User talk:Life in General/Archive 1

Page contents not supported in other languages.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Archive 1 Archive 2

Welcome

Hello, Life in General, and

intro page provides helpful information for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. SMasters Happy editing! S Masters (talk
) 04:31, 3 April 2010 (UTC)


WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: II (April 2010)

Sociology Project • News • April 2010

The

conducting a roll call
(or min-census, if you prefer). More then five years down the road, we have over 50 members, but we don't know how many of them are still active in the sociology area. If you are or want to become once again an active contributor to the sociology content on Wikipedia, please move your name from the inactive to the active list on our roll call.

In other news, we have reactivated the newsletter :) At least, for this announcement. We also have a new, automated to do listing, an active tag and assess project (which has identified about 1,800 sociology articles on Wikipedia, and assessed about 1,3000 of them), and three new userboxes for your self-identification pleasure :) On a final note, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.

You have received this newsletter because you are listed as a participant at WikiProject Sociology. • signed Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:43, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

South African Wikimedia Chapter update and mailing list

Hi there. Local Wikipedians have set up a mailing list where we will be discussing the formation of a local Wikimedia Chapter in South Africa. Please join the mailing list at this url https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza. There is also a page set up on Meta where you can add your name if you're interested to take this idea forward. Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa. Thanks Kaydee 68 (talk) 09:18, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Photo request

Are you in proximity to OR Tambo Airport? South African Airways needs a photo of its head office. This Google Maps View shows where the building is and what it looks like. Would you mind photographing the building? Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 12:24, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

New ubox and top-icon for WikiGryphons

  • Please forgive the talk page spam. There are new userbox and topicon selections for editors who identify themselves as Wikigryphons; see
    Ling.Nut
    02:15, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

RE: Translation of Die Suid-Afrikaan's story on the Purple Rain Protest

Thanks for the late translation, I guess online translation is a generational thing? You now have the credit for being the first to actually translate the piece into English. Well done, and good luck. We need more anarchists on wikipedia.Ethnopunk (talk) 13:30, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Minor notification

Just letting you know that I swapped out a crucifix for an icon symbolizing the three monotheisms in your "separation of Church and state" userboxes. In the previous form, they could well have become subject to allegations that they were anti-Christian and therefore were at risk of being tagged for deletion. -RadicalOne•Contact Me•Chase My Tail 23:30, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Use of categories in user sandbox

Hi Life in General, I recently noticed your sandbox page

♨
15:02, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: III (December 2010)

Sociology Project • News • December 2010
Spreading the meme since August 2006

The Sociology WikiProject third newsletter is out!

According to our

April mini-census
, we have 15 active members, 6 semi-active ones and 45 inactive. Out of those, 4 active, 3 semi-active and 1 inactive members have added themselves to corresponding categories since the mini-census. The next one is planned, roughly, for sometime next year. The membership list has been kept since 2004.

On that note, nobody has ever studied WikiProjects from the sociological perspective... if you are interesting in researching Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Research and wiki-research-l listerv.

Moving from research to teaching, did you know that many teachers and instructors are teaching classes with Wikipedia? This idea is getting support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and some really useful tools have been created recently. I have experience with that, having taught several undergad classes, so feel free to ask me questions on that!

And as long as I am talking about professional issues, if any of you is going to any sociological conferences, do post that to our project - perhaps other members are going there too?

In other news: the a automated to do listing reported in the April issue went down shortly afterwards, but seems to be on the path to reactivation. We still have an active tag and assess project, and comparing the numbers to the April report, we have identified about 350 more sociology-related articles (from 1,800 to 2,150) and assessed about 100 (from 1,300 to 1,400).

We now have a listing of

WT:SOCIOLOGY
!

Finally, with the reactivation of Article Alerts, we are getting our own here. Bookmark that page so you can keep track of sociology related deletion debates, move debates, good and feature article discussions, and more.

Our first task force (Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force) was created (1 June 2010).

If you have basic or better graphic skills, our projects needs a dedicated

barnstar (award) (currently the closest we can get is the Society Barnstar
.

As always, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.

Authored by Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 04:06, 26 December 2010 (UTC)


You have received this newsletter because you are listed as a recipient of WikiProject Sociology Newsletter (Opt-out).

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Members

Thank you for the interest in the project. You may want to move your signature from the inactive section :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:38, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for linking my "adverb" userbox

As you say yourself in your header that we wouldn't get along (actually, religious people tend to examine their lives and question their beliefs a great deal), it is good that there are some things that can unite even people who think most different. :-) Mzk1 (talk) 19:15, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Template:University of the Witwatersrand

After your edits "Template:University of the Witwatersrand" is pointing to a disambiguation page for "Transvaal University College". It is unclear to me what you want with that link. Can you correct this link so that it points to the article you want it to point at? Thanks in advance.

talk
20:09, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Faculty of ...

It may be better to have pages like

Faculty of Science (University of the Witwatersrand) instead of Science (University of the Witwatersrand). Pavel Vozenilek (talk
) 23:46, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hi, Life in General, welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies!

We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles regarding

bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and intersex people. LGBT Studies covers people, culture, history, and related subjects concerning sexual identity and gender identity
- this covers a lot of ground and your help is appreciated! Some points that may be helpful:

If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you.

And once again - Welcome!

-- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 19:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Life in General. You have new messages at Malik Shabazz's talk page.
Message added 05:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Center of lateral resistance

I needed the definition to link to from another article. It is an important concept for sailboats. I could not believe it was not on wikipedia. I have added additional material. I believe the material meets the criterion of encyclopedia per the link you sent me to, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skimaniac (talk • contribs) 02:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

o need to apologize. Just keeping it realSkimaniac (talk) 03:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification

Hi. When you recently edited Colin Bundy, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page David Watson (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:13, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 January 2012

Reviewing

Hi there. I was wondering if you could/would review this

article for GA nomination. Please let me know if you are interested. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk
) 06:24, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 January 2012

The Signpost: 23 January 2012

The Signpost: 30 January 2012

The Signpost: 06 February 2012

The Signpost: 13 February 2012

The Signpost: 20 February 2012

DYK for Local Coordination Committees of Syria