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United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2012
Hello, I am trying to promote United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2012 to good article. I've started a peer review, if you have any available time, would you please comment on it? Thanks, Grammarxxx (What'd I do this time?) 23:49, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Katherine Clark
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Katherine Clark you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Grammarxxx -- Grammarxxx (talk) 00:11, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
- FYI, it's been 5 days, if no progress is made in 2 days I will have to fail it. Grammarxxx (What'd I do this time?) 21:07, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
New England Wikipedia Day @ MIT: Saturday Jan 18
NE Meetup #4: January 18 at MIT Building 5 | |
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Dear Fellow Wikimedian, You have been invited to the New England Wikimedians 2014 kick-off party and Wikipedia 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. I hope to see you there! Kevin Rutherford (talk) |
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February 2014
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You're invited: Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March
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New England Wikimedians is excited to announce a series of Wikipedia 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) |
Your GA nomination of Katherine Clark
The article Katherine Clark you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Katherine Clark for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 13:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Katherine Clark
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Stub sorting
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Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#WP:BOLDTITLE and election articles
I have started a discussion that may interest you at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#WP:BOLDTITLE and election articles. Anomalocaris (talk) 08:22, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
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Deletion discussion about Daniel J. Hunt
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You're invited!
NE Meetup #5: April 19th at Clover Food Lab in Kendall Square | |
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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. Also, if you haven't done so already, please consider signing up for our mailing list and connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. We hope to see you there! Kevin Rutherford (talk) and Maia Weinstock (talk) |
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John Tyler
I'd like to discuss with you getting Tyler back to FAC. I think it could be done without a lot of time and effort, and I'd like to work with you on that.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:41, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
- We can talk about it here, if you like? Would you like me to join in and help out in getting it ready for FAC, and as a co-nominator there? I have borrowed most of the main resources from the library, and have access to online resources for journals and the like? In either case, you'll have my support at FAC, I was impressed by the article two years ago.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:30, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
- That would be great, and please co-nominate it. I'll jump in and help when I can. I won't be able to borrow the books until Friday but I can do some copyediting in the meantime. —Designate (talk) 13:10, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
- I've spruced it up generally with special attention to the 1840-1841 time frame. I still need to beef up the legacy, and the lede needs drastic cutting. You should look it all over. You know the material.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:57, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
- Great work, you've really been at it. I'll look over it. —Designate (talk) 22:11, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
- I saw you worked on it. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to start the peer review process in my view. It could use more images, and I'm not happy with the legacy section. Possibly we could make the clarification through precedent of the presidential success part of it. I'm away from home for a couple of days but I could work up a paragraph from the sources. I can't nominate it for peer review because I have an article, Babe Ruth, already there. You would have to do it.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:56, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
- I started the PR. —Designate (talk) 15:40, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
- OK, swell. I may ask a couple of people to look at it.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:57, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
- I started the PR. —Designate (talk) 15:40, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
- I saw you worked on it. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to start the peer review process in my view. It could use more images, and I'm not happy with the legacy section. Possibly we could make the clarification through precedent of the presidential success part of it. I'm away from home for a couple of days but I could work up a paragraph from the sources. I can't nominate it for peer review because I have an article, Babe Ruth, already there. You would have to do it.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:56, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
- Great work, you've really been at it. I'll look over it. —Designate (talk) 22:11, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
- I've spruced it up generally with special attention to the 1840-1841 time frame. I still need to beef up the legacy, and the lede needs drastic cutting. You should look it all over. You know the material.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:57, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
- That would be great, and please co-nominate it. I'll jump in and help when I can. I won't be able to borrow the books until Friday but I can do some copyediting in the meantime. —Designate (talk) 13:10, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
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Patricia St. Aubin
Hi, I came across your name in several articles concerning MA, and candidates for it's elected offices. After looking at your user page, I see it is an interest of yours. I recently submitted an article for creation on Patricia St. Aubin, the Republican nominee for MA state Auditor in the November election, and I would very much appreciate any thoughts you have on it. I expect other editors will provide their input as the election nears, but I think your familiarity with MA wiki articles could be valuable to the quality of this page. Thanks. JustOneOfThosePeople (talk) 05:50, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
DYK for ZunZuneo
On 13 May 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article ZunZuneo, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the United States Agency for International Development covertly developed ZunZuneo, the "Cuban Twitter", allegedly as a means of fomenting dissent similar to that of the Arab Spring? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/ZunZuneo. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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A barnstar for you!
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On behalf of the FAC community, for your great efforts manually closing promoted and archived nominations. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:09, 27 June 2014 (UTC) |
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Pierce
Reading ...--Wehwalt (talk) 09:44, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
- Much appreciated, I'm looking forward to your comments. I went through all the image licenses and PR tools the other day. I have a faint hope we could get it through FAC by November 23 (his 210th birthday). I know it still needs work, though, particularly the legacy section. —Designate (talk) 18:36, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
- I've got a few bios and books on the K-N act. You have most of the bios, the only one you lack is the Schlesinger. I am sure I can scare up enough legacy stuff to make it work. I've only read part of the article but it looks very solid so far. I think that's a realistic goal, Nov 23. If it's sitting at FAC in November, we can ask Bencherlite to hold off scheduling that date or something.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:20, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Notification
Since you commented at Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations#The State of GAC, I thought you might want to comment at Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations#Formal decision on nomination limit. Most people who commented on the initial discussion do not seem to be following this page, because the formal decision has gotten very few responses.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:48, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Archiving FAC
Hello. Can I ask for a FAC closure on Megadeth? The FA delegate promoted the candidate three days ago. Since it was a former FA at the time, it needs to be removed from the WP:FFA list also. Thanks in advance.--Retrohead (talk) 22:42, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
More Pierce
I think it's pretty close to being ready to go for peer review purposes anyway. I'm giving it a slow read through. I beefed up the legacy section a bit. I'd like to say more, but people seem to agree. John Sherman had some interesting comments about Pierce, here, maybe we could squeeze it in. We should move the bios we aren't using to a "further reading" section. I'll try to look for inconsistencies in the references, but it's really not my strength.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:18, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
- I've done that now. Take a look at it and let's see where we are.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:04, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
- I think it's PR-ready. Sherman's opinion is interesting, probably moreso than Grant's which someone (not me) included in the article. —Designate (talk) 03:14, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
- There's some POV tag or other, I'll look at it in the morning when I'm fresher.--Wehwalt (talk) 04:26, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
- Done. We can include Sherman if someone feels the Legacy section needs more bulk.--Wehwalt (talk) 08:46, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
- I think it's PR-ready. Sherman's opinion is interesting, probably moreso than Grant's which someone (not me) included in the article. —Designate (talk) 03:14, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Deletion discussion about Marian T. Ryan
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