User talk:Lincolnchan98

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An edit summary that warms my heart

"Replaced weak reference with more scholarly one" :) --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 08:26, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

'Fraid I won't be up all night on the wiki tonight. You really are going great guns. Give the rest of your group a nudge, too, though! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 01:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User page

Nice picture (made me smile anyway) :D EyeSerene^talk 17:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MVL

hey I just saw you removing wikilinks over there, just want to tell you that you don't hae to worry about them too much, it's ok to have the same word wikilinked more than onced so long as the occurances are reasonably far from each other and its not overdone. Also theres one thing I'd like you to take a look at: the last paragraph of the Political involvement section, it doesnt have a good flow, can you try to reword it? I'd do it myself but I gotta run, back tomorrow. The article as a whole is very good though and you deserve a lot of credit for it well done :) Acer (talk) 01:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Well done, Lincolnchan98! You can now, if you want, put the following box on your user page:

This user helped promote Mario Vargas Llosa to good article status.

You put in an immense amount of work. Congratulations! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! You guys are doing a great job! Karanacs (talk) 01:12, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ya, congratulations from me too. No need to thank me really, you guys are doing all the hard work we just help out where we can :) Acer (talk) 10:29, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mario Vargas Llosa

Hi Lincoln, I'm just checking in on behalf of the FA-Team to see how things are going. It's April already! If you guys want to try to meet the April 10th deadline for reaching FA, then the article will need to be nominated by the end of the week. I've left some comments at the article talk page, and then there were SandyGeorgia's comments at the Peer Review. How are you coming with addressing those? If there are specific areas that you'd like assistance with, please let me know. Otherwise, post to the article talk page when you've addressed most of the comments, and then we can set a plan for what else needs to be done. Karanacs (talk) 18:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Literary Barnstar
		I award Lincolnchan98 the Literary Barnstar for excellent work in improving Mario Vargas Llosa. Thanks to your effort, the article finally does justice to an important figure in literature. Karanacs (talk) 19:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work! Karanacs (talk) 19:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

THANK YOU! That is a totally awesome barnstar and I love it. If you want to play around with the other kind, see WP:BARNSTAR. Karanacs (talk) 18:01, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey I was just on Karanacs page asking a question and I saw your really great barnstar. Nice job! NancyHeise (talk) 02:25, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hehehehe thanks so much for that. It was really my pleasure helping you guys out. Also if FA isn't doable by the 10th we will still be here afterwards, so if you want to try to get to FA later we'll still be around to help out :) PS: I moved the barnstar to prime space so that it will still be visible after I archive my talk page. Acer (talk) 17:48, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar! It's beautiful! Very Matisse. Awadewit (talk) 23:17, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox

Lincolnchan98: I see you've copied over Mario Vargas Llosa to your userpage. In fact the less confusing thing (in case people come across your user page and wonder where they are) is to create what's called a "sandbox" in your user space. Essentially, you can create as many subpages as you want.

So for instance, if you click here you will start a sandbox, in which you can play around with the formatting for Mario Vargas Llosa (or whatever else you want to do, within reason). You can make a link to this page by putting [[/Sandbox]] on your userpage.

(In fact, you can call such pages what you want. So when I wrote something up about this class, I created a page called "Madness" in my own userpage: I put it here, which is [[User:Jbmurray/Madness]].)

On the other hand, people normally do this in the early stages of working on an article, or if (like Acer did) they want to check out a radical revision and see how it looks. You might want to consider still editing the article in "mainspace," so that people like myself and the FA-Team can follow along what you're doing and help out. (Because one of the ideas of a sandbox is you don't get interrupted, but then you also lose out on the possibility of help.) --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 05:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heh. Now you've undone all of that. But still, now you know. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 05:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ya at first I was wanting to play around with different things, but I realized that if anyone made edits to the page, my version wouldn't get them, and it'd be more work to put both versions together. Lincolnchan98 (talk) 05:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heawood

The access date isnt showing because you didnt fill in the URL field. If you dont it assumes that its not a website and ignores the accessdate field. Hope this helps Acer (talk) 00:20, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhhhhh that makes sense. Thanks! :) Lincolnchan98 (talk) 00:35, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hey bud, i got your messege, the reason i havent put page numbers are because on those articles, there havent been any page numbers. i hope thats not a problem...for the ones that have had page numbers, i have added them in. Isabel-clase (talk) 06:17, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed these, I think. Be careful to be accurate with your references, you guys! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 09:18, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Impressive revision

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For you willingness to revise, redraft, revise, rewrite, and revise Mario Vargas Llosa. That is how great articles and great editors are born. Thank you! Awadewit (talk) 01:42, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		Wikipedia Motivation Award
		For all of your enthusiasm on Mario Vargas Llosa that has truly been the driving force behind the article. Congratulations! :) Acer (talk) 14:38, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Let me know what else I can do

Thanks for the barnstar! I think that if we prepare Mario Vargas Llosa well for FAC, we won't have any problems there. After going through FAC twenty times now, I have come to the conclusion that all of the sweating is best done ahead of time. :) Please let me know how I can help you out. Awadewit (talk) 18:51, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well I can't thank you enough for all the work you've put into helping us reshape this article. I agree with you 100% on the trickiness of biographies and how difficult it is to write a comprehensive "Style" section. I have spent every day this past week agonizing over what to do with this article... Relatively speaking, it looks like the rest of the improvements needed are simple. I'll do my best to get these done today, then we'll go from there. Ball-park figure though, how close do you think we are to FAC? Lincolnchan98 (talk) 19:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Very close - 90%. But then, as everyone loves to point out, I have very high standards. :) Awadewit (talk) 19:26, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interview

Hi. Over on Wikinews they are conducting an interview about our project. Some of the questions are directed specifically at me, and some specifically at those who edited El Señor Presidente. But there are others for any student in the class. I thought you might want to participate.

You will have to set up a new account on Wikinews. Drop a line to Brianmc who can guide you through the technicalities.

It would be good to have an opportunity for you to have your say! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 20:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wish I had time... Lincolnchan98 (talk) 21:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know, I know. I'm aware you're busy! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:55, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(Mostly to Gguy:) The link to our actual interview can be found at our project page. FWIW it's this. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 00:05, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this Jbm. Lincoln, thanks for pinging me: if you answer my quick question at Talk:Mario Vargas Llosa, I'll run through the article for consistency of English variant. Geometry guy 11:51, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :)

You know if you keep this up you're going to end up spoiling me... ;). MVLL is coming along very nicely and it'll definetely be in FAC by tomorrow. Its quite an accomplishment, you should be proud Acer (talk) 00:19, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You should go get some sleep, we'll watch over the article for you :) Acer (talk) 11:43, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heya! FAC?

Heya. As I recall there was some discussion of perhaps putting Mario Vargas Llosa in for Featured Article Candidacy. Still up for that, eh?

The instructions are at WP:FAC. If you don't do it by 11:45pm tonight, I'll do it for you. But I reckon you should be the one! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 05:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copied over so you'll see it...

No probs. I think everything's more or less under control. No worries. Good luck tomorrow! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 05:49, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aye, revision should cure the wiki-twitch! All the best ;) EyeSerene^talk 17:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mario Vargas Llosa

There are new concerns (all small) at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mario Vargas Llosa that require the attention of someone knowledgeable about the topic. Thanks for your help! Awadewit (talk) 05:47, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks friend! I'll have a crack at it tonight. Lincolnchan98 (talk) 06:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Congratulations! MVLL has been promoted to FA! (A bot will run soon and close the nomination and add the pretty star :) ) Karanacs (talk) 20:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Lincolnchan, and I just wanted you to know that, from my perspective, you had a much tougher row to hoe than the other two because your article was a biography of a living person, where we really must get every detail right. Nice job! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yay!!! And I've come to agree with Sandy that (for this reason among others) your task turned out to be particularly tough. But you really applied yourself to it. And again, I am so impressed by your decision to rejig the whole article between GA and FA. It's all very impressive. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:04, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And now with much pride you can put this on your user page:

This user helped promote Mario Vargas Llosa to featured article status.

. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey I just saw this! Big CONGRATULATIONS!!! from me! The ammount of work you put in there was really quite something and your enthusiasm really touched everybody, it was great working with you :D Acer (talk) 21:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely outstanding work. You did an incredible job; congratulations on a top-quality article! Mike Christie (talk) 22:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant, well done! EyeSerene^talk 21:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vancouver meet-up

You might be tickled...

...to learn that your rather tasteful, unobtrusive 'Barnstar of Awesomeness' is becoming adopted by the Wikipeida community! I've seen it a few places now... awesome ;) EyeSerene^talk 13:23, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS: no idea if you ever check back here these days, so I could just be talking to myself :P

I hope not and I'm glad that others share my vision of the discrete and understated Barnstar of Awesomeness :))) i'm pleased it's catching on. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 13:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, you deserve one of these for your awesome work in designing the graphic :)

		The Barnstar of Awesomeness
		For designing the graphic, and inspiring, the "bestest barnstar of all time", please accept the Barnstar of Awesomeness. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 13:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC) [reply]

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