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thank you, I was naturally suspicious as I would not think someone ranking as low as a feldwebel would obtain their own government issued house. I have always said that if something too easily fits into an agenda (not meaning you have one, but others may), you should question it and seek other sources. another thing that set me off about the statement was that Erika and her mother remained in Rumia/Rahmel even after her father was sent to the Eastern Front, if the house was government issue surely they would have moved them elsewhere, probably into a smaller house or closer to home.
--Jadger 02:41, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Re: Campaign Against Homophobia - I didn't mean to change that one: I did Google it and found no reference with the ó. I do apologise for not checking what I was editing properly but offer my thanks in that you checked and corrected it, told me why it was wrong and assumed good faith! Mk3severo 23:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you for your Poland-related contributions
-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 22:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
WP:REDIRECT is what you want. Pozdr, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 07:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] your userpage
- loves the Dutch weather (yes, really!)
what's so great about Dutch weather?
- as a proper Britishness-freak, thinks RP, Estuary English and Standard Scottish English should replace the terrible American accent;)
what about us Canadians eh? you dont want to make people like me extinct do you?
--Jadger 11:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome!
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Hi, Boyau, welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies!
We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles of interest to the LGBT community. A couple of points that may be helpful:
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me or any other experience editor, and we will be happy to help you.
And once again - Welcome!
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Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Can I ask for your translation skills please
Hi Boyau, I have been having troubles with a Polish editor, who is now insulting and personally attacking me. He has now personally attacked me here in Polish, I used an online translator and it came up with "limited essence soya bean case" as what he called me. I was wondering what exactly he says, and the overall context of what he has been saying.
thanks --Jadger 11:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- lol, thank you. I had no clue whether or not "limited essence soya bean case" was supposed to be an insult, perhaps he just doesn't like them. perhaps I am mistaken, but couldn't istota then be translated as untermensch? just thought that would be mighty hypocritical of him as he has called me a Nazi, now I'm less than human.
- --Jadger 18:37, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
alright, thank you. So he basically said I am an "annoying, mentally challenged sub-human/less than human creature"
--Jadger 23:23, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thanks a lot for all your help
--Jadger 00:15, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue II - January 1, 2007
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Happy New Year to all our members!
- Project News
- Several new templates have been created: {{Bi}} and {{Transgender}} by Dev920 and AliceJMarkham respectively. SatyrTN also created a {{LGBT Welcome}} template to welcome new members. Thanks to them all.
- The LGBT Portal's various sections could do with updating on a weekly basis. Please pitch in if you can.
- Latter Days became a Featured Article on December 31. It was written and nominated by Dev920. Congratulations Dev!
- A new assessment system has been implemented - we have tagged and assessed over 1100 articles so far! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
- A fledgling monthly LGBT Collaboration has been started, with Homosexuality as the December article and Gay stereotyping as our January article. Please contribute to this if you can, even if it's just correcting typos.
- A Translation department has been set up, to translate LGBT articles from foreign language Wikipedias that may have more information than our equivalent article. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English.
- We have a brand new unique Project! Jumpaclass is a new semi-competition to improve our lower quality articles - see the subpage for more information. Please sign up and get it going!
- Finally, our membership numbers have exploded! 21 new users have joined the Wikiproject: AdelaMae, WJBscribe, Trodaikid1983, Jtowns, Agne27, Boyau, NickGorton, Dialecticas, DaliJim, Tonei, Cabbers, silent, Textorus, GLGerman, Haiduc, Hornandsoccer, Bopopop, NinaOdell, Badbilltucker, DanB DanD, and Tiger Marc. Please make them feel welcome!
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[edit] Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Boyau, can you come and give your input on the discussion at Jaroslaw Kaczynski? We don't know whether to tag him as an LGBT person from Poland because all the evidence that he is or is not gay is in Polish! Thanks, Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 16:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- OK, well, I guess I'll leave it to you then, as I think my inability to speak Polish renders my input fairly useless. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 12:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue III - February 1, 2007
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Announcement: If someone requests help or feedback on an article, please try your hardest to help them out if you are able. Thank you.
- Project News
- The LGBT Portal has once again been revamped and a work rota started. Efforts towards Featured Portal status are slowly coming together.
- The assessment system has been a great success, we have tagged over 4000 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
- The Translation department has changed its focus, to LGBT articles about non-English topics and people on which there may be more information on the relevant foreign Wikipedia. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English.
- Jumpaclass is picking up slowly, with nine people having entered. With over 2000 stubs we need to improve our article quality. Please sign up and get it going! Challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub!
- There is an ongoing discussion about the current LGBT categorisation system here, here, and a little bit here. A special page has now been set up here to deal with this.
- A Watchlist has been set up to monitor controversial and/or highly vandalised articles. It can also be used for article disputes, just add a note explaining the nature of the dispute.
- With the influx of so many active members, there is now enough support for a LGBT studies peer review, which may be found here. It's in the beta phase at the moment, so bear with us if we make any mistakes. Feel free to peer review any articles you have been working on.
- It was agreed this month to start reducing the uses of the Notice board, as many members felt that it was not effective. An open tasks template has been created, bringing together important announcements, FAC/FARs, Peer reviews, XfDs, the COTM, and requested articles. You may desire to watchlist it. A Deletion sorting subpage is also now working to bring together XfDs - this should be bot-driven, but we have not currently tagged enough articles to make this fully automated, so please update the list with any LGBT-related XfDs you come across.
- Article news
- Member News
- We more than doubled our membership this month! 53 new users have joined the Wikiproject: Aleta, Koweja, Profriend, Andrewn, Carolynparrishfan, Cpnlsn88, Brian1979, Tullerk, Garydw, Ganymead, Celithemis, Burnley, Lquilter, Parammon, Forsakendaemon, Allyn, bcatt, Dfeuer, Raystorm, Fabienne1, Esprix, Antanta, Janusvulcan, Elizabeth Lund, Ashleyvh, E. Sn0 =31337=, MiraLuka, White hotel, Zythe, Athena2006, CosmicWaffles, Emiellaiendiay, Musimax, AlexReynolds, Swollib, Nield, Kriza, 100110100, Andral, thickslab, Ronline, Iamvered, FisherQueen, William percy, Viannah, Ssbohio, Ali-oops, Anyaanomaly, Revolución, Ender2155, LuciferMorgan, Kathryn NicDhàna, and Artgoyle. Please make them feel welcome!
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[edit] Random Smiley Award
--TomasBat (Talk)(Sign) 18:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] WP:LGBT Coordinator Election Notice
This is just a quick, automated note to let you know that there is an election being conducted over the next 7 days for the position of "Coordinator" for the LGBT WikiProject. Your participation is requested. -- SatyrTN (talk • contribs)
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[edit] LGBT WikiProject newsletter
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The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue IV - March 1, 2007
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Monthly Challenge: Find 5 editors to LGBT articles and invite them to the project! Check out our recruitment tips if you need them. Good luck!
- Project News
- With such rapid development of the project, it was decided that a Coordinator was needed to ensure all the fiddly maintenence was kept up. Elections were held and Dev920 (talk • contribs) has been elected Coordinator for the next three months. She said "I am honoured and proud to be at the helm of such a fantastic WikiProject and look forward to our future". Congratulations Dev!
- The assessment system continues to be a great success, we have tagged over 5200 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
- Jumpaclass is proving to be quite successful! The winner at the end of the year gets to pick the January collaboration, so sign up and get going! Or challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub!
- A new Community department has been set up to foster community amongst our members. It mostly acts as other WikiProjects' Outreach department, but also has a Quilt to which every member is entitled to add a square containing anything of their choice.
- The peer review is not getting much custom - please notice you can cross-list other peer reviews from different projects that also fall within our scope.
- Many people still seem to be unaware that the Deletion sorting subpage exists for XfDs to be listed: please use and watch that page instead of issuing "alerts" for ordinary AfDs on the project talkpage.
- WP:FILM has a current drive to give every film article an infobox. WP:LGBT successfully gave all 105 LGBT infoboxless films infoboxes, so a big thank you to everyone who participated.
- A new template, LGBT-footer, has been created for articles which are becoming to cluttered with infoboxes. Thanks to WJBscribe and SatyrTN for creating it.
- A very basic resources page has been started. Please add to it as you come across useful sites.
- A promotional poster for the project has been created: http://wplgbt.tripod.com/Wikipedianeedsyou.doc (you have to directly cut and paste the url, or it won't let you download it). Please distribute anywhere and everywhere you desire, such as gay libraries, cybercafes, community centres and so on. Also, please let Dev920 know where you have put it up, so she can keep track of our coverage.
- An LGBT Publications Taskforce has been proposed. Please sign up here if you are interested in being involved.
- An LGBT WikiProject has been set up on the Spanish Wikipedia! Set up by Raystorm, it has already gained six members and is developing an assessment system. If you speak any Spanish, please consider going up and lending a hand if you can!
- Article News
- Member News
- Our membership continues to expand. 55 new users have joined the Wikiproject: HalJor, Brianna Austin, Kylehamilton , PeaceNT, Paradoxdept, Joie de Vivre, Bearcat, Avazina, Treybien, Xdenizen, Chalyres, Lisapollison, Stitchy CP, Wjhonson, Psicorps, Jliberty, Zuejay, DrGaellon, Mallanox, lwollert, Switchercat, Number301, emerson7, Ebyabe, Ashlux, Larrybob, Eirra, Alcarcalimo2364, DavidShankBone, Cedlaod, Mcguireka, Fireplace, Jacobshaven3, Buddmar, Yksin, Intesvensk, Justin_Eiler, kc12286, Kolindigo, PseudoPhoenix, Samanthabrennan, Anbellofe, roger_jg, Moni3, The Wednesday Island, Carom, Belovedfreak, My little needle, Fenoxielo, Arianna, Philippebeaudette, FrankCostanza, AmberAlert1713, A.Z., Fluffball70, . Please make them feel welcome!
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[edit] Polish
Hiya. I've been seeing how active the other language LGBT WikiProjects, and I've been noticing that a lot of the users I have spoken to in these semi-active projects complain of an uphill struggle against homophobic editors, who make it very difficult to get anywhere. I was wondering what the situation is like on the Polish Wikipedia (though I can imagine). Is there any censorship, or any form of WikiProject (or just some people who work together)? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thankyou very much for your reply. After consultation with people from various wikipedias, I have decided to set up a Project on Meta to end Wikipedia-wide discrimination against LGBT people and issues. I would be very grateful if you would be willing to act as the go-between between us and the Polish wiki.
- On a more personal note, the problems you produced might be solved if you set up a WikiProject, got an assessment system going and then added the results to a Watchlist. That way even if articles are nominated for deletion, you will know about it. Also, I note with interest that articles that are well-referenced are left alone - this is probably something that I think all LGBT WikiProjects need to aim for, as I've noticed that here too. However, setting up all of this is somewhat time-consuming, are you interested in doing it? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 12:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] LGBT WikiProject newsletter
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The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue V - April 3, 2007
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Monthly Challenge:
- Article News
- Project News
- There is now the beginning of a list of core topics to possibly be included in the Wikipedia 1.0 release. Your suggestions are welcome; there may be many core LGBT topics still missing.
- We have a list of people categorized as LGBT whose articles need to be checked for reliable sourcing. This effort is necessary and urgent, to comply with Wikipedia's policy on living persons. Please take a few moments to source one article; if you've got time, do another.
- SatyrTN identified all the articles that were in subcategories of Category:LGBT but not yet tagged with the project's banner, about 1,400 articles. These have been completed, though SatyrBot will make periodic runs through the cats to find any new entries. Thanks Satyr!
- The number of articles within our project's spectrum (6,667 currently) should now be relatively stable and only grow with article creation. However, if you find a category that should be included, please let SatyrTN know so it can be included in the bots runs.
- Work is underway to improve the LGBT Portal. Please add any good quality (free) photos you come across on LGBT articles to the gallery here. Also if anyone would like to volunteer to help in maintaining the portal, please make yourselves known on the Portal's talkpage.
- If you see any articles for deletion or any other deletion discussions related to LGBT topics, please remember to add them to the deletion sorting board. Thanks!
- Member News
- Our membership continues to expand. 22 new users have joined the WikiProject: Garik, Esrever, mlbedwell, Jet123, Welland R, Auriel, DaliJim, queerpeace, SUIT, Mentality, Nukleoptra, LeaHazel, lindleyle, Justin Eiler, Bylandl, Brent Calderwood, PC78, Gekedo, polymathematics, Coryarlo, Ziji, mcgarymi. Please make them feel welcome!
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