Cognate247
Hi Cognate247, I just reviewed the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod article, which you nominated for "good article" status, and unfortunately, I am unable to move the article to the good article level at this time. My review and comments are at Talk:Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod/GA1, and I strongly encourage you to read the good article criteria, address the major issues with the article, and re-nominate it for good article status after it meets the criteria—particularly the verifiability and well-written parts. Thanks for your time, and please don't let this discourage you—that article has a lot of potential, but it just needs someone to tend to it ("prune it", if that makes sense) for a while to improve its quality, right now. Regards, /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 22:55, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Bird & Ladakh Spoken Articles
editThanks, my work stopped when I found I did not have the recording equipment/conditions to provide a minimum amount of quality. Feel free to remove those entries. I am willing to provide the spoken script (based on latest page versions), if someone is interested in recording these articles. Happy to see new interest in the project! AshLin (talk) 04:27, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Los Angeles Spoken Article
editPlease remove it -- thanks! SparsityProblem (talk) 17:21, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Re: Martin Luther
editHi Cognate247, In making the spelling changes to Martin Luther which you have just reverted - please note that the spelling changes I made were a reversion of the recent edits (British -> U.S. spelling) made by User:TGilmour (amongst his other poor edits). As it now stands the article contains a mixture of both British and U.S spellings - but I don't propose to go back over the entire edit history to find which variety the article was first written in, or to start an edit war. But please be less hasty in passing judgement in future. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 09:04, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I did not realize that this article might have been originally written in British English. I, too, do not wish to begin an editing war, and I apologize if I was too hasty in reverting your edits. Over the next few days, I'll work on going back through the edit history to find the version of English originally used so that there can be a uniform style throughout the article. Please understand that I was not passing judgment on you as an editor, and I thank you for your great contributions and interest in this article. I simply was trying to bring something to your attention that you might not have known about. I was mistaken, and I apologize. In the future, a clearer edit summary will help me or anyone else from making this mistake again. I did not understand your full intentions from the phrase "minor copyedits." Looking forward to working with you further on this project! Blessings, Cognate247 (talk) 20:01, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
- No worries. However I do still consider spelling changes as relatively minor issues, compared with getting fact sorted from myth. I note that the article doesn't mention the perhaps apocryphal story about Luther during his stay at Wartburg Castle reportedly throwing an inkwell at the Devil (which I remember from my childhood - my paternal grandfather was a Lutheran pastor). Perhaps this is another instance of a picturesque turn of phrase subsequently being taken as literal fact, just as Melanchthon's story of Luther nailing the 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, seems to have been. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 06:03, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi again, Cognate247, given your interest in this article, you may be interested in User:TGilmour's comment and request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests#Martin Luther. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 13:59, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Adding WikiProject categories directly to talk pages
editHi Cognate247, as far as I know, WikiProject categories should never be added directly to talk pages. I don't know of an official proscription against this practice, but I've never encountered it before. If you want to add Category:WikiProject Lutheranism articles to pages such as Talk:Orgelbüchlein, wouldn't it be far easier to do it by adding the category to the WikiProject's template? Graham87 03:30, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
- Graham is correct. The Lutheranism project banner contains code to automatically categorize the article. Note that banners usually place an article into 2 cats: a class and an importance. So adding the cat manually is unnecessary. Anyway, check this out:
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- Thanks to both of you for clearing that up for me. Boy, that saved me a lot of time! And Lionelt, I have officially and gladly joined WikiProject Conservatism. Huzzah! Cognate247 (talk) 14:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
- No worries ... I've just used a mass-rollback script to automatically undo almost all 1,252 of your incorrect category additions, and I've manually undone the other ones. The script caused my screen reader (and eventually my entire computer) to crash quite badly, so I was out of action for about half an hour. Thinking about it some more, categories should *never* be added directly to talk pages because they are meant to be at the bottom of the page, and the new section button would interfere with that. Also the categories would be moved when the talk page is archived by cut and paste, which would not be a good thing. Perhaps HotCat should disable itself on talk pages, because I can think of no valid use for it there. It'd be a good idea to bring this up at Wikipedia talk:HotCat. Graham87 16:39, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks to both of you for clearing that up for me. Boy, that saved me a lot of time! And Lionelt, I have officially and gladly joined WikiProject Conservatism. Huzzah! Cognate247 (talk) 14:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
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re: July 2011
editOK, I provided edit summary now and moved place of paragraph at "Bible criticism". Thanks -- Andrevruas (talk) 02:11, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Germany
editHi there. The reason that I removed content from the Germany page template wasn't majorly important, I removed the leaders of both houses of parliament in Germany (Speaker of the Bundestag and Speaker of the Bundesrat) because I felt that there was no significance to have them located on the template as the only major positions relavent were the President and the Chancellor. Thanks anyway. JAU123. JAU123 (talk) 09:01, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
- Hey man, that's all good. I'm just saying that if you remove content from a page, you should at least provide an edit summary or something on the talk page in order to let everyone else know exactly what you just wrote to me. Otherwise, you can have people questioning your motives or even considering your edits a form of vandalism. We wouldn't want that now, would we? Cognate247 (talk) 16:24, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
re: why history pages?
editTjpob (talk) 16:18, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
- Do you mean page history? My comment on your talk page was simply to make you aware that if you use the preview button before you save, you avoid clogging up the page history with lots of minor edits and corrections. That's all!! Cognate247 (talk) 16:23, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Church of Lippe
editYou're probably right - I didn't check to see if Church of Lippe was an article before I changed it. But it seems much more likely we'll get an article on Church of Lippe at some point than that we'll ever get an article on Church of Lippe (Lutheran Section). john k (talk) 16:11, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for wanting to improve it, although i thought the brief defining statement on antinomianism was fitting, as well as the preface to the responses to it, which now appear abruptly. But i also did more editing in other places, as i find this article in need of better presentation in some parts. ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel1212 (talk • contribs) 14:49, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
- Hey, that's all good with me, if you want a brief defining statement on antinomianism, be my guest...however, "in which salvific faith need be one that one that will produce works of obedience to Christ" is probably a poor defining statement at best, especially since traditional antinomianism ignores the need for "works of obedience to Christ," but rather considers the Gospel sufficient. Just a thought...Cognate247 (talk) 14:56, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
- Yikes! What a big difference leaving out the word "NOT" makes! Two laborers are better than one. Thanks for catching that omission. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel1212 (talk • contribs) 22:24, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
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editSorry i am not the best at editing on Wikipedia but i do understand the need for sources so what i have been trying is get a basic format with the sources for my edits then have someone forumlate it properly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Magicevan (talk • contribs) 19:38, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
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Edit summaries
editHi Cognate247. Whilst your dedication in the fight against un-summarised edits is to be applauded for bringing the importance of this to the attention of new users, have you considered that it may appear slightly offensive to more experienced editors than yourself when you hit them with what is basically a generic newbie template? Whilst most of us do generally provide edit summaries and it can be annoying when any editor doesn't, equally we can be experienced enough to know when frankly they're just a waste of editing time because the summary ends up being longer than the minor edit that they accompany. This isn't a personal thing, you've never hit me with such a template, but I have to say that User:Connormah was far more generous to you than many other editors would have been. Just something for your consideration (and again not a criticism of the valuable task that you do, just a request for better targeting), so feel free to ignore! danno 20:11, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Danno, I appreciate the concern, and I'll do better next time in regard to my targeting. Like I said in the thread at Connormah's talk page, I was unaware that only "significant" edits should include an edit summary. I'm still a fairly new editor myself, still getting used to the way Wikipedia works, and didn't realize that a templated notice was such an offense to experienced editors. So, in the future, if I feel the need to let an experienced editor know that they should have provided an edit summary, I'll be sure to drop them a personal note, not a template. I admit that this has been a wonderful learning experience for me, and like I said, I'll do better. Thanks for being patient with me! Cognate247 (talk) 20:18, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Not at all, I genuinely think that what you do is very helpful. I monitor Recent Changes and I waste a lot of time looking at edits that I probably could have ignored if there was a proper reason attached, and that is....irritating! Having said that, there are many editors here that take umbrage against the merest slight and a generic template can be a red rag to a bull! Being responsive to criticism here is a good thing here so I appreciate your response. You've made a friend today :-) danno 20:28, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
There you go. 50.40.243.7 has ignored your last warning. I give him an only warning, and if he continues after my only warning, contact me. Thank you! StormContent (talk) 02:26, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
The Right Stuff: September 2011
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By Lionelt
Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Right Stuff, the newsletter of WikiProject Conservatism. The Project has developed at a breakneck speed since it was created on February 12, 2011 with the edit summary, "Let's roll!" With over 50 members the need for a project newsletter is enormous. With over 3000 articles to watch, an active talk page and numerous critical discussions spread over various noticeboards, it has become increasingly difficult to manage the information overload. The goal of The Right Stuff is to help you keep up with the changing landscape.
The Right Stuff is a newsletter consisting of original reporting. Writers will use a byline to "sign" their contributions. Just as with The Signpost, "guidelines such as 'no ownership of articles', and particularly 'no original research', will not necessarily apply."
WikiProject Conservatism has a bright future ahead: this newsletter will allow us tell the story. All that's left to say is: "Let's roll!"
By Lionelt
A new style guide to help standardize editing was rolled out. It focuses on concepts, people and organizations from a conservatism perspective. The guide features detailed article layouts for several types of articles. You can help improve it here. The Project's Article Collaboration currently has two nominations, but they don't appear to be generating much interest. You can get involved with the Collaboration here.
I am pleased to report that we have two new members: Rjensen and Soonersfan168. Rjensen is a professional historian and has access to JSTOR. Soonersfan168 says he is a "young conservative who desires to improve Wikipedia!" Unfortunately we will be seeing less of Geofferybard, as he has announced his semi-retirement. We wish him well. Be sure to stop by their talk pages and drop off some Wikilove.
By Lionelt
On August 3rd Peter Oborne, a British journalist, became the Project's 3,000th tagged article. It is a tribute to the membership that we have come this far this quickly. The latest Featured Article is Richard Nixon. Our congratulations to Wehwalt for a job well done. The article with the most page views was Rick Perry with 887,389 views, not surprising considering he announced he was running for president on August 11th. Follwing Perry were Michele Bachmann and Tea Party movement. The Project was ranked 75th based on total edits, which is up from 105th in July. The article with the most edits was Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2012 with 374 edits. An RFC regarding candidate inclusion criteria generated much interest on the talk page.
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The Right Stuff: October 2011
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The Right Stuff caught up with Dank, the recently elected Lead Coordinator of WikiProject Military History. MILHIST is considered by many to be one of the most successful projects in the English Wikipedia.
Q: Tell us a little about yourself.
A: I'm Dan, a Wikipedian since 2007, from North Carolina. I started out with an interest in history, robotics, style guidelines, and copyediting. These days, I'm the lead coordinator for the Military History Project and a reviewer of Featured Article Candidates. I've been an administrator and maintained WP:Update, a summary of policy changes, since 2008.
Q: What is your experience with WikiProjects?
A: I guess I'm most familiar with WP:MILHIST and WP:SHIPS, and I'm trying to get up to speed at WP:AVIATION. I've probably talked with members of most of the wikiprojects at one time or another.
Q: What makes a WikiProject successful?
A: A lot of occasional contributors who think of the project as fun rather than work, a fair number of people willing to write or review articles, a small core of like-minded people who are dedicated to building and maintaining the project, and access to at least a few people who are familiar with reviewing standards and with Wikipedia policies and guidelines.
Q: Do you have any tips for increasing membership?
A: Aim for a consistent, helpful and professional image. Let people know what the project is doing and what they could be doing, but don't push.
If you've got a core group interested in building a wikiproject, it helps if they do more listening than talking at first ... find out what people are trying to do, and offer them help with whatever it is. Some wikiprojects build membership by helping people get articles through the review processes.
By Lionelt
The arbitration request submitted by Steven Zhang moved into its second month. The case, which evaluates user conduct, arose from contentious discussions regarding the naming of the Pro-life and Pro-choice articles, and a related issue pertaining to the inclusion of "death" in the lede of Abortion. A number of members are involved. On the Evidence page ArtifexMahem posted a table indicating that DMSBel made the most edits to the Abortion article. DMSBel has announced their semi-retirement. Fact finding regarding individual editor behavior has begun in earnest on theWorkshop page.
Last month it was decided that due to the success of the new Dispute Resolution Noticeboard the Content Noticeboard would be shut down. Wikiquette Assistance will remain active. The DRN is primarily intended to resolve content disputes.
By Lionelt
Was your article deleted in spite of your best efforts to save it? You should consider having a copy restored to the Incubator where project members can help improve it. Upon meeting content criteria, articles are graduated to mainspace. The Incubator is also ideal for collaborating on new article drafts. Star Parker is the first addition to the incubator. The article was deleted per WP:POLITICIAN.
WikiProject Conservatism is expanding. We now have a satellite on Commons. Any help in categorizing images or in getting the fledgling project off the ground is appreciated.
We have a few new members who joined the project in September. Please give a hearty welcome to Conservative Philosopher, Screwball23 and Regushee by showing them some Wikilove. Screwball23 has been on WikiPedia for five years and has made major improvements to Linda McMahon. Regushee is not one for idle chit chat: an amazing 93% of their edits are in article space.
The Right Stuff: November 2011
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On October 7, WikiProject Conservatism was nominated for deletion by member Binksternet. He based his rationale on what he described as an undefinable scope, stating that the project is "at its root undesirable". Of the 40 participants in the discussion, some agreed that the scope was problematic; however, they felt it did not justify deletion of the project. A number of participants suggested moving the project to "WikiProject American conservatism". The overwhelming sentiment was expressed by Guerillero who wrote: "A project is a group of people. This particular group does great work in their topic area[,] why prevent them from doing this[?]" In the end there was negligible opposition to the project and the result of the discussion was "Keep". The proceedings of the deletion discussion were picked up by The Signpost, calling the unfolding drama "the first MfD of its kind". The Signpost observed that attempting to delete an active project was unprecedented. The story itself became a source of controversy which played out at the Discuss This Story section, and also at the author's talk page.
Two days after the project was nominated, the Conservatism Portal was also nominated for deletion as "too US-biased". There was no support for deletion amongst the 10 participants, with one suggestion to rename the portal.
In other news, a new portal focusing on conservatism has been created at WikiSource. Wikisource is an online library of free content publications with 254,051 accessible texts. One highlight of the portal's content is Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke.
October saw a 6.4% increase in new members, bringing the total membership to 58. Seven of the eight new members joined after October 12; the deletion discussions may have played a role in the membership spike. Mwhite148 is a member of the UK Conservative Party. Stating that he is not a conservative, Kleinzach noted his "lifetime interest in British, European and international politics." Let's all make an effort to welcome the new members with an outpouring of Wikilove.
Click here to keep up to date on all the happenings at WikiProject Conservatism.
By Lionelt
Timeline of conservatism, a Top-importance list, was nominated for deletion on October 3. The nominator stated that since conservatism in an "ambiguous concept", the timeline suffers from original research. There were a number of "Delete", as well as "Keep" votes. The closing administrator reasoned that consensus dictated that the list be renamed. The current title is Timeline of modern American conservatism.
The Right Stuff: January 2012
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On January 21, The Conservatism Portal was promoted to Featured Portal (FP) due largely to the contributions of Lionelt. This is the first Featured content produced by WikiProject Conservatism. The road to Featured class was rocky. An earlier nomination for FP failed, and in October the portal was "Kept" after being nominated for deletion.
Member Eisfbnore significantly contributed to the successful Good Article nomination of Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor Nils Vogt in December. Eisfbnore also created the article. In January another Project article was promoted to Featured Article. Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, a president of Brazil, attained Featured class with significant effort by Lecen. The Article Incubator saw its first graduation in November. A collaboration spearheaded by Mzk1 and Trackerseal successfully developed Star Parker to pass the notability guideline.
By Lionelt
Another discussion addressing the project scope began in December. Nine alternatives were presented in the contentious, sometimes heated discussion. Support was divided between keeping the exitsing scope, or adopting a scope with more specificity. Some opponents of the specific scope were concerned that it was too limiting and would adversely affect project size. About twenty editors participated in the discussion.
Inclusion of the article Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was debated. Supporters for inclusion cited sources describing the KKK as "conservative." The article was excluded with more than 10 editors participating.
Project membership continues to grow. There are currently 73 members. Member Goldblooded (pictured) volunteers for the UK Conservative Party and JohnChrysostom is a Christian Democrat. North8000 is interested in libertarianism. We won't tell WikiProject Libertarianism he's slumming. Let's stop by their talkpages and share some Wikilove.
Click here to keep up to date on all the happenings at WikiProject Conservatism.
By Lionelt
Articles about the GOP presidential candidate and staunch traditional marriage supporter have seen an explosion of discussion. On January 8 an RFC was opened (here) to determine if Dan Savage's website link should be included in Campaign for "santorum" neologism. The next day the Rick Santorum article itself was the subject of an RFC (here) to determine if including the Savage neologism was a violation of the BLP policy. Soon after a third was opened (here) at Santorum controversy regarding homosexuality. This RFC proposes merging the neologism article into the controversy article.
The Abortion case closed in November after 15 weeks of contentious arbitration. The remedies include semi-protection of all abortion articles (numbering 1,500), sanctions for some editors including members of this Project, and a provision for a discussion to determine the names of what are colloquially known as the pro-life and pro-choice articles. The Committee endorsed the "1 revert rule" for abortion articles.
Ichthus: January 2012
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Message delivered by Dominic·t 19:39, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
The article Our Redeemer Lutheran Church has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- recreation of deleted material on NN church
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.
You last edited this so I'm letting you know, given that the article creator hasn't been on in years. Mangoe (talk) 17:18, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
- I agree, this article should have been deleted 4 and a half years ago, when its non-notable status was confirmed by consensus. Good work! Cognate247 (talk) 17:58, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Christianity Newsletter April 2013
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Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 357 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Thomas Cranmer, Mr.Oglesby, and Sneha Priscilla. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.
From the Editor
We apologise for the hiatus in the publication of this newsletter due to unforseen circumstances leading to the wikibreak of John Carter, and so I have taken over as acting editor, and have taken this opportunity to move the publication date to the start of each month as planned, to better reflect on the previous month and look ahead to the next. This issue covers the period of time from mid-January to the end of March.
Since the last issue we have seen the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis. This has received much coverage both in the world media and on Wikipedia. While there is still much work to do, several quality articles have been written and the editors involved are thanked for their efforts.
This month we look ahead to Easter and the celebration of God's love for mankind through the crucifixion and resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ. With that, I wish you all happy reading!
P.S. Please click here to add the new Christianity noticeboard to your watchlist to follow the latest discussions relevant to WikiProject Christianity and subprojects.
By Gilderien
Church of the month
This image of the Church of Saint Ildefonso, Portugal by Poco a poco was recently promoted to Featured Image. Thank you and congratulations for the great image!
Contest of the month
No particular contest this month. I am however getting rather close to getting together a more or less complete set of articles relating to different areas of Christianity which can be found in recent reference sources on the broad topic of Christianity, and about various subtopics, which I hope to have finished in the next few weeks. I wonder what the rest of you might think of, maybe, making the contests of future months be basically directed at filling in the gaps of our existing coverage of topics, like those topics given significant coverage in specialized reference works which we don't yet have content on, and giving the thanks, and rewards, whatever they might be, to those who create and develop such content. I am starting a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Christianity noticeboard#Future contests, and would very much welcome any input from interested parties in how to set it up, determine winners including how many winners, etc.
By John Carter
Featured content and GA report
Since the last report;
Grade I listed churches in Cumbria was promoted to Featured List status, thanks to Peter I. Vardy, and the image above of the Church of Saint Ildefonso was promoted to featured picture status.
Martin Luther King, Jr., by Khazar2, was promoted to GA status, as well Third Epistle of John by Cerebellum.
Also these past months, the DYKs on the main page included St Mary's Church, Cleobury Mortimer by Peter I. Vardy; Marion Irvine by Giants2008; Margaret McKenna by Guerillero; Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity by Epeefleche; St Edith's Church, Eaton-under-Heywood by Peter I. Vardy; Vester Egesborg Church by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; Undløse Church by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; St Martin's Church, Næstved by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; St. Peter, Syburg by Gerda Arendt and Dr. Blofeld; Østre Porsgrunn Church by Strachkvas; Church of Our Saviour (Mechanicsburg, Ohio) by Nyttend; Dami Mission by Freikorp; Mechanicsburg Baptist Church by Nyttend; Acheiropoietos Monastery, by Proudbolsahye; T. Lawrason Riggs, by Gareth E Kegg; McColley's Chapel, by Mangoe; Oświęcim Chapel, by BurgererSF; Second Baptist Church (Mechanicsburg, Ohio), by Nyttend; Church of the Holy Ghost, Tallinn, by Yakikaki; Old Stone Congregational Church, by Orladyl Heath Chapel, by Peter I. Vardy; St. Joseph's Church, Beijing, by Bloom6132; Church of St Bartholomew, Yeovilton, by Rodw; and St. Michael's Catholic Church (Mechanicsburg, Ohio) also by Nyttend. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved!
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By Gilderien
Calendar
This coming month (end-March through end-April) includes Easter Sunday in Western Christianity and both Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Other major feasts in the next month include those of Saint George, Saint Mark the Evangelist, Saint Stanislaus, James, son of Zebedee, and Benedict the Moor.
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Rev Jordahl Article Peer Review
editHello! I see you have done a lot of work on Lutheran WP articles. I thought perhaps you could do a peer review on this article? Thanks!
Article: V. Trygve Jordahl
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:29, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
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Wikiproject Spoken Wikipedia Revival
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Hello, I'm Jamesjpk. I wanted to let you know that the Wikiproject Spoken Wikipedia, has been tagged with a semi-active tag. I am messaging you about this because you are listed under the wiki-project's list of active participants. Please contribute to the WikiProject if you want to keep it alive! I hope that it becomes active again! Jamesjpk (talk) 22:25, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
The Right Stuff June 2018
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Fellow members, I'm pleased to announce the return of the newsletter of WikiProject Conservatism. And considering the recent downsizing at The Signpost the timing could not be better. The Right Stuff will help keep you apprised of what's happening in conservatism at Wikipedia and in the world. The Right Stuff welcomes submissions including position pieces, instructional articles, or short essays addressing important conservatism-related issues. Post submissions here.
Add the Project Discussion page to your watchlist for the latest updates at WikiProject Conservatism (Discuss this story)By Lionelt
After a series of unfortunate events largely self-created, bureaucrat and admin Andrevan was the subject of an Arbitration case for conduct unbecoming. Prior to the case getting underway Andrevan resigned as bureaucrat and admin. A widely discussed incident was when he suggested that some editors he described as "pro-Trump" were paid Russian agents. This resulted in a number of editors from varied quarters denouncing the allegations and voicing support for veteran editors including Winkelvi and the notorious MONGO.
Editors who faced Enforcement action include SPECIFICO (no action), Factchecker atyourservice (three month topic ban ARBAPDS), Netoholic (no action) and Anythingyouwant (indef topic ban ARBAPDS). (Discuss this story)By Lionelt
Breitbart News, in response to Facebook's decision to use Wikipedia as a source to fight fake news, has declared war on our beloved pedia. The article in Haaretz describes the Facebook arrangement as Wikipedia's "greatest test in years" as well as a "massive threat" to the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Breitbart's targeting of Wikipedia has resulted in an "epic battle" with respect to editing at the Breitbart article. The article has also recently experienced a dramatic increase in traffic with 50,000 visitors according to Haaretz. There is no love lost between Breitbart and Wikipedia where editors at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard have criticized the news websites unreliability and have compared it to The Daily Mail. (Discuss this story)By Lionelt
- There is an RFC regarding Liberty University and its relationship to President Trump; see discussion
- Activist and commentator Avi Yemini is listed at AFD; see discussion
Delivered: 11:12, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
The Right Stuff: July 2018
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WikiProject Conservatism was a topic of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard/Incident (AN/I). Objective3000 started a thread where he expressed concern regarding the number of RFC notices posted on the Discussion page suggesting that such notices "could result in swaying consensus by selective notification." Several editors participated in the relatively abbreviated six hour discussion. The assertion that the project is a "club for conservatives" was countered by editors listing examples of users who "profess no political persuasion." It was also noted that notification of WikiProjects regarding ongoing discussions is explicitly permitted by the WP:Canvassing guideline.
At one point the discussion segued to feedback about The Right Stuff. Member SPECIFICO wrote: "One thing I enjoy about the Conservatism Project is the handy newsletter that members receive on our talk pages." Atsme praised the newsletter as "first-class entertainment...BIGLY...first-class...nothing even comes close...it's amazing." Some good-natured sarcasm was offered with Objective3000 observing, "Well, they got the color right" and MrX's followup, "Wow. Yellow is the new red."
Admin Oshwah closed the thread with the result "definitely not an issue for ANI" and directing editors to the project Discussion page for any further discussion. Editor's note: originally the design and color of The Right Stuff was chosen to mimic an old, paper newspaper.
Add the Project Discussion page to your watchlist for the "latest RFCs" at WikiProject Conservatism (Discuss this story)By Lionelt
Margaret Thatcher is the first article promoted at the new WikiProject Conservatism A-Class review. Congratulations to Neveselbert. A-Class is a quality rating which is ranked higher than GA (Good article) but the criteria are not as rigorous as FA (Featued article). WikiProject Conservatism is one of only two WikiProjects offering A-Class review, the other being WikiProject Military History. Nominate your article here. (Discuss this story)By Lionelt
Reprinted in part from the April 26, 2018 issue of The Signpost; written by Zarasophos
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Out of over one hundred questioned editors, only twenty-seven (27%) are happy with the way reports of conflicts between editors are handled on the Administrators' Incident Noticeboard (AN/I), according to a recent survey . The survey also found that dissatisfaction has varied reasons including "defensive cliques" and biased administrators as well as fear of a "boomerang effect" due to a lacking rule for scope on AN/I reports. The survey also included an analysis of available quantitative data about AN/I. Some notable takeaways:
- 53% avoided making a report due to fearing it would not be handled appropriately
- "Otherwise 'popular' users often avoid heavy sanctions for issues that would get new editors banned."
- "Discussions need to be clerked to keep them from raising more problems than they solve."
In the wake of Zarasophos' article editors discussed the AN/I survey at The Signpost and also at AN/I. Ironically a portion of the AN/I thread was hatted due to "off-topic sniping." To follow-up the problems identified by the research project the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team and Support and Safety team initiated a discussion. You can express your thoughts and ideas here.
(Discuss this story)Delivered: 09:27, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
2019 US Banknote Contest
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There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons. In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate. If you do not want to receive invitations to future US Banknote Contests, follow the instructions here | ||
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Invite to Join WikiProject for Spoken Wikipedia
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Hi Cognate247! I am Galendalia (talk · contribs) and I am reviving the WikiProject for Spoken Wikipedia. I noticed that you signed up at some point to be a participant and as I am reviving this project, one of my tasks is to get the participant list in order. Would you please go to the Participants List and add your name and language(s) you speak? If you are already there and do not want to be, please remove yourself. If you want to remain, please put remain next to your name. If I do not see anything, I will move you to the inactive participant list. I am putting a timeline of 7 days on this action to help keep things moving along. It would also be great if you would be willing to join the task force for Pronunciation that would be awesome, as there are troublesome words we run into. Thank you for considering joining us. If you decide to leave, I will be sad Galendalia CVU Member \ Chat Me Up 05:09, 8 May 2020 (UTC) |
