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May 2, 2009 - September 13, 2009


Editor review

Hello there. I remembered you from my previous RfA, where you had expressed some concerns and felt that you would be unable to support. I wondered if you could comment on my current editor review, as I feel it would be best to see if those who hadn't thought of me as highly of me five months ago now think I have improved. NuclearWarfare (Talk) (How am I doing?) 20:14, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

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New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday May 17th, Columbia University area
Last: 03/29/2009
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, establish a membership process for the chapter, review the upcoming Wiki-Conference New York 2009 (planned for ~100 people at NYU this summer) and future projects like Wikipedia at the Library, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the March meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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Update on Chet

User talk:Coffee#Update on Chet. لennavecia 01:34, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi, about hte acai berry text add

Hi. I am contacting you because I wanted to ask for your help. I have modified my entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:A%C3%A7a%C3%AD_Palm#Acai_scams I carefully read your opinion and I think I have made some improvements. I would really appreciate your help with this. Dugu —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dugut (talk • contribs) 13:38, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your opinion

GlassCobra, Gaia Octavia Agrippa has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk | Sign 20:00, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
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Youkilis

Why do you think its notable to add the mid-year walk totals of Kevin Youkilis to his bio? I don't think it is notable. Tx.--Epeefleche (talk) 05:34, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello? I don't believe I've heard back from you on this. Tx.--Epeefleche (talk) 07:31, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks.

Thanks for your help. I really want to become an administrator, but I have only been on for three months. I don't know how I would become one because there are so many people that are requesting to become administrators, but I really appreciate the help. Cheers! --GandalftheWise : Talk Page 19:02, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

GlassCobra, GandalftheWise has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
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Avi2DVD

I'm curious as to why you think A7 applies to this article. A7 seems to explicitly exclude software. seresin ( ¡? )  05:21, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

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RfA Thank You

GlassCobra, My RFA passed today at 75/2/1 and I wanted to give you special thanks, not only for nominating me, but for seeking me out, encouraging me, and supporting me through the process. Cheers! --Rosiestep (talk) 23:10, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

RfA Thanks

Thank you for participating in my recent RfA, which was unable pass with a final tally of (45/39/9). I plan on addressing the concerns raised and working to improve in the next several months. Hopefully, if/when I have another RfA I will win your support. Special thanks go to MBisanz, GT5162, and MC10 for nominating me. Thanks again, -download ׀ sign! 01:23, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Adminship

I just wanted to know a couple things. First, how long were you on Wikipedia before you became an admin. how many edits did you have? How long did it take to have your request answered? What kind of edits did you have? Is it seemed more valuable to create articles or fight vandalism? I just wanted to have an idea of what to expect if I wanted to be an administrator. I would appreciate if you could help. Thanks. GandalftheWise : Talk Page 12:28, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

A good place to find most of these answers is GlassCobra's RfA itself: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GlassCobra.  Frank  |  talk  12:43, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, Frank, but the standards have changed quite a lot since I became an admin. When I ran, 4 or 5000 edits was considered okay, and six months was good enough as well. Now, anything less than a year and 10000 edits could be looked upon as insufficient. GlassCobra 14:42, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
It's maybe not as stringent as all that, but you're right, the community does seem to have changed in this regard. Still...pointing a potential RfA candidate to an RfA seemed a logical thing to do :-)  Frank  |  talk  15:50, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Re; Teachers Without Borders

Hello,

I recently tried to add a page called Teachers Without Borders under the username Twbseattle. It was deleted, I understand, for G11, which could be promotional use of a company. I would just like to elaborate here.

At this link, you will see that Teachers Without Borders is referenced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meedan#Funding_and_Research_Partnerships

I was trying to add a page to this link, so that the article on Meedan would be more complete.

I could understand how you might view the page as promotion, especially as I had not had time to add references or external links. While trying to add references, I came across the note that the page had been "quickly deleted."

I changed my username, reflecting the policy that usernames should not promote individual organizations. Rather, they should represent individuals.

Please let me know if you will reconsider deleting the Teachers Without Borders wikipedia page. If you will not recover the page, just let me know.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zacharylamel (talk • contribs) 23:04, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Bugz

I don't care a lot, but I'm curious why you are reverting edits that don't appear to be vandalism without even giving a reason. 68.123.224.214 (talk) 05:11, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Someone has been coming in for several days now and changing the summary of the events of Bugz's death in direct contradiction to the information already there, which is taken specifically from the source provided, an article from the Rolling Stone. Further, he or she persists on changing the genre of Bugz' music to Rap instead of Hip-hop, without any discussion. GlassCobra 12:33, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Poisoning the well

Regarding this comment [1], Poisoning the well is not a "derogatory term", but is a logical fallacy where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say. In the article in question, a number of sources are being discredited by characterizing them as "Arab" and "liberal".

Factsontheground (talk) 08:53, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

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ThankSpam

My RfA

Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record.
I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 18:46, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

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Well, back to the office it is...

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FA Nomination; Kevin Youkilis

Hi. I've nominated Kevin Youkilis to be a Featured Article. Since you may have interest, you may wish to contribute your view as to whether it should be a FA. Also, I think we may have some work to do on the in-line citations ... perhaps you may want to help with those as well? The discussion of the FA comment process can be found at [2], and the page that you can go in through to leave comments is the article's talk page at [3]. Same holds for Ryan Braun. Many thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 08:53, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the support

I would like to thank you for coming out and participating in my Request for Adminship, which closed unsuccessfully at (48/8/6) based on my withdrawal. I withdrew because in my opinion I need to focus on problems with my content contributions before I can proceed with expanding my responsibilities. Overall I feel that the RfA has improved me as an editor and in turn some articles which in my eyes is successful. Thank you again for your support. Cheers and happy editing.--kelapstick (talk) 18:43, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

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Re: audited and RfA

I mean GA/FA/FLC and the like. I don't really include DYK partly because it's so easy to rack up large amounts of them, interactions with other users can be very limited, and I'm a quality vs. quantity guy myself. --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 13:45, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Some shameless thankspam!

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Rfd

Some may call this canvassing but as I've used you as an example, please see this discussion. Thanks. - ALLST✰R▼echo wuz here 00:13, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville

Bullzeye and the_undertow will be there, too. MZMcBride and east718 possibly as well. لennavecia 16:24, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

EFD/Anonymous Dissident

Um ... it's not a haiku, but still, see Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/Anonymous Dissident, support !vote no. 152. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 01:47, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

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Jay Sean

I noticed you handling a few of the problems around the Jay Sean articles. One to keep an eye out for is this one to Down (Jay Sean song). Not even close to true: one forum reported that it was the most added track for airplay one week, and fans started to put down that it was the number 1 on the "US Airplay Chart". I've had to pull it out about about 12 times now, and have already gotten one editor and a couple of his socking IPs blocked for repeated insertions. Various Turkish IPs keep inserting it now, and I'm not sure if it's a vandal or a clueless fan behind that one. The original falsifier was in Norway, so it's hard to see them as related.—Kww(talk) 21:34, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Happy Bastille Day!

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Keep an eye on...

Spells in Harry Potter. Things are heating up again :). Malinaccier (talk) 05:01, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

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FTSE4Good

Hi,

I'm fairly new to wikipedia, so apologies if I'm doing anything wrong. I wanted to find out more about the FTSE4Good Index, and thought wikipedia would have something. When I have a look, looks like you deleted a page that was once there, citing copyright reasons. I'm a bit confused by this. Surely if FTSE4Good falls foul of wikipedia's copyright policy, then so does FTSE 100, FTSE Allshare, etc..., and those pages should be deleted too? Thanks to clarify.

194.153.106.254 (talk) 10:14, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello there, thanks for the message. When a page is deleted for copyright reasons, it doesn't mean that the topic itself violates a copyright, but that the text of the article is usually a copy-and-paste job from a website that has not licensed its content to be used on a free site like ours. In this page's case, someone had just copied and pasted part of the FTSE.com website and tried to make it an article, which we cannot accept. If you'd like, you can create an account and re-make the article so that it conforms to our standards. Make sure to check out pages like Wikipedia:Your first article for tips and help. Good luck! GlassCobra 12:16, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

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You're invited...

New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday September 13th, Columbia University area
Last: 07/25/2009
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wiki-Conference New York, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia Takes Manhattan and Wikipedia at the Library, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the May meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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Happy Labor Day!

Dear colleague, I just want to wish you a happy, hopefully, extended holiday weekend and nice end to summer! Your friend, --A NobodyMy talk 02:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Nicki Minaj

Why did you remove the blpunsourced tag from the Appearances section of Nicki Minaj? Am I going to have to put a fact tag on every line? Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 01:08, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

But there are sources in the article, just none for that section. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 22:30, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I can do that. Thanks. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 23:03, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Saint Cummin PROD

Just a note, if you search for "st cummin" on Google Books, there are 206 hits, some of them quite usable for verification purposes. It's also likely that there are variations in spelling, as "cummin" is likely an anglicization of a gaelic name (for example, "st cuimin" gets 177 hits). On an unrelated matter, there's a DRV of a discussion you were involved in here. Regards,  Skomorokh  17:47, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello Skomorokh, good to hear from you. I had indeed checked Google Books before placing the PROD. However, my concern stems from the Saint Cummin article mentioning that he is the first of that name; thus, we can't be sure if the Cummin (or Cuimin) referred to in the books is the one that the article is about. Anyway, thanks for bringing the DRV to my attention. :) I'm not sure why Niteshift did not notify the participants of the AfD, since there weren't many, and especially me, since I'm the creator of the article. GlassCobra 18:09, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
No worries, it seems there's at least three saints of this name, and the coverage isn't enough to convince me to remove the PROD either. I'll probably chip in at the DRV, so see you over there :) Adios,  Skomorokh  18:13, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
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