User talk:OwenBlacker/Archive 3

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Hi,

We are having an update of participation at WikiProject London and are asking contributors to bold their names if they are still contributing to London-related projects. Inactive members will be removed at the end of the month. Thanks for participating, COME ON ENGLAND! DJR (Talk) 15:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 00:21, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. Sorry, hadn't noticed :o) – OwenBlacker 10:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi again - I'm not sure if you have the WikiProject on your watchlist or not - if not then I would recommend adding it. In any case, we have two "Major tasks" currently operational - if you could help in the implementation of either it would be much appreciated. Regards, DJR (talk) 14:31, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I noticed you recently made many small edits to the Requiem (Fauré) article, including wikifying all the dates. Thanks. I'm relatively new to wikipedia, so I'm not sure what the standard is, but I remember reading the WIkipedia:Manual of Style section on Wikilinking, which included the following advice: "Not every year listed in an article needs to be wikilinked. Ask yourself: will clicking on the year bring any useful information to the reader?" To me, it seems a bit overkill to link them all, but I'm interested in your take on it. I'm also unfamiliar with the language information you entered. Perhaps you could enlighten me about that or point me to an appropriate page. – MarkBuckles 19:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for not treating me like WoW. I am editing in tabs 90% of the time with Google toolbar. GangstaEB (sliding logs~dive logs) 13:33, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

As a matter of interest, what does Firefox's Google Toolbar give you that the Google / search engine box at the top of the window not give you?

Spell checker. --GangstaEB (sliding logs~dive logs) 13:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Please help me out here: Template talk:Infobox London place#Flag_again. A row is brewing over using the City of London flag for this infobox. If memory serves, you supported its inclusion before. Thanks. Mrsteviec 05:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

A new tfd discussion has been started because usage guidelines have been added on the template page and because the {tfd} notice was missing for most of the duration of the last discussion. Please review the recently-created usage guidelines before casting your vote. Although my delete vote remained unchanged, I would appreciate your renewed input in this discussion whether or not you agree. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 23:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

So it appears. But if you want your vote counted you should still revisit the discussion. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 14:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you for joining WikiProject Underground. We hope you enjoy your time as a member! Lenny 12:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

There hasn't been much activity going on in WikiProject Underground, please add ACT next to your name in the list if you are still active in the project. Lenny 15:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Just letting WikiProject Buffyverse members know that the article 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' has recently been nominated as a candidate to become a featured article. Should it become a featured article, it will be possible for the article to appear on the Wikipedia main page on March 10th 2007, the 10th anniversary of Buffy (the premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth" aired March 10th 1997).

Any feedback you can offer to improve the article and/or to either object or support the nomination would be wonderful:

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

-- Paxomen 17:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that you edited someone else's comment for clarity, spelling or grammar. As a rule, refrain from editing others' comments without their permission. Though it may appear helpful to correct typing errors, grammar, etc., please do not go out of your way to bring talk pages to publishing standards, since it is not terribly productive and will tend to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. For more details, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thanks, Extraordinary Machine 22:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

The new/alt image for 9tail Fox is great - it's not like there's any real difference, after all. More importantly, you've turned the JCG page into a fantastical cover-filled library of his works. It's brilliant. You've wikilinked all the books, though, and most don't have articles.... shall I get to work? ;)

I've been meaning to write articles for the rest of his stuff for a while now. I'll do Stamping Butterflies and redRobe (as much as I can remember of them) if you rewrite my horrible, horrible edit on Jon's writing style to make it fit for human eyes - deal? Tyrhinis 18:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Answered on User talk:Tyrhinis. — OwenBlacker 12:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Mark redRobe one down, five to go. Once I've finished Labyrinth I'll re-read Stamping Butterflies and get an article for that going. Tyrhinis 23:30, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that you changed ndashes to - in Wimund. Is that right ? I read the dashes page as saying that page numbers or years, closed ranges, should be like 10&ndash20. The 1134x1140 things shouldn't really be dashes, it's normal, but lazy, to use that to say "sometime between 1134 and 1140" as 1134x means "after 1134" and x1140 "before 1140". Probably should be written out longform in most cases. Anyway, thanks for reminding me that I never did finish rewriting either Wimund or Harald Maddadsson, so I'd better get to work ! Cheers, Angus McLellan (Talk) 01:13, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Answered on User talk:Angusmclellan

Since you have were involved with discussion before at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you might appreciate knowing that the nomination for the Buffy article has been restared at the same wiki page. I am letting everyone know who might not be aware (whether they were for or against the article becoming featured). Cheers – Buffyverse 22:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading Image:Black Man cover (Amazon).jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 01:43, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The copyright status is not in question at all and is quite clearly stated on the image page itself. See your Talk: page for a reply but please try paying more attention before querying image status in future. — OwenBlacker 17:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi, OwenBlacker!

I put back a couple of words explaining an example in Norn language. I believe that it is better not to assume that the enwiki readers from all over the world must know to what Lord's prayer refers. This is a minor matter; if you disagree and remove the explanation again, I'll leave the article as you wish. JoergenB 18:43, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. JoergenB 20:03, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue I - December 4, 2006

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Why? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 15:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'll do that from now on. And thankyou! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, I have finally replied to your request on my talk page about the supposed use of octante in Swiss French in the talk page of the article, and for the reasons mentioned in my comment, I removed it from the article again – no offense intended! By the way, congratulations for your contributions in LGBT-related articles ;-) Have a nice day! Matthieu Houriet 05:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue II - January 1, 2007

Happy New Year to all our members! Project News Several new templates have been created: {{Bisexuality topics sidebar}} and {{Transgender sidebar}} by Dev920 and AliceJMarkham respectively. SatyrTN also created a {{LGBT Welcome}} template to welcome new members. Thanks to them all. The LGBT Portal's various sections could do with updating on a weekly basis. Please pitch in if you can. Latter Days became a Featured Article on December 31. It was written and nominated by Dev920. Congratulations Dev! A new assessment system has been implemented - we have tagged and assessed over 1100 articles so far! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system. A fledgling monthly LGBT Collaboration has been started, with Homosexuality as the December article and Gay stereotyping as our January article. Please contribute to this if you can, even if it's just correcting typos. A Translation department has been set up, to translate LGBT articles from foreign language Wikipedias that may have more information than our equivalent article. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English. We have a brand new unique Project! Jumpaclass is a new semi-competition to improve our lower quality articles - see the subpage for more information. Please sign up and get it going! Finally, our membership numbers have exploded! 21 new users have joined the Wikiproject: AdelaMae, WJBscribe, Trodaikid1983, Jtowns, Agne27, Boyau, NickGorton, Dialecticas, DaliJim, Tonei, Cabbers, silent, Textorus, GLGerman, Haiduc, Hornandsoccer, Bopopop, NinaOdell, Badbilltucker, DanB DanD, and Tiger Marc. Please make them feel welcome!

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Restored. The article had been vandalized and turned into something else, and no one reverted it - I didn't catch it. --Coredesat 04:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I suggest you read WP:MOSDAB, it explains why and how to format dab pages. Josh Parris 03:03, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Because of your past work on the Wikiprojects for French "régions" and "départements", I thought you might be interested in contributing to the current discussion over French vs. English spelling of those very words taking place at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_France#Anglicisation. Cheers. --NYArtsnWords 23:48, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

please can you state the year of this map Image:Provinces of France.png (1600 ? 1700 ? etc.) 82.64.176.139 13:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Copied from User talk:82.64.176.139

I can't date the map; the boundaries of each province are as they were on joining the Kingdom of France. Take a look at the image description page for more information. — OwenBlacker 13:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

If you would like to bitch about it, please do... here. It would also be kind if you could contact any others you think would be bothered by an (already widespread) single-handed word-to-word 'translation' of hundreds of articles. Many of these were simple 'word swaps' without an added provision of the extra context needed for an English comprehension of the not-so-common definition of the English word - there is a fair amount of correction to be done, one way or another.

Thanks, best,

THEPROMENADER 14:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello again - can I ask you again for your input in this? Sorry if you left it already and it's lost among the cruft... take care, and thanks. THEPROMENADER 19:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

My French is very poor, so can I ask you why the French Wikipedia (or any foreign language one for that matter) does not require references in articles, merely recommend them? Does anyone over there bother? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 13:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue III - February 1, 2007

Announcement: If someone requests help or feedback on an article, please try your hardest to help them out if you are able. Thank you. Project News The LGBT Portal has once again been revamped and a work rota started. Efforts towards Featured Portal status are slowly coming together. The assessment system has been a great success, we have tagged over 4000 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system. The Translation department has changed its focus, to LGBT articles about non-English topics and people on which there may be more information on the relevant foreign Wikipedia. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English. Jumpaclass is picking up slowly, with nine people having entered. With over 2000 stubs we need to improve our article quality. Please sign up and get it going! Challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub! There is an ongoing discussion about the current LGBT categorisation system here, here, and a little bit here. A special page has now been set up here to deal with this. A Watchlist has been set up to monitor controversial and/or highly vandalised articles. It can also be used for article disputes, just add a note explaining the nature of the dispute. With the influx of so many active members, there is now enough support for a LGBT studies peer review, which may be found here. It's in the beta phase at the moment, so bear with us if we make any mistakes. Feel free to peer review any articles you have been working on. It was agreed this month to start reducing the uses of the Notice board, as many members felt that it was not effective. An open tasks template has been created, bringing together important announcements, FAC/FARs, Peer reviews, XfDs, the COTM, and requested articles. You may desire to watchlist it. A Deletion sorting subpage is also now working to bring together XfDs - this should be bot-driven, but we have not currently tagged enough articles to make this fully automated, so please update the list with any LGBT-related XfDs you come across. Article news Two articles were recently shepherded through the Featured Article process by two of our members - Same-sex marriage in Spain and The Well of Loneliness. Congratulations go to (respectively) Raystorm and Celithemis! Member News We more than doubled our membership this month! 53 new users have joined the Wikiproject: Aleta, Koweja, Profriend, Andrewn, Carolynparrishfan, Cpnlsn88, Brian1979, Tullerk, Garydw, Ganymead, Celithemis, Burnley, Lquilter, Parammon, Forsakendaemon, Allyn, bcatt, Dfeuer, Raystorm, Fabienne1, Esprix, Antanta, Janusvulcan, Elizabeth Lund, Ashleyvh, E. Sn0 =31337=, MiraLuka, White hotel, Zythe, Athena2006, CosmicWaffles, Emiellaiendiay, Musimax, AlexReynolds, Swollib, Nield, Kriza, 100110100, Andral, thickslab, Ronline, Iamvered, FisherQueen, William percy, Viannah, Ssbohio, Ali-oops, Anyaanomaly, Revolución, Ender2155, LuciferMorgan, Kathryn NicDhàna, and Artgoyle. Please make them feel welcome!

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If you are still a member of Wikipedia, please join user:TomTheHand and myself in a discussion of which terms should apply to the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Infiltration Unit in its various forms.

To be as neutral as possible, I will relate the views of TomTheHand as well as my own, as accurately as posible:

Tom believes that the term "Android" should apply to all of the incarnations of the Model 101, from Endoskeleton all the way up to the gestalts of flesh-and-blood and the combat chassis played by Arnold in the movies. He furthermore believes that the term "cyborg" does not apply to any of the Terminator's forms.

Thanos777 -myself -thinks that the Terminator is worthy of multiple appelations depending on which configuration (read: Type/Series) the Model 101 is configured as.

That is to say, I believe that the "Base" Model 101, just the endoskeleton with no cosmetic enhancements, is best defined as either a Humanoid Robot, Anthropomorphic Robot, or simply a Robot.

When the Model 101 is outfitted as a Type/Series 600, the endoskeleton covered by rubber skin, I believe that the Terminator is then most correctly classified as an "android."

And finally, when the Model 101 is equipped as a Type/Series 800/850, the endoskeleton with the living flesh-and-blood covering, I believe that the most correct term for the creatre is "cyborg."

Again, I respectfully ask you to come back to the "Terminator" Article and lend your input; those of us who are there in the Article's discussion page are engaging in a lot of back-and-forth regarding the different terms and the disagreements as to when they should be used.

Hope to "see" you there soon!!!

Hiya. I saw your name on the LGBT translators list and wondered if you might be able to help me. An article I wrote, Philippe Servaty, has been threatened with deletion. I have one week to get strong refs for it, so it doesn't fail WP:BLP. Can you look at it, and if you find it interesting maybe find some French/Belgian stories that can be used to support it? Thanks of you can help. Jeffpw 15:38, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Just replying to your query about the flags that appear on the front page scan that accompanies The Times-Picayune article. Curious myself, I looked into it and found that the two-flag combo appears to be a Hurricane warning signal (at least in the United States). It doesn't appear to be one of the International maritime signal flags as I first expected. Just thought I'd let you know what I discovered. -Tobogganoggin ^talk 22:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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I have initiated a Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Anglicisation of French administrative terms. Please leave your comments. – NYArtsnWords 22:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Why the change of "archaic" to "archaeic"? I don't see any reason to have changed the dialect per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English, but I didn't review the pages on each letter to see if there was an overwhelming use of British spellings there. *Mishatx*-In\Out 04:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not worried about it so much that I'll revert it back – I was just wondering if you'd seen something in the articles or knew something about the articles that indicated I needed to stop at the vowel store and pick up some extra a's, e's, o's and u's before editing them. *Mishatx*-In\Out 20:09, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue IV - March 1, 2007 Monthly Challenge: Find 5 editors to LGBT articles and invite them to the project! Check out our recruitment tips if you need them. Good luck! Project News With such rapid development of the project, it was decided that a Coordinator was needed to ensure all the fiddly maintenence was kept up. Elections were held and Dev920 (talk · contribs) has been elected Coordinator for the next three months. She said "I am honoured and proud to be at the helm of such a fantastic WikiProject and look forward to our future". Congratulations Dev! The assessment system continues to be a great success, we have tagged over 5200 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system. Jumpaclass is proving to be quite successful! The winner at the end of the year gets to pick the January collaboration, so sign up and get going! Or challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub! A new Community department has been set up to foster community amongst our members. It mostly acts as other WikiProjects' Outreach department, but also has a Quilt to which every member is entitled to add a square containing anything of their choice. The peer review is not getting much custom - please notice you can cross-list other peer reviews from different projects that also fall within our scope. Many people still seem to be unaware that the Deletion sorting subpage exists for XfDs to be listed: please use and watch that page instead of issuing "alerts" for ordinary AfDs on the project talkpage. WP:FILM has a current drive to give every film article an infobox. WP:LGBT successfully gave all 105 LGBT infoboxless films infoboxes, so a big thank you to everyone who participated. A new template, LGBT, has been created for articles which are becoming to cluttered with infoboxes. Thanks to WJBscribe and SatyrTN for creating it. A very basic resources page has been started. Please add to it as you come across useful sites. A promotional poster for the project has been created: http://wplgbt.tripod.com/Wikipedianeedsyou.doc (you have to directly cut and paste the url, or it won't let you download it). Please distribute anywhere and everywhere you desire, such as gay libraries, cybercafes, community centres and so on. Also, please let Dev920 know where you have put it up, so she can keep track of our coverage. An LGBT Publications Taskforce has been proposed. Please sign up here if you are interested in being involved. An LGBT WikiProject has been set up on the Spanish Wikipedia! Set up by Raystorm, it has already gained six members and is developing an assessment system. If you speak any Spanish, please consider going up and lending a hand if you can! Article News An LGBT article, Homosexual readings of Jesus and John, made it onto the main page as a DYK this month. Congratulations to Haiduc, who wrote the article. Another article, Same-sex marriage in Italy, also made it onto the main page as a DYK this month. Congratulations to Raystorm, who wrote the article. And another article, George Cecil Ives, made it to the front page DYKs this month. Congratulations to Zefrog, who wrote the article. Member News Our membership continues to expand. 55 new users have joined the Wikiproject: HalJor, Brianna Austin, Kylehamilton , PeaceNT, Paradoxdept, Joie de Vivre, Bearcat, Avazina, Treybien, Xdenizen, Chalyres, Lisapollison, Stitchy CP, Wjhonson, Psicorps, Jliberty, Zuejay, DrGaellon, Mallanox, lwollert, Switchercat, Number301, emerson7, Ebyabe, Ashlux, Larrybob, Eirra, Alcarcalimo2364, DavidShankBone, Cedlaod, Mcguireka, Fireplace, Jacobshaven3, Buddmar, Yksin, Intesvensk, Justin_Eiler, kc12286, Kolindigo, PseudoPhoenix, Samanthabrennan, Anbellofe, roger_jg, Moni3, The Wednesday Island, Carom, Belovedfreak, My little needle, Fenoxielo, Arianna, Philippebeaudette, FrankCostanza, AmberAlert1713, A.Z., Fluffball70, . Please make them feel welcome! To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please drop me a line. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.

By the way, are you the Owen Blacker that recently signed a petition to 10 Downing Street on something or other? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

WOW! I have to say, I really admire theyworkforyou.com. Maybe you can tell me why there's a counter for the number of times a speaker has ended their sentence with "with"?

Oh, and thanks for your congrats - It's just as exhausting as before I was elected but now I have a pretty title to give to journalists. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

This article is still the subject of much controversy. If you could find time to look at it and perhaps make a contribution to the debate, it would be appreciated. Deb 14:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue V - April 3, 2007 Monthly Challenge: Article News Three articles were promoted to Featured Article status this month: Homer's Phobia (2007-03-26), Trembling Before G-d (2007-03-15) and Andrew Van De Kamp (2007-03-30). Congratulations to Gran2 and Dev920 (twice!) respectively for all their hard work! Three new articles appeared on the Main Page as Did you know? items: Classification of transsexuals (2007-03-02), Steve Stanton (2007-03-08) and Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus (2007-03-23), started by Lwollert, Yksin and MusicMen, respectively. DavidShankBone deserves kudos for his current drive to provide quality LGBT photos from the NYC area. One of the more recent photos is posted on Michael Musto, and you can check out the gallery on David's user page. Project News There is now the beginning of a list of core topics to possibly be included in the Wikipedia 1.0 release. Your suggestions are welcome; there may be many core LGBT topics still missing. We have a list of people categorized as LGBT whose articles need to be checked for reliable sourcing. This effort is necessary and urgent, to comply with Wikipedia's policy on living persons. Please take a few moments to source one article; if you've got time, do another. SatyrTN identified all the articles that were in subcategories of Category:LGBT but not yet tagged with the project's banner, about 1,400 articles. These have been completed, though SatyrBot will make periodic runs through the cats to find any new entries. Thanks Satyr! The number of articles within our project's spectrum (6,667 currently) should now be relatively stable and only grow with article creation. However, if you find a category that should be included, please let SatyrTN know so it can be included in the bots runs. Work is underway to improve the LGBT Portal. Please add any good quality (free) photos you come across on LGBT articles to the gallery here. Also if anyone would like to volunteer to help in maintaining the portal, please make yourselves known on the Portal's talkpage. If you see any articles for deletion or any other deletion discussions related to LGBT topics, please remember to add them to the deletion sorting board. Thanks! Member News Our membership continues to expand. 22 new users have joined the WikiProject: Garik, Esrever, mlbedwell, Jet123, Welland R, Auriel, DaliJim, queerpeace, SUIT, Mentality, Nukleoptra, LeaHazel, lindleyle, Justin Eiler, Bylandl, Brent Calderwood, PC78, Gekedo, polymathematics, Coryarlo, Ziji, mcgarymi. Please make them feel welcome! To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please drop me a line. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.

SatyrBot 05:16, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, i thought you might like add the following category to your user page.

Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of East Anglia

also i have created a user box for uea students/alumni. You may like to add it to your user page.

The code is {{User uea}}

And this is what it looks like..

Welcome, OwenBlacker, to the Former countries WikiProject! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on a former territory, please tag their talk page with our project template {{WPFC}}. A few features that you might find helpful:

• The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you.
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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project! 52 Pickup 21:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your speedy edits (and fixes to vandalism) to this article. Great job! Are there any lists or articles to which we can link this one? Bearian 20:20, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter - SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue VI - May 2, 2007 Monthly Challenge: Stand for Deputy Coordinator or support some candidates after May 5... Article News Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other is a Featured Article Candidate. Project News A taskforce dealing with LGBT publications has been proposed. If you are interested in getting involved, consider signing up at the projects' page. Our core topics list is looking good. It's still a bit slim on LGBT history articles, non-American LGBT media, and important LGBT biographies. Do you have suggestions? David Shankbone has done an amazing job taking photographs of LGBT celebrities. Thanks David! People interested in collaborating with him and setting up a photography taskforce should contact him or drop a note at the project's talkpage. The LGBT Portal still needs a bit of love and attention :-). Again, any good quality (free) photos you come across on LGBT articles can be added to the gallery here. Volunteers to help out with the Portal are extremely welcome- make yourselves known on the Portal's talkpage. Updates to the current news items are helpful. Deputy coordinator elections WikiProject LGBT studies is looking for new Deputy Coordinators to help out with various essential tasks in organising the project. To nominate yourself or contribute to the discussion, please go to: Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Coordinator/May 2007. The deadline for nominations is May 5 and the elections will last a week after that. Candidates so far are: SatyrTN, Raystorm and Fireplace. The elections will be pretty simple- everyone just endorses their favourite candidate(s). The three with the most votes at the end of the week are the new deputy coordinators, who will assist Dev920 in keeping the project running. Member News Our membership continues to expand. 22 new users have joined the WikiProject (bringing our total membership to 182): Zigzig20s, Qxmagazine, TAnthony, Kbolino, Knorpel, Madman bum and angel, Ponyboy, BenjiBoi, Guy M, Pernishus, Rockdozen, RAShippy, Jaibe, Fshepinc, rglong, Boomboomeve, Undertheinfluence, Kyoko, Catsaki, OsteopathicFreak, smccoy12345, and Alexlovesme. Also Rebecca who rejoins us having previously been a member as Ambi. Please make them feel welcome! To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, just ask Dev920. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let her know.

This month's project newsletter (hand delivered as SatyrTN and Dev920 are away). Best wishes, WjBscribe 03:09, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I just saw the infobox you did for Livonian Brothers of the Sword. Placing the language tags in the title is something I hadn't seen before. I like it. For multiple languages, it makes sense. - 52 Pickup 14:47, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Putting your language abilities on the members page is also a good idea. If you have any other ideas about the running of the project, just jump in. I'm pretty much running WPFC on my own and I can do with any help that I can get. Also, if you're looking for the WPFC userbox, it's at {{User WPFC}} - 52 Pickup 19:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer. At the moment, there are two major things that need to be done:

1. Checking that the infoboxes are correctly used. Many people who use the Former Country/Subdivision infoboxes are not WPFC members and are not generally up-to-date regarding their usage. Many use incomplete syntax, and very few read the instructions. Just making sure that the infoboxes are used according to our evolving guidelines (italics in the title, short history text, leaders correctly displayed, etc.) goes a long way in making sure that others learn how to do things properly.
2. Tagging and assessing articles. Over 1000 articles are now tagged with the {{WPFC}} banner, but most of them are unassessed. Assessing articles takes time, so I can only do so many on my own. See the banner page and the WPFC assessment page for more information.

If you can help with either of these two things, that would be great. - 52 Pickup 19:07, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading Image:Black Man cover (Amazon).jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 19:58, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Template:S-ptd has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Waltham, The Duke of 14:13, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You can see more about this here. The vote is not expected to be a thriller or anything; the Project only wishes to get rid of a redundant template.

Basically, I am afraid you should visit the Project's talk page more often; there are several issues that need to be dealt with. Right now it seems to be forgotten by almost all members of the Project.

Also, there is a working version of the /Guidelines subpage at User:The Duke of Waltham/SBS and any input, either a good idea or a simple comment, would be greatly appreciated.

Have a nice day.

Waltham, The Duke of

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The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue VII - June 1, 2007 Monthly Challenge: June Stub Review! Take a moment and sift through the roughly 3,600 Stub-class LGBT articles. Are they still stubs? If not, make an assessment change. Even better, do you see anything you can add/edit to increase the rating? Let's see if the project can lower the number of stubs down below 3,000! Project News WP:LGBT Exceeds 200 Members!! Two editors have been selected by project members as co-coordinators. Their duties are still a bit unclear, but having a few more janitors around the project will help keep us running smoothly. Please feel free to message Fireplace or SatyrTN if you have any project questions or concerns. Member News 20 new contributors joined the project in the last month (bringing total membership to 201): Illyria05, Brideshead, smartman89, Queerudite, JackFritscher, SeventhHaido, Evolauxia, Bandou, ChrisTW, NickGorton (back from break), Lynnllynn, KaiLeo, Meojive, Whstchy, Ceramykgoddess, Ljpmn79, snoopy753, Aralvarez, Enzedbrit, and Meininger. Please make them feel welcome  ! To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, just ask Dev920. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let her know.

Delivered on 16:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC). SatyrBot 16:27, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Do you have an SVG version of Image:Jesusland map.png? If so, please upload it. Andrew_pmk | Talk 13:09, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

You can download a free SVG editor here: http://www.inkscape.org Andrew_pmk | Talk 09:20, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue VIII - July 1, 2007 Monthly Challenge: Submit an article to our Jumpaclass competition! Languishing unloved, it is a great way to improving that article you always meant to improve but never got round to. Challenge someone else to go head to head and see who can improve their article most! Article News But I'm a Cheerleader is now GA Class! Project News Our Deputy Coordinators have been doing a fabulous job so far. Well done! The portal is now looking very snazzy, well done to Fireplace for all his hard work. The list of LGBT people to be sorted has now beed reduced by 20%. Please help us with it, all of us adding just one person a day would have a dramatic effect! The Core Topics is now largely complete. The original aim of getting some kind of publication out of it is extremely long term - any short term uses we can make of it are welcome on the project talkpage. A suggestion was made this month that we start our own wiki. Although the conclusion was that we felt we were a part of Wikipedia rather than a stand alone organisation, it seems there is an LGBT wiki already, at http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Main_page . Members may be interested in getting involved there. The Collaboration is now getting rather short on suggestions. Article nominations for August through December would be welcome on the talkpage. There is now a list of Missing LGBT Topics. Help is needed to work out which topics can be made redirects or need to be created. Please contribute is you can. An LGBT banner that was created for Wikipedia's internal ads system has now been adapted so it can be placed on blogs and websites. The html is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:LGBT"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Qxz-ad48.gif" height="53" width="445"></a> Please credit Miranda and link to her userpage: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Miranda">Miranda</a>. The banner can be seen in action here. If you have a blog or a website, please consider adding the banner, either in a post or as part of your profile. Member News 11 new contributors joined the project in the last month: Xnuala, Samantha Pignez, Jreferee, BGMurph, jmsast, Kukini, Theinsidellama, Heyfoureyes, Iceflow, NickGorton, Lynnllynn, KaiLeo, Amadscientist, and Mad_Cheese_Eater. Please make them feel welcome  ! However, this is a bit low for a project of our standing, so please consider doing a little recruiting if you can. To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.

Delivered on 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC).

Hi, Owen. I reverted some of the formatting changes you made to the infobox, namely the <br> and   additions to the beginning and ending dates. The changes did not have the effect you intended in all browsers, due to the variety of window sizes in which people view the page. (When I visited the page, for instance, "Confederation of the Rhine" ended up on three lines instead of the two you intended.) I appreciate your additions of the small Latin and German language codes. – Rob C. alias Alarob 22:11, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the <br> tip. That's nice to know and will save me a few keystrokes. (My own XHTML training is years out of date by now, but I did learn to be compulsive about /s). – Rob C. alias Alarob 22:20, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I tried to add an automatic status_text for Reichsstädte, but I can't get it to work. Any chance you could add this functionality for me, please? — OwenBlacker 14:36, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Done. Let me know if you find any bugs. - 52 Pickup 15:22, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Sure, specifying HRE in the text might be a good idea. I have one suggestion: please do not place the infobox on articles for modern cities (eg. Wangen im Allgäu). Apart from having multiple infoboxes on the one page (always to be avoided) it makes it unclear what the article is actually talking about. It is always best to create separate articles for these former city-states (eg Free City of Lübeck, Free City of Frankfurt) - 52 Pickup 15:38, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, d'you think? I was adding it to the History section of each Free Imperial City, with relatively brief information (much more brief than I usually add), to provide some historical context, where there's not really enough information to create a stub about the original Reichsstadt. Do you think that's too untidy?

Certainly, where there's an article about the Reichsstadt itself, I'd put it there (see Bishop of Sion, for example), but where there is no such article, I quite like a smaller version of the infobox appearing in the History section — particularly given that it then adds the appropriate categories without cluttering up the categorisation area at the end of the article.

Can I not persuade you on this? :o) — OwenBlacker 15:41, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I'm not the one that needs to be persuaded. I don't really mind either way, but there are many others who see multiple infoboxes as a problem. There is a huge problem with this regarding biographical articles (now that's a real minefield). Also, see WP:ATC. In the case of what you are doing, I have no problem with it - so long as it isn't too obstructive (so no problem if the article has enough content aside from the infoboxes) - but some people miht object and these extra infoboxes may be removed. So be careful. - 52 Pickup 16:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for your comment at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2007 April 30#Various EU Currency pictures! You perfectly expressed my own feelings on this matter, so... thank you! :) – Schneelocke 11:04, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem. This copyright paranoia is driving editors away from Wikipedia and, frankly, is really pissing me off. Though thank me more if I actually get round to sorting out the EU currency images properly, eh? ;o) — OwenBlacker 11:13, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it is, and that bugs me a lot as well. What also bugs me are people who delete images but then don't even bother to clean up the article namespace afterwards (here is an example I just came across); there really is no excuse for that, in my opinion. It's just sloppiness, and it also exhibits the same "I don't care" attitude that's also visible in the lack of concern for whether aggressively deleting images on flimsy grounds might discourage or outright drive away people who would otherwise have become valuable contributors.

Ah well, sorry for the mini-rant. :) Mmm, somebody who knows a bit more about SVG or can find his way around Inkscape (I've tried in the past, but without any real success) really should make a "Say YES to fair use" banner, similar to the "Say NO" version that already exists on Commons. c.c – Schneelocke 11:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely. And no worries about the mini-rant; I couldn't agree more. — OwenBlacker 11:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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OK, how did you manage o get the Quakenbrück Wappen onto the page? I have been trying and failing for months! docboat 09:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Maybe so - but I kept trying to add it, and all I got for my troubles was a blank image and a warning. I will mercilessly use your edit as a template for future attempts :) docboat 01:10, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I’ve fixed it – please withdrawn now your nomination... TNX! --FSHL 19:10, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

• Better now? Maybe you should play a little bit with the wave – I’m still not really contently thereby but I must go to work now... --FSHL 04:17, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

• Last-ditch attempt... --FSHL 20:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

• Are you satisfied now? --FSHL 21:26, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

• And please don’t forget to withdrawn your nomination... --FSHL 21:49, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

A quick word of caution though: apparently some people over at Wikimedia Commons have been infected with the same copyright paranoia as here on en:Wikipedia. The {{Money-EU}} template and others like it have been threatened with deletion and some coin images have been deleted. I strongly suspect that the coin images have been deleted due to licensing problems, yet €2 commemorative coin Vatican City 2004.jpg (for example, and how I came back to this subject) is still there.

In my opinion, the links from the ECB (here and here(PDF)) are pretty clear and using the {{Money-EU}} template should satisfy even the most ardent deletionist.

Astronaut 22:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue IX - September 1, 2007 Message from Coordinator: It's been almost two months since the last newsletter came out, so there are a fair few people who haven't really been kept up with our project. I'd like to welcome all those who have joined and those who have returned, and strongly reccommend that you use the talkpage for any queries or problems you have. Happy editing! Article News The ongoing effort to create a comprehensive list of LGB people has begun to bear fruit - /A AND the /W-Z lists have been featured! Congratulations to Dev920 and SatyrTN who nominated them respectively. Please consider pitching in the the remaining lists to help us get them finished before the end of the year. Project News WP:LGBT now has an IRC channel! It is #LGBTProject on Freenode. Users without IRC or Xchat can use the java app at java.freenode.net to access the channel from their web browser. Hope to see you in there sometime! David Shankbone has taken a LOT of photos. An idea has been mooted to create a page for listing people who are willing to take images in their area on request, please give your thoughts here. Considerable discussion has recently been held on our coverage of same sex marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. You may be interested to read it. The list of LGBT people to be sorted has now been reduced by over 30%. Please help us with it, all of us adding just one person a day would have a dramatic effect! A gay cabal conspiracy ghost has been created to do with what you will. :) Member News Since the last newsletter was released, we have had more members been labelled inactive than who have signed up - please consider recruiting a few more people if you can, a WikiProject is only as good as its members. :) To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.

Delivered on 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC).