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Your edit to Talk: Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Please do not arbitrarily remove or edit templates about an article's Good Article status. There is a review process wherein you can request its delisting if you feel it no longer qualifies, but removing the template will not remove the article from the list.--Fyre2387 ^{(talk • contribs)} 05:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Membership in Avatar project

Sorry for adding my name out of step. However, it's generally stated that only members of the project can assess articles, and, as I assessed one or two, I wanted to be sure I was a member before I did so. My apologies if it was perceived incorrectly or presumptuous on my part. Badbilltucker 22:01, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:AangAvatarState.jpg

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:AvatarShowIntro.jpg)

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Notability of The Corrao Q

A tag has been placed on The Corrao Q requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JohnCD 18:04, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Nom of Avatar:The Last airbender

If an article is already a featured article, it can't be listed as a Good Article. The Placebo Effect 21:49, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you nominating Aang or Avatar: The Last Airbender. Because the forme you added the GAN template to, while the other is already a FA which is higher than a GA. The Placebo Effect 21:52, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA review of Pi

You have promoted Pi to GA class without notifying me or discussing it with me. I must note that this is a violation of WP guidelines. I urge you to refrain from these kind of actions. Regards, Daimanta 13:07, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Small Mercies

Could you please add some specific requests to the talk page — in my eyes the prose is fine, so I see it as a GA… Dihydrogen Monoxide 08:27, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Sweeps

I'm sorry to inform you that participation in GA Sweeps is only available by invitation only. Only experienced reviewers who are established (trusted) within the project should participate in this initial sweep because the point is to target articles that have "fallen through the cracks", so we can't have any fall through the cracks during this. As I read through your talk page, I found that you haven't firmly understand the GA criteria. I would like to ask you to read through it before doing GA assessment. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 21:02, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You don't have to remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. Project quality task force is open to everyone while sweeps are open to invited individuals. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 22:14, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aang/Archive Topics

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Aang/Archive Topics, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of the page. -- pb30<talk> 18:16, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Archive box collapsible

I just noticed your addition of an Indexerbot subpage parameter to the template. After trying to tweak and clarify the instructions you had provided in the manual (with particular focus on usability for new and less tech-savvy users), it finally occurred to me that this parameter is really rather pointless. Anyone who wants to include a link to an Indexerbot subpage (or in fact any other link) can easily do so manually, which is less confusing and requires no further explanation. Please don't take this personally, your efforts of contributing to the template are commendable. However, I removed the parameter. |dorftrottel |talk 19:23, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your VandalProof Application

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Parent5446. As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. The reason for this is that: you have less than 250 mainspace edits. Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank again for your interest in VandalProof. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 16:36, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

shut up

you basicly destoryed the entire aang page dude… who the fuck cares about some of the regulations, we dotn always follow some of them, because it woudl make the article bland. You condensed the netuire history of the show after the first epsiode into a small paragraph, wtf does that tell us about what he does? \& relationships, wtf, you removed importnat sections of the article… stop editing things that took us a long time to make.--Cody6 (talk) 01:33, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

new?

HOW AM I FUCKING NEW.

look at my contribs idiot, i'm far from new. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cody6 (talk • contribs) 03:50, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Re: Aang

I must sincerely dispute your reversion of my edit to Aang As I said in the historical comment, the general description is not served well by overspecifity. The general description shouldn't be heavy on detail in the first place. Aang's flight from the temple is an exposition dump regarding his personal trauma better confined to his history, as Zuko's Agni Kai would be in his.

All the general description needs to reveal is that he is the last. His histroy can elaborate. And we really shouldn't open the door to a laundry list of Aang's notable companions in his intro. Toph, Appa and Momo would be worth a mention too, but they'd weigh it down. Please consider saving mention of his companions for the main body of the article.

This page has multiple reiterations of information, rendering portions redundant and plagued by trivia. Some of it really needs to be culled and kept on episode specific pages or confined to one mention in an appropriate subsection instead of retyped multiple times. Ideally, I'd like to see a much less bloated article. Buinne 21:44, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for December 2007

The December 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the January 2008 issue. Dr. Cash 01:08, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Editing Help

For a good example on what a fictional character's biography should look like, please see Padmé Amidala. It is a FA about a fictional character should be the skeleton about which you base your article. Second, you should mention it again in a new section on the talk page so people have a fresh reminder. If that doesn't work, take your last copy that you like and just start editing it. PS, mind if I adopt you? The Placebo Effect 17:31, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What other people have done is worked on the article in their userspace and just copied and pasted it onto the main article when done so as to avoid having people change it while they are still working on it. The Placebo Effect 17:33, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, my AIM = Cnriaczoy3, Skype = placebo_wiki --The Placebo Effect 17:49, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MInd if I steal some of your talk page and user page stuff? The Placebo Effect 21:30, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Just keep in mind I took this from somebody else who had another person design it for them. They won't mind though. Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 17:31, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aang Background.

I see that you and I do most of the Aang background info. Do you believe that it is speculation that Aang was born immediately after the death of Ruko.

You can respond to Asulhas@yahoo.com

Thanks and FLAMEO

A —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.224.215.1 (talk) 14:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Avatar- The Last Airbender Book 2 DVD.jpg)

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Coaching

Saw your coaching request. Still interested? The Transhumanist 20:49, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles January Newsletter

Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 04:04, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 3 - January 2008

December issue | February issue

Project News

There are now 3,301 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. With 1,789 current featured articles, that brings the total of good and featured articles to 5,090!

The most recently promoted articles are: Hurricane Daniel (2006), Tarbosaurus, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Wicca, Seth MacFarlane, Stanley Internment Camp, Hurricane Karen (2007), Interstate 155 (Illinois), Tropical Storm Ingrid (2007), Brian Sings and Swings, Winston Churchill, Mzoli's, John Kefalas, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

The backlog at Good Article Nominations has recently exploded to 236 unreviewed articles! Out of 264 total nominations, 17 are on hold, 10 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!

The oldest unreviewed articles are: Attachment disorder, Byzantium under the Palaiologoi, Byzantium under the Angeloi, Wowowee, Tyrone Wheatley, Mina (singer), Jon Burge, Mercury Hayes, William Lowndes Yancey, and Toni Preckwinkle.

The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (47 articles), Film and cinema (25 articles), Television and journalism (16 articles), Art and architecture (15 articles), and Politics and government (14 articles).

The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 17 articles up for re-review.

If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated!

Reviewer of the Month

Dihydrogen Monoxide is the GAN Reviewer of the Month of December, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 of the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Dihydrogen Monoxide hails from Brisbane (which, incidentally, is almost a GA, kids ;)) and has been editing Wikipedia since August 2006. He mostly likes to review articles relating to music, Australia, or anything else that takes his fancy! He also has two articles waiting, and notes that there's still a huge backlog,... so get cracking!

Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of December include:

Member News

There are now 166 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 7 new members that joined during the month of December:

This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

GAReview Template

Lots of you that frequent WP:GAN have undoubtedly seen the articles under review, marked with "Review - I am reviewing this article. ...". The articles have been marked as being under review by an editor using the {{GAReview}} template. The purpose of this template is essentially to prevent two editors from reviewing the same article at the same time, so it's essentially a common courtesy notice to other editors so that they don't pass or fail an article while you're in the midst of collecting and writing comments. However, just because an article is marked, shouldn't preclude another editor from contributing to the review. If you'd like to review it, go ahead; simply collect your comments and write them down on the article's talk page – but don't pass or fail the article – leave that to the other reviewer.

To use this template yourself, simply write "#:{{GAReview}} ~~~~" on the line immediately following the article's nomination at WP:GAN. You can even leave additional comments as well (e.g. "#:{{GAReview}} I will finish my review in the next 24 hours. ~~~~"). Reviewers marking articles with this template should also observe some common etiquette; please don't mark more than 1-3 articles as being under review at a time, and please try and finish your review within 3-5 days of marking the article.

GA Sweeps

After openly requesting the community for more participants into the Sweeps, we have 3 more members on the board. They are (in no particular order) Canadian Paul, VanTucky, and Masem. Canadian Paul will be sweeping "Middle East and the World" articles. VanTucky will be sweeping "Religion, mysticism, and mythology" and "Literature" articles. Masem will be sweeping "Television episodes". We're still looking for more reviewers. Interested individuals should contact OhanaUnited for details.

At this moment, participation in the sweeps project is by invitation only, as we desire experienced reviewers who have a thorough and extensive knowledge of the criteria. This is to ensure that articles that have "fallen through the cracks" would be found and removed, and that additional articles don't fall through the cracks during the sweep.

Currently, there are 16 members working on the project, and we have reviewed 74 articles in December 2007. Of those that are swept, 275 articles are kept as GA, 126 articles are delisted, and 5 promoted to FA.

Did You Know,...

... that the total number of good and featured articles is now over 5000?
... that GA was formed on October 11, 2005 and was formerly called "Half-decent articles"?
... that there is a bot (StatisticianBot) that gives a daily report on GAN?
... that many discussions were made over the years on whether GA should have a symbol placed on the main article space, yet at the end always removed?
... that there was a proposal to change the GA symbol to a green featured star?

From the Editors

Happy New Year, everyone! I'm just filling in for Dr. Cash as he's busy (or away) in real life. This explains why I wasn't prepared for a full-length article on GA process, and instead I resort to a tiny DYK for GA.

OhanaUnited

Happy New Year as well! I'm still here, and haven't totally disappeared. I had to cut back on editing and reviewing during the month of December as I made the transition from Flagstaff, Arizona to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But I should be about settled in the Keystone State, so I'll be contributing more to Wikipedia again in the new year. Thanks to OhanaUnited for putting together much of the content for this newsletter! He's been working hard with the Sweeps, and the 'Did You Know' section is also a great idea, so I think that will become a regular feature now! I also figured out how to have a collapsible newsletter, so that will change our delivery options a bit. Cheers!

Dr. Cash

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re:devinatArt

You can review it, but have it on hold till the debate is done. If everyone agrees on the page name, or at least is willing to along with the decsion, then it will be fine. The Placebo Effect (talk) 04:52, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, the discussion about the move to deviantART has been closed. There was no consensus. We'll keep the article as deviantArt for now. Though if it changes, I'm sure it'll have no effect on the article, simply just capitalization. Anyway, Feel free to review the article. I hope you like it! --Dan Leveille^TALK 04:08, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Aang's conception

I have added a link to a magazine article that briefly describes Aang's conception. You can access it here. I hope this helps. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 22:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar

I just moved Season 2 to mainspace. If you go to Avatar: The Last Airbender and click season 2 it redirects to season 2 page but it still sends for the project page which says on the season 2 page it was redirected. Could you fix this for me or tell me how? I am not experienced with dealing with redirects. Thank you. Cheers. Earthbendingmaster (talk) 05:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Someone already fixed it. Thanks anyway. Cheers. Earthbendingmaster (talk) 13:52, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

January 2008

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Edit removal

Hello. I did not intend to experiment, but I may have been lax in my judgement about what was useful for the page on Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. The section which I had edited contained several changes, and if you could tell me which one(s) were not useful, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.92.79.71 (talk) 03:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aang

You might want to check ref #3. It just looks messy, IMHO. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 23:17, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

Just correcting grammar. Sorry, might have not put the right reason for the edit.

Sora G. Strife (talk) 11:58, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Blue's Clues GAN pass

Parent, Blue and Periwinkle wanted to visit your talk page personally to thank you for passing their WP article to GA. They really appreciate it, as do I! --Figureskatingfan (talk) 02:35, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the kind words on BC's talk page. This is the second article I've significantly contributed to that has gotten to GA. In addition, this particular article was at one time so bad, it was downgraded from B to Start. That's when I took it on, and now it seems like you're saying that it has FA-potential. Is that what you're saying, Parent? 'Cause due to the feedback, I'm thinkin' that it's too short or that it doesn't have enough references. I was beginning to think that the most we can expect from it is A-status. Anyway, thanks for doing your part, you sure are smart, you can do anything that you wanna do! ;) --Figureskatingfan (talk) 06:18, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 4 - February 2008

January issue | March issue

Project News

There are now 3,485 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.

The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 206 unreviewed articles. Out of 251 total nominations, 37 are on hold, 7 are under review, and 1 is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!

The oldest unreviewed articles are: Johan Derksen, Trafford, J. Michael Bailey, Greg Skrepenak, Paleolithic-style diet, Alan Dershowitz, Natalee Holloway, Slovenian presidential election, 2007, San Francisco Municipal Railway, and Marcela Agoncillo.

The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (57 articles), Theatre film and drama (34 articles), Music (19 articles), Transport (17 articles), Politics and government (16 articles), World history (13 articles), and Meteorology and atmospheric sciences (13 articles).

The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 8 articles up for re-review.

If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated!

GA Sweeps Update

During January, 57 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 35 were kept as GA, 20 delisted, 9 currently on hold or at GAR, and 3 were exempted as they are now Featured Articles.

Reviewer of the Month

Ealdgyth is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for January, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Ealdgyth, known in real life as Victoria Short, hails from Central Illinois, and has been editing Wikipedia since May 26, 2007. In this short time, she has made significant contributions to 9 Good Articles, including Baldwin of Exeter and Hubert Walter. Her interests in editing are in the areas of the Middle Ages, History, and horses. Outside of Wikipedia, she is starting her own photography business, and owns three horses. She likes to read science fiction, history, and geneology books. Congratulations to our GAN Reviewer of the Month for January!

Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of January include:

Member News

There are now 176 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 15 new members that joined during the month of January:

This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

On Hold versus Failing an Article

This month, I thought I'd focus on a less technical and more of a procedural issue at WP:GAN – determining what the appropriate course of action to take when reviewing an article. Currently, there are four options to decide what to do with an article:

Passing – it meets all six of the good article criteria; add it to WP:GA and add {{ArticleHistory}} or {{GA}} to the article's talk page.
Failing it – it does not meet the criteria; remove the article's listing from WP:GAN and add {{ArticleHistory}} or {{failedGA}} to the article's talk page.
On Hold – The article meets most of the criteria, but might fall short in a few areas; keep it listed at WP:GAN, add #: {{GAOnHold|ArticleName}} ~~~~ below the listing and add {{GAonhold}} to the article's talk page.
Second Opinion – Similar to the on hold option, except an editor is either inexperienced or not knowledgeable enough about a given topic and asks another reviewer to offer another opinion before passing or failing; add #: {{GA2ndopinion|ArticleName}} ~~~~ to WP:GAN below the article's listing and add {{GA2ndoptalk}} to the article's talk page.

So how to you know when an article fails outright, or fails initially, but meets "enough" of the criteria to be placed on hold? The answer to this question probably varies by about the same amount as there are reviewers of Good Articles! Everybody treats this slightly differently. The most important thing to consider is that articles should not be on hold for longer than about one week. Although there is no hard and fast time limit for this, most editors would probably agree that five to seven days is enough time to address any GA-related issues with the article to get it to pass. Some editors have extended this a few days in the past, due to other extenuating circumstances, such as an article's primary editor being very busy with school or work, so they have asked for extra time. But as a general rule, a GA nominee that is placed on hold should meet enough of the criteria to be able to be passed within five to seven days. Some examples of articles that might be placed on hold would be:

the article is mostly complete, but might be missing one topic (subcategory).
minor copyediting is required (needs a few minor manual of style, spelling, or grammatical fixes.
mostly well sourced, but missing maybe a handful of references.
a couple of images need to be tagged with appropriate copyright tags.

On the other hand, an article should be failed if it:

is missing several topic categories, or there are several sections which are very short (1-3 sentences per section).
contains numerous sections which are just lists of information, as opposed to written out as prose.
there's entire sections of text that have no references, or there are a lot of {{cn}} or {{unreferenced}} tags.
has evidence of an active edit war in the article history.
has major neutrality issues.
has any {{cleanup}} or other warning tags in various places.

Did You Know...

... that on July 19, 2007, 1,548 good articles that have not been categorized at all were categorized in 15 days?
... that in Chinese Wikipedia, articles need to have at least six net support votes before they are promoted to GA?
... that the English Wikipedia has the most Good Articles, the German Wikipedia has the second most (at over 2000), followed by the Spanish Wikipedia (at over 800), the Chinese Wikipedia (at over 400), and the French Wikipedia (at over 200)?
... that Simple English Wikipedia has zero Good Articles?
... that "Sport and games people" category has the most Good Articles?
... that Virginia Tech massacre (which is now a featured article) was promoted to GA just only about one month after the shooting incident, but took more than seven months to reach FA status?

From the Editors

Originally, I wasn't planning to do "Did you know" other than as a fill-in for Dr. Cash. However, I decided to continue writing this section until I ran out of ideas.

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I was wondering if you could take some time out of your schedule to head over to the Heroes (TV series) talkpage and give us an honest peer review. The page has gone through some major changes in the last few months, and it would be fantastic if a prominent editor/contributor like yourself, could head over and give us at the Heroes Wikiproject some sound opinion and ideas on improvements for the page. We have all worked very hard at improving the page, and we need great outside, reliable and trustworthy users to come over and help us improve. I you are interested in joining the peer review discussion with other prominent users/contributors, much like yourself, please follow the link. Thank you very much for your help and your continued effort to improve Wikipedia and its quality! Wikipedia:Peer review/Heroes (TV series)/archive2--Chrisisinchrist (talk) 04:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Editing Rectification

The edit regarding Aang's name in Tales of Ba Sing Se was made by 121.97.246.27, not me. 189.4.243.36 (talk) 13:01, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Blue's Clues

Hi Parent,

I've been waiting for you to respond to me! And then my message was archived! It was probably because Mailbox didn't announce it and nobody sang "The Mail Song." So I will sing it now: "Here's the mail, it never fails…" ;)

Anyway, thanks again for passing BC. When you passed it, you intimidated that it had feature article potential. Did I understand you correctly? I ask 'cause due to previous feedback, I was thinking that it's too short or that it doesn't have enough references. I was beginning to think that the most we can expect from it is A-status. Anywho, thanks again. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 20:17, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your VandalProof Application

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Parent5446. As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank again for your interest in VandalProof. β^_command 17:24, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Omer Inayat

Both you, and the admin who removed the speedy, are technically correct. I've voted accordingly (I added the first speedy to that article). _GB^T/C 18:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't make me warn you…! :-) _GB^T/C 19:40, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know it was an accident…hence the exclamation mark and the smiley! _GB^T/C 19:52, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. :-) _GB^T/C 19:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Project xero

The person who added that comment was the original creator of the page, so I reverted ClueBot's edit. Never mind if it belongs in the article, though, since I tagged it for speedy anyways. — Nova Dog — (contribs) 01:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, I changed the link in the header after I posted my message because it linked to the wrong article (I used a capital letter) :p Sorry if that was confusing. — Nova Dog — (contribs) 01:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aang 1

Good job on the article. I just noticed a few issues:

There is a considerable amount of overlinking that should be corrected per WP:CONTEXT#What generally should not be linked
"Avatar" looks like it should be lowercased, per its category
Why are there two different quote formats on the article?

Thoughts? Please reply below here or on Aang's talk if you so choose, I am watching both. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 17:53, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did this edit to cut the extra space (per WP:REF), like I did to the other quotes. Why did you change it exactly? You may reply here or back at Talk:Aang. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 02:36, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I voted

Parent, I voted for Aang's improvement even before I saw that you had nominated Blue's Clues for FA. I must admit, I was surprised that you had done that. Based on your previous feedback, I had pretty much accepted that it wasn't gonna go any farther than GA. It'll be interesting to see what feedback it gets for improvement. Good luck getting help with Aang. I'd help, but I know very little about Avatar and/or anime. I know someone who does, though; perhaps I can get her help. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 05:37, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

French towns and villages

This has been discussed and approved in an AN/I discussion. PLease do not place a speedy tag on an article again. This constitutes as vandalism. No admin would ever dream of speedying them and even at afd result would be a speedy keep. These articles are currently in development. I suggest you help expand them or go to school ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:34, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aang 2

Thank you for noticing the copyedit I did on Aang. That really made my day, lol. I will take a look at the Blues Clue page and see what I can do with it. --Ownlyanangel (talk) 03:41, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BC FAC

Parent, thanks for your efforts in improving this article. It's okay that it will probably fail; it's a long way from being ready, I think. I also think that in addition to a copyedit, it needs to be fleshed out, which needs additional research. I'm in the middle of other projects, in addition to my own normal real-life (Kids! Work! Married life!), so it may be about a week before I can tackle it. I'm in the middle of writing a new article (Gather Together in My Name) to fulfill my personal goal of getting one of my articles on DYK, and I'm dedicated to getting The Wiggles to FA. We can try again with BC in the near future, so don't sweat it. Good luck with Aang, but make sure that your Wiki-activities remain fun. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 04:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

About the Aang page

That Walter Mellon Head (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) will surely be blocked. I've actually been wanting to ask you about my edit. Did you think it was better or worse than Rauj16? Please reply below or on Talk:Aang. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 02:54, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since I wasn't sure how to help you deal with the user, I've decided to request full protection on Aang and took the liberty of reporting the user here. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 03:02, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The full protection is to prevent further instances of edit warring. Way I see it, if he does not get blocked, then the article is prevented from editing for all parties involved. If he is blocked, the page may not be protected. In any event, unprotection can always be requested. I would rather wait it out. Suggestions? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 03:12, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, hopefully that's the last we see of his/her kind. Looked like you were unsure how to deal with the user, going as far as altering my comment which, let me admit, I didn't approve. I generally don't like it when ppl change someone else's comment withour their permission, see WP:TPG. Please don't do it again, ok? I know you meant well, but it sort of pisses off editors because it looks like you're putting words in their mouth. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 03:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I asked something at Talk:Aang and was hoping if I could get a quick answer. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 23:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You helped choose Aang as this week's WP:ACID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Aang was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 23:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ACID Closure post on CBB

Heya, thanks for posting about the ACID closure discussion on the community bulletin board. I headed there to do just that, and was pleasantly surprised that someone'd beat me to it :-) jwanders^Talk 00:16, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure about this one :O) ?

Hi…ummm, can you take a look at the comment you made in the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lauterach Transmitter afd. Seeing as the article is about a radio transmitter in Austria, I didn't think you meant to add it there. I know there is a discussion about a lighthouse (or something similar) somewhere near Sydney in AFD as I saw it about an hour ago, but I can't find it.. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 03:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copying my reply here as well LOL. Almost did that more than once myself No problem.. :O) FlowerpotmaN·(t) 03:50, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Help with Aang

Parent, I had my friend look at Aang, and she gave some positive feedback. As I promised, I will try and copyedit it, perhaps later on today. I don't know anything about the topic, but perhaps I can make some suggestions to improve the article. Hope all goes well with your goals with this article. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Every Sunday

I have requested a reassessment of your fail of Every Sunday. Otto4711 (talk) 17:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:EverySunday-Film-1.jpg)

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Research on the RFA process

Hello, I am an anthropology student researching the Wikipedia Requests for adminship procedure. As you recently voted in this process, I was wondering if you would be willing to answer a few quick questions.

Do you believe that the current RFA process is an effective way of selecting admins?
Do you notice a difference between users who are nominated vs selfnoms?
Is a week an appropriate length for process? Should it perhaps be longer or shorter?
Do you think the user's status in the community changes while the user is undergoing the RFA process? How about after the RFA process is over?
Was the candidate Q&A beneficial in helping you choose to support the candidate?

If you are willing, please leave your answers on my talk page or e-mail them to me.

This research will not be published academically, as this research is primarily to demonstrate the feasibility of doing online ethnography in online only communities such as Wikipedia, though I intend to make my findings available on Wiki. Your name will not be associated with any information you provide in any published work. If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you. --Cspurrier (talk) 18:46, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Azula

Thanks for your reply. Would you mind doing me a favor about the article? Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 22:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I need a minor favor. Trim the Book 3 part of the Plot overview section? I have not seen hardly any of Book 3 and I don't think I would do a good job. Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 03:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks much! Cheers. Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 03:12, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pinning (modelling)

Hi there. I've made a few changes to the Pinning (modelling) article since your !vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pinning (modelling) and I just wondered whether you still felt the article needed to be deleted. Cheers. -- JediLofty ^{User ¦ Talk} 09:44, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk:Azula

I am sure you would eventually see My question, but I am letting you know so I can get back to work on the article. Thanks. Cheers. Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 01:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

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Speedy deletion of User:Parent5446/icons

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Speedy deletion of User:Parent5446/Identity Validation

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Ckatz's RfA

Parent5446: Thanks very much for your support in my recent RfA. I appreciate the vote of confidence, and the kind words about my contributions. Now that I am an admin, please let me know if I can help out in any way. Cheers! --Ckatz^chat _spy 04:37, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter 2

The March 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 06:08, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 5 - March 2008

February issue | April issue

Project News

There are currently 3,647 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.

The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 185 unreviewed articles. Out of 237 total nominations, 42 are on hold, and 10 are under review. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!

The oldest unreviewed articles are: Ian Browne (cyclist), Tony Marchant, Reginald fitz Jocelin, Annie Russell, Brodie Croyle, and Jimmy Moore.

The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (39 articles), Theatre, film, and drama (34 articles), Transport (23 articles), Music (21 articles), Politics and government (18 articles), Culture and society (13 articles), Places (13 articles), and World history (12 articles).

The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 13 articles up for re-review.

If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated!

GA Sweeps Update

Two members joined the sweeps team this month. They are Jwanders and jackyd101. Jwanders swept Physics sub-category quickly and is now sweeping "Astronomy and astrophysics". Meanwhile, jackyd101 is sweeping "Armies, military units and legal issues".

During February, 66 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 33 were kept as GA, 21 delisted, 17 currently on hold or at GAR, and 1 was exempted as they are now Featured Articles.

Reviewer of the Month

Blnguyen is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for February, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Blnguyen is from South Australia and has been editing Wikipedia since 2005. He was also the reviewer for the month of December 2007, so this marks the second time that he has been GAN's Top Reviewer for the Month. Congratulations to our GAN Reviewer of the Month for February!

Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of January include:

Member News

There are now 185 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 9 new members that joined during the month of February:

Did You Know...

...that the shortest timespan for a GA to be listed and subsequently delisted is 8 minutes? (The article is Project Chanology and currently listed on WP:GAR)
...that the current nominations system started on March 10, 2006?
...that in May 2006, number of GA surpassed number of FA?

This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

One GA Requirement - The Lead Section

By Geometry guy

In this issue, we will focus on one of the requirements for good articles: a good article article should follow Wikipedia's guideline on lead sections. So what does this guideline say, why does it say what it does, and how can good article reviewers help?

The lead section is particularly important, because for many readers, it is the only part of the article which they will read. For instance, they may have come to the article by following a wikilink in another article simply to obtain a quick overview before they continue reading the original article. They may only read the first paragraph, or even the first sentence. On the other hand, one of the joys of Wikipedia is the way that it embodies the endlessly branching tree of knowledge; if a lead is well written, it may encourage even such a reader to read on and learn something new.

This is reflected in the terminology: "lead" is a word taken from journalism, where it recognized that many readers will only read the beginning of a newspaper article, and so it is important to convey the key points first, before going into detail. Note that "lead", in this sense, is pronounced as in "leading question" and is sometimes spelled as "lede" by journalists to distinguish it from lead, the metal, which was once very important in typesetting. Wikipedia supports both spellings.

Wikipedia:Lead section is written with all this in mind, and describes two different roles for the lead: first, it should introduce the topic; second it should summarize the article. This is not always as easy as it seems; indeed, it is almost impossible to write a good lead if the article itself does not cover the topic well. It has a side benefit that an article which satisfies this guideline is probably also broad: if the lead is both a good introduction and a summary, then the article probably covers the main points.

The good article process is often the first place in which an article is judged against this criterion, yet many current good articles may not meet it. A common fault is that the lead is purely an introduction, while the rest of the article contains other information, which should be summarized in the lead, but isn't.

So, how can reviewers help to improve this? One approach is to read the rest of the article, and not the lead, first. Make a note of the significant points discussed in the article. There is usually at least one important issue in each section. Then, go back to the lead and ask the following questions:

Does the first sentence of the lead define the topic, as described in the article?
Is the most important information mentioned in the first paragraph?
Is the lead a suitable length for the article? The lead guideline recommends 2–4 paragraphs depending on the article length, but judgment is more important than counting.
Are each of the significant topics that you noted mentioned in the lead?

If the answer to each of these questions is "yes", then the article probably meets the guideline. If not, you may be able to fix it yourself by summarizing the article. If you can't, then it suggests that there are not only problems with the lead, but also the rest of the article. That is the beauty of Wikipedia:Lead section.

Finally, there isn't universal agreement on whether the lead should contain inline citations. As long as the material in the lead is developed and cited elsewhere in the article, then inline citation is not required. There are exceptions, the most significant being quotations and controversial material about living persons.

Good luck helping more articles meet this important criterion!

From the Editors

Well, this is somewhat GA-related but at the same time not totally GA-related. However, I think this is important. Thanks to everyone who supported me at my 2nd RfA. It passed unanimously at 79 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral. As many are impressed by my work in Good Articles processes, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone giving me a very enjoyable time at GA. There are 2 people that I want to explicitly say thank you to. They are Nehrams2020 and Epbr123. They patiently taught me how to do GA reviews properly in summer 2007. I couldn't achieve better without them. Now that I have the mop and the bucket, some of my time will be working on reducing Commons image backlog. Nevertheless, you will still see me once in a while in matters related to GA.

OhanaUnited

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You editted Hunt class minesweeper (1916) (and other Royal Navy ship articles) with the effect that all the redlined ship links were removed. This is not helpful, as we are trying ultimately to create pages for every RN ship. Redlinks provide a vital prompt to the pages that are needed. I have reverted your changes; other elements of what you did may well have been valuable. Many of the redlinks had already been created to disambiguate the precise ship in question, and this info would have been lost. Welsh (talk) 07:36, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re:The Aang Article Needs You…

I voted in support, thanks, and here is one for you:

Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 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. Cheers, and Happy editing!
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I have one for you too!

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I just like the candid camera joke. "Smile! Your on Candid Camera! (that and i love to smile, it shows my buck teeth)

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Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 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. Cheers, and Happy editing!
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I am placing a signature here in order to help archiving. Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 16:00, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Melon v2.0

I would remove it, at least wait until he shows true signs of being the same person. Then we can take him down. Rau J16 03:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eh, it is melons fault, blame him/her/it. And if they are truly determined, they can make another account. Rau J16 03:26, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly does seem like old melon head is back. Rau's talk 03:23, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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My RfA 2

File:David,larry.JPG		My RFA
		Thank you muchly for your support in my recent request for adminship, which was successfully closed on 76%, finishing at 73 supports, 23 opposes and 1 neutral. The supports were wonderful, and I will keep in mind the points made in the useful opposes and try to suppress the Larry David in me! Now I'm off to issue some cool down blocks, just to get my money's worth! Kidding btw. All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 11:19, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Possible socks?

After comparing the edits, does it occur to you that 24.20.139.7 (talk · contribs), 71.203.120.138 (talk · contribs) and Hippie-Man-Duddly (talk · contribs) could be one and the same person? I think there are socks attacking the Aang page. Please reply on your talk. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 21:12, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might be right. I am thinking that I will let it be unless he continues to make his destructive edits. One more violation and I file a request for checkuser to see what IP his three registered accounts are using and then file a sockpuppet report. For now, though, I want to see if he will change his ways. If he makes one bad edit, immediately leave a note on my talk page and notify Rauj too (this is so people know to be on the lookout). Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 02:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If he makes his mark again, click here. A "Move page" screen will come up and just move the page to Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Walter Mellon Head. Just one thing, the first line of the page is commented out right now since it is in my userspace and I do not want an actual Request for checkuser in my userspace. So just uncomment the first line AFTER moving. This is only is I do not file the request first. Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 03:51, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Should the people who also dealt with Walter Mellon Head be contacted? My memory is vague on who else was present, I think Rauj was there though. Thoughts? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 08:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Decided to tag them as sock suspects. Honestly, the editing pattern is identical, yet, if by any chance they're not the same person, they can still be classified as impersonators. (PS: I've watchlisted these individuals, you should do the same, but it depends on you). Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 08:30, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My RfB

I wanted to personally thank you, Parent, for your participation in my recent RfB. I have heard the community's voice that they require more of a presence at RfA's of prospective bureaucrats, and I will do my best over the near future to demonstrate such a presence and allow the community to see my philosophy and practices in action. I am thankful and appreciative that in general, the community feels that I am worthy of the trust it requires of its bureaucrats, and I hope to continue to behave in a way that maintains your trust in me and my actions. I hope that over the near future, you will become comfortable and satisfied with my understanding of the particulars and subtleties inherent in the RfA process, and that I may be able to count on your support when I decide to once again undergo an RfB. If you have any suggestions, comments, or constructive criticisms, please let me know via talkpage or e-mail. Thank you again. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA 3

Thanks for your support. - J Greb (talk) 22:54, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Sockateer

I just saw him too, and I remembered it, I was about to do some digging myself. Thanks for the heads up. Rau's talk 02:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RE:FAC

I keep an eye on the article all the time anyway (that and about 250 other articles), so ill make sure that nothing bad happens while you're busy. Rau's talk 02:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Favor

Yea, no problem. Rau's talk 03:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Man, i have newfound respect for you. The patience that must've taken to make all of those. Geez. But all of the plot summary links have been removed. Rau's talk 03:57, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aang 3

I didn't get a chance to return to Aang until now when you seem to have closed its peer review, but I applaud you on taking up the suggestions I made. There are a few other nuances that exist within it, but nothing that I can really jump on and say "this is what it is", nor can I suggest what could be done in those cases anyway. I'd suggesting getting somebody else who's experienced in similar articles (look at the edit history in pages like Dragonball, Voltron, Robotech, Akira, or more importantly, their subpages, and see who's made the most valuable contributions. Generally they'll be able to give you some info on what to do. Generally, my area is in musically relevant areas, but you asked me nicely. ;) Good luck with the article. It's looking great and now is well deserving of being in the middle of GA class. --rm 'w a vu 09:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aang 4

There wasn't a further concern with the animationinsider, I hit an edit conflict and missed that you'd replied anything. I've struck it now. The last concern is more something I'm deferring to Sandy on. Personal opinion is its okay, but Sandy's the expert. If you can replace it, it wouldn't hurt, but on my side, I'm satisfied. I'm just not sure enough to declare decisively that it's a RS. Ealdgyth - Talk 23:43, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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AfD process

You should not vote to "delete as nom"; the whole point of your nomination is because you think it should be deleted, and your rationale proves that. Therefore, it's a bit redundant. MSJapan (talk) 19:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank-you

Hi Parent5446! Thank-you for your support in my RfA (91/1/1).

I take all the comments to heart and hope I can fulfil the role of being

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Hi Parent (which is weird saying, since you are not my Parent :)), I would like to know if you would accept my nomination of you to be an Administrator in the future. You are a great contributor and I believe you would do great at an RfA. I just have one concern, edit count. Once you reach over 4,000-4,500 edits, I would like to nominate you. Also, what is you favorite bending (Avatar bending)? Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 02:20, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would happily accept a nomination (once my edits go up more). The reason I do not nominate myself is that I did not actually think I was of good status (believe it or not, I might have nominated myself up to a year from now!). Either way, I will accept when the time comes. As for my favorite bending, I think that air would have to be the best. This is mainly because: a) Air is the least destructive (one could argue, though, that waterbending is), b) Air is everywhere, while there are times when there is no Earth or no water (though Fire is as available as Air is), and c) Aang uses airbending and Aang is pretty much my favorite character. Happy editing. (Just if you ever wondered, my grand plan for the Avatar WikiProject was to make a Featured Topic of all of the main characters, or at least most of them). — Parent5446 ^{(t n c e m l)} 02:25, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would have to agree with you that air is the least destructive and the most defensive. My favorite, though, is Earthbending. Is the most balanced between attack and defense and I, well..just love it. Firebending is almost completely attack and Airbending is almost completely defense, though one could argue that Waterbending is best balanced between attack and defense. But I like all of the bending arts and do not believe one is the best, but they are all equal and victory is determined by the individual bender, not what they bend. I will keep an eye on your edit count, not trying to cause editcountitis (if I spelled that right). Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 02:38, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You do have a valid argument there. In fact, I think you have thoroughly convinced me that no bending is the best. However, Aang is still my favorite character (there is no changing that, :) ). — Parent5446 ^{(t n c e m l)} 02:53, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am glad to here that (the bending) :) And I wasn't trying to change you mind about Aang :) I really don't know who my favorite character is. Maybe Toph. I also like Roku and Bumi. Aang and Sokka too. I can't decide. Also, do you know where online I could watch the recap of the first season episode. It was narrated by Roku's voice actor. Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 03:00, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know that you can pretty much watch any episode at WatchAvatar. — Parent5446 ^{(t n c e m l)} 03:08, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FAR

One, i do not know what that is. Two, the article does need to be looked over, it has fallen prey to a lot of petty vandalism over time, and which has resulted in a loss in quality of the overall article. Rau's talk 02:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was worth mentioning, while working on other articles, we can't neglect the ones our(at least mine i dont know about you) predecessors worked so hard on. Rau's talk 02:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I just randomnly passed by your page and I saw this weird code any way through deduction I worked out it means User Parent5446, how do you work it out?, what is the key. :) Please tell me. I love codes.Wannabe Wiki (talk) 05:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This code is in Alienese. What I did to make it was I simply copied and pasted (using Paint) from the key (which can be found at Image:Alien decoder.png. Hope that reveals the mystery on the subject. — Parent5446 ^{(t n c k e l)} 11:53, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, the mystery is now solved. Wannabe Wiki (talk) 04:28, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Aang

Some questions:

Is there any need to specify that Aang is fictional? Is there any doubt? Fictional character might be "redundant" info.
If Aang is the pro-(t)-agonist, who is his ant(i)-agonist? Who frustrates his purposes?
If he is the "main" protagonist (a slightly unusual usage), what common purposes does he share with co-protagonists?

In Skooby Doo, it's a bit hard to pick a protagonist, it's not Skooby, it's more the team. They're always opposed by someone or other, or rather, they are the antagonists of a variety of villains. Superman and Bond have a series of regular enemies. They're solo, so more typical of a protagonist, but really, their whole raison de etre is to fight villains. Villany doesn't always combat them personally, rather it serves as a foil to develop their characters.

I'm being very fussy on this one. I know common usage simply views protagonist as a formal literary English synonym for main character. In the Wiki context, though, I think we should probably just keep it simple —

Aang is the main character (or one of the main characters) in Avatar: .... Avatar is an animated ... produced by Nicleodeon.

There's style preference in these things, it's not an exact science. In general, I like short sentences. So do most people.

The thing is, I think most of us think in long sentences (most educated people certainly speak in long sentences). The trick is to adapt thoughts to a written medium. Short seems to work. Probably because there's no intonation or body language to keep receivers on board.

By the way, short is possibly the wrong description. Simple is a better description. A compound sentence with four sub-clauses can be very clear and concise. Rewritten as a short paragraph, it often takes more words. Psychologically, however, for many readers, short paragraphs of short sentences with short words, even if they take twice as long to read, will seem "short". They mean simple, but say short or concise.

I'm in Australia, and need to sleep just now. I think your prose is fine. Your content is excellent. I bet I'm going to find the only problem is your vocab is high register and your sentence construction full of educated grammatical structures. Those things are fine (but not necessary) in an academic article, but encyclopedia entries often try to encompass the widest possible readership, hence the simplest possible use of English vocab and structure.

Anyway, enough philosophy of Encyclopedia English, I'm only one opinion anyway.

Great article and I'll get back to work tomorrow.

All the best, cheerio. Alastair Haines (talk) 10:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent! I always prefer development to deletion. I've done some (what I consider) tidying of the new text. My only reservation is that the source you cite for vegetarianism is fine, but I'm not sure it is the "core" text for vegetarianism. As I understood it, vegetarianism is a consequence of ahimsa, as described in the Buddhist pancasila (five ethical rules). How can one eat meat without something being killed? If we are against violence, we are against taking life. If we are against taking life, we cannot eat meat. I am not sufficiently familiar with the huge range of Buddhist scriptures to be sure where the most authoritative references to vegetarianism can be found. It is important we find these, to give due respect to Buddhism. Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead, is very poorly referenced if we cite Cardinal John Doe of Boston, Boston Herald July 4, 1969; or for that matter, if we cite Augustine of Hippo. Neither are the citations a Christian would give to verify their doctrine.

I'll poke around to see if I can find a reference I'm more comfortable with. Yours is good, I just want the best! ;) Alastair Haines (talk) 03:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:GEEK

I'd just like to let you know that the redirect some of the Geek Cabal members use (WP:GEEK) is been considered for deletion here. Basketball 110 _{Go Longhorns!} 20:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aang edits

I don't know who keeps removing the fiction part, since WP:WAF tells us to make clear of fiction in articles. I reinserted this bit, could you see if it needs re-wording? And whatever happened to mentioning the air scooter ability which enables him to fly? Please respond on your talk, or on Talk:Aang. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 03:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might wanna also check out ref #18. Seems it was destroyed during some copy-editing. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 06:30, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A user said that the phrase is redundant because it is automatically assumed that if the character is in a TV Show that he is a fictional character. The user also said that "main protagonist" was a kind of confusing term considering the definition of protagonist, which would be main character. There is a full explanation on this page a couple of sections up. — Parent5446 ^{(t n c k e l)} 12:06, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That answers my first query. What happened to his flight and martial art abilities? They're the source for the categories. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 18:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think I may have accidentally removed them because they were not sourced properly. You can add them back in if you want. — Parent5446 ^{(t n c k e l)} 19:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If I could find them. Don't know about the martial art statements but "The Air Scooter" didn't have to be cited, as it was wiki-linked to its referenced article. Couldn't you just re-include it? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 19:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Did you glance at this edit summary of mine? The fiction guidelines specifically say that the prose is to be written in present day format. Does the rest of the article do this? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 20:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure. I converted it at one point but I came back over vacation and found the article messed up a little. I will have to look over it. — Parent5446 ^{(t n c k e l)} 20:10, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have now re-watchlisted the page, may be worth it after all. Is this edit ok? Oh, and how you done the remaining fixes? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 04:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The first part is OK. I am worried about the second part because we do not know which methods of flight he prefers, nor do we have a source for it. As for the tense, I went over the article and only found one or two issues that I fixed. Everything should be OK now. If you want to take a look you can, but I think its OK now. — Parent5446 ^{(t n c k e l)} 14:54, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Iroh

Could I ask you a favor? If you do not mind doing it, could you combine some of the paragraphs in the Plot overview section? Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 14:09, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did a quick overview of the section. I converted the tense (plot summaries should be in present tense), combined some paragraphs, and fixed the prose to a certain point. Hope it is better now. — Parent5446 ^{(t n c k e l)} 14:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! For the message too. (I still want to nominate you for adminship later on) Thanks for your help. Cheers. Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 15:07, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you erase my article??

I just created an article on someone, whose name brings up several score of thousands of google hits. Please put on the talk page your objections to the creation of his biography, rather than erasing the page. Thanks Dogru144 (talk) 00:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC) i.e., the article on Simon Doonan. Dogru144 (talk) 00:50, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. It was an accidental revert when I was trying to revert somebody else's edits. — Parent5446 ^{(t n c k e l)} 01:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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So you’ve found an article that, on the face of it, does not merit its good article status. What next? Especially where there are many glaring issues that need addressing, it’s tempting to just revoke its GA status and remove it from the list, but although we are encouraged as editors to be bold, this approach (known to some as "bold delisting") is not recommended good practice. There are many reasons why a listed article might not meet the assessment criteria—it’s always possible that it never did, and was passed in error, but more likely the criteria have changed or the article quality has degraded since its original assessment. Either way, we should treat its reassessment with no less tact and patience than we would a fresh nomination.

This, in fact, provides a good starting point for the delisting process. Approach the article as though it has been nominated for GA review. Read it and the GA criteria carefully, and provide a full reassessment on the article talk page. Explain where and why the article no longer meets the criteria, and suggest remedies.

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I have been fixing the tense in Katara. Do you think the tag may be deleted now?Tintor2 (talk) 22:55, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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They're notable, she's notable, she was in L7. Herostratus (talk) 03:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter

The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 7 - May 2008

April issue | June issue

Project News

There are currently 4,050 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.

The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 195 unreviewed articles. Out of 227 total nominations, 16 are on hold, 14 are under review, and two are seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!

The oldest unreviewed articles are: Fighting Tommy Riley, Brock Lesnar, Cluj-Napoca, Wolf's Rain, Brian Kendrick, and North and South (TV serial).

The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (45), Sports and recreation (34), Music (18), Transport (15), World history (14), Politics and government (13), and Places (12).

The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 17 articles up for re-review.

GAN Reviewer of the Month

Noble Story (talk · contribs) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for April, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Noble Story joined Wikipedia on May 16, 2007. He is a big fan of the Houston Rockets, and edits many related articles, as well as articles on basketball in general. Congratulations to Noble Story (talk · contribs) on being April's GAN Reviewer of the Month!

Other outstanding reviewers during the month of April include:

Member News

There are now 212 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 17 new members that joined during the month of April:

This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

GA Topic

Do you know what a GA topic is? If you are not nodding your head, or don't know what I'm talking about, then you should pay attention to this article.

There are ten GA top-level topics (but you will spot the eleventh as this article goes along). These topics are: Arts, Language and literature, Philosophy and religion, Everyday life, Social sciences and society, Geography and places, History, Engineering and technology, Mathematics, and Natural sciences. Each of these topics are further narrowed down to more specific topics. For example, Arts can be narrowed down to Art and architecture, Music, and Theatre, film and drama. But let's not get into sub-topics in this article because of its depth.

Now you will probably ask, "I already knew this, so what is your point?" What I want to illustrate is that some people often forget a step when they promote an article to GA. After they have posted their review in the article talk page, added the article name to the corresponding topic in the good article page, increased the GA count by 1, and added the {{GA}} to article talk page, many reviewers tend to forget to add the topic parameter in {{GA}} or {{ArticleHistory}}. You can browse the topic parameter abbreviations at on this page as well as what each top-level GA topic means, because sometimes it can be chaotic and confusing to pick a topic. For example, should On the Origin of Species be placed under the Natural Science topic (because it's related to evolution), or under the Language and Literature topic (because it is a book)? The correct answer is to place it under Language and literature topic, because its categorization as a proper title supercedes other categories.

Let's go back to the page that shows GA topics; does anyone spot the eleventh topic? Yes, Category:Good articles without topic parameter is the 11th topic, only it shouldn't be there. Articles that do not have a topic parameter in either {{GA}} or {{ArticleHistory}} will be placed in this category. The topic "Uncategorized" is not very informative, is it? So if you have time, you can consider cleaning up the articles that are left in this category and move them to the appropriate category by adding a topic parameter.

That's it for this month, I hope you learned a little from it.

GA Sweeps Update

The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of April, a total of 26 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 15 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and two were delisted. There are currently six articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions. One article was exempted from review because it was promoted to FA. Two articles were exempted from review because they were already delisted by another member in the community.

We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.

Did You Know...

...that there are slightly less than twice as many Good Articles as Featured Articles?
...that the total number of Good Articles and Featured Articles combined is 6,085?
...that different languages have different symbols representing GA? (Alemannic uses , Bavarian uses , Czech and French use , Estonian, Icelandic, and Swedish use , Esperanto and German use , Polish, Spanish, and Turkish use , Portuguese uses , Russian uses , Ukrainian uses )

Note: Lithuanian and Serbian have their own symbol but only uploaded locally. Other languages not listed above either have the same symbol as english or they don't have GA process.

From the Editors

There is currently a debate on adding a small green dot to the top right corner of all Good Articles that pass the criteria, similar to the small bronze star that is added to the top right corner of Featured Articles. Members of WikiProject Good Articles are encouraged to participate in the debate on this page.

Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.

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Barnstar

Thanks for that. Thats the very first barnstar I've received and it is well appreciated. I meant to reply right away but got swept away by real world issues. Rau's Speak Page 02:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pat the Purple Dinosaur

What the Heck!?!?! Why did you have Pat The Purple Dinosaur's Page deleted?!?!?! IT'S AN INSIDE JOKE WITH MY FRIENDS YOU FREAK!! What buisiness is it of yours that it's there?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Linkwolf3 (talk • contribs) 19:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it is all my business. Anything on Wikipedia must be notable, meaning everybody should know what it is. See WP:FORUM, WP:NOTBLOG, WP:IINFO, WP:NOWRITE, WP:N, and WP:WMD. More importantly, if you do not read an of those, at least read WP:NFT, which applies specifically to your situation. Also, see WP:CIVIL, it describes how you should not come to a user's talk page and scream random insults like "YOU FREAK", etc. — Parent5446 ^{(t n c k e l)} 19:47, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RFC

I removed the RFC you placed on a FAR to the article talk page. However, I am unable to find any place where you actually filed that RFC, so I'm unable to correct the main link. Please do that step yourself. FAR is not dispute resolution; please confine the dispute to the article talk page. Thanks, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:AangAvatarState.jpg)

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Image:Gordon Parks High School (Griggs).JPG

I think you are confused. You tagged this image with a "Fair Use Dispute", although Fair Use has not been claimed. You also informed me of the tag, although User:Eoin was the person who uploaded it and released it under CC copyright. Did you intend to tag a different image, or what?--Appraiser (talk) 12:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I accidentally tagged the wrong image. Sorry. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 12:53, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem.--Appraiser (talk) 12:55, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar AFD

I don't have time to keep track of AFD debates. I leave my opinion and move on. Nothing you said sways my opinion to change. 23skidoo (talk) 12:07, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, I will leave a comment saying that on the AfD. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 12:10, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Character articles deletion

Hey, sorry for not really contributing to that, but I was not really for one way or another. I just stayed out of it. Also, your talk header is broken. Rau's Speak Page 17:29, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do not worry about it. There have been some AfDs that I wanted to stay out of also. Oh, and thanks for notifying me about my talk header. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 17:33, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Rau's Speak Page 22:43, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am under a request for comments

Hi parent. I am under a request for comments and if it's not too much trouble, could you review the issue and tell me if it has any basis. I would really like to resolve this issue as it has been taking up far too much of mine, and others, time. Rau's Speak Page 18:53, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments. They are appreciated. Rau's Speak Page 21:54, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Toph the Guardian?

When you put Toph's position in the show as Guardian what do you mean? Wouldn't it make more sense to classify Toph by her role in the series such as a supporting or major character? I also noticed that the character Katara is also classified as Guardian. Please clear this up if possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurowoofwoof111 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it is a really confusing topic. I put it there because I was looking around one day and found a list of archetypes. The list was protagonist, antagonist, guardian, reason, etc. all with definitions. However, I forgot where I found the list. I think it would be best to change it to something like "supporting character", etc. until we find something better. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 17:19, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Parent, would you mind echoing this reply on the talk page? Just nice to have the discussion shown to be undisputed on the actual avatar talk page for future easy reference. Derekloffin (talk) 21:20, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your deletion request on Image:Gordon Parks High School (Griggs).JPG

Just two quick heads up on this. 1. In the united states, copyright to photos of buildings are held by the person who took the photo, not the architect of the building. There is nothing wrong with taking a picture of a building and posting it. Also, if you want an image that is on wikimedia commons deleted, you need to put the deletion request there. --Selket ^Talk 20:14, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. I was really not sure because I thought I heard something somewhere, you know. Well, now everything is cleared up. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 20:21, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar

Sorry I took so long, you can now access it on the article's talk page. Limetolime ^{talk to me} ^• ^{look what I did!} 01:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just want to make sure

Is this you [1]? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 07:29, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, my account is using single login (it was enabled for everybody not that long ago), so any account named "Parent5446" is mine. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 12:38, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Reason why I asked is because there was an impersonator of User:TTN on Wiktionary. Of course, he was blocked [2]. See ya around, Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 17:28, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Parent5446 Bot

I was wodering if Parent5446 Bot would only be working with WP:TV, or if you do runs for other projects as well. We have some interest at WikiProject Ohio. Thanks for your time. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 02:36, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Right now I am debugging my original script, because it has a problem actually editing the task page. However, when I get it up and running, I will literally just copy the script and set it up for the Ohio project. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 11:51, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Very cool. Let me know when it's operational! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 16:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I would like to confirm that you want to create an account on the Account Creation tool? Prodego ^talk 23:32, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is true. I always wanted to help out in account creation but never found out how until now. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 23:37, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008

May issue | July issue

Project News

There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.

The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!

The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.

The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)

The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.

GA Sweeps Update

The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.

GAN Reviewer of the Month

Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!

Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:

Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.

Member News

There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:

Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
Limetolime (talk · contribs)
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
Mm40 (talk · contribs)
Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)

This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

New GA Review Process - Review Subpages

In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.

When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.

When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.

Did You Know...

... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?

From the Editors

A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).

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Your note on my talk

Huh? You claim that this is listed for CfD, but it's not. Can you please explain? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:28, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My fault, it is actually nominated for UCfD. I change the link to the discussion on your userpage. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 00:32, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks All's well. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:40, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Reply

§hep • ¡Talk to me! 01:27, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did file a minor bug report. But it's nothing huge. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 01:39, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Account creator rights

Per your request on Meta, I've granted you the Account Creator right on English Wikipedia. Please note that normally these rights are requested on WT:ACC or to an administrator involved in that project. Thanks for the hard work. ~Kylu (u|t) 01:52, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. I asked somebody on the accounts mailing list to do it, but the person has not yet responded, so I decided to go elsewhere. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 01:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FIRE ACCIDENTS HAPPENED IN INDIA

SIR CAN I KNOW HOW MANY ACCIDENTS OCCURED IN INDIA AT WHAT TIME AND HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED IN THAT ACCIDENTS?

HELP —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neerajsingh08 (talk • contribs) 05:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

May I ask what you are talking about? — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 12:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dunno

Hey, I was wondering if you knew what happened to: Wikipedia:WikiProject Avatar: The Last Airbender/Episode Citations. I was checking on one of the templates and I noticed the link was red. When did it get deleted? And also, Avatar: The Last Airbender lost FA status, just letting you know for your little banner on your user page. Rau's Speak Page 05:27, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I'm not sure about the episode citations page. That's wierd. Oh, well, it only takes about five minutes to make a new one. And thanks for reminding me about the main Avatar article, I almost forgot to update my user page. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 12:51, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think it has something to do with our becoming a task force (which I still hate, makes me feel like I'm serving someone)? Like do you think when they were redirecting they thought it was useless and deleted it? Rau's Speak Page 21:11, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What might of happened is that they forgot to move it (you never know), and it got deleted after a while through housekeeping or something. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 21:20, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, yea. Didn't think of that. Kay, that answers my question about as best as it could be. (Without asking the deletionist-if thats a word). Rau's Speak Page 21:24, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Usertalkback bug

Dear Parent5446: I noticed that today the Usertalkback template started adding an extra --> after itself on my talk page, and using Special:Whatlinkshere to spot-check, I was able to determine that was the case with all user talk pages transcluding the template. In looking at the diff, here, of your new feature, I saw that you removed a line that read ") and the close of the <includeonly> tag. As such, there was an extra bit of html closing a comment whose open tag no longer existed. This was the cause of the display bug. I went ahead and updated the template, and the bug is gone, but I wanted to let you know you had introduced it and that I had gone ahead and fixed it. Thanks. ⇔ ∫Æ_S dt @ 00:55, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that, I'll never be absolutely perfect when I code templates. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 01:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's all good. I just wanted to let you know I had gone and made the update, in case you had intended to make a different change than the one I did. ⇔ ∫Æ_S dt @ 01:04, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 01:10, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar aang of the southern air temple

why do you keep editing my stuff like "iroh, abilities" what i put is true so dont edit un less you can prove me wrong and if you can tell me about it on my talk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avatar aang of the southern air temple (talk • contribs) 08:14, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I encourage you to read WP:V, Wikipedia's main policy on verifiability. It clearly states that Wikipedia is not based on truth but sources. If you put something into an article that is not sourced, no matter how true it may be, it will be removed. Furthermore, putting sources in is quite easy. All you have to do is type <ref>{{cite XXX|.....}}</ref>, replacing XXX with something like 'web', 'episode', or 'news', depending on what you are citing, and replacing ..... with parameters such as '|title=Avatar |url=http://avatarrocks.com', etc. One other thing, sources also have to be reliable. To find out more about that, read WP:RS. One more thing, whenever you leave a comment on anybody or an article's talk page, put ~~~~ at the end to add a signature saying who made the comment. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 15:19, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

oh,ok i didnt know that im sorry igot mad at you . i would like to be your friendok thanks for the information and keep in touch byye sincerly, avatar aang of the southern air temple. p.s. are you really a parent? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avatar aang of the southern air temple (talk • contribs) 05:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad we can reach an agreement. Don't worry about getting mad, it always happens every so often. BTW, I am not really a parent. Happy editing! — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 11:42, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

question

how do you post pictures of people or thingson a page (ex: a picture of momo for his wiki page) sincerly, avatar aang of the southern air temple

You see, users are allowed to upload pictures when they become "autoconfirmed". See Wikipedia:Established users. All this means is that you probably have to wait a couple of days. Once that happens, you should see an "Upload file" link in the toolbox part of your sidebar. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 11:44, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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→hi, i,d like to add two iranian journalists to wikipedia 1 nooshabeh amiri; political journalist, she is the first iranian journaalist who interviewed ayatollah khomeiny on his way back to iran in 1979 now she is in paris and works as the member of the editorial desk on roozonline www.roozonline.com

2 houshang asadi:

he is an iranian writer and journalist.he has written and translated some booke including the Gorbeh(cat) recently published in sewden —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maryam.kashani (talk • contribs) 08:57, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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DavidS6083 (talk) 02:18, 30 June 2008 (UTC)Davids6083[reply]

Hey DavidS6083. If you want to add a reference of a book to an article, it is quite simple. First, find the specific place where you need to place the reference (see WP:V about the overall policy on referencing). Then, click the "edit" link next to that section, or press "edit this page" at the top of the page. When the edit page comes up, follow the instructions on Template:Cite book to put a {{Cite book}} template in. Usually, it looks something like this:

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There are other parts if necessary, such as |isbn= if the book has an ISBN number, etc. Hope this helped you. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 21:31, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spirit World

What ever happened to the plans for the Spirit World article? I was surprised to see it even existed, and when I looked at the AfD, it said merge. But it never happened. Do you know why? Rau's Speak Page 17:21, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I was a little caught up with the whole Bending article merge that I did not have time yet. The merge is between all the nations article and the Spirit World article, so I need to trim each article selectively before text dumping and fixing everything. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 22:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, okay. I thought it was just abandoned. I figured I'd ask before doing anything to it. Rau's Speak Page 03:36, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 2)‎ GA

The article passed it's GA review, with only a few minor issues that I took care of. It was a well written article about a well done show. Good job. Black ngold29 20:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Featured Topic

haha169 thinks that if we can bring the main list back to FL, Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3) up to GA, and either Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 1) or Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 2) up to FA, then we can get a featured topic on this subject. Current Status:

Required Status:

I don't know how up to speed you are yet, but I wanted to make certain that you got this. I figure once the heat cools down it'll be easier. And I see you are already working on Season 3. Rau's Speak Page 02:15, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Believe it or not (I have this on my userpage), that was actually my plan the whole time. The only thing is that don't we need 5 articles for a featured topic. If so, we can just get the main list and the main article to FL and FA respectively, and leave the season articles at GA for now. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 21:27, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, we are pretty close to having the list at FL, just a few more minor changes and we'll implement the new version. It looks so nice. But the way Haha put it, it only focused on the lists. I don't think the main article was considered. But that shouldn't be too hard. Rau's Speak Page 21:39, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I checked. I was wrong on needing five. It would probably be best to only use the episode articles, since they more clearly related. OK, everything checks out. I just copyedited the season 3 episode summaries, and I'm going to rewrite the lead before PR. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(message email)} 22:07, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's cool. Good luck, not that it needs it. It looks pretty good. Rau's Speak Page 22:28, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The list of episodes has had two reviewers, and niether has complained about the DVD table. That tells me it was a good idea to make it. Kudos, maybe you'll start a trend. Rau's Speak Page 16:12, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 10 – August 2008

July issue

Project News

There are currently 4,675 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.

The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 141 unreviewed articles. Out of 186 total nominations, 28 are on hold, 14 are under review, and 3 are seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!

The oldest unreviewed articles are: Juggernaut (wrestler), Dark Angel (wrestler), Irrigation in Peru, Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting, Coltrane for Lovers, Bayshore Freeway, Jon Cryer, Heather Mills, New York State Route 273, and Tsugaru clan.

The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film, and drama (28 articles), Sports and recreation (27 articles), Music (22 articles), Transport (18 articles), and War and military (13 articles).

There are currently 4 articles up for re-review at Good Article Reassessment. Congratulations! There really is no "backlog" here! :-)

GA Sweeps is Recruiting Reviewers

GAN Reviewer of the Month

ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for July, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. ThinkBlue had a whopping 49 reviews during the month of July! ThinkBlue was also one of our two reviewers of the month from June, and has been editing Wikipedia since December 1, 2006, and is interested in articles dealing with Friends, Will and Grace, CSI:Miami, Monday Night Raw, Coldplay.

Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!

Other outstanding reviewers during the month of July include:

Also, with 17 nominations, Mr.crabby (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month.

Member News

There are now 223 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 7 new members that joined during the month of July:

This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

GA Sweeps Process

The GA Sweeps process has recently reached its first year anniversary. If you are unaware of what GA Sweeps is, it is a process put in place to help ensure the integrity of the ever-growing number of GAs, by determining if the articles still meet the GA criteria. Experienced reviewers check each article, improving articles as they review them, and delisting those that no longer meet the criteria. Reviewers work on a specific category of GAs, and there are still many categories that need to be swept. In order to properly keep track of reviews, a set date was used to determine what articles needed to be reviewed (since any future GAs would be passed according to the most recent GA criteria).

The number of GAs that were to be reviewed totals 2,808. Since the beginning of Sweeps, the progress has reviewed 981 by the end of July 2008 (or exempted them). For a table and chart breakdown of the current progress, see here.

With more than twenty editors reviewing the articles, progress is currently a third of the way done. At this rate, it will take another two years to complete the Sweeps, and active involvement is imperative to completing on time. We are always looking for new reviewers, and if you are interested in helping in speeding up the Sweeps process and improving your reviewing skills, please contact OhanaUnited.

Did You Know...

... that the goal of GA Sweeps is to reviewed all articles listed before 26 August 2007?
... that the entire category of, "Meteorology and atmospheric sciences" has been swept?
... that of all subcategories, "Recordings, compositions and performances" in the Music category has the most articles (240 articles in total)?
... that the GA project was recently mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article entitled, "Wikipedians Leave Cyberspace, Meet in Egypt," on Wikipedia on August 8, 2008?

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Just a friendly notice to let you know that I nominated Season One of Avatar for FLC. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 05:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Motto of the day

Hello, I notice you're using one of the {{motd}} templates, run by Wikipedia:Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.

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FLC Failure of Avatar (season 1)

So, this just a friendly notice to let you know that the FLC failed as no consensus. I'm planning to renominate again soon though, and I was wondering if you could contribute to a review of the article before I do so. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 19:26, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia Signpost — February 23, 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 8, which includes these articles:

Philosophers analyze Wikipedia as a knowledge source
An automated article monitoring system for WikiProjects
News and notes: Wikimania, usability, picture contest, milestones
Wikipedia in the news: Lessons for Brits, patent citations
Dispatches: Hundredth Featured sound approaches
Wikiproject report: WikiProject Islam
Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Wikipedia Signpost — 2 March 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:

Books extension enabled
News and notes: Stewards, Wikimania bids, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia's role in journalism, Smarter Wikipedia, Skittles
Dispatches: WikiProject Ships Featured topic and Good topics
Wikiproject report: WikiProject Norse History and Culture
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Wikipedia Signpost — 9 March 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 10, which includes these articles:

News and notes: Commons, conferences, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Politics, more politics, and more
Dispatches: 100 Featured sounds milestone
Wikiproject report: WikiProject Christianity
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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— 16 March 2009

News and notes: License update, Commons cartoons, films milestone, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Manufactured scandal, Wikipedia assignments, and more
Dispatches: New FAC and FAR appointments
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Wikipedia Signpost: 23 March 2009

From the editor: Reviewing books for the Signpost
Special report: Abuse Filter is enabled
News and notes: Flaggedrevs, copyright project, fundraising reports, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Alternatives, IWF threats, and more
Features and admins: Approved this week
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 04:21, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment of DeviantArt

Hi, I have requested a community Good Article Reassessment of DeviantArt, which I think you promoted to GA. You may comment at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/DeviantArt/1. Aleta ^Sing 18:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost: 30 March 2009

From the editor: Follow the Signpost with RSS and Twitter
Special report: Community weighs license update
News and notes: End of Encarta, flagged revisions poll, new image donation, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Censorship, social media in schools, and more
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 20:22, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost: 6 April 2009

Special report: Interactive OpenStreetMap features in development
News and notes: Statistics, Wikipedia research and more
Wikipedia in the news: Wikia Search abandoned, university plagiarism, and more
Dispatches: New FAC and FAR nomination process
WikiProject report: WikiProject China
Features and admins: Approved this week
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Wikipedia Signpost: 13 April 2009

License update: Licensing vote begins
News and notes: WMF petitions Obama, longer AFDs, UK meeting, and more
Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
WikiProject report: WikiProject Color
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Wikipedia Signpost: 20 April 2009

Book reviews: Reviews of The Wikipedia Revolution
Wikipedia by numbers: Wikipedia's coverage and conflicts quantified
News and notes: New program officer, survey results, and more
Dispatches: Valued pictures
WikiProject report: WikiProject Film
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Delivered by SoxBot II (talk) at 19:02, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost: 27 April 2009

Book reviews: Reviews of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
News and notes: Usability study, Wiki Loves Art, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia Art dispute, and brief headlines
WikiProject report: Interview on WikiProject Final Fantasy
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Delivered by SoxBot II (talk) at 04:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Sweeps invitation

Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.

We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 08:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost: 11 May 2009

News and notes: Wikimania 2010, usability project, link rot, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Quote hoax replicated in traditional media, and more
Dispatches: WikiProject Birds reaches an FA milestone
WikiProject report: WikiProject Michael Jackson
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Wikipedia Signpost: 18 May 2009

From the editor: Writers needed
Special report: WikiChemists and Chemical Abstracts announce collaboration
Special report: Embassies sponsor article-writing contests in three languages
News and notes: Wiki Loves Arts winners, Wikimania Conference Japan, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Arbitrator blogs, French government edits, brief headlines
WikiProject report: WikiProject Opera
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 13:19, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost: 25 May 2009

License update: Licensing vote results announced, resolution passed
News and notes: New board member, flagged revisions, Eurovision interviews
Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia: threat or menace?
WikiProject report: WikiProject LGBT studies
Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Wikipedia Signpost: 1 June 2009

From the editor: Browsing the archives
Book review: Review of The Future of the Internet
Scientology: End of Scientology arbitration brings blocks, media coverage
News and notes: Picture of the Year, Wikipedia's first logo, Board elections, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Tamil Wikipedia, Internet Watch Foundation, and more
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Wikipedia:Essays

I have reverted you're edit to Wikipedia:Essays, because I think that the page should redirect to a policy or guideline about, essays, not an essay about essays. Just thought I should let you know.--Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 00:01, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost: 15 June 2009

Book review :Review of Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
News and notes: License update, Google Translate, GLAM conference, Paid editing
Wikipedia in the news: In the Google News, London Review of Books, and more
WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemistry
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 11:59, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost: 22 June 2009

Special report:Study of vandalism survival times
News and notes: Wikizine, video editing, milestones
Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia impacts town's reputation, assorted blogging
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:11, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost: 29 June 2009

News and notes: Jackson's death, new data center, more
Wikipedia in the news: Google News Support, Wired editor plagiarizes Wikipedia, Rohde's kidnapping, Michael Jackson
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 02:19, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost: 6 July 2009

News and notes: Commons grant, license change, new chapters, usability and more
Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia and kidnapping, new comedy series
WikiProject report: WikiProject Food and Drink
Features and admins: Approved this week
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:15, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Motto of the Day

Hi there, Parent5446! Thought you might be interested in Motto of the Day, a collaborative (and totally voluntary) effort by a group of Wikipedians to create original, inspirational mottos. Have a good motto idea? Share it here, comment on some of the mottos there or just pass this message onto your friends.

MOTD Needs Your Help!

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Wikipedia Signpost: 27 July 2009

From the editor: Welcome to the build-your-own edition of the Signpost
Board elections: Board of Trustees elections draw 18 candidates for 3 seats
Wiki-Conference: Wikimedians and others gather for Wiki-Conference New York
Wikipedia Academy: Volunteers lead Wikipedia Academy at National Institutes of Health
News and notes: Things that happened in the Wikimedia world
Wikipedia in the news: Assorted news coverage of Wikipedia
Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
WikiProject report: WikiProject Oregon
Features and admins: Approved this week
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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