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ClockworkTroll 03:33, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
Are you a Stuy student? A1111 21:34, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- a senior:) abulanov
Do you speak Russian, by any chance? A1111 00:01, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- yeah, why? abulanov 02:26, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Why not do a translation of the Stuyvesant page into Russian? A1111 00:01, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
hey
edithey alex. i'm christian mccusker; i just saw your account on the stuy talk page so i thought i'd say hi. Christiant 14:30, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
stuy
editGreetings,
Consider adding the Stuy userbox, {{User Stuy}}.
Regards, - the.crazy.russian (T) (C) (E) 19:29, 26 March 2006 (UTC) (Class of 99)
Thanks for all the work you did on the Stuyvesant High School article. It became a Featured Article earlier this year, and today it is on the main page. RossPatterson 04:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Stuyvesant High School has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.
Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference
editHello there. This is an automated message to tell you about the gradual phasing out of the preference entitled "Mark all edits minor by default", which you currently have (or very recently had) enabled.
On 13 March 2011, this preference was hidden from the user preferences screen as part of efforts to prevent its accidental misuse (consensus discussion). This had the effect of locking users in to their existing preference, which, in your case, was true. To complete the process, your preference will automatically be changed to false in the next few days. This does not require any intervention on your part and you will still be able to manually mark your edits as being 'minor'. The only thing that's changed is that you will no longer have them marked as minor by default.
For established users such as yourself there is a workaround available involving custom JavaScript. If you are familiar with the contents of WP:MINOR, and believe that it is still beneficial to the encyclopedia to have all your edits marked as such by default, then this discussion will give you the details you need to continue with this functionality indefinitely. If you have any problems, feel free to drop me a note.
Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 20:21, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Stuyvesant High School Featured Article Review
editThe Stuyvesant High School article has been listed at Featured Article Review at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Stuyvesant High School/archive2. Concerns expressed by User:TenPoundHammer include:
- Very many portions of the article are unsourced.
- The article's structure is very sloppy, with loads of very short paragraphs and standalone sentences. A major copy edit is needed. (For instance, nearly every sentence in "History" begins with "In [year]…".)
- Dubious lists ("Other publications" and "summary of floors") that are also unsourced.
- Entirely unsourced segments ("SING!").
- "In popular culture" is a mess of trivia.
- Another editor also raised concern that some of the text seems promotional. I tagged at least one section ("strength in areas such as math and science").
- I also see a very high number of primary sources.
Editors are invited to address the issues in order to prevent this article from being delisted from FA.
As someone who was notified on previous FARs, I thought you might be interested. RossPatterson (talk) 22:51, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
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