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As a fellow member of the birthday committee, i am going to tell you now that i am impressed with you. I went down on May 11, to wish happy birthday to people, and you had already done it. If this keep ups, i am gong to award you the birthday committee medal!!!!!!!!!!
Politics rule12:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
My removal from the clerk list
Asking in a polite way, why did you take my name off the clerk list. I read the edit history that said "Been here for less than a month". Does this affect my ability to help organise the CU pages? I didn't read anywhere "Must be over one month old account to be clerk"....GrooveDog02:38, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Groovedog. Currently, we have too many active clerks for any clerking position to be available. Also, we had one case where a banned user edited as a CU clerk. A CU clerk is a position to be taken very seriously because the information has privacy ramifications. In addition, since you have been here less than a month, I personally feel that you don't know core policies. However, thanks for your interest! Real9602:53, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Per the NY case, after you archive cases via the templates, make sure that you add the users to here, so the cases can be kept track. Also, in order to be familiar with the procedures, please read over this. Thanks. Real9601:20, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Real96, would you suggest using the script to archive, or just doing it by hand? The script looks like it only takes it off the "pending" page, but maybe it does more? Could you reply, I'll be watching here and my talk page.
The script is kind of ill-functional. You might run it by VOA. So, archiving has to be done by hand. Also, please sign your posts. Real9601:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Kindly show me an example where I have been "uncivil" to anyone. Links, please. You've been on Wikipedia one month, and the majority of your contributions regard complaints about other users. Que pasa? Griot22:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
"Get a wikiaccount why dontcha?" is not uncivil. That's merely a suggestion to anonymous user to get a wiki account. Sheesh. Griot22:10, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Warning established users
"Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia." does not seem to me to be an appropriate way to communicate with contributors who have been with us since 2005 and have thousands of edits, such as Ali doostzadeh. I recommend that you assume apparent vandalism by such established users is accidental unless additional evidence suggests otherwise, and leave a polite and personal message informing them of their error, rather than using a template that is not intended for such situations. Thanks – Gurch09:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't know he was established. Is there a way for me to check how old they are, or do I just go into the earliest contributions of that user? GrooveDog11:10, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Going to their contributions and clicking the "Oldest" link at the top of the page should get there quickly. Generally, if a user's userpage and talk page links are both blue, you know they're not completely new; if they're editing a page that isn't an article, that's also a sign that they may be established. Also if a large chunk of text disappears but more, new text is added, this generally indicates accidentally reverting to the wrong version, a browser problem, of something similar – revert such an edit and then re-add the new text, by all means, but one should think before using vandalism warnings. And after a while, you get to know people and recognize an established user when you see one (I have a private 'whitelist' of good users saved in a text file, which for example you're already on, as are Griot, Yonatan and Real96 above). Anyway, there seem to be a couple of messages regarding this sort of thing on your talk page, so while the odd mistake is inevitable, a little more caution might be necessary and would be much appreciated. Thanks – Gurch17:14, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Check user help
I filled out a check user request,[1] trying to follow the instructions exactly, but don't see my request on the page, what else do I have to do to get it to show up on the WP:check page? Why aren't the directions a bit clearer? KP Botany20:04, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, please also edit the instructions on the project page so users understand what they have to do. I did include the link to it, above. KP Botany20:07, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
checkuser question
Regarding your question, use of the F code for anything other than a community based ban or block is in violation of the wikipedia checkuser rules. Whether or not other people engage in improper behavior by submitting false reports is not an excuse to do the same.
This argument of "others do it" or "other articles do it" is a frequently cited argument in Articles for Deletion but the use of improper conduct elsewhere is not a justification.VK3516:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Your recent edit to Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Digwuren (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // MartinBot21:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on GA-Class Manitoba articles, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --Finngalltalk22:10, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Your doing a good job with your reviews but I just thought I'd better let you know that to pass GA, the leads are required to adequately summarise the article. The Cityscape of Ashland, Kentucky lead needed at least two paragraphs. Also, articles are not meant to have one sentence paragraphs and there shouldn't be any words in bold within the text. Epbr12318:53, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Category Manitoba articles to be tagged with WPMAN
Hi GrooveDog,
Should I go thrugh these articles and tag them as I find time? I'm assuming yes but am new to WP and this is my first WikiProject involvement.
If an article already has the WikiProject Canada tag should it be tagged?
JohnJardine16:28, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
My apologies - for some australian editors the whole edit history of that user has gone well beyond either humorous or farce modes. Your specific action in closing is sensible and what was needed. The humorous aspect is that it is not the first and not the last of that users total misunderstanding of wikipedia community processes and standards. The actual history of a user who is banned and continues to sockpuppet at the rate that that user continues to do so suggests that it is well beyond the joke. The problem is that the user continues... apologies for not giving context SatuSuro01:46, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I see you created the Manitobe WikiProject. If you want, I can run my bot and tag article talk pages related to Manitoba with {{WPMAN}}. Cheers, ~Wikihermit02:30, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi! You left me a note a few minutes ago, which I'm slightly confused by... you thought that I didn't assume good faith on the part of an editor, but I do over 100 reverts a day, so I'm not sure which revert you meant. If you could be more specific, that'd be great, because I would want to learn from any mistakes I make. Thanks! Poindexter Propellerhead03:36, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Ah... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strom_Thurmond&diff=prev&oldid=138684631 For that one I gave out a level 1 blanking warning, which starts out "It may not have been your intention, but..." I didn't do that because of the infobox blanking alone, I did it because they also chopped out sections of 2 paragraphs, mid-sentence, which cannot be construed as a constructive edit. I didn't want to assume that they were vandalizing it, so didn't give a vandalism warning -- I assumed that they might be acting in good faith, but had made some major mistakes: "It may not have been your intention..." Sorry that it bothered you. Poindexter Propellerhead04:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
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If you can see with the page's history, that I was assisting to help a user who placed a helpme tag on the page. Next time, please assume good faith because Twinkle is a very powerful tool. Miranda01:36, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
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My RfA
I am not going to send around a message to all 60 people who commented in my RfA. I might just leave a notice on my page instead. Although, I would like to thank you in particular as the nominator, as I was not fully sure weather I would pass or not before the RfA started, but it turned out great! Thanks and if there's anything that you need, please don't hesitate to contact me! Greeves(talk • contribs)14:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
RE:America Abroad
Whoopsie. The block form has account creation blocked by default and I normally overlook that feature. I've unblocked and re-blocked with acct. creation enabled. Thanks, —«ANIMUM»17:30, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for experimenting with the page Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) on Wikipedia. Your recent edit appears to have added incorrect information, and has been reverted or removed. All information in the encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable published source. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. The website does state that the movie will be released on July 13th, in the US.GrooveDog16:46, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.
This is not a shared IP address. I do have an account, I just forgot to log-in. Now, I went to the website and I see that it does list the US release date as being July 13. I admit that. However, read the Wikipedia article. In the introductory paragraph: "...has scheduled a UK release date of July 12, 2007, and a US release date of July 11, 2007." Later in the article: "The release dates of the film in the UK and US were also moved forward, both from 13 July, to the 12th and 11th, respectively." Also, The Leaky Cauldron says the date is July 11, and a Google news search (while not infallible) for "harry potter order phoenix july 13 OR 11" yields ONLY results about the movie being released on July 11, not July 13. So please, do not say I was "introducing deliberate factual errors," do not call it "experimenting," and do not say my "recent edit appears to have added incorrect information" until you have checked the facts for yourself. I am glad to use that another user has realized your blatant error and reverted your reversion. 69.138.178.13522:39, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Look. I reverted your edit because the official website said that the release date is the 13th. I don't understand why another user reverted my "blatant error", and I don't understand why it's a blatant error, either. Could you please elaborate? Thanks, GrooveDog 22:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC) --GrooveDog22:45, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
That website which I incorrectly cited I cited only because it was a citation at the bottom of the article (number 102). I didn't actually read the website. However, this is what the Wikipedia article said:
The film will be released on the following dates in these major English-speaking countries:[102]
New Zealand, Australia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia, India, Canada — 11 July
Singapore, United Kingdom, Puerto Rico, South Korea — 12 July
Ireland — 13 July
I read that, saw the US release date was July 11th, double-checked it using Google, and then changed the article using the cited website (102) without visiting it (because I assumed the article would cite a website that agrees with the content). But, as I said, I double-checked with other sources. Source 104 is supposed to link to an article on The Leaky Cauldron titled Confirmed: Change to US "Order of the Phoenix" Release Date, Now July 11, but it doesn't. So I Googled that titled and found this article. I also, as I told you earlier, searched Google News using July 11 OR 13, so that it would find both. Given that the content available on the Internet shows overwhelmingly that the release date is July 11 (with the one exception being source 102, as I later discovered), I decided to change the article. This reflects both what's available online and the information given three times in the article itself! If you want to change it back, that's fine with me. Someone else will just revert it to what's correct. 69.138.178.13522:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Excuse me, too, for my tone. I guess I just got a little (or a lot) frustrated. I used to edit Wikipedia frequently under a username, but I unoffically left because I got fed up by precisely this (people making changes without fact checking, arrogance, heated disputes...). Again, I apologize. But at least we sorted this out! 69.138.178.13522:55, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
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Manitoba
Mainly, the lead for the article needs to be longer (about 3 or 4 paragraphs) and stronger. This is explained in more detail at WP:LEAD. Tarret20:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
My (Kwsn's) RfA
Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It unfortunately did not succeed. I still plan to continue to edit however. Hope to see you around. Kwsn(Ni!)15:13, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
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Please review Darcy Olsen
Darcy Olsen article was rejected for "lacking" a third party source. It provided two bio pages (one former employer one current) and two other pages concerning her material. The reviewer incorrectly considered all of these to not be third party sources. This makes no sense. You just added an article with one source (current employer bio aka a state senate). Please review and approve this article.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2007-07-09#Darcy_Olsen
Thanks for your help
That was not much help. Who cares if it was copied, the denied reason was bogus. You approved a article for the same reason the other guy denied this one. This makes no sense.
Sorry, I took out all the parser stuff out of the mm template when I copied it from {{afc top}} just to keep the thing tidy! I'll work on putting it back in and let you know if I have any success (don't hold your breath though). Peace, delldottalk16:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi, it was me whom you accused of vandalism on the Thai Stick page, I'm sorry I didn't bother to log in at the time but there clearly was a misunderstanding. The last comment under "June 2007" here at your oage was from me as well though it wasn't supposed to go just there. Anyhow sorry for not doing things properly then. Joppelito08:46, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
GrooveDog, do you plan on discussing this issue further as requested? Just looking for a timeframe. Thanks. Fireproeng14:50, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Your opinion welcome at deletion review for Plot of Les Mis
After Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plot of Les Misérables closed as a deletion, I'm challenging the way the closing administrator acted as in violation of Wikipedia rules. Your participation is welcome at that discussion, Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 July 14. Please keep in mind that only arguments related to either new information or to how Wikipedia rules were violated or not violated in closing the discussion will be considered. It isn't a replay of the original AfD. I'm familiar with WP:CANVASSING and I am alerting everyone who participated in that discussion to the deletion review. I won't contact anyone again on this topic, and I apologize if you consider this note distracting. Noroton03:56, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hey, GrooveDog. I saw the image you created for the AFC Barnstar - just to let you know, you cannot release that into the public domain. Since you used Image:AFC-Logo.png in the image, you have to license it either under the GFDL, a cc-by-sa license, or both. As the creator of the logo, I'm afraid I have to insist. Sorry.
In lighter news, I'm going to make a higher-resolution version of your version of the barnstar (yay for Photoshop) so we don't have to use the MS Paint one when awards time comes around. If you don't mind, I think I'll also work up a version of my own that'll hopefully look a bit more unusual. We'll see how that turns out, though. Thanks. Hersfold(talk/work)02:58, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Reply to comment on my talk page:
It's no problem, it's not like it was copyrighted or anything. Thanks for fixing it, though. :-) I should have the higher-res version ready to go shortly. Hersfold(talk/work)03:05, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Possible new design Ok, so what do you think about this for a possible design? I'd like to run it by you before I present it to the project, since you came up with the earlier version. I figure you should have first say anyway, since you're the guy running the big finally-get-this-stuff-done drive. :-) Hersfold(talk/work)04:06, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
On August 5, I'll be on vacation until the 17th (2 days after the drive is over) so I won't be able to assist you on cleaning up and giving the awards. Or we could always extend it. -FlubecaTalk02:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Adoption
I have been a member of Wikipedia since October 2006, but only actually started using and editing this week. (yes, I'll admit it, I originally signed up to wikipedia to add articles about myself and friends, but after discovering they got deleted a few moments later, I stopped doing that).
I try to write articles, and I edit articles I feel need editing (mainly spelling/grammar and mis-translated phrases) because I am not entirely great at wiki-code, and my first few full articles got deleted because I didn't have notable or reliable sources. (Not because the article wasn't, but because I wasn't exactly sure HOW to). I still need help with that aswell by the way. Because at times (despite reading WP:N and WP:S) I am unclear as to what consitutes reliable and noteable.
Um, when I can't think of any good articles to write or edit I hang around on the New Pages page and try as hard as I can to become the person I hated last october (I only add {db-blank}}, {{db-nonesense}} or {{db-person}}. But only when I think I need them, so far I don't think anyone's countered my decisions to add these templates, so I think I'm doing okay.
Back to the main point, adoption...yeah on the adoption page you said you're available so I was wondering if you'd adopt me? (I feel like a little kid in an orphanage, locked in a cage with 50 other kids, hoping that they are the one who gets chosen)...anyway yeah. I could really use help with learning more wiki-code, adding more decent articles etc.
Write on my talk page if you wanna apodt me or not.
I have no idea what a metadepentist is, but it sounds fine to me. I'm more interested int he wikicode side of things so I can create templates and make my user page more than standard wiki formatting. Also, how do you be an admin with only having an account for three months? Secondly, the whole adoption this is it basically where I can ask you questions any time I want, or are you like an actual guide/mentor kind of thing? GBenemy01:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Sure. It says it here: Users Willing To Adopt next to your name it says "Admin: Yes" you might want to change that if you're not.
well, if you're up for it, lets go! if you can guide me and teach the more "complicated" wikicodes i will be very happy. And if you can help me to become a new page patroller or Anti-Vandalist then even better!!! GBenemy01:42, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
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WikiProject Articles for creation
WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive News!
We are one week in to the drive, and it's already going fantastic. Numerous days of backlogs have been tackled, with hundreds of articles having been reviewed. We do, however, have some news!
First off, a HUGE congratulations to everyone participating so far. I understand some members are inactive due to vacation, but we are still making great progress.
Secondly, make sure that before you go off and review old submissions, that you review all submissions for the present day, and the day before, so that we aren't actually making a bigger backlog, by letting submissions get archived while we're checking stuff from 2006.
Third, remember to update your running total, on the drive page. Honesty is the best policy, so if you lie about the number of articles you've reviewed, we'll all make angry faces while looking at your userpage.
And, last, if you have any questions about the drive, feel free to ask me, or any other members of the project.
Great job, everyone! We're going to get that backlog!
GrooveDog
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Hi, GrooveDog, and thanks for your participation in my RfA. I've withdrawn it, and will be writing up an "analysis" of it, which will soon be available at User:Giggy/RfA/Giggy when it's done. Please come around when you get the chance, and give me feedback on how I can improve. Thanks again, GiggyUCP04:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for experimenting with the page Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) on Wikipedia. Your recent edit appears to have added incorrect information, and has been reverted or removed. All information in the encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable published source. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. The website does state that the movie will be released on July 13th, in the US. GrooveDog 16:46, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Done 23 deliveries made. ~ Wikihermit 08:35, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
