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Hi OlEnglish! I was looking through WP:WPPRO and saw that many proposals have not been archived yet. Can I archive them? Also, what if there is consensus to create a certain WikiProject but it hasn't been created? Should we create them? Or, notify the user who proposed the WikiProject? Novice7 (talk) 13:32, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes, by all means, please do archive them! That would be a great help. If there is consensus to create a project and it hasn't been created yet you're certainly free to create it yourself, but you should be willing to maintain it! Yes it's probably better to notify the proposers first. -- œ^™ 01:23, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Novice7 (talk) 04:38, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

BMW 1 Series (F20) page

I wanted to make a new page about brand new bmw 1 series automobile but i saw you deleted page a while back because there was no any references. However car is now officially on market so I did the BMW 1 Series (F20) page. Check it out and let me know if I did something wrong cause I never made a page which was deleted before.

Cheers

Z interactive (talk) 18:20, 9 August 2011 (UTC)Z_interactive

It's a good start.. I'm no expert at writing articles about cars, but I can tell you that on first impressions it does not strike me as being written in an encyclopedic style and tone, or rather a typical encyclopedic article, even so, I couldn't tell you specifically how it can be improved, except for maybe taking out lines like "It’s a really clever and easy to use system, which has you driving more economically without even realising it." and other seemingly WP:OR opinions and endorsements. Try reading through WP:Writing better articles, or WP:The perfect article, and other writing guides, there's many available. Try finding a GA or FA article on the same subject and compare it to yours, see how you can improve. -- œ^™ 17:43, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

I'd love your help

Being about ready to take User:MichaelQSchmidt/Newcomer's guide to guidelines live, I'd like you to look it over and advise. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 02:12, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

It looks good! I think it's a great addition to the WP:Your first article, WP:Starting an article, etc. series of Writing guides. Superb job! I also like the "..for dummies" tagline.. that's usually what newbies look for as that brand is known to be easy and encouraging. -- œ^™ 17:29, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Addendum: page since moved to Wikipedia:A Primer for newcomers

David Ramadan Page

OlEnglish, thank you for stepping in. The David Ramadan page was created several months ago by me because he is a prominent businessman and very active in Virginia politics, as well as being on the George Mason Board. Subsequently he is seeking political office.

It would appear that his opponent in the race is using the wiki page to continue to spread misinformation. I have taken what is particularly inflammatory down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddonofrio (talk • contribs) 17:14, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

I only stepped in to prevent the back-and-forth edit warring, I take no sides in this dispute and strongly suggest for you to discuss the issue maturely with the other user involved without making any judgments or accusations. If the edit warring continues a block may be warranted. -- œ^™ 17:22, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Letter-NumberCombination

Template:Letter-NumberCombination has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 23:02, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hey, thanks for the barnstar, I really appreciate it :) Osarius : T : C : Been CSD'd? 10:08, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. -- œ^™ 10:10, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Organizing Wikipedia Loves Libraries

Noticed your comment here [1] Where where you thinking of trying to get one up and running?Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:53, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Well, the west coast would be nice considering that's where I live ;) but I'd be happy with anywhere in Canada. I'm not really good at organizing these kinds of things.. I just think this is a great idea and hoping it can spread to more places. I'm very much in support of and would try to promote any way that the aims of Wikipedia can be achieved and am just glad if it happens. -- œ^™ 04:32, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Great. I have asked UBC if they are interested. Would you be available to help?v--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:41, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

What can I do? -- œ^™ 04:47, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Still waiting for UBC to get back to me. Will let you know.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:50, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Great, thanks. -- œ^™ 04:53, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Hey, I have received your message.

I have received your warning message that I did disruptive editing. But it's not disruptive editing! I just fixed WRONG LINK by deleting it. Please check out and answer me.

p.s. I'm wiki beginner. I don't know how I response your first talk message directly. So I write a new message in your talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Msu2006 (talk • contribs) 23:47, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

You've got the wrong guy. I didn't send you that message, User:Trut-h-urts man did. Not sure how you ended up at my talk page. Also, I'm not sure what you think is wrong about the wikilink you were removing, but the link is fine, so can please stop removing it? Thanks. -- œ^™ 23:54, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Self Promotion to GA

I ran across the article Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base reviewing for the Military History project and saw it was self promoted to Good Article status by the primary editor User:Bwmoll3. I wasn't able to find any vote on how this is a good article and reading through it I found it had issues like a small intro and missing references. I don't know if I should approach the editor or what the wikipolicy is on fake good articles.--MOLEY (talk) 23:45, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Molestash. Sorry I totally forgot to get back to you! Doh! Yes the proper thing to do would be to undo the invalid self-assessment and leave a note on their talk page, which I see you have already done, good work. Another option would have been to put it up for reassessment. I think I see what happened here though.. it may have been an honest mistake by the editor. It looks like he changed the redirect 'Ellington Field' to point to his article, but its original target was Ellington International Airport (Texas) and that IS a valid GA, so I think he might have inadvertently copied and pasted the {{good article}} template, but I could be wrong. Sorry again for the late reply! -- œ^™ 03:52, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello

Hi. I noticed you deleted my article because of No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content)). Can you explain this a little better, because I feel it had great significance.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skeme123 (talk • contribs) 01:57, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Sure. The article was tagged for deletion because it did not explain the significance or importance of the organization, and there was no references. You can see WP:Notability (organizations and companies) for the primary criteria on what's required for notability. If you were not finished the article and was still planning on adding references and content that asserts notability, I can restore the article for you as a draft in your userspace where you can work on it until it's complete. -- œ^™ 02:02, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes please do so. Since I am a wikipedia newbie I was wondering, do you guys offer an article review by one of the admins before posting publicly to ensure it meets the guidelines? Skeme123 (talk) 08:34, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Ok I've restored it to User:Skeme123/Deucerr where you can practice your writing. Please also read the message I left on your talk page. As far as reviewing new pages goes, every Wikipedia volunteer reviews new articles, not just admins, and after they've already been posted publicly. The way it works is: someone writes an article, it's instantly public and visible to everyone, a Wikipedia volunteer (doesn't have to be an admin) sees it on a list of new pages, he decides if it meets policies/guidelines, if it doesn't, he marks it for deletion where an admin will later review the marked article and make the final decision to delete. -- œ^™ 16:08, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

WP:AWARDS

There seems to be a consensus from the Pointless Barnstar discussion that it should remain a personal award. Am I allowed to add it to the personal awards page? Pine^talk 08:46, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

If you mean WP:PUA I don't see why not.. I don't have a problem with it. But I wasn't involved in the original discussion, so asking me for permission won't really change anything if others are still opposed to it. -- œ^™ 15:38, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

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Orphans question

Hi, do you know how to check to see how many wikipedia articles link to an orphan? Blackash have a chat 02:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

On the left hand side of the screen, under 'Toolbox' click on 'What links here'. That will show you what other pages link to the article. -- œ^™ 02:06, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

OTRS question at COIN

Hey OE. Looks like that situation at John Prendergast has reared its head again. A user has requested some input from an OTRS volunteer at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#User:Jespah. Thought you'd be a good choice as you are somewhat familiar with the editor in question. Thanks, The Interior (Talk) 21:01, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Seconded. We're not looking to out anyone, obviously, but the editor in question seems to be walking a fine line between an advocate and a COI. They sometimes say "we" and "our" when referring to file uploads and edits but also claim to have no affiliation. Everyone seems too hesitant to pull a WP:DUCK trigger and I'm thinking the OTRS tickets may shed some light on the subject. Right now, people are leaning towards a topic ban and knowing if there's a certain COI would be helpful. OlYeller^Talktome 22:04, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi sorry for the late reply. The text of the ticket does not provide any direct evidence of a connection between User:Jespah and The Enough Project. -- œ^™ 02:33, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

PS. This is based on the ticket linked from the notice at Talk:John_Prendergast. I did not check any other tickets, if they exist. -- œ^™ 05:13, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Morgantown

The song "Morgantown WV" is not played "by radio stations all across the state of West Virginia on Mountaineer Football game days". It just isn't. Some fan of the song, maybe somebody who used to be in a band that played it, can make that sort of hyperbolic claim all he wants, but it just isn't true. I'm sorry if you feel it's a violation of WP:BITE not to give somebody a free pass to make any outrageous, inaccurate claim they want to. This is an encyclopedia, and someone's personal impression is just not acceptable. Neither is claiming authorship of a song or a book or anything else without evidence. WP:VERIFY applies to everyone. --Tenebrae (talk) 06:56, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

"you can't just put in your unverified impressions" I think you've got the meaning of verifiability a little confused. Just because something is unsourced does not make it unVERIFIable. This situation is just an example and I'm not defending the content of the edit but you don't just go around removing content citing WP:V when that content IS or at least COULD BE verifiable. As WP:V says, only "material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed". If you challenge his edit and want to remove it fine, do it and explain on the talk page why you challenge it, but you don't tell them in your edit summary to go read WP:VERIFY, that's got nothing to do with anything, and especially when it's the users very first edit done in good faith, and not even a simple welcome message or explanation on their user talk page, that's not being helpful, that's bitey. Besides, he did give a source within the text: "...according to a September 1984 newspaper article in the university Daily Athenaeum". -- œ^™ 07:14, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

I will endeavor, as you reasonably suggest, to give an expanded explanation on either the article or the editor's talk page, rather than trying to squeeze something into an editor summary. That's fair.

An attribution like "According to a September 1984 newspaper article in the university Daily Athenaeum" — for which I used to write and edit; I'm very familiar with that school paper — based on somebody remembering when they think they might have read something ... surely you can see how this wouldn't pass muster in a college paper, not without title, byline, date (it's a weekday paper, not a monthly) and optimally the relevant passage. If a college professor wouldn't accept something as vague as "September 1984 newspaper article," how could an encyclopedia?

I do appreciate your trying to mediate in good will, even though reverting me without discussion is exactly what you believed I did to someone else. No matter; I understand your good intentions. I can only ask that you understand that such an egregious passage of uncited POV and NOR, including an authorship attribution, is dangerous to keep in something that calls itself an encyclopedia. I just don't think it's too much to ask of literate, adult people to cite something and to not just put their opinions and impressions into Wikipedia.

You've made a constructive suggestion to me, which I have absorbed and will try to use. I appreciate being able to have this discussion with you. With regards, --Tenebrae (talk) 07:33, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

As promised, I have left 70x7 a detailed, friendly explanation behind my edit, at User talk:70x7. I thank you again for your well-meaning effort. --Tenebrae (talk) 07:58, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, and I'm sorry for kind've jumping down your throat here. And thank you for the very detailed explanation you gave to the editor in question (more detail than I expected!) :) -- œ^™ 15:15, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Linkrot

I started an RFC at WP:VPI#Linkrot - What to do? and encourage you to comment there. Thanks. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 22:19, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Pages with nutshell help

Category:Pages with nutshell help, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Pichpich (talk) 23:00, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Administrator's Noticeboard case involving Jespah

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Proposed topic ban of Jespah". Thank you. OlYeller^Talktome 18:58, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Please forgive me for not wanting to get involved any further in this matter. -- œ^™ 03:02, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

correcting Robert Hooks' page WITH HIM

i appreciate your efforts. And I adore and rely on Wikipedia. But you have written me what appears or feels to be a "warning" and so I want you to see what I have cc'd to Robert and sent to wikipedia...hoping that my language isn't too strong.

"Since I am collaborating with Mr Hooks on his autobiography, and he has long been DISTRESSED about the amount of MISinformation all over the internet INCLUDING TO A LARGE EXTEND WIKIPEDIA, I have started to chip away at it. NOTHING I correct or add is done without his input. And I would imagine that the actual subject's info is superior to the patchwork that can happen by well-meaning strangers. He and I regard Ossie Davis' page on wikipedia as being pretty close to ideal. And, given that Mr Hooks is functioning at (his) capacity on the computer...the most accurate info will be coming from me. And, given our work on the book, i have 3 parallel TIMELINES to help me sort it out. Thank you for your efforts. It makes us feel secure. But...just a heads up...Mr Hooks' input IS the most accurate timeline.(If only I had the time right now to more methodically address the wikipedia page!)

Because we consider WIKI THE place people go for into, that is the site I am focusing on. And since his memoir deals with MUCH that isn't flattering, I can promise you that my sole purpose in tweaking his page...as I will need to continue to do...is toward finally putting his timeline and actual participation in certain events right.

thank you for your efforts, sincerity and attention to detail Lorrie Marlow — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.178.108.233 (talk) 01:38, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Okay no biggie :) Just please be mindful of WP:COI and especially WP:NPOV, a very important policy. Good luck with the article and happy editing. -- œ^™ 21:06, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

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Link to ANI

I mentioned you in the ANI thread you suggested regarding the WFVA vandalism and others, as you were the one to semi-protect the WFVA page. You can find the thread here, though you don't have to respond if you don't wish to. Thanks for your help. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 09:18, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Need your advice on outlines

Where, in your opinion, would be the best place to start cleaning them up?

I've been working on lead sections (I'm done working on the leads from the outlines in the culture section), but I'm not sure that the leads are the biggest problem.

Also, I'd like to increase traffic to outlines. Any comments or suggestions would be most appreciated.

I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 01:36, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Wish I knew :) I don't see them as a problem really, and don't actively edit them myself, so don't have much advice to give you, except just keep doing what you're doing. There's many ways of increasing traffic to pages. More prominent links in more locations would be the most obvious example. But perhaps while this RfC is going on it may not be the most opportune time for such promotion, as it may backfire. But on the other hand, it may do the opposite. It's up to you, I know you are very capable of doing what needs to be done with Outlines and are the best man for the job. Just don't get burned out! That's the best advice I can give you.. take some time off, or work on other projects for a bit, spread your activities out more so you don't get tunnel-vision on a single thing. Just think of all the effort you exert on defending outlines how much you could really do to improve Wikipedia. :) -- œ^™ 06:13, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

As an experiment, I placed links leading to Outline of chess, and the traffic quadrupled. Though I don't know if those gains will remain. Time will tell.

See http://stats.grok.se/en/201110/Outline%20of%20chess

Another problem I need solved is about gathering traffic stats. If there was a way to automatically gather all the stats for all the outlines, that would sure save me a lot of trouble. Even better would be doing so for outlines, portals, and categories, displayed in a table for comparison.

Any ideas? The Transhumanist 00:28, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Mystery

Please solve this mystery if you can...

On September 23rd, traffic to Portal:James Bond doubled, and has stayed at the new level since then. I can't figure out what happened.

See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Portal%3AJames_Bond

Traffic to Outline of James Bond stayed the same (though it was at the higher-level already), which leads me to suspect changes made somewhere in Wikipedia.

See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Outline%20of%20James_Bond

I'd like to find out what happened, in case it reveals helpful link placement tips that can double the traffic to outlines too!

I look forward to your reply on my talk page. The Transhumanist 00:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Portal talk pages

You know something about portals. What is a portal talk page for? The posts at Portal talk:Natib Qadish seem inappropriate, have I misunderstood something or has the editor misunderstood? The article Natib Qadish seems basically OR, so I'm thinking it's the editor. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 11:52, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

I have no comment on the article but all talk pages, including portal talk pages, are meant for discussing ways of improvement of its associated page. Copying content to it or using it as a sandbox or some sort of personal 'storage space' for future portal content is indeed inappropriate. You wouldn't be in the wrong by reformatting the page but it would be a good idea to leave the editor a message on his talk page. -- œ^™ 13:56, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I've deleted the material, added the appropriate templates including the Neo-paganism Wikiproject template, and notified the editor. There's a similar problem with the portal itself that I mentioned to him and to an editor involved in the project. Dougweller (talk) 15:04, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

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A beer for you

Thankyou for participating in my request for adminship. Now I've got lots of extra buttons to try and avoid pressing by mistake... Redrose64 (talk) 15:23, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Date change for Vancouver meetup

Hello,

Since you signed the Vancouver meetup page, in case you didn't see it, it was moved to October 23, next Sunday.

Thank you. InverseHypercube 07:10, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

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Trouble with citing a newspaper URL

Hi,

There I was deciding to do my first edit that required a citation and I had it all ready to go. So I read the Help pages and worked through a bit of trial and error.

The ref link goes to the newspaper but fails to pull up the page I want. I have checked that the URL is correct but cannot see what else I have missed. To make things better - I decided to add the report and cite to the page of, yep, Jimmy Wales! Clever Huh?

Here is the additiona and the cite:

in 'Personal life' I added: According to an interview with UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday (Oct 2011)[86] Wales has a child with British fiancée, Kate Garvey, and is going to settle in London.

The citation appears OK in 'References' but the page link does not work. The correct URL is: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/jimmy-wales-the-internets-shy-evangelist-2374679.html

I suspect it's only a single character astray but it means the link does not work. If, under these circumstances, it is best to remove the addition, please do so or tell me to. So, I just made sure to pick a really obvious place to fail! Thanks Heysford (talk) 01:15, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Try this:

7&6=thirteen (☎) 01:29, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

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Sorry not to see you at the session; the logs are here. In the meantime, the Foundation has started developing a new version of the tool which dispenses with the idea of "ratings", amongst other things. Take a look at WP:AFT5 and drop any comments, criticisms or suggestions you have on the talkpage - I'd be very grateful to hear your opinions. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:37, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

We've also started a discussion here on access issues for some of the features - I'd love to hear your thoughts :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:43, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

• Oh - and the next Office Hours session will be held on Thursday at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. Give me a poke if you can't make it but want me to send you the logs when they're released - we'll be holding sessions timed for East Coast editors and Australasian/Asian editors next week. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:50, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, I really appreciate you informing me of all this. My time is so limited these days and other engagements have me running around so much that unfortunately I seem to miss these occasions, but I'm very happy to see the WMF is actively involving the community in discussions like this. If I don't make it then yes I would be interested in reading the logs. Thanks again. -- œ^™ 03:04, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Awesome; I'll send them along. Take some time off, or something! We don't want you melting all over the wiki :P. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 01:55, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Hitting Special:Nuke with excellent judgement, and without hesitation. Thank you. →Στc. 07:32, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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