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National Raisin Reserve - {{toofewopinions}}

FYI, I removed your {{toofewopinions}} tag from the National Raisin Reserve page since there was no accompanying talk page note about your concerns. I also added one sentence on the benefit of the program, but I doubt that will address your concern. You're welcome to add the tag back if you think it's merited, but if you do, could you please place an accompanying note on the talk page detailing your concerns? Thanks. --skeptical scientist (talk) 20:44, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017)

George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014
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Need project notices

Good day, NA...please see WikiProject_LibrariesRfc - Library of Congress Classification subpages which probaby should have been added to the TP of Library of Congress Classification but that isn't what happened, probably because it's such a specialty question. Not sure if it needs more coverage or if it could simple be closed as keep, and notice of the decision added to the article TP? Atsme📞📧 16:56, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Merge of PMCP

Hi Northamerica1000,

I boldly performed a selective merge of the PMCP content into Program_and_System_Information_Protocol#Programming_Metadata_Communication_Protocol per the AfD outcome. Please feel free to edit to taste. --Mark viking (talk) 17:43, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Very Impressed

I made this account to clear backlogs and to help improve the encyclopedia. I work in an office and edit in my free time. I joined Project Cleanup, to help fix up articles that were most in need of work. Last Night, I decided to cleanup an article and I noticed something. I noticed that half the articles in the Cleanup page were archived and cleaned. I looked at the history section and looked through every edit of yours. You do not know how impressed I was to see the work you did. Ever since day one of my wikipedia editing days, I have been impressed with your account. I always see your name and every time I do I know what a good person you are.

Thank you so much for your work to Wikipedia. I hope we can work together to continue to make wikipedia a better place. AmericanAir88 (talk) 17:59, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

The Admin's Barnstar
For your Fantastic Work and Contributions to help improve wikipedia AmericanAir88 (talk) 17:59, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Hi AmericanAir88: thanks for the words of encouragement, which is inspiring. Just so you know, I didn't clean up all of the articles listed at the WP:CLEAN page, although I did cleanup some. Some of the entries were dated and the issues presented at Cleanup were no longer existent in some of the article too. Anyway, thanks again for the kind words, and thanks for your work to improve the encyclopedia. North America1000 07:20, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Thankyou

For the greeting - I've been lurking around Wikipedia for awhile, but that list of links will come in very useful; lotsa good stuff there. I don't recall seeing the editor index one before. Curdle (talk) 11:37, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Curdle: Enjoy the template. For a more detailed one that I created a while back based upon other similar templates, see Template:Welcome-detailed. You can use it to welcome other new/newer users if you'd like using: {{subst:Welcome-detailed}}. North America1000 11:58, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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AfD..

For some strange reason ,Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noel Betowski has been closed as a NAC.Could be a script error! Please amend it.Regards:)Winged Blades of GodricOn leave 09:36, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Godric on Leave: That close occurred before I was an admin on Wikipedia, so the NAC note should stay. North America1000 14:36, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Facepalm Facepalm --Err...It's fully mysterical how I managed to come across the article (which definitely has zero overlap with my editing interests) and then across it's AfD which happened years back! All that I remember was me scouring through the AfD logs of the past few days! It's equally mysterious how I manged to overlook the time-stamp after your close.Regrets:)Winged Blades of GodricOn leave 15:57, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Godric on Leave: It's all good. North America1000 15:59, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
At last found out the connection.Strangely this appears at Wikipedia:List of AfDs closing today#Noel Betowski.Any idea?Winged Blades of GodricOn leave 16:18, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Godric on Leave: Clearly some sort of glitch somewhere. I likely won't research this, though. Working on other matters. North America1000 16:21, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Advice

How do I approach an administrator for some friendly advice on how to de-escalate a potential conflict? I've read as many policies as I can find and can't seem to find what I need. I don't care if I am 'right' and another editor is 'wrong'. I only want to do the right thing. IF there is conflict I understand the options, but I want to stop it before it happens. Best Regard, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 22:45, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

  • Hi Barbara (WVS): Not sure. There's all kinds of information at WP:DR, but this concerns an actual conflict, rather than a potential one. For potential conflicts, my personal recommendation would be to discuss the matter with the user you may have a potential conflict with, in hopes to reach an agreement or compromise. North America1000 15:41, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2017)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bridgette Andersen

When does this close? Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 11:09, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phased plasma gun

Only the nominator opining delete, one keep, two merges. Why relist that, rather than closing as a merge? That seems to be pretty normal participation levels. Jclemens (talk) 18:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2017)

Wikipedia is sometimes criticized for being used as a source of circular reporting.
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14:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Loggerhead Key

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New ways to Promote WP:CLEAN

Hello NorthAmerica,

Thank you so much for your contributions to WP:CLEAN. Your dedication to improving the encyclopedia is very impressive and I am very proud of you.

I have been noticing that "Project Cleanup" has only two prominent editors to it. You and I. Project Cleanup is supported to be a place where wikipedians can post articles that they think need cleaning up but it seems the only people posting new articles are you and I. I looked back at the archive and it seemed at some points, many wikipedians were posting on Project Cleanup.

I do not want this project to die out like others are.

Do you think there are anymore ways of promoting people to put submissions on the page? Could you try to put more advertisement up on the maintenance page like "Post your project to cleanup" I think that if more people saw banners, we would have more participation.

One idea I had was to have a bot dump random articles(preferably older) from "Category:Articles needing cleanup" maybe weekly. A dump system would give us many articles to cleanup and would help us reduce the backlog of cleanup templates.

I hope you can help benefit Project Cleanup. Keep up the good work. AmericanAir88 (talk) 21:15, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey chaps, I'd like to help, too. Hit me up. A Traintalk 13:17, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Ping @AmericanAir88 and A Train: I have copied the above to Wikipedia talk:Cleanup. Let's please discuss the matter there.North America1000 08:56, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2017)

A fire sprinkler with red liquid alcohol in the capsule
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Smith (registrar)

Any chance you can email me the text of the article on William Smith? I missed the AfD and I think I might like to rehab the article. I'd like to see what was there, I have some materials that might be enough to show the subject to be suitable for an article, and if so, I prefer to add it to the original article (keeping the old history) than create something new. I'd like to check the text and my materials before asking if the article could be moved to my user space or draft space. Smmurphy(Talk) 02:07, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!Smmurphy(Talk) 03:31, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Just letting you know that I've replied by email. Smmurphy(Talk) 03:00, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

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Backlog update:

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  • Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2017)

A 1912 illustration of Robin Hood and Little John
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18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Poultry

Hi, NA1000 - I was wondering who oversees the poultry project, and where the best place would be to place notification of an ongoing AfD, or if there is even enough activity there to bother? Atsme📞📧 00:51, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

  • Hi Atsme: I restored your comment above in the unlikely event that you may have accidentally removed it. It appeared and then quickly disappeared. For what it's worth, WP:POULTRY is watchlisted by eight users (see here, "Number of page watchers"). You could post information on its talk page. North America1000 01:19, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
  • LOL* Yes, I reverted it when I saw that you were on a semi-Wikibreak, and Poultry was semi-active as well. I wasn't sure if it should go in Article Alerts on the project page or the TP. Atsme📞📧 01:55, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Farmdrop for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Northamerica1000/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Northamerica1000/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Speedy deletion]] nomination of User:Northamerica1000/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Northamerica1000/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Nomination of To'ak Chocolate for deletion

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DYK for Loggerhead Key

On 18 October 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Loggerhead Key, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Loggerhead Key (pictured) was home to the Tortugas Laboratory, which performed some of the first research on Western hemisphere mangroves and coral reefs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Loggerhead Key. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Loggerhead Key), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex ShihTalk 00:17, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Updated search template

I updated the {{FSS}} with a search of Internet Archive. Would you be so kind to double check on this? I'm pretty sure I did it correctly but, I've been wrong once or twice before. Also, I have no idea how to update the documentation. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 14:35, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Barbara (WVS): I tested it out, and the IA search seems to be working fine. Nice addition! I haven't updated the documentation, because all it would state is the obvious, that various sites are used to perform searches. It's all quite self-explanatory. North America1000 04:30, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
I am still amazed that I/we missed this valuable search option. I did a check and the template is used on a little less than 9000 talk pages. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 13:20, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
@Barbara (WVS): I hadn't considered how useful IA would be for the template. I use IA to access stuff I like, such as: Eyes. North America1000 01:01, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hi @Atsme: The "Bwahahahaha!!" reminds me of this guy below. Happy Halloween! North America1000 00:02, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Bwahahahaha!!

Cousins Maine Lobster

Since you do a lot of work with food and beverage, thought I might interest you in collaborating on the article for Cousins Maine Lobster. I am working on a few notable companies that appeared on Shark Tank - keep in mind that many are not notable but this one certainly is - and this one seems pretty cool (I even ate from one recently and it was pretty good). I have started it as an open draft so feel free to jump in an add anything if you are so inclined User:CNMall41/Cousins Maine Lobster. CNMall41 (talk) 01:18, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi CNMall41: Thanks for the notice, and I'll see what I can do. North America1000 01:33, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
Thanks again. Still needs work - as do most Wikipedia pages - but I moved it to the mainspace. There are two images I added to Commons and linked from the page. CNMall41 (talk) 22:57, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Hey now CNMall41: T h a n k s for the star. I enjoy collaborations, but unfortunately, they are quite rare on Wikipedia nowadays. Feel free to drop me more notes about articles/drafts/etc., and I will also keep you in mind. For starters, here's a new article I created today. Perhaps it can be improved. FYI, some new food- and drink-related articles can be found at WP:NEWFOOD. North America1000 15:54, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

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