User talk:Jfingers88/Archive1

Jfingers88 21:24, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

meh, I never even put it on my own page ^__^

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Jfingers. We ask that you do not write biased or opinionated materials in Wikipedia to help us stay accurate. Thank You

IPDBA -- really International?

Hi, Jfingers88, thanks for fixing my stub error on the International Progressive Dog Breeders' Alliance -- I didn't know what to do, because they aren't really international. The IPDBA has only three members, very small splinter or novel breed clubs, all U.S. based, and they are run out of a P.O. box in Kentucky. And I'm new at this, and not very good at stubs anyway.  :) -- Lisasmall 21:29, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower ^háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
(message delivered by FireFox using AWB on Celestianpower's behalf)

Thanks

Thank you again for your time and forgive me again if I am going about this the wrong way. Firstly, if I am please guide me. I intend to be a good citizen and contribute well. Second, I am not spamming that I am aware of. Please let me know what I am doing which is being construed wrongly. I have added sites, deleted sites which are just depositing spyware unto users' PCs and of course added and corrected to articles. Thank you for your guidance. Also, the legitimate sites (several) that I ama dding are being erased by others. Are they being warned as well, or is there other mechanisms at work which I do not understand (yet)? The user 24.205.14.53 keeps erassing my legitimate additions. What action may I take here> My additions are definitely of value to the readers and users.

Thanks

Thanks for your welcome message. Am I doing this correctly? I have been adding and editing the metal music pages. Someone is telling me to stop. Help! My links and edits are valid and stem from years of familiarity with the topic. Why am I being warned?

Disambiguation

I have created abn article called "Little India (magazine) . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_India_%28magazine%29 . . . I think it may need disambiguation since most entries called "Little India" are ethic enclaves. Bow do I manage this?

Arundhati bakshi 23:38, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for your help on Rulers of Pate, I really appriciate it. I had hoped to get the rest of the inf. on the same page (it seemed like too small an amount of inf. to start a stub) -but now I will have a go at it. Anyway, thanks again. Regards, Huldra 04:56, 15 February 2006 (UTC)l

Re:template

Not to my knowledge, which is annoying. I'll try and have a look, and find a way of doing it but I don't think there is one.

It's nice to see someone using my template though, so thanks :) James Kendall [talk] 10:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Gordonville, PA

Thanks for fixing links at Gordonville, PA. I do plan to add more text to the article and post a photo of the place soon. EdK 23:21, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I noticed your FSC box. La Salle? Farther away? EdK 03:26, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

My links

While I almost appreciate your changing my links to say something, don't mess with my talk page unless you have something important to say, ok, Jimbo? Jeez.... Matt White 19:36, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Again, not important. Please hold off on doing crazy things, at least to my user page. And I thought about that, but, as it says, I'm too lazy AND I don't want you touching my user page..... Matt White 19:58, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks J-bo, by the way, the "e" in Jfingers links to esperanza. What the Heck? Matt White 21:33, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Welcome Response

Hey, this is JaysCyYoung. Thank you very much for the kind welcome to Wikipedia as a registered user. I appreciate your offer of help. I have, however, been editing and creating many articles ananymously for quite some time now, so I don't believe that will be necessary. Your warm welcome is greatly appreciated though!

-- Jameson.

The Long-Needed Welcome

and finally...

Welcome!

Hello, Jfingers88/Archive1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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• Help pages
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• How to write a great article
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Kukini

Thanks

Good suggestions.

TheRingess 05:12, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Your suggestions were dead on. I believe that it's time to stop pushing my edits and allow the users who are offended by my behavior their chance to present their case. It seems the most respectful course of action.

TheRingess 06:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Inventor-stub

Hi - I've replied to your comment here. Grutness...wha? 00:22, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

1,000,000th

Congrats on being there to welcome the millionth Wikipedian! EdK 14:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

My Welcomes

Thanks for your suggestion for my welcomes. I like to use copy-paste for my welcomes so that I can customize them as the case calls for it. For example, I may change one of the lines to read something like, "I see you've started contributing to basketball articles, which is one of my great interests as well," so that it can be more personal. Thanks for your suggestions, though, and feel free to make similar suggestions in the future- there are many things I know little to nothing about, and always welcome new ideas. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 06:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikibreak

I hope your Wikibreak will help all your stress disapear! -- Natalya 03:51, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

File:Esperanza.Fhloston.jpg

Esperanza hopes that your stress will blow away soon.

• Hopefully with a fresher, relaxed mind to edit again when you return! :) - Mailer Diablo 17:38, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Anonymous threats to me

I am pretty new to Wikipedia; I just registered at your suggestion a couple weeks ago. Anyway, I just recently edited an article on Ryan Braun and apparently ticked off an anonymous user, User:67.121.107.59. He responded on my talk page, User_talk:Phoenixrod, by personally threatening me with death. Since I am new to Wikipedia, I am not sure how to handle this. Can you help out a Wikipedia newbie? I'd appreciate it! Phoenixrod 03:52, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I'll try to fix my talk page and not remove things in the future. The reason I reverted was because User:67.121.107.59 wrote over existing text on my talk page. Phoenixrod 07:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

AWB list

Sure, I'll add you. I approved Zsinj because he asked for someone to, so I only processed his request ;)--Shanel 23:22, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Help!

I contacted the Associated Press for permission to use a photo. Never done this before. I just copied and pasted the boilerplate request for permission found at Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission#Informal (images) into an e-mail. The representative responded -- I thought they'd just say "yes" or "no" -- by asking me to call them to "see if we can reach some agreement". Now, I'm new to this. I'm not very familiar with all the policies/law on this. All I want is permission to use the photo. As I understand it, Wikipedia only accepts copyrighted materials under fair use (which doesn't apply here) or GFDL, which seems like it's too much for the AP to accept. (I think they might want to license this one particular use, but not extend that license to everybody who visits the article (which is Richard C. Casey). What should I do? --Hyphen5 01:36, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiWelcome Lei

I noticed you commented on my ideas and I agree with you. I have a new idea regarding the lei. Instead of sending it with the welcome message I will simply put a link to it but "present it in a similar fashion here. Please also see my welcome message. Like I said before I think it adds a fresh, fun, and personal touch to the boring welcome message and links. Tell me what you think. Thanks. ¡Dustimagic! ^(T/C) 23:03, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

Reach out Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience: "No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Note from the editor Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!

The last AC meeting (full log) Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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My userpage error

YIKES! Thanks for pointing that out to me. Being the dummy I am, I never would've figured that out myself. And yeah, I did copy it from his userpage, so I went and stole it into a subpage of mine. Again, thanks for that. Now I'm off to school, where I can redeem my brain-ness for today. :P Mo0[talk] 17:18, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Athletics at olympics

What is your logic for seperating all the events in to their own table? Doesn't this now mean a lot more scrolling to find the appropriate information? David D. (Talk) 18:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

It is my personal style. Thanks for noticing and I have 330 edits, I just dont change it much. --Slipknot222 22:05, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

ZsinjBot

Stopped. Thanks for alerting me of this. That's a tricky bug, but an easy one to fix. Thank you again. --Zsinj^Talk 02:23, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Barnstar Brigade The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date: "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Information Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!

The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)