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Hi! Do you do photo requests in Connecticut? Are you close to Milford or Greenwich? Hi! Do you do photo requests in Connecticut? Are you close to Milford or Greenwich?
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I have never heard of a Photo Request before, but I'd be happy to help if I could. I am near Greenwich. I am about 45 minutes from Milford but I do pass through there every week or two. —] ] 18:31, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

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Greetings

Hello SaxTeacher, Thanks for your amendment to Saxophone. I wonder if you would care to take a look at Big Band to see if Ive got all my facts straight on saxes?--Light current 01:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Saxophone article and Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist)

Hello SaxTeacher. Thanks from France for your edits. That's a good surprise and an enjoyment to see your interest for the saxophone. For Eugene Rousseau, I gave the right title of his book ("Marcel Mule : sa vie et le saxophone". As you know, I suppose, it was a american book but written and published in french language. I gave too the other book about this master (so essential, as you know too, for saxophonists and music lovers). I think the page is quite serious, with good informations. Best regards. -- User XXXXX 131

Saxophone embouchure

Hello SaxTeacher. The world needs more like you. May you spread the word of Saxophone across the nations of the world!

Anyway, I've just added a paragraph to the "embouchure" section of the saxophone article on the effects of an embouchure in which the pressure is applied primarily with the lower teeth, as opposed to the chin muscles. I wrote this based on information in Larry Teal's "Art of Saxophone Playing," as well as my own experience on the alto. After seven years of playing, I'm still nursing a sizeable callus.

I was just hoping that you could check the paragraph for completion and accuracy, as you are in fact an actual bona fide saxophone teacher. Thanks. --Mixolydian 5.25.06

Carillons

I'm afraid we were editing the article at the same time. I assume most of your edits came into place, except your major input: The description of 'similar instruments' fits mostly into the already existing article Campanology; you might like to take your latest edits from Carillon's history, and incorporate some of it in either Campanology or Carillon (as far as still needed). See also the newly introduced definition references in Carillon (largely borrowed from the talk page). The List of carillons still needs some clear reference to the definition, I think that list should be split in a chapter for traditional carillons, and one for other true carillons. -- SomeHuman 2006-07-04 18:50 (UTC)

Lebensborn

Please keep in mind that sometimes vandals flock and stack. You better watch out for both anon IPs and redlinked user names in article history. Your well-meaning edit masked a previous hoax. `'mikkanarxi 02:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate your comment but I don't understand the terms you are using. I am interested to learn what "flocking and stacking" means, and how an edit I made could have "masked" a hoax, so that I can better understand these things and how to recognize them/avoid them. Could you leave me a note (either here or on my talk page) explaining these terms? Thank you. —SaxTeacher 15:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for abuse of language.
If you see a really suspicious edit (nonsense, corrupted text, obviously wrong format), as opposed to, e.g., typos or bad grammar, before editing please look into the article history and see who was editing. If the last editor was an anonymous IP address, like, 71.146.69.139, or whose user name is a red link (meaning a new account most probably), then chances are very high that it was a vandal or a well-meaning but an inexperienced user, and you better check all his edits by looking at the article revision difference, because the vandal can corrupt the text in several places. He may also move a big chunk of text from one place to another, so that the text seems OK, the problem being the lost logic of the description flow.
"Flocking": I wanted to say that some articles may be vandalized by several vandals. This happens to two categories of articles: very visible ones, like George W. Bush or, just the opposite, some obscure topics which are edited rarely and vandalisms may sit unnoticed for long time.
"Stacking": if you look into an artice revision history, the history entries are listed in vertical order, one atop another, i.e., "stacked", "piled".
Therefore it is always advised to check not only the last edit in the history but all topmost "stack" of edits with suspicious user names.
"Masking": people monitor changes in articles using watchlists. When a watchlist is very long, like mine, I check edits by all users only for articles in topics I am especially interested. All other articles are monitored by me only for vandalism. So if these articles are edited by an established user, I believe that the edit is most probably OK. Here again, it is a common sense to assume if the user name is not red, then the person bothered to write something in his user page, i.e., he is not a novice. And I also assume (possibly erroneousy) that the user before adding his edits checked whether the previous edit was not vandalism. In other words, red user names are "red flags" raised telling us to check the most recent edits more carefully. And if you put your name above theirs in the edit history, you hide this red flag from us.
Please let me know what else left unexplained. `'mikka 19:29, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Reeds section of Saxophone article

Thanks for adding to this article. However due to the length of the article, and the varied opinions of different players around the world, we need to leave out information about which player uses which reed, or what you think the "standard" reed strength should be. I removed this and put the great link you supplied (mouthpieceheaven.com's page of the set-ups of famous players) to the "external links" section at the bottom of the article. —SaxTeacher 18:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I am concerned that the section on reeds is incomplete, inaccurate, opinionated and is potentially damaging to students' and players' development.
You should not have removed all the updates I made to the section on Reeds, saying that it was inappropriate to mention 'who plays what reeds' whereas you have left in an unsubstantiated opinion of yours implying it is a good thing 'to progress to numbef 5 reeds' which is very bad advice.
The players I mention: Bob Berg, Iain Ballamy and Mark Lockheart are all well-known jazz players with exemplary sax sounds who either studied at or teach at recognized acadamies: Julliard and The Royal Academy respectively. Since I know what reeds these players use and that Joe Henderson, Johnny Griffin, Sonny Rollins all used Med-Soft or Med reeds respectively these facts should not be left out and should replace the unsubstantiated and damaging comment currently in the article about No 5 reeds.
Perhaps you would be kind enough to write to me to explain what is your motive for having taken this action - which, as you can see has quite annoyed me.
Is there any sense in which you 'own' the information in the Saxophones entry? Trismegister 23:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Sorry if you were annoyed, but as I explained above, your additions to the article did not seem to be appropriate for inclusion in an encyclopedia. I don't have any more ownership of the saxophone article than you do, but I check additions to articles for content, and if they appear to be material that doesn't merit inclusion, I remove them.
I explained in my comments on this topic (on the saxophone talk page) that a discussion of which player uses what type of reed doesn't belong in the saxophone article. It belongs on your personal web page, or blog, or a forum about saxophone players, of which there are many on various web sites. The article is about the instrument itself, not about specific players or your opinion on the optimal reed strength. Thanks again for contributing the link to mouthpiece heaven's page of "famous player setups." I referenced it in the links section at the bottom of the article. We can continue this discussion on the saxophone talk page —SaxTeacher 16:43, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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Admin coaching

Hi Sax Teacher. Was wondering if you're still interested in admin coaching. My student just became an admin, so I'm open. Let me know, Fang Aili 16:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Why the hell are you screwing around with my "talk" page?

It's not appreciated. I undid your edits there. What was even the point of that? Your edit message said something about "typo fixes", but I couldn't see what they were. Besides, it's my damn talk page, and I'll take care of my own typo fixing, thank you very much. +ILike2BeAnonymous 00:35, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Dear ILike2BeAnonymous, I appreciate your concern. Let me explain: using an automated typo fixer, I am searching Misplaced Pages for instances of the misspelling "saxaphone" and changing them to "saxophone". One of the misspellings I corrected was on your talk page. Sorry if my edit alarmed you - but please don't forget to assume good faith.
I should point out that while one's user page is generally considered off limits for editing by others, the user talk page is by contrast an area where a user welcomes contributions from other editors. Per Misplaced Pages:User page, Other users may edit pages in your user space, although by convention your user page will usually not be edited by others. —SaxTeacher 15:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Whatever. I'd appreciate it if you'd leave my (and others') "talk" pages alone, and confine your typo-fixing to "article space". +ILike2BeAnonymous 18:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

AWB suggestion

I took a look at your recent contributions using AutoWikiBrowser. Some of them were just insignificant minor edits such as only adding or removing some white space with edit summary "Typo fixing". You can avoid this by using "Skip article when no typo fixed" option. As for your questions about regular expressions at Misplaced Pages talk:AutoWikiBrowser I thought that some examples may be helpful. Happy editing :-) Jogers (talk) 15:06, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Also, when making a list of articles to work on you can use "Filter out non mainspace" option in the "List" menu to avoid comments like the one above in the future. Regards, Jogers (talk) 15:39, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello, sorry to chime in on this one too but this edit which claimed to be typo fixing in the edit summary was actually wikilink adding (which is fine), but it was also adding an asterisk to the field names in the album infobox which, as a consequence, mucked up the formatting somewhat. Just something to look out for in future. Sorry to bring it up, but it may help in future. :) Bubba hotep 20:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. That was me not realizing that " * " is treated as a wildcard instead of a text character. I realized the problem earlier today and fixed it. I have redone the edit, correctly this time. —SaxTeacher (talk) 20:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, not a problem. At least you're using AWB. I've had it for a month now and haven't got round to doing anything useful (other than making lists) yet! Bubba hotep 20:37, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Clarinet

Thank you for noting the vandalism to the article and reverting it. However, the user had made two separate bad edits, and you reverted only the second one. I think this is known as "flocking and stacking"... when you go to revert, take care to be sure you are reverting back to the last unvandalized version. Best, —SaxTeacher (talk) 04:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

That's what I get for trying to work fast I guess :) Thank you for noticing and fixing my mistake. theroachman 04:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Decade links

Hi, if you're going to be wikilinking decades, you might as well direct those wikilinks toward music-specific decade articles, such as Timeline of trends in music (1930-1939). Badagnani 01:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I haven't been able to figure out how to use AWB to change the decade links to music-specific decade links in music articles only. I will see if I can find a way. It would help if the names of the music-specific decade articles weren't so incredibly long (tedious to type). Thanks —SaxTeacher 05:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
OK, I don't know either. Of course, if the phrase regarding the decade doesn't refer to a musical thing, then you wouldn't necessarily want to link to the musical decade link. But if they're sax-related articles, I'd say probably most of them would be. Badagnani 05:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
You could probably use CONTROL-C and CONTROL-V to copy and paste those long article titles, to save time. Badagnani 05:33, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Glider markings

My glider registration is in half-inch high letters on the fin just below the tailplane and complies with British requirements. JMcC 16:45, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Did you update the article to provide more accurate information? or should I? —SaxTeacher 16:53, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
You modification is fine. I originally deleted it because it seemed hard to make a generalised statement. JMcC 22:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Egrabczewski

Your contributions to Saxophone

Hello - thanks for contributing to the saxophone article. Please note the following though.

  1. This is an encyclopedia. It is not the right place for you to insert your opinions on what type of mouthpiece or facing is good for what type of music. Players have widely differing opinions about this sort of thing - and also, what you're writing is your opinion, not a reference-worthy fact. You need to be able to substantiate anything you add.
  2. If you have dozens of edits to make to the article, that's fine, but please make all your edits at once rather than making dozens of separate saves. I know you are new to Misplaced Pages but try to make as many edits at a time as you can - hopefully not saving an article more than once or twice a day.
  3. It is really important to use the edit summary box each time you save, explaining what you did. In fact, if you go into "my preferences" at the very top of the screen, you can set a preference so that you will be reminded any time you try to save without providing an edit summary. I would suggest this.

Again, welcome - appreciate your contributions! —SaxTeacher (talk) 22:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi SaxTeacher
Thanks for your comments. I'm not unaware of the points you raise and I understand your point about "opinions". I do my best not to insert my own viewpoint, and try to stick to published material.
As for putting all my changes into the article in one go - yes, that would be bliss. But, alas, not the way I work. I'm always finding errors. Ever written an academic paper? It's a lot like that for me. Thanks -Egrabczewski 07:12, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Concerns about Saxophone embouchure article

SaxTeacher, Please see my comments at Talk:Saxophone. I would like to hear your response to my concerns. -JTalcott 04:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about this article. I had a look at it and responded at the Talk:Saxophone embouchure pages. I also made some edits to try and improve the article.
While it is certainly a good idea to discuss the article with other editors, keep in mind that the person who added the most material is not its "author" and doesn't "own" the article, so you can go ahead and make edits/corrections to articles concurrent with your discussion on the talk pages. Best —SaxTeacher (talk) 09:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Egrabczowski response

SaxTeacher, remove your offensive remark from the Saxophone Embouchure talk page at once. -Egrabczewski 18:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Please relax, be cordial, and assume good faith in your fellow editors. It is the responsibility of any Misplaced Pages editor to be bold in deleting material that is questionable or non-encyclopedic. Recall the sentence that appears at the bottom of every edit screen: "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it." Please don't take edits personally; your contributions are appreciated. Best —SaxTeacher (talk) 20:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Do not patronise me please. And remove the offending remark in the Saxophone Embouchure talk page (see all my comments). You have gone a little too far this time and if this remark is not removed immediately then I assure you I will take action. -Egrabczewski 21:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm very sorry to see that you've decided to ignore my request and have not removed your offensive remarks about me in the Saxophone Embouchure talk page. I will be reasonable with you and give you until the end of today to put matters right. Following that I will take this matter through Misplaced Pages arbitration. -Egrabczewski 05:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
(Remainder of conversation moved to User talk:Egrabczewski)

Leonard Bernstein

your edits were quite good. my apologies for reverting the text changes you made...i didn't see them until now. but you inadvertently broke the template's date rendering by placing brackets on the dates within the citation. check out WP:CITET for more information on those templates. --emerson7 | Talk 00:35, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Your aircraft q's

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Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut

I've restored this for now while we discuss it. It will be good to get an alternate viewpoint as what I thought was a good idea might not be. If you look at Nunavut#Demographics you see we have 3 regions. The Nunavut territorial government has their own names for the regions. The Canadian government has different (older) names for the same regions which they use as census divisions. At the time I made the three census regions I thought it was a good idea to help explain the differences. Now I am having second thoughts. Next month the government will release certain 2006 census data and may change to using the Nunvaut names for the census regions. Even if they don't I am starting to think that the 3 census regions, Baffin Region, Nunavut and Keewatin Region, Nunavut might be better merged into the current names as used by the Nunavut government. Let me know. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

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Revert

Hi. I reverted this edit of yours. Disambig pages are special. See the Manual of Style for info on how they are formatted. In particular, links on these special pages are not generally piped. That means that if you don't like the name of the article Laser (dinghy), you have to follow the procedure to get it renamed. You can't just pipe the link on the dab page. Actually, if the article name is not appropriate, it should be renamed anyway.--Srleffler 02:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Got it, thanks. Tried again - SaxTeacher
Yep, you got it right second time, that's a good example of a dab page entry :) Fourohfour 13:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for your support in my recent RfA. It was successful, and I've started getting to work already. Hope I'll be able to do some good. Shimeru 15:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Eliot Bernstein

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Thank you for your support on my Request for Administration

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RFA

Just dropping by to thank you for your support of my RFA. It was succesful. Thank you! SGGH 20:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

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RfA thanks

Thank you for your Support on my recent nomination for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 89/1/1. If there's anything I can help with, then you know where to find me. Cheers.

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Hello

Hi SaxTeacher, how's it going? I've been pretty non-active on the wiki lately, but I wanted to check in with my coachees/adoptees. Have any questions/concerns/coaching aspirations? Feel free to email me if you like. Cheers and happy weekend, Fang Aili 20:51, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

List of notable glider pilots

There is a proposal to delete the List of notable glider pilots. Please register your opinion on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of notable glider pilots. I think it is an interesting list and useful when publicising the sport. JMcC 09:31, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Could you take a look?

We are trying to find a source for this list: Talk:List_of_Skull_and_Bones_members#RfC_Summary. Could you take a look and see if you can help? ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 15:37, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

RfD nomination of RC Patrol

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Yankee Doodle Coffee Shop

Hi. I have recently started the article Yankee Doodle Coffee Shop. Since you are listed in the category Yale Alumni, I thought you might be interesting in contributing to the article. Thanks. Yilloslime (t) 22:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

AGI and instrument instruction

It's my reading that the holder of an AGI can give instrument instruction; I can offer you two references. 61.215(b) says, in part, "A person who holds an advanced ground instructor rating is authorized to provide: (1) Ground training in the aeronautical knowledge areas required for the issuance of any certificate or rating under this part" (emphasis added). FAA's FAR site

FAA Order 8900.1 (which I've just recently learned has replaced 8700.1, as well as 8300.10 and 8400.10) says in paragraph 5-674, "A person who qualifies for the advanced ground instructor (AGI) rating must receive the advanced rating on his or her ground instructor certificate. A person who holds a ground instructor certificate with the advanced rating is authorized to provide: · Ground training in the aeronautical knowledge areas required for the issuance of any certificate or rating under § 61.215." FSIMS, Order 8900.1 (Sadly, the order doesn't support deep-linking, so to get to the important paragraph, you've got to click through "Airman Certification," and then "Part 61: Issue a Title 14 CFR Part 61 Ground Instructor Certificate and Added Ratings.")

Of course, with anything regulation-related, the only opinions that ultimately matter come from the FAA’s Office of Chief Counsel. Anyway, best wishes and blue skies. —SkipperPilot (talk) 02:44, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Wilderness Diarrhea Getting Killed

Sax:

Dunno, but it seems remotely possible you'd be interested in this. Wilderness Diarrhea is getting merged into Travelers Diarrhea by a couple of zealots who seem to have no concept of outdoor interests.

I get around a lot in the outdoors and rarely treat water, but WD article had some good stuff.

After a couple of weeks of calm discussion, I went ballistic and no longer want to participate. Rational voices might help.

These guys have irrationally convinced themselves that WD isn't a legitimate topic for a Misplaced Pages article.

I've pointed out several bomb-proof arguements to no avail. I'd say the strongest is the vast number of published articles that discuss WD as a separate concern from TD. They are both environmental health topics, and obviously the context of each are far different.
They simply ignore all this.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Calamitybrook (talk • contribs) 11:28, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

WAD

Thanks for renaming article. I completely agree with you. I switched it because people were saying "Wilderness Diarrhea" is a neologism and thus that the article ought to be deleted completely. Some weird stuff going was, or is, going on over there. Say hi to Stamford for me, my old hometown.

Calamitybrook (talk) 22:29, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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Aspartame school project

I agree with Novangelis that the article talk isn't the right place for this discussion, so I'll answer your question here instead.
As a sixth grade school project this was probably very impressive, but it doesn't tell us anything new, and it's inaccurate in some places. I'm not going to comment on the “aspartame is known to cause ...” premise the project seems to have - a lot of adults don't understand that correlation doesn't imply causation, so an eleven year old can certainly be forgiven for that. A big mistake I noticed is that it says the methanol in aspartame can break down into diketopiperazine and formaldehyde. That's not true. At higher temperatures, some of the aspartame will break down into a diketopiperazine (3-Carboxymethyl-6-benzyl-2,5-diketopiperazine) and methanol (which can then break down to formaldehyde and hydrogen), but given that there's very little aspartame in the drink to begin with, the amount of breakdown products is minute. It's the dose that makes the poison, which is why the mere presence of a toxical substances doesn't allow you to decide if something is safe to consume. In order draw a valid conclusion, the pupil would have had to compare the amounts of DKP and methanol that were found in her samples with safety data (which is what agencies like the FDA do when deciding on approving food additives). Again, it's a school project, so it's understandable that she didn't discuss acceptable intake levels, but it means that no conclusions can be drawn based on that report.
As you asked for a reference, I thought this might be a good read: earlier this year, the UK's Committee on Toxicity issued a statement on the effects of chronic dietary methanol exposure: lay summary, full statement. Hope that helps. --Six words (talk) 23:53, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Aspartame controversy

I saw your post at the aspartame controversy. Near the end of a page I put up there are 3 links under "pilots and flying " You may find them interesting. The page is:

http://www.aspartametestimonials.com

I tried to correct the aspartame controversy article on wikipedia and got topic banned for 3 months. Bottom line is Washington bureaucrats refer to wikipedia and what is presented there must not make waves.

Al — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arydberg (talk • contribs) 14:41, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

You're invited! New England Wikimedia General Meeting

 New England Wikimedia General Meeting

The New England Wikimedia General Meeting will be a large-scale meetup of all Wikimedians (and friends) from the New England area in order to discuss regional coordination and possible formalization of our community (i.e., a chapter). Come hang out with other Wikimedians, learn more about ongoing activities, and help plan for the future!
Potential topics:
Sunday, April 22
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Conference Room C06, Johnson Building,
Boston Public Library—Central Library
700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116
Please sign up here: Misplaced Pages:Meetup/New England!

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SUL

Hi SaxTeacher. I noticed you created your user page on Meta-Wiki anonymously and I would advice you to create a SUL account as you don't have one at the moment. Please follow the steps on Special:MergeAccount. One of the advantages is that your account will be created automatically on all other projects you visit and that you can easily prove you are this user on all of them. If you have further questions, feel free to ask. :) Kind regards, Trijnsteltalk 13:22, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

You're invited: Ada Lovelace, STEM women edit-a-thon at Harvard

U.S. Ada Lovelace Day 2012 edit-a-thon, Harvard University - You are invited!
Now in its fourth year, Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and related fields. Participants from around New England are invited to gather together at Harvard Law School to edit and create Misplaced Pages entries on women who have made significant contributions to the STEM fields.
Register to attend or sign up to participate remotely - visit this page to do either.
00:42, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Userpage Barn Star

The Userpage Barnstar
I enjoyed your Userpage for the last hour. Well done!

So I like to give you this Barnstar Captain Miles (talk) 12:42, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Fenno Heath for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Jay Easton

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2nd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting

You are invited to the 2nd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting, on 20 July 2013 in Boston! We will be talking about the future of the chapter, including GLAM, Wiki Loves Monuments, and where we want to take our chapter in the future! EdwardsBot (talk) 09:15, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:31, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

New England Misplaced Pages Day @ MIT: Saturday Jan 18

NE Meetup #4: January 18 at MIT Building 5

Dear Fellow Wikimedian,

You have been invited to the New England Wikimedians 2014 kick-off party and Misplaced Pages Day Celebration at Building Five on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus on Saturday, January 18th, from 3-5 PM. Afterwards, we will be holding an informal dinner at a local restaurant. If you are curious to join us, please do so, as we are always looking for people to come and give their opinion! Finally, be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

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You're invited: Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March

Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March - You are invited!
New England Wikimedians is excited to announce a series of Misplaced Pages edit-a-thons that will be taking place at colleges and universities throughout Massachusetts as part of Wikiwomen's History Month from March 1 - March 31. We encourage you to join in an edit-a-thon near you, or to participate remotely if you are unable to attend in person (for the full list of articles, click here). Events are currently planned for the cities/towns of Boston, Northampton, South Hadley, and Cambridge. Further information on dates and locations can be found on our user group page.
Questions? Contact Girona7 (talk)

You're invited!

NE Meetup #5: April 19th at Clover Food Lab in Kendall Square

Dear Fellow Wikimedian,

New England Wikimedians would like to invite you to the April 2014 meeting, which will be a small-scale meetup of all interested Wikimedians from the New England area. We will socialize, review regional events from the beginning of the year, look ahead to regional events of 2014, and discuss other things of interest to the group. Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

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We hope to see you there!

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Edit-a-thon invite

You're invited to the Peabody Essex Museum Edit-a-thon Spring 2014

On May 3rd, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts will be hosting a Native American and Chinese Art edit-a-thon from 9:00-5:00 pm. You are more than welcome to attend, as there will be free food and drink, and an outing afterwards. If you are interested, please sign up here, as we would love to see you there!

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Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial edit-a-thons

Adrianne Wadewitz edit-a-thons in Southern New England

As you may have already heard, the Misplaced Pages community lost an invaluable member of the community last month. Adrianne Wadewitz was a feminist scholar of 18th-Century British literature, and a prolific editor of the site. As part of a worldwide series of tributes, New England Wikimedians, in conjunction with local institutions of higher learning, have created three edit-a-thons that will be occurring in May and June. The events are as follows:

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New England Wikimedians summer events!

Upcoming events hosted by New England Wikimedians!

After many months of doubt, nature has finally warmed up and summer is almost here! The New England Wikimedians user group have planned some upcoming events. This includes some unique and interesting events to those who are interested:

Although we also aren't hosting this year's Wikimania, we would like to let you know that Wikimania this year will be occurring in London in August:

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New England Wikimedians summer events!

Upcoming events hosted by New England Wikimedians!

After many months of doubt, nature has finally warmed up and summer is almost here! The New England Wikimedians user group have planned some upcoming events. This includes some unique and interesting events to those who are interested:

Although we also aren't hosting this year's Wikimania, we would like to let you know that Wikimania this year will be occurring in London in August:

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Proposed deletion of James Wayne (musician)

The article James Wayne (musician) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I agree with User:Kleinzach, no evidence of meting WP:MUSICBIO or WP:GNG. Has been tagged for notability for over 6 years without it being proven.

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Photo requests in Connecticut

Hi! Do you do photo requests in Connecticut? Are you close to Milford or Greenwich? WhisperToMe (talk) 04:52, 14 April 2015 (UTC) I have never heard of a Photo Request before, but I'd be happy to help if I could. I am near Greenwich. I am about 45 minutes from Milford but I do pass through there every week or two. —SaxTeacher (talk) 18:31, 11 May 2015 (UTC)