User talk:Twooars/Archive 3

MCB collaboration of the month

Thanks for the heads-up. I've updated the stuff. Extracellular matrix is the new choice. Tim Vickers 21:14, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XVI - September 2007

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Project news During August we signed up to the WikiProject advertising facility {{wikipedia ads}} initiative. Our tagged articles now number over 14,000 and more are being added every day. In reality the article count for our project scope is likely to be much higher so the more who can get involved and assist the process of improving the quality of the articles the better. Member news The project has currently 261 members, 7 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of August 2007. A number of editors have signed up to our "task forces" without signing to the main project so the figure could be slightly higher. Other news Although many editors are doing sterling work actually working on writing and maintaining articles we could always do with more volunteers to assist with the project wide tasks. Our Collaboration of the Month is in need of more suggested articles for our attention and more votes for those already proposed. Novel related news The eagerly awaited Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson is ever closer now, due for release October 9, 2007 in the U.S., October 18 in the UK. As the second part of the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever#The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant it should seal the character of this trilogy as the closing set from this classic sequence of fantasy novels. Current debates One experienced editor has requested feedback on guidelines such as WP:FICT and WP:WAF. Check out his comments first and get your views felt.	From the Members Welcome to the sixteenth issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do. We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask. Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk), Initiating Editor Collaboration of the Month This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is The Firm (novel). Newsletter challenge Last month's The Sphinx of the Ice Fields challenge had quickly a short line about it by New Babylon 2 (talk · contribs). The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone, which currently is only a redirect.
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Wotcha

Ah Ha ! You're reading my miserable efforts at article writing and sorting them out! Saw two flag up on the watch list. Thanks TwoOars! Pedro |  Chat  14:31, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Heh. Caught me. - TwoOars (Rev) 14:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah! Seriously, the more the merrier. They're not great articles (though they made DYK). Other than when they had the main page entries, very little has been done other than by me - it's brilliant to have some fresh eyes on the text, particularly the edits you just did to Twyford School and my spelling error on borders - doh doh doh!!! Pedro |  Chat  14:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks a lot for your help. I couldn't figure out what was going on! Anyway, thanks again. :)

OES23 20:21, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Good evening, Two Oars

I would like to thank you again for helping me with my article.You were truly a big help, saving my article like that! I have put more references in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, you might want to check it out and tell me if it is OK. Is it still deletable? Yes, you told me to find reference in English, but there are so many in other languages. By the way, I hope this is the right place to contact you. I thought that if I write to you from my page, how will you know about it? I am a bit upset about this. I am sorry I deleted the warning messages, but they were coming in as I was writing the article, they didn't even let me finish the article. I am studying hard now, I Want to be a wikipidian!However, I am getting lost in the Help material, it is so much stuff there! Thank you so much, you have been very kind. I wish you a great evening,Arind 23:24, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Editor Review:

I replied to your comments at Wikipedia:Editor review/Spawn Man3 - Thanks for leaving them. :) Spawn Man 06:27, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I moved discussion to this page User_talk:Spawn_Man/RfA_Standards - Continue it there if you really have to... Spawn Man 04:55, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, I don't really have to do anything. Consider the matter closed. - TwoOars (Rev) 05:01, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Kewl. See ya around then... :) Spawn Man 05:23, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: not really into barnstars and wikilove...

Wow, thanks! And I also wikilove the headline; it's a close second to this one :) — [ aldebaer⁠] 22:05, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

hehe, funny. - TwoOars (Rev) 22:08, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I moved it directly to my userpage, because I'm such a modest person... — [ aldebaer⁠] 22:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

lol. You obviously are modest. :D - TwoOars (Rev) 22:28, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Earle Martin

Your comment has been replied to on this RfA. Lradrama 10:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Re:User:68.236.24.19

Just letting you know, it looks like this person is here solely for the purpose of disrupting Wikipedia. He's obsessed with Star Trek's "Immunity Syndrome" episode where they encounter a giant Amoeba in space and he has to keep adding that reference to the Amoeba article. Likewise he keeps changing the "Immunity Syndrome" where he adds a personal comments about this being the point where teh show "jumped the shark". He keeps violating the 3RR, been told numerous times to stop and makes personal attacks against those who tell him. He's been banned for 24 hours already but like clockwork, once the ban lifted he's back at it again. He needs to be perma-banned apparently. Cyberia23 15:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah someone blocked him for a week because he went right back to vandalizing again. Cyberia23 20:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

I passed my RfA, and couldn't have done it without your trust and support. Thank you very much. — Hex (❝?!❞) 12:55, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Barneca RfA thank you spam

TwoOars, thank you for your support during my RfA, especially after the concerns that were brought up by other editors. I'll keep all of the comments in mind in the coming months, and will try again later. In the mean time, if you see me doing something stupid, please let me know. See you around. --barneca (talk) 13:07, 20 September 2007 (UTC) Bold text

DH RfA

I don't agree with u dood. Cliques form. They just happen and it has been happening that way since the dawn of time. The only way to abstain from it is to say, Hey Twooars, I enjoy working with you, but I can only do it every other Tuesday, because as we are heading in a direction where it may be construed that we are a clique. Besides I don't get the objection to cliques. Is it some residual disdain for high school that carries over into Wikipedia? I mean, cliques form at work, school, the internet, so why not here? It is inevitable. A Wikiproject is nothing more than a sanctioned clique of people that interact at predominantly the same pages. People are so quick to point out that Wikipedia is not a social networking site. I somewhat disagree. The very nature of consensus, talk pages, and voting is implicitly social. How about Wikimania? I suppose people there know each other. I would say so. I'm afraid I will still have to assert that your oppose is no good in my opinion. As far as being insane, ehh. I don't think it's insane nor do I feel you have any hint of insanity. I just think we disagree on the issue of socializing withing the construct of Wikipedia.

I didn't mean to offend. As to your telling me where to place questions to the opposer, I'll try not to take offense as I know where they go. I didn't question your oppose - I used it as part of a laundry list so there was no reason for me to put it in the 'right' place. It's ironic that you chose to bring this up on my talk page, as the proper place to respond to a comment, is underneath the original comment in an effort to keep a sense of continuity here at Wikipedia. <--- See how condescending that sounds. We both know where things go. Next time I question your reasoning, I'll send you a text ;) the_undertow ^talk 18:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I think things are getting clearer. "Socializing" as in forgetting why we are here - yeah...that's a problem. I also am not the most tolerant with people bombing user pages with wikilove nor thanking them for their participation in RfA. We probably agree on socializing, but just haven't really discussed it in depth, until now. I'll call you later. the_undertow ^talk 18:31, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Interactive_agency

Dear, i did the changes belong my article, can you check it? how i know when i publish it (jonh_creavs i think was it who tell me i can do this now)the guy who deleted it, will not delete it again? Thanks a lot, you are a GREAT support! really!

Me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Interactive agency (talk • contribs) 23:11, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a new administrator!

Thanks, Archive 3! Thank you for voicing your opinion in my RfA, which passed today with a unanimous 79/0/0 tally. It feels great to be appreciated, and I will try my best to meet everyone's expectations. If you have any advice or tips, feel free to pass them along, as I am sure that I will need them! Cheers, hmwith talk 21:34, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

RfAs

Hi there. Thank you for the kind words about my my RfA, which passed 63 to 1. Thanks again, and I hope to do my best. Now, on those others: they were both close calls. I did look again at both EnSamulili and Samulili, and again came to the same conclusion on this one. The editor has less than 3,000 edits total on both accounts, often fails to use all-important edit summaries, and hasn't used Wikipedia space much -- i.e., AfD, AIV, etc. There is no way to measure the editor's potential effectiveness as a sysop. That is different from the Czech editor, User:Aktron, who is already a sysop elsewhere, although the consensus was against me. Bearian 13:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

For more information on my WP:RFA standards, I find this essay to be helpful. Bearian 13:23, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll take a look again. I did not see anywhere that User:Samulili was already a sysp elsewhere in WP. Bearian 16:40, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XVII - October 2007

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Project news The Articles-Images in danger of deletion noticeboard page was created for the project. The page can be used by project editors to alert each other where articles or images are under challenge in some way in Wikipedia. Project members are still more than welcome to make use or comment on the Novels WikiProject peer review department. Member news The project has currently 274 members, 13 joined & 0 leavers since the last newsletter at the start of September 2007 Other news Reminder: the ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned after 1 January 2007, and 10 digits long if assigned before 2007. ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 can both be used in the book template, see related discussion here. In either case just prefix the number with the string "ISBN". Enthusiastic Novel's WP members are welcome to edit the list of missing works available in The Literary Encyclopedia — a part of WikiProject Missing articles, an effort to use outside sources to determine what articles are missing from Wikipedia. Novel related news Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is undergoing FA review. Current debates The genre "Plausible fiction" is discussed here. The revival of the so-called automated lists is suggested.	From the Members Welcome to the seventeenth issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do. We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask. Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk), Initiating Editor Collaboration of the Month This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is The Handmaid's Tale. Newsletter challenge Last month's Over Sea, Under Stone challenge had quickly a short stub about it by Applejuicefool (talk · contribs). It did need some rapid work to expand it, but there you go. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Angus Wilson's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot.
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Requests for adminship

Wanted to say thanks for your support regarding my adminship proposal -and of course for taking the time to give me a once over. I hope to learn for this process as well, no matter how it turns out. I was just trying to avoid being too verbose (which I have a tendency to do) in my personal introduction statement. Short and sweet. Cheers and thank you again! Wisdom89 16:58, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Click there to open your card! → → →

My dear Wikipedian Twooars,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 36 supports, 3 opposed, and 1 neutral. No matter if you !voted support, oppose, neutral, or even if you just stopped by to make a comment, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. Since I am a new admin, if you have any suggestions or concerns, feel free to inform me of them. Thank you and good day.

The Placebo Effect

Credits

This RFA thanks was inspired by The Random Editor, who in turn was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks. So unfortunately this is not entirely my own design.

This end the usual RFA thanks spam. You may return to your regular editing now.

My recent RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA, which unfortunately didn't succeed. The majority of the opposes stated that I needed more experience in the main namespace and Wikipedia namespace, so that is what I will do. I will go for another RfA in two month's time and I hope you will be able to support me then as well. If you have any other comments for me or wish to be notified when I go for another RfA, please leave them on my talk page. If you wish to nominate me for my next RfA, please wait until it has been two months. Thanks again for participating in my RfA! -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 00:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Centriole-schema.SVG

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Re:Hi

No worries at all, as I said we resolved the whole thing there and then. And thankyou for spotting the mistake in the reply to that RfA query, with the double negative and that! Totally unintentional! ;-) Lradrama 07:23, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		In recognition of your excellent contributions to Wikipedia, and especially for saving me from a great deal of embarassment when spotting a grammatical mistake in a reply I sent to an enquiring user about his RfA, I award you this barnstar. With love and best wishes, Lradrama 07:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Soulja Girl

Twooars,

U said: problem was with ({Soulja Boy}) which was vandalised. Now corrected.. I dont understand.

1) The prob was the template or that Soulja Boy page?

2) I think the info is good & matters...it should stay. It jsut needs to be 1's owns, words,no copying from elsewhere. Thx.

The template {{Soulja Boy}} was vandalised, by adding material from the article Soulja Boy ie., the material is already there in the article Soulja Boy. Hope that makes it clear. You can also check the history of the template to see what I'm talking about. :) (I also added a note at User talk:70.108.99.177 but you are on a different IP now, which is why you didn't get to see it.) - TwoOars (Rev) 21:29, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

A very, very late welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Twooars, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ~~~~; this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 22:30, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Successful RfA - Thank you!

Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It was successful, and I was promoted to Administrator today. I appreciate the support! — KieferSkunk (talk) — 23:10, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Biology collaboration

Sad but probably true. Seems people are mostly interested in military history and Pokemon. I've made pointers to the discussion at several locations, though I haven't gone to the trouble of posting in every science/biology project. Richard001 06:32, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

My (KWSN's) RFA

Thank you for supporting my recent (and successful!) RfA. It passed at at 55/17/6. Kwsn (Ni!) 01:06, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate your comments

and have said something similar to Jmlk17 here. However, just to keep it from swamping my RfA, could it be taken even to the talk page, instead? I'm not going to delete anything (though if you want to move your own comments or the conversation and instead note the move, that would be fine), I just think the scope is going beyond the scope of one RfA.

Thank you so much for your support. --Thespian 10:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Communication

Communication is the problem. I have social axiety. Even when I cannot see the person, I get nervous when "put on the spot" as I was in the Rfa. Also, since I would have worked with blocking, I only really focused on blocking policy. Other policies are not a area I know a lot about. I will be taking a better look at all the policies, and I will try to memorize much of them.--SJP 22:46, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Novels Collaboration of the Month

You supported Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which has been selected as the Novels WikiProject's new Collaboration of the Month. Please help improve this article towards featured article standard. EncycloPetey 01:34, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Click "show" to see my message. What is meant to be and what is not... Thank you for your recent comments and vote at my Request for Adminship. It was not successful. I don't believe this is unfortunate as it leaves me with much to ponder and a fresh slate from which I can better myself as an editor in order to be more compliant with the policies that are expected by Wikipedia. If you feel that there is anything that was not covered by the RfA that I need improvement in, I would implore your input and feedback as I hope and intend to improve as best I'm guided. All the best in your own endeavours in the real world, and also when you're not on Wikipedia. lincalinca 14:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XVIII - November 2007

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Thanks

Thank you for supporting me in my recent RFA which unfortunately did not pass at (47/23/5). I will be sure to improve my editing skills and wait till someone nominates me next time. Have a great day(or night)! --Hdt83 ^Chat 05:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Admin?

Hi there, I was wondering if you had considered becoming an admin? I'd be happy to nominate you if you wanted to. Tim Vickers 18:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Ditto. But I'd advise not yet. Give it another 6-8 weeks. My talk page is open for further explanation, but I would most certainly support and be delighted to nominate in the near future. You're the kind of editor we need to have the buttons. Pedro :  Chat  20:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually, your response is exactly why you should be an admin! However I respect your belief in this (and agree totally) and should you ever change your mind I'd be delighted to support such a level headed and genuine editor. Best. Pedro :  Chat  21:41, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your support.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November? Thank you to everyone who participated in my Request for adminship, which was successful at 50/5/0 on November 5th, 2007. It became, as you may know, rather contentious toward the end (though fortunately no gunpowder was involved), and I appreciate the work of other Wikipedians to keep it focused. --Thespian 02:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

RfA

It's obvious you and I have differing opinions on RfA. I know you asserted what it actually is, but there is not rule on what is to be discussed. If two editors have put an issue to bed, I don't see why it is brought up at RfA but an uninvolved party. Just because what we do is public, doesn't mean it's applicable to the general public. Her answering of that question would be like talking out of school, and I really would look at her 9K edits in conjunction with the diff you stumbled upon. Regards, the_undertow ^talk 04:01, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

If I did that much work at GA, I'd take things personally as well. It's human. Besides, when people vandalize the guinea pig page, I get more pissed than usual, but it doesn't affect my skills as an admin. RfA is what you make of it, and we have different approaches. the_undertow ^talk 19:30, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Your Q

Thank you for your question here; I'm glad a third party noticed. If I was offered an apology I must have missed it; she did apologize in that thread and then repeated the accusation subsequently. Marskell 11:30, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

True, I had not read the conversation that followed the apology. But I hope it's all resolved now. - TwoOars (Rev) 22:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

If you voted in my RFA...

...thank you for your participation. I withdrew with 83 supports, 42 opposes, and 8 neutrals. Your kind words and constructive criticism are very much appreciated. I look forward to using the knowledge I have accrued through the process to better the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers and Wikidudeman for their co-nominations.

Thank you again and, best regards. VanTucky ^Talk

This RFA thanks was inspired by Lara❤Love's

DYK

On 3 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Microbial cyst, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 14:27, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XIX - December 2007

Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XIX - December 2007
Project news A fairly quiet month in November. However we had a fairly successful COTM with the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland article with 85 modifications made. The success of which I will leave to your assessment. Member news The project has currently 290 members, 8 joined & 0 leavers since the start of November 2007 Task force news The Fantasy task force has got off to a really good start with now 13 members. Do cooperate one with another and make it really work for us. If any group of editors sees a need for a new "task force" then let us know. Also we can link a WikiProject in as a task force (as Australian task force), this has the benefit of reducing the level of effort dissipation and also advertising interest areas in more than one location. Novel related news The slightly controversial novel series in the fantasy genre, the The Sword of Truth series by American writer Terry Goodkind reaches its conclusion with the publication of the final novel Confessor. It is controversial for its espousal of the writer's objectivist philosophy. Slightly old news now but Madeleine L'Engle (born November 29, 1918), the American writer best known for her children's books, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters, has died of natural causes on September 6, 2007 taken from the Portal:Literature - news section Current debates Some discussion is going on about the "Activation of Members". To which end a "clearing house" of jobs and volunteers is being trialled at Novels Job Centre. Have a look and see what you think.	From the Members Welcome to the nineteenth issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do. We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask. Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk), Initiating Editor Collaboration of the Month This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Sons and Lovers. New suggestions always welcome! Newsletter challenge Last month's challenge (The Barracks) was completed by WikiProject Novels participant Blathnaid. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (hint).
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