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WikiProject Films September 2008 Newsletter

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Wikipedia Weekly Episode 63

Hello! Wikipedia Weekly Episode 63, an interview with Florence Devouard, has been released. You can listen and comment at the episode's page and, as always, listen to all of the past episodes at wikipediaweekly.org. WODUPbot 07:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXI (September 2008)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXXI (September 2008)
Project news The sixth project coordinator election has now concluded. The following editors have been elected to serve as project coordinators until 31 March 2009: Bedford, Cam, Eurocopter, JonCatalán, MBK004, Nick Dowling, Roger Davies (lead), TomStar81, and Woody. Kirill Lokshin has been appointed coordinator emeritus for as long he wants the position. Congratulations to those elected, and thanks to everyone who participated! Following a successful RfA, Buckshot06 has been promoted to administrator. We wish him every success in his new role!	Articles of note New featured articles: AMX-30E Battle of Goliad Guadalcanal Campaign Harry Murray Morotai Mutiny Phan Xich Long New featured lists: List of Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross recipients List of Zulu War Victoria Cross recipients‎ New featured topics: Guadalcanal Campaign New A-Class articles: 2nd Canadian Infantry Division Air Combat Group RAAF Battle of Berlin Blair Anderson Wark Late Roman army Operation Lüttich SMS Von der Tann SS Minnesotan SS Montanan SS Ohioan (1914) SS Panaman SS Washingtonian USS Iowa (BB-61) USS West Bridge (ID-2888)
Current proposals and discussions The W1.0 Editorial Team have selected 1133 Military history articles for inclusion in the W0.7 test release. For convenience, these are broken by task force and you'll find a list on each task force headed "Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for [task force name]" on the task force talk page. You may nominate extra articles for inclusion or existing ones for removal. If you can improve any of the articles on the list, by adding references, or copy-editing, or cleaning up generally, please do so. A new discussion has started about naming articles on Soviet WWII operations. All contributions are welcome as we hope to resolve this longstanding issue once and for all. The debate over whether Milhist should adopt C-Class is continuing. All comments and suggestions are welcome.
Awards and honors Bellhalla has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his exemplary work on military history articles and DYK entries. For their work improving articles through the Military history review process, Borg Sphere, Cla68, Eurocopter, Nick Dowling, TomStar81, Woody, JonCatalán, Brad and Cam, have been awarded the Content Review Medal. The Contest department has completed its eighteenth month of competition, which saw 45 entries. The top scorer this month is Bellhalla with a record 151 points, followed by Abraham, B.S. with 27 points. Woody, Cam, YellowMonkey, Piotrus, David Underdown, Borg Sphere, Tartarus, Ed!, and Out also fielded entries. Bellhalla is now the overall leader, with 300 points in total. The Chevrons go to Bellhalla and Abraham, B.S. gets the Writer's Barnstar. You are encouraged to submit any articles you are working on as entries.
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Great Work

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		You have been truly outstanding contributor Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 20:33, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Tinucherian, I'd like to thank you for voting in my RFA. Thanks also for expressing your trust in me, and I hope that I live up to your expectations. Don't forget, if you have any questions (or bits of advice), please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again, Spencer^T♦C 03:01, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

AAU reminder notice

A friendly reminder from the Adopt-a-User project =)

Hey there Tinucherian! This is a friendly reminder to update your status at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters whenever it is appropriate in order to provide new users with the most up-to-date information on available adopters. Also please note that we will be removing adopters who have not edited in 60 days. If you become active again (and we hope you do!) please feel free to re-add yourself. Cheers!

• Notice delivery by xenobot 14:37, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your invitation

Hello, thanks for your kind invitation to join the Christianity Wikiproject. I appreciate it! DavidBailey (talk) 10:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Welcome on board friend ! -- Tinu Cherian - 10:56, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Is there a Wikiproject:Christianity user box? DavidBailey (talk) 11:32, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Use {{User WikiProject Christianity}} -- Tinu Cherian - 11:38, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Thanks! I have to admit it's going much better than I expected. Thanks again. Cheers. Thingg^⊕⊗ 13:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

You have been outstanding

You have been truly outstanding in all aspects both techmical and non techinical.In particular for India and Kerala in particular and christanity.Both the great aspect your articles have been balanced and carry a neutral prespective.Actually thought of nom u for Admin we need more admins like you actually in september very few users became admins.Please let me know.When you have time do look at this article of George_Joseph_(Kerala) needs improvement.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 18:19, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your kind words and support.I am not sure whether I am ready for a fire test aka RFA right now. May be some 5 - 8 months later. Till then I am happy being a Wiki Contributor, WikiProject Co-ordinator, Bot Operator and Vandal Fighter etc etc...for now. But some day when I feel that I am more mature and eligible, I will be happy to be nominated. Till then , Kindly give me creative feedback on my edits and other Wiki activities. -- Tinu Cherian - 05:53, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Hello Tinucherian/Archives/2008. Thank you very much for your support in my recent Request for Adminship, which was successful with 111 supports, 0 opposes, and 0 neutral. I have to say I am more than a little overwhelmed by this result and I greatly appreciate your trust in me. I will do my best to use the tools wisely. Thanks again. Regards. Thingg⊕⊗ 01:42, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Please review

Please review my redirects: Annakutty, Anna Muttathupadathu, Alphonsa of India, Alphonsa of Bharananganam. I have based my redirects on this: [1]. Thanks & Regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhadani (talk • contribs)

Perfect ! Thanks for the redirects. -- Tinu Cherian - 14:33, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: WP:Swaminarayan Assessment

Actually that's great, except a lot of them are already assesed. I don't know wy they aren't showing up. But go ahead    Juthani1   ^tcs 13:47, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I fixed it the issue here of WP:Swaminarayan . The importance categories were not defined properly earlier. See the new Stats . As far as Autoassessment , I think I need permissions from WP:HINDU members as it uses a common banner. -- Tinu Cherian - 08:50, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Excellent work! I and the members of the project really appreciate all of your effort and help. Please feel free to join the project. You are very helpful with technical problems    Juthani1   ^tcs 20:02, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the appreciation and offer,frnd. Being the ' founder ' of WP:Christianity in India doesnt deter me in helping out other religion projects. Dont hesitate to ask me of any help from my side. Keep in touch . -- Tinu Cherian - 05:32, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for supporting me in my recent RfA, I greatly appreciate the trust. Regards, Lazulilasher (talk) 00:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help in doing the WP:CUBS article tagging. It's really appreciated. —Borgarde^talk 05:36, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome. Feel free to ping me for any bot help in future. -- Tinu Cherian - 05:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

About tears-invoking pic of girl in anti-India page

"Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of previously published material to our articles " - You have told an Editor called Allen. May I know who 'we' are. You are googlean? Jobxavier (talk) 17:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

You cannot use the pic if it is from Reuters because it is copyright material. The pic has been taken from AICC site by Recordfree. Look at the source of the pic. Pic from AICC site is POV and must not be used in WP. I suppose the intentions of putting up the fake pic are satisfied by now. So, let us go NPOV and remove the pic.

Jobxavier (talk) 23:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Calm down,my friend. Wikipedia adheres to 1) Verifiability 2) Reliable sources 3) NPOV policies, which is applicable to all users' contributions. I am Indian and also a wikipedian. If it is factual , it should have a place in wikipedia.If it not , it should be removed. Do you think things about Kargil War should be removed bcoz it is 'Pro-India' and 'Anti - Pak' ? For your question of the girl pic in Anti-Christian violence in India , the image has been be uploaded from AICC by a user with permissions, which makes it legal to use in Wikipedia. Reuters ( slide 8/31) provides another image of the girl which makes it reliable and verifiable. For your other question, I am not Googlean. ( Kindly read WP:SOCK) . If your are not convinced, you may request a RCU for my contribs. Thisis a templated warning given to Allen131313 (talk · contribs · count) for his vandalism on the above page. FYI, Our=Wikiepida community. I have reasons to believe who might be using the above sock id. I suggest you to be civil and request you not to add personal ideas and views to WP as you did in your talk page and the above articles. I see that you have been blocked indefinitely for your behaviour. Still, I am leaving this reply here just in case you are watching this page. Nevertheless , Have a gr8 day -- Tinu Cherian - 15:01, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Xymmax RfA

Thanks for taking the time to review my RfA. While you did not support my nomination, I still appreciate the fact that you took the time to evaluate my contributions, and provide me with important feedback. Even though my RfA was successful, I intend to take your advice and do some significant article work as well. All the best, Xymmax ^{So let it be written} _{So let it be done} 05:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

AWB 4.4.1.0

It's working without the plug-ins. May be the plug-ins need to be updated to work with the new version. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 00:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

See below section : "Kingbotk Plugin Regression" -- Tinu Cherian - 06:11, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Reply

Really, wow. Thanks for that. I would have thought calling someone backwards would have been more degratory or POV then calling somebody lower caste. Didn't know it was the government term for it though. Deavenger (talk) 18:54, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

No probs.. Dont hesitate to ping me if you have any India related questions -- Tinu Cherian - 07:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Interwiki bots

For interwikis, yes, see this archive, and the meta page here =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:56, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Nich for the pointers... Reading them,what I understand is that Bots can be given Global rights at meta. But where ( BRFA) can the bot be approved for the bot task ? Each lang wiki BRFA which it wants to edit? Also I see that Global bots only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects . Hence I guess I need to create a new bot account ? Apply at each Wiki ( en at WP:BRFA etc) and then apply for global rights ? -- Tinu Cherian - 07:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

First get a bot flagged for interwiki tasks here. Once established, you can request the flag as a global bot on meta. The bot will then be flagged on wikiproject accounts that have opted in for the global bot access. For those projects that have not opted in, you need to place a request on the BRFA pages there. =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the clarification , Nich -- Tinu Cherian - 09:01, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

BRFA filed for the new Bot -- Tinu Cherian - 10:32, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Rfa Spam

Thank you so much for your support on my RFA, which today passed unanimously. I will do my best to make sure that I don't let any of you down. If you ever need any help with anything, feel free to ask me, i'll be happy to. Thanks again--Jac16888 (talk) 17:17, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Kingbotk Plugin Regression

Fixed in rev 3448. Seems i unknowingly made some changes which made it mark all templates as bad ones. I'll upload a SVN snapshot soon :) —Reedy 19:08, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Reedy, for the prompt investigation and fix. I tested the SVN.It is working fine -- Tinu Cherian - 04:54, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Can you also look into this bug ? The plugin removes the empty/unassessed taskforce importance parameter while adding something new to the banner ... -- Tinu Cherian - 04:57, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Cool. Yes, i can try and take a look. Do we have any idea when this started? —Reedy 13:15, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

It is a very old issue. Reported here -- Tinu Cherian - 14:02, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Saint Alphonsa

Is it necessary to have Saint Alphonsa as the title of the article. Rather, it should be Alphonsa Muttathupadathu. I have seen many articles on saints like Gonsalo Garcia, Francis Xavier, and Aloysius Gonzaga. They all use the full names. Saint being a common word should be preferred only in case of disambiguation. Any comments? Kensplanet^Talk_{Contributions} 13:47, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I have given my comments at the article talk page -- Tinu Cherian - 17:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikinews

Hello,

Either you or a user with the same user name as you has created an account on Wikinews.

If it was you that became a user, Welcome to Wikinews. Please take a look at the guide to the policies on Wikinews to get an idea of the policies. If you intend to carry out original reporting for Wikinews, please also take a look at this policy.

If you did not create this account please leave me a message at this page, so appropriate action can be taken.

By the way, a full welcome message has been left at the Wikinews page.

Happy editing,

Anonymous101 (talk) 16:19, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes It is me who created the a/c in wikinews. Thanks for the welcome and leaving a note -- Tinu Cherian - 16:30, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello, Tinucherian. You have new messages at Anomie's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Oh, Ok. I think I missed it. Thanks for the help -- Tinu Cherian - 16:30, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Requesting category tree for WP1.0 assessments for a WikiProject

Requesting a WP1.0 assessment category tree for WP:WPRS to hopefully start getting our articles more "presentable", if you will. Please contact me if you have any questions/if I've botched some answers. Thanks! JPG-GR (talk) 01:48, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

   * WikiProject name - Radio stations
   * Template Name - RadioStationsProject
   * WikiProject abbreviation - radio station
   * WikiProject category - WikiProject Radio Stations
   * Parent project name - n/a
   * Classes supported - A, B, C, FA, FL, GA, Start, List, Template, Category, Image
   * Options - Importance
   * Optional - n/a

Nevermind, took care of it. JPG-GR (talk) 19:31, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 Computing articles

Hello - I'm asking everyone listed at the Computer and Information Security task force to take a look at a posting from the Wikipedia 0.7 CD release. What articles aren't there but should be? Thanks --h2g2bob (talk) 23:10, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for signing my guestbook

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you for signing my guestbook. LAAFan

- —Preceding unsigned comment added by LAAFan (talk • contribs) 17:54, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Your RFA

Thanks! -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:54, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

bot message

Hi Tinu! Just spotted a trivial spelling mistake in your bot's message, see for example Talk:Ssamjang - "The bot was instructed to tagg these articles" - should be "tag". -- Timberframe (talk) 10:37, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for leaving me a note on this. It was done some time back and I was informed about it and the other grammatical messages on this particular note , by some others too. Thanks again. Have a gr8 day -- Tinu Cherian - 10:50, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello

I removed the message banner from your Blooded edge...pls ensure he does not use that again.
Thanks
info : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Blooded_Edge&diff=247356700&oldid=246364281
--E Renault Talk + 10:29, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for leaving a note regarding my adoptee, User:Blooded_Edge . I also understand that you are new to Wikipedia. Just curious , does he violate any policies at Wikipedia:User page for a small joke like that ?? In general it is considered polite to avoid editing another's user page without their permission ( altough the user doesnt OWN their page) . Some users are fine with their user pages being edited, and may even have a note to that effect. Other users may object and ask you not to edit their user pages, and it is probably sensible to respect their requests. The best option is to draw their attention to the matter on their talk page and let them edit their user page themselves if they agree on a need to do so. In some cases a more experienced editor may make a non-trivial edit to your userpage, in which case that editor should leave a note on your talk page explaining why this was done. Did you talk to him regarding this? Did he object removing this earlier ? Any explainations why you think it shouldnt be there? -- Tinu Cherian - 11:00, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi I left him a note and it disturbs the navigation.Sorry if i did any wrong.--E Renault Talk + 11:05, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

I see that you have left him a message only now. Personally I dont see that msg is a big deal and can be treated as humourous in good spirits. Moreover it is at his userpage only and I still dont understand why you think it is very offending. Lots of people have such things in their userpage. AFAIK , It doesnt directly violate any WP userpage policies. Why dont you consider talking regarding this to your adopter , xeno ? -- Tinu Cherian - 11:15, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

replied to xeno -- Tinu Cherian - 14:26, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for stepping in Tinu, your point about lots of others using it, is indeed very much true. I copied from another user (whose name I forget), and have seen plenty others use it too. Whether it be cheeky links to signature pages or whatever. You say that it disrupts navigation, well I can hardly see what the problem is if all you have to do is click Back to resume normal browsing. Blooded Edge (T•C•A) 19:03, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Your RfA (2)

Thanks you very much :) -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 17:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA

Hi Tinu Cherian! Thank you very much for your support in my RfA, which passed yesterday. I hope not to let you and the others down, and use the tools for the benefit of the project. Cheers, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 22:49, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for leaving a note and best wishes again. -- Tinu Cherian - 04:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Closure of WP:GEOBOT

Regrettably I have come to inform you, that this bot project will not go into operation and therefore the project will be closing down. Thanks everybody for their time and support but there is a clear reason why it failed. Dr. Blofeld (talk) 11:49, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

It is isn't a sudden decision. Its one that gradually became apparent that was difficult to achieve in the circumstances. First of all there was all the hoo-hah at village pump which was enough to put anybody off wanting to create new articles with a bot, then it was partly due to problems with compiling decent data to an acceptable level to create, vile and cynical people like Mick McGee around, problems with bot programming and the committments and restrictions that Fritz has in operating it. We hope the bot can still be used for GEO cleanup tasks in the foreseeable future though Dr. Blofeld (talk) 13:10, 31 October 2008 (UTC)