Ara Pelodi

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Hello, Ara Pelodi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I'm looking forward to hearing your Spoken Wikipedia contributions! If you need any help just leave a note on my talk page -SCEhardT 06:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Recording

On the talk page, you can use {{User:Ckamaeleon/Spoken Wikipedia In Progress (no request)|Caninedoubletake|2006-12-09}} Where the two parameters are your username and the date you placed the notice. If you're making significant or frequent changes to the article as you edit record, you might want to also put {{inuse}} at the top of the article page. Hope this helps! -SCEhardT 00:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Looks right to me! -SCEhardT 02:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Pictures

Thank you for participating in WikiProject Deaf. We need an image of a CapTel USB user using a CapTel USB during a captioned call and a diagram with an appropriate example of a DeafBlind contracted braille relay abbreviation. I can help you upload the image, if you like. High resolution would be nice, since we can always resample it later. Take a look at the images in Telecommunications Relay Service to get an idea. Taric25 06:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your questions. I have answered them on WikiProject_Deaf's talk page. If it isn't too much trouble, please add this page to your watch list, by clicking the watch tab at the top of the page, as not to encumber (clutter) our user talk pages. Thanks again and all the best. Taric25 17:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Cool (song)

Of course. I believe that it would serve as a very good model for other song articles. Velten 15:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

When do you believe the recording will be completed (I'm anxious!)? Velten 15:57, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Have you finished the recording for this article? Velten 15:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi there!

It's nice to meet you. I would invite you to work on the articles I listed on my user page but I see you have a lot of projects you are working on already. I didn't even realize there were any articles in an audio format. Creating more sounds like a great idea! Cheers, Rosemary Amey 23:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

CFDs and murdered people with disabilities

Hi Ara Pelodi -- Thanks for your thoughts & joining the discussion on the CFD about Category:Murdered people with disabilities. I think it's important to make it clear to everyone that this is an important topic, and your comment was very helpful in that regard. However, I wanted to respond to your comment. Just FYI, keeping or deleting a category isn't usually about getting rid of the information, but about trying to figure out whether the information is appropriately organized using categories -- which are automatically generated lists without nuance or explanation. Sometimes other mechanisms, like lists, are better ways to organize this information. See WP:CLS for a comparison, and WP:LISTS for analysis of lists, and WP:CAT for analysis of categories. Hope these are useful for you, and hope to see you again on the WP:CFD roster (and on WP:AFD). Best, lquilter 20:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

ASL images

I saw your post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deaf offering to produce American Sign Language images.

I don't know whether or not my request is within reason, and I am probably in the most image-uploading-clueless 5% on wikipedia, so any hand-holding from me would be pretty useless (anything more complicated than "I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain" is over my head), but here goes:

→ Can you make images of the words scholarship, leadership, citizenship, being signed?

You said to describe what was wanted exactly. That would be clean hand(s) without a lot of rings; size and resolution comparable to Image:ILY sign.jpg; sky blue background is a peaceful choice regardless of the colour of the hand but at any rate fairly high contrast.

Thank you so much for considering this—I hope it's not too wild to ask! It's for the Youth Leadership Camp article. — Athænara ✉ 08:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Postscript: I was going to watch for a reply here, but feel free to move my post to the project talk page to answer it there if you feel that's more appropriate. — Æ. ✉ 08:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Here is fine...Are you looking for ASL, or SEE or PSE? Ara Pelodi 17:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

American Sign Language, three separate stills for the three words was what I hoped for. I wonder what Junior NAD uses. Now that I think of it, one still combining three stills, so to speak, could be good, too. It's a mission motto, "scholarship, leadership and citizenship." — Æ. ✉ 00:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Adoption Offer

Hi there,

I saw that you had the Adoptme template on your user page (and had so for a while - sorry about that), and I would be happy to Adopt you. I am online nearly everyday and can help out with both the technical and procedural parts of Wikipedia. So if you wish for me to adopt you, please leave me a message at my talk page. Cheers Lethaniol 13:05, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

P.S. just read your section on your userpage about adoption - I will be happy to "handhold" through anything you are new too, I am sure you will then pick up things quickly. Cheers Lethaniol 13:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

OK Adoption completed - yes give me a shout when you have your sound files sorted. This will be a learning experience for me too - lol that is why I love being an adopter I always learn to do new things when my adoptees ask me difficult questions. Until then I will have a read around the issues at WP:SPOKEN.

Oh almost forgot - I can always help with any other questions about wikipedia, whether about content, technical issues or policy interpretation. I am normally on everyday so will answer questions asap, and if you can leave a questions at my talk page, I will reply here on your talk page. Cheers Lethaniol 21:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Deaf-mute

Hi Ara Pelodi. I'm seeking opinions and possible support for an issue in which I'm in a debate with other Wikipedians. I'm trying to change indiscrimant use of the term "deaf-mute" in describing deaf people in general. To see some comments related to the issue, see Talk:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, as well as my own Talk page, User talk:Ward3001. You can also follow the links to other discussions. Right now I'm about the only person addressing the issue because deaf people are such a small minority. Other Wikipedians, with apparently no prior knowledge of the issue, are reverting my edits. If you're interesting in expressing your opinion, feel free to do so. If you wish to discuss further please leave me a message on my Talk page. Thanks. Ward3001 18:03, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

ASL Wikipedia videos

I've done some more research on recording ASL on video at the meta:Requests for new languages/Wikipedia American Sign Language 2 proposal. Thanks.--Pharos 21:56, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Deaf

I notice you are a member of WikiProject Deaf. You may also add {{User WikiProject Deaf}}, which also adds a userbox to your page, or [[Category:WikiProject Deaf participants]] to your userpage. If you do, it will list you in Category:WikiProject Deaf participants. Taric25 20:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I added you to Category:WikiProject Deaf participants. Taric25 16:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Spoken articles

Hi. I've noticed that you appear to have been working on converting the articles Bookplate, WGA screenwriting credit system, Radio drama, Radio comedy and Pixie into a spoken version for over two months now, according to your entry on the In Progress section of Wikiproject Spoken Wikipedia. If you are no longer working on the article, please either remove yourself from the list, or notify me so I can do so, so other editors will know they can work on the article instead. If you don't reply within a week, I will assume you are no longer working on the article. Cheers, -Panser Born- (talk) 12:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Youth Leadership Camp

There's a note for you on Talk:Youth Leadership Camp#Requested Pictures about images of the words "scholarship, leadership, citizenship" in ASL. — Athaenara ✉ 05:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Recordings in progress removed

Note I have removed your in progress tags for spoken articles for Bookplate, WGA screenwriting credit system, Radio drama, Radio comedy, and Pixie. If you wish to continue work on these projects, please resubmit them. Thank you. Reason turns rancid (talk) 02:50, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Greetings from the EMS Taskforce

• I have seen you have taken interest in EMS related articles and we currently will be doing a GA/article improvement on Emergency medical service it will be our first project as a task force and would love your input and editing, Cheers! Medicellis (talk) 02:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Alternative names for chronic fatigue syndrome

Hi, since you have previously shown an interest in the topic of CFS, this is to inform you that I have started an attempt to resolve a long list of existing disputes on Alternative names for chronic fatigue syndrome. You are welcome to participate. Guido den Broeder (talk, visit) 21:54, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Fire Service

Hello and good afternoon (at least it is afternoon where I am). I was looking at the Wikipedian firefighters category and noticed that you are one of the members of the Wikipedia community that lists yourself as being a firefighter. First and foremost let me say thank you for your service. While I myself am not a firefighter, I do work as a photographer with multiple local fire departments. I am honored to have firefighters as some of my closest friends.

I have been taking an active role in the Fire Service WikiProject and am trying to recruit more members to this cause. If this is something you have any interest in, please let me know? You can leave me a message on my talk page. Obviously there is zero obligation. An interest can be anything from helping out with a couple of pages in your local area to helping to overhaul major templates, and anything in between.

Once again, thank you for your service. Hope to hear from you soon. Stay safe! --Zackmann08 (talk) 17:49, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Anybody willing to help in Spanish, please?

Hi Ara Pelodi. Today I started the Spanish equivalent of WikiProject Deaf. Do you want to give a helping hand? Please, go to es:Usuario:Fadesga/Wikiproyecto:Sordera. Best regards, --Fadesga (talk) 23:28, 11 November 2015 (UTC)