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Wikipedia for World Heritage
Hi OlEnglish, from seeing your banner i thought you might be interested in the en.wp wikiproject. To tell the truth it doesn't seem very active but it'e there all the same. Cheers, benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Gundagai article bullying
Bullying continues on the Gundagai article page and on the Gundagai Aboriginal lore page. I have authored a lot of the content of the Gundagai article page and 99% of the Gundagai Aboriginal lore article page. Bidgee and mattinbgn trump up reverts, then bans and someone reverts what I put when I try to seek assistance as Jenks24 reverted my post on 5 March at the Village Pump. Currently after a "severe edit" by garyvines in February the Gundagai article page has several errors. Even the references are out of synch. I recently added another reference to the Jeanine Leane content in the authors section on the Gundagai article page, to go with the first reference I put. That got reverted. The Gundagai Aboriginal lore article page which is a page garyvines created, is inappropriately named as its content is not all Aboriginal lore or even folklore. The acknowledgement at the top of that Gundagai aboriginal lore page that Gundagai is a place of Aboriginal significance was out there by garyvines who is an archaeologist so the significance of the place is recognised, but then the vandals who put other stuff and/or prevent things being corrected mess everything up. Any attempt by me to put a link to Gundagai Aboriginal lore article page from the Gundagai article page gets reverted. This bullying on the gundagai article page has been going on for several years. Lies re me also get told. That is all pretty crook but the mess these antics from the perpetrators make of the article pages and wikipedia is pretty sad. Currently they are putting on edit summaries that I can return from being banned if I contact them. Why would I want to be contacting bullies and liars. Now they say I cannot edit unless I sign in. That isn't the wiki rules. I have dial up internet so my ip changes.```` ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.138.159.107 (talk) 23:57, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Dude!
Man, you indeed tend to overuse userboxes! It was fun reading them though. Good job! Nataev (talk) 07:17, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Help Project newsletter : Issue 1
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Kinder Surprise Article Clean Up
Dear OlEngish,
My name is Jeanne Murphy and I work in the USA for Ferrero, the company that makes Kinder Surprise. You created a section on the Kinder Surprise article (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_surprise) talk page called "Tagged for Original Research" (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kinder_Surprise#Tagged_for_Original_Research). I totally agree with your assessment. I left a comment on that entry looking to clarify something in the article and was looking for some feedback. I hope you will be able to take a look at the sources I have provided in my comment. Thank you very much for your time. Jmm52 (talk) 14:50, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
- OlEnglish, I wanted to follow up my previous comment about the Kinder Surprise Wikipedia page. I wanted to know if you would be willing to help clarify some things. I have credible 3rd-party sources that prove there are some inaccuracies in the article. Please let me know if you have a few moments to review my comments on the Kinder Surprise Talk Page (sections 14 and 20) and if you'd be willing to help me incorporate some of these changes into the article. Thank you. Jmm52 (talk) 18:44, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Jeanne. I apologize for not responding sooner. Thank you for declaring your conflict of interest. Please feel free to edit the article to make whatever changes you think are applicable. Provided you follow the policies of WP:Verifiability and WP:Neutral point of view I don't foresee any problems with your editing the article yourself. WP:Be bold! -- Ϫ 05:33, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
- PS. If you still feel uncomfortable in editing the article yourself, you may make a request on the talk page for someone to make the edits for you using Template:Request edit. -- Ϫ 05:37, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
- OlEnglish, thank you for your replies. I appreciate that you recognize the position that I am in and I can tell you that the material will provide a neutral point of view and benefit the community. In this instance, I do feel comfortable making the edits. I am planning to add content about the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the product warning displayed on the packaging to help clarify the article. Again, thanks for your help and speak to you again soon.Jmm52 (talk) 15:22, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
- OE, Thank you again for all your help so far. The changes and new sources I have added to the Kinder Surprise page went very well. There is another issue I need to bring up and it is of a sensitive nature.
- There is a sentence in the Kinder Surprise article about fatalities caused by choking on the toy inside the candy. The sentence is in this section
- Let me first say, I have no intention of removing the sentence entirely or changing its intent. What I would like to do is correct the inaccuracies. Official public records from the Parliament of the United Kingdom indicate two reported fatalities with the toy inside Kinder Surprise, the last of which occurred in 1989.
- The official document from the UK Department of Trade and Industry can be found here. Additional documents from Parliament outlining these tragedies can be found here, here (see Toys), and here (see Chocolate Eggs).
- The sentence in the Wikipedia article is sourced, but Ferrero USA and I do not believe the sourced article to be accurate. The source is a newspaper article from the Birmingham Post in England. The article mentions the two fatalities that the official documents do, but also states that there have been four additional fatalities after 1991, which there is no proof of, independent or otherwise. The article does not have any supporting information regarding these four names, location, or a description. It simply makes the statement and moves on. Without supporting information this does not seem like reliable source.
- I have decided to provide the official public records as documentation of the fatalities in an attempt to correct this inaccuracy. Because of the sensitive nature of this issue I am looking to you and the community for help assessing the validity of the existing source and help changing the sentence to cite the official public records. I would very much appreciate some additional feedback about this issue. Best, Jmm52 (talk) 15:34, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
- OlEnglish, I just wanted to follow up my previous comment. I wanted to know if you had looked at the additional 3rd-party sources that prove some of the other inaccuracies in the article. Please let me know if you have a few moments to review these additional comments. Thank you. Jmm52 (talk) 18:38, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi OlEnglish. I've re-added the orphan template to this article, though i know you only recently took it off, because it has precisely one incoming link, which clearly fits the definition of orphan on the template and as WP:O. No? Cheers, LindsayHello 05:15, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Lindsay. I think you may have misread WP:O. An orphan is strictly defined as an article with ZERO incoming links. If there is one incoming link it is not an orphan. This definition was only recently changed from 3 incoming links as per discussion on the WT:O talk page and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orphanage. -- Ϫ 05:20, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
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can you please create mine for me? I asked Hydroxonium but his last edit was in Feb, yours are a lot more recent (yesterday) --115644734 (talk) 23:37, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
- You'll have to create an account first. As IP editors don't have personal user pages, only talk pages. -- Ϫ 03:35, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
Surname pages
If you are still interested in these, would you please take a look at my comments at User talk:D'oh2 and User talk:INeverCry60? You seem to know about the subject and I'm finding these new accounts (looking at their first edits I don't think they are new users) are making edits that I find confusing - linking to articles not about surnames, not providing reliable sources, etc. I see no reason for surname articles not to be sourced as well as any other articles, although INeverCry60 thinks differently given his edit summary " relationship is clear, obvious, no need to explain". Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:15, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
- Nevermind, see Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Sheynhertz-Unbayg. Looks I was right to be concerned. Dougweller (talk) 15:46, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Homosociality and heterosociality
Hi, I see you wrote the first version of the Homosociality article.
Do you think you could take a stab at improving Heterosociality, or do you know anyone else who might be able to? — Smjg (talk) 12:15, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm yes, the Heterosociality article definitely looks like it could use improvement. Although I actually wasn't the one who wrote 'Homosociality'. Maybe someone at WT:SEX can help? -- Ϫ 03:27, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, I should know better than to misread the edit history. Anyway, I see you've added a link to Heterosociality, and User:Jacobisq has also improved the article. But there's probably still a lot more that can be said. But surely it's more sociology issue than a sexuality one? — Smjg (talk) 16:46, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello, OLEnglish.After a long time on Wikipedia, I am willing to request for admin.But, as I'm not sure so I want your advice.Could you please take a look and made a nomination for me at WP:RFA, if you find me eligible.Cheers Max Viwe | Viwe The Max 14:19, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
- Well! You certainly have been quite active recently! I hope you don't think I'm being patronizing when I say you're a very enthusiastic and bright editor, and valuable to Wikipedia.
- I'm sorry but I am going to decline nominating you at this time, and although I personally would not oppose you in an RfA, I'm not so sure that the rest of the community would see things my way.. Adminship does carry with it quite a bit of responsibility, especially these days, and with the current standards set so high it's a shame that some obviously helpful editors such as yourself, who have had some trouble starting out, or may have a little difficulty with the English language, would garner opposes for it despite being a net positive (at least in my opinion). Although RfA's do provide some valuable feedback, a failed RfA does serve as a bit of a blemish on your record that maybe you might not want. I think you should give your WP:Editor review a little more time. But above all keep up the good work! -- Ϫ 10:54, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- That's okay.Will try my hard to get improved.Would you mind reviewing me at Wikipedia:Editor_review/Maxviwe ? Max Viwe | Viwe The Max 11:10, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Help Project newsletter : Issue 2
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Hello from the Help Project, and welcome to the second issue of our newsletter! The biggest project I've been working on this month has been a large survey of users to find out what they think of our current help pages. Preliminary results from this are now available, although there are more responses trickling in from the lower edit count groups since a batch of email invitations were recently sent out. Finalised results and further analysis should be posted next week. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
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Carl Gustav Jung
Dear OlEnglish,
On 1st February last I sent a message to you under the heading "Editing". It referred to Carl Gustav Jung, and the deleted references of Fr Victor White and Answer to Job. These, you said were referenced in the later life of Jung. However, they do not appear anywhere on the Article Page: Jung. This surely, is an omission. I have put a lot of effort into researching and writing these pages. Even though some want to ignore the later life of Jung, the article page is incomplete as it is. MacOfJesus (talk) 15:57, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
I have quoted it here:
Dear OLEnglish, I have edited the Page: Carl Gustav Jung, adding in the list of significant works: Answer to Job & to People: Fr. Victor White, O.P. Close Friend. Both of these pages I was directly involved with developing. However, when I placed them in before they were removed. Their entries are in their correct places, and are significant to be included on listings. Please, can they remain as the page is not complete without their entries. MacOfJesus (talk) 17:03, 1 February 2012 (UTC) The entries were removed again, in "See Also". I cannot see why anyone should remove Fr. Victor White's entry as he and Jung had a very close friendship that ended up the two meeting in Jung's retreat where the influnce on each became strong... as witnessed in the page I wrote: Fr Victor White.. together with ACEOREVIVED [A prof. of this subject]. MacOfJesus (talk) 21:19, 1 February 2012 (UTC) It appears that both pages, Victor White and Answer to Job, are already linked within the main text of the article, at the section titled "Later life". As per Wikipedia guidelines for See also sections we try not to duplicate links that are already linked within the text. This is why they were removed from the See also listings, but the links still remain in the text however, so it's not really a problem. -- Ϫ 04:56, 6 February 2012 (UTC) Thank you Ol, otherwise the Page, Jung, would not be complete..... MacOfJesus (talk) 15:59, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I hope the quoting helps.... Thanks again for all your help.. MacOfJesus (talk) 16:13, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
I see now, at last, an entry is made at the end of the Article Page: Jung, of Answer to Job and his very firm friend and fellow-Scholar, Father Victor White. However, the Article Page now reads as a patch-work-quilt, and tends to reflect definite opinions. MacOfJesus (talk) 23:36, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks!
Thanks for participating in my RFA! I appreciate your support. Zagalejo^^^ 06:29, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
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Harry Potter is a Girl
Thanks for your comments on the Jimbo Wales tak page. While it is nice to see that people are aware of the problem, I don't see any action to fix it. If you read the archived talk page comments on the Alkaline Diet you would see that I was the last of maybe 10 people with the same complaint. And the people who control the article are the same as always. Because they act as a collective they have consensus. Because me and the other 9 people acted independently we are accused of battlefield mentality. Until Wikipedia does something about this the power of consensus over knowledge will rule. You are the second admin that has tried to work with me not against me. There were five or six that worked against me. So you are few in number and lacking power or control. See my words? Power, control. Not knowledge. That is what this place is about. I won't be back to read any reply. My IP changes as I am traveling. I never bothered to register as a user as I was just making a passing comment on one article. I never expected this to become so crazy and such a huge drama. I didn't realize the insanity of control was so deeply rooted in Wikipedia that a one line clarification to a minor point of a fringe article would have to be attacked by so many people for so long with such aggression and so high up the ladder. Thousands of words, hours of time, all to stop one tiny comment of truth. Crazy. Maximus 118.173.201.34 (talk) 07:23, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions.2FConfirmed.23User:Olenglishaway. SmartSE (talk) 17:09, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
okay, pal.Just one last to confess...see [1].Good bye forever.Wish you best in your future life.Thanks.(P.S.=I'm maxviwe) 219.91.143.167 (talk) 17:13, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Unwatched pages
Hi,
Would you mind giving me a slice of Special:UnwatchedPages? 1000 or 2000 would be sufficient. Not being able to see the page, I don't know whether it's practical to pick a particular range/topic - presumably it's in asciibetical order and only the top of the list is visible, in which case all you can see is mass-produced articles starting with a number... (1840 in athletics, 1841 in athletics, &c).
Sorry for the hassle... bobrayner (talk) 11:41, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Help Project newsletter : Issue 3
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Welcome to the (slightly delayed) third issue of the Help Project newsletter. The past month has once again been a busy one for my fellowship. The full results and conclusions from the extensive user survey on help pages are now available, and make interesting reading. These do confirm a number of our suspicions about Wikipedia help, and suggest that the current plan for the remainder of the fellowship is a sound approach. Also last month I was fortunate enough to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC, where I gave a presentation about help pages and the aforementioned survey results. You can find the slides from this on Commons. Wikimania was also a great opportunity for many discussions with staff and community members, and these brought up some interesting ideas which I hope to follow up on. One of the things much discussed was the planned tutorial pages. I've been working on a new design for them which can be seen at User:The wub/sandbox/1, please let me know what you think (especially if you spot any bugs!). Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
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Re. My RfA
Sorry if I'm irritating you by posting here, but I've replied to your comment on my RfA. It's actually more of a general reflection on myself than anything (I can practically hear you groan on the other side of the screen when I say "reflection on myself"), but I still thought you may be interested in reading it.
And thank you very much for participating, I appreciate your sentiments. Take care. =) Master&Expert (Talk) 02:05, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but did you notice my message here? I'm assuming you did and are refusing to acknowledge it for the sake of avoiding giving me the wrong lesson. Master&Expert (Talk) 05:07, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, yes I noticed your message and saw your reply at the RfA as well as the comment to ItsZippy. Thank you for the insight. I'm now left with the impression that although slightly lacking in self-confidence you have the courage to push yourself and take a chance on things with the aim of making a positive contribution as your driving motivation, and that is admirable. Nothing ventured nothing gained as they say. I wish you good luck in future endeavours. -- Ϫ 05:18, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- It's fine, just making sure. And I'm sorry if I came off as being overly agitated. I just wanted to clear things up, so as not to give the wrong idea. Master&Expert (Talk) 05:25, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, yes I noticed your message and saw your reply at the RfA as well as the comment to ItsZippy. Thank you for the insight. I'm now left with the impression that although slightly lacking in self-confidence you have the courage to push yourself and take a chance on things with the aim of making a positive contribution as your driving motivation, and that is admirable. Nothing ventured nothing gained as they say. I wish you good luck in future endeavours. -- Ϫ 05:18, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
why?
why was my article deleted? you do relise how long it took to write that and find out all that info. for goodness sake it was my first article. you could at least of gave me a warning. so whats the reasoning behind this? i know i must sound rude but its just so frustraiting. i saw nothing wrong with it and i never copied any of the info from anywere plus it was short and to the point. so why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Datawormsab (talk • contribs) 04:08, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- Oh I assume you're referring to Do vampires exist? Quite simply because it was not an encyclopedic article. It was an original research essay. Wikipedia is not the place for such things. Have you considered starting your own blog? -- Ϫ 04:13, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
liston!
the only way people have came up with the stuff on wikipedia is because somone had an idea and then also found it to be a fact but before that person the fact didn't exist. isn't the world based on new ideas, new found facts? look i know im knew on the wikipedia scene but i think you know what im talking about and i think you know you should change this please. at school you get told no copying. come up with knew ideas just like world famous einstien. change things now before we all become robots programed to act just like eachother and never do anything exiting. if knowone thought up new ideas gravity, light bulbs, t.v, door, windows, bricks and choccyphilly wouldn't of been evented. please think about it and find it in your heart to bend the rules oh ever so slightly! p.s pretty pleeeease — Preceding unsigned comment added by Datawormsab (talk • contribs) 04:23, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sorry but I cannot bend the rules in this case. But please do start up your own blog and do continue with your creative writing, and then who knows, maybe at some point in the future you will get famous enough to have your own biography in an encyclopedia. -- Ϫ 04:27, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
was not an essay!
it was not an essay. i do like to engage with the reader and make it more fun like that but it was no essay. hopfully if u had read you would of seen all the facts i stated. i know what the audiance whants cos i know (don't laugh) millions of people who have searched wikipedia for the the stuff i had wrote in that ARTICLE! i have a tendercy to know what somone wants and i normaly give it to them but you of stopped me doing so. since im a teen i know what teens like and don't like and because of all your rules your makeing peoples article sound sad and derpressing plus a 13year old can barly understand what people are saying on this. i try and make it fun but not babyish and clear/easy to understand but i can't do that now! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Datawormsab (talk • contribs) 04:37, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- Check out http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/ you might like it! -- Ϫ 04:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
The Article Page: Jung.
I see now, at last, an entry is made at the end of the Article Page: Jung, of Answer to Job and his very firm friend and fellow-Scholar, Father Victor White. However, the Article Page now reads as a patch-work-quilt, and tends to reflect definite opinions. MacOfJesus (talk) 23:36, 11 August 2012 (UTC). Jung is one person not divided into two, or several sections. MacOfJesus (talk) 23:49, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hello and thank you for your welcome!
My username is NinaVia. I have made a number of contributions.
I used CCleaner and it removed my password. As I did not include an email on registering , I cannot retrieve or remember my password!
I would hate to lose this account after having put this work into it. Can you help? I can associate an email address with it now, or create a new password if that helps.
Thank you!
NinaVia 68.48.244.168 (talk) 00:12, 21 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.48.244.168 (talk) 15:27, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
- Heya. Unfortunately, there is no way to recover the account. The best thing to do is to create a new account and to put a notice on both explaining that your old account was X but the password got lost. Sorry --Guerillero | My Talk 02:36, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Guerillero! NinaVia 68.48.244.168 (talk) 11:20, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Feedback Please
A long range goal is becoming an administrator and, though it's getting better, editcountatitis still exists and an editor with 850 edits isn't going to succeed. Anyway, I did an Editor Review and got nothing, so I saw that you were willing to nominate people for RFA and I was just looking for feedback on how I'm doing with some suggestions on how to improve. Go Phightins! (talk) 00:58, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help on the Kodenshi AUK Group. My school project is to volunteer for Wikipedia and help maintain 5 articles and help develop them during this semester. I liked the edits you did. Thank you. Dstrausser83 (talk) 00:13, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
- Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
- Research: The most recent DR data
- Survey results: Highlights from Steven Zhang's April 2012 survey
- Activity analysis: Where DR happened, broken down by the top DR forums
- DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
- Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
- Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?
--The Olive Branch 19:21, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Editor review/TheGeneralUser (2) Your review is required and will be greatly appreciated :)
Hi OlEnglish 
! I have started my second editor review at Wikipedia:Editor review/TheGeneralUser (2). I will be greatly delighted, thankful and valued to have your review for me regarding my editing and possible candidate for Adminship. I see you also evaluate possible candidates for Adminship as you had chosen to do so on Wikipedia:Request an RfA nomination, so do evaluate me too! As you are a experienced and long term Wikipedian so i have asked for your kind review. Take your time to review my editing and give the best review that you can :). Feel free to ask me any questions you would like to on the review page itself. It will be a great honor to have you review me for which I will truly feel appreciated and helpful! I always work to improve Wikipedia and make it a more better place to be for Everyone :). Regards and Happy Editing! TheGeneralUser (talk) 19:22, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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Help Project newsletter : Issue 4
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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
Could you please delete my two updates on the 'Pirate Galaxy' MMORPG wiki-page?
I added my name as an employee with the company and did not log-in with an account, so it included my IP Address, and I would like to see the two deleted now that I have done so properly under an account. These two updates are dated Sept.12/12 and my IP is (Redacted) on the edit history. It would be preferred if my IP address remains hidden from hackers and the like.
Danke.
(Deutchmeister (talk) 05:14, 12 September 2012 (UTC))
- Done. But just for future reference.. use email for these kinds of requests ;) See Wikipedia:Requests for oversight. -- Ϫ 06:08, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Lost date
Noticed that HMS Itchen is listed as lost on 9/22/43 but apparently lost next day 9/23/43. Any easy way of moving the listing to proper date? — Preceding unsigned comment added by George 1861 (talk • contribs) 15:58, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- Yes I see there's an inconsistency in dates between the listing at List_of_shipwrecks_in_September_1943#22_September and the set index article HMS Itchen. But which is the proper date? And what is your source for the correct date? -- Ϫ 09:46, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
HMS Itchen further reaserch seems to muddy the waters. http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/3079.html ~~George 1861~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by George 1861 (talk • contribs) 15:45, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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Medieval Music Article Page
Dear OLEnglish,
I have been contacted by: Smalljm, to the point that my test on Medieval Music was removed. I never wrote on the Article page. It was not me. MacOfJesus (talk) 17:14, 10 October 2012 (UTC) I was cited as: 90.196.3.73 MacOfJesus (talk) 17:16, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
- The message was not meant for you, you received it by accident. You can ignore it. -- Ϫ 05:54, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, OE. My work and research on St. Athanasius I have drawn on as some Scholars have discovered the Arian's documents. Thanks for your help. MacOfJesus (talk) 14:17, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to participate in my RfA. I hope that I will be able to improve based on the feedback I received and become a better editor. AutomaticStrikeout 03:49, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
St Pope Pius V, correct image.
Dear Ol,
I have sourced the correct image for the Article page [Pius V]. The image I gave earlier is actually from an Anti-Pope Pius V source. I have spoken about this in it's talk page, and received a consensus for it to be changed. Where the 1st image is I do not think I can change.... Thanks for all your help.. MacOfJesus (talk) 22:26, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
I have changed it to the correct image..... Can you check if it is ok??? MacOfJesus (talk) 23:20, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
It is the Black & White image at the end of the article page.. MacOfJesus (talk) 23:29, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for all your help.... MacOfJesus (talk) 21:05, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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Article page: Victor White (Dominican).
This article page I wrote and researched. I sourced a photograph that went back to 1957 to 1960 when Fr Victor White met C.G. Jung. This image is well out of any copyright restrictions, in respect to it's age approx. 55 years. I placed the image in the Article Page and now it is deleted. I've researched this and believe it to be genuine. Hence, may it remain on the Article Page. MacOfJesus (talk) 23:34, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
After checking again, I am convinced now that this image does go back to the meeting in Bollingen which happened in approx. 1957. This was, I think the only time they met. Hence, it is well out of any possible copyright. After checking again I understand it is genuine.... MacOfJesus (talk) 12:29, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
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