User talk:Disavian/Archive 4

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Contents 1 WUSTL WikiProject 2 Other GA noms 3 Barnstar 4 Screenshots of Windows Vista 5 Your GA nomination of Features_new_to_Windows_Vista 6 Georgia Tech Page Edit 7 thanks 8 Apologies 9 Wallenberg 10 Budweiser 11 Thanks 12 Failing articles for unreferenced 13 GA review of Isiah Leggett 14 Chloe Vevrier 15 Akhtar Hameed Khan 16 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Vista Flip 3d.jpg) 17 Mouhammad Faye 18 DYK 19 NCAATeamBasketball 20 Your GA nomination of YouTube

WUSTL WikiProject

Thanks for your visit! Your page and the Cornell project page are outstanding. I see now that you created WikiProject Georgia Tech. I am learning the ropes-- the turnkey templates (I believe) are the best way to organize a project page-- the WP:TECH pages certainly sold me on the idea. Hopefully we can get our modest WUSTL article series up to par and at least get the main article to featured status. So far, there hasn't been a stampede to join the project, so we will see how it goes. . .

I don't have any questions for you yet, but I certainly appreciate the offer for assistance. It seems the biggest challenge will be to find people willing to contribute content and not merely provide edits.

Let me know if you would like to be added either as a "sister project" or just as a link from the WP:WUSTL page. Kindly, Lmbstl 06:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, Cornell's layout is copied from WP:TECH, too. However, I copied my article list from Cornell and added the {{attd}} list later on, after I gave all of my articles todo lists. I might link to you from the see also section, I suppose. I do have some advice for you; your template inclusion system is a little odd. Most notably, your project "template" is entirely too large. Drop the talkheader and the userspace templates, except possibly on the main university article. The "jump to table of contents" template is only necessary when there is an extremely large number of templates (see Talk:Georgia Institute of Technology for an example of that). The project template and the todo list are a little clunky, but I've made sure to use the todo list on every article, or I've at least made an attempt to that end. I have more advice about templates, but I need to get to bed... class tomorrow. :) —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 07:39, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, the other thing I reccomend for when your project gets a little larger (in terms of the number of articles in the project... perhaps >75?) is to have a class rating in your project template, something I implemented very recently. Also, I've been working on adding options to my project template; I can make it small, apply it to non-article pages, hide the todo box, etc. I don't think smaller projects (which I consider WP:TECH to have been when I started it) need the ratings, but they are useful once the project gets a substantial article base. The colorful quality box on the new "Assessment" page is autogenerated by a bot once you have the templates and the categories set up correctly. I don't have any other suggestions for the moment :) —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 19:44, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I know that some of the items in the WUSTL Project are typically for bigger projects. The main reason for the "clunky" templates on many talk pages is simple: publicity. And, for simplicity, all articles in the WUSTL series use the same header template. Maybe we will change it, but there haven't been any complaints yet...

I added the assessments function also, partly for the fun of it, and partly because I want to have a framework in place for anyone to come in and administrate the project. I don't know how much time I will be able to devote to managing it myself; at least, all the pieces can be in place if it takes off.

WP:TECH is also listed in our "see also" pane, under "Projects we admire." --Lmbstl 09:22, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Other GA noms

I like where the Technique article is going, but I don't think it has quite enough content yet to be considered for a GA nomination. I'll have to think about other articles, but nothing's jumping to mind right now. MaxVeers 22:19, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Thanks for all your hard work with the History of Georgia Tech article and the Georgia Tech WikiProject in general. MaxVeers 16:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Screenshots of Windows Vista

Please refrain from uploading screenshots of pre-release versions of Windows Vista. Themodernizer 00:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Features_new_to_Windows_Vista

The article Features_new_to_Windows_Vista you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:Features_new_to_Windows_Vista for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. Funpika 19:06, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Georgia Tech Page Edit

You asked me about a source for my change to the endowment part of the Georgia Tech page. Here it is:[1] Sorry, I meant to cite the source orignally, but I got sidetracked. Then, I just tried to do it, but didn't want to screw it up. So, I thought I give it to you, and just let you do it. Thanks, Ammhoops

thanks

I thank you for your generous comment at the Bradford article. The general use of such comments would go a long way to keeping AfDs from being restarted continually. DGG 01:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Apologies

I was trying to fix a large series of articles that were spammed earlier today, and I walked right over your subsequent edit at Refined Printing Command Stream. Sorry about that, didn't mean to create more work for you... Kuru ^talk 01:55, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg, please take a peek and see how the update looks. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 19:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Budweiser

This week I'm making a trip to the GT Archives to get a bunch of sources together for a multitude of GT articles. I just noticed the Budweiser song info was missing so I put it in before I forgot. I will get a bunch cited before Monday. Excaliburhorn 21:40, 13 Feb. 2007 (UTC)

Where exactly are the archives? I might want to go down there at some point, too. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 03:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the positive feedback, I'm not really a fan of any one college team though. I just created the Crittenton article because I felt he needed one as he is a stud. He could be a starter on 10-15 NBA teams now imo. I did a little work on the Mouhammad Faye article and removed the db notice though. Quadzilla99 06:17, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Failing articles for unreferenced

Disavian, I have noticed that you failed several GA articles for the reason of lack of reference. However, as you see in those articles, they have a "Notes" section, which is de facto reference section, so it can be easily done by just substitute the heading "notes" to "references" instead of failing an article. Wooyi 23:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Is there a specific article you're referring to? I know what a Notes section is. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 23:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I was partially refering to John Paul Stevens, and also in some extent Hampton House (which I did not participate in editing). That house one only has two, but I'm not familiar with that subject. But, the Stevens article has five reference, and the content is enough detailed. Wooyi 23:55, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

For articles as detailed as those, five notes/references aren't enough. I've added ones I've failed primarily per lack of references to Unreferenced GA Nominations per GAC instructions. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 23:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay I got it. Thanks, and I might add references to his article in future. Cheers! Wooyi 00:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I helped you out a little there. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 00:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

GA review of Isiah Leggett

Thanks for your GA review of the Isiah Leggett article. The picture was deleted for copyright reasons soon after I nominated it, which is why there was no image with the article when you reviewed it. Can you clarify something for me, though? You also suggested that the lead needs references. I was told by SandyGeorgia in a FAR discussion that the lead does not need referencing if the facts contained therein are referenced later in the article. Is there specific guidance on this? Mocko13 23:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Take his word on that over mine. I honestly don't know of a policy one way or another on that. In order to find a picture, try searching Flickr for CC images of him. You never know, you might find one. You might also be able to upload a photo and claim it under fair use, but you need to add a fair use guideline stating why a free image can't be found. Other than the two things (a picture and adding a couple refs to the first two sections), I'm very impressed with your article. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 23:47, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Chloe Vevrier

Hi. Please have a quick look at my notes on the above article's talk page if you are interested in this matter. Cheers. MadMaxDog 05:06, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Akhtar Hameed Khan

I have edited the article as per your objects., added few refs and removed redundent external links etc. Could you have a look again now for GA or would you rather renominate?--IsleScape^Talk 17:47, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Renominate it, and I'll pass it when I get home from school. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 17:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Vista Flip 3d.jpg)

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Mouhammad Faye

I uploaded the pic for him to Wikimedia Commons as that kind of pic should go there that way it can be used anywhere in Wikimedia. I also cropped it. Here the pic:[2] Thanks for finding it. Quadzilla99 18:23, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 20 February 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Thaddeus Young, 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.

--Yomangani^talk 10:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

NCAATeamBasketball

Ok, I have a first draft up at User:Nmajdan/Test. Take a look at tell me what changes should still be made. Specifically, I'd like input on if I handled the NCAA (or NIT) tourneys appropriately. Also, I have two Asst Coach fields. They are both optional, and they could both handle multiple names. So if there are 2 asst coachs, put one name in each as I did. If there are three, put two in the first one and one in the second one, and so on. Also, if these changes are sufficient, I might be able to combine the basketball and football templates into one. We'll see.↔NMajdan•talk•EditorReview 14:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

It's looking great so far! I don't know too much about basketball, so I asked a friend that does. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 16:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, I never really received any feedback on it. If you think its ready, I'll try to get it moved early next week.↔NMajdan•talk 15:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I opened up a discussion concerning the new template at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Need opinion on a couple templates. Please feel free to share your opinion.↔NMajdan•talk 14:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks like we have that all figured out. :) —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 06:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of YouTube

The article YouTube you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:YouTube for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. Veesicle (Talk) (Contribs) 20:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC)