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WikiProject University of Oklahoma

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Oklahoma, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the University of Oklahoma. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ↔NMajdantalk 16:38, 18 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Tulsa, OK

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Thanks for your comment on the Tulsa, Oklahoma article. Please consider chipping in on the article's feature nomination. Just put "oppose" or "support" or you can just "comment" too. Either way, we'd love to have your opinion on if the article should be a featured article. Thanks! Okiefromoklatalk 22:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

The New Adelson Pic

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Good one. Tom looks all professional and stuff. I like it. Philippe 03:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Vision 2025 artice

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Thank you very much for creating the Vision 2025 article. Its been a big hole for a long time now and i've always thought it should be created. Any expanding you can do on it would be great as well! Thanks again. Just as a side note, we'd sure like fellow Tulsans like yourself to help out on Taskforce Tulsa articles if you're interested. Thanks! Okiefromoklatalk 04:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Texas Rangers articles

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Great work on starting Template:2005 Texas Rangers season game log and 2006 Texas Rangers season. Both articles were on my short list of articles to write, but you beat me to it. Would you mind if I helped fill in the data for the game log? (I did the 2006 game log.) Cheers, Caknuck 02:54, 4 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Great work on finishing off the '05 game log. Let me know if/when you plan on starting the 2004 season. Caknuck 08:58, 8 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Please use edit summaries

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Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. The Mathbot tool shows your usage of edit summaries to be extremely low:

Edit summary usage for Tulsaschoolboard: 26% for major edits and 7% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 16:04, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Replaceable fair use Image:CommissionerKimHolland.jpg

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Replaceable fair use

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WikiProject Oklahoma Newsletter October 07

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The WikiOkie Reporter

WikiProject Oklahoma's Newsletter
Issue 2 - October 2007

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Your second or third stop for WikiProject Oklahoma News

 

Modest boost in assessed articles during September

WikiProject Oklahoma's massive list of unassessed articles got smaller over the month of September, as 45 articles were assessed by bots and editors. Assessments made on August 31 bring the total to 62 assessed articles over the 31-day period. On September 15, BetacommandBot assessed 40 articles from no-class to stub and start class. This bot automatically updates the talk pages of articles included in more than one WikiProject if at least one WikiProject has already assessed the material, bringing each interested WikiProject's ratings into compliance with the assessment. No B-class or higher quality assessments were given out over September, and only a small handful of importance assessments were granted. On August 31, one Low, Mid, and High importance rating was given to three separate articles. Leroy McGuirk was given the lone high-importance rating.

Oklahoma categories receive help from Texan

TexasAndroid, an administrator, assisted WikiProject Oklahoma by categorizing nearly 100 Oklahoma-related pages on September 24. The additions were made mainly to Tulsa-related pages. "I've done the major cities in Texas in the past, and was thinking about what to do next, and decided to stay relatively close to home for now. Thus OK's big cities got done," TexasAndroid wrote on his user page.

 

Meet WikiProject Oklahoma's "sub-project"

Taskforce Tulsa, a collaboration of editors operating under WikiProject Oklahoma, has been created to increase the scope of Wikipedia's coverage of Tulsa and its surrounding areas. Taskforce Tulsa is many things, but most importantly, it is a way for editors to have a place to put Tulsa-related requests (pictures, article, expansion, collaboration) for other editors interested in Tulsa. News, guidelines, and category trees related to Tulsa articles can easily be accessed and added through the task force's project page. The taskforce is not its own WikiProject. Instead, it works in conjunction with WikiProject Oklahoma to increase the quality and scope of Tulsa-related material. Because of the increased clutter and unnecessary waste of space that would be created with a new WikiProject, editors have opted for a taskforce, or workgroup project. Rather than having a Wikiproject Oklahoma banner as well as a Wikiproject Tulsa banner on most Tulsa-related pages, editors can simply add the Tulsa Taskforce note onto the existing Wikiproject Oklahoma banner. Cleaner, clearer, and more efficient. In edit mode, such a banner would appear as this: "{{WikiProject Oklahoma|class=FA|importance=Top|tulsa-task-force=yes}}". In other words, simply adding "tulsa-task-force=yes}}" to the existing Wikiproject Oklahoma banner on an article's talk page would include that article into the Tulsa Task Force. According to an explanation on the taskforce's project page, "The Tulsa Task Force is a 'sub-wikiproject' operating 'beneath' Wikiproject Oklahoma, and is designed to assist it by focusing specifically on Tulsa-related material. Editors who are interested in expanding knowledge of Tulsa on Wikipedia may wish to consider themselves part of Taskforce Tulsa as well as Wikiproject Oklahoma." Interested parties can sign up much like a stand-alone WikiProject.

This month's task: Get out of your routine. Make some edits!Edit next month's newsletter

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Average Membership

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In the article, Booker T. Washington High School, you stated that the average daily attendance is some figure with a decimal point, when, in fact when the high school template says "students", it does not mean aveerage daily attendance, rather the number of students currently enrolled in the school. --Μ79_Šp€çíá∫횆tell me about it 04:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Edit to CPHS

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You recent edit to, Charles Page High School edited a template used throughout wikipedia for high school sports. Just thought you might want to know that those sports are, in fact, considered sports by the ossaa. http://www.ossaa.com/partners/ossaa/sports/index.html --Μ79_Šp€çíá∫횆tell me about it 04:32, 14 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Just wondering...

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Hi there. Just a friendly question here. I was wondering where your name comes from. It seems odd unless you are actually on the Tulsa school board. What's the story there? Okiefromoklatalk 02:44, 23 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Oh, ok. Good enough reason :P Take care. Okiefromoklatalk 21:24, 25 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

To me, your username implies that you are the Tulsa School Board. The wikipedia policy on usernames (see WP:Username) is not to mislead someone to believe that you are someone that you are not or an organization. You might want to mail an administrator for a name change. Just a suggestion... --Μ79_Šp€çíá∫횆tell me about it 21:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Image:OKCSONICS.JPG listed for deletion

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Clinton Endorsements

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Please stop adding people for whom you have no citations. This isn't supposed to be a rumor mill or campaign literature dumping ground. Flatterworld (talk) 22:57, 3 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Prod Notice

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Proposed deletion of National Academic Championship

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AfD nomination of Matthew Mangini

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Username concern

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  I noticed that your username, Tulsaschoolboard, may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because your username implies endorsement by the Tulsa school board as well as operation of this username by a group, both of which are specifically prohibited by the username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:16, 27 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Username blocked

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If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:29, 31 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
 

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Turner Turnpike

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Hey, I cited some of the material in the Turner Turnpike section, adding two new sources that could probably be used to expand the article in general. Since you'd made a recent change to the article I thought to might take a look and think about how to better use these two sources I've added. One is the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture article on Turnpikes and Toll Bridges. The other is the PIKEPASS website's history page. Okiebradshaw (talk) 20:29, 17 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

File:Qfiesta08.jpg listed for deletion

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File:2008fiestaonsidekick.JPG missing description details

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Notification of automated file description generation

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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File:Johnwaldrontulsa.JPG listed for discussion

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Nomination of 2006 Tulsa, Oklahoma mayoral election for deletion

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Proposed deletion of File:Whitesands2007snow.jpg

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