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Archive 1 - Mar. 15 2004-May 27 2006
[edit] Admin Coaching
User:Tawker and I have been assigned to be your Esperanza admin coaches. You seem like you have made a lot of good contributions and done some vandal-fighting. Let me know if you have any questions about Wikipedia or its administrative areas. Academic Challenger 21:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject NASCAR proposed standards
WikiProject NASCAR needs your help! We are in the process of forming our proposed standards which, when complete, will hopefully become a Wikipedia guideline. The guidelines will help editors understand Wikipedia consensus about things like which NASCAR-related articles meet notability standards. Please stop by and let us know what you think! Recury 22:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Happy Birthday!
Many happy returns! Enjoy :-)!
Thistheman 04:13, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Happy birthday and all the best! Have a nice time. --Bhadani 14:13, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
haz (user talk) 16:26, 23 June 2006
Have a very happy birthday.--Dakota ~ 16:33, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.
As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.
Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] August Esperanza Newsletter
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| The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! |
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What's New?
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| In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. |
| To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. |
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter. |
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- In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed!
- The In development section of the proposals page has been created.
- Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created.
- Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter.
- Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.
- There is a page for discussing the front page redesign.
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| Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List. |
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[edit] September Esperanza Newsletter
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| Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! |
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| September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! |
| Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! |
| The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. |
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter. |
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- The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
- Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage.
- The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself!
- The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
- TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly!
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[edit] Notes to you
I noticed your discussion on Nascar, I'm not quite sure what you speak of related to spam on the site I suggested but I did just that suggest it. I have no affiliation to that site, I merely suggested what I feel to be a high quality site where NASCAR fans and enthusiasts can participate in diuscussion and ask questions about NASCAR as where they can not do so here on Wikipedia. I feel it's a valuable addition to the wiki, and the people browsing for info would find it of quality and usefulness. It's simply a forum. I'd reccomend that you do not let any of your own personal ill feelings or miss judgments sway you from allowing a valuable resource that wiki surfers might really enjoy visiting, it's about them not you or I or our opinions. I just thought it was a nice site. Please work with me here. Thanks! --Edited By a Professor of Life 14:32, 11 October 2006 (UTC).
Note from Edward Neal. You have accused me of writing nonsense on the 9/11 post. I did not write those things on there. I would like you to do further research before you accuse people of such things. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.212.155.7 (talk) 12:50, 13 October 2006.
- I'm very sorry about this... I use a program called VandalProof to deal with vandalism, and the warning seems to have gone to you in error... I can see you didn't do it, so I've deleted your warning. Again, very sorry about this. -- SonicAD (talk) 17:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
HEY can you READ? links on nitrous were ok'd. You need to READ and talk to people before you go removing editd --Edited By a Professor of Life 00:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
SONIC THIS IS THE LAST TIME STOP VANADLZIING PAGES , STOP REMOVING LINKS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT WERE APPROVED BY AN ADMIN Cuchullain aproved the addition of the links under external links it is cited on his talk page. STOP avandlizing the page, you are well aware they are approved links. Instead of talking about it or contacting Cuchullain you continue to vandalize. --Edited By a Professor of Life 00:58, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
If you continue you attack me personally, lie and spam you will be blocked, your abuse of this system will not be tolerated. High admins have been notified.--Edited By a Professor of Life 01:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Think he's back (with a username).. curious choice and way of editing. ..[1]Hu12 21:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Can't tell, yet... possible, but I did a whois on the site added and I couldn't find a connection to the other vandal... just someone else who wants to put their spam crap on Wikipedia, probably. -- SonicAD (talk) 22:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- agreed, seems to be a Private Registration created 26-Sep-2006.. either way It smells of pre holiday SEO. have a good weekend Hu12 10:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, SonicAD! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 18:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] November Esperanza Newsletter
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| Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach.
Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
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What's New?
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| The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one! |
| A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts. |
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter. |
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The last AC meeting (full log)
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- The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
- There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia.
- The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested!
- In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias.
- A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted!
- Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello.
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[edit] Happy First Edit Day!
> Kamope < 00:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Warning
Please stop. If you continue to delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, you will be blocked for vandalism. MrWez 10:16, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- Please note the above warning was given by a user after I reverted his talk page when he blanked it. -- SonicAD (talk) 13:24, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for the warning. --MrWez 20:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
