocket used to place them into orbit was also suggested. In another categorisation issue, it was questioned whether Space law should fall under space or spaceflight.

Stop press: Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet has now been promoted to GA status.

The Charts

There is no editorial this month as no content was submitted for one. Instead, we present the "top ten" most popular articles within the project, based on the number of page views in January. Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was the most popular article of the last month, up fourteen places from 15^th in December. Space Shuttle Challenger was the highest climber in the top 40, up 42 places from 50^th. December's most popular article. Boeing X-37, dropped 57 places to 58^th. On a happier note further down the chart, moon landing is now ahead of moon landing conspiracy theories.

№	Article	Movement
1	Space Shuttle Challenger disaster	↑14 (15)
2	Richard Branson	↑5 (7)
3	Neil Armstrong	↑2 (5)
4	Space Shuttle Columbia disaster	↑16 (20)
5	Global Positioning System	↓2 (3)
6	Apollo 11	↑2 (8)
7	Satellite	↑4 (11)
8	Space Shuttle Challenger	↑42 (50)
9	Apollo 13	↓3 (6)
10	NASA	↓1 (9)

For the full list of the top 1,500 popular pages within the project, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Popular pages (or the archived record for January).

Selected Article: Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin was the first man to fly in space, aboard Vostok 1 in April 1961. He was subsequently awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, and was training for a second flight at the time of his death in 1968.

His article describes him and his spaceflight experience:

“

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Russian pronunciation: [ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut who on 12 April 1961 became the first human to journey into outer space.

On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into space, launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1). His call sign in this flight was Kedr (Cedar; Russian: Кедр). During his flight, Gagarin famously whistled the tune "The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows" (Russian: "Родина слышит, Родина знает"). The first two lines of the song are: "The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows/Where her son flies in the sky". This patriotic song was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1951 (opus 86), with words by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.

”

The article is currently assessed as C class, and had been assessed as B class prior to the criteria being redefined. Although a full reassessment has not yet been made, it seems close to the B class criteria, however details on his spaceflight experiences are somewhat lacking. It has been requested that the article be developed to Featured status by April, in time for the fiftieth anniversary of his mission.

Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Spaceflight at 00:32, 2 February 2011 (UTC).

Nomination of Arlen (King of the Hill) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Arlen (King of the Hill) 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/Arlen (King of the Hill) 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. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 17:52, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

The Downlink: Issue 3

The Downlink

Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight

Issue 3, March 2011

Project News
News from Orbit
Article News
Direction of the Project
The Charts
Europa

Project News

There have been very few discussions relating to the administration of the project in the last month, as things start to settle down after the merger.

An invitation template has been created in an effort to attract new users to the project. Discussion was also held regarding the creation of a list of common templates, however no conclusions were reached. A proposal was made to implement an A-class assessment process, however editors are undecided about whether it would be best to copy the system used by another project such as WP:MILHIST, or to develop one specifically for the requirements of this project.

User:ChiZeroOne has set up a collaboration page in his userspace, initially focussing on articles related to Skylab. Collaboration pages were at one point proposed as part of the structure of the Spaceflight project itself, however no consensus was achieved on the issue. If this collaboration is successful, it could open the door to a reevaluation of that situation.

News from orbit

Five orbital launches were conducted in February, out of nine planned. The first, that of the Geo-IK-2 No.11 satellite atop a Rokot/Briz-KM ended in failure after the upper stage malfunctioned. The Rokot has since been grounded pending a full investigation; the satellite is in orbit, but has been determined to be unusable for its intended mission. A replacement is expected to launch within the year. A general article on Geo-IK-2 satellites is needed, to supplement those on the individual satellites.

A Minotaur I rocket launched USA-225, or NROL-66, on 6 February following a one-day delay. The second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, was successfully launched on 16 February to resupply the ISS. Docking occurred successfully on 24 February, several hours before Space Shuttle Discovery launched on its final flight, STS-133. Discovery docked with the ISS on 26 February, delivering the Leonardo module and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the station. Following several delays, a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat rocket launched the first Glonass-K1 satellite; Glonass-K1 No.11, on 26 February. It is currently unclear as to whether the satellite has received a Kosmos designation or not.

Seven launches are expected to occur in March. On 4 March, the Glory satellite will launch atop a Taurus-XL 3110 rocket. Three CubeSats will be also be deployed by the Taurus; KySat-1, Hermes and Explorer-1 [Prime]. KySat and Hermes require articles, whilst the article on Explorer-1 [PRIME] needs to be updated. This launch was originally scheduled for February, but following a scrubbed launch attempt, it was delayed.

4 March will also see the launch of the first flight of the second X-37B, atop an Atlas V 501. An article is needed for that flight, which will probably receive a USA designation once it reaches orbit. On 8 March, Discovery is expected to land, bringing to an end the STS-133 mission, and retiring from service 27 years after its maiden flight. On 11 March, a Delta IV Medium+(4,2) will launch the NROL-27 payload. Whilst the identity of this payload is classified, it is widely believed to be a Satellite Data System communications satellite, bound for either a molniya or geostationary orbit. An article for this payload is required. 16 March will see the return to Earth of Soyuz TMA-01M, carrying three members of the ISS Expedition 26 crew.

A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is expected to deploy the Resourcesat-2, X-Sat and YouthSat spacecraft during a launch in March. The flight has been delayed several times, and was expected to have launched last month, however it is currently scheduled to occur no earlier than 20 March. On 29 March, an Ariane 5ECA will launch the Yahsat 1A and New Dawn communications satellites. Both currently require articles. On 30 March, a Soyuz-FG will launch the manned Soyuz TMA-21 mission to the International Space Station carrying three Expedition 27 crewmembers.

On 31 March, a Proton-M/Briz-M launch will carry the SES-3 and Kazsat-2 spacecraft into orbit, in the first dual-launch of commercial communications satellites on a Proton. Several other launches may occur in March, however their status is unclear. Last month, a Long March 3B rocket was expected to launch two navigation satellites; Compass-M2 and Compass-M3, however this launch did not take place. It is unclear if it has been delayed to March, or further. The launch of the Tianlian 2 communications satellite on a Long March 3C may also be conducted in March, or possibly April. Both the Compass and Tianlian launches would occur from the same launch pad, which requires a turnaround of almost a month between launches, so it is unlikely that both will happen in March. A Safir launch, which had been expected in February, now appears to have been delayed to April, but given the secrecy of the Iranian space programme, this is unclear.

Article news

Discussion regarding the merger of articles on launch and landing modes seems to have stagnated, with no consensus being reached on any existing proposal. A discussion regarding changes in the sizes of Soviet and American rockets during the 1950s and early 1960s was conducted, with claims that rockets became smaller in that period being dismissed, however it was noted that smaller rockets were developed with equivalent capacity to older ones were developed, as well as much larger ones with increased capacities.

Category:Derelict satellites orbiting Earth was created as a result of discussion surrounding the categorisation of derelict satellites. Concerns have also been raised that satellites are being listed as no longer being in orbit whilst still in orbit and derelict, and a discussion was held on how their status could be verified. An effort to categorise spacecraft by the type of rocket used to launch them is underway, however the categorisation of satellites by country of launch was rejected.

It was reported that a sidebar has been created for articles related to the core concepts of spaceflight. Editors noted that it should only be used for core concepts, and not where it would conflict with an infobox. An anonymous user requested the creation of an article on moon trees. It was pointed out that the subject already had an article, and a redirect was created at the title proposed by the anonymous user.

Concerns were raised regarding the quality of the article Japan's space development. Editors noted that the article appeared to be a poorly-translated copy of an article from the Japanese Wikipedia, although there have been some signs of improvement. Discussion regarding moving the article to Japanese space program is ongoing, however a move request has not yet been filed.

A particular concern was raised regarding false claims in the article Van Allen radiation belt. In one case a scientist to whom one of the claims had been attributed was contacted, and clarified that he had made a remark to that effect as a joke in the 1960s, but was not entirely sure how or why it had been included in the article. Other concerns were raised before the discussion moved to WikiProject Astronomy.

A question was raised regarding the copyright status of images credited to both NASA and ESA, particularly with regard to images of the launch of the Johannes Kepler ATV. The discussion reached no general conclusions, however it was found that the specific images that were suggested for inclusion in the article could be used, since they were explicitly declared to be in the public domain.

A template, Template:Spaceflight landmarks (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs), was created to cover landmarks in the United States that are related to spaceflight. Several sources of public-domain NASA images were also discussed, and it was noted that almost all NASA images are public domain, however there are some exceptions.

It has been proposed that Leonardo MPLM be merged with Permanent Multipurpose Module since the two cover separate uses of the same spacecraft. A review of the article STS-88 has also been requested.

Three new Good Articles have been listed: Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet, Bold Orion and SA-500D. Orion (spacecraft) was delisted after concerns that it contained out-of-date content. SA-500D is currently undergoing good article reassessment, using the community reassessment method, after the review of its good article nomination was criticised for being lenient and not sufficiently thorough. Mir, Mark E. Kelly and Reaction Engines Skylon have been nominated for Good Article status and are awaiting review, whilst List of Mir spacewalks is undergoing a peer review with a view to it becoming a featured list.

Editorial: Direction of the Project

Well folks, its now been more than three months since the discussion that reformed the space-related WikiProjects, and in that time we've had a number of achievements we can be rightly proud of; we've gathered members up to a total of 43, improved awareness of the project via an interview in the Signpost, and refreshed the spaceflight portal into an attractive, up-to-date and useful page. Meanwhile, User:ChiZeroOne has made a sterling effort in clearing up talk page templates belonging to prior projects, we've managed to sort out various policies, started work on rearranging our templates, and User:GW Simulations has begun this excellent monthly newsletter for us. However, there are a few areas of the project that seem to be passing by the wayside, specifically the areas dedicated to fostering collaboration on articles and article sets between the project members, so here I present a call for more collaboration on the project.

Presumably, the lack of collaboration is due to folks not being aware of what's going on, so here's a quick rundown of some of the ways you get involved in the group effort. Firstly, and most importantly, it'd be fantastic if more members got involved in the discussions ongoing at the project's main talk page, found at WT:SPACEFLIGHT. There are several discussions ongoing there, such as the relaunch of the spacecraft template, requests for assistance with various assessment and copyright queries, and conversations regarding category organisations, which affect many more articles, and thus editors, than are currently represented in the signatures so far.

Secondly, it was established earlier on in the project's formation that a great way to attract more editors would be to develop some good or featured topics. There are a couple of efforts ongoing to try to see this idea to fruition, such as the Space stations working group and ChiZeroOne's own collaboration page, currently focussed on Skylab-related articles. These pages, however, have been notably lacking in activity lately, which is a shame, as their aims, given enough editor input, would really see the project furthering itself. Similarly, there are a number of requests for assessment for articles to be promoted to GA class, among other things, on the Open tasks page, which lists all of the activities needing input from members. If everyone could add this page to their watchlists and swing by it regularly, we could power through the good topics in extremely short order! Other things that could do with being added to people's watchlists include Portal:Spaceflight/Next launch‎, the many templates at Template:Launching/Wrappers and the task list at Portal:Spaceflight/Tasks.

Finally, I'd like to try and get people involved in finally settling the organisational problem we have with reference to the task forces and working groups. Whilst the Timeline of spaceflight working group is a continuation of the old Timeline of spaceflight WikiProject and thus is ticking over nicely and the space stations working group has been mentioned previously in this editorial, the task forces (Human spaceflight and Unmanned spaceflight) in particular are currently dead in the water. I'm unsure as to whether or not this is because people are unaware of their existence, they clash too much with one another and the rest of the project or because people don't see a need for them, but if interested parties could make themselves known and others voice suggestions for getting rid of them, we can decide either if they're worth keeping and get them running again, or do away with a layer of bureaucracy and close them down. Any thoughts on the matter would be much appreciated.

In summary, then, we've got a great project going here, with a nice set of articles, a good editor base and lots of ways of getting involved. Thus, a plea goes out to everyone to get involved, get editing with the other project members, and hopefully we'll see ourselves take off in a manner not dissimilar to the trajectory dear old Discovery took last week. Many thanks for everyone's hard work so far, and poyekhali! :-)

The Charts

Since it is useful to keep track of the most viewed pages within the project's scope, it seems like a good idea to continue this feature, which was originally included in last month's issue as a one-off.

Satellite was the most popular article of February, up six places from seventh in December. STS-133 was the highest climber in the top 10, up 78 places from 88^th. January's most popular article, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, dropped seven places to eighth. Moon landing remains ahead of moon landing conspiracy theories for the second month in a row.

Of the top ten, two articles are featured content, two are listed as Good Articles, and the remaining six are assessed as C-class.

№	Article	Movement
1	Satellite	↑6 (7)
2	Space Shuttle	↑11 (13)
3	NASA	↑7 (10)
4	Neil Armstrong	↓1 (4)
5	Apollo 13	↑4 (9)
6	Global Positioning System	↓1 (5)
7	International Space Station	↑5 (12)
8	Space Shuttle Challenger disaster	↓7 (1)
9	Apollo 11	↓3 (6)
10	STS-133	↑78 (88)

For the full list of the top 1,500 popular pages within the project, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Popular pages (or the archived record for February).

Selected Article: Europa

Europa was a rocket developed by a multinational European programme in the 1960s. Consisting of British, French and German stages, it was intended to provide a European alternative to the US rockets used for the launch of most Western satellites to that date. Although the British Blue Streak first stage performed well on all flights, problems with the French and German stages, as well as the Italian-built payload fairing, resulted in the failure of all multistage test flights and orbital launch attempts. The programme was abandoned after the failure of the Europa II's maiden flight in 1971. The article Europa (rocket), describes it:

“

The Europa rocket was an early expendable launch system of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), which was the precursor to the European Space Agency and its Ariane family of launchers. The programme was initiated by the UK and the first launch occurred in August 1967.

Tasks were to be distributed between nations: the United Kingdom would provide the first stage (derived from the Blue Streak missile), France would build the second and Germany the third stage.

The Europa programme was divided into 4 successive projects :

Europa 1: 4 unsuccessful launches
Europa 2: 1 unsuccessful launch
Europa 3: Cancelled before any launch occurred
Europa 4: Study only, later cancelled

The project was marred by technical problems. Although the first stage (the British Blue Streak) launched successfully on each occasion, it was the second or third stage that failed.

”

The article is currently assessed as start-class, and is missing a lot of information. It also lacks some basic features such as inline citations. Since Europa was a fairly major programme, enough information should be available to produce a much higher quality article, and it could probably be brought up to GA status with enough effort.

Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Spaceflight at 09:21, 3 March 2011 (UTC).

Proposed deletion of Mary Ellen Callahan

The article Mary Ellen Callahan has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Killiondude (talk) 05:22, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Chinese name

Hi Fuzheado. I notice Andrew Lih does not show a "Chinese name"

Do you have a Chinese name (in han characters?) - For instance Michelle Yeoh's Chinese name is 杨紫琼, in Hanyu Pinyin Yáng Zǐqióng. WhisperToMe (talk) 21:55, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal

On 27 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that "Little Luke"'s Ponzi scheme may lead to the "death penalty" for Miami? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2011 University of Miami athletics scandal.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

An award for you!

	The Reporter Award
	I, SarahStierch, hereby award Fuzheado with The Reporter Award for his hard work and effort in creating and bringing the Wikipedia Weekly podcast to the world! SarahStierch (talk) 21:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly files uploaded

Hi Andrew,

Good to meet you at Wikimania earlier in the year. While I was there, James F gave me a copy of the audio files. They are all up on archive.org. I've left a note on Wikipedia talk:WikipediaWeekly too. —Tom Morris (talk) 21:58, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of MarchFirst

The article MarchFirst has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No references.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Phearson (talk) 02:09, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of MarchFirst for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article MarchFirst 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/MarchFirst (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.

LA-area Meetup: Saturday, November 19

	National Archives Backstage Pass at the Reagan Library
	You are invited to the first-ever backstage pass tour and Wikipedia editathon hosted by the Reagan Presidential Library, in Simi Valley, on Saturday, November 19th! The Reagan Library, home to a real Air Force One and other treasures from American history, will take Wikipedians on a special tour of the grounds and archives, followed by an editathon; free catered lunch provided. Please sign up! Dominic·t 21:10, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
	If you would not like to receive future messages about meetups, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Invite.

public art LA

greetings, a little public art guru told me you were working on public art LA. i recently started a list article based on the SIRIS database. [16] 478 on list. List of public art in Los Angeles, unabridged User:Slowking4/List of Public Art in Los Angeles. let me know if i can help long distance. Slowking4: †@1₭ 03:52, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Children's Museum update

It's time again to share the latest news on the Children's Museum of Indianapolis Wikipedia project! In the last few months we have been busy with our third image donation, which was made up of 150 images that were professionally photographed specifically for this upload. We are asking for volunteers to categorize these images and distribute them into Wikipedia articles. Your help is appreciated! Check them out here.

We have also donated our first video and a second GLAM-Wiki Infographic to Commons. In September we were thrilled to welcome Jimmy Wales to the museum. Following our successful Edit-a-Thon and Translate-a-Thon in August, translations have continued with the help of the established QRpedia community, (particularly Russian translations thanks to Lvova!) We have begun to analyze our implementation of QRpedia codes and completed an extensive case study. In November we presented at the Museum Computer Network conference about how museums can effectively collaborate with Wikipedia. You can see more details on the Prezi.

In more general news, in addition to serving as the Children's Museum's Wikipedian-in-Residence, it was recently announced that I will be taking on the role of US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation. In this role I will be working to streamline the process of connecting interested US GLAMs with the Wikipedia community. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to let me know. Be sure to sign up for This Month in GLAM to keep up with the latest GLAM-Wiki news from around the world (subscribe).

We have a listing of High Need and Moderate Need requests on the Ways to Help section on the project page. I encourage you to lend a hand if you're able. While the Children's Museum partnership continues to truck along, we still are in desperate need of volunteers to help disperse our images and update and maintain content. Thank you for your time and help. Happy holidays! LoriLee (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you!

	GLAM-Wiki Rock Star
	Thank you * so * much for taking the time to come out to GLAMcamp DC and do such amazing, collaborative work. Your work has been, and continues to be, an inspiration to me! (Actual real life /sniffle). : ) LoriLee (talk) 21:37, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Real Life Barnstar
	Hey buddy! Thanks so much for coming to GLAMcamp DC. You're awesome, and the work you did this week on the one pager was just..well...awesome. Can't wait to see you soon, if I'm lucky, before Wikimania, but if not, see you then. SarahStierch (talk) 01:49, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Fuzheado,

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 communityHERE, 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:

Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

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 nameHERE 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) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 23:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

public art plan

great to meet you at glamcamp. i saw we didn't get around to a plan about public art. i put some thoughts here: User:Slowking4/Public Art Plan. please revise per your thoughts, i would be happy to support your database work. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 21:59, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue One - Recent news from the Teahouse

Hi! Welcome to the first edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

Metrics are out from week one. Week one showed that the need for Teahouse hosts to invite new editors to the Teahouse is urgent for this pilot period. It also showed that emailing new users invitations is a powerful tool, with new editors responding more to emails than to talk page templates. We also learned that the customized database reports created for the Teahouse have the highest return rate of participation by invitees. Check out the metrics here and see how you can help with inviting in our Invitation Guide.
A refreshed "Your hosts" page encourages experienced Wikipedians to learn about the Teahouse and participate. With community input, the Teahouse has updated the Your hosts page which details the host roles within the Teahouse pilot and the importance that hosts play in providing a friendly, special experience not always found on other welcome/help spaces on Wikipedia. It also explains how Teahouse hosts are important regarding metrics reporting during this pilot. Are you an experienced editor who wants to help out? Take a look at the new page today and start learning about the hosts tasks and how you can participate!
Introduce yourself and meet new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. New & experienced editors to Wikipedia can add a brief infobox about themselves and get to know one another with direct links to userpages. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, they'll surely be happy to feel the wikilove!

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) 16:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Schiavo catscan.jpg

⚠

Thanks for uploading File:Schiavo catscan.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) 03:31, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for March 20

Hi. When you recently edited Angela Rockwood, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Clovis and The Fast and the Furious (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:01, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Chinese Wikipedia article

Hi, Andrew! I checked your University of Hong Kong page, and found your Chinese name there. I am a beginner at Mandarin Chinese, but I thought I would start a stub there. I started zh:酈安治 and made sure it had at least 50 zi. I also added your Chinese name to your English article; from my understanding the custom is that Chinese-Americans who have a "Chinese name" have their Chinese names stated in their articles.

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 23:24, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

You are welcome! :) - I use http://mdbg.net to get Pinyin readings and to get definitions of words in Chinese. That helped me get the pinyin of your Chinese name. I'll see if I can add more information to the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:42, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Somebody on the Chinese Wikipedia started an AFD on that article. zh:Wikipedia:頁面存廢討論/記錄/2012/02/29#.E9.85.88.E5.AE.89.E6.B2.BB WhisperToMe (talk) 17:05, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

You are welcome :) - It's fine if you don't get involved. I just wanted to make sure you were informed WhisperToMe (talk) 17:16, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

As an FYI, your article on the Chinese Wikipedia survived AFD: zh:Wikipedia:頁面存廢討論/記錄/2012/02/29#.E9.85.88.E5.AE.89.E6.B2.BB - Once I indicated it was the start of a translation from the English article, and I moved extra English text in, the Wikipedians there voted to keep it. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:13, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Chris Allbritton for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Chris Allbritton 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/Chris Allbritton 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.

The Tea Leaf - Issue Two

Hi! Welcome to the second edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

Teahouse celebrates one month of being open! This first month has drawn a lot of community interest to the Teahouse. Hosts & community members have been working with the project team to improve the project in many ways including creating scripts to make inviting easier, exploring mediation processes for troubling guests, and best practices regarding mentoring for new editors who visit the Teahouse.

First month metrics report an average of 30 new editors visiting the Teahouse each week. Approximately 30 new editors participate in the Teahouse each week, by way of asking questions and making guest profiles. An average of six new questions and four new profiles are made each day. We'd love to hear your ideas about how we can spread the word about the Teahouse to more new editors.
Teahouse has many regulars. Like any great teahouse, our Teahouse has a 61% return rate of guests, who come back to ask additional questions and to also help answer others' questions. Return guests cite the speedy response rate of hosts and the friendly, easy to understand responses by the hosts and other participants as the main reasons for coming back for another cup o' tea!
Early metrics on retention. It's still too early to draw conclusions about the Teahouse's impact on new editor retention, but, early data shows that 38% of new editors who participate at the Teahouse are still actively editing Wikipedia 2-4 weeks later, this is compared with 7% from a control group of uninvited new editors who showed similar first day editing activity. Additional metrics can be found on the Teahouse metrics page.
Nine new hosts welcomed to the Teahouse. Nine new hosts have been welcomed to the Teahouse during month one: Chicocvenancio, Cullen328, Hallows AG, Jeffwang, Mono, Tony1, Worm That Turned, Writ Keeper, and Nathan2055. Welcome to the Teahouse gang, folks!
Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, as being welcomed by experienced editors is a really nice way to make new editors feel welcome.

Invitation

	Great American Wikinic at Pan-Pacific Park
	You are invited to the second Great American Wikinic taking place in Pan-Pacific Park, in Los Angeles, on Saturday, June 23, 2012! Last year's was a blast (see the LA Weekly blog post on it) and we hope we can do better this year. We would love to have you there! —howcheng {chat} 18:30, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
	If you would not like to receive future messages about meetups, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Invite.

The Tea Leaf - Issue Four

Hi! Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter for the Teahouse!

Teahouse pilot wraps up after 13 weeks After being piloted on English Wikipedia starting in February, the Teahouse wrapped up its pilot period on May 27, 2012. We expect this is just the beginning for the Teahouse and hope the project will continue to grow in the months to come!

Thank you and congratulations to all of the community members who participated - and continue to participate!

What you've all been waiting for: Teahouse Pilot Report is released! We look forward to your feedback on the methodology and outcomes of this pilot project.
....and if a pilot report wasn't enough, the Teahouse Pilot Metrics Report is out too! Dive into the numbers and survey results to learn about the impact the Teahouse has made on English Wikipedia.
Teahouse shows positive impact on new editor retention and engagement

409 new editors participated during the entire pilot period, with about 40 new editors participating in the Teahouse per week.
Two weeks after participating, 33% of Teahouse guests are still active on Wikipedia, as opposed to 11% of a similar control group.
New editors who participated in the Teahouse edit 10x the number of articles, make 7x more global edits, and 2x as much of their content survives on Wikipedia compared to the control group.

Women participate in the Teahouse 28% of Teahouse participants were women, up from 9% of editors on Wikipedia in general, good news for this project which aimed to have impact on the gender gap too - but still lots to be done here!
New opportunities await for the Teahouse in phase two as the Teahouse team and Wikipedia community examine ways to improve, scale, and sustain the project. Opportunities for future work include:

Automating or semi-automating systems such as invites, metrics and archiving
Experimenting with more ways for new editors to discover the Teahouse
Building out the social and peer-to-peer aspects further, including exploring ways to make answering questions easier, creating more ways for new editors to help each other and for all participants to acknowledge each other's efforts
Growing volunteer capacity, continuing to transfer Teahouse administration tasks to volunteers whenever possible, and looking for new ways to make maintenance and participation easier for everyone.

Want to know how you can lend a hand at the Teahouse? Become a host! Learn more about what makes the Teahouse different than other help spaces on Wikipedia and see how you can help new editors by visiting here.
Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, as being welcomed by experienced editors is really encouraging to new Wikipedians.

Wikimania 2012

	Wikimania 2012 Barnstar
	Thanks for participating in Wikimania 2012 :) although we didn't really get to talk, it was still good to have you there! --AutoGyro (talk) 01:39, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Five

Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteer who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
More Teahouse hosts than ever. We had 12 new hosts sign up to participate at the Teahouse! We now have 35 hosts volunteering at the Teahouse. Feel free to stop by and see them all here.
Phase two update: Host sprint. In August, the Teahouse team plans to improve the host experience by developing a simpler new-host creation process, a better way of surfacing active hosts, and a host lounge renovation. Take a look at the plan and weigh in here.
New Teahouse guest barnstar is awarded to first recipient: Charlie Inks. Using the Teahouse barnstar designed by Heatherawalls, hosts hajatvrc and Ryan Vesey created the new Teahouse Guest Barnstar. The first recipient is Charlie Inks, for her boldness in asking questions at the Teahouse. Check out the award in action here.
Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania! The Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania this past month, where editor retention and interface design was heavily discussed. Sarah and Jonathan presented the Teahouse during the Wikimedia Fellowships panel. Slides can be viewed here. A lunch was also held at Wikimania for Teahouse hosts.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

Disambiguation link notification for August 22

Hi. When you recently edited Richard Aoki, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page FOIA (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 13:15, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Six

Hi! Welcome to the sixth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

Teahouse serves over 700 new editors in six months on Wikipedia! Since February 27, 741 new editors have participated at the Teahouse. The Q&A board and the guest intro pages are more active than ever.

A lovely little teahouse nestled in Germany from Wiki Loves Monuments

Automatic invites are doing the trick: 50% more new editors visiting each week. Ever since HostBot's automated invite trial phase began we've seen a boost in new editor participation. Automating a baseline set of invitations also allows Teahouse hosts to focus on serving hot cups of help to guests, instead of spending countless hours inviting.
Guests to the Teahouse continue to edit more & interact more with other community members than non-Teahouse guests according to six month metrics. Teahouse guests make more than twice the article edits and edit more talk pages than other new editors.
New host process implemented which encourages anyone to get started as a Teahouse host in a few easy steps. Stop by the hosts page and become a Teahouse host today!
Host lounge renovations nearing completion. Working closely with Teahouse hosts, we've made some major renovations to the Teahouse Host Lounge - the main hangout and resource space for hosts. Learn more about the improvements here.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

Proposed deletion of Leech resistance

The article Leech resistance has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No demonstration of notability per the general notability guideline.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Roth affair

I read that you are studying the Roth affair and Wikipedia. An interesting aspect, when you put it all together, is it appears that the primary article Roth was referring to in the New Yorker was his own biography (although he then mentions there two other statements). However, it appeared at first that the primary article he was talking about was The Human Stain. On the other hand, apparently because of the identity of the username (Nabokov9 and the fact that there were also edits by an IP) that Secretlondon, "the administrator" thought the edit of interest was in Anatole Broyard. Communication is hard, no? Alanscottwalker (talk) 12:45, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of A Martínez

The article A Martínez has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Peridon (talk) 18:55, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

You're invited! FemTech Edit-a-Thon at Claremont Graduate University

October 26 - FemTech Edit-a-Thon & Roundtable - You are invited!
	Everyone is invited to the first FemTech Edit-a-Thon & Roundtable at Claremont Graduate University on October 26 from 3-6 pm. The event will open with a roundtable discussion about feminism and anti-racist technology projects, followed by an edit-a-thon focusing on feminists & women in science. Experienced Wikipedians will be on hand to support new editors. We hope you can join us! Sign up here - see you there! 01:06, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

October 26 - FemTech Edit-a-Thon & Roundtable - You are invited!

Everyone is invited to the first FemTech Edit-a-Thon & Roundtable at Claremont Graduate University on October 26 from 3-6 pm. The event will open with a roundtable discussion about feminism and anti-racist technology projects, followed by an edit-a-thon focusing on feminists & women in science. Experienced Wikipedians will be on hand to support new editors. We hope you can join us!

Editor activity graph

Thanks for File:Graph of Wikipedia's active editors and admins, 2000-2012 (July 2012).png - very informative. Are you planning on doing that on any kind of regular basis? If so, I'm considering making some kind of template containing it.

Best, — Hex (❝?!❞) 13:44, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Presenting HK's status

Mind sharing with us your two cents (at WP talk:WPHK)? 14.0.208.48 (talk) 18:27, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven

Hello again! We have some neat updates about the Teahouse:

We’ve added badges! Teahouse awards is a pilot project to learn how acknowledgement impacts engagement and retention in Teahouse and Wikipedia.

We’ve got a new WikiLove Badge script that makes giving badges quick and easy. You can add it here. You can give out badges to thank helpful hosts, welcome guests, acknowledge great questions and more.

Come join the experiment and let us know what you think!

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

Thanks again! Ocaasi 02:21, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven (special Birthday recap)

It's been a full year since the Teahouse opened, and as we're reflecting on what's been accomplished, we wanted to celebrate with you.

Teahouse guests and hosts are sharing their stories in a new blog post about the project.

1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:

Metric	Control group	Teahouse group	Contrast
Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit)	5.02 weeks	8.57 weeks	1.7x retention
Average number of articles edited	58.7 articles	116.9 edits	2.0x articles edited
Average talk page edits	36.5 edits	85.6 edits	2.4x talk page edits
Average article space edits	129.6 edits	360.4 edits	2.8x article edits
Average total edits (all namespaces)	182.1 edits	532.4 edits	2.9x total edits

Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper

Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.

Come by the Teahouse to share a cup of tea and enjoy a Birthday Cupcake! Happy Birthday to the Teahouse and thank you for a year's worth of interest and support :-)

-- Ocaasi and the rest of the Teahouse Team 20:48, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To add or remove yourself for receiving future newsletters, please update the list here

Please fill out our brief Individual Engagement Grant survey

Hello, the Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback on Individual Engagement Grants! We have created a brief survey to help us better understand your experience participating in the IEG program and how we can improve for the future. You are being selected to participate in our survey because you created an IEG grant proposal.

Click here to be taken to the survey site.

The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. We really appreciate your feedback! And we hope to see you in the IdeaLab soon.

Happy editing,

Siko and Jonathan, Grantmaking & Programs, Wikimedia Foundation.

This message was sent via Global message delivery on 01:55, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Bee

I see that you have reinstated the auto-confirm status on the page. It is so appreciated sir. Thank You. Pocketthis (talk) 21:34, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

San Diego Comic-Con International meetup proposal

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/LA/SDCC1. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:06, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Inter-wiki welcome

Fuzheado, Welcome to Wikisource and it was very nice to meet you at the GLAMWiki Boot Camp yesterday! I have taken the liberty of fixing your interwiki link on your new userpage. I also posted a couple links you may find interesting (albeit a bit out of date) on your talk page there.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 22:57, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

May 3 2013, 19-20h UTC, GLAMout Google Hangout Link Location is Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout#Link

Hello, You signed up to participate or view in this month's GLAMout. We'll be using Google Hangout, but unfortunately the link to the Hangout won't be available, until 15 minutes beforehand. We'll post the link as soon as possible at Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout#Link

Time: 12pm-1pm Pacific Time (3pm-4pm ET | 19-20h UTC) Coordinator: Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Anchor topic: VIAFbot and authority control in EN:WP, and on Wikidata.

EdwardsBot (talk) 05:05, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

2013 Wikinic

	Great American Wikinic at Pan-Pacific Park
	You are invited to the third Great American Wikinic taking place in Pan-Pacific Park, in Los Angeles, on Saturday, June 22, 2013! We would love to see you there! —howcheng {chat} 01:09, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
	If you would not like to receive future messages about meetups, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Invite.

Nomination of William Wood (United States Army officer) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article William Wood (United States Army officer) 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/William Wood (United States Army officer) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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 notice from the top of the article. Gbawden (talk) 12:25, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Essjay's legacy

Although I was an active contributor in 2007, when the Essjay controversy became public, I didn't pay attention.

I spent a few hours looking into it, and came across an article you wrote Essjay's third transgression.

Do you know what Essjay did after his resignation? Your article left open a possibility that occurred to me as I read other articles -- that Essjay may have exercised his "right to disappear", and started over with a new persona. If his new persona was public knowledge, but not well publicized, am I correct it would not be an instance of WP:OUTING to discuss it?

What got me interested in looking up Essjay were some assertions being made in a commons image deletion discussion about two weeks ago. For several days someone supporting the uploader's request to delete his widely used image kept claiming the uploader was "a schoolboy". After several days the uploader asserted he was "young (U16)".

For several years it has been my position that real world claims like this should be discounted, unless they are are confirmed via OTRS.

Over the years I have participated in only a handful of {{afd}} that hinged around a real world claim. In just about all of them the real world claim was being reported at second, or third hand. Sometimes someone would write: "the real world subject of this article included this telling detail in a heart-rending email." Other times there would be nothing on the talk page, and nothing in the discussion, to indicate the real world subject had piped up -- but there were early comment where a wikipedian had written something like: "how would you feel if someone falsely claimed Xyz." In those case I thought later contributors had misinterpreted those statements as-if they came from the real-world person.

So I started suggesting that every time a discussion included a real-world assertion, that the real world assertion should not be taken at face value--unless correspondence with OTRS confirms the real world identity of the person making the real world assertion.

I am sorry to say that I have never seen OTRS used to support or refute the credibility of a real world claim, during a deletion discussion.

When the uploader followed his supporter's advice, and claimed to be a minor I requested we discount this claim unless it was confirmed via OTRS. While those weighing in found the online persona of the uploader sufficient to trust that the uploader was a minor, I thought the legacy of Essjay, of User:Qworty, and or less well-known frauds like the sockpuppetry of former administrators User:The undertow and User:Freestylefrappe, demonstrate how vulnerable we are to being fooled.

In about half the discussions where I made this discussion Mr Jimmy Wales or Cary Bastique weighed in, and said something like: "Well, I exchanged email with the individual making the real world claim, and I am confident they are who they say they are, and the real world claim is legitimate."

It has happened again. Rather than use OTRS to confirm that they are a minor, and then use the Commons regular procedures for requesting reconsideration of a deletion decision, the uploader contacted Mr Wales, who wrote that he was convinced the uploader was a minor.

In looking into the Essjay controversy I saw that Mr Wales's last word on Essjay was that he only learned that Essjay used made up credentials to get ahead hours before he asked for his resignation. I also saw commentators who suggested it was hard to believe Mr Wales was unaware of Essjay's subterfuge when he hired him, months earlier.

It seems to me that if we take Mr Wales's account at face value it shows a credulity that should make us be on guard of ever placing any weight on his assessment of anyone's real world bona fides.

As someone who wrote about Essjay, back then, do you know if anyone has written an update on what Ryan Jordan has done since 2007-03? Are you in a position to say if Mr Wales has modified his 2007-03-07 position?

Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 13:48, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society

Dear Fuzheado/Archive 5,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, — Scott • talk 15:42, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

video/slideshows

I'm hoping you'll be willing to give me some feedback on my recent "videos" which are actually more like slideshows of historic districts.

I'm wondering whether they fit into Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Makes Video

I'm just learning iMovie so the 1st one (bottom) is quite simple. Please see:

File:A Walk down Main Street, Delta PA.webm
File:WoMS Adamstown PA.webm
File:User KLOTZ the Movie.webm not intended for an article
File:Swigarts Mill.webm 1st try

Any feedback would be appreciated. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 15:56, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

Hi! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

-- 19:54, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Mission 1	Mission 2	Mission 3	Mission 4	Mission 5	Mission 6	Mission 7
Say Hello to the World	An Invitation to Earth	Small Changes, Big Impact	The Neutral Point of View	The Veil of Verifiability	The Civility Code	Looking Good Together

Get Help

About The Wikipedia Adventure | Hang out in the Interstellar Lounge

WW98

Hi. I was wondering if the episode 98 files were meant to be up yet? The links to archive.org at Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode98 don't work, and I can't see anything if I search, however last week's Signpost mentioned that there was video available somewhere. Thanks :) –Quiddity (talk) 23:32, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Based on the link in WW99 (which Klortho just added), I found the youtube link, and have added it to WW98. –Quiddity (talk) 03:08, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for September 17

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Nina Davuluri, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Danseuse (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:12, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

U.S. government shutdown on ITN

Please revert your addition. There is a formal process for adding items to the In the News section -- it's at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. You can see there that there is no consensus for adding this item, and in fact there is consensus against adding it. -- tariqabjotu 03:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

As it appears you're no longer online, I'm reverting your addition, per my previous statement. -- tariqabjotu 04:09, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Misleading video

I caught your latest YouTube video. You really should review Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive253#Comments requested before I implement consensus at WP:VisualEditor/Default State RFC and Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 117#VisualEditor now opt-in only for all users on English Wikipedia. Your characterization of me as some kind of bad guy that unilaterally turned off a crowning achievement of the WMF both angered and amused me.

First, my act was far from unilateral, as the first link will show. I spent considerable time ensuring that I widespread support. I know, it was only from those nasty, evil "power users", but believe me: the intent was not to damage the experience of newbies. If VE actually worked, it would be a great tool. It doesn't, and giving newbies broken tools is far worse than giving them difficult tools. Giving them tools that randomly mutilate articles and relying on experienced users to follow after them, detect and correct the errors inserted in the articles and write bug reports because WMF released it so far prior to completion was simply irresponsibility on the part of the WMF. It showed callous disregard for all users, newbie and experienced alike.

Your repetition of James's falsehoods about me implementing something that overloaded WMF's servers disturbed me more. If you are going to put yourself in the position of "reporting news" about Wikipedia, you should at least take the time to get your facts straight. The errors that would have caused a server overload were caught during review and corrected. Catrope, the WMF designer that reviewed it, took note of that in the discussion (note the change from "is" to "was" about the typo here). The second link should show that most people familiar with the situation recognized that James wasn't telling the truth. As is usual, the WMF has never directly admitted that it was making false statements with regard to the patch, but that doesn't make their statements any more accurate.—Kww(talk) 06:03, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

It would have to be the week of the 14th, as I am traveling next week. I should point out to you that the discussion was on the central site notice: every reader and editor of Wikipedia was informed of the discussion until they dismissed the notification.—Kww(talk) 18:39, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit-a-thons at UC Riverside

The UCR Libraries are hosting three edit-a-thons focusing on their great special collections (science fiction, water resources, the Inland Empire and more) on Oct. 12, 2013, Oct. 26, 2013, and Nov. 23, 2013. Please participate if you can! Details and signup here. All are welcome, new and experienced editors alike! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 04:05, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for November 1

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited 1776 (company), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page General Assembly (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 20:09, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia LGBT

Hi Andrew, I just wanted to bring Wikimedia LGBT, a proposed user group and thematic organization that promotes the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to LGBT communities, to your attention. I am sure you are so busy with your current projects, but I hope you might be able to direct people to this group if they are interested in LGBT content in any way. Of course, you are also more than welcome to indicate your interest/support, if you wish. Hopefully we can get some LGBT-related GLAM projects up and running in the near future. Best, --Another Believer _(Talk) 20:04, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

WW 106

When is WW 106 going to be recorded? --In actu (Guerillero) | My Talk 21:04, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

I would be interested --Guerillero | My Talk 23:59, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon

Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - In a city near you! - You are invited!
File:Csaky madonna.jpg	The first ever Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 across the United States and Canada - including Washington, D.C.! Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join! Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors. Bring a friend and a laptop! Come one, come all! Learn more here! SarahStierch (talk) 05:25, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - In a city near you! - You are invited!

File:Csaky madonna.jpg

The first ever Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 across the United States and Canada - including Washington, D.C.! Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join!

Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors.
Bring a friend and a laptop! Come one, come all! Learn more here!

SarahStierch (talk) 05:25, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

At one time, it was speech and audio, before video.

Hi Fuzheado. Is it true that you are associated with promoting the use of video on Wikipedia? My own interest is related to making some of the material on Wikipedia accessible to the blind and dyslexic, mostly through the use of text-to-speech technology. It used to be in journalism, that you would first think about going to radio before thinking about going to video. Has the text-to-speech barrier already been addressed by wikipedia, or is there an advantage to going straight to video in your experience which you might have a reference for me to look up? FelixRosch (talk) 18:20, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pochacco

The article Pochacco has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This mostly unreferenced article seems to fail WP:GNG (notability for fictional characters)

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Satya_Nadella

Semi Protect request: Constant Ip vandalism and few new account vandalism also seen, please permit for this article to be semi-protected. Marchoctober (talk) 01:48, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for protecting the articleMarchoctober (talk) 03:09, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Requesting for full protection:Continuos disruption by new accounts, all accounts making changes are newly created within last 24 hours.

Marchoctober (talk) 06:29, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Exercises

Hi, you asked for training exercises, User:WereSpielChequers/image adding is ready for Beta test. If one of your students is a Pythonista then it would be great to refresh the target list. Ϣere SpielChequers 15:28, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

New Zotero userbox for you

This user adds inline citations quickly and easily with Zotero.

Just made my first userbox! Djembayz (talk) 01:39, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

And here's the NYT also!

This user likes the New York Times Wikipedia reference generator.

Djembayz (talk) 02:01, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for February 21

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Association of Internet Researchers, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Peter Lang (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Talkback: Splitting Crimea article

Hello, Fuzheado. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive831#Splitting Crimea article into different articles.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

—Ahnoneemoos (talk) 20:20, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Crimea articles

Regarding your closing of the discussion: "Crimean peninsula" was originally a redirect to "Crimea". Prior to the discussion, the article "Crimea" contained info about both the autonomous republic and the peninsula. The discussion was about whether or not the "Crimea" article should be split into two articles: one for "Crimean peninsula" and one for "Autonomous Republic of Crimea". There seem to be a consensus for the split. I don't think "the consensus is to merge". Can you amend your closing statement? I understand how this situation can be confusing.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 21:34, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue II, February 2014
Headlines
France report: National Archives; Sèvres & mass uploads; Wikipedians in the European Parliament Germany report: Claim open culture, again and again India report: National Museum, New Delhi, India (January 2-5, 2014) Netherlands report: Art and Feminism; Wikipedian in Residence; War memorials Norway report: Women on Wikipedia Sweden report: Local portal and CC toolkits UK report: Wikimedia UK Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Signalling OA-ness Calendar: March's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:47, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue II, February 2014
Headlines
France report: National Archives; Sèvres & mass uploads; Wikipedians in the European Parliament Germany report: Claim open culture, again and again India report: National Museum, New Delhi, India (January 2-5, 2014) Netherlands report: Art and Feminism; Wikipedian in Residence; War memorials Norway report: Women on Wikipedia Sweden report: Local portal and CC toolkits UK report: Wikimedia UK Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Signalling OA-ness Calendar: March's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:47, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly

Or monthly, as the case may be. If you ever want to do an episode on Wikipediocracy, I'd be interested in participating. Carrite (talk) 02:31, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

The Green Turtle

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of The Green Turtle, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9538020/The_Green_Turtle_Archive_1944.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 14:29, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

The word 'country'

Hello Andrew I noted that you have commented on the meaning of this word at the talk page of MH370. Would you be interested to take a look at Talk:List of tram and light rail transit systems and Talk:List of metro systems too, as well as the recent edit history of World's busiest airports by passenger traffic? Thanks. 116.48.155.127 (talk) 16:40, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

And perhaps Talk:List of tallest buildings in the world too? 116.48.155.127 (talk) 16:41, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

@116.48.155.127: - If only there were enough hours in the day! :) Thanks for bringing it to my attention. -- Fuzheado | Talk 16:47, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. 116.48.155.127 (talk) 17:38, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Any chance for a Wikipedia-wide manual of style or official policy for all dependencies? 116.48.155.127 (talk) 16:32, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

@116.48.155.127: There's a guide at Wikipedia:Nationality_of_people_from_the_United_Kingdom that may prove useful as an example. -- Fuzheado | Talk 04:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. That isn't even a policy, yet the general trend is, for some years already, to state whether the person is English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh. This isn't quite the case for dependencies. Edit warring is still common. 116.48.155.127 (talk) 14:48, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

March 2014

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Let It Be (2004 film) may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "()"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:

* 2004 “Excellent Documentary Film Award” of “Golden Grain Awards”)

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 16:24, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for March 26

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Let It Be (2004 film), you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Chinese and Mandarin (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:52, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I am very surprised...

that an experienced and dedicated WP contributor would add a section to an article without noticing that the material was already present in another section in proper context with its significance. I plan not only removing the new section you added to Washington Redskins name controversy, but tagging Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation for deletion as a trivial part of this controversy. FriendlyFred (talk) 20:08, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

@FriendlyFred: Could you tell me where you spot the name of the foundation in the article before I added it? I searched before for the word "original" and only found refs, but no naming of "Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation" in the prose of the article. Only now that you've mentioned it do I see an oblique reference to it here Washington_Redskins_name_controversy#Efforts_to_show_Native_American_support_for_the_name, but not with the proper name. I'm happy to cooperate and collaborate, but you cannot really defend the article Washington Redskins name controversy as being complete or even satisfactory on this point, if it didn't mention the name of the foundation properly. So let's keep it friendly, FriendlyFred. :) Regards. -- Fuzheado | Talk 20:14, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, the foundation is covered in the section you found. Since I have been editing this article for months, and the article on the larger issue Native American mascot controversy since Oct 2012, it was easy for me to see the creation of a "foundation" by the team owner as a news blip unworthy of being given its "proper" title after only a few days of existence. (I remain perplexed as to why this would be deemed worthy of a separate article.) -- FriendlyFred (talk) 20:36, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

@FriendlyFred: The debate on the separate article notwithstanding, what about the non-mention of the foundation name in the main article Washington Redskins name controversy? If it was a legitimate oversight, then no worries. We can work together on that to include it properly. But it certainly does merits mention. Not just mention, but consider the many editorials about this move by Snyder from prominent folks, from Olbermann, to WaPost, to LA Times, to philanthropy organizations. And if you haven't seen Stephen Colbert landed in some trouble when after he attempted to lampoon Snyder's efforts, he inadvertently triggered the #CancelColbert movement. We do need to let this play out more, but this is certainly a significant development in the timeline of this controversy. In fact, tomorrow is an edit-a-thon at the National Museum of the American Indian, where we're going to be talking about the intricacies of the Redskins controversy, and the perils of sampling the "Native American community" for what it's worth, Snyder-style. See: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/NMAI_COMM535_2014. This development has legs. I'm in the process of consolidating what I wrote and the larger graph that's already there into something more coherent. I don't think it makes sense to stay under "Efforts to show Native American support for the name" anymore, since it's not "Native American support," but an olive branch by Snyder (albeit an awkward one that's getting lots of criticism). See you at the article. -- Fuzheado | Talk 20:49, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

I live in NoVA, so will see you at the NMAI tomorrow.FriendlyFred (talk) 00:15, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

@FriendlyFred: Great to hear it! Your contributions to that article and the bigger article on Indian mascots will be very interesting to the curators at NMAI. See you then. -- Fuzheado | Talk 04:39, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

And here we go again

Just an FYI: MONGO is back to personal attacks in edit summaries and edit warring behavior. Like the previous incident, I happened to disagree with his content, changed it appropriately, provided references at his talk page that showed he was incorrect, and the edit warring and personal attacks ensued. Apparently, the warning he got before along with his statements of remorse and "I should have known better" have left the building: [17]. The diffs to what happened at the article can be seen at the following: [18], [19], [20], [21], [22]. Obviously, I won't be taking this to AN/I like I did last time. I've started a discussion on this at the article talk page here: [23]. -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 02:11, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Fuzheado...this guy just removed a polite reminder left on his page by admin Bishonen and has previously removed warnings by other admins. In my 10 years of editing, he has exhibited some of the worst ownership issues I have ever seen on an article. He came to my talkpage to taunt me and even after I told him to stay away he persisted. He's gone around and accused others of meat puppetry and has turned the article and the talk page into a battleground. He claimed in one edit the text was "stolen" when the article was created....and I simply moved the text from the Oso, Washington article to the 2014 Oso mudslide article after consensus determined the mudslide deserved it's own article. This entire.matter is ridiculous. I be emailed the primary editor who just brought Rainbow trout up to Feature Article level....Perhaps he can explain this matter better than I.--MONGO 03:18, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

None of your points here address your choice to edit war and use personal attacks again. Which is very telling. It's also interesting you canvassed an editor to come and support your point of view at the article talk page. It's obvious you have supporters who will back you up when you need them to. I note from previous occasions when you've run into trouble with blocks they've helped you get out of trouble then, as well. Must be nice not to have to worry about things like repeated unproductive, blockable behavior because your friends are sure to bail you out. -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 11:41, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

All I did was wikilink to Rainbow trout....you tried to pipe that to Salmon...I can provide the diffs. It's been explained to you by the author that wrote the featured article on Rainbow trout that Steelhead are Rainbows, not Salmon. You present unscientific sources that hardly even support your claim and accuse the author of that article of original research. The article went through GAC, Peer Review and FAC and was heavily scrutinized. If there was edit warring it was by you to pipe Rainbow trout to Salmon!--MONGO 15:28, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Still dodging. What you did is choose once again to edit war with me and use the edit summary for personal attacks. After indicating at AN/I and your own talk page that this wouldn't happen again with me. You expressed remorse. You said you knew better. Because you did it again so easily, so quickly, and with no remorse at all and now with continued dodging, it is apparent the "I'm sorry" at AN/I was complete bullshit. You keep trying to wave red herrings, but the fact remains: you are a edit warrior who readily uses personal attacks, has been blocked for both previously, and uses canvassing to get support and others to back your bad behavior. Tens-of-thousands of edits, thousands of articles started, good content editor and you still edit war and use personal attacks? Your friends and the hierarchy at Wikipedia may think you valuable, but to me, your bad behavior says differently. -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 00:40, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

All I did was link to Rainbow trout...you then tried to pipe that to Salmon, then after multiple editors try to explain to you that the Steelhead is not a Salmon but is a Rainbow trout, you accuse them of original research, insult their integrity and create an absolutely acrimonious editing environment. You've now had run ins with multiple admins. It's been a ling time since I've met anyone as combative and argumentative as you are, even when faced with evidence of how wrong you are you refuse to work collaboratively, insisting your wrong version is in fact the right version. You edit warred against me demanding older references which stated the mudslide was a mile wide were more accurate than the newer references which said the slide was 4400 feet wide but a square mile in area...my version stood. You then edit warred with other editors about whether we should link to Fox news or other news sources that had newer details...you lost that argument as well. Then I simply added links to Rainbow trout...you incorrectly piped that to Salmon...which is ridiculous anyway since.you could have just linked to Salmon without the backward piping! Then after multiple editors trybtk explain to you that a Steelhead is a Rainbow trout and not a Salmon, you insult their integrity, tell them that they are engaged in original research and persist in creating an acrimonious editing environment. If you are wrong, as you have been every single time, I am going to fix your edit. If you edit war you will get reverted by multiple editors. Now I'm done working with you. Until you start to assume some good faith of other editors, I'm simply going to assume you are incapable of working collaboratively on this website.--MONGO 01:23, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Still dodging. Yep, all you said at AN/I...it was all a lie. Very disappointing. -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 01:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

And now add this. Incredibly. More of the same insult theme from MONGO: [24]. -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 01:41, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Bhakta Prahlada

Requesting you to intervene about editing conflict on Bhakta_Prahlada_(1931_film) Marchoctober (talk) 19:03, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue III, March 2014
Headlines
Australia and New Zealand report: Summer is over Germany report: GLAM ship; Open GLAM hackathon; Science 2.0 conference; GLAM meetup Mexico report: New GLAM projects in Mexico and Reynosa's City Hall donation of historical photos Netherlands report: Education; Libraries; Museums; Maps, Earth Norway report: GLAM edit-a-thon at Preus museum Sweden report: Many ways to meet Wikipedia UK report: Art, Women, the Police and the build up to Wikimania USA report: Women's History Month Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Open Access Button; Topic Pages Calendar: April's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 20:15, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Fuzheado. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Ping

I've emailed you. Tony (talk) 10:47, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Videos for Wikimania 2014

We’re searching peoples how help us making videos at the wikimania in London. Victor Grigas has written that you have some skills in video production. If you’re interested please check this 2 wikimania-submissions:

For further information please contact .js. I’m only the bearer. --Bjferstern (talk) 13:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue IV, April 2014
Headlines
Belgium report: Meeting EU policy group; Seminar World Book and Copyright Day Germany report: "Coding da Vinci" - an open culture star is born! Ireland report: Clontarf 1000 - Easter Saturday edit-a-thon in Dublin Netherlands report: GLAMwiki Toolset workshop; Wikidata workshop; War Memorials; WiRs Sweden report: Umeå, literature, sami life and central museums, they all #JoinUs UK report: Art, Tanks and WIRs USA report: Wikimedia Activities in the U.S. Special story: Wiki Edit-a-thon Handbook Open Access report: Wikipedia-based altmetrics; Barriers to reuse of OA materials Calendar: May's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 02:20, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for May 23

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited New Jersey Childproof Handgun Law, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Republican party and Monmouth County (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:52, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Name preference

I'm adding some names to images, e.g. File:2014 WikiConference USA (Group H) 14.JPG

It occurred to me that some people might prefer their real name, some might prefer their user name. Do you have a preference?--S Philbrick (Talk) 16:54, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiConference USA 2014

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014_WikiConference_USA_(Group_L)_25.JPG is the better group conference photo Geraldshields11 (talk) 18:38, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue V, May 2014
Headlines
Australia and New Zealand report: Libraries' support continues and strengthens Czech Republic report: Workshop in Seifhennersdorf‎; WikiTown Přibyslav Germany report: GLAM on Tour touring; WMDE Data fueling station Hungary report: QRpedia projects in Hungary Italy report: Wikipedian in Residence and Open Data Government Hackathon Mexico report: Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art donates 357 photos; partnership with Museo Soumaya; Iberocoop edit-a-thon Netherlands report: Libraries; Wikidata & DBpedia; Wikipedians in Residence; Open Culture Data Norway report: 2 x GLAM edit-a-thons Sweden report: Award, competitions and Coat of Arms UK report: No trouble at t'mill; Assisting Metropolitan Police with image licensing enquiries; Wikimania is coming USA report: New Edit-a-thons; GLAM at Wikiconference USA; Activities in New York City Open Access report: WikiProject Open Access launched on the English Wikisource Calendar: June's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 00:28, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Mary Willingham for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mary Willingham 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/Mary Willingham until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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 notice from the top of the article. Arbor to SJ (talk) 23:33, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue VI, June 2014
Headlines
Belgium report: Bouchout Declaration on Open Access to Biodiversity data; Virtual collaboration in the government France report: Round table in Brussels; Video at Sèvres; 70th anniversary of the D-Day Germany report: Exhibition photography Mexico report: Edit-a-thon of Museo Soumaya; simulthaneous edit-a-thon in Argentina, Mexico and Spain about Spanish Exile; new cultural partner of Wikimedia México Netherlands report: Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments is being prepared for Sweden UK report: Free Culture; Image releases USA report: A GLAM Day Out! in Philadelphia; Local History at the Local Library Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania Open Access report: Open biodiversity data; Automated import of scholarly journal articles into Wikisource Calendar: July's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 22:46, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

See you at Wikimania 2014.

I have your book back in Philadelphia. How can I buy another one in London?--DThomsen8 (talk) 19:00, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

No of articles containing video

just listening to your "state and fate" submission:

toollabs:tmg/articlemedia.php shows 5720+207 enwiki-articles containing video clips right now (and 2057+14 in dewiki) the tool was written by @TMg: on my request recently :)
commons:Category:Videos by format - I added animated png, gif, and svg to it recently, but i think the arcticles using those should be put in a subcategroy.

--.js (talk) 11:34, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

@.js: - Great thanks for that stat to confirm the numbers we have. -- Fuzheado | Talk 11:43, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue VII, July 2014
Headlines
France report: Mass-upload Germany report: Exhibition photography Italy report: Reaching museums' national associations Netherlands report: Expedition Wikipedia content donations and course; Naturalis; GLAMwiki Toolset Workshop Sweden report: Slow summer in Sweden UK report: Skye boat song, tanks, feminist film, surgery for skeptics and survey results USA report: New York City Report Open Access report: JATS 4 Reuse; Automated import into Wikisource and Commons Calendar: August's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 21:17, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 15 August

Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows:

On the Dotty Lynch page, your edit caused an unnamed parameter error (help). (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:17, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue VIII, August 2014
Headlines
France report: Subtitling, Presenting, Flying Germany report: GLAM at Wikimania Mexico report: Wikipedia goes to Tlatelolco and Colmex Netherlands report: Content donations; Project Nature; GLAMwiki 2015; Meetup the Bonnefantenmuseum Sweden report: #Dåochnu, Wikimania; members meeting UK report: Wikimania and more Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Citathon Calendar: September's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 13:16, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC Annual Meeting and more!

Hello, fellow Wikipedian!

I am excited to announce the upcoming Wikimedia DC Annual Meeting at the National Archives! We'll have free lunch, an introduction by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and a discussion featuring Ed Summers, the creator of CongressEdits. Join your fellow DC-area Wikipedians on Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 4:30 PM. RSVP today!

Also coming up we have the Human Origins edit-a-thon on October 17 and the WikiSalon on October 22. Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 08:09, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue IX, September 2014
Headlines
From the team: GLAMout global Africa report: Uganda Museum Austria report: Open Science aboard the MS Wissenschaft in Vienna Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg France report: National archives upload Germany report: World Café; GLAM on Tour; Museum für Naturkunde releases 15 million insect items; MS Wissenschaft Italy report: A new Wikipedian in Residence; Lyon Declaration Mexico report: 50 hours of art in Wikipedia Netherlands report: Atlas Ortelius Norway report: The National Library of Oslo Spain report: Edit-a-thon at Biblioteca Nacional; Wiki Loves Monuments Sweden report: From industrial sound to books and libraries UK report: September, a month for the Arts USA report: News from Philadelphia & New York City Special story: Identifying images from Commons found in the wild Open Access report: Open Access Reader; New Topic Page; Open Access File of the Day suspended Calendar: October's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 17:31, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue X, October 2014
Headlines
Australia and New Zealand report: National Library Conference; Feminist Art Edit-a-thon Finland report: Edit-a-thon Course "Bring Culture to Wikipedia" France report: Edit-a-thon & Mass upload Germany report: GLAM on tour Sauerland; WMDE World Café at the Conference of National Cultural Institutions Italy report: War Books; EAGLE project; National Library Conference Netherlands report: Images donated by Nijmegen municipality archive; World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Europeana Task Force UK report: The breadth of UK GLAM work: chemistry, ballet, tanks and more USA report: News from Philadelphia & New York City Open Access report: Open Access Week; peer-reviewed OA journal publishes Wikipedia article Calendar: November's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 23:34, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

End-of-the-year meetups

Hello,

You're invited to the end-of-the-year meetup at Busboys and Poets on Sunday, December 14 at 6 PM. There is Wi-Fi, so bring your computer if you want!

You are also invited to our WikiSalon on Thursday, December 18 at 7 PM.

Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 02:22, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia genealogy project

Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:50, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XI, November 2014
Headlines
Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne Germany report: Facts, fun and free content Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet) Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels Special story: ORCID identifiers Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages Calendar: December's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 22:30, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:Articles containing video clips

Category:Articles containing video clips, which you contributed to, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:12, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

See also my request here, which kicked the CfD off. I'm interested in what you think about how we should track video usage on WP. best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 05:31, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Zeitgeist talk page

An editor on the talk page for the Zeitgeist film series with no actual contributions unrelated to Zeitgeist keeps soap-boxing on the talk page and calling for the article to be deleted. Several other editors have already requested the editor stop soap-boxing. Could you address this matter?--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 05:01, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XII, December 2014
Headlines
Australia and New Zealand report: Trove in the encyclopedia Germany report: Out now: GLAM on Tour film; Looking back: WMDE discussion rounds 2014 Norway report: Seminar at the NTNU University Museum: uploading images to Wikimedia Commons Spain report: Edith-a-thon about Spanish scientists in six museums Sweden report: Central Museums and Glöggmingel UK report: Going for Gold, map tagging and Histropedia USA report: Wikipedia in New York City Update Special story: Wikidata for cultural heritage Open Access report: Wikidata for research; Open Access Media Importer rewritten; JATS-Con Calendar: January's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 11:31, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Museum hacks and museum edits

Hello there!

Upcoming events:

February 6–8: The third annual ArtBytes Hackathon at the Walters Art Museum! This year Wikimedia DC is partnering with the Walters for a hack-a-thon at the intersection of art and technology, and I would like to see Wikimedia well represented.
February 11: The monthly WikiSalon, same place as usual. RSVP on Meetup or just show up!
February 15: Wiki Loves Small Museums in Ocean City. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, with support from Wikimedia DC, will be leading a workshop at the Small Museum Association Conference on how they can contribute to Wikipedia. Tons of representatives from GLAM institutions will be present, and we are looking for volunteers. If you would like to help out, check out "Information for Volunteers".

I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.

If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.harewikimediadc.org.

See you there! – James Hare

(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 03:12, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia edit tasks

At [25], we keep a running list of articles to be created and brought up to C class. TeriEmbrey (talk) 18:26, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for using the list with your class. TeriEmbrey (talk) 22:31, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC celebrates Black History Month, and more!

Hello again!

Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.

First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).

Now, I am very pleased to announce:

Tuesday, February 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM there will be #WikiTurgy at the University of Maryland. Join fellow theatre enthusiasts for a “mass act of public dramaturgy!”
Thursday, February 19 from 10 AM to 4 PM we are hosting the Howard University Black History Edit-a-Thon. We are working in partnership with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of African-American and African diasporic history.
Tuesday, February 24 from 6 PM to 8 PM we have the Black History Month “First Edit” at NPR. Help improve Wikipedia and help others make their first edit to Wikipedia!
Finally, our monthly dinner meetup is on Saturday, February 28.

There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!

If you have any questions or need any special accommodations, please let me know.

Regards,

James Hare

(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 18:20, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Fuzheado/Video_project

Just curious to find out why User:Fuzheado/Video_project was not set up as a "regular" wikiproject? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:13, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

@Ottawahitech: - Hi, I suppose since it was rather unique to have a WikiProject focus primarily on scarce multimedia. However, I'm not even sure what constitutes a "regular" WikiProject, but am happy to try out anything you can suggest or would like to see. -- Fuzheado | Talk 15:57, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. Since video augmentation of wikipedia is one of my interests, I was just surprised to see this topic discussed on a user page, and not where most editors would expect to find it. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:02, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

@Ottawahitech: - Oh, it's not a userpage anymore. That's a redirect to a full page here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video. And please do participate and add videos. Also there's a wikivideo-l list here: [26] -- Fuzheado | Talk 16:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Just wondering if you should mention it at wp:Council to make more editors aware of it. A bit of explanation of what the project is all about - for example will it be looking after wiki-articles on the topic? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

It appears that the project you created is not what I had in mind -- but I am sure it is valuable for others. What I would like to see is more access to existing mainstream videos from Wikipedia articles. For example this section refers to: ‘’’undercover exposé videos of questionable activities by staff’’ does not seem to have any links to a video — only mountains of text covering the incident. A video would save interested readers/viewers a lot of precious time, I think. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

@Ottawahitech: - Just curious -- what video would you like to have seen there for the IRS article? A link to a video on the Internet, on Youtube or somewhere else? As you have already seen Wikipedia frowns on embedding video into articles. I suppose a new form of video tag could work to do inline linking. -- Fuzheado | Talk 14:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

To tell the truth I never even thought about your question. I suppose we should only have videos from reliable sources used as references? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:09, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue I, January 2015
Headlines
Belgium report: SOIMA 2015; Wiki Loves Art; European Commission; FOSDEM Czech Republic report: Czech GLAM discusses why institutions are afraid to release their media France report: Celebrating public domain and more Germany report: GLAM on Tour in Wuppertal Italy report: 1600 usages for BEIC images in 165 wikis Netherlands report: Europeana Sounds edit-a-thon; Symposium & Erasmus Prize; Honorary doctorate for Wikipedia; New years drink Spain report: Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thon; Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 Awards ceremony; Benito Prieto Coussent Sweden report: Europeana; Working Life Museums UK report: Armenian Genocide; Diversity in Film; Residency Hat-Trick USA report: Philadelphia & New York Open Access report: Wikidata for research: proposal submitted; Open Access Media Importer: featured media Catalan areas report: Catalan Network of Public Libraries Calendar: February's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 05:58, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Global account

Hi Fuzheado! :-) As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Category: Year of Birth Missing.... noooooooo!!!!

Is there any chance you can point me to a reliable source for the date of birth for this guy? Thank you! Wikimandia (talk) 00:54, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Editing for Women's History in March

Hello,

I am very excited to announce this month’s events, focused on Women’s History Month:

Sunday, March 8: Women in the Arts 2015 Edit-a-thon – 10 AM to 4 PM
Women in the Arts and ArtAndFeminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Free coffee and lunch served!

More information • RSVP on Meetup
Wednesday, March 11: March WikiSalon – 7 PM to 9 PM
An evening gathering with free-flowing conversation and free pizza.

More information • RSVP on Meetup (or just show up!)
Friday, March 13: NIH Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon – 9 AM to 4 PM
In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is organizing and hosting an edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia. Free coffee and lunch served!

More information • RSVP on Meetup
Saturday, March 21: Women in STEM Edit-a-Thon at DCPL – 12 PM
Celebrate Women's History Month by building, editing, and expanding articles about women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields during DC Public Library's first full-day edit-a-thon.

More information • RSVP on Meetup
Friday, March 27: She Blinded Me with Science, Part III – 10 AM to 4 PM
Smithsonian Institution Archives Groundbreaking Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Free lunch courtesy of Wikimedia DC!

More information • RSVP on Meetup
Saturday, March 28: March Dinner Meetup – 6 PM
Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!

More information • RSVP on Meetup

Hope you can make it to an event! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Thanks,

James Hare

To unsubscribe from this newsletter, remove your name from this list. 02:24, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Talk:List of tram and light rail transit systems

Hello Andrew. Would you want to share your 2 cents regarding the status of Hong Kong for the purpose of its listing in this list of tramways? 124.217.187.8 (talk) 00:32, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue II, February 2015
Headlines
Africa report: Photo Hunt in museum in Uganda Armenia report: Free Book for Wikipedians Belgium report: Conferences & workshops Catalan areas report: Edit-a-thons about archaeology in Gavà and biochemistry in Barcelona Finland report: Hacking Heritage France report: From prehistoric era to pirates: an usual month at WMFR Germany report: Open GLAM is one thing - open funds quite another Greece report: 10th Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thon organised by Athens' Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation Italy report: OCLC conference in Florence; Wiki Loves Monuments exhibition; continued BEIC activities Netherlands report: Report of activities: February Poland report: Developing GLAM collaborations in Poland Spain report: Workshops at Reina Sofía Library in Valladolid Sweden report: Strange noise, public art and old maps Switzerland report: First Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon UK report: Continued Catalan Collaboration; Steam Sounds; Glasgow GLAMs; Edinburgh Editathons USA report: Wikipedia in Philadelphia (and Ocean City, MD!) Special story: Europeana's Wikimedia Task Force reports Open Access report: Tracking recent uploads; Wikidata for research meetups; Ant-decapitating flies, Lego and a new frog Calendar: March's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 23:27, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Deletion on MySQL page

Hi Fuzheado,

Can you give me an indication of why you deleted the insert of Eliacom ESP as a MySQL administration tool on the MySQL page?

Best, Pflammer (talk) 18:51, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Fireplane for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Fireplane 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/Fireplane until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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 notice from the top of the article. Zackmann08 (talk) 16:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Lee Kuan Yew

I simply do not see any doubt in the section you have attempted to erase. The first sentence is an uncited claim, and the others mere quotes from authoritative media organisations. I wanted to explain in my 'undoing of your deletion', but I kinda forgot so yeah, sorry.

Tayzhian (talk) 13:50, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello, Fuzheado,

The Editing team is asking for your help with VisualEditor. I am contacting you because you were one of the very first testers of VisualEditor, back in 2012 or early 2013. Please tell them what they need to change to make VisualEditor work better for you. The team has a list of top-priority problems, but they also want to hear about small problems. These problems may make editing less fun, take too much of your time, or be as annoying as a paper cut. The Editing team wants to hear about and try to fix these small things, too.

You can share your thoughts by clicking this link. You may respond to this quick, simple, anonymous survey in your own language. If you take the survey, then you agree your responses may be used in accordance with these terms. This survey is powered by Qualtrics and their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy.

More information (including a translateable list of the questions) is posted on wiki at mw:VisualEditor/Survey 2015. If you have questions, or prefer to respond on-wiki, then please leave a message on the survey's talk page.

Unsubscribe from this list • Sign up for VisualEditor's multilingual newsletter • Translate the user guide

Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:13, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for March 26

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Lee Kuan Yew, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Malay. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:57, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue III, March 2015
Headlines
Africa report: Closing the gap of the Global South Belgium report: Gendergap and Belgiumgap Catalan areas report: One day at the radio France report: A very busy month! Germany report: 1 topic, 2 talks, 3 hours Italy report: Agreements with national cultural institutions and professional associations Mexico report: Wiki rides the subway editathon and second edition of the Editatona gender gap marathon Netherlands report: Nature, Art, Feminism and a GLAM-WIKI conference Poland report: Six months in Spain report: Women's edit-a-thons, Workshops and Miguel Delibes Sweden report: Fashion; BARK; Council of Central Museums UK report: GLAM activities in the UK USA report: Wikipedia in Philadelphia & New York Open Access report: Wikimania Open Access policy; Wikimania; Wikipedia Science Conference; Punch-card microfluidics Calendar: April's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 05:36, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Upcoming attractions in DC

Hello!

Here are some upcoming DC meetups in April and May:

Tuesday, April 14: National Archives Hackathon on Wikipedia Space with American University – 2:30-5pm
See the latest work on the Wikipedia Space exhibit in the new NARA Innovation Hub and brainstorm on new ideas for a public exhibit about Wikipedia
Friday, April 17: Women in Tech Edit-a-thon with Tech LadyMafia – 5-9pm
Team up with Tech LadyMafia to improve Wikipedia content on women in the history of technology.
Saturday, April 25: April Dinner Meetup – 6 PM
Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!
Friday, May 1: International Labour Day Edit-a-Thon – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
An edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland

Hope to see you at these events! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Cheers,

James Hare

To remove yourself from this mailing list, remove your name from this list. 22:16, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Upcoming attractions in DC

Hello!

Here are some upcoming DC meetups in April and May:

Tuesday, April 14: National Archives Hackathon on Wikipedia Space with American University – 2:30-5pm
See the latest work on the Wikipedia Space exhibit in the new NARA Innovation Hub and brainstorm on new ideas for a public exhibit about Wikipedia
Friday, April 17: Women in Tech Edit-a-thon with Tech LadyMafia – 5-9pm
Team up with Tech LadyMafia to improve Wikipedia content on women in the history of technology.
Saturday, April 25: April Dinner Meetup – 6 PM
Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!
Friday, May 1: International Labour Day Edit-a-Thon – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
An edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland

Hope to see you at these events! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Cheers,

James Hare

To remove yourself from this mailing list, remove your name from this list. 23:16, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Obsolete info

Some of the material on Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/NARA COMM535 2015 appears to relate to a hackathon on American Indians.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:07, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

@Sturmvogel 66: - Thanks much, edited! - Fuzheado | Talk 01:17, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

You're quite welcome.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:57, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Signature

Hi Fuzheado, your signature is creating a wikimarkup problem here. I suggest you change the second pipe character in your signature to the character | instead; it will produce the same thing: |. Thanks. Epic Genius (talk) 02:36, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: - Thanks for that pointer. My sig's been like that for 10 years, so it's the system that changed, not me! ;) -- Fuzheado | Talk 02:38, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

2 notes:

I very much enjoyed listening to your podcast (109), and look forward to viewing more.
My reference to "die down" wasn't so much an effort to peer into the "crystal ball", but rather that the events were well beyond that.

I'm not trying to persuade you, simply explaining my own views. Best. — Ched : ? 04:38, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for May 1

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Jade Helm 15, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Alex Jones. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:00, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Curious your opinion

I just posted here. Curious if you could weigh in on it? Victor Grigas (talk) 16:47, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue IV, April 2015
Headlines
Africa report: GLAM activities in Africa Catalan areas report: First Ever edit-a-thon in Andorra; Libraries project shared in L'Alguero; Archives time! France report: No spring break for Wikimédia France! Germany report: Fresh and GLAMmy datasets for Wikimedia projects to harvest Italy report: Wikimedia Italia Training Day and another one Bibliohackathon! Macedonia report: Collaboration with Holocaust Memorial Center Netherlands report: GLAM-WIKI; a new brochure; Wikipedia in the Museum Poland report: Modern art onto Wikimedia Commons Spain report: Women in Science edit-a-thon and other stories Sweden report: Conferences and edit-a-thons Taiwan report: Hackathon for Mandarin-Taiwanese Dictionary UK report: Around the world, in peace and war USA report: GLAM-Wiki US Consortium moving forward Special story: GLAM-WIKI 2015 in The Hague; Muse Awards for three GLAM-WIKI projects ! Wikipedia Library report: Wikipedia Library report Wikidata report: New feature: GLAM activities in Wikidata Open Access report: Wikiproject Open Access on Wikidata; Wikimedia Sverige at Meeting Place Open Access in Malmö; JATS-Con GLAM Survey report: Preliminary Results from Poland and Finland Calendar: May's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 22:01, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Jade Helm 15 has been nominated for Did You Know

Hello, Fuzheado. Jade Helm 15, an article you either created or significantly contributed to, has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot (talk!) 00:07, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

I created a stub for a NON-"Conspiracy Theory" page for Jade Helm since the one you created seems to have been polluted with FUD. Dscotese (talk) 18:28, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

video upload

Hi, I have attended your talk in wikimania 2014 and was inspired to upload videos to wikipedia. I have uploaded quite some videos since Last November, and would like your feedback on this work. thanks! Matanya (talk) 13:35, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

@Matanya: - Thanks for the note and this is great! I like the selection of sports articles, which really show off the benefits of video. Do you mind if I add this to the showcase on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video/Examples? Also, it seems the thumbnail is broken on the video in Ball_badminton, and the transcode had some errors -- commons:File:Ball_Badminton.webm. However, I can play the video just fine. Weird. Looking forward to seeing more! -- Fuzheado | Talk 14:04, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I am glad you liked it, i focused on articles that show movement like dances, sports and the like :) No problem adding the uploads to the example page. Regarding the video thumbnail, mediawiki doesn't support VP9 transcoding yet, see phabrictor for more details. Matanya (talk) 14:16, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Jade Helm 15

I liked your article and saw that it was taken over by people who are all about making some important stuff look like it's only for the "Fringe". So I think I fixed it by adding Jade Helm Military Exercise for info that isn't about the "conspiracy theory." I think separating them out like that will show how foolish the people are who are trying to bury it (psychologically). If you don't mind adding whatever non-CT stuff to it and even moving over some more of the CT article's content, that would be great. I think even a section in the main article called "Concerns" is a good place to link over to the CT article. Dscotese (talk) 01:07, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dscotese: - Sigh, thanks for the note. If I had more time, I'd wade back into it, but I'm afraid it's beyond easy reconciliation at this point. I started out trying to make it clinically factual, even if the majority of it was related to conspiracy theories, hoping that once the exercises started, it would fill up with with more balanced info. Somewhere along the line, people felt that since the bulk of the info was conspiracy related it should be a conspiracy article, which is not what I intended at all. If you can help push it back towards the middle, that's great. I won't have any real time to do so for a while. Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 18:44, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue V, May 2015
Headlines
Arabic region report: World Digital Library, Arab Peninsula Regional Group meeting Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Catalan areas report: ORCID France report: GLAM, all over the place! Germany report: Make a (GLAM) change! Italy report: Wikimedia Italia still works with BEIC Library and bibliographic data Macedonia report: Wikiexpedition on bicycles and visiting one of the most remote areas in Macedonia Netherlands report: Birds and Expeditions Poland report: The Józef Burszta Digital Archives donation Spain report: Edit-a-thons about Contemporary artists and St. James's Way Sweden report: Slow GLAM-month in Sweden UK report: Progress on an image release from the Bodleian; National Library of Scotland residency comes to an end; and Glasgow Museums develop a Wiki Working Group USA report: Wikipedian at the Centers for Disease Control - NIOSH Open Access report: New Topic Page; Open Access and the humanities; Wikimania & Wikidata Wikidata report: SPARQL and arbitrary access are coming Calendar: June's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 23:16, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories

On 13 June 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Governor of Texas will activate the Texas State Guard to monitor Jade Helm 15, a military exercise being conducted by the U.S. Army Special Operations Command? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:22, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Congrats

Congrats on the NYT article, a good but troubling read.--S Philbrick (Talk) 18:20, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. It's the largest mainstream media outlet to highlight the MediaViewer "superprotect" issue so far, so it will be interesting to see what folks think about it. -- Fuzheado | Talk 18:21, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Hey Andrew, I for one thought it was great! Exactly the right call to action for what we in the community and we in the Foundation need to be thinking about going forward. To raise awareness I posed on my user talk page to encourage a discussion there.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 23:41, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VI, June 2015
Headlines
Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Czech Republic report: Memorandum of Cooperation between the National Heritage Institute and the Wikimedia Czech Republic Finland report: Capturing public art with drones France report: Surfing on GLAMs' agenda Germany report: Open GLAM - How to create true participation Italy report: From Italian Parliament to libraries and Company Museums. And a Training Day too! Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence Netherlands report: Historical images of Dutch water works Sweden report: Maritime Sweden UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: Wikidata for Mappers Special story: Europeana 1914-1918 Open Access report: Wikipedia is an amplifier of open access; 20,000 media files uploaded from PubMed Central Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania Calendar: July's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 00:27, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Speaking at Vanderbilt?

Hi Fuzheado,

We'd like to discuss an opportunity to speak at a THATCAmp at Vanderbilt University. The THATCamp will take place on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7th. What's the best way to reach you? Thanks so much!

Clifford Anderson (talk) 19:13, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VII, July 2015
Headlines
Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina France report: A GLAMourous summer Germany report: Fancy new apps based on GLAMorous data Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments at Toscana Foto Festival and two new GLAM projects Netherlands report: Radio broadcasts; historic atlases; GLAMetrics Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth, municipalities and concerts Sweden report: Hedemora; Mapillary UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: GLAM in Philadelphia Special story: Share what you know about Photo Events Open Access report: Wikimania: Citations and video Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments Calendar: August's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 00:22, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion to mobile users: Use mini keyboards?

Mr. Lih,

I read your recent article. I've tried using Wikipedia with a smartphone and I agree that it's painful! (I used the "full" site interface, but it's difficult typing large amounts of text using a touch screen).

I wonder if suggesting that Wikipedians buy miniature keyboards for their smartphones could help? If mobile Wikipedia suggested using these keyboards people may find it much easier to edit articles. That combined with any improvements in the interface may make a huge difference in contribution levels. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:02, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: - Hi, this is something that may help, but I'm not terribly hopeful for that replicating a full featured environment for substantial editing. For example, I use at least 4-5 tabs when editing Wikipedia -- original article, editing page, talk page, edit history to start. Then it might be some policy pages related to issues that I'm editing, or the WikiProject page. Trying to navigate all that without a drastic change in mobile interface seems impossible. There will be an elite that will find that editing on a mobile is tolerable or even productive. I'm not one of those folks, but I'd love to be proven wrong on this. Thanks for the note. -- 19:31, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome! I wonder if also suggesting the usage of larger mobile devices with larger screens (iPads and other tablets) may allow people to more comfortably have more tabs open at one time. I know not everybody has a tablet but suggesting the use of a tablet may be an idea. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:08, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I find Ipads an awkward and constraining editing device, smartphones are worse in that my first experience with them I hit the wrong tab and it took 15 minutes to repair the damage. My fingers are simply too big for smartphones. But these are transitional problems, this is far from the only site which works better if you have a keyboard. In five to ten years time: :::*if smartphones are still around people will be more experienced and adept with them

A substantial proportion of people will still want the capacity to do serious work on the internet - if that means netbooks and desk tops they will have them
Makers of mobile device will have continued to compete in innovation and new features with a big prize to whoever produces a device that can let people do serious work on a mobile
The WMF investment in supporting mobile may make our sites significantly more mobile friendly
We might have the improved voice recognition software that would make the keyboard redundant
We might have a sufficiently good brain machine interface that the problem is resolved.
improved voice recognition software that would make the keyboard redundant

Whichever combination of these resolves the problem, by 2050 the predictions that mobile will kill wikipedia will look as quaint as 1890 predictions about London's horse shit crisis looked by 1930. Ϣere SpielChequers 16:13, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: @WereSpielChequers: The future promise of voice recognition eventually solving things will always be in the future. It won't be a reality, because it simply doesn't scale with numbers or with the environment. You cannot use it with too many people in the same space, and you cannot use it in a noisy environment. Those are exactly the conditions where mobiles are the most useful -- on a subway/tube or on public transit. It will have a niche, but it will not be the savior. There may be something to save us from a swipe-left dominated future, but I'm afraid I'm not optimistic about it being in the near future. -- Fuzheado | Talk 18:44, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Mobiles aren't that great for lots of things that we use PCs for at home, and I suspect at work. Yes we may have lost some editors to mobile, but remember the overall trend is upwards, and I doubt we were ever that dependent on edits done on public transport. Lots of reasons not to be too concerned at the drop we were getting in raw edit count, not least that the more efficient we got at dealing with vandalism the more edits we lost. But if you do worry about raw edit count, the first 6 months of this year have all had more editors doing more than 100 edits that month than the same month a year earlier. Ϣere SpielChequers 19:47, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Corey Griffin listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Corey Griffin. Since you had some involvement with the Corey Griffin redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix ^(talk) 01:30, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks @Tavix: for the note! -- Fuzheado | Talk 17:35, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 19

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited The Ambassador's Wife, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Doubleday. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:47, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 26

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Works by Banksy that have been damaged or destroyed, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Sun Journal. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:47, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Dismaland

On 27 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dismaland, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Banksy described his Dismaland as a "family theme park unsuitable for children"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dismaland. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:12, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Seeking your input

Greetings sir,

I'm seeking your input regarding the sources collected for the Parwez article here [27], in order to build consensus on the content before I edit the main page.

It looks like most of the sources are being accepted, just two questions remain:

Can I insert the sourced comment that Parwez rejected "some" hadith to clarify (not remove) his "Quranist" title?
How many primary sources can I use to suppliment the 3rd party sources on which there is consensus?

Your opinion will be highly appreciated. Thank you. Code16^{... Logic Bomb !} 11:30, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Quote removal by AutoEd

Hi. In this edit, you accidentally changed escaped quotation marks (") in alt tags, where they are required. This appears to be a bug with AutoEd. I've restored them, but please be careful when performing such edits in the future. Thanks. --Paul_012 (talk) 09:55, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

@Paul 012: - Thanks for letting me know about this small detail with alt text! I'll be careful with not accepting that change from the tool in the future. -- Fuzheado | Talk 12:27, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposed amendment to WP:ADMIN regarding paid editing

You recently commented on a brainstorm that discussed banning administrators from paid editing. A concrete proposal to amend the administrator policy to this effect has been made at Wikipedia talk:Administrators#Proposed change - 'No paid editing" for admins. Your comments would be appreciated. MER-C 08:15, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2015
Headlines
Argentina report: Two edit-a-thons France report: August in Brittany Germany report: Sharing is Caring Mexico report: Pilot program to make freely licensed animation clips Spain report: Museum of African Art "Jiménez-Arellano Alonso"; Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain Sweden report: Odd submarines, new strategy and an old contest UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: September's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 15:14, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Information in Melissa Chiu Article

Please refer to Talk:Melissa Chiu Zeamays (talk) 16:11, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. Please see that page and respond so we can figure it out. --AW (talk) 17:21, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Came here to thank you for the "thanks" on John Boehner, and ...

to say I really liked your funny, silly username; and -- ska-boom!! It turns out you are this hugely distinguished Wikipedian! I'm honored to be noticed by the likes of you, Fuzzhead. I only started editing in February, drawn here like a jackal by poor old Brian Williams. And, yep, I'm a true nobody! Best -- Bruiserid (talk) 16:27, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Pub quiz

Let me know if you want any help with the pub quiz for the unconference. That sounds like it'd be a hell of a lot of fun. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 14:19, 7 October 2015 (UTC)