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Ghana

Hi Riana did you restore those deleted images which I have the license for? I've been waiting months ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter Volume III, Issue no. 001 - June 2008

Project News Tag & Assess 2008, an assessment drive initiated by the assessment department began on June 7, 2008 and will be running until July 2008. Many Wikipedians have started contributing to this mammoth task. This housekeeping activity will help manage articles in better way. You can also get involved! Bot Assisted Assessment was successfully done using Bot0612 in May 2008. 1744 articles (18.5%) of all India unassessed articles were marked if they had been assessed by some other project. What's Featured and Good? Five new articles were promoted to featured article status in 2008: Western Chalukya architecture, 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, Akhtar Hameed Khan, Preity Zinta, Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara Empire. Two new lists were given featured list status in 2008: List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar, List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality. There is currently one Indian article as a featured article nominee. Two more articles, (Bengali language, Kazi Nazrul Islam) are undergoing featured article reviews. You could help save these two articles by leaving your comments or assisting the involved editors. Three articles are undergoing good article nominations: Anekantavada, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Santosh Subramaniam. IPL was hot on Wikipedia too!!! During the tournament, the article was among the most frequently edited articles. It is currently the only Indian article in top 100, occupying 58th spot. Do you know of an article that is currently underrated? If so, please nominate the article at the Assessment Department's request for assessment. This will allow our project to get a better idea of the quality of our articles. Article statistics and to-do lists Article Statistics Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. India articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 19 20 16 10 8 73 FL 1 4 2 1 1 9 A 2 3 3 8 GA 4 5 7 12 16 44 B 87 128 194 153 263 825 Start 74 208 530 946 2730 4488 Stub 36 159 428 2540 18644 21807 List 360 360 Assessed 221 526 1180 3665 22022 27614 Unassessed 1 7 46 92 12815 12961 Total 222 533 1226 3757 34837 40575 Complete To-Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. India-related tasks | Indian noticeboard Requests: Sibichen K Mathew, Dominic Emmanuel, AK Merchant, Counterfeiting of currency notes in India, Akhand Pratap Singh, Asura (band), Asian Variety Show, Cultural liberalism in India, India Export Tax, India Import Tax, More... NPOV: Greater Nepal Rajneesh, Ranjit Lal Jetley Hedgewar, Puttanna Kanagal, Bride burning, Sonia Gandhi More... Wikify: Railway stations, Mahavidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, Silk in the Indian subcontinent, IDBI Bank More... Cleanup: , Rampur, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Shipping Corporation of India, Velama, Medical college (India), All India Radio, More... Merge: Raghava Rama, Sammar Bahisht, Sathya Sai Baba movement,More... Expand: Prime Minister of India, Krishna district, List of railway stations in India, Swaraj, Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), Barak Missile Deal Scandal, 14th Lok Sabha, Adithada, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bandhani work, Bhaiband, Chikan (embroidery), China Town, Kolkata, Rahi Masoom Raza, Energy policy of India, Essar Shipping, Fair use, Hinduism in India, Imperial Bank, Inbuan Wrestling, Iran-India relations, Islam in India, Arjuna award, Sunil Mittal, Save Indian Family, Anjana Sukhani, Rajendra K. Pachauri, More... Stubs: Anand Math, A R Antule, Arjuna award, Army of India, Bapudeva Sastri, Bombay Dyeing, Indian Copyright Act, Marimallappa, Mumbai Skywalk, More... Translate: Bhojpuri Wikipedia articles, Maithili Wikipedia articles, Telugu Wikipedia articles, Marathi Wikipedia articles, Hindi Wikipedia articles, Sanskrit Wikipedia articles, Tamil Wikipedia articles Kannada Wikipedia articles Collaborate: Collaborations of the Month, Notice board, Category Adoptions To do, Version 1.0 assessment, India Portal, Life in India, India quick links Indian Wikipedians, More... Requested images: Ilaiyaraaja, M. S. Subbulakshmi, R. K. Narayan, Free image of Aarti Chhabria Other requests: Add maps from WikiProject India Maps to articles of Indian regions found at List of regions in India Create links/categories to {{Elections in India}} template

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Portal Review

Could you take a look at the new Ancient Near East portal? I'd like to submit it for a Featured Portal review when I find/improve a few more articles for the "selected article" section, and would welcome any feedback you could offer at this time.

Thanks, IansAwesomePizza (talk) 21:53, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

	Happy Birthday	from the Birthday Committee
	Wishing Riana a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

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WikiProject Alternative music newsletter

The Alternative music WikiProject Newsletter Issue 15 - June 2008

"I've gotten into communication states with cats where I know I heard their voices in my head and we'd sit around and have conversations with each other. Like me and one cat there, one cat there and one cat there and I would sit there for like three hours talking to them before I realized 'I can't believe I've been talking to cats for three hours.'" - John Frusciante Project news "Under the Bridge" and Year Zero (album) reached featured article status in the past month! Well done to NSR77 and Drewcifer3000. List of Nine Inch Nails tours and the discographies of The Strokes, Faith No More, Pearl Jam, Echo & the Bunnymen and Death Cab for Cutie reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Drewcifer3000, Indopug, Balthazar, -5-, JD554, and Teemu08. Wilco was featured on the Main Page on June 8. We collaborated on "Under the Bridge", Siouxsie & the Banshees, I Should Coco, Stone Temple Pilots, and MTV Unplugged in New York during the past month. During the month of June, Double Nickels on the Dime, Jeff Buckley, and "In Bloom" were promoted to good article status. This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll (2005).

New members Fvasconcellos and Alternative_Idiot joined the alternative music fold during June. Editors User:WesleyDodds

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:NewYorkGiants 1000.png)

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Reminder about Islam in the United States

You are receiving this message because you are listed as the protecting admin for Islam in the United States. The page has been semiprotected for longer than 2 months without an expiry date set. Because Wikipedia relies on contributers to make the encyclopedia, I'm asking you to review your decision and either

• Unprotect the page if protection is no longer needed, or
• set a reasonable expiry date for the protection instead of leaving it on forever

I hope that you will do one of the two in order to reduce the backlog of pages that have been semiprotected for very long period of time. Thank you. -Royalguard11(T) 19:41, 6 August 2008 (UTC) Why am I receiving this message?

Thanks for the reminder. It's been over a year! ~ Riana ⁂ 00:38, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Simple English Wikiquote

I apologize. Apparently Z, who temporarily had administrative rights at Simple English Wikiquote, had blocked you on that project, for reasons that make no sense to me. I just noticed now, and have unblocked you. I'm sorry I didn't notice before. SwirlBoy39 noticed that there are some inappropriate blocks and brought it to my attention. I'm sorry I didn't notice earlier. ☺ Coppertwig (talk) 01:30, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

That's quite alright, I doubt I would have ever noticed. :) ~ Riana ⁂ 10:07, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject China

the quality scale for project [1] has C class but the project template does not recognise it. Please can you or someone else fix. thanks Tom (talk) 14:17, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

(seems to be done - ~ Riana ⁂ 10:08, 13 August 2008 (UTC))

Wikipedia Weekly Episode 59

Hey there! Wikipedia Weekly Episode 59: An Interview with Sue Gardner at Wikimania 2008 has been released. You can listen and comment at the episode's page (at least one listener thought this could be the best interview ever), and as always, listen to all of the past episodes at wikipediaweekly.org. Peace. WODUPbot 01:03, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Tag team

Hiya, just wanted to let you know about this page, which is an outgrowth of our discussions at the Working Group wiki. Since you were involved with the development of the definitions there, I wanted to invite you to the new page here on EN, in case you'd like to participate with its development. --Elonka 17:05, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly Episode 60

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Wikipedia Weekly Episode 61

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Empty white talk page pounce

Take it you're back? Joy of joys! :D Sceptre ^(talk) 13:17, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorta. July looks to be cold and boring, so I might edit stuff here and there. Probably gonna keep things old-school and just edit what I want when I want to, y'know. Hope you're doing good! ~ Riana ⁂ 13:18, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

So old-school it's made of wood and called "Ug Ug's Ug". Sceptre ^(talk) 13:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

OMGS! We have C-class! clicky! Also there's going to be changes to RfA (as usual) ooh another clicky! Probably more but I'm not as with-it as some of the other street kids these days - curse you uni exams!Welcome back by the way! James086^{Talk | Email} 00:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Massive *groan* at your second link, James... RfA chose shining stars like the pair of us, clearly it's doing fine! RfB on the other hand... *grumble*... :) Hope the uni exams went well, mine were surprisingly okay, probably thanks to going cold turkey here... and let that be a lesson to you all :) ~ Riana ⁂ 02:23, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I read that! :P —Giggy 02:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

w00ties!! Welcome back, girl. Nice to see you back here :) - Alison ^❤ 04:54, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

"RfB on the other hand..." Still mournful over your RfB? Well we can correct that. *huggles* Great to have you back :) —Dark ^talk 12:41, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, look who showed up late to the party. Yup, it's Heimstern. So yeah, my condolences on your being back at Wikipedia. :-) Heimstern Läufer (talk) 18:46, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly Ep. 51

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No gossip from me directly...

…but there's an Easter egg on my page you and a few others might be interested in. ;) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  04:51 4 July, 2008 (UTC)

Smile!

Here's a sandal keychain for you! Sandal keychains somehow promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others! Happy editing! Húsönd 00:57, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Lovely to see you back here after nearly a century. Good day to you, Riana. :) --PeaceNT (talk) 02:42, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

w00t!

Ping. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

RollBack

can you please grant me rollback permission.as you are an admin,i had liked to ask you about this feature. By that it might do something sensible in Wikipedia. --
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SD /- • Autographed and Signed by RRaunak • Wanna meet him ? •
05:12, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome Back!

Hi there Riana, I just thought I'd drop by and say hello since you seem to be back, so... hello! :) -[[Ryan]] ^{(my desk)} 13:12, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Couple of blocking questions

Two questions, related to User:-73hww:

• Would you be willing to leave an indef-block notice on talk pages please? I left a warning on the talk page nearly an hour after you made the block, since there wasn't a notice.
• About the user him/herself: was s/he a new user, or had s/he been violating policy for a good while?

Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 13:58, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

• Hi Nyttend, I believe the contributions log and the timestamps within them are ample indication of whether your warning is timely or not. However, I'll try to be more disciplined. The user is a known troll with sockpuppets engaged in harassment of a few other users. I can't really give you anymore info because I've just returned from quite a long break :) Cheers, ~ Riana ⁂ 14:00, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Riana the koala?

Holidays is sleepy time:P *flees* —Dark ^talk 13:32, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Working Group Wiki Final Report

Hey, as a reminder, the Working Group is approaching our 6-month deadline for producing our final report. The draft is being built at [2]. Could you please stop in, and see if there is anything you'd like to add? Or if not, just signoff at the talkpage that you are okay on how things are going? Thanks, Nishkid (talk) 19:25, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Heya, we're planning on making the report final tomorrow (August 7, the 6-month mark). If you get a chance, could you please review and/or endorse? Thanks, --Elonka 14:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Request Suggestions

I looked you up from Wikiproject India, in which I have enlisted myself. I have been spending some time bringing this article up to par and I have done a lot of work today. Would you take a look into the article and suggest the ways in which it can be expanded (I have a list of mathematical, medical, and engineering related innovations but am really lacking in the machines, astronomy, physics etc. fields) and made better? I want to bring it up to the level of this article and then work on the Science and technology in ancient India (rename it 'History of science and technology in India') article and then perhaps add a section like this one in the India article.

Thanks in advance, South Block (talk) 09:10, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Bell the cat

As the original author of that article, I completely agree. I deliberately let it go when I saw it on my watchlist out of the sheer wonderfulness of that sentence. JKBrooks85 (talk) 03:17, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

lol! Particularly evocative use of the word "usually", I can only imagine the struggles some "human pet-owners" must endure to bell the little fluffballs :) ~ Riana ⁂ 15:37, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Becoming a Sysop

How do you become a sysop? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stub12718696 (talk • contribs) 01:07, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly

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WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for July 2008

The Alternative music WikiProject Newsletter Issue 16 - July 2008

"We are the best band in the world....modestly the best band in the world." - Darren Middleton Project news List of Nine Inch Nails live-band members, List of The Killers awards, and the discographies of Kaiser Chiefs, Soundgarden, Garbage, and Mark Lanegan reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Underneath-it-All, Drewcifer3000, -5-, WilliamH, and Be Black Hole Sun. R.E.M. was featured on the Main Page on July 10. We collaborated on With Teeth, American Idiot, Weezer, and "Creep" (Radiohead song) during the past month. During the month of July, The Black Parade, Arcade Fire, and "Live Forever" were promoted to good article status. We are currently discussing various alternative rock albums as possible candidates for a project-wide Featured Topic collaboration. Please join the discussion here. This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop (1996).

New members Arbocalaviv, Samushi101, Carbonrodney, Red157, and dmodlin71 joined the alternative music fold during July. Editors User:WesleyDodds

SoxBot II (talk) 03:14, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Working Group Final Report

As a reminder, the Working Group's deadline to post a final report, occurs on August 7. A draft final report is now on EN, at Wikipedia:Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars/Draft report. Could you please review it, and either edit it, post comments at the talkpage, and/or post your endorsement at the bottom of the report? Thanks, Nishkid (talk) 23:25, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

baseball template

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Baseballstats&action=edit

has been locked. i wanted to add in another linkset to that. how can we do that?

thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.117.201.120 (talk) 16:28, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for August 2008

The Alternative music WikiProject Newsletter Issue 17 - August 2008

"Oh, we've been called an alternative band before. But we eat meat, so I think we're disqualified: chili dogs, corn dogs, Jimmy Dean Sausage Breakfast."- Kurt Cobain Project news "My Happiness" (song) reached featured article status in the past month! Well done to Giggy. Isobel Campbell discography, List of Nine Inch Nails awards, List of Soundgarden awards, and List of Pearl Jam awards reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Red157, Drewcifer3000, -5-, and Be Black Hole Sun. Flea (musician) was featured on the Main Page on August 19. We collaborated on "Interstate Love Song", The Smiths, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, Sub Pop, and Bleach (album) during the past month. During the month of August, Superunknown, Vs. (Pearl Jam album), Black Holes & Revelations, "Clocks" (song), and Disintegration were promoted to good article status. We are currently discussing various alternative rock albums as possible candidates for a project-wide Featured Topic collaboration. Please join the discussion here. This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is Velocity Girl - Copacetic (1993).

New members Corythepaperboy, Hiram111, Yozzer66, and Lugnuts joined the alternative music fold during August. Editors User:WesleyDodds

SoxBot II (talk) 21:41, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Bande Dessinée portal

Hello, I saw that you are a portal peer review volunteer. I have worked much for the improvement of my portal, but some concerns may remain:

• Is the image at the top of the page useful and aesthetic, or should I remove or replace it ?
• Problem with the selected biography: I contented myself with writing a short sentence as an introduction for each personality. Then I wrote the beginning of the biography, then put a link "more..." to the complete article. Is it approriate ?
• Selected images are not of the same size. Is it really a problem ? It should be noted that free images for comics are very rare.
• Is the presentation of the news correct ? I did not specified the exact date of each event, only the month, because I do not know it.
• If you have any other recommendations about other aspects of the portal, do not hesitate ! It MUST become a featured portal ! Thanks. (Please reply here).--Pah777 (talk) 22:02, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for September 2008

The Alternative music WikiProject Newsletter Issue 18 - September 2008

"And suddenly the plane dropped to the right, then to the left, and the ground was right there. And all I could think was, Fuck, I didn’t finish "Fix You." That would have been my last thought: I didn’t get that chorus right."- Chris Martin Project news Disintegration reached featured article status in the past month! Well done to NSR77 and WesleyDodds. List of Björk awards, List of Rage Against the Machine awards, and List of awards and nominations received by Muse reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Gary King, who wrote all three featured lists. David Lovering was featured on the Main Page on September 17. We collaborated on Parklife, Tragic Kingdom, Bauhaus (band), and OK Computer during the past month. During the month of September, The White Stripes, "Yellow" (song), No Depression (album), "Speed of Sound" (song), "The Scientist" (song), "God Put a Smile upon Your Face", "In My Place", Demolition Plot J-7, No Age, and "All the Way" (Eddie Vedder song) were promoted to good article status. Help us select good versions of WP:ALM articles for inclusion on the Wikipedia 0.7 release! Find out more about Wikipedia 0.7 selection on the project talk page and add your thoughts to the discussion. If you are personally responsible for a Featured or Good Article listed here, please the select a version to include in Wikipedia 0.7 on that page if you haven't already. Page versions must be selected by October 20. This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home (2006).

New members ThinkBlue joined the alternative music fold during September. Editors User:WesleyDodds

SoxBot II (talk) 20:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Cheesecakes...

You just noticed? It's been making Krakatoa sound like childsplay since 2006... Moar Dramaz! :) btw, just returned from Tassie so all's good. —Dark ^talk 22:16, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Riana

for upping the protection on my page. Appreciate it, Julia Rossi (talk) 07:44, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for October 2008

The Alternative music WikiProject Newsletter Issue 19 - October 2008

"When we were trying to sell 'This Corrosion' to Steinman, we said it was like the high point of a Borgia disco evening and he went for it. Nobody makes gloriously stupid records anymore."- Andrew Eldritch Project news "Paranoid Android" reached featured article status in the past month! Well done to Brandt Luke Zorn and Giggy. List of awards and nominations received by The White Stripes, List of awards and nominations received by The Strokes, List of awards and nominations received by Nirvana, List of awards and nominations received by Beck, List of awards and nominations received by Gorillaz, List of awards and nominations received by Barenaked Ladies, and the discographies of The White Stripes and Supergrass reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Gary King, Red157, and TwentiethApril1986. A Rush of Blood to the Head reached good topic status during the past month. Well done to ThinkBlue. We collaborated on Modest Mouse, "Paranoid Android", "Alright" (Supergrass song), and "Karma Police" during the past month. During the month of October, Parachutes, X&Y, A Rush of Blood to the Head, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, The Singles 1992–2003, I Should Coco, The Beacon Street Collection, Tragic Kingdom, and "No One Knows" were promoted to good article status. This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju (1981).

New members SanePsychotic joined the alternative music fold during October. Editors User:WesleyDodds

SoxBot II (talk) 02:47, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Protection

It would be good if you protect Phil Hellmuth while you are at it. Vandals will be hitting it for the next couple days for sure. 2005 (talk) 11:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

 Done :) ~ Riana ⁂ 11:08, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Now T. J. Cloutier is attracting two vandals. 2005 (talk) 11:12, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Maybe you should just give me a list! I've only left them protected for a day but if it stays bad after that, please feel free to ask at WP:RFPP. ~ Riana ⁂ 11:14, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Working on a list I guess, see Barry Greenstein. User:Booya13 should just be blocked. 2005 (talk) 11:16, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Hm?

Hi Riana, welcome... sort-of... back. ;) -[[Ryan]] ^{(my desk)} 12:57, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Possible range block

Hello!

You blocked 130.18.232.184 (talk · contribs) for vandalism on NARAL Pro-Choice America. 130.18.232.167 (talk · contribs) is now vandalizing the same article, clearly the same user on a dynamic IP. Would you be able to block this IP as well (it's the same person, there's no need for another full set of escalated warnings) or possibly see if a temporary range block may be appropriate?

Thanks! SWik78 (talk • contribs) 20:01, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Tanks

Wonder who I torqued off THIS time? :) SirFozzie (talk) 16:29, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

G'day Wikimedian :-)

Whilst it's quite likely you'll have heard this news on the grapevine, in your email inbox, or even in person - I thought that it was sufficiently exciting to warrant giving each of you a 'new messages' orange bar! This particular orange bar has been brought to you to let you know that Wikimedia Australia is now open for members!

I'm not on the committee or anything, and that's where the credit is due in getting everything to this point, but I think it would be absolutely fantastic for folks who wish to support the australian wiki community, to go ahead and sign up - we're quite likely to be the world's fatest growing chapter at the moment! Join Us :-)

Here's a little more about membership, and the mailing list in particular is well worth signing up to as well, and is a good forum to get answers to any questions answered, or to share any ideas. I've dropped these notes in under my own steam, and you've received one because you're on this list - feel free to ask me any questions, or anything - I can certainly point you in the right direction :-) cheers all, Privatemusings (talk) 04:05, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Schools

Hi Riana, I saw your name at Template:PortalReviewVolunteers/List. When you get the chance, do you think you could take a look at Portal:Schools which is up for featured portal. It's been sitting in limbo for well over a month at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Schools and I could really use some input. Many thanks, --Jh12 (talk) 20:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Planning new page on topic you deleted a while back

"Riana, I'm a fairly new contributor here. Actually I put up some biographies a couple of years back but then didn't do anything for awhile. I'm looking at Steve Glickman, Julius Awafong, and the whole VoteSizing concept/movement/whatever. I've found that there are a number of people talking about this, and that there is a sound philosophical and scientific basis. I'm not sure I exactly agree with them that it will work but I think it has become notable as best I understand the term. Bottom line: I've put up bios for Glickman and Awafong and I'm collecting information pursuant to putting up a page on vote sizing. It will be impartial and referenced. This note is a courtesy to you and I think fulfills the guidelines for putting a page back up. Please contact me--talk page or whatever--to provide any comments you may have." Chuck Gregory (talk) 20:18, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Moving courtesy of -[[Ryan]] ^{(Main Menu)} _{(Language Selection)} 22:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks to Ryan for moving this here. I'm still learning my way around but I doubt I'll make that mistake again! Hoping to hear from you, Riana.--Chuck Gregory (talk) 15:20, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Arbcom

I was wondering if you have any remaining concerns I can address for you. Thank you for your consideration. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:53, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Australia newsletter,December 2008

The December 2008 issue of the WikiProject Australia newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. This message was delivered by TinucherianBot (talk) 07:43, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

What's with the message?

Hello. Are you not an admin anymore? And what's with your angry messgae about "shite"? サラは、私を、私の青覚えている。 _Talk ^Contribs 15:26, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

• Don't go rushing off, Riana! We need good folks like you to keep the "shite" from building up. ;-) AGK 16:18, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
  • Precisely. Who will wield the shovels if superstars such as yourself aren't around anymore? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:32, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
    • "Superstars" tend to rise up from the rank of newbie. Riana was once a newbie, and I have no doubt that one of our future "superstars" is getting hit with a {{welcome}} tag right about now. EVula // talk // ☯ // 21:49, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

For what is worth, Riana seems to have had an internal conflict in the past month - she told me that more or less she considers Wikipedia as a time-sucker activity, and that it's controlled by vandals, annoying nerds, and assholes who think they're saving the world.

Perhaps most of these statements are true... see this explanation from the Penny Arcade website. Baby-sitting the net (e.g. "reverting vandalism" hours a day) is not fun... ZaknafeinDoUrden (talk) 21:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

It's hardly a 'conflict', Johnny. She sounds pretty clear and resolute to me, and good luck to her - Alison ^❤ 00:29, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

/me nods. Yep - I hear ya there, Riana, and you're right. Good luck anyways - you know where I'll be if you need anything ;) - Alison ^❤ 00:28, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like the conclusion I've come to. — Deckiller 01:28, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to hear it, but I do understand, fully. Mr. Darcy talk 05:27, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go. Thanks for all your help in the past. Who knows, I may follow you back to th real world soon too someday and leave this all behind... --Yankees76 (talk) 21:01, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

All the thoughts are appreciated but I'm not sure why this is surprising - I have been very inactive for a very long time, and only just realised that my userpage was not accurate, so I amended it. I'm pretty supportive of WP's central aims, just not the sideshow that comes with it. ~ Riana ⁂ 03:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Wishing you the very best for the season. Guettarda (talk) 01:57, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Shuvho Noboborsho, what's the time in Australia now? :D REgards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 21:14, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Riana,

Wishing you a happy a new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

Majorly talk 20:20, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Riana, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2009 brings further success and happiness! ~ YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Hope all is well? Another exciting year in Adelaide no doubt? YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Is there such a thing? :) ~ Riana ⁂ 02:22, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Riana, a belated Happy New Year to you. I hope everything is going well for you. Trusilver 20:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)