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Hello!

Mocha2007 has given you a Kitten! Kittens promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better! I feel as if we can start fresh. Mocha2007 (talk) 14:46, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

ITN for Joan Sutherland

--Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:06, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Disappointed...

...(not University Challenge this time) but wondered if, amongst your various and notable wanderings here, you'd spare a moment to mercilessly rip the p out of Gordon Bennett Cup (ballooning). It's important, you see, that you realise that I'm not a one-trick-pony. More to the point, I consider ballooning as important as any Oxbridge pursuit (other than tiddlywinks, of course). Anyhow, comments would be A1 awesome. I am away as of tomorrow evening for nigh-on a week, but it'll give you time to concentrate your vitriol. Much light-blue love. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:11, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Amlwch

The article Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Amlwch you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Amlwch for things which need to be addressed. Jezhotwells (talk) 17:57, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Notification

Ping. Thank you for the offer again. Paralympiakos (talk) 06:24, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England

Hi, It's been suggested that might might be kind enough to take a look at List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England which I put up yesterday & has been suggested as a possible future candidate for FLC.— Rod talk 09:50, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

GhostofNemo

Hi, as you closed this, you may want to weigh in on this. I thought the user decided to give it up and leave, but he's back to whine and diva it up some more.--Terrillja talk 21:02, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

What a wonderful world we used to live in

this may interest you *wipes away a tear*. Ironholds (talk) 05:56, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Finishing my Coke article, hopefully. The sources rather fail to appropriately cover his later career, so I've got this big blank spot. Turns out Hoff (the guy who did the Garrow biography) did a biography of him a few years ago, so I might go see if the Holkham Library has a copy. After that, a GA on the Human Rights Act would be an admiral goal, methinks :P. Ironholds (talk) 11:04, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing this to my attention; now replied. I don't suppose I can convince you to attend this? :P. Ironholds (talk) 14:15, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

A question, good sir

I'm writing a GA on the Arbitration Act 1979, possibly the most pointless exercise in writing ever. Admiralty cases are usually known by the name of the ship, but also have a standard, X v Y name. Which would be best to shove an article under, do you think? Ironholds (talk) 17:29, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Cheshire

You said "Overall, I think that the minor points raised by Fetchcomms aren't enough to make me qualify my support" so I read it as not enough work to make you support the promotion of this portal. OhanaUnitedTalk page 01:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

One, I can't read your mind so you can't assume I know your position. Two, if you write in an ambigous way, then obviously there is a potential for communication problem. Three, hindsight is always 20/20. I can't forsee that your wording is ambigous and misunderstood your meaning until I close it. As for relisting, me and User:Cirt already agreed to wait for a week before closing it as a failed nomination.[1] In fact, I left it open for two weeks. Did I see you oppose to this plan? No. You commented on something else. As stated in 1d of the criteria, it needs to be well-maintained. Without knowing when will User:Espresso Addict return and edit, it could easily become unmaintained in the forseeable future because Espresso Addict is the primary editor that updates the portal. There is no prejudice for nominating this portal again in the future (by any editor) if someone takes the role to maintain the portal, but I haven't seen anyone to step forward. For these reasons, this is why I chose to fail the nomination. OhanaUnitedTalk page 17:09, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Template:Portal

hello,

do you know how to add a Template:Portal for santana with picture? thank you-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 14:33, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Arbitration Act 1979

You work damn fast :P. Ironholds (talk) 11:03, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Magyar Televízió/draft

Can you restore this draft? I'd like to continue working on it. I went to a foreign country and I had no internet for 5 months.--125.25.231.191 (talk) 16:31, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, no. Use the talk page of the article from now on to discuss matters, or work on your own draft offline – the MFD showed that there's agreement that this method of working wasn't, well, working. BencherliteTalk 11:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

I have this blasted thing that backs the computer up at 6.30 every evening and for some reason logs me out, but let's me carry on editing. Computers are an ever increasing mystery to me.  Giacomo  18:56, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Decay chain article

Thanks thats great! I wasn't aware of the clear template. Thanks for your help! Deano8216 (talk) 08:36, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Ulnar collateral ligament of elbow joint

In a note here, you refer to review comments on the above article which has been nominated for Peer Review by a new editor. Can you please indicate where these comments are to be found? Brianboulton (talk) 00:55, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Bencherlite. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Submarine/archive1.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 02:42, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Portal Somerset

Following my look at your work on the Law portal I've been editing Portal:Somerset to get the entries dynamically changing. I've started to set this up - lots to do - but can I pick your brains. I've tried to use the templates as set out at Template:Box portal skeleton but I'm getting duplicate "see more..." (see under selected picture) have you got any idea how to get rid of this?— Rod talk 22:15, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your help - I now have the same problem with selected biographies & I've tried adding archive=no without any success. Any ideas?— Rod talk 22:45, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks again.— Rod talk 23:05, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Its like flogging a dead parrot :-)— Rod talk 23:09, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Could I ask you to work your wikitemplate syntax magic on Template:Selected location & get that one to accept "archive = no" as well?— Rod talk 18:07, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks - I'm building this set before I show it on the Portal page, but visible at Portal:Somerset/Selected location.— Rod talk 18:13, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
As you obviously know more about Portals than I do, can I share a thought I've been having while removing references from the selected content on Portal:Somerset? Is this the only area of wikipedia where content is unsupported by reliable sources, in fact nothing to verify any of the claims made? I have no idea how a references section could be included with rotating content, but I just having nagging worries that the portals, even the featured ones, contravene a whole range of policies which seem so important elsewhere on wp.— Rod talk 13:28, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments & as this is the approach accepted on the front page I can accept that. My next worry relates to copying the lead or similar from the article into the "chunk" which will appear on the portal as Selected Foo. I have recently had a debate with User:Moonriddengirl see User talk:Rodw/Archive 10#Copying within Wikipedia & the other half of the conversation at User talk:Moonriddengirl/Archive 28#Copying within wikipedia with pointers to Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. I haven't done this in the Somerset Portal & I don't see it on the English Law one - does this need to be put into guidance etc?— Rod talk 14:29, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Can I run another query past you... at the bottom of Portal:English law you have what appears to be a standard section wikimedia with links to commons, wikiquote, wikiversity etc each pointing to a suitable category. I've tried to replicate this for Portal:Somerset but apart from Commons and Wiktionary none have suitable categories - are these links mandatory?— Rod talk 21:57, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

And another query. If you go to the Law portal & then click suggest you get to the nomination pages (eg Portal:English law/Nominate/Selected article) which each show
edit 

Nominate more...

If you click on the edit (top right) of this template from within the nomination page it gives an error saying "REDIRECT [[Slash (punctuation)]]{{R from unicode}}". Which is beyond my programming/template coding abilities - any ideas? I'm asking because exactly the same thing is happening on the Portal:Somerset nomination pages).— Rod talk 13:16, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Just a heads up

The question about portals and TFA is now up at Wikipedia talk:Copying within Wikipedia#How to attribute. :) Let's hope there's some swift and productive conversation there. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:32, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

3RR warning seems not to have done the trick

Wrapped in Grey (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) just did another revert on John Lennon to his wording. This is a FA, and several editors have returned the language to that which has been stable - this editor does not seem to get that he/she needs to discuss first. Thanks for your help. Tvoz/talk 18:13, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for deleting the copyvio at this page, by this IP. I left the IP a copyvio warning. Can you keep an eye on this IP's activities - in light of this inappropriate behavior pattern? Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 15:57, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 16:00, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Bach cantata

Thank you for looking at the Bach cantata DYK for last Sunday! I nominated one for next Sunday on 4 Nov BWV 60 and one for the following Sunday on 9 November BWV 116 and asked for a review on the DYK talk, but everybody around there seems very busy voting, so I dare to ask here also. I will be very busy this weekend and won't have time to answer questions then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:53, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for improving! Probably the "last Sunday" aspect - connected to memory of the dead, last judgement - is really a bit too much for the Main page, smile. - I would actually prefer to nominate right in the section Special occasions, but the rules seem to have changed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:44, 11 November 2010 (UTC)


Invitation to participate!

Hello! As you may be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation is gearing up for our annual fundraiser. We want to hit our goal, and hit it as soon as possible, so that we can focus on Wikipedia's tenth anniversary (January 15) and on our new project, the Contribution Team.

I'm posting across User Talk pages to engage you, the community, in working to build Wikipedia not only through financial donations, but also through collaboration in building content. You can find more information in Philippe Beaudette's memo to the communities here.

Please visit the Contribution Team page and the Fundraising page to find out how you can help us support and spread free knowledge. ⇒DanRosenthal Wikipedia Contribution Team 18:43, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Sacco and Vanzetti

I saw your recent mod to the Sacco and Vanzetti talk page. The quality rating was changed to A in this edit: 3 September 2010 Jrtayloriv without more than a few words of explanation. As someone who has done a lot of work on S&V and plans to do more, I would certainly not rate it that high. I'm not sure how the rating process works, but I'd like to see a general downgrade to B. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 16:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

St Eleth's Church, Amlwch GA review

Hi, I've reviewed St Eleth's Church, Amlwch and listed it as a good article. Well done! --BelovedFreak 12:46, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

St Hugh's College

Hello again, A few days ago I looked at the St Hugh's College article and have improved it here and there. It seems rather thin and not very descriptive. (A whole article could be written abou the garden alone.) Even the list of Principals is incomplete after 1946. Perhaps you could take a look.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 15:17, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, The Oxon project is not one that I signed up to but I got into revising St Hugh's accidentally. There must be many alumnae out there who have good access to sources. (The levels can be sorted out later after a message has appeared at the bottom.)--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 15:57, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I have today noticed your good work on the St Hugh's article: it is so much better than the first time I found it. I see it has led to a discussion about long lists of JCR & MCR presidents. Making a list of all those for 125 years seems a waste of effort as it must be available within the college archives and would not be of much interest to most users of the encyclopaedia. The precedent of Durham University would not I feel justify inclusion as a standard for all Oxford colleges so better not keep lists of all the presidents since the article began. Best wishes.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 15:01, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Mistake?

You just reverted a users comments on his own talk page here. Was this a mistake? The comments were not disruptive or vandalism in any way, shape or form. WuhWuzDat 16:39, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

No, indeed - Slambo replied to me, and I appreciate his reply. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:50, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, everyone - it looks like I got a fat-finger misclick when checking my watchlist on my iPhone. I've seen some .js code somewhere to remove the rollback link from watchlists for this very reason, so I think I need to fund and add it. Again, sorry. BencherliteTalk 17:56, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Inman

D'oh. Thank you for the history clean up.Cptnono (talk) 11:39, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Didn't even realize! Hope the current version meets with more approval. Not perfect but I think it is a decent enough start.Cptnono (talk) 11:42, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Dear Bencherlite,

Many thanks for your kind welcome, and your courtesy on the St Hugh's College talk page. I look forward to working with you in future! JimBowden (talk) 14:32, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Help Desk

FYI, the address and phone resolve to a hotel in Dubai, the provided phone number being the fax line for said hotel. Ironic, since I'm thinking someone needs a vacation from trolling the Help Desk. [2] ArakunemTalk 15:25, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

....And the provided (fake) IP is registered by the Emirati telecommunication authority. [3] MikeNicho231 (talk) 15:36, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
All of which proves that someone in Norway can find the address and phone number of a hotel in Dubai (or the fax number), and find an IP address from that region as well. Tee-hee. Still doesn't make it a genuine offer. BencherliteTalk 15:38, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Surprised to find that the owner of that IP is in Drammen, Norway, my city of residence... :-O At least that proves my city is housing some clever people... MikeNicho231 (talk) 15:42, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Some other clever people, of course - don't be modest! BencherliteTalk 15:46, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Haha, I don't think (and I hope not) I am the only clever person in town... MikeNicho231 (talk) 15:50, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Jeffrey Hackney

Not sure if you noticed but I uploaded an image. Shame about the hat but taking any picture of Jeffrey is an achievement. – ukexpat (talk) 22:26, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes thanks it was a good trip - the 400th anniversary activities were a lot of fun. Of course the Development Director was on the prowl pressing the flesh and looking for donations, but I guess that's to be expected! – ukexpat (talk) 02:25, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

RE: WP:ERRORS

Now it looks as though they're here to stay...  f o x  01:23, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

You're going to trounce me with Beatles knowledge, I'm afraid..  f o x  01:30, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Henry Bould

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

No claim of notability within the article. Fails WP:ACADEMIC.

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. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Quable (talk) 19:39, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

I have deprodded -- Oxford college Fellows are prima facie notable per WP:ACADEMIC IMHO. – ukexpat (talk) 20:17, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

London Wikimedia Fundraiser

Good evening! This is a friendly message from Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, inviting you to the London Wikimedia Fundraising party on 19th December 2010, in approximately one week. This party is being held at an artistic London venue with room for approximately 300 people, and is being funded by Ed Saperia, a non-Wikipedian who has a reputation for holding exclusive events all over London. This year, he wants to help Wikipedia, and is subsidising a charity event for us. We're keen to get as many Wikimedians coming as possible, and we already have approximately 200 guests, including members of the press, and some mystery guests! More details can be found at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/London - expect an Eigenharp, a mulled wine hot tub, a free hog roast, a haybale amphitheatre and more. If you're interested in coming - and we'd love to have you - please go to the ten.wikipedia page and follow the link to the Facebook event. Signing up on Facebook will add you to the party guestlist. Entry fee is a heavily subsidised £5 and entry is restricted to over 18s. It promises to be a 10th birthday party to remember! If you have any questions, please email me at chasemewiki at gmail.com.

Hope we'll see you there, (and apologies for the talk page spam) - Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 18:05, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

BNCBC etc

Thanks for the heads up on the 1848 images. I've done Balliol's jersey too, but ideally all those images should be re-scanned at 300dpi or above. I believe you are involved in the rowing wikiproject, so if you come across the originals (or the original uploader, who was "Wat Bradford" on wikibooks until early 2009) do let me know and I'll offer to re-scan or photograph them. BTW, I took a look at the source for the "Brasenose holds the record for most consecutive headships" claim, which of course only runs up to 1899, and I couldn't find a summary of all the results. I don't want to discourage undergraduate contributors, but they wouldn't get away with unsourced POV-pushing at tutorials, so we can be firm about claims and sources. - Pointillist (talk) 00:13, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Best new word

So now you lot decide to redefine your own OED? Excelleny? By far my most favourite word of the year. Next up, you'll be selling me "Schott's Excelleny". Perfect for Xmas!! The Rambling Man (talk) 22:06, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Ditto, I've enjoyed a right proper cross-Varsity entente cordiale with you this year, long may it continue. Safe travels (Cymru-bound?), godspeed, and enjoy the holiday period. Don't be a stranger. Fondly, The Rambling Man (talk) 22:15, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Best wishes for the holiday season. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:52, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
  1. Support that, and safe travelling too. - Pointillist (talk) 23:25, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks for letting me now and your efforts in resolving the long-running issue - it's great to see the two Joplin rags as featured sounds. Apologies for not replying earlier; I've been on a Wikibreak as Real Life has got more busy! Major Bloodnok (talk) 07:47, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Page moves

Thanks! And Happy Holidays to you too! Nightscream (talk) 19:37, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

RE:Syng of a Maiden

Thanks very much, will have a look into that tonight. (I prefer the Hadley version myself, but maybe I'm too sentimental?) Rob (talk) 23:38, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you and all the best for the season! I suppose I should have put Adam lay ybounden up as well. Maybe next year? After all, he had to wait 4000 winters before. Rob (talk) 02:02, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Userfy deleted page?

Hi there,

I saw that you just deleted Commonwealth of Virginia, Ex Rel. Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II v. Sebelius. I understand that the page needs to be deleted as the creation of a banned user, but there were a lot of good edits to it. Could you move the deleted page to my userspace so I can work on recreating it? Or if you are feeling especially generous, restore it since I think the vast majority of edits to the article did not come from the Grundle sock and it would be a shame for them all to go to waste? Sailsbystars (talk) 00:18, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. If I have time, I'll try to create an untainted article on the subject. Sailsbystars (talk) 00:33, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:CSD#G5 states "Pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block, and which have no substantial edits by others." If editors other than Grundle made significant contributions to it, it does not meet the G5 deletion criteria, and should be undeleted. Mdlmny56 (talk) 02:25, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

FYI, I have created a new page at Commonwealth of Virginia v. Sebelius on the subject. Sailsbystars (talk) 13:40, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Rollback

I've created User:Mike Christie on an iPhone, as I mentioned I might do when you kindly offered last week to restore my rollback rights. Could you go ahead and readd those rights now? With the new user ID I think I'm safe from accidental rollbacks. Thanks. Mike Christie on an iPhone (talk) 03:12, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Hmmm; sorry, meant to post that as User:Mike Christie; but here I am again to make the request in person, so to speak. I do see a disadvantage to this approach, which is that I can't keep my watchlists synced up between the two user ids. Still, I'll try it and see how it goes. What would be perfect would be a script that disabled rollback as you suggested, but which only worked in Safari. Is that possible? Mike Christie (talk – library) 03:22, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Rice Solar Energy Project

Hi, Bencherlite. You deleted Rice Solar Energy Project per G5. Although the reason for deletion is valid, the project itself is quite notable. Could you please restore this article to my sandbox, so I could improve it before moving back to the main space? Thank you in advance. Beagel (talk) 05:12, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

I see. However, as I spent yesterday some time for adding infobox, categories etc to this article, I have a feeling that in this case I deserved some credits, at least for my time I spent. Also, G5 is not a punishment but rather a preventive measure to avoid further disruptions. Beagel (talk) 18:58, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. Beagel (talk) 18:44, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

A very late one

I Remember seeing a comment another User's talk page a while back and i thought it was funny enough to give you this

The Barnstar of Good Humor
Comments on Iridescent's page in 2009. Simply south (talk) and their tree 12:31, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Just drop me a line if you need help. Simply south (talk) and their tree 12:06, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

iPhone solution

Hi -- per our conversation about rollback, I thought you might be interested in this, which has completely resolved the problem for me. Mike Christie (talk – library) 21:25, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Portal question

It's been a few months since I asked you to look over Portal:Cape Cod and the Islands in the peer review venue. I finished up most of it a few months ago but school has kept me from asking formally if there is anything else you would like done with it. I just cleaned up the "Featured content" section earlier though and found out if I removed the content like I was requested, it would make the page lopsided. I instead removed the DYKs and former good content so that it works. I'm running into a problem with cutting down the biographies and articles section though because I feel like I would kill something important. Should I have another editor, with no connection to it be used in the trimming process? Depending on what you say, I'll be nominating it soon. Thanks. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 03:03, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
Your Featured sound candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured sound status, File:Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.ogg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another sound, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. (X! · talk)  · @153  ·  02:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

Oh, that was for this. Simply south (talk) and their tree 00:07, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Marc Engelhardt for deletion

The article Marc Engelhardt is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marc Engelhardt 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. Dolphin (t) 06:49, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Russ Prize

I have added more informations, including some very important I overlooked. What do you mean, is the lead now OK?-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 21:18, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for St Fflewin's Church, Llanfflewin

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:03, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassadors

I saw the quality of your contributions at DYK and clicked on over to your user page and was pretty impressed. Would you be interested in helping with the WP:Online_Ambassadors program? It's really a great opportunity to help university students become Wikipedia contributers. I hope you apply to become an ambassador,Sadads (talk) 00:37, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for St Mary's Church, Rhodogeidio

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for St Ceidio's Church, Rhodogeidio

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for St Peirio's Church, Rhosbeirio

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:04, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for St Mary's Church, Bodewryd

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

I wish things on Wikipedia weren't so damned hard.

  • I want to contribute and want to do the right thing. There are so many seemingly common things that are so hard to find on Wikipedia. The other day I could not remember if the template for [citation needed] was {{Citation needed}},{{Cite needed}},{{Citationneeded}}, or {{Citeneeded}}. It took ten minutes to find the answer. Yes, I could have guessed and got the right answer, but that's not the point. You can't guess for complex templates or how to nominate something for FA.
  • Whenever I edit Wikipedia I feel like there's this secret, elite, group of people in-the-know who are just waiting for me to make the smallest infraction and jump on it. It takes away from the enjoyment I get from doing it in the first place.
    Thanks for listening. -- Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:22, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Erik - you do know about the {{helpme}} tag, right? If you need someone to provide you assistance, place the tag above your question and someone will come along to help you. Raul654 (talk) 20:26, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Really. No, I had NO idea the {{helpme}} tag existed. I've even (mostly) read "Wikipedia:The missing manual" and I'm still getting my but kicked. But thanks, I'll be using it.-- Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:57, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Bencherlite, thanks for the not on my talk you just left.-- Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:57, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Also, I can honestly tell you that I know, personally in my every-day life, about 20 people who say "You edit Wikipedia? Man, I tried and everything I did got deleted." I guess my point is that for every person who tries to sick it out and learn there seem to be many who give up and I think you'll agree that's sad. Also, I think there's a lot of those people who say "go to hell" when the annual fund-raising banners appear at the top of the screen.-- Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:57, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Psst... I spell my name with a C. ;)-- Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:57, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for St Mary's Church, Pentraeth

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:05, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Church of Christ Pantocrator, Nesebar

Hi, thanks very much for the copyedit and the review! This is perhaps the most colourful and elaborately decorated medieval church in Bulgaria, no way I would have passed the opportunity to work on this article :) Best, — Toдor Boжinov — 07:53, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Still, it's a cute little village church :) I think in the Balkans we had more colour and a bit more variety in material, but somewhat less freedom in terms of plan and architecture. During the time the West went from Romanesque to Gothic and then to Baroque and Classical styles, in the Balkans we were building churches which essentially followed these same Byzantine designs, and usually on a smaller scale because of the Ottoman rule. — Toдor Boжinov — 09:12, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

FL promoted

Thanks for your support at FLC for List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England which has just been promoted. Now working on the East of England, the biggest list, with plenty of red links still to sort. Cheers. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 10:31, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK nom for St Deiniol's Church, Llanddaniel Fab

Hello, the article looks fine for DYK, but I slightly reworded the hook in your nomination. KimChee (talk) 06:56, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for St Tyfrydog's Church, Llandyfrydog

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:02, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

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