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[edit] Vandalism
If you do not sign your posts to my talk page, they will be deleted. Though with the initials AR... could it be? She's baaack. NickGorton 15:31, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hi there
Could the two of you please take your flamewar elsewhere? Wikipedia talk pages are really supposed to be for stuff relating to editing Wikipedia. The above "discussion" looks like something off a bad message board. You'll both be happier if you restrict yourselves to actually talking about articles rather than going back and forth with personal attacks. Isomorphic 05:32, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
- Oh, and the "lay off the personal attacks" goes double for Angela. Isomorphic 05:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Hmm, let's see, Nicki claimed that female sexuality is like "puttering around in a Yugo." As a female with intense sexual urges (who knows countless other perfectly normal women who are the same), I resent that stereotype. It is stupid, spurious, and disgusting. If that bigot has the right to poison Wiki articles with such spurious views, why don't I have the right to counter that bigotry? -- Angela
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- Question for you, Isomorphic, would you have the same problem with a person of color who flamed someone in response to being called a 'nigger'? If not then perhaps you need to reconsider your response. For someone who is transgender, being referred to by an inappropriate pronoun, or gendered name, or as a 'pretend' male (or female as the case may be) is the equivalent of being referred to by that racial epithet. Of course Angela's inane comments do about as much harm to me as someone calling my partner a 'nigger' (that is nada. To be honest, she's kind of amusing.) However, I believe you may be judging this by a double standard. I would be interested, however, to hear your comments about the appropriate response in the case of racial rather than gender identity bigotry. -Nick
Hi Nick! Could you have a look at Talk:LGBT#Adding more detail - seems before this debate goes on and on and on, a word from an MD might really help there. Thanks a lot, AlexR 23:27, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
OK, I will have a look at it tonight. NickGorton 16:17, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Nick. I was struggling for an alternative to 'non-trans' women as it didn't read very well. Cisgender is a whole lot better than 'natal'. Thanks for the correction! - Pete C ✍ 20:27, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Re: "Decency" project
Don't worry about that too much - it is hardly the first time that this kind of crusaders try to change the way WP works (although it is the first time they made up a "project" for it), and so far, they have not been exactly successfull. Might make for an interesting round of debates, though ;-) -- AlexR 08:58, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Category
Placed category physician on your user page.--Nomen Nescio 10:34, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Paid Editing Project
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[edit] New Emergency Physician category and collaboration
I've started a new category of emergency physicians to encourage greater interest in related articles. Please help me to expand and improve the article on emergency department and perhaps later Emergency Medicine - perhaps we will eventually reach featured article status for these subjects.--File Éireann 18:05, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
The article Emergency department has now been nominated for an Article Improvement Drive. I would be very pleased if you could go to the Article Improvement link above and back the nomination. Its near the bottom of the page--File Éireann 19:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
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Hi, Nick! Would you be interested in joining the LGBT Studies Wikiproject? It's been around for a while, but there's been a recent push to start assessing articles and getting things moving. Your help would be appreciated! Thanks, -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, NickGorton, 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:
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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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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
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- 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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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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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
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- 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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