User talk:Cricketgirl

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Cricketgirl, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.

If you are interested in Rugby union-related themes, you may want to check out the Rugby union Portal. If you are interested in contributing more to Rugby union related articles you may want to join and WikiProject Rugby union. You may also want to add {{WPRU Announcements}} to your userpage to keep up with Project announcements. You may even want to add these pages to your watchlist.

Again, welcome! - Shudda ^talk 11:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to BCproject

Glad to see another member of this project. I note your mention of Australian language. I was there over Christmas and several times thought I needed a translator, I think if I had stayed longer I might have picked it up . .. Cheers, KenWalker | Talk 19:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] League

Hello Cricketgirl; welcome to the League of Copyeditors. Youse think Strayan English is better than the overseas ones? Bonza! Do you prefer the Hogan variety or the Kath-and-Kim one? Rintrah 17:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Though I might be a traitor, I prefer Shakespeare's English to Hogan's. Oxford English is good, too. Rintrah 17:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your VandalProof Application

Dear Cricketgirl,

Thank you for applying for VandalProof! (VP). 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 47 mainspace edits. Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank you for your interest in VandalProof. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 18:55, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] League of Copyeditors participation drive!

Dear League member,

We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you can, please help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

Select an article to copy-edit from the backlog. After your copy-edit, list the article in the articles ready for final proofread section.
Select a different article to proofread from the articles ready for final proofread section.

Thanks for your help! BuddingJournalist 01:54, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] World Cup articles drive

Hi. I wondered if you might like to help our drive to improve articles before the World Cup begins. We're finishing Paul Collingwood (just need domestic cricket details) and are about to begin work on Adam Gilchrist. --Dweller 19:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gilly

Okay, despite your affiliation to the wrong colour blue, I'd love for you to help out with the Gilchrist article. Perhaps to help you see what we're up to, have a look at the last hundred or so edits on Paul Collingwood, that's what we're trying to do. But all help is 100% encouraged! Let me know if you'd like to discuss it further.. The Rambling Man 20:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

"Shoe, shoe, shoe the Tab!, so they say! Physics sucks, I did four years of Engineering, that sucked too. Well, cricket rules both of those subjects. Let me know if I can help with anything WP in your life, and good luck with the Gilly article. I'll be there! The Rambling Man 21:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Footnotes from citations

Hi, thanks for your question. I use the following format:
<ref>{{Cite web
| url = http://www.whatever.com
| title = The heading of the webpage (or something appropriate
| date = the date the article was written (if available, in YYYY-MM-DD format)
| author = author of the article (if available)
| accessdate = when you last visited it (in YYYY-MM-DD format)
}}</ref>

This should make good citations! Any more questions, let me know. The Rambling Man 17:07, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of unassessed articles tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 20:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Persian literature

Dear Cricketgirl!

Persian literature was previously a GA. However it was silent about contemporary literature. I added information about "contemporary persian literature". The section needs copyeditting and also shortening. In case you are interested in the subject, I would like to ask you to help me in copy editting the article. I also posted a request in the "League of copyeditors page". Thanks alot.Sangak 16:19, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter

The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 22:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kirribilli House photo

Hi Cricketgirl,

First you click "* Upload file" from the "toolbox" menu on the left hand side of the screen, it is part of the permanent template of the whole Wikipedia site.

Scroll down until you see "source filename" and click browse, then you can upload the file. Choose a descriptive filename for it like "Kirribilli House", then the rest should be self explanatory. To make sure that it isn't deleted within 7 days, select an acceptable licence from the drop-down menu.

After that the hard part is putting it onto the page, check out the code for this for images from other articles by clicking the edit button, copy and paste the code and muck around with size and stuff. Remember the "destination filename" url because you basically link to the image from the article, rather than the other way round. Grumpyyoungman01 02:42, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Whoopsies, that is a pic of admiralty house, Kirribili is the smaller joint tucked in behind it. Grumpyyoungman01 22:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Kirribilli House.jpg

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[edit] Irrigation in Australia

I have reverted your requests for citations. The number was inappropriate - try the end of the paragraph not each sentence. In a t least one instance probably more, the facts were supported by cites already provided eg for your request [1] did you check the reference note 3 which covered all the Chaffey assertions or note 7 which covered ythe Harvey irrigation scheme. If so please clarify what it was you found asserted and bnot covered by those cites - what words did you have difficulty with specifically? It was not clear from your edit which I see as merely disruptive given the lack of comment.--Golden Wattle ^talk 09:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I would suggest requesting a citation only at the end of a paragraph in the first instance, unless there is already a citation there which does not cover off the issue you feel requires verification. If you want to clarify what is needed in a citation, ie what you are requesting sources for, I recommend using comments ie tag with  to make it quite clear. I prefer the use of {{cite}} but that's just me - I think it is less cryptic than {{cn}}. I don't think excessive citation is a good model but of course assertions should be covered by sources, particularly where it may be open to doubt.

For grapes, I suggest if you look at note 14 which is at the end of the section that covers the whole of the section.

The section on watersources could be referenced. It is mainly derived from other articles - eg Murray-Darling Basin which does not have inline cites but does have external links.

Perhaps instead of calling for cites though, it might be more constructive to help provide them? The relevant formats are:

<ref name="???">{{cite web | last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | year = 
 | url =  | title = 
 | format =  | work =  | publisher =  | accessdate = }}</ref>

Required parameters

url: URL of online item.
title: Title of online item.
date: Date (Month Day) when item was accessed. May be ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format.
- year: Year when item was accessed. (Optional if ISO 8601 date used)

Optional parameters

author: Author
publishyear: Date published.
format: Format, i.e. PDF. HTTP implied if not specified.
work: If this item is part of a larger work, name of that work.
publisher: Publisher, if any.

then to call on the same note later use in text:

<ref name="???"/>

and then to call them put in References section


== References ==

{{subst:footnotes}}

to prompt for references use:

== References ==
{{subst:footnotes}}
{{references}}

If it is a news article, instead of cite web use

{{cite news   | first=  | last=  | author=
  | url=
  | title=
  | work=   | publisher=  | pages=  | page=  | date=  | accessdate= }}

title is required, rest is optional.
author: Author
- last works with first to produce last, first
publisher: Publisher, if any.
accessdate: Date when item was accessed. Use ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format.
work: If this item is part of a larger work, name of that work.
pages overrides page

Regards --Golden Wattle ^talk 20:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chana School

Thanks for taking a look at the artcle. : ) IvoShandor 18:50, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Most excellent, Ms. Cricket. Your help is greatly appreciated. IvoShandor 10:28, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of adding the LOCE banner to the talk page with your name as a copy editor. : ) IvoShandor 10:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Wondering. Would you mind doing a final proof on Rock Springs Massacre? Could you let me know what you think of the NPOV of the article? Does it look okay from that aspect? IvoShandor 10:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Josef Wallnig

Thank you for helping me with the signature. Now I know why it didn't work for me. Again, thanks! ♣Tohru Honda13♣ 16:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] St Anne's College

Hi Cricketgirl - I'm curious on why you rated the St Anne's College article as Stub-class. I'd place it at start-class level myself, as it clearly contains rather more information than a "dictionary definition". Could you enlighten me? Or perhaps offer me some suggestions on things I can do to improve the article? Cheers, Stannered 22:41, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Cheers for that! Yep, I'm at St Anne's, and am in fact one of your Facebook friends (I suspected from the name, and confirmed from your user page - about a week ago when I noticed your reversion of vandalism on the War of 1812 article, which happens to be on my watchlist!) You sure you're not stalking me? ;o) Stannered 10:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hi, apologies for writing to you out of the blue but I have just recently joined WikiProject University of Oxford and having had a peek at the other members’ user pages I think that I might actually know you. I don’t suppose your father is a language teacher by any chance?--Jamesmh2006 12:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah small world! You probably don’t know who I am, my surname is Mason-Hudson. Your father took me for A-level german in 02/03.

Is Mr C. still at Ardingly? If you could say hi to him from me and a big thank you for all his help in enabling me to pass with a respectable grade then I would be much obliged. I somehow don’t think I would have achieved the same under Mr HH ;P.

Anyway I joined WP Oxford as I am a member of WikiProject Universities and have contributed to a number of Oxford University related articles so I thought I would see if I can help the project in some way.--Jamesmh2006 13:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rock Springs Massacre

I'll take a look at it but probably won't be at odds with any of your changes. Thanks so much for doing this. IvoShandor 13:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I tweaked one sentence, the original was jacked up, you were right, see the intro....I figure it works now. : ) You totally rawk btw. Thanks. IvoShandor 15:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

It's an attempt at doing something with "rock." : ) IvoShandor 15:35, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I just wanted to thank you again for the truly thorough job you did with Rock Springs Massacre. You definitely earned that barnstar. I addressed your comments on the article talk page, if you had some specifics on the prior activity stuff please post those so I can alter accordingly. Thanks again. IvoShandor 07:43, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

The article is now at GAC but it takes awhile to get reviews so any comments you have to add need not be rushed. IvoShandor 07:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyeditor's award

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Awarded to Cricketgirl for general hardcore copy editing on Chana School and Rock Springs Massacre, despite having the template {{Busy}} on the top of her talk page. Kudos and keep up the good work. IvoShandor 15:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for signing me up as a copyeditor -- I couldn't find the page to sign onto. Happy Holidays! Eilicea 20:15, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyediting

Hello. I see that you are a regular copyeditor therefore I wanted to ask if you wouldn't mind to take a look at 2012 Summer Olympics bids (52 kb). Since it is on FAC, it had two complete sweeps by a reviewer, but another one still thinks the prose is not professional enough to support it. I've also put a request on the WP:LoCE but I sense it will take a long time before it gets a writing-style review. I would appreciate all the help I can get. Cheers! Parutakupiu ^{talk || contribs} 02:49, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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