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Please tell me!!!
ARE you finally over your thing for, let us say inappropriate girls? I was hoping maybe you grew out of it!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmm6f488 (talk • contribs) 12:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Well, one thing that might save the article from meriting a PROD deletion would be if you could point out a place (other than Korotkov's work) that discusses the field. Even a reputable source slamming the field of
Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion
, but if you think that this article should not be deleted then you should by all means contest the PROD and compel an AfD discussion.
. I've already copied those few unique ideas over to the latter article, and the former has no further redeeming value.
An alternative exists: we could turn
I have to say that I have no real problem going either way. If you feel that GI glasses should be kept and BCG made the redirect, then I will not object. As far as I am concerned, they are both slang terms, and while I think BCG has a more interesting name due to the humor of it, it does seem a less... official, for lack of a better term. So, by all means, do as you like and I will not attempt to stop or revert you; but if you haven't moved either way by the time May rolls around, I will act upon my own preference (assuming lack of interest in all other parties). bahamut0013♠♣ 00:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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I don't remember exactly, but I think someone had hijacked
Hero for a Day for some non notable band. That's what I nominated for deletion; I guess some admin restored it to a redirect. Sorry about the confusion. You can safely disregard the message. TheMile (talk) 00:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply
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June 2008
External links to avoid
The part of the guideline that the link to lolitron violated was in the section
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Greetings
How are things going? GreenJoe 02:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free to drop me an e-mail and I'd be happy to discuss my userpage, etc with you. GreenJoe 03:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Nope all lies, lol. I think your pretty interesting yourself. Meojive (talk) 06:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Development content is very important to include in an encyclopedic video game article. It provides a history of how the game came to be and provides real world information needed for an article to claim comprehensiveness. However, writing this section can be difficult because the amount and type of information available will vary for each game. One of the best sources for such information is a developer interview. These can provide insight into the thought process of the designers and give examples of influences and obstacles encountered. Previews can also be helpful by giving a snap shot of the game before it was released and may mention development issues that were still being addressed.
When writing about development, common sense should be used to organize content to maintain a sense of flow for the reader. Most times, it is best to give the information in a somewhat chronological order—though information can also be grouped by topics like audio, promotion, graphics, etc. If one such topic gets large enough, it can be split off into its own subsection or regular section. For example, Kingdom Hearts#Audio is a separate section from the rest of the development information because it focuses on the game's musical score and voice acting. Portal (video game)#Soundtrack, however, does not have as much content and is a subsection of the main development section.
What to include about development
Who are the developers? Which company or studio developed the game, and are there any prominent designers involved?
When did development begin?
When and where was the game first announced? (e.g. Tokyo Game Show, E3 Media and Business Summit, etc.)
What influenced the game's story, characters, music, and/or gameplay ? (e.g. past games, movies, books, etc.)
Were there any delays?
Was anything excluded because of time or technological constraints? (e.g. extra levels, game modes, characters, story arcs, etc.)
Things to remember
Avoid proseline. Though maintaining a sense to chronology is important, this section should not read like an ordered list of events.
Images in this section should be relevant to the information given and should add on to it.
Source everything to avoid information being tagged as
Hello, members and friends of WP:LGBT! I'm not one to be writing newsletters, but I miss our cruise director,
talk page
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WP:LGBT
's Role in HIV / AIDS articles
It wouldn't be a proper gay community without a li'l bit o' drama! That's right. If we aren't arguing about something, then we should be asking if we're still queer. Maybe that's for the best, since we know we're still kicking. Our most recent topic is how far the role of our project should go in dipping our toes into HIV/AIDS articles. The main
AIDS article was delisted as a Featured Article last month, sadly. (Sending a swift kick to WP:Medicine.) A spirited discussion is available for your entertainment on the WP:LGBT talk page
about just how much of HIV and AIDS should we take on. As ever, we'll take your opinions under advisement. We're going to have to, because it doesn't seem to have been settled.
Is Pride POV?
We have a pretty cool sidebar that identifies core LGBT articles. Its symbol is the iconic
not neutral. Should a pride flag show up at the top of the article on Conversion therapy? How else would anyone know the article is about queer issues? Is there another symbol that is as widely recognized and that includes all our many splintered facets? At what point do we stop asking ourselves all these questions and just go have a mint julep
regarding how much emphasis the section places on Milk's support in light of his overall political influence on the city, and indeed the rest of the United States. Milk's article is a sad one in more ways than one. It lacks the detail and heart that honors its subject. Anyone want to do a barter with me? I'll bring Harvey Milk to featured status (give me a month or two so I can read stuff), if you do something of equal value to WP:LGBT?? Make me an offer...
Queer Studies is offensive!
The established branch of study known as Queer studies was brought up as an category for deletion because an editor was offended by the use of "queer" in the title. It was overwhelmingly rejected mostly by the usernames I see here on our Wikiproject page. (A clue that I know you are out there, hiding...biding your time...) So, I wish I could congratulate you, but now I'm all confused by my sympathy for the editor who was offended. So, if you're reading this, Moni has a short memory and can't remember your username. Don't be put off by our demonstrative pushiness. Join us. We can always use involved editors.
What can you do to help the project out? Be a wiki-fairy, on many levels. There are all kinds of articles that need help. Why, just this morning I removed those ugly wikify and cleanup tags from four articles at random. If you can put [[ ]] around stuff, you can clean up articles. There's a list of articles that need attention at the top of the WP:LGBT talk page. Or you can start with the Lambda Literary Awards, where the goddess of my altar received a pioneering award, and was "reduced to rubble" by Katherine V. Forrest's wonderful speech. The 20th ceremony of the Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrates LGBT literature, took place in West Hollywood on May 29th [1]. The page needs to be updated with the new winners, to be found on the official website [2].
Why on earth would someone want to delete material about homosexuality? 'Tis truly a mystery. But these embattled articles have some random evil gnomes removing information that places these folks under our queer umbrella. Help us keep an eye out for the deletions. Take a peek at the articles, familiarize yourselves with the info, and be handy with the undo function in the article history. If tempers flare, take it to the
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This month's Wiki stars
This is what I get for opening my big fat mouth and suggesting the newsletter should be revived. Here I am writing it. So, to pat self on back (*cough*) Mulholland Dr. became a featured article in May. This is A Good Thing since it is my personal declaration that there is no such thing as lesbian porn. I don't care what Benjiboi says about the video collection at goodvibes. Instead, we have hot women who connect on a deep, personal, soul-touching level, so this film should qualify as some of the skankiest porn available for lesbians. Plus, it's completely confusing and surreal! D'you think Laura Harring would care that the article is featured? I don't think so either... (Call me, Laura!)
Compulsive hoarding of templates
Once I saw a harrowing episode of Animal Planet's Animal Cops where this guy had, like, 250 cats in his house and it freaked me right out. I'm drawing a parallel between 250 cats and, well...three, really, templates in articles involving LGBT issues. Can we stick to one, maybe? In the aforementioned Harvey Milk's article there's a core LGBT template, a link to the LGBT portal, and a sidebar for LGBT rights. Jiminy! You'd think we weren't the folk to set industrial grey carpeting and track lighting in vogue. An LGBT footer was designed to link to articles of interest that aren't the aforementioned core articles. What do you think, can we have either an LGBT template for core articles, a footer for LGBT articles that are high profile but not core, or an LGBT rights template? As ever, anything's up for discussion on the WP:LGBT talk page.
It looks like we've picked up a lot of talent lately. We have no doubt you'll be making your indelible mark on LGBT knowledge as we know it, here at Wikipedia.
In the immortal words of Miss Julie, "May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your
We miss you, Miss Julie, as well as all the others who have graced our project and are on wiki-breaks or just got fed up with all the nuttiness and went to live their lives. Get your stupid houses built and hurry up and come back. --Moni3 (talk) 16:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Gymnast infobox
Hello, Tyciol. You are listed as a member of WikiProject Gymnastics, but the project is listed as inactive, so I am contacting you personally on your talk page.
I have been bold and created
an infobox for gymnastics biographical articles. I would appreciate any and all feedback on it, including changes and corrections. I took the basic fields from the FIG profiles and the one on the Nastia Liukin article, as well as pulling ones from other athlete infoboxes. I tried to be as thorough as possible, but I'm sure that I've left some things out. :) I have put together some samples of how the infobox currently looks at User:Kolindigo/Gymnastics Infobox Test
.
I would like to start implementing the infobox on gymnastics biographies in about a week to give it time to settle in and get the kinks knocked out before the Olympics. Please come by, take a look, and make any changes you think would help. Kolindigo (talk) 05:47, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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What
...the heck is up with all the "Valley of Scream" redirects? I started to delete a few as implausible (and frankly unneeded) redirects, but saw you created a ton of them. What gives?
Nearly everything I said about the Dick Cruickshank version, I got from the entry on the Internet Movie Database. I'm very surprised this isn't on archive.org as it is public domain. I've seen the direction attributed to Norman Lee and to W. Bowden, and to Cruickshank himself. Taori seems to think the 1948 version was first although he says there were "two or three" film versions. I should contact him about hunting up the 1923 version. Hope this helps. --Bluejay Young (talk) 20:15, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome!
Welcome to the project! Happy to join us! Waiting for you ideas and contributions!--Yannismarou (talk) 18:09, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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I replied on my talk page. Let us keep the discussion there. --Bduke (talk) 01:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
July 2008
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The
June 2008 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:07, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply
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Refactoring talk pages
Please stop refactoring talk pages, as you did here and here. It is not appropriate to do such "clean up", is totally unnecessary, and is considered rude. They are talk pages, not articles, so please leave headers alone, and spacing. Such things should only be corrected if it actually breaks the pages, which none of this does. -- Collectonian (talk·contribs) 01:11, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Collectonian has responded on her talk page. If the readability of a talk page is an issue, you can always archive it. It does not quite fix the issue, but hey, no one will see it unless they really want to:). You will find more guidance here. Regards, G.A.S 04:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Brawl FAC
I'm going around and messaging any user who had discussed on the Smash Bros. taskforce and alerting them about Brawl's second attempt at the FAC. Any comments are appreciated, especially constructive criticism. I don't want the FAC to drag out so long that SandyGeorgia will be forced to close it before things could be properly fixed. So if you have time, please leave a comment. Thanks very much in advance! --haha169 (talk) 04:57, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tyciol, I have reversed what appears to be your division of the Harmonious editing club Membership into "Active" vs "Inactive" as I don't think this was a postive action. You may like to discuss this at Wikipedia talk:Harmonious editing club. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:47, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello again Tyciol. Did I come across a little confrontational again. Sorry. No quarrel, no beef, and not with you anyway. Thanks for your contribution. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:49, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello
Hello! I've seen you around Wikipedia on Wikiprojects like
this. Hope to see you around more and happy editing! :) --Grrrlriot (talk) 17:14, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply
]
Category:WikiProject Sociology members
Hello Tyciol. How are you? I noticed that you are a member of WikiProject Sociology. You can add {{User Sociology}} to your user page. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 05:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In many video game articles, the Reception section is the last main section of prose. As its name suggests, within the section you should summarize the critical reaction to the game. The section should provide a high-level overview of what the critics liked and didn’t like about the game; it is a summary, not a repetition of what publications thought. Therefore, don’t put in excessive, long winded quotes or have a paragraph detailing IGN’s thoughts on the game. To prevent cluttering of the prose with scores, reviews table such as {{
VG Reviews
}} can be used to organize this kind of information.
A good way to lead off the section is a by-the-numbers or at a glance snapshot of the game’s reception; you can use aggregate scores to suggest an overall critical response to the game, and can provide sales figures (if you have them) for the game’s release. Commonly, the rest of the reception is broken into positive and negative paragraphs. Entirely separate ‘Praise’ and ‘Controversy’ or ‘Negative comments’ or the like are strongly discouraged as troll magnets. If the game has won any awards, then listing them at the bottom of the reception section is an option.
Other things to remember:
Don’t list every single review in the reviews table; likewise, don’t mention every award the game has ever gotten.
Generally, talk about what the reviewers say rather than speaking for them; for example, “Reviewer X of Publication Y took issue with elements of the game such as X, Y, and Z” instead of “Review X said that “I took issue with elements of the game such as X, Y, and Z.” If a reviewer has a good comment which sums up the positive/negative/overall reaction, or a particular sentiment common in many reviews, it might be more appropriate to use.
If adding sales data, make sure to provide context; did it sell those 4.2 million units within three months of release or three years? If possible, break down the sales by region; did the Japanese like the game, but Americans not buy it?
Use reviews whose scores are outliers from the average ratings to find key points that were liked or disliked about a game. If all reviews except for one average around a 9 out of 10, and the one is a 7 out of 10, there is probably some clear negative points to be found in it; the same works with very positive reviews.
Perhaps most importantly, give proper weight and keep a neutral point of view. If the game received mostly negative scores, having three paragraphs on positive aspects and glossing over the bad parts in a sentence or two conveys the wrong impression to readers.
I have thought of making a user page, but I haven't really taken the time to do so. Because of the sensitive nature of some of what I edit, I have chosen not to contribute very much personal information. What article(s) have you seen my name in the histories of? Kst447 (talk) 22:09, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
re: activism I wasn't sure if you wanted me to answer here or on my page, so I'll post here just in case. Objectivity is an ideal, some might say to be truly objective is impossible, but we try. I suppose one could say that in the scientific community, the label of "activism" is looked down upon, because a scientist does not seek to change things, only discover. If there was a group or movement such that you speak of, what would it even be composed of? I mean specific examples. I generally feel psychiatric and psychological research is pretty objective on the matter most of the time. Its the media that tends to go a little wacky with it. That's why I like direct journal quotes for refs. About my talk page: I started my account a long long time ago, but I didn't use it much. So, I never had much communication with anybody, and no real talk page dialogue. I eventually got inspired to start a few articles on obscure subjects. I like to archive conversations when they have been resolved or largely idle for some time, just because it's clutter.Legitimus (talk) 15:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think what you refer to is public education, for instance here: [3]. That's pretty common, though they are usually put out by major organizations like HHS, American Heart Association, etc., not individual scientists. One other thing unrelated: Watch it with moving talk pages around and changing formatting. It makes it hard to find parts of conversations if a user was previously was involved. Even if their sectioning was technically incorrect, it's where users look when checking in. I've lost my place a few times.Legitimus (talk) 22:16, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Proposed deletion of
Galactiac
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An unfortunate effect of a group less active than in the past is that our articles lose integrity. This one is at
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Featured Article Review
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Soon after we were informed that Homosexuality is being scrutinized, we heard the same for one of our few Featured Articles. As a participant of the Featured Article process, I think this is actually a good thing. The standards for Featured Articles are getting higher with time. But as a member of this project, that means that a few of ours may be de-listed unless someone can swoop in and save them. This one has to do with the designation of homosexuality as a crime in Germany. Most of this article's sources are in German. If anyone has any particular skill in this area, please lend a hand!
Good Article Review
! Wtf is going on?
I know you folks think I have much experience in a gay bathhouse, and I hate to disappoint you, but I actually do not. I seem like the sort of person who likes to stroll about in a towel. Shocking, no? It appears that Ashleyvh is single-handedly addressing all the problems with this article at its GA Review. While that's pretty impressive, it's also no doubt exhausting. Can anyone help out there?
Two
GAs
and a nominee!
In what I hope will counter the jolt of re-evaluating three Good or Featured Articles,
Janet Jackson as gay icon passed as Good Articles, and Black Cat Bar (famous San Francisco oft-raided gay bar) is nominated, all by Otto4711. Rock on, man. You're a machine. Good luck with your nominations. What is it about women that make them gay icons? And are there lesbian icons that aren't lesbians? How about bisexual icons? Am I the only lesbian who reacts with soul-trembling fear at the sight of Angelina Jolie
. That can be a relative concept, and sometimes it has to be argued that topics pertaining to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues are notable.
It seems a recurring issue which articles to tag, and what to say about a topic that's tagged. Certainly, because an article falls under our scope doesn't necessarily make the person gay. Florida Governor
NAMBLA
, the red headed stepchild of the LGBT world, is tagged with an explanation we have yet to decide if we'll keep.
In the lurking I do around and about on Wiki, I've long been astounded at the forbearance Benjiboi has for the utterly insane. Perhaps not so much, since the message on Benji's talk page notes frequent absences due to homophobia and transphobia. But it takes some kind of ... something that I don't have to face the constant anti-gay POV Benji does.
Benjiboi is a a bit of a WikiFaerie, a WikiGnome and also a member of the Article Rescue Squadron in addition to being a LGBT project member. A few of Benjiboi's favorite links for making the wikiverse more fab are:
Becksguy didn’t start actively editing until May 2007. His most frequent tasks on Wiki include reverting vandalism to LGBT articles and creating new project-related articles. He comes from New York state, and to prove not all of us are teenagers (ha! I am so totally 15!) he's in his 60s and retired.
Becksguy considers his biggest triumph on Wikipedia so far was a
. He's also helped save several project-related articles from deletion. His lowest moment here was getting involved in the discussion on a particular terrorism related article, thinking he could help calm the roiled waters on an extremely contentious subject with multiple edit wars and passionate editors.
Here at WP:LGBT, he creates and improves articles that present notable LGBT related subjects in a fair and balanced way, and tries to include more of the significant alternative sexuality related subjects without being an activist, and works to better source project-related articles.
On Wikipedia as a whole, he says, "I think we need to learn better what processes work for a massive collaborative project. Some of what worked well for a more informal small project doesn’t scale up well. Process is not as important when the participants know each other. We need to get more of the current members to be more active. If more members were energized, the project would be able to accomplish more. We should be, in effect, the smaller and included Wikipedia for LGBT related subjects. Overall, I wish we could focus more on content creation and improvement, and less on vandal fighting."
If you have a question about anything, drop your question on our talk page. We'll do our best to answer.
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Thanks for being weak and having lowered standards with me. --Moni3 (talk) 00:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Inactive project cleanup Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Indie Game Developers deleted.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Arcade games moved to page under
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Feature: Reliable Sources
A common issue with writing video games articles is that it's often natural for editors to turn to the internet for all their information. However, using only online sources can be problematic, especially if editors are not familiar with Wikipedia's sources guidelines. First off, for every notable, reliable web site about gaming that exists on the web, there are twenty-five fan sites or personal blogs. As per Wikipedia's, content guideline about
reliable sources
, a proper source that should be used in an article must meet the following criteria:
Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy.
How do you determine if website X meets the criteria? Look around for information on who owns the website or if the website has a staff and established editorial processes; if the site doesn't have information posted online, send an email to the webmaster or editor. It can be hard to definitely prove the a website has a "reputation" for accuracy. Thus, it's probably easier to go with established sites to begin with, such as IGN or GameSpot. If you use a source with borderline qualifications, be prepared to justify the site at content review or to other editors. WikiProject Video Games has a partially-complete listing of vetted sources in print or online at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources, as well as more detailed information on what constitutes a reliable source.
To find sources on the internet, checking
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Thank you for contributing to the Sexology and Sexuality Wikiproject! Atom (talk) 03:59, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I would have added to your user page, but I thought that you would want to place it appropriately. Atom (talk) 03:59, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Forbid comments from anonymous editors?
In September of 2007, you had a notice at the top of your talk page stating that comments from anonymous editors would be deleted unread. We discussed this, and you ended up realizing that such a policy was a bad idea. But on June 2, 2008, you put the notice back. Was there a reason? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 20:59, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I did not manually add that, I found an updated version of the template coding (as you can see, the edit also changed the colour) and probably copied the whole thing indiscriminately forgetting that I had manually removed part of it. Even so, to be honest, I am sort of feeling differently, because I like it when people have logins. Tyciol (talk) 05:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sir Moses Montefore, a Jewish activist who died 123 years ago this month
"Censorship" of names of G-d
There is an interesting discussion currently taking place regarding whether or not it is acceptable to censor (i.e. G-d, HaShem->YodHey) names of G-d in articles to protect Jews who may be reading or editing the article. You can weigh in here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Yahweh.
Article Cleanup Lists User:B. Wolterding has generously offered us use of his bot to generate lists that show which articles of ours are tagged for cleanup. You can read more about this service here: User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings and if you would like to take him up on his offer, contact him on his talk page.
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.
WikiProject Kabbalah's only Featured and Good articles have been removed from the WikiProject, on the grounds that neither article (Diane Keaton and David Beckham, respectively) actually mention the subject's affiliation with Kabbalah. If you have sourced information linking either of these people to Kabbalah, please add it so the articles can be returned to the WikiProject.
After a rather heated discussion, there are now two barnstars for use by the Jewish WikiProjects, {{The Jewish Barnstar}} and {{The New Jewish Barnstar}}, and you can choose which one you would like to use.. Remember: barnstars are for rewarding users who are doing good work on the project or on Judaism, Jewish History, or Kabbalah articles, and anyone can give anyone else a barnstar. If you see a user who you thinks deserves a thank you, give them a barnstar!
To Do/Help Requests
If you have some spare time on your hands, we could use an article about a Kabbalah scholar named
DYK
if the finished article is eligible.
The folks at Shimon Peres need some assistance from someone familiar with both the Hebrew calendar and language to help them figure out the subject's birthday. If you can help, please see Talk:Shimon Peres#Birthday.
We get a lot of articles that are being created and not announced! By announcing new articles, you attract attention to them, and the more people looking and editing the better they will get. If you would like your new article to appear in the newsletter, add it
here
for Jewish History.
There are some 40 odd standing requests for Judaism related articles. Please make them! I would, but I'm too busy writing this. .
This newsletter was automatically delivered because you are a member of one or more Judaism related WikiProjects. If you would like to opt out of future mailings, please remove your name from this list. As always, please direct all questions, comments, requests, barnstars, offers of help, and angry all-caps anti-semitic rants to my talk page. Thanks, and have a great month. L'Aquatique[approves|this|message] 20:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Newsletter delivery by xenobot 21:47, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
September 2008
WikiProject Films roll call and coordinator elections
Roll call and Coordinator nominations
It's that time of year again – we're wiping everyone's name off of the active members list and doing a project roll call. Your username is listed on the
Special note: The naming convention for the newsletter has altered. Instead of being labeled the month it is delivered, it is now labeled the month the content applies to. See discussion.
Two new quality ratings have been implemented into the Assessment Department's scale. The new Wikipedia-wide C-Class rating (see category) has been added to the scale between Start-Class and B-Class. Because of this, the criteria of the B-Class has been tweaked to better illustrate the difference between a B-Class and C-Class article. An older rating, List-Class (see category), has been added to the scale as well. It is mainly used on pages that have very little prose and are primarily tables and lists of information.
Editors are encouraged to submit articles for assessment if they feel an article has made significant progress up the assessment scale or has gained importance within video game articles. Assessed articles generally receive some feedback to further improve the article. Experienced editors are also encouraged to help with assessment of articles when the number of requests gets too large.
Peer Review Department: The Peer review process for WikiProject Video games exposes video-game-related articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors, and is intended for high-quality articles that have already undergone extensive work, often as a way of preparing a Featured article candidate. It is not a academic peer review by a group of experts in a particular subject, and articles that undergo this process should not be assumed to have greater authority than any other.
Editors are encouraged to use the Video game peer review process, as well as the
Feature list candidacy
as articles cannot be a candidate for GA or FA while at peer review.
Editors are also encouraged to leave feedback for articles undergoing peer review. A process such as this will not work if editors do not give as well as take. Feedback can range from brief comments after skimming through a page to a full blown dissection of grammar, structure, and references. Either way, every bit helps.
Newsletter delivery by xenobot 01:52, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The WikiProject Greece August 2008 newsletter
The August 2008 issue of the WikiProject Greece newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.--Yannismarou (talk) 11:15, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:Image copyright tags This is an automated notice by MifterBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. --MifterBot(Talk • Contribs • Owner) 10:33, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply
]
Reply
Personally, I like your theory. I myself hadn't noticed it until I found it on Wikipedia. As you say, it seems way too much of a coincidence to name a girl with plant-manipulation powers with a plant cell. Great work, and thanks for replying on the discussion page :) A (Reply!,Contribs) 18:50, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Regardless, it's still a good point :) I've seen the discussion page for Klara Prast, and I've seen you brought up an interesting point: to create a seperate article consisting of notable characters on Runaways. What are your thoughts on this? I'd be perfectly willing to start the page. A (Reply!,Contribs) 00:44, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh and you should read Runaways! Runaways is the whole reason I got into comics in the first place; it stands as my favourite series. I garantee you would like it. A (Reply!,Contribs) 00:54, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merger of WikiProject Free Software and WikiProject Software
Greetings, I have made a proposal for the merger of
39 of 393 articles have been prepared and submitted. Come help us prepare more at the workshop page.
Feature: Wikipedia 0.7
Selection Bot
, based on the quality and importance assigned by WikiProjects.
The Video games Project and its daughter projects have multiple articles among the selection and are currently working on cleaning up the articles to improve their presentation. A workshop page has been set up that is designed to assist and coordinate the effort. The status of and recommendations for articles is listed on the table. Discussion about which articles should be kept and removed from the list have been taking place on the talk page.
If you have assisted in working on and improving a current Featured article, Good article, or A-Class article, please check the workshop page to see if the article is recommended for inclusion.
Articles will need an
id version
submitted to ensure it is included. They will also need to be cleaned up if maintenance tags and other issues are present. Participation is not restricted, and if you can assist with the preparation effort, it would be greatly appreciated.
Things to remember for preparation
The workshop page has a notes section for each article. Clean up suggestions have been left for some articles.
Do a light sweep of the article to address any vandalism andclean up tags: citation needed, more references, lengthy plot, etc.
If you need help with an article, post on the talk page.
Because some articles were promoted over a year ago, they may need to undergo
Newsletter delivery by xenobot 12:55, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Calling all active
WP:Children's and Young Adult literature
members
WikiProject Children's and Young Adult Literature Roll Call
Hello Tyciol/2008! WikiProject Children's literature is currently holding a roll call, which we hope to perform annually. Your username is listed on the members list, but we are unsure which editors are still interested in the project. If you still consider yourself to be an active member of the project, please move your name to the Active Members list. If you no longer are interested in this project, please move your name to the Former Members list, and you will no longer receive messages regarding this project.
Deletion of Defensor page
The page
Mathewignash (talk) 09:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply
]
Pokemon unmerge proposal
Hello, this message is being sent to inform you that a proposal to un-merge all Pokemon articles has been started at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pokemon#Pokemon and their rightful place. As a member of WikiProject Pokemon, your input would be much appreciated. GlassCobra 22:49, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply
]
Typo redirect
Irenee
WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click hereCSDWarnBot (talk) 05:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply
]
AfD nomination of Protest Stripper
I have nominated Protest Stripper, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protest Stripper. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. TTN (talk) 18:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC) TTN (talk) 18:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
CHAGI article
Dear Tyciol, I just saw your post in Chagi talk page Talk:Chagi. I have replied to your query. Please see it and give your response. We can make changes basing on info on martial art name Chagi. Thnx Indianprithvi (talk) 17:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tyciol! As part of the memberlist 'cleanup' process on WikiProject Israel, I am sending you this message to ask whether you still wish to be active on the project (not having edited Israel-related articles in a reasonably long time). The project appreciates your past contributions and would like to see you editing its articles again :) Also, I personally urge you to watch the project and talk page in order to be involved in project discussions. On the other hand, if you no longer have an interest in this project, please let me know. Cheers, Ynhockey(Talk) 18:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
. Video game editors are encouraged to leave any type of comments that come to mind. If you don't know anything about military history, that's perfectly fine because that's the point. An editor lacking knowledge about the particular topic can provide a helpful point of view as a general reader—the intended audience.
If you have a video game article undergoing peer review that you think would benefit from an outside view, post the following boilerplate at
|Name of article|Raw link to review|Video games}} ~~~~
Things to remember
A peer review process such as this will not work if editors do not give as well as take.
Peer reviews are meant to examine not just the prose, but the sources and images used in the article.
Feedback can range from brief comments after skimming through a page to a full blown dissection of grammar, structure, and references. Either way, every bit helps.
Reviewing another editor's article can help sharpen your writing skills, which in turn can improve the articles you write.
Wake up WP:LGBT! It's time to kick in gear and get some things done!
Project News
Wake up!
I say this to myself as much as I say it to all of us. I work a lot by myself or with individual editors who spend time at
Featured Article Candidates. It seems on November 5 a fog was lifted off my brain that helped me realize that we have massive potential in this project to get things done. Take this allegory, for instance: On Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1980, my 10th-grade American history teacher started class by unfurling The New York Times. She pointed to its triple banner headline: “Reagan Easily Beats Carter; Republicans Gain in Congress; D’Amato and Dodd are Victors.” “Save this paper,” she told us. “This is the start of a whole new era.”Judith Warner from The New York Times
It definitely seems a start to a whole new era now. If planets align correctly to remind us that whatever advances we may have made in electing what appears to be an
same sex marriage
. As someone who was married in California and lives in Florida, this is particularly poignant. We seem to be at the juncture of two converging paths. If we maximize our efforts and take the right ones, we might just be able to affect some change for ourselves.
The power of Wikipedia and
California Proposition 8 (2008)
Though what we do is an interesting hobby for some, we have the power to make a difference. California's ballot initiative to ban gay marriage was a fierce fight. It's being challenged right now, but just look at how Wikipedia played a role in that: in October 2008, 360,238 people read its article. On November 5, an astounding 467,000 people read it. I commend the editors who work on that article—both those who support and oppose it. A look at the talk page shows a concerted effort to keep it civil and accurate.
What can we do?
How do you fight ignorance? With information. That's what Wikipedia is for. This project is overwhelming with 8,576 articles in its scope. We can continue to work piecemeal as we have in the past, or we can focus on goals. These are examples of areas we can concentrate on.
Current political events
LGBT Media and Literature
LGBT History
Sex and sexuality
Articles about political issues in the US and around the world that have been especially relevant within the past 5 years
Depictions of LGBT people and issues on television, film, newspapers, magazines
Topics about gay rights activism and the opposition to it
There are more than 8,000 articles to work on. Can we build a list of priorities? Can we build enough enthusiasm to work on these? What if we had editors who oversaw progress in these areas and reported to the talk page or in the newsletter? Surely someone here wants to report on the progress of sex articles.
Tony Perkins (irony) from the conservative Family Research Councilwas heartened by the recent passages of gay marriage bans. The Republican Party is without direction. What's going to take the place of a moderate voice will not be pleasant to our ears. Watching and improving articles of subjects that have opposed gay rights in the past will be of vital importance very soon, I predict.
But WP:LGBT is not a very active project
All we can do is start somewhere. The first step is answering this newsletter on the project talk page. Join in the discussion.
More things we can do
Give out more
barnstars
, and let each other know that what they're doing is valued.
Create a guide to stave off burnout, because editors in this project get burned out faster than others. There are many hills to climb.
Bring back the monthly collaboration project.
Participate in LGBT Peer reviews.
Get familiar with the characteristics of Good Articles and get our top priority articles to
WP:GA
.
Keep our
open tasks template
updated.
Use the Newsletter, Moni3! You can suggest what to send out in the newsletter, too!
Offer research materials, copy editing, ideas, and support to your fellow editors.
Keep the
project talk page
informed of problems and discussions we should know about.
Proposal: Put Importance Levels on articles
If this was decided long before I was a member, maybe it's time to revisit it. Other WikiProjects, such as
, and so on. This can be a matter of discussion, or perhaps we could have someone in charge of determining these levels for all the articles we have tagged.
These are the editors I've seen working (and I know I'm forgetting a few). There's more of you out there I haven't seen. Some of you are new. We need all of you. Please help.
Miami, January 18, 1977 after the gay rights ordinance was passed: While Bryant and the others were creating the beginnings of the repeal effort, (gay activists) Basker, Campbell, Kunst, and the other (gay rights) ordinance supporters congratulated themselves on their success and then quickly disbanded... There was no organized recognition or celebration of the victory. As one activist remembered, "We just went home." They had little idea of the battle that was before them. – Fred Fejes in Gay Rights and Moral Panic, 2008
Don't go home yet, please. --Moni3 (talk) 00:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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As a member of WikiProject Pornography, I'm just letting you know there's currently a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pornography about changing the WP:PORNBIO criteria. Your opinions would be appreciated. Thanks. Epbr123 (talk) 15:56, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Death Touch in Blood Sport
Jean-Claude does the death touch when he first arrives at the Kumite tournament. Before he can enter the tournament the officials make him prove that he trained under the shidoshi he claimed. So they set up a stack of bricks and tell him to demonstrate the "Death Touch" or Dem Mak. Jean-Claude then does the Death Touch on the bricks and they all explode. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.64.78.251 (talk) 22:35, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to Milhist!
Hi, and welcome to the
Military history WikiProject
! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.
A few features that you might find helpful:
Our
navigation box
points to most of the useful pages within the project.
We have a number of task forces that focus on specific topics, nations, periods, and conflicts.
We've developed a
style guide
that covers article structure and content, template use, categorization, and many other issues of interest.
If you're looking for something to work on, there are many
copy-editing alerts
.
The project has a
stress hotline
available for your use.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! --ROGER DAVIEStalk 05:39, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
We have been turned into a task force for WikiProject:Video games, but to stop the task force from being deleted we need you guys to be more active and there's a good chance we can be WikiProject again if you are.
Many Sonic the Hedgehog character articles have been merged into
List of recurring characters from Sonic the Hedgehog (games)
In this segment each issue, the newsletter selects a member who has performed acts of merit for the task force or to its respective articles. If you would like to be selected for the task forces Featured Member, please contact
), show what acts you have performed that are worthy of merit, and talk a little about yourself; it's for fun!
SynergyBlades (talk·contribs) Although not actually a member, SynergyBlades has done well and helped the Sega Task Force by improving new Sonic video game articles and deserves our thanks.
For all subsequent issues, the Sega Task Force is still looking for columnists for the newsletter, to be released roughly every month, though no exact deadline for the newsletter will be set. If you would like to write a column for Sega Task Force and have it displayed here in the newsletter, please make a note of this at
WT:SEGA
. Columns can be about anything about Sega (and its related franchises), Wikipedia, or the Sega Task Force. Thank you for your submissions.
Active Members - Yet Again!
Members of the Sega Task Force, most of you are inactive around the task force, and this is what turned the Sega Project into a task force. While the active members can understand this, we would like more of our members to be active around the project. All you need to do is to use the
Gaogier
personally at his talk page.
Sonic the Hedgehog Merge.
Most of the Sonic the Hedgehog character articles have been merged to help clean up fancruft. Further discussion of cleaning is being held
A Sega task force has become a Video game task force:
Sonic task force
.
WikiProject Sims has been moved to a page under
The Sims task force
page.
Feature: Article Importance
Article importance is an assessment of a topic's importance in understanding a specific higher level topic. Assessments are maintained by WikiProjects and reflect the project's view of what is essential to understanding their scope. In the VG Project's case, all importance scales are in terms of understanding video games.
A video game article's importance is listed and set in the {{
VG Project's talk page have called for revisions to the practice of assigning article importance. The discussion began in mid-November
with the goal of clarifying what level of importance should be assigned to certain type of articles. It eventually expanded to creating a standardized table of importance to serve as a guide for current and future editors.
The discussion has focused on and shifted to several topics including flaws of previous practices, new ways to view assessment, other project practices to emulate, and specific articles which are exceptions to proposed guidelines. A brief
pole and discussion
determined most editors felt that the bulk of some topics—specifically individual video game, series, and character articles—were not essential to understanding video games, making them ineligible for top importance. The discussion then shifted to tweaking the wording and layout of the table.
The current proposed table is being
issue of whether some topics
—specifically character articles—should be allowed to be rated importance has also been brought up. As always, member are encouraged to voice their opinions and engage in discussion to determine consensus so the new assessment scale can be implemented.
Thanks for trying to improve our handling of this person, but his rdlk on the Dab
Macedonian Empire, or Ross Perot was to the Reform Party. Your good intentions would probably profit from picking out some Dabs that interest you from Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup, and watchlisting them to see what your colleagues do to deal with those Dabs' respective problems. Thanks, --Jerzy•t 10:11, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply
This was deleted in 2006, and then redeleted in 2008 citing that the first time (2006) it was deleted as per a discussion. The records do not provide a link to this discussion though. Could you please provide a link to it? I am trying to figure out what happened here, and why only physical abilities are represented. Tyciol (talk) 03:37, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed you added your name to the list of participants in WikiProject Magazines. We really appreciate your help! Here are some of the tasks we are currently working on:
Hi, and welcome to the 
Hi, and welcome to the 
