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[edit] VP 1.3
Should be all good to go :) - Glen 08:33, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] userpage
Thanks for the tip...i think i'll try it sometime later --Osbus 16:33, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Wasn't the AID nomination for Death removed five days too early? You removed it 8/10--thought it was to stay up till 8/15. --Lukobe 21:12, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, it did actually have four days left, I've put it back and given it the extra time. Apologies for the mistake, I had ten or so listed from the bot to clear and didn't check the dates on each one. --Draicone (talk) 08:40, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks! --Lukobe 18:37, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your comment on GA collab
Just so you know, Scotch College, Perth is at GA status. Look at its talk page.--HamedogTalk|@ 10:30, 14 August 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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- 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have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived.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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[edit] Signpost updated for August 14th
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[edit] You helped choose this week's WP:AID winner
Not much point, but you wouldn't want yourself to be excluded, would you now? :D Draicone (talk) 12:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hey Draicone
Why so gutless and want to delete SGHA? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zinco100 (talk • contribs).
Draicone, thanks for responding to Zinco100's ill-conceived attack on my talk page while I wasn't around. I appreciate you sticking up for me! --Kinu t/c 05:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Untitled
She and I worked it out. Why are you jumping in the middle? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.49.22.2 (talk • contribs).
- Because when you vandalise someone's user page with derogatory comments, its my business to discourage you from doing so. Vandalism is not tolerated on Wikipedia, and editing blocks will be given. I'm just informing you of the potential repurcussions of your actions. --Draicone (talk) 00:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Draicone
Stick to editing what you know about, not what you pretend to know about. You and Kinu cannot play god in the world of wikipedia. I refuse to be BITTEN. Eventhough I am greatly discouraged to continue to be an active member/contributor of Wikipedia due to your irreconcilability. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zinco100 (talk • contribs).
- I'm sorry, but AfD is simply for reviewing if an article should or should not be on Wikipedia. If you feel it is notable enough, then say so. If consensus goes your way, the article will not be deleted. Thats how it works. I apologise if you feel your article is being wrongly deleted, but if you do, make it clear! AfD is, as I have told you before, a request for input and not a poll. Myself and Kinu are not attempting to play god. Wikipedia is the way it is, personal attacks are not tolerated. And why should I stick to editing what I know about? Wikipedia would not be anywhere near where it is today if people had not done basic research on a topic, expanded an article here and there, put simply, added content. This is exactly why Wikipedia doesn't guarantee the validity of any of the information on the site.
- I am not pretending to know about anything that I do not. I am simply voicing my opinion on an AfD using my knowledge of policy - and I would certainly hope I am aware of policy to a reasonable extent. If you dispute this, feel free to tell me so, but not in the form of a personal attack.
- I am not trying to bite you, per WP:BITE, I am merely stating policy to you. By launching personal attacks on good Wikipedia editors who simply use information available to them and considered valid, I erred away from WP:BITE and took a more frank approach to informing you of policy. I suggest you see WP:NOT. In addition, you haven't yet proved any of your statements. Per WP:VERIFY, Wikipedia is for verifiable material, whether or not that material is true. If there are no Google hits for the article, it suggest to us that the article is not notable enough; most things important end up on the web in the end and Wikipedia has to take a realistic approach to quality control.
- I would have happily talked it over with you had you not launched personal attacks on everyone who disagreed with you, and would certainly make allowances if your first ever edit had not been a personal attack on my talk page. Per WP:NPA, personal attacks are totally unacceptable. Your actions on my talk page, that of Kinu's and Kicking222's all count as personal attacks. These can lead to editing blocks, and blatant violators of policy have always been treated differently to newcomers making mistakes - for example, blatant vandals who do nothing else on WIkipedia are not the sort of people I treat with WP:BITE.
- I sincerely apologise if you weren't aware of any of these; after all, I hadn't heard about WP:ATTACK till a week or so after joining (although I certainly didn't make any personal attacks in that time). But you have been informed, and your actions from now on will certainly be taken into account if I have to go to ArbCom with this (as will anything listed at Special:Contributions/Zinco100, for that matter). --Draicone (talk) 07:50, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wangi/RFA
Thanks for your support on my RfA. Give me shout if I can be of help. Thanks/wangi 00:20, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey Draicone, I know you were doing a bunch of disambig work with British. Did you happen to notice today that User:Jooler changed it to a non-disambig page? Do you have any thoughts on the changes that were made? I'm not sure if it should remain as the disambig or at its current revision that s/he made. Metros232 14:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Requesting assistance on wikifying
Hi,
I was wondering if I could ask for some assistance in working on Sardarapat. Specifically, I'm not sure if the article is a copyvio. I've made notes in Talk:Sardarapat. Regards. -- Whpq 12:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] WP:ARCAID and userpage
Two messages in one, how about that? :)
First of all, today featured a big quarrel on WP:ARCAID, because an editor who nominated an article mass solicited 90+ other users to vote for his nomination of Queen's University, and others called that spamming, which was offensive for the solicitor. Now I'm not an official member of the maintenance team, but I do like to help out, and I alerted everyone who criticized this mass solicitation of the vote of May 2006, which resulted in mass solicitation not being prohibited (9-7 vote count). Main argument (which I support) is that WP:ARCAID benefits from many users willing to contribute to an article. Anyway, emotions ran high, with the solicitor removing the nomination and almost quitting. Things have been cooling down and I reinstated the nomination with permission from the solicitor as it wasn't against the rules.
Some of the critics pointed out that this procedure could result in a solicitation war and I have to agree they are right. Random mass solicitation is not very helpful and probably detrimental if it escalates. Targeted mass solicitation, such as a call on a portal's or project's talk page can be very helpful.
Perhaps a new vote should be conducted which aims at prohibiting mass solicitation on individual user pages, but allows for mass solicitation via a call on a portal's or project's talk page. Perhaps a clearer majority could be established by presenting a better outlined proposal. I would appreciate your opinion on this.
Second, I was intrigued by your user page, but as I use Firefox, the [show] command is not visible nor clickable, and I am therefore unable to see all your userboxes, awards etcetera. (I compared it with IE, in which the [show] command is visible and clickable) Just thought you'd like to know. Errabee 00:21, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
- I have drafted a proposal on Wikipedia talk:Article Creation and Improvement Drive. Second, Javascript is enabled and up-to-date (as far as I know). Errabee 10:11, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] AIDbot
Hi there, I'm sorry for being nonresponsive to your AIDbot inquiries. The thing is that AIDbot needs some serious redesign (lots of people complained about some AIDbot issues) and at the moment I can't allocate enough time to cope with that. That's why I didn't adress the problems which people pointed out (although I plan to fix this problems after my exams end, which will probably be in a month). But, if you are sure that just changing the name of the page which AIDbot processes will fix the problem with renaming of the project, then I'll spare few minutes to do that this weekend. --Dijxtra 14:07, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your message on 203.213.7.133
You left a message on the talkpage for User talk:203.213.7.133, regarding vandalism on the St Peters Lutheran College article. Please note that 203.213.7.133 is a shared IP for users of ADSL2+ in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and any blocking will affect several hundred more users than the vandal. Meeper 02:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Please see your talk page. --Draicone (talk) 11:37, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] AIDbot
Howdy, I changed the target page for the AIDbot, and it seems to work. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing. Now I'm going back to my exams and will fix the bot to work perfectly when I'm done with the exams... --Dijxtra 09:49, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Draicone, thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which was closed as successful last Wednesday with a unanimous support of (47/0/0). I will do my best to help keep Wikipedia clean, green and vandal free. Once again, thank you! --Konstable 14:35, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
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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. |
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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] query php example
Thanks for the php example. You might get a better performance if you use the php format though:
$content = file_get_contents('query.php?format=php');
$data = deserialize($content);
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[edit] Jeff Yagher
Hey, I just corrected the birth year for Jeff Yagher, only for you to decide to revert it, without even bothing to check! While I bet Mr. Yagher would like to know that he's a year younger than he actually is, log onto www.privateeye.com and look up Yagher in California -- he was born in 1961 NOT 1962!
And you guys wonder why no researcher takes Wiki seriously!
- Please see my comment at your talk page. --Draicone (talk) 00:52, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
"Westward Ho!" includes an exclamation mark in the place name. Please check your facts before reverting good faith edits. Badgerpatrol 02:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- I apologise. Thankyou for informing me. At the time, I was sure the diff showed that the ! had been removed, contradicting the edit summary. However, can you find a source for this change? --Draicone (talk) 03:23, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you- but do you honestly think it's appropriate to include a citation for the name of a town? If you do, we are going to be pretty busy in the next few months adding references for the likes of London[1], Paris[2], New York[3] etc. If you require verification for your own peace of mind, simply Google it- you will find hundreds. Please be more careful when reverting, particularly when a full explanatory edit summary is used. The diff was perfectly clear. Anyway, no harm done. Badgerpatrol 12:01, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
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[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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- 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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