User talk:Exir Kamalabadi/A3

Cool!

First post and everything. Anyways, you voted nuetral at my RFA, signifying a concern over my edit warring and other such things. I will freely admit that I have gotten into a few edit wars, my edit summaries have often been inappropriate, and I totally understand your concerns. However, now that I have answered User:JoshuaZ's questions, I'd like to ask if you would please read over them and consider changing your vote. If you don't feel inclined to, I completely respect that, but I would appreciate it greatly if you would at least read my apologies and the answers to the questions. Thanks, and happy editing! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 02:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your vote.

Hi, this is Matt Yeager. I wanted to thank you for your vote on my request for adminship. The count was something like was 14/20/5 when I decided to withdraw the request. My decision was based on the fact that there are enough things wasting people's time on the Internet that doomed RFA's shouldn't be kept up for voters to have to think about. Regardless of the rationale behind your vote, I hope you will read this note for an extended note and discussion on what will happen before I make another try at adminship (I didn't want to clog up your userpage with drivel that you might not be interested in reading). Thank you very, very much for your vote and your time and consideration of my credentials--regardless of whether you voted support, nuetral, or oppose. Happy editing! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 01:58, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Question

Not to sound rude, but why did you ask only me a question on my talk page for the elections? Just curious. If your wondering, I answered it. Regards -- Moe ε 17:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, thats fine. I didn't mind answering it. Thanks for the question. Moe ε 15:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Merge

I agree with you on merging Transmutation of species and Chronospecies. ILovEPlankton 00:57, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I strongly disagree. Reasons explained at [[1]]. Alexei Kouprianov 00:26, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for supporting me in my RfA. I really didn't think people appreciate my work here that much, but it's nice to see you do: my Request was closed with 66 supports and 4 opposes. I'll do my best not to turn your confidence down. If in any point in the future you get the feeling I'm doing something wrong, do not hesitate to drop me a line. --Dijxtra 11:55, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for supporting me in my RfA. I really didn't think people appreciate my work here that much, but it's nice to see you do: my Request was closed with 66 supports and 4 opposes. I'll do my best not to turn your confidence down. If in any point in the future you get the feeling I'm doing something wrong, do not hesitate to drop me a line. --Dijxtra 12:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Bureaucratship

I've never really given it much thought. We already have several competent editors as bureaucrats, and I'm busy with Arbitration. Perhaps later. Thank you for your offer. I will remember it in the future if I change my mind. Yours truly --Neutrality^talk 16:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipediology

Please see the discussion about the new role of the board and the new charter here. Thanks. -JCarriker 22:32, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Anybody there?-JCarriker 06:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Many thanks for your support of my recent RFA, which passed narrowly. I will try to be worthy of your support. Regards, Kaisershatner 21:05, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Master Jay's RfA

Hello Exir. Thanks for your support at my recent RfA. If you have any concerns, you can reach me here. Regards, Jay(Reply) 00:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

SCOTW

File:Chemistry-stub.png

You contributed to the Science Collaboration of the Week that has just ended its run: Orion Nebula - See improvements Thanks, and let's keep improving it so it may become a Featured Article!

Deryck C. 11:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Tags

Where are the tags people add to their user names? Attitude2000 20:36, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Quick question

I'm just curious. Why did China ban Wikipedia? M2K e 23:16, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

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Happy Birthday

Just wishing a happy birthday from myself and everyone at Esperanza, even if they're on vacation. Keep up the good work. RyanGerbil10 21:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Enjoy! Cheers, Sango123 (e) 22:19, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Happy birthday, Exir Karmalabadi.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 04:55, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Happy birthday, Exir Karmalabadi. --Bhadani 06:17, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

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Happy Birthday!

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Hey Exir

Judging by your inactivity, it appears you are either inactive or China has fixed the loophole you used to get into Wikipedia. :-( Anyways, hope you return soon. — The King of Kings 19:53, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy 1^st edit anniversary!

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Happy first edit anniversary!

EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME 23:22, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Have a blast...

How about some fireworks to go along with that cake? joturner 04:01, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy first edit anniversay.Blnguyen | rant-line 06:02, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy anniversary! -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}11:00, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Very happy anniversary! --Bhadani 13:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

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August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! What's New? In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed! The In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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Hello again

Back in April, you welcomed me to Wikipedia. Five months on, I hope you'll consider me to be a useful member of the project. Thank you for your initial good wishes. It was very kind of you. --Dweller 13:22, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself! The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it! TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly! Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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Reply

Of course I remember you Exir! Glad to hear China lifted the block (for now) and you are able to edit again, and yes, everyone cared about you! :) — Moe 14:33, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it has changed alot. If you haven't been able to edit (much less view) Wikipedia, you would have seen much more drama than that unfold. Sadly Redwolf24 left in July and, suddenly, in August Essjay left to pursue other things in real life. I find it strange China is blocking only certain pages and not blocking (or unblocking) them all. Maybe you could update the Wikipedia page that describes China blocking Wikipedia with more up-to-date information :) — Moe 00:03, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Redwolf24 (dating back to March) left Wikipedia because of school-related activity which he stated he had to do to graduate, but anything recent I don't know. Essjay left because "he's currently working on several writing projects that had been completely ignored for the better part of two years", which is a direct quote from a close friend of his regarding his absence. Hopefully they will return. — Moe 00:16, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... I can't really think of names of the top of my head, but yeh, alot. You could probably find most of the people who left on WP:MW or go through the history of Wikipedia:Esperanza/A. — Moe 03:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)