User:Princess Janay/Department of Conversations

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Unless you have a disorder that causes you to have inadequate common sense, you will notice that the Department of Conversations is, indeed, my Archived Talk page. Are you supposed to be looking at my mail, though?

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April 2008

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thanks. the complaining stops here. no complaints below this line! :-)

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You might want to check out this google search to help you research and write your article: [1]. There are dozens of reviews here. I would try to pick and choose the 2-3 most reliable (those that come from

original research, such as providing your own opinions on the pen. If you need ANY more help with this, drop another note at my talk page. --Jayron32|talk|contribs

17:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Help with your userpage

You look interested in pretifying your user page. This may be helpful to you: [2] --Jayron32.talk.contribs 22:02, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Leaving messages

By the way, thanks for helping out with New Page patrolling. Your work is very much appreciated. However, a few tips:

• Be certain you leave the messages for users at their User Talk: page NOT at their User: page. Its an easy mistake to make for someone new to the project, but messages like you have been leaving rightly belong on the User Talk page...
• Don't use UserBoxes in your signature, like the one you have been leaving referring to yourself as a New Page Patroller. The NPP is a VERY unofficial organization, and to represent yourself as a member of the group in your talk page comments implies that your comments carry some official weight. They don't... Userboxes properly belong only on YOUR userpage... See
  WP:SIG
  for more information.

We are SO glad you are helping out with Wikipedia, and your work is greatly appreciated... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 22:02, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for coming to Wikipedia. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 19:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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:-)

As you said on my talk page - HI. If your new and want help with anything ask me. I've been around wiki for a while. Dixonsej (talk) 16:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Cure

Hi. You mentioned at the Award Center that you were writing a Cure article. Please copy what you have done so far to User:Princess Janay/Drafts/Cure. I'd really love to take a look at it. Cheers. The Transhumanist 23:48, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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I have responded to your remarks on my talk page

talk

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Princess Janay

19:02, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey there Princess Janay, no worries, you made an honest mistake. I've moved this page to be found now at User:Princess Janay/Userboxes. You can edit, change, and do whatever you'd like to it. Soon, the page that starts with "Wikipedia:" will be deleted. Thanks for your editing, sorry if we came off a bit harsh here. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 19:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem, we've all had bad days. Glad you're here. You can ask any questions you want on my talkpage, it's always open! Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 19:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Terribly sorry, Janay, didn't mean to come across blunt or

inthegarden

19:32, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Cure (medical)

I've reverted

disambiguation page. It would be a good idea for you to find other pages that ought to link to it and put the links there. Among other things, that will help bring the page to the attention of others interested in the topic so that they can also contribute to it.

Notice that if you click on "history" you see the page's edit history, and that identifies you as the initial creator of the page. That's the proper place for such identification; it should not be within the article itself. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:09, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I've moved the disambiguation page to

WP:CITE and Template:Citation for instructions on how to handle references. The Transhumanist

20:13, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I copy-edited the whole article, but Michael Hardy deleted the page to move the original page which you wrote to cure, then added my edits back in here, but it looks like he wrote it all. I'm just letting you know that I did the copy-editing there. For more info, see the thread at User talk:Michael Hardy#Cure. The Transhumanist 21:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I've added a task list to Talk:Cure. All you need to do for your barnstar is fix the references to inline citations.  ;) The Transhumanist 21:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

It's cool

Hey. I hope you don't feel you are being ganged up on or anything here. That is certainly not my intention. It is clear you are contributing in good faith and I would encourage you to continue to do so. It seems you had a lot of problems all at once, but if you learn from them, and apply what you have learned, both Wikipedia and yourself have benefited from the experience. I have found that the best, most concise guide to what Wikipedia is and how it works is

) 21:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Princess

Someone mentioned that you wrote a message in all caps. That really got me in trouble once, because in this type-written medium it is considered yelling. It took me awhile to realize just how seriously people take

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I noticed you mentioned that you are interested in becoming an admin one of these days. I'm impressed. Keep in mind that nobody who fails to use edit summaries makes it through RfA ("Requests for adminship"), as that is seen as an indicator of inexperience and immaturity (lack of regard for others) - many editors, especially admins, carefully analyze every edit made to articles, and edit summaries help them immensely to understand what is going on without having to go in and view the diffs of every single one.

Following

RfA

.

Another link you might find helpful is Staying cool when the editing gets hot.

Don't worry about it too much - there's a lot to learn - initial stumblings are disregarded once a user has learned the ropes and has been wikified.  :) But whatever you do, don't go for RfA until you've racked up a few thousand edits, and have conferred with an experienced Wikipedian first. The most common mistake at RfA is bad timing (premature nomination).

Is your head spinning yet?  :) Welcome to Wikipedia! The Transhumanist 15:25, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Learning the ropes

I wrote a lesson called Wikipedia:Learning the ropes to help people get up to speed here on Wikipedia. Please let me know if you find it useful.

The Transhumanist 15:42, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi there

Hi there, I was browsing contributions and was intrigued by your username. I'm impressed by your dedication and if I can help with any science stuff you come across (eg is this vandalism? is this a hoax article?) please drop me a note on my talkpage. All the best Tim Vickers (talk) 01:46, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Exceptional Newcomer Award
		Awarded to Princess Janay for her enthusiasm and cheerfulness. Tim Vickers (talk) 01:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Holy ####, you're 12?!

I am very happy to see people add material on fungi to wikipedia. Welcome. There are a bunch of us around who edit alot of biology articles. If you have any questions, drop me a line. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

   As a note of caution, on Wikipedia, just as in real life, not everybody has good intentions. If anybody starts being creepy towards you, asks for personal details such as your phone number or address, or invites you to meet them in real life, please notify an administrator at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. I don't want to come across as overprotective, but there is a chance that putting your age on your userpage might attract the wrong type of people. Anyway, all the best Tim Vickers (talk) 18:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC) 

there's a reply to you on my talk page (eom)

VMK

Hi, some IP user deleted the article "just for fun", this happens often and is called vandalism. There is no need to re-write the entire article, just click on "undo" and revert it to a previous version.

) 22:04, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh. I didn't know that.--Listen to your Princess, dear Wikipedians. (talk) 22:05, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

If you look at the "History" section all the edits to an article are preserved. Nothing can be deleted by normal users. Tim Vickers (talk) 16:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

399 to go

We are almost done,

) 02:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Good day your Highness

hello i'm new here I was just suggesting an idea for a Wikiproject when i saw your name. it's an honor your Highness ~bows~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.244.187.222 (talk) 03:59, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

K12 Inc.

The key to writing about commercial companies is to avoid any appearance of promoting their products or services and include lots of third-party sources. Try Google news and Google scholar for references. Also avoid using "puff words" ie instead of writing "They provide excellent computer services that enable schools to maximise their achievements." just say "They provide computer services to schools". Tim Vickers (talk) 15:54, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

See

Coleman Company as a reasonable example. Tim Vickers (talk

) 15:58, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Heh figures

ifgures you were right miss i didnt even notice thanks heh as always a pleasure your highness ~bows~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tnu1138 (talk • contribs) 16:14, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

"Hi" to Her Highness ;)

Hi Princess Janay!

I noticed your nice exchange of letters with my friend Tim; he's great, isn't he? He's always been really helpful and good-natured to me, and I count him as one of my best friends here. :)

I hope you have a very happy time here at Wikipedia! It's a wonderful place, and there are many more wonderful editors to get to know. There may be a few ups and downs, and ornery people now and then, but I hope your royal dignity and serenity will carry you through. Today is my 2nd wiki-birthday, and I haven't regretted a moment. If I can help make your time here a little more cheery now and then, please write and let me know. I've worn the crown, too, but I think it suits you much better. ;) Your signature is excellent! :D

Kindly Willow (talk) 18:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Egyptology

I've archived your proposal as there is already one

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Admin coaching request status

You have expressed interest in undergoing the administrator . Therefore, at this time, your application for Admin Coaching has been declined. My suggestion would be to seek encyclopedia. If you decide adoption is not for you, there is also the editor review process that may help you find areas to improve upon in our editing. If you would like to talk more about this, please feel free to leave me a note at my talk page. MBisanz talk 02:23, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Userpage

Maybe a little help on mine, please? KC109.

Hey, I'd really like a red border around the page and my userboxen (there's a lot of them) in a drop down section. Thanks. KC109 01:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC).

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Award Center Newsletter

Issue 2 • April 28, 2008

New sponsored challenges New challenges include: List building drive: Pick a list and improve it 12-Hour Clock to GA Create 40 new pages Add citations for Foghorn Leghorn and The Barnyard Dawg Add an infobox to 25 articles Expand 1974 NBA Playoffs News The newsletter has been redesigned. Thank you to IMatthew for your design contributions. This shiny new newsletter is a result of their combined efforts. Thank you to Enigmaman for participating in the previous Award Center Collaboration of the Fortnight. Please note that if you wish to be given credit for work completed, you must sign up for the collaboration first. This week's collaboration is Luc Besson. Apologies for the late newsletter. The editor has been swamped lately due to school and vacation. If in the future a fortnightly delivery schedule cannot be kept, this newsletter will be delivered monthly. A lively discussion about the future of the Award Center is currently being being hosted on the Award Center talk page. Input is always welcome.

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Special request If you are familiar with or like using photoshop or the GIMP, your help is needed to create some special awards for an important upcoming AWC project. Please contact The Transhumanist New sponsored challenges New challenges include: The Transhumanist's Wishlist: Portals Expand the List of transactions involving the Dallas Mavericks The Reference Challenge AFD,etc. Copy Editing Expand/Cleanup/Sourcing on Waco Jesus News Late again! I'm switching the newsletter to be a monthly format, as I seem to remember this once a month. Thanks again Enigmaman for participating in the previous Award Center Collaboration of the Fortnight. Please note that if you wish to be given credit for work completed, you must sign up for the collaboration first. This week's collaboration is Brian Stewart. The following collaboration will be Human Genetic Engineering.

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Spelling bee project

I think you probably meant to put this in the Wikipedia namespace, so I've moved it to Wikipedia:WikiProject National Spelling Bee. NawlinWiki (talk) 21:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

New Focus at

Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles

		The Invisible Barnstar
		Thank you for your continued work and assistance on Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles, referencing and generally cleaning up articles that have needed attention for a long time. Your good work goes unseen unless someone disagrees ;) Jeepday (talk ) 12:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

The huge set of unreferenced articles from June of 2006 is finally completed. Thank you for your contributions. The new focus at

Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles is Category:Articles lacking sources from July 2006 which as of May 28 is only 1,322 articles and should go much quicker. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and listed themselves as a volunteer. Jeepday (talk

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VFK

The article wasn't speedied initially; it was deleted after an AFD discussion, and speedied a few times after that under G4 as recreated material. So the qualifications on CSD don't really apply here. If you want to create an article on VFK, you need to review

17:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I've deleted the VFK article again. I know we talked about sources before, but the one you used was already present in the article at the time of

WP:WEB

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1. The content itself (in this case, VFK, and not anything else related to it, like the company that makes it or the game it was based on) has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.
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     reliable
     published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, websites, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations except for the following:
     • Media re-prints of press releases and advertising for the content or site.
     • Trivial coverage, such as (1) newspaper articles that simply report the Internet address, (2) newspaper articles that simply report the times at which such content is updated or made available, (3) a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of Internet addresses and site or (4) content descriptions in Internet directories or
       online stores
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2. The website or content has won a well-known and independent award from either a publication or organization.
3. The content is distributed via a medium which is both respected and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster; except for:
   • Trivial distribution such as hosting content on entertainment-like sites (GeoCities, Newgrounds, personal blogs, etc.)

If you think the game meets any one of these three critera, or if it meets one of them later on, then you can try filing for a

review of the previous decision to delete the article. Other than that, right now we can't have a Wikipedia on VFK. Sorry, but I hope you understand. -- Vary Talk

01:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Of course I read the article before I deleted it! I know you've done a lot of work on it, but honestly, the only thing you can do is look for some more sources, or wait for people to start taking notice of VFK and writing news stories about it or give it a major award. Moonriddengirl's given you some good pointers below. Good luck! -- Vary Talk 02:26, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Just a heads up

I thought you might like to know that the Awards Center page has been deleted, along with its newsletter.  :(

So, where do we go from here?

To new and even more interesting projects, of course!

As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.

Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.

It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!

This is going to be interesting.

And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!

If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist 21:48, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I need your feedback...

Which of the following medals looks better. This one:

Or this one:

Which one do you like better?

Please let me know on my talk page.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:42, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

What is Around the World?

It's a collaboration!

A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!

If everything goes according to plan, it will begin on July 15th.

The event is being co-sponsored by

, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia and perhaps beyond) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."

The set of pages we are working on is currently located at

Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics

.

Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of

Wikipedia's contents system

.

The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!

For this they use advanced tools like

, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees.  :) The energy is contagious.

And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.

The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.

For an example of what a nearly complete page looks like, see these:

List of basic United States topics

There are only about 200 more pages to go!

During the collaboration, co-coordinators will be standing by, to lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators will also be using advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.

Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.

The Transhumanist 08:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Virtual Family Kingdom

Do you have other sources for this? Currently, what you have is the same source that was in it during the

01:38, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

You should probably go ahead and add your sources soon, then, as I know that the space is watched. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:42, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

What other sources do you have? The new one may not be helpful, I'm afraid, since the source is not independent of the site. The page says they're the company that created the world. We need independent reliable sources. If you have them, I'd be happy to help add them. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:48, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I noticed that it had been deleted again. I'm afraid that the only usable new source that you added was this one. As I said, the first source was already in the article, and the second one was by the company that made the game. If a website does not meet one of the other standards of

WP:WEB. That might be a good idea. If you get together a list of sources, it should be easy enough for contributors there to determine if the article should be restored. If I were doing it, I'd probably be looking for about five solid sources that aren't connected to the company. Obviously, the more the better, but with five I think you'd stand a good chance. Obviously, if you found a fantastic source, like a review in The New York Times, you'd be more likely to succeed with less. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk)

02:06, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

←(duplicating from my talk page; should have posted it here, to be sure you'd see it. :)) Yes, if there's substantial new evidence. Are you sure it was up for

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It is not in your page.--OsamaK^{Reply? on my talk page, please} 14:33, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

C'mon! It will be kept. However, do you really want to use it in your user page? no one add such this image in hir user page, even with no comments. It's yours after all, but please help us cleaning Wikipedia.--OsamaK^{Reply? on my talk page, please} 17:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Status report on the Country outlines (Around the World) project

Penubag has been hard at work developing awards for this project. He has completed a very professional looking medal, and is almost done with a trophy that is truly awesome - both of these awards are visually stunning.

I and a few others have been working steadily on the country outlines - one for every country of the world! They're shaping up nicely. So far, 28 of them have been moved to article space - these aren't complete, but they are complete enough to be made available for readers to benefit from them. The rest of the set still includes temporary data that was generated by template (because it matched most but not all of the countries), and before the lists can be moved to article space, all the temporary data needs to be checked for accuracy, and if incorrect it needs to be replaced with correct information.

The effort on the lists has been on 3 fronts:

1. Working on the lists in article space to complete them so they will be good examples for editors working on the rest of the set.
2. Adding or correcting other data (fixing redlinks, filling in blanks, etc.). The main type of work participants in "the contest" will be doing. The reason we're doing this is to get a feel for it, to develop the fastest methods for each type of task, etc.
3. Improving the overall design and implenting changes on all 247 pages, whether in article space or not.

There has been some opposition to us running the contest based on edit counts or iterations. The concern is that we should reward quality work and not quantity, for fear of crappy edits done quickly without thought. I pointed out that the collection of pages are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (therefore posing no danger to article space) and that most of the work needs to be done with power tools like AWB and Linky (which are specifically designed for repetitive work), but the reply was that we shouldn't set the precedent of rewarding barnstars for numerically-based tasks, and implied the threat of continuously MfD'ing the contest if we attempted to do so (like they did with the Awards Center - I was very surprised and disappointed that participants didn't step up to defend it). So we need to be careful in determining what exactly the awards will represent, and how they will be awarded.

Since rewarding iterations (passes with AWB on all of the pages in the set) are out, we really don't need the globe in stand anymore. Two awards should suffice.

Once we get started with the contest, I'd like to kick the whole thing off with a round of medals for those dedicated few who have worked hard on the project so far.

What do you think of all of this?

Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.

The Transhumanist 23:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Userpage

The code for the blue border with rounded corners and the grey background is:

<table style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 10px; border: #999FFF solid 5px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; background: Gainsboro;">
<tr><td><div style="padding: 8px;">

(change '#999FFF' and 'Gainsboro' to whatever colours you want)

and the floating Beatles logo is:

<div style="position: fixed; left:0; top:0; display:block; height:155px; width:135px;">[[Image:Beatles logo.png|150px]]</div>

(you can use any image you like).

If there's anything else you want, it will either be in User:Dendodge/header or near the top of my userpage. I'll be willing to give you any specific code you need. Dendodge Talk^Contribs 16:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Starting a Collaboration

Hello. Sorry to bother you, but I'd like to know if you could give me any information on starting a collaboration? I have a really good idea for one, but some of the information on starting a collaboration is just so confusing, I don't know where to look. :-) Thanks,--Listen to your Princess, dear Wikipedians. (talk) 16:37, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, my Princess.  :)

There's no need to be sorry, since I am very happy to assist Wikipedians with respect to this encyclopedia.

I know quite a bit about collaborations, projects, wiki-teams, etc.

Many wikiprojects have or support a collaboration program (a subproject, not a computer program) in which the participants of a WikiProject nominate and vote on articles in order to choose one to work on together. The winning article then becomes their "Collaboration of the week", ..."fortnight", ..."month", etc.

A collaboration's collaboration page is generally where the selection process takes place. For example,

Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Month

is a collaboration page.

To browse various collaborations on Wikipedia check out search results.

By the way, what is your idea?

The Transhumanist 21:51, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

My idea for a Collaboration

Oh, thanks for the help. My idea for a project is a collaboration that checks deletion logs, finds deleted articles, and tries to figure out why they were deleted. Then, the problems can be fixed, and the articles can be rewritten. I don't know if someone already created this project, but it sounds liek a good idea to me. Again, thanks.--Listen to your Princess, dear Wikipedians. (talk) 20:39, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

So you wish to resurrect articles from the dead, do you? The department that processes requests for resurrecting pages from the deletion graveyard is Wikipedia:Deletion review. The people who hang out there generally pass judgement in discussions similar to those at AfD, and they don't usually work on the articles themselves (but some do). All requests to undelete articles must go through DR.

Keep in mind that Deletion Review is itself a list of articles that people are trying to undelete. The users going through deletion review are often desperate for help to save their articles, as well as those going through AfD. AfD and DR can be very stressful, especially for newcomers. Save an editor's article from deletion, or bring it back from the dead through deletion review, and you've made a friend for life!

The WikiProject or Department that is dedicated to saving articles from deletion is the Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron. They generally focus on articles in AfD, so you could either expand the scope of the operations there to include saving articles that have already been deleted, or create a new "Wikipedia:Article Resuscitation Unit".

Keep in mind that the word "collaboration" has a very specific context on Wikipedia: collaborations are periodic tasks sponsored by a particular WikiProject. To see a slew of examples, search for "Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week".

So, while a WikiProject works on a particular subject or problem continuously, it's "weekly collaboration" (sometimes they are monthly) would focus on their chosen article of the week (or month), bringing people together to improve that specific page.

To create a collaboration, simply set up a collaboration subpage for the sponsoring department or WikiProject, and then add a collaboration subheading on that department's main page with an explanation and a link to the subpage. You can also provide a template that users can display on their talk page which announces the latest article in the collaboration. There are plenty of examples to model your collaboration idea after.

Here's a link you may find especially useful for obtaining copies of deleted pages so you can work on them:

Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles

Good luck.

And have fun!

The Transhumanist 22:10, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Deleted my picture?

The image was nominated for deletion and you were notified above but made no response to keep it, so the image was deleted. -

01:29, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

The image has been restored. The only way an admin is going to know that you want to keep and use the image is to make your wishes known at the IFD discussion. -Regards,

talk

02:02, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Want power?

See this: Wikipedia:Linky tutorial

The Transhumanist 05:31, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Your talk page is amazing

Your talk page is HUGE!!!!!!!!!--What!?Why?Who? (talk) 22:43, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

File:'pedia.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered,

, please 08:26, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject National Spelling Bee

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