Introduction

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You can sign your name with ~~~~ (or just ~~~ to leave out the date stamp). If you have questions or doubts of any sort first see the help pages, then do not hesitate to post them on the Village Pump and somebody will respond ASAP. Have fun! --Jiang 03:47, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Welcome from me too, I've seen you doing some very good edits. Good to have you here. - Hephaestos 03:49, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Cool. Thanks for the tip! - Sensor 21:27, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Lawyer

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"In addition, all but a handful of jurisdictions require that the applicant have earned a law degree from an A.B.A.-accredited law school."

I'm looking for those jurisdictions - would appreciate any help. ¦ Reisio 22:38, 2005 August 4 (UTC)
California and Georgia, I believe, are the two. -Sensor 03:12, 5 August 2005 (UTC)Reply
Thankee ¦ Reisio 21:12, 2005 August 5 (UTC)

Thank you!

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Thank ya so much for the kind words on Erie Triangle. I personally think the map is hella dorky, but it was the best I could do with my limited tools. :) Not a local, just a big fan of obscure bits of local history. Spend a lot of time fussing with historic regions of the United States. Not sure when I first heard about it, but agree that it's a neat bit of geographic history. Anyway, thanks again. Really appreciate it. jengod 01:10, August 10, 2005 (UTC)


OK, good to see I'm not the only one with encyclopedic knowledge of obscure geographia. See, I'm an Erie native, and we sometimes think no one knows about us outside of Pittsburghers, who come to Lake Erie in droves every summer. - Sensor 01:35, 10 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hi!

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Hello Mike, nice to find in-laws in Wikipedia ;) I think, I made you brother addicted to it :-P -- Krisztina

Wow, I never expected to find family here. Cool! - Sensor 02:48, 1 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
Well, I'm mostly active in the Hungarian Wiki (even been elected to sysop) and make hardly anything else in English Wikipedia than interwiki links for newly created articles - the bots do the rest :) We have a lot to do over there, you know... But it might change later on, it is only a question of time :) --Serinde 17:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
Urgh, do you spend time translating English articles into the Hungarian Wiki too? That's a lot of work! (If I had to rate my Hungarian skill for Wikipedia:Babel, I'd probably be HU-0.03. :) BTW, you do know that I own and play this, right? You need a photo of the Hungarian version on the Hungarian Wiki - the photo there is the French version! :) - Sensor 02:41, 12 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
I know, Chad told me. I checked the article's history, because I found it very detailed and wondered, how many people was interested - and that's how I found your username :)) - Serinde 12:35, 20 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
And yes, I actually translated some articels from English to Hungarian - not more work than writing it on your own, believe me :) but I did not translate from hu: to en: yet, it seems to be harder - for me. --Serinde 12:40, 20 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Greetings from Miskolc

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Hi! It's nice that Serinde can get her family addicted to Wikipedia :-) Come and visit the Hungarian wikipedia too, you can even learn some of the language there :-) Alensha 12:56, 12 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Actually, I was addicted before I knew Serinde was here! :) Hungarian makes my head hurt sometimes, but it's a neat language. I was trying to edit the page on the tekerőlant to insert a photo of the Hungarian model (I was interested in that because I play the tekerőlant), but I couldn't figure out how to metawiki an image from the English site. I guess I should just upload it to the Hungarian wiki. :) - Sensor 23:43, 12 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
I think you should use Wikimedia Commons, so that other wikis can use it too. :) HuWiki can only use images that were uploaded either to Commons or to HuWiki. Alensha 00:02, 13 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
Of course. *slaps head* The Commons. Thanks - Sensor 00:07, 13 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Thanks

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Thanks for the kind words on my talk page. :) It's always nice to have a few random words of encouragement. --Jacquelyn Marie 03:05, 19 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

You're welcome. Thanks to you, I now know about the Firefox Babel template. :) - dipsomania 03:17, 19 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hydrocarbons on other planets

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This article has been rewritten to reflect current knowledge. I urge you to take a look at it and reconsider your delete vote. Thanks. Denni 03:08, 20 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Good work

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From one Delaware (to presumably another) - Good work on all the Delaware-related articles you have been doing :) →Raul654 19:51, 23 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Riblets

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Tasty death bones...hey, I think I just named a punk-cover band. Youngamerican 02:48, 2 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

Does it meet the criteria of WP:Music? Guess I've been spending too much time looking at votes for deleteting bandcruft. - Sensor 03:08, 2 November 2005 (UTC)Reply


Faculty bash

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How would the comedy show be verified? I have videos, but can't exactly send them anywhere. I'm also working on an entry for the community college the show was held at, so I need a little advice on how it could be incorporated and/or why it's necessary for deletion. Thanks for your time.

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. First, please sign your comments with ~~~~ at the end, so I know who you are.
Now, with regard to verification, that's only part of the puzzle. The article was marked for deletion because the faculty bash was not asserted to be notable. Notability is an extremely important element of a good Wikipedia article. The guideline states that something is notable if it "is known outside of a narrow interest group or constituency, or should be because of its particular importance or impact." In the case of the faculty bash, the article as written does not really show how the bash is notable. If you can point to facts that make it notable -- that it won awards, was broadcast on national TV or even a cable channel, etc. -- you might well be able to get it to fit the bill, but otherwise it will likely be deleted as non-notable. This policy is in place simply because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and unnotable things are not encyclopedic.
You would probably be better off writing an article about the community college in general -- which will almost certainly be notable -- and insert the faculty bash as a subheading in the main article.
It's really not as complicated as it seems. Just try it as it goes, and don't hesitate to ask for help at the Help Desk or by asking me.
To get a good idea about what Wikipedia is and how to write an awesome article, you might want to read:
Let me know if I can be of further help! - Sensor 02:03, 3 November 2005 (UTC)Reply


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Hm, I've never had an image I created *myself*, *of myself*, marked for deletion. Oh noes!!!!! I'm a walking copyvio!! - Sensor 15:09, 4 February 2006 (UTC)Reply


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Your thoughts on a new article

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Hi. A few years ago, you were a great help when I wrote my first article about journal_club. At the time, I was very excited to contribute to wikipedia, and by the revolutionary role JournalReview.org was playing in the medical community. My enthusiasm led me to make the mistake of offering external links to this project in a fassion that recently has been interpreted as spam. Although no links have been offered to JournalReview.org in almost two years, in Feb 08 the website was placed directly on the blacklist (bypassing the nomination phase). There are several reasons why I found this action to be overly aggressive, not to mention that there had never been a warning made to me, about the links, or any other method tried to suggest that these links were not appreciated. I offered my perspective and appologized on the blacklist forum to ask for reconsideration, but my request was denied.

Be that as it may, to demonstrate notability of the project, I have started a draft on my talk page of an article specifically about journalreview.org. I recognize that the article will undergo careful scrutiny as it will require a whitelist requests. I wanted to give the article the best chance of success possible, and was hoping that you might offer some feedback if your time allows.

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WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

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Hi Sensor,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

  • Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
  • It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
  • Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.
  • I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.
2. If you're a law student,
(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)
3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 19:53, 31 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Teaching with Wikipedia Workshop at CMU (Aug 15)

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Since you are one of the editors in the Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Duquesne University, I'd like to invite you to the Teaching with Wikipedia Workshop that will take place at CMU on Aug 15 (this workshop is open to general public, and is a joint imitative of CMU and Pitt). There will be another workshop held at Pitt in the Fall as well. It will cover how to include Wikipedia in one's course (WP:SUP) and also how to become a Wikipedia:Campus Ambassadors. Pennsylvania has currently only one ambassador (myself) and it would be great if we could recruit at least several more. Ambassadors help course instructors, showing them how Wikipedia works, and interact with students. Many current ambassadors come from the body of students, faculty and university staff; it is a fun adventure, and adds to one resume/CV, to boot :) If it sounds interesting, feel free to ask me any questions, or to come to the workshop.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:03, 9 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Photo Lake Erie

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Hi! Are you the owner of the photo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Erie_Sunset_with_fish_net.JPG
I would like to use it on a book cover of an accademic publication in Slovenian language in Slovenia, in 300 copies (only), however with some alterations, maybe also with text. Would you allow me to do it? It is far the best net that I've got on the net! If you agree, I will explain more in details. --Lyonski (talk) 22:09, 19 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Yes, this is my photograph, and you are welcome to use it with appropriate attribution. Thanks! Sensor (talk) 20:28, 6 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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