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Speedy deletion of Heart Hope Help

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sandbox

Look there :) Gwen Gale (talk) 22:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Sandbach School

Many thanks for your message on my talk page about Sandbach School. I've replied there with some comments. Keep up the good work. Best wishes.  DDStretch  (talk) 15:16, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for the barnstar - I couldn't do it without Huggle – ukexpat (talk) 21:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Barnstars 'R' Us

		The Hidden Page Barnstar
		I award you one for finding User:Trekphiler's page for people who always think that "new message" bar is real. Aren't you glad you checked your mail? Trekphiler (talk) 00:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC) (My system's been down, or I'd have given this sooner. And I've got my own, so you get mine.)

WikiProject Orienteering

Hi HOUZI/Archive 3,

Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia articles related to orienteering. If you are interested in orienteering, you might like to add WikiProject Orienteering to your watchlist (see Help:Watching pages).

Thanks,

--Una Smith (talk) 21:10, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi thankyou for telling me ive just joined and will try to contribute what I can. I have noticed that there is no article on the JK and will look into creating one thanks again

ARBAY (talk) 22:09, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Great! The project is just getting started. I have been tagging article talk pages, and in a day or two a bot will add them to the table Wikipedia:WikiProject Orienteering/Assessment. Meanwhile, many articles that link to Orienteering remain to be tagged; most are pages about orienteers. Would you care to have a go at tagging them? --Una Smith (talk) 22:21, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi will have a ago im pretty new to all this and not got a lot of time at the moment but will have in the next week so will try my best. Also i will try to get my local club's article POTOC up to at least start class ARBAY (talk) 22:28, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

good work

Good work in creating orienteering articles. Anonymous101 (talk) 14:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou ARBAY TALKies

User:ARBAY/Barnstars

I hope you don't mind but I made a minor formatting change to User:ARBAY/Barnstars to get the barnstars to show correctly. Anonymous101 (talk) 18:53, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Category:International Orienteering Federation Members

I have adjusted the International Orienteering Federation template so that all International Orienteering Federation members should automatically appear in Category:International Orienteering Federation Members so there is no need to add the category to every IOF members page anymore.Anonymous101 (talk) 19:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

okay —Preceding unsigned comment added by ARBAY (talk • contribs)

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Heart Hope

I've commented on my talk page, but what I've said has to do only with the article, not the org or you :) All the best! Gwen Gale (talk) 01:39, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

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Article titles (AT)

My view is that we create, for example, Federazione Italiana Sport Orientamento with a redirect at FISO. We simply do not need Federazione Italiana Sport Orientamento (FISO). And the template will look a lot prettier if you use piped links. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 18:07, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I understand what you are saying and agree i just used the IOF naming pattern ARBAY (talk) 18:12, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Logos

Great logos, but please put them on Wikimedia Commons, not here. From Commons, they can be linked by any wikipedia (now >260 of those). --Una Smith (talk) 19:25, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Is there a way of Migrating them ?

Yes --Una Smith (talk) 04:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

The reason i did this was the fact that I could not find the appropriate license on the commons ARBAY (talk) 20:12, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Use Magnus' Commons upload helper. You need to have a Commons account first. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 23:32, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

thankyou i tried ARBAY (talk) 10:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

FWIW, if the logos are not suitable for Commons, then they also are not suitable for Wikipedia. --Una Smith (talk) 04:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

No they can be used under Wikipedia's FAIRUSE POLICY , Commons does not have one and Therefore they cannot be uploaded thereARBAY (talk) 10:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I know. However, many contributors (myself included) reject the FAIRUSE POLICY. Also, the wholesale use of logos in this manner begins to look a lot like building a directory and/or free web hosting. See WP:NOT. --Una Smith (talk) 14:11, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I reject the Idea that they make it look like a directory the logos are on relevant pages and aid with recognition of the national sporting Federations . Also there is fair use policy for a reason. I also reject the fact that the logos create a free web host theme I belive as many people say an Image can vastly improve and article ARBAY (talk) 14:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

The use of logos in the related articles is clearly fair use, if you want to dispute fair use on Wikpedia, Una Smith ask at the village pump or fair use talk page not here. ATBAY is completely following policy. --Anonymous101 (talk) 14:58, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I am not disputing anything here; I am trying to be helpful. Of course it is fair use, meaning legal. But is it good policy for Wikipedia? I think not. And I think it is particularly not good policy for orienteering articles on Wikipedia. Better would be to put licensed low-res versions of the logos on Commons, where they can be used by all Wikipedia (over 260 languages now). But before going to the bother of doing that, how about turning some of those organization stubs into articles? Else you may end up having them all deleted by someone who is more zealous than I am. --Una Smith (talk) 05:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

If you upload a logo to commons it will be instantly deleted as a copyvio. Also, stubs don't get deleted because they are stubs. Quote " But is it good policy for Wikipedia?". Maybe it is not, bu the policy does exist and if you have a problem with the Wikipedia policy it can be discussed at the village pump not here. Anonymous101 (talk) 06:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

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Re:Hi

Sorry if im bothering you , but could you take over the Potoc Article ihave just exspanded it and think it probably could be moved to Start class but if i did that it really would be a Conflict of Interest thankyou for your support as I am still really a novice

ARBAY (talk) 17:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I have promoted the article to start class but it still needs improvements. I have left a few recommendations at Talk:Potteries Orienteering Club/Comments Anonymous101 (talk) 17:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou ARBAY (talk) 17:56, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Your Wikimedia Commons user page

I just noticed there is a broken link and a minor formatting issue on your user page on commons. I would fix it myself but I don't like editing other userpages. Below is the code that you can replace your commons user page with the below code to fix the problem.

--START OF CODE--

Hi Im ARBAY I am Mainly a user on English Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ARBAY User Page]

Qui suis-je ?
Sault moi, Je suis ARBAY, Voici mon page d’utiliser en Wikipedia Anglais [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ARBAY User Page]

{{User Wikipedia}}

--END OF CODE--

By the way, the changes fix the external link formatting

Anonymous101 (talk) 20:07, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou you are one of the most helpful editors I have come across be shore to tell me if you what to be an Admin as you have my Fullest support ARBAY (talk) 20:10, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Sandbach

Thanks for the message. I've done a quick read through, and partly done some simple copy-editing of it. The main issue that strikes me is to do with the references, or lack of them, in many parts of the article. As a side issue, there are some inline external links that could be better done by converting them into full-blown references (they can be spotted because they have numbers in them surrounded by square brackets, but they are at the same level as the text rather than superscripted like references.) If you could add in some of the missing references for the various facts and claims the article makes, that would help a lot. If the aim is to make the article gain Good Article or Featured Article status, a lot more referencing will be needed (along with other matters). Perhaps some of the redlinks need attention too&ndas;if there is little hope of quickly writing articles about them, some people would prefer to see them made into just ordinary text. I hope that helps as a first comment. I'll take a longer look over the next few days. If you look at what I've altered, it may help with things (particularly the positioning of the references and the punctuation.) Good work, by the way.  DDStretch  (talk) 23:19, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Churches in Cheshire navboxes

Thanks for your message on my talk page. I have left a reply there and raised a query on the WikiProject Cheshire talk page. Good luck for your work on the Sandbach churches. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 18:44, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Primary Schools of Sandbach

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In Flanders Fields

I think asking for protection would be premature right now. If we start seeing a back-and-forth edit war, then it might be appropriate to ask for some sort of intervention — but not yet, I don't believe. Richwales (talk) 02:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou for your Opinion I have reviewed it all again and agree with you, but I'll try to keep my eye on it .ARBAY (talk) 10:19, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

From Kingvald, re project orienteering

I'm only a sporadic editor on Wikipedia (Norwegian, both nynorsk og bokmål, and English, sometimes Swedish and Danish). I am an active Trail-O competitor, and might be taking part in editing regarding Trail-O. I'm also interested in history, and an active re-enactor, so I try to contribute to relevant pages.

I'm not sure how much benefit I would bring to Project Orienteering, as I only edit sporadicly.

Kingvald (talk) 12:41, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay best of luck :-) ARBAY (talk) 12:43, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Education in Congleton Borough

Hi, an editor recently reverted the link you added to the Cheshire article which directed the reader to 'Education in Congleton Borough'. This was done because it probably wasn't the right place for the link. The correct place would be the Congleton (borough) article. It would be great if you could create an education section for that article. I think the best way to do that would be to summarise the Education in Congleton Borough article you created. If you decide to do that, it might be worth adding other information such as average GCSE results compared to the rest of the country. A good example of how this could be done is Trafford#Education. Nev1 (talk) 17:14, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou for bringing this to my attention I will do as you have suggested when I have the time whch will probably be soon ARBAY (talk) 17:16, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Borough articles such as Congleton are usually of high importance to a wikiproject as they cover such large areas and populations. And it's just as usual for such articles to be neglected and severely lacking in content. At the moment, even just adding a link to the article you wrote would be an improvement. But just remember there is no deadline so do it whenever (or not at all if something more interesting comes along)! Happy editing. Nev1 (talk) 17:24, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

we seem to be on the same Brain length I have just added the link and will add a summery soon ARBAY (talk)

infobox template in articles about orieteers

Hi! Why do you insert infobox template in some orieteers-page (e.g. Jana Cieslarová, Johanna_Allston, Jamie Stevenson, Kiril Nikolov and may be other). This template looks very bad.

Please, use MedalTable template like in Šárka Svobodná, Dana Brožková, Minna Kauppi, Valentin Novikov and in most of orieteers-articles.

Thanks for comprehension, Dnikitin (talk) 14:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I THINK THIS SHOULD BE A DISCUSSION THAT SHOULD BE PROJECT WISE AS SUCH I WILL COPY THIS TO THE WP ORIENTEERING TALKPAGE OKAYARBAY (talk) 15:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Irish Orienteering Association

"The Irish Orienteering Association (IOA) is the Irish national organisation of orienteering. It is a full Member of the International Orienteering Federation" "Is eagraíocht náisiúnta é Cumann Treodóireacht na hÉireann (CTÉ) atá dírithe ar an treoleanúint in Éirinn. Is ball foirfe den Chónaidhm Treodóireachta Idirnáisiúnta é."

I'm sorry, I haven't been logged onto wikipedia recently; I hope you get this in time. Best of luck! D.de.loinsigh (talk) 16:14, 06 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you my Irish in really non existant, which is pretty bad considering my Grandfathers family are from Frenchpark Roscommon. Agian Thank you very much my aim is to create some interwiki links. ARBAY TALKies 16:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Avril Lavigne

Hi ARBAY, thanks for reverting this. Just to let you know, bad language on it's own is not always a reason to revert, as wikipedia is not censored, but you were right to revert this one. 20I.170.20 (talk) 16:04, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

RE: Sorry for this very bad ques

Yes, they are. The blue is caused by the lack of oxygen binding to hemoglobin so this is how we know they are veins. Feel free to ask anything else if the need should occur! —Cyclonenim^T@lk? 21:56, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Thanks for adding an image, that article really is in a dire state though. —Cyclonenim^T@lk? 22:46, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Land of Hope and Glory

I noticed you seemed interested in this article. I made some changes, what'd you think? 82.16.1.141 (talk) 00:14, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I think it is far better organised good job. Would you consider getting a Wiki Account it would be easier to find you !!! ARBAY TALKies 10:49, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Capitalisation

I noticed the note you left on Jza84's page about Sandbach and have reassessed the article to C-class; it's better than a start-class article, but has a long way to go before it can be considered B-class. It requires more references and more detail; WP:UKCITIES is a good place to get ideas from. While I was reading through the article, I noticed some funny capitalisations going on, words that definitely shouldn't be capitalised were. I also noticed this in the article on the Old Hall Hotel, Sandbach. There's an example of what I mean here. Happy editing. Nev1 (talk) 00:22, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou very much I have a terrible habit of putting capitols everywhere. ARBAY TALKies 09:15, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi! Looks like I've been beaten to it! I can't really expand anymore upon Nev1's points really. I agree that this is a C-class for sure, and its improved a great, great deal since I last visted the page. I'm a tiny bit worried about the free advert for the Sandbach Transport Festival 2009 - I think a less forgiving reviewer might delete that on site per a whole host of guidelines (WP:SPAM and WP:NOT comes to mind). Other than that, I say keep up the great work - it's developing into a good read. :) --Jza84 |  Talk  22:17, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I've reduced the size of the image, and will attempt to get an image to replace it thankyou . ARBAY TALKies 23:03, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

RE: HI

Hi :) The correct title would be 'Anglo-Albania relations' although there is no actual problem with the current title, in proper English it would just be Albania. :D

Hope that helped. Taifarious1 01:11, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Notability of South East Cheshire Enterprise

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Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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Orienteering

Hi, ARBAY. As a member of the Orienteering Wikiproject, you might be interested in taking a look at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Orienteering#Improvement_drive:_Orienteering_.28update.29. Thanks, Anonymous101 (talk) 12:54, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

thanks fpr letting me know to be honest I dont have a lot of time at the but will try too help. I'm afriad most of my edits aere done on a whim the moment e.g. ive seen a mistake or seen a ref that I could add thanks agin 安東尼 TALKies 13:11, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

OK, no worries. If you ever do have time to help on this improvement drive it would be great. Anonymous101 (talk) 14:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

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Great Work on Orienteering Anonymous101 (talk) 15:50, 28 September 2008 (UTC) Thankyou 安東尼 TALKies 15:54, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

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Christ Church, Wheelock

Thanks for your message. I've had a look and made some additions. It's a good start, particularly your referencing. But be careful to check your links. Wheelock leads to a disambig page; I have corrected that. Moreton Hall leads to a house in Warwickshire - is this what you intended? If not, I suggest you de-link it and add something about where "your" Moreton Hall is. My main concern is that article is about a church which is not particularly "notable", and a pedantic editor may wish to delete it because of this. All the Cheshire churches with articles are listed buildings, which should satisfy the demand for notability. If not listed, there has to be something in the article to explain their notability (the orientation to the west is not particularly notable; many churches are not orientated to the east and this does not make it particularly notable). If you want to expand the article, add its location (map reference and/or coordinates) and a photograph. (St Mary's Church, Sandbach could also do with a photograph, if you are in a position to take and add one.) Good luck with your editing; there's an awful lot to learn about writing for Wikipedia, so I've discovered, but it's fun and satisfying. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 11:56, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou. I think is might be a reference to Little Moreton Hall due to its proximity. I look into taking some photos and look at its notability. Thank you for reminding me about the pedantic deletionists, I have come across them all to often!!! 安東尼 TALKies 12:10, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Added a source from the Swedish museum of military history which should be more accurate than some random site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Björnebacke (talk • contribs) 19:50, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Nouvelle Action Royaliste

Hi, the dogmatist did it again. I hope you have the article in your watchlist, too, so that it can be easily reverted. Unfortunately, there are few sources online about this group, mostly in French. Miacek (talk) 10:25, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of List of qualifications offered by the OU

A tag has been placed on List of qualifications offered by the OU, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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Virgin Group

While placing tags can be useful, the one you have added to this article points out a problem without explaining exactly how you believe the problem to exist. Can you explain on the article talk page how the article is confusing? I really don't see how it is. NcSchu_(Talk) 00:29, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Re:Mikheil Saakashvili vandalism

Hi ARBAY. Thanks for your message. Vandalism continues and I have warned yet another ip. Cheers, --Kober^Talk 15:46, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

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No, I need no help, thanks. It's the wrong tag you are using... Maybe you mean "Template:Citations missing"? But I "cleaned up" both articles, Tomas Sivertsson and Tommy Souraniemi, hope it fits now? Doma-w (talk) 17:13, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Justin walker (radio presenter)

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Justin Walker (radio presenter) note to Arbay

Hi Arbay! Just thought I would drop by and ask for some assistance with regard to this article - I have just moved Justin walker radio to Justin Walker (Radio) because it was incorrectly capitalized. It appears the creator is making multiple pages about himself. Your thoughts on where this should go next are welcome, but please reply on my talk page or leave me a {{newmessages}} template to let me know you have replied :) Thanks! Thor Malmjursson (talk) 18:48, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I'VE Tagged it for unreferenced for now , the previous article was deleted under speedy for not being notable, I'm not sure do you think it deserves that tag again?. Due to the name of the creator it appears to be that it is a one purpose account. So possibly it is not NPOV . 安東尼 TALK ^圣诞快乐 19:03, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

It has been deleted again under speedy安東尼 TALK ^圣诞快乐

Fair enough! I wasn't sure how to proceed with it, I think I may refer the account to the Usernames for Administrator Attention team, since as you say it looks like a Single purpose account. Let's see how they go with it. Thanks for contacting me :) Thor Malmjursson (talk) 19:09, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

"Due to the fact that..."

Due to the fact that there is already too much mangled English on Wikipedia, I think further examples are quite needless.

Most of us say "because".

Kelisi (talk) 11:23, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Could you explian this please? Regards 安東尼 TALK ^圣诞快乐 22:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, "ARBAY". Is that Chinese, as in 二百? Well anyway, as to my initial message, I was referring to your use of the phrase "Due to the fact that" in, I believe, the Helen Suzman article. You should avoid its usage altogether as a) it sounds unbelievably pompous, and b) it isn't even grammatical (because "due" is an adjective, but an adverbial clause was required just there). "Because" is the usual word for what you meant. Kelisi (talk) 03:46, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Merci!! I didn't remember writing it. Yes it wasn't the most eloquent way of writing it! I suppose it sounds pompous but I am a Brit and have a habit of using 1000 words when 10 are needed.

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Edits

Thank you for your edits to the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 article. But, can you please source your information properly. You can't just source information by putting 'ESCToday' as your source with no link, accessdate, author, etc; you need to add these. -Diggiloo (talk) 18:31, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

sorry meant to put <ref name="esctoday"/> 安東尼 TALK ^圣诞快乐 20:15, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

{{Orienteering-org-stub}}

Hi - a stub template or category which you created has been nominated for deletion or renaming at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type, which was not proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, does not meet the standard requirements for a stub type, either through being incorrectly named, ambiguously scoped, or through failure to meet standards relating to the current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 00:37, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm a little confused I thought that policy states that "threshold is modified in the case of the main stub category used by a WikiProject" and surely this is the main stub used by the Wikiproject 安東尼 TALK ^圣诞快乐 17:42, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

It isn't the basic stub for a WikiProject unless there's a Wikipedia:Wikiproject Orienteering Organizations - and even if it was, there's no sign that the stub type was proposed at WP:WSS/P, and no guarantee that it would meet the reduced threshold. If, as I suspect, the WikiProject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Orienteering, then the threshold would be dropped to 30 if you proposed an {{orienteering-stub}} (which might be a good idea - I'm surprised there isn't a basic stub type for that topic). Grutness...wha? 23:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

By the way, I've proposed a basic {[tl|Orienteering-stub}} (and also a {{Orienteering-bio-stub}}, given the large number of biographical articles on orienteers which are stubs) at WP:WSS/P - feel free to add any comments there, though I doubt there'll be much opposition to the idea). Grutness...wha? 23:53, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I think thats what I should have created. Many thanks regards 安東尼 TALK ^圣诞快乐 17:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Hiya, and thanks for your message to my talk page. I don't really have much to add to the discussion other then what has already been said, so I am not going to comment on the deletion nomination this time. Thanks, Anonymous101 (talk) 17:09, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Cheshire newsletter

Delivered on 19 January 2009 by Nev1. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add two *s by your username on the Project Mainpage.

Questionnaire

In an effort to assess the progress of Wikiproject Cheshire, it has been decided to send a questionnaire to members. To answer, please copy this questionnaire and paste your answers on the answer page. While participation is, of course, not compulsory, thoughtful answers will help the project to develop and improve. Thank you.

1. The project is always looking for new members, so we want to find out which ways of attracting and approaching potential members work best. Do you remember how and why you joined?

Answer: I did some small edits on Sandbach and Sandbach school and received help from Ddstretch and saw their was a WP Cheshire and thought I could help and since the I've written two start class article and helped get Sandbach to C class

2. How would you describe your involvement in the project? What activities do you undertake and how often do you edit Cheshire-related article?

Answer: I look mainly at Congleton borough articles. I also am involved with Local politics being and so try to keep things up to date

3. Do you feel like you receive adequate support/contact from project members?

Answer: Yes thanks go to Ddstretch and Peter Vardy

4. The project talk page is intended to be the hub of the project, where members discuss articles and help each other improving them. Until very recently it has been almost inactive, but do you check the project talk page?

Answer: well its on my watchlist, but I'll admit it gets a little confusing especially when abbreviations litter it.

4a. If the talk page was more active, would you get involved in discussions there?

Answer:I would try to but sometimes feel that I don't know enough policy but I do hear the Ignore all rules often enough

5. When viewing Cheshire-related articles, are there any issues that have stood out as needing attention or frustrated you? (Traditional counties POV, poor coverage about a particular subject, vandalism going unnoticed etc)

Answer: not really, certainly some of the High schools still do not have articles , such as Congleton High. Also religion in Cheshire I've tried and failed to add information to it.

6. Maintaining the Cheshire portal is one of the Cheshire WikiProject's main aims, providing a display of the best and most up to date articles that are part of the project. There is currently a drive to promote it to featured status, but input from a wide range of members is needed. Do you have the portal on your watchlist?

Answer: No

7. Would you be interesting in subscribing to a newsletter covering North West England, with details of work done by WikiProjects representing Cheshire, Greater Manchester, and Merseyside?

Answer:Yes

8. Finally, are there any improvements or initiatives you'd like to see WP:CHES undertake, or general comments you'd like to make?

Answer: Maybe an article of the week or Fortnight to encourage work on it. Some editors might need to be a little less harsh when C/e as some could be upset by comments such as I wish there was a charge of 1p for every capital letter in this article , which was little disheartening as I had put a lot of effort into it.

Thanks

...for your answers. As you may have noticed on the project talk page, we're trying to decide how best to move forwards and your response helps. Happy editing, Nev1 (talk) 02:01, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Eurovision Invitation!

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	I hope you accept! - Grk1011/Stephen (talk)

Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 21:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to the project! I have taken a look at Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 and started a discussion on the talk page here. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 22:14, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, and it was this morning. Some feel that that list does not need references since they are on the country page and it is just an overview, but we decided that it is best to keep the refs until the official list of entries is published on eurovision.tv, at which time we can use one ref for the whole section. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 22:52, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Hello, this is the official Malta Song For Europe website with the page http://www.maltaeurosong.com. The source you are citing is just the order in which the super finalists were announced and if you read the article you would understand that. Evilperson 20 (talk) 02:34, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - April 2009

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AfD nomination of Kosovo – Panama relations

Hi! Kosovo – Panama relations has been nominated for deletion. Please feel free to explain your opinions. Go and see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kosovo – Panama relations. Thank you for your time! --Turkish Flame ^☎ 17:30, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Rail Station

Arbay, just to let you know in you're ever going improvement to a certain quiet town in South Cheshire, I thought I'd let you know that I've already taken a photo of the station for you to use. Naturally, the picture quality isn't too good because I took it with my old Cameraphone, a Sony Ericsson K800i if you're curious. I do have a number of pictures of Sandbach station on my Flickr account but the one I uploaded to Wikipedia was the most relevant. ;-) Anyway, good luck with the rest of the improvements to said town's article, I'm very pleased the article is being maintained in capable hands. ;-) --Phill ^{talk Edits} _{Review this GA review!} 20:56, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou , it's good to know the improvements are liked and I'm considered to be "capable hands" . :-)安東尼 TALK ^圣诞快乐 10:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - May 2009

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RfC on reliable sources for Eurovision articles

A second RfC has been started on sourcing for Eurovision articles, you can view it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#RfC on reliable sources for Eurovision articles. This RfC is critical as it will help determine how current and future Eurovision articles are sourced, and as much participation as possible is needed for a consensus to develop. You are being notified as you are listed as an active user of Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision, and hence the results of this RfC could have a large impact on the articles you edit. Camaron · Christopher · talk 09:09, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - June 2009

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