User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive70

Happy New Year

Thanks for your greetings and a Happy and Prosperous New year to you also. I am still going slow at the admin business and it nearly stopped for a while while I was overseas and then catching up with other stuff on my return. I cleared some AfD yesterday though. Cheers, Brian. --Bduke (talk) 06:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers BBB and thank you for your New Year's wishes. Here's to working on that P R O S P E R O U S year! --VS ^talk 07:00, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And thanks and best wishes for the New Year from me as well. As for a wonderful New Years Day; it was 41 here, too hot for me! Back to work (in an air-conditioned office) was actually a relief. Speaking of nationalist conquests there will be another campaign very soon. Your comments, suggestions, criticisms and improvements, as always, are welcome. Cheers, Mattinbgn\^talk 07:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, many thanks for your good wishes, mate, and the very best to you also. Re. Real Top Guns, SBS reception's a bit dodgy where I am so I'll probably get it out on DVD if/when it's available. Re. nationalist conquests, heh, when I saw that I assumed for some reason that you were talking about a recent test match... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 07:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year to you too! Best of luck in getting all of The Invincibles to FA status. :D Nishkid64 (talk) 07:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Haha! Indeed it has! He got promoted and isn't around our department often now. New Year greetings to you too. Hope you had a great start to '08.--thunderboltz ^(TALK) 08:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the greeting. Happy New Year to you too. JRG (talk) 08:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Bln, happy new year to you too. Tintin 08:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year! Sorry to disappoint, but my New Years Day was rather unpleasant. I hope you had a good one, as I did on New Years Eve. Here, have a smoothie ↑ James086^{Talk | Email} 09:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers mate. I have managed to miss most of RTG, but I'm sure it will come round again. BTW did you hear that Nguyen is now reported to be one of the 10 most popular Aussie surnames? :-) Grant | Talk 10:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, about 40% of Viets have that surname. The Nguyen lords gave that surname to all their subjects who went south into what is now southern Vietnam during the southward expansion. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Happy New Years to you as well. Heres to a more active (and hopefully will find the time personally be more active this year). --Arnzy (talk · contribs) 14:30, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK update

Binguyen are you active? The update is late again, if you can find the time. Gatoclass (talk) 09:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I had departed for the day. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As for

New year greetings - from the north of NSW (or SE of Qld) watching the cricket in sydney while the rain is bucketing down (no bananas in sight) - is enough to make one want to go south for summer weather !!! Satu Suro 09:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for your good wishes. I also take this opportunity to wish you all the best for the New Year - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 10:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and thank you very much for nice New Year greetings. I hope your celebrations were so joyful and wild as mine. :) I wish you also all the best in the upcoming year. By the way I love your yellow impersonation, especially when he is sitting and learning. :) - Darwinek (talk) 10:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note, and the season's greetings to you too. Tony (talk) 10:24, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and Happy New Year

Firstly, let me wish you a very happy New Year and thank you for all your help in the Milhist Tag & Assess 2007 drive.

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 250 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 500 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 1000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Secondly, although the Tag & Assess 2007 drive is now officially closed, you are very welcome to continue tagging and assessing until 31 January 2008. Any articles you tag and assess during this time will be credited fully to your tagging tally for further award purposes.

Thirdly, if you can find the time, it would be good to have your feedback/comments on the drive at the Tag & Assess workshop

Thanks again for your help, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I had hard time going for 250, and here you done a complete 1000! Congrats! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 12:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, I was lucky not to get repetitive strain injury. Lol not really. It was only about 7-8 hours of labor split into small 30 minute runs. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year

...to you as well. Thanks for the message, and I hope to do as well this year as I did last year. Stay safe, and good luck. TomStar81 (Talk) 11:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:Blnguyen winter.JPG

Dreaming of cooler times.........Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And from me. Thanks for the message - I hope you're not roasting too much. I'm counting the days until I'm back! JPD (talk) 11:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I hope you had a good New Year as well! This year can't possibly be worse than 2007! Cheers and hope to see you around. :) Spawn Man (talk) 11:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the New Year wishes. How did your monkey friend pull up after the big night? :) No pics? -- Longhair\^talk 13:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

erm, I will have to retrospectively simulate some visual coverage....Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and best wishes to you as well! Kirill 13:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your New Years greetings. A Happy New Year to you too. I hope your enjoying the cricket. :P. Kyriakos (talk) 11:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks mate. Judging by your name I guess you'll be celebrating Tết in a couple of months. I'll look forward to wishing you a happy and prosperous one then. Hesperian 11:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there Blnguyen, thanks for the greetings and the same to you, have a great New Year and hope your holidays were relaxing. As always, if you need anything, you know where I am. Woody (talk) 21:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You too. I've been enjoying a break up the coast.--Grahame (talk) 13:37, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

173

I updated my mainpage count and got only 173 - perhaps you counted the ones on nomination page? PS. I did a quick count of my noms (some of which I expanded and are borderline :>) and got 71, and updated the stats page with that number. PS. I've improved the ref quality for Ice (book), I hope it can be featured now (see also my reply at T:TDYK).--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 12:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, done. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

re AN/I and Pandiyann

Thanks. I was wondering when someone was going to look at that thread! Avruchtalk 00:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I don't follow that article, but the fellow did remind me of a few angry Tamil editors that I had encountered in the past. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

T:DYK.

Blnguyen, is there any reason why you didn't protect Image:Society for Savings Building Cleveland.JPG before pasting it (and the hooks) onto T:DYK? I'm new at DYK, so I'm slightly lost... (I protected it just in case; if I was wrong to do that, please do revert me.) · AndonicO ^{Hail Wiki!} 02:16, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, Nishkid left me a note explaining. · AndonicO ^Hail! 13:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXII (December 2007)

Project news

The Intelligence task force has been created.
The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome!
{{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

New A-Class articles:

Current proposals and discussions

A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun.

Awards and honors

Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles.
Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic.
For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.

Tag & Assess 2007

Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:

1. Bedford — 7,600

2. TomStar81 — 5,500

3. Parsival74 — 5,200

4. FayssalF — 3,500

5. Roger Davies — 3,000

6. Ouro — 2600

7. Kateshortforbob — 2250

8. Cromdog — 2,200

9. BrokenSphere — 2000

9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000

9. Maralia — 2,000

12. MBK004 — 1,340

13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250

14. Sniperz11 — 1100

15. Burzmali — 1000

15. Cplakidas — 1000

15. Gimme danger — 1000

15. Raoulduke471000

15. TicketMan — 1000

15. Welsh — 1000

15. Blnguyen — 1000

Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes.

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Protection Template

Hi Blnguyen,

There is only one editor (Arrow740) who is causing the edit war by making undiscussed changes to the article and causing all the edit war(for this, please check an older version of the article and compare the changes). The editor has passed 3RR already. In any case, would you please add the Protection Template to the article meanwhile it is protected. Thanks --Be happy!! (talk) 09:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually Aminz, you are spreading false allegations about me. I have made two reverts in the last 24 hours, both justified in edit summaries and on talk pages. You've made three in one hour. Arrow740 (talk) 09:35, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arrow,your additions are clearly biased, and if not anything, undiscussed. This is the root of the problem. And lastly, your comment contradicts itself because I can't have three reverts while you have two given that you are the one who is making the additions. --Be happy!! (talk) 09:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, he could, since he could have put up new original content each time, rather than reverting your revert.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tariqabjotu already put the sign up. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Band

The band is going well... There are several big things in the works for it right now. It's hard to be more specific than that until we see what pans out. One interesting thing that happened recently was that we happened to meet a nice punk rock band from Melbourne when we were both in Washington, D.C. and New York City, and there was some talk of us going over to Australia. Adelaide looks like a nice place. Again, it all depends. It's difficult to see very far into the future.

Meanwhile, I'm absolutely fascinated with the coverage of the important first step of our presidential election, and very happy that my guy won. Grand master ka 11:36, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For being very effective in all of your responsibilities, I award you this Barnstar in recognition of your work. Acalamari 20:05, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

You may notice that I have put Double Seven Day scuffle under my wing, so to speak. But due to personal matters, could I delay the review until about Wednesday/Thursday? I may get a chance to do it before then, but I'll have to see it as it goes. Yours, Rt . 20:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi protected talk page??

On another note, while talking about the other topic, I have noticed you have a semi-protected talk page. How is it justified that anyones talk page is semi protected, if people post spam and continually attack you, it's a talk page and outside the view of the "normal user". In my opinion, semi protection should only be used in article pages when extreme circumstances of continual flamming and spamming permit. Surely if unsigned users can't if discuss with you things that represents a break down in communication. It is meant to be the encyclopedia everyone can edit, thats why we have unsigned users, if people can't even talk to you about your or their editing unless there signed doesn't that represent a move away from this idea. I am sure many will think that I am just complaining about anything cause of the last topic, but I assure you my disgust on this subject is completly seperate.--AresAndEnyo (talk) 03:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A proper reason was given by the admin who inspected this page. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Harrasement from a banned user doesn't seem to be an acceptable reason for a long term semi protection or even a part time semi protection in my opinion. A better question is do you (Blnguyen) still support/want to have a semi protected talk page?--AresAndEnyo (talk) 05:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Miller

I've namechecked you in this thread --Dweller (talk) 11:39, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keith Miller

Hi. I'm feeling a little lonely. Care to come and (re)join me? --Dweller (talk) 15:35, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

THANKS for your support

		Thanks for your support
		Thank you SO MUCH for your support in my unanimous RFA. Take this cookie as a small token of my appreciation.--Jayron32\|talk\|contribs 05:49, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Tigeroo evading block

User:Shamiana is a sock of Tigeroo. His first edit is at Mahmud of Ghazni and has an unusual edit summary for a first edit, and his second edit is at Muhammad bin Qasim. Tigeroo is the main contributor to these pages. He created the page Bawarij. The rest are at Dahir (Raja). These pages are all about military topics involving India and Muslims; these are Tigeroo's favorite topics. His edits at Dahir use Tigeroo-style justifications for removing material. Tigeroo's recent edits with this sock are in evasion of his block. Arrow740 (talk) 06:05, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bingo, that's him. I've reset his block for a month. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any evidence that this was Tigeroo? Was there a checkuser?Bless sins (talk) 11:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed there was. A direct hit. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In this diff (and many others [1]) Tigeroo evades his block again. This is obviously him as you can see from the history of Islam where he used the same IP off by one digit there: [2]. He admitted that the latter IP was him: [3]. Arrow740 (talk) 19:59, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I blocked him yesterday.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:25, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser or sockpuppetry report?

Hi, Blnguyen. I've got a case where I suspect a sockpuppet, but it isn't what I normally file a checkuser request for so I wasn't sure.

On the Talk:Mao: The Unknown Story, I'm having a discussion with User:Xiaodingjin who has previously attempted to insert links of his own work onto wikipedia. After April 2007 he disappeared, only to re-appear recently and complain about the removal of the links to his work.

Then another user appeared today, User:Dariusdaman. He created his account at 17:03, 15 January 2008 and then edited the Talk:Mao: The Unknown Story page at 17:19, 15 January 2008 to support Xiaodingjin. This clearly indicates he arrived just to support Xiao as he hasn't done anything subsequently (so at least probably a meatpuppet), but I think their standard of English suggests they are the same person.

I could file an ordinary sockpuppet report, but as that's very backed up I wondered if this might warrant a "G" checkuser request - I didn't want to waste people's time if it would automatically be rejected. My reason for the request is that Xiao knows he can't insert the link (was blocked for 3RR and then indef banned, only having it lifted when he promised to stop) and has not had any support since he came back - so he could be trying to influence the decisions of other users by creating "supporters".

Your thoughts would be welcome - please respond on my talk page. John Smith's (talk) 18:10, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've blocked it as a meatpuppet. It appears to be in different locations though. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:56, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you. John Smith's (talk) 07:24, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing - what (if any) should be done about the meatpuppet's comments? Delete, tag as meatpuppet, or just leave as they are? If one of the first two I'd appreciate it if you could do that. Thanks again. John Smith's (talk) 08:00, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I did the usual AFD thing. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:25, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Darius is back

It looks like User:Dariusdaman is back. User:Dariusisdaman appeared today editing a host of articles spamming the same link. For example there is his edit here to the Jung Chang article. It's the link to the same article as was supported on Talk:Mao: The Unknown Story, though on a different website.

Would you mind blocking him and reverting his link spammage? Thank you. John Smith's (talk) 21:56, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:25, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I cleared the link spam from the other articles. John Smith's (talk) 07:32, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More sock/meatpuppets

It looks like yet another account has been made to spam the link in. User:Historydegreeisajoke inserted the link on the Mao: The Unknown Story page today. Please check against Darius and Xiaodingjin. Thank you, John Smith's (talk) 18:10, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FYI I added some sockpuppet/puppet master tags to User:Dariusisdaman and User:Dariusdaman, as well as created a category for his socks. I didn't know if that was necessary or not, but thought it looked tidy. John Smith's (talk) 00:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Project

Lovely! The other is Alec Henry from Qld, but I know nothing about him. —Moondyne 08:46, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Albert Henry. There is a book in the libary about Jack Marsh, so there are bits comparing him to the other Indigenous bowlers. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:25, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, Alec [4]. "Alec represented Queensland in 1901 and was initially lauded as "perfectly civilised and in great command of the English language." A great fast bowler, in one pre-season match he took 8-14 which led to predictions that he would have a place in the Australian side against the visiting English. Unfortunately, an umpire judged that he was throwing and his place in the national team never eventuated. His protests fell on deaf ears and when his 'civilised' conduct appeared to falter, he was forcibly relocated from Brisbane on the charge of "defying authority." —Moondyne 08:40, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's the same fellow as the one my chucking book refers to as Albert Henry. He did a prank on the umpire by deliberating throwing some balls which the umpire didn't notice but the proper ones were no-balled.... Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:48, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, found about 3 pages on him in a book. Should have 10k on this fellow approximately. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:47, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

T:DYK.

On January 2, 2002, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Krulak Mendenhall mission, 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.

Happy new year, and congratulations! · AndonicO ^Talk 12:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On January 2, 2002, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Joseph Mendenhall, 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.

Double, very nice. · AndonicO ^Talk 12:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Typo checking

Hi. I ran the WP:AWB typo checker against your McNamara Taylor mission article and it fixed a few but they seem to be inside text quotations. Are they cases where the original source has typos and maybe a few {{sic}} tags are in order? —Wknight94 (talk) 15:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okie, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles January Newsletter

Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 03:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 3 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article McNamara Taylor mission, 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.

Cheers, Daniel 08:36, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for blocking Inder 315. Hope he doesn't returnn to his old ways once the block expires. Amit@Talk 16:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Australia newsletter

Issue 2, Volume 1 — January 1, 2008

Welcome! WikiProject Australia is a WikiProject, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. This newsletter exists simply to notify Australian Wikipedians of ongoing events within the project and relating to Australia on Wikipedia.

Australian Wikimedia chapter

Wikimedia chapters are independent organisations run by Wikimedians to further promote the Wikimedia projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, and to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". This means that we in the chapter can promote Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis and their contributor's work in our area. Currently, a chapter for Australia is in discussion. If you're interested in helping the Wikimedia Foundation in more ways than just creating articles, and by promoting Wikipedia and other projects so people can start to read your work and become contributors, then consider adding yourself to the interested participants list at www.wikimedia.org.au

Th e proposed chapter also has an IRC channel on the freenode network: join #wikimedia-au next time you are online. The seventh IRC meeting for Wikimedia Australia will also be held in this channel at 8 pm (AEDT-UTC+11) on January 6 (WA at 6pm, SA at 7:30pm and QLD at 7pm). For more information, visit this page.

Recent happenings

2007 has been an excellent year for WikiProject Australia and its members – a sudden rise in article quality (see "Quality watch"), more article collaboration, portal creation, gap-filling article creation, image requests fulfilled, newsletter writing and award awarding. Success!

A sudden surge in new Portals took place late in the year, with numerous new portals being created and later being promoted to featured status, the best a young portal can get. Among the portals currently being worked on are: South Australia, New South Wales, Australian cars, Music of Australia, Powderfinger, Queensland, with portals for a lot of other topics to come very soon in the new year.

Portals and "topics" go hand in hand (not really), and many within the project and throughout Wikipedia aspire to achieve featured topic status for a particular topic. Goals to promote all capital cities to featured status, and among others, a Powderfinger featured topic, and a featured topic on The Invincibles cricket team. It's for sure that 2008 will be filled with Aussie pride, so hang in there with those flags, everyone! Especially on Australia Day, *hints surprises* :)

Of course, writing featured articles and making up clever hooks for use on "Did you know" isn't the only way to contribute. Many users contribute day-in, day-out, maintaining the project and portals, tagging and assessing articles, making suggestions at featured article candidacies, coordinating collaborations within the project, responding to peer reviews, save valid articles in deletion debates, in short, the stuff that if not done, will cause the whole project as we know it to slowly deteroriate. Many users who don't qualify for awards like Durova's Triple Crown award, qualify for others.

Moondyne recognised the users who work tirelessly every day to make sure that every thing is running smoothly by introducing a new award – the Drover's Award. Initiated in December, eight users have already received an award that is set to become a prestigious award for all Australia-related topic editors; SatuSuro, Longhair, Spebi, Moondyne, Grahamec, Mattinbgn and ScottDavis and more are sure to be awarded. If you know of any users who work tirelessly behind the scenes and have not yet been recognised for their greatly appreciated efforts, award them the Drover's Award.

More users have been awarded Durova's Triple Crown award for WikiProjects. This award was given to WikiProject Australia after 5 users who qualified for Durova's standard crown (one DYK, GA, FA). New recipients include Matilda, Moondyne, Mattinbgn, VirtualSteve, Gnangarra, RaNdOm26, and Thebainer. If you believe you qualify, leave a note at Durova's talk page.

Recent events

Jan 6: The seventh IRC channel meeting will take place on the freenode network at 8 pm (AEDT – UTC+11) in #wikimedia-au. See this page for more information.
Dec 26: One hundred Australia-related articles have been promoted to good article status.
Dec 20-31: New portals are created, old ones are revamped, some are promoted and others are soon to be among them.
Nov 15: "1967 in Australia" has been chosen as Wikipedia's Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight.

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Issue 2, Volume 1, January 2008. See newsletter archive for previous issues, or view this issue directly.

Newly-promoted content

Good articles

Featured articles

Removed articles

The Ashes

Recent collaborations

Quality watch

2007 saw a major feat for WikiProject Australia: one hundred articles were promoted to good article status. This is huge not only for the project's individual members and those who helped achieved such an impressive statistic, but for the whole of Wikipedia. Everyone involved has given readers from all around the world a chance to learn about Australia and relevant topics from the best of sources available on the Internet. A huge congratulations to all involved. And congratulations to Underneath-it-All, who wrote "2 Hearts", which passed as a good article, officially making him WikiProject Australia's "Good Article Centurian" and the article the one hundredth Australia-related article to be promoted to good article status at any one time.

Speaking of statistics nearing the number 100, WikiProject Australia has also seen an increase of the number of articles being promoted to featured article status. In November last year, seven articles were promoted, earning the month its official title of "Featured article month" of WikiProject Australia, and making it the month with the highest featured article achievement. Viva la featured article revolution! Also seeing some activity were featured portals – many have already been promoted, and a wave of excellently-crafted ones hitting our shores very soon.

End of year statistics

Here are some statistics for WikiProject Australia produced by Blnguyen and his Assessment Monkey of 2007's good article and featured article promotions. Summing it up: 71 featured articles, and 106 good articles.

Australia-related featured article production

Australia-related good article production

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Introduction to Evolution

Your commentary on the Introduction to Evolution featured article attempt is actively being discussed on Talk:Introduction to evolution. It would be most appreciated if you would be kind enough to contribute to the dialog there. It may be that your concerns have been addressed. If not, then further guidance would be appreciated. The page should be well organized; if you go to the bottom and scroll up you should be able to locate your specific concern which I took the liberty of copying/pasting to this page. Many thanks for following up on the discussion.--Random Replicator (talk) 23:34, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]