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Welcome to OhanaUnited's talk page. Please read the following before making a comment in my talk page. If you leave a message here, I will reply in your talk page. I do not watchlist your talk page, unless you explictly indicate it clearly in your talk page or in your message. I also don't cross-post your message because I feel this is redunant. If you come here to complain or rant about why I delisted an Good Article (GA) that you like/created/contributed, head over to this page. I have the same feeling as one of my favourite Misplaced Pages editor/administrator, LaraLove, towards how we got attacked by editors who object our delisting action. I will not respond to anonymous editors' comments. Go create an account! Please sign and date your entries by inserting ~~~~ at the end.

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Good job on Wikisource interview

Hi! I just wanted to leave a quick note to say that I enjoyed the interview you did for The Signpost. I never really had a good idea of what Wikisource was about before. Now I do. So thanks!  :) —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 00:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Replied.

Replied here. · AndonicO 23:23, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Edison Chen photo scandal

Hi. I think the article is ready for a GA nomination. I'll probably do its review myself in a few days, if no-one else does it before then. Epbr123 (talk) 15:30, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk Page guidelines

I just came across here, and found a few amusing things: "redundant" and "explicitly" are spelled wrong. - Milk's favorite Cookie 22:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

April GA Newsletter

The April issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is now available. Dr. Cash (talk) 04:00, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

The Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 6 - April 2008 March issue | May issue Project News There are currently 3,868 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 195 unreviewed articles. Out of 267 total nominations, 57 are on hold, 13 are under review, and 2 are seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: A4232 road, New York State Route 63, Great American Boycott, First Great Western, Duck Soup, Sanja Matsuri, Code of Conduct (affiliate marketing), Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway, Aliens (film), and Roanoke Regional Airport. The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (27 articles), Sports and recreation (25 articles), Transport (24 articles), Music (19 articles), War and military (19 articles), Politics and government (18 articles), Religion, mysticism and mythology (16 articles), Literature (14 articles), World history (14 articles), and Video and computer games (14 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 12 articles up for re-review. GA Sweeps Update The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of March, a total of 92 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 74 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 18 were delisted. There are currently 14 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions. Congratulations to Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), who sweeped a whopping 51 articles during the month! Jackyd101 (talk · contribs) also deserves congrats for sweeping a total of 26 articles! Reviewer of the Month Dihydrogen monoxide is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for March, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Dihydrogen monoxide hails from Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, and has been editing Misplaced Pages since April 6, 2007. He has contributed to 8 Featured articles and is an avid reviewer and contributor to the Good articles program. Other reviewers should check out his Noob's Guide to GA Reviewing. Congratulations to Dihydrogen monoxide! Other outstanding reviewers during the month of March include: GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) Limetolime (talk · contribs) Malachirality (talk · contribs) Nikki311 (talk · contribs) Wrad (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 195 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 13 new members that joined during the month of March: AndreNatas (talk · contribs) Dank55 (talk · contribs) English836 (talk · contribs) ExplorerCY (talk · contribs) JayJ47 (talk · contribs) Mastrchf91 (talk · contribs) MBK004 (talk · contribs) Million Moments (talk · contribs) Neparis (talk · contribs) Nicholas Perkins (talk · contribs) NimiTize (talk · contribs) PGPirate (talk · contribs) Zenlax (talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! To delist or not to delist, that is the question So you’ve found an article that, on the face of it, does not merit its good article status. What next? Especially where there are many glaring issues that need addressing, it’s tempting to just revoke its GA status and remove it from the list, but although we are encouraged as editors to be bold, this approach (known to some as "bold delisting") is not recommended good practice. There are many reasons why a listed article might not meet the assessment criteria—it’s always possible that it never did, and was passed in error, but more likely the criteria have changed or the article quality has degraded since its original assessment. Either way, we should treat its reassessment with no less tact and patience than we would a fresh nomination. This, in fact, provides a good starting point for the delisting process. Approach the article as though it has been nominated for GA review. Read it and the GA criteria carefully, and provide a full reassessment on the article talk page. Explain where and why the article no longer meets the criteria, and suggest remedies. Having explained why the article no longer meets current GA criteria, allow its editors time to fix it! In keeping with the above approach, it may help to treat the article as on hold. There is no need to tag it as such, but give editors a reasonable deadline, and consider helping out with the repair work. Bear in mind that more flexibility may be required than for a normal hold—the editors did not request or expect your reassessment and will probably have other projects taking up their time. They may not have worked on the article for months or even years, and at worst the article may have been abandoned and its authors no longer active. As always, communication is the key. It sometimes helps to post messages to relevant WikiProjects (found at the top of the article talk page), or to contact editors directly (this tool is useful for identifying active editors for any given article). Only once the above process has run its course, and sufficient improvement has not been forthcoming, is it time to think about delisting the article. Communicate your final decision on the article talk page, even if there was no response to your reassessment and hold, and take the time to fill in the various edit summaries on the article talk and GA list pages to ensure the delisting is transparent and trackable. If you have any doubts about your final decision, you can list the article at Good article reassessment or contact one of the GA mentors, who will be happy to advise. Article reassessment is perhaps the single most controversial function of our WikiProject, and the one with the most potential to upset and alienate editors. Yet it is one of the most necessary too, since without the ability to revoke an article’s status we would be unable to maintain quality within the project. However, if we approach reassessment sensitively and with the goal of improving articles to the point where sanctions are unnecessary, we will ensure that delisting is the last resort, not the first. Delisting instructions From the Editors As we near the 4,000 Good Articles milestone, the project continues to grow and to gain respect in the Misplaced Pages community. Nevertheless, we continue to have a large backlog. If every member of WikiProject Good Articles would review just one article each day during the month of April, the backlog would be eliminated! Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps and Did You Know correspondent) EyeSerene (Article) Improving Misplaced Pages one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Misplaced Pages. Nominations: Chapel Hart (talk | history | start review) • The Legend of Ruby Sunday (talk | history | start review) • People's Movement for the State (talk | history | start review) • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (talk | history | start review) • 2022 Fiesta Bowl (December) (talk | history | start review) Reassessment: 2017 World Series • Wilsonville, Oregon • Bleeding Through • Task forces: Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013) Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations list | edit

Portal:American Civil War at WP:FPOC

I've changed "Selected article" to "Selected event", and while I have a bit of copyediting to do by summer, the change affects the portal positively. Thanks for helping me to come up with a better solution. If you have any other concerns, I'm ready to address them. BusterD (talk) 12:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

After I posted the above message, User:Cirt convinced me this was a redundant box even if transformed, so I've eliminated it. BusterD public (talk) 18:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm available.

Hey, I got your message. Sure, I can do the F&A for this week. Soxred93 | talk bot 21:57, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Membership application for Wikimedia Hong Kong is now open

11:40, 8 April 2008 (UTC) Dear wikipedian: I am glad to tell you that, out local chapter, Wikimedia Hong Kong is now open for membership applications. The Chapter will hold several Recruitment days in different locations in the territory. Please check out the time, date and location of the recruitment days here, and please hand in your application personally in the one that is convenient to you. Please follow the instruction on that page, and better prepare all the documents needed before the recruitment day. Please feel free to contact us via this email, whether you can or cannot attend recruitment days, for further details or special assistances. Regards, Sith lord darth vader (talk)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic Macao topics

Just to let you know, the official spelling is Macau, not Macao. That's why you see so many red links, because redirect is not created yet.OhanaUnited 02:52, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

 Done See Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic Macau topics. The Transhumanist    23:49, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you very much for the barnstar. This is very much appreciated! And as for the colors, I don't know... just the question to get the right inspiration by looking at the color pattern in modern species. See Hesperornis for instance, you can guess where I got the idea... ;) ArthurWeasley (talk) 00:13, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Thank you for your comments on my RFA. Even though it failed with 28 supports, 42 opposes, and 15 neutrals, I am grateful for the suggestions and advice I have received and I do hope to improve as a Wikipedian. If you ever need my help in any endeavor, feel free to drop me a line. --Sharkface217 20:04, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I haven't archived my talk page because I didn't want to split some of the RFA-related comments on it into two groups. I'll do so now. As for my signature.... I'm in the process of looking for a new suitable design. --Sharkface217 20:23, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I have updated my signature per your recommendation. How do you like it? --Sharkface/_C 20:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Take this, you deserve it!

Thank you so much for the special barnstar! The prettiest of them all!  :) --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 22:13, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

My RfA...

Welcome to the FA-Team

Some critics have been rumoured to remark that OhanaUnited joining the FA-Team is no big deal, when in fact it is stupendously awesome and the most significant event in the team's history.

Glad to see you've joined! Geometry guy 18:50, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

top ten wikipedias

Hi there. Since you comented on the discussion before, I would like to hear your opinion on this suggestion. Cheers, --Waldir 23:25, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I compiled a more detailed vote proposal, please state your opinion :) --Waldir 23:51, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/Ctsai1

Thanks for your action on the above. It looks like he is using another IP now (User:68.173.46.204) but I don't have the energy right now to file a second report. Anything you can do in the absence of a formal report? Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 14:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt action. – ukexpat (talk) 15:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

FYI I ran a check as part of trying to close the AfD. I updated the report, you may want to review it. ++Lar: t/c 22:20, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

(copied from my talk per my policy) Did you also check on 68.173.46.204? It seems like this IP is used by Ctsai1/Monkey80/69.86.188.132. And I blocked Ctsai1 indef because he used 68.173.46.204 after I blocked all the other 3 from 1 month to indef. OhanaUnited 22:23, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Please respond on my talk page. I usually don't watchlist someone's user talk page. OhanaUnited 22:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I strongly prefer leaving convos in one place... you strongly prefer them not... I want to let you know I goofed, please check that page again, it doesn't say what it used to at all ! ( :( at me for goofing). As for the other IP you pointed out, I did check it. It's not technically correlated to either of the IDs, just as they are not correlated to each other. But the editing pattern supports assuming association... as with the others. Let's keep this convo here, I'll watchlist your page for a while. ++Lar: t/c 22:32, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

(as a side note, redirecting the talk to the user page makes things (1 click) harder for CUs, as it suppresses the list of handy links on the talk page which are very useful...) ++Lar: t/c 22:34, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

If a user knows how to proxy, then it's possible for each account editing under a different IP if he's determined. What should you suggest to do in this kind of situation where editing pattern suggests that they're the same user yet CU returns negative result? Unblock or tweak the block? OhanaUnited 00:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

If the pattern is strong, treat as a meatpuppet rather than a sock. This case, someone using different connections and machines would fit the observed stuff returned by CU, as would multiple people. I think the blocks probably are sound enough. You might offer to unblock the main account on a committment to not repeat the behaviour pattern. ++Lar: t/c 03:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

your comments on Misplaced Pages:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Mammals

i have addressed your comments. would you like to change your opinion. Sushant gupta (talk) 09:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I HAVE ADDRESSED ALL THE STATED ISSUES. CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE YOUR DECISION! thanks Sushant gupta (talk) 09:30, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Just give me 2 more days. don't let the portal fail. i want 2 days time. i am currently having some personal probs. please try to understand. Sushant gupta (talk) 17:21, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, i have addressed those issues. can you please make your decision now. please please please! Sushant gupta (talk) 12:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Are you reviewing a portal for the first time. you are an admin but till date you haven't learn how to give a review. i suppose you are deliberately trying to fail this portal. May i know a good reason why are you raising issues in installments. by the way i have addressed those issues. you will turn me mad. PLEASE don't test my temper. Anyway, i am sorry for my misbehavior. Sushant gupta (talk) 12:01, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

i am sorry. i was in depression (it was 99% my fault)!. please forgive me for my misbehavior. i never knew you were busy with your exams. best wishes for your exams. do well! PLEASE don't mind but you said that my experience is 10 times less than yours. (won't you consider it as a personal attack too, hence verified there is no difference between you and me BTW my edit counts with respect to portals is 1000+ and i have created many portals; it is not that bad.) All the best for your future. Smile please! Sushant gupta (talk) 09:42, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

: i have removed those links you added. well we have read more... link down below. i thought it would be worthless having redundancy. the same issue i think is with the wikipedia's main page. it looks very bad due to redundant links. Thanks, Sushant gupta (talk) 10:10, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

okay i have got the justification the striked comment. sorry... Sushant gupta (talk) 16:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Sushant gupta (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Sushant gupta (talk) 12:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

FPC I'd Like Help With

Hey, I was just wondering if you wouldn't mind going to Portal:James Bond. I'd really appreciate any criticisms or support that you could provide for this Featured portal candidate. Thanks. Ultra! 14:43, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Green turtle

Hi, OhanaUnited,
Thanks for the vote and for the comment on my delisting nomination. I asked you a question there and I'd like to bring your attention to this question please because I really would like to get an answer. Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 16:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

• Because you've never responded my question let me please assume that you yourself do not know what you were talking about. May I please also mention that IMO Misplaced Pages is not a place for the ungrounded accusations? Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you for the response. I do not think you understood me right. They all are mine pictures and I wish they all were featured. They all are different and IMO they all are interesting in their own way. I just did not want to nominate the second image to get an FP status because I was afraid that it would get opposed because we already have one FP of a green turtle.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

• Commons, yes, but what about English Misplaced Pages? I bet, if I am to nominate one of my recent images on English Misplaced Pages, it would probably get opposed because one turtle is already featured. I believe you saw it yourself. Few people voted to keep an old image, but none, but you, said why not to have a second one featured too.Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:30, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A BIG THANK YOU

THANK YOU for giving me a barnstar. You are too kind... --Jackl 08:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Adopting and voting

The adopting seems like a good idea. Also I am not sure if I should vote on the deletions that Bolly Nickers mentioned. They do seem like a bit encyclopedic and seem to violate WP:Not, but would the vote be tainted? I also think that some of the people who voted for keeping the article are doing so because they are train enthusiasts and have a vested interest. Wouldn't it be better if someone like myself who is fairly neutral vote on it? It does seem like a bit of a quandary! --Plate King (talk) 15:42, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:StudentOctopusCard.jpg)

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News! Tag & Assess 2008 is coming ...

Milhist's new drive – Tag & Assess 2008 – goes live on April 25 and you are cordially invited to participate. This time, the task is housekeeping. As ever, there are awards galore, plus there's a bit of friendly competition built-in, with a race for bronze, silver and gold wikis! You can sign up, in advance, here. I look forward to seeing you on the drive page! All the best, --ROGER DAVIES  13:04, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

One Stripe (200 articles) Two Stripes (400 articles) Three Stripes (600 articles) Tireless Contributor Barnstar (1000 articles) Chevrons (2000 articles) Working Man's Barnstar (3000 articles) Barnstar of Diligence (4000 articles) Third place overall Second place overall First place overall

thank spam

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Lady Aleena

Wow. Just wow. Are you serious? dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 10:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

WB interview

Is this still on? No problem if you're busy, just wouldn't want to be overlooked. Or you might be doing Johnny instead? – Mike.lifeguard |  16:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Signpost

Hi. I saw that Tale of a Tub was finally de-listed this week, but noticed that the usual signpost template points to archive1, or the first FAR - which was a Keep. It was the more recent archive, archive2, which de-listed the article. I corrected the link, but it's your article - please doublecheck me and let me know if I erred. Thanks for contributing to the signpost - of all of the articles, this column is the one I read every week without fail. Again, thanks. UltraExactZZ ~ Evidence 17:55, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem at all. I'm sure we could add a parameter to the template (maybe something like {{ffr|article|2}} or some such, to force it to increment the archive number - but, really, how often is an article kept and later de-listed? Not often, I imagine. Best, UltraExactZZ ~ Evidence 19:28, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Anything's possible, I guess. If it goes back to FAC, I'll let you know. ^_^ Best, UltraExactZZ ~ Evidence 19:46, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

Thanks for supporting my recent request for adminship which was successful with 89 supports, 0 opposes, and 2 neutrals. Unfortunately all I can offer is this lame text thanks rather than some fancy-smancy thank-you spam template thingy. I was very pleased to receive such strong support and to hear so many nice comments from editors whom I respect. I’ll do my best with the tools, and if you ever see me going astray don’t hesitate to drop a note on my talk page. Thanks again for your support!--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 04:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much!

Hello! i would very much like to thank you for promoting the portal. I appreciate your true efforts in reviewing this portal. Cheers, Sushant gupta (talk) 12:12, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Problem with User:R. fiend merging license plate articles

User:R. fiend has been unilaterally merging license plate articles and seems to have taken a very flippant attitude towards being asked to stop. I think further action is needed here. --Plate King (talk) 16:20, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

• There are several of them, for example, History of vehicle registration plates of Alabama and Vehicle registration plates of Alabama. If you look at the articles, they have template boxes for all the states one with just vehicle registration plates and one with history, on the respective articles. Given that a state can issue dozens of types of current license plates, it makes sense to have seperate articles, as most states have been issuing license plates for anywhere from 90 to 100 years. Having the two together can cause for additional complications. Just take a look at one of the more fleshed out plate articles like Vehicle registration plates of Connecticut and History of vehicle registration plates of Connecticut. Both seem to be evolving on two seperate forks and there are a couple others that are doing the same. --Plate King (talk) 18:16, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

TFD.

Are you referring to this page? I can't see any TFD notifications there; have you tried purging your cache? · AndonicO 22:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Simply solved, good. Glad to see you're enjoying the tools. ;) · AndonicO 01:05, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

GA sweeps update

I've updated the newsletter template for the may newsletter. Could you update the GA sweeps figures for April? Thanks! Dr. Cash (talk) 17:24, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

A slight favor

I would appreciate it if you would stop making offhand comments at my expense at RfA. Thanks. Wisdom89 _{(T / )} 17:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: The WikiProject Hawaii Newsletter

<deleted> My goodness, I'm so sorry! I meant to send this to another user...that's what happens if you stay up late :) Singularity 22:12, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I apologize about the misunderstanding on behalf of WikiProject Hawaii. I don't know how that happened, because you're not in our WikiProject. Anyway, I assure you that it won't happen again. Should it happen again, please notify me and I will take care of the situation. Again, we are very sorry for the misunderstanding. Thank you for being so understanding! – Obento Musubi (C • G • S) 07:53, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Lady Aleena's RfA

OhanaUnited...Thank you for participating in my nomination for adminship. Your comments have shown me those areas in which I need improve my understanding. I hope that my future endevors on Misplaced Pages will lead to an even greater understanding of it. If you wish to further discuss the nomination, please use its talk page. Stop by my talk page anytime, even if it is just to say hello. Have a wonderful day! - LA @ 05:11, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Ohana, the nexon wiki page needs your help!

Some user is adding useless "singapore" information at http://en.wikipedia.org/Nexon_Corporation. This user has posted useless information including "Singapore's first maplestory player first played with Japan and Korea server as a primary school kid. Later on, even with little or no language barrier, he left to join maple global, as it is easier for Singaporeans (his friends) to register. As an ex-OBTG "forumer", he has played almost all the games available.". Please defend this article from vandalism! I have temporary removed this vandalsm, but it will need more reinforcement. Please help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.27.61.166 (talk) 20:31, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, this page http://en.wikipedia.org/List_of_NEXON_Games has been vandalised. Please read the "nexon asia" portion of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.27.61.166 (talk) 20:33, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

IRC

To register and get in to wikipedia-en-admins:

First go here and join en-wikipedia.

Next add this message to the tab labeled "info":

/msg nickserv register 

(but don't forget to replace with a password)

Finally go here and request access.

And you're done! Malinaccier (talk) 23:47, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah I saw. Happy editing, Malinaccier (talk) 23:55, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Signpost

This one is late for a variety of reasons. It'll publish within the next few hours. Ral315 (talk) 03:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Darrell S. Cole

I wanted to ask you a follow-up quesion about the comment you left on this article. Each paragraph at least has a citation and most of the citations point to the same 2 or 3 references. I used those same 3 or 4 references as sources for the article (or at least the portions I did). Are you saying you want me to sprinkle the article with the same references so that more facts have inline citations or that I need to find more references?--Kumioko (talk) 22:28, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter

The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

The Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 7 - May 2008 April issue | June issue Project News There are currently 4,050 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 195 unreviewed articles. Out of 227 total nominations, 16 are on hold, 14 are under review, and two are seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Fighting Tommy Riley, Brock Lesnar, Cluj-Napoca, Wolf's Rain, Brian Kendrick, and North and South (TV serial). The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (45), Sports and recreation (34), Music (18), Transport (15), World history (14), Politics and government (13), and Places (12). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 17 articles up for re-review. GAN Reviewer of the Month Noble Story (talk · contribs) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for April, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Noble Story joined Misplaced Pages on May 16, 2007. He is a big fan of the Houston Rockets, and edits many related articles, as well as articles on basketball in general. Congratulations to Noble Story (talk · contribs) on being April's GAN Reviewer of the Month! Other outstanding reviewers during the month of April include: Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 (talk · contribs) Ealdgyth (talk · contribs) GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) Gary King (talk · contribs) Jbmurray (talk · contribs) Kaypoh (talk · contribs) Lpangelrob (talk · contribs) Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) Nikki311 (talk · contribs) Realist2 (talk · contribs) Redtigerxyz (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 212 members of WikiProject Good Articles! 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These topics are: Arts, Language and literature, Philosophy and religion, Everyday life, Social sciences and society, Geography and places, History, Engineering and technology, Mathematics, and Natural sciences. Each of these topics are further narrowed down to more specific topics. For example, Arts can be narrowed down to Art and architecture, Music, and Theatre, film and drama. But let's not get into sub-topics in this article because of its depth. Now you will probably ask, "I already knew this, so what is your point?" What I want to illustrate is that some people often forget a step when they promote an article to GA. After they have posted their review in the article talk page, added the article name to the corresponding topic in the good article page, increased the GA count by 1, and added the {{GA}} to article talk page, many reviewers tend to forget to add the topic parameter in {{GA}} or {{ArticleHistory}}. You can browse the topic parameter abbreviations at on this page as well as what each top-level GA topic means, because sometimes it can be chaotic and confusing to pick a topic. For example, should On the Origin of Species be placed under the Natural Science topic (because it's related to evolution), or under the Language and Literature topic (because it is a book)? The correct answer is to place it under Language and literature topic, because its categorization as a proper title supercedes other categories. Let's go back to the page that shows GA topics; does anyone spot the eleventh topic? Yes, Category:Good articles without topic parameter is the 11th topic, only it shouldn't be there. Articles that do not have a topic parameter in either {{GA}} or {{ArticleHistory}} will be placed in this category. The topic "Uncategorized" is not very informative, is it? So if you have time, you can consider cleaning up the articles that are left in this category and move them to the appropriate category by adding a topic parameter. That's it for this month, I hope you learned a little from it. GA Sweeps Update The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of April, a total of 26 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 15 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and two were delisted. There are currently six articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions. One article was exempted from review because it was promoted to FA. Two articles were exempted from review because they were already delisted by another member in the community. We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details. 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Fetured portal

I found your words interesting:

Yet at featured portal the criteria are trumped by anyone who thinks "it's good" or bad. Surely you recoginse this disconnect. -- Secisek (talk) 00:23, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Nice newsletter

Kudos to you and Dr.Cash for a great WPGA newsletter. Best --Eustress (talk) 01:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

New Project

Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Misplaced Pages namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight (talk) 05:55, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Reverting closing

I'm really quite surprised that you reverted the starting of my process of closing debate at GA. I don't expect that anything would change in the next few days and the meta-debates going on seem counter-productive. There are no hard and fast rules about when a debate should close. As I just spent the last two hours writing an opinion and I'm way past my bedtime, I'm not going to do anything for another day. If I see no positive discussion happening when I return, I am going to close. I hope this will be alright with you. Goodnight. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 09:09, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I was also a bit surprised by this revert. Such a reversion should only be done if there is a clear benefit; I don't see such a benefit here. I do sympathise that you got a bit caught up in the unfortunate "Shut down?" thread, but that is an example of the kind of meta-debate that takes us away from finding consensus and into the territory of arguing about it. Geometry guy 14:57, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Anyone sitting on the fence will probably not have anything to say that would change the outcome. I never count !votes, and only consider the strength of arguments. I'll close when I have a chance. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 02:32, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Earth sciences

hey dude, i have addressed your comments! Sushant gupta (talk) 12:06, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term

Thank you for your comment at m:American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term. As I do not yet use Wikispecies, I have never intended to leave that out of my prepared petition. As the current live petition is not popular enough, I have added Wikispecies to my proposed shortened petition and I hope to open it to signatories around 1 June 2008. Your comment is important to improve my proposed shortened petition before opening, so thank you again.--Jusjih (talk) 01:22, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Philosopher

Please respond to me there. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 03:45, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Indeed. I also look forward to your response. GlassCobra 07:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

drat

I did a bunch of editorial cleanup of the sister projects interview, but there was an edit conflict -- oh well.  ;-) Good interview. /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 11:35, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Environmental Record Project

Hey Cyrus, my environmental record section I made on the John McCain page was moved to the environmental issues section in the political policy subheading. I responded to the user suggesting the page have an environmental record section all its own. I haven't heard back yet but I wanted to hear your thoughts on what I should do. Thanks, wbecker9 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wbecker9 (talk • contribs) 16:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about the confusion the post about the environmental record was intended for someone else's talk page —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wbecker9 (talk • contribs) 18:57, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Darrell S. Cole

I have added a lot to this article based on your comments. Could you please take another look at it and let me know if there is anything else that needs refining?--Kumioko (talk) 22:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

GA sweeps

I'd like to offer to help with the GA sweeps.

I won't be at all offended though if for whatever reason I'm not considered suitable. :-) --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 19:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Good Article Sweeps

I'd like to offer my assistance in the GA sweeps. Most of my GA reviewing experience has come in the form of Television episodes, but I'm pretty familiar with the entire process. If you'd like me to help, I can always be reached at my talk page. Mastrchf (/_c) 22:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, well I might not be what you're looking for. As I said earlier, all of my work has come in the form of reviewing television episodes, and the five that I've reviewed, I've eventually passed. I guess that I've just been lucky in reviewing episodes that all had relatively good work prior to nom, and the nominator quickly introduced my suggestions to the article. So, I can't give you any true articles that I've failed. I completely understand if this, for lack of a better word disqualifies me from the procedure, but if you'd still like my help, particularly in the category of television episodes (which at last count looks to be around 136 articles), some of my reviews have been The Economist (Lost) and Pilot (30 Rock). Mastrchf (/_c) 12:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Natures Pics

Hi OhanaUnited,
Sorry but can't recall of the top of my head an don't have time to chase it up at the moment - it would have been in galleries before 2006 judging by my upload date. Good luck with it, --Fir0002 07:27, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: GA Sweeps

Hey. One failed article that I reviewed was Westminster Christian Academy (Missouri). The review is still available on the talk page. One passed article that I reviewed was Arlington Senior High School. The review is archived via the article history header. will381796 (talk) 12:24, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Environment

I compled your challance at ]!!! I added Al Gore to

Food Portal

I am a college instructor, I am in the middle of administering finals and compiling grades for my classes, this semester has been hectic as well with a number of issues as-well-as myself working on my thesis so I haven't had time to update the portal monthly which is why I changed to the monthly random portal generator. I should have some time this weekend to update the news and DYK items however and maybe add some new articles to the random portal generator pages.--Chef Tanner (talk) 02:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Blocking User:Plate King

User:Plate King was on our user manipulaton list and we are glad you blocked him. Our IP spoofer is working really well. We can also tell you that we are not really spottedogsdotorg, since that person was proven by us to be Scott Brown, a mentally ill person in Pennsylvania who tried killed himself earlier this year and has been placed in a secure facility for the indefinite future. We had a bit of fun and tried to imitate him and see how many people we could get caught up in bans thinking they were Mr. Brown. We should add that Mr. Brown was brilliant in his attack stratergy of blaming someone else, especially someone he had issues with, and the work of this idiot savant seemed brilliant and if taken to the next level by someone with actual brains and technical know how it could be a way to destroy Misplaced Pages from within.

Our true target for banning is actually Bradley aka User:Qqqqqq. We have posted his address and e-mail earlier and will again in the future. See, our goal is to get good Misplaced Pages editors to go away, so killing off User:Plate King just furthers our agenda of destruction from within. So it is nothing personal against Bradley, it is just that we are trying to thin the Misplaced Pages user pool one user at a time. Oh, we also have an admin account, but we aren't going to tell you who that is since that would be telling. That, of course, we use to get our info for our IP spoofer and other things which we shall not get into, such as the deleted mad ramblings of Mr. Brown. We are not stupid enough to use it to actually go and ban people, since that would be dirty pool. We shall tell you that you have made us very happy in banning one of our current character's accounts, for those of you in Rio Linda it is User:Libro0. (Yes, we just gave you a clue as to our real identity if you are collecting clues as to who we really are.) We want you to catch us and ban us, but the game of cat and mouse, pretending to be others, social engineering passwords, pissing off users is too fun. Of course we are using "we" since User:Plate King used it and we want you to think we are actually him or is it actually because there is more than one of us doing it? Which one is true? Both? One? Neither? Playing with your little minds is oh so fun and oh so easy. Plus TOR is a really brilliant thing. It is much easier than slogging about and finding open proxies, but that is not to say that we still do not use them. So yes, this was written from a TOR node, so go ahead and block it. Who knows, one of our alter egos may just go and do that. You do not know the half of our trail of destruction!