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2010 Greetings

HAPPY NEW YEAR This is Carcassonne in southern France where I spent Christmas, safely away from Wiki temptations. Back to work now. I hope you have a great year in 2010 for writing, reviewing, or whatever takes your fancy by way of increasing the Chicago profile. Always willing to help when I can. Brianboulton (talk) 23:08, 31 December 2009 (UTC) Conflicted licensing images Given the updates you did on other images with this issue, I hope these can be resolved relatively quickly :) File:20070520_Lifesize_Darth_Vader_at_Lego_Store.JPG File:20070530_Bronze_cow_cast.JPGY--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:06, 6 January 2010 (UTC) File:20070530_Dubeffet_-_Monument_with_Standing_Beast.JPGY--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:10, 6 January 2010 (UTC) File:20070530_Dubeffet_-_Monument_with_Standing_Beast_(1).JPGY--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC) File:20070530_Miro_-_Miro's_Chicago.JPGY--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:09, 10 January 2010 (UTC) File:20070530_Miro_-_Miro's_Chicago_(1).JPGY--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:09, 10 January 2010 (UTC) File:20070530 Moore - Large Interior Form.JPGY--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:12, 10 January 2010 (UTC) File:20070530_Moose_(02-03).JPGY--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:15, 10 January 2010 (UTC) File:20070601 University of Chicago Law Library CowParade.JPG File:20070601 University of Chicago Law Library CowParade (2).JPG Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:41, 1 January 2010 (UTC) GA Sweeps update Thanks to everyone's efforts to the GA Sweeps process, we are currently over 90% done with only 226 articles remain to be swept! As always, I want to thank you for using your time to ensure the quality of the older GAs. With over 50 members participating in Sweeps, that averages out to about 4 articles per person! If each member reviews an article once a week this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. At that point, awards will be handed out to reviewers. As an added incentive, if we complete over 100 articles reviewed this month, I will donate $100 to Wikipedia Forever on behalf of all GA Sweeps participants. I hope that this incentive will help to increase our motivation for completing Sweeps while supporting Wikipedia in the process. If you have any questions about reviews or Sweeps let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 00:18, 2 January 2010 (UTC) Conflicted licensing on image File:20070605 BFFerguson Fountain of the Great Lakes.JPG The above noted image or media file appears to have conflicted licensing. As an image cannot be both 'free' and 'unfree', a check of the exact status of this media/image concerned is advised.Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:46, 2 January 2010 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:20080514 Trump Chicago Kiosk.JPG ⚠ Thanks for uploading File:20080514 Trump Chicago Kiosk.JPG. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 03:08, 3 January 2010 (UTC) Conflicted licensing on image File:20090619 Hadid pavilion.JPG The above noted image or media file appears to have conflicted licensing. As an image cannot be both 'free' and 'unfree', a check of the exact status of this media/image concerned is advised.Sfan00 IMG (talk) 14:42, 3 January 2010 (UTC) Conflicted licensing on image File:20090619 Sui Jianguo's Windy City Dinosaur at Boeing Galleries.JPG The above noted image or media file appears to have conflicted licensing. As an image cannot be both 'free' and 'unfree', a check of the exact status of this media/image concerned is advised.Sfan00 IMG (talk) 14:45, 3 January 2010 (UTC) Cycle Center Thanks for the nice note. You are so productive that I lose track of which article is in what condition. I'm glad the cycle center, which I remember well, made FA. Happy New Year! Finetooth (talk) 02:05, 4 January 2010 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Swimsuit Issue template list Template:Swimsuit Issue template list has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:06, 4 January 2010 (UTC) Re: Mesko My pleasure, Tony. By the way, would you mind glancing at Todd Boyd? The article still refers to "Obama’s potential election", which is a little embarrassing at this point. - Biruitorul Talk 02:24, 4 January 2010 (UTC) McDonald's Cycle Center FA Yeah I noticed that. Congrats on it. What are you currently working on. I'd be glad to help copyedit when I have a spare moment.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:08, 4 January 2010 (UTC) Ambitious eh. I'll help you out with the Chicago articles. I want to complete the set! Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:37, 4 January 2010 (UTC) I'll keep my eye on McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. That would be a good one to develop to FA next in the Millenium set... Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:40, 4 January 2010 (UTC) Tick, Tock I am concerned that you are not having enough time to work on Near South Side, Chicago's GAR. Do you want me to extended the deadline again or something? GamerPro64 (talk) 23:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC) I kept its GA status. GamerPro64 (talk) 22:35, 13 January 2010 (UTC) Jay Pritzker Pavilion Thanks for the heads up - I archived the peer review (and I see you have already fixed the article history). I also looked at the dabs and external links and made a few minor fixes there - one Financial Times link was dead, so I just commented out the URL and converted the {{cite web}} template to {{cite news}}. Also found a broken ISBN so fixed that with the ISBN from WorldCat. Thanks too for the Cycle Center notice. I added a Tiger above - cheated a little on the date to keep your streak going. If you prefer I will use a more conventional dating system. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC) DYK for Red Tail Project On January 6, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Red Tail Project, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Materialscientist (talk) 00:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC) Ernest Hemingway Thought I'd alert you that I've placed the article up for peer review here. Thanks for the suggestion! Truthkeeper88 (talk) 21:55, 6 January 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 1 January 2010 News and notes: Fundraiser ends, content contests, image donation, and more In the news: Financial Times, death rumors, Google maps and more Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 00:11, 7 January 2010 (UTC) DYK for Red Tail Reborn On January 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Red Tail Reborn, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Materialscientist (talk) 12:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC) Conflicted licensing on image File:20070605 BFFerguson Fountain of the Great Lakes.JPG The above noted image or media file appears to have conflicted licensing. As an image cannot be both 'free' and 'unfree', a check of the exact status of this media/image concerned is advised.Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:31, 7 January 2010 (UTC) Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football I think you'll want to check out this discussion: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Articles for each year's roster of a specific team? Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 20:12, 8 January 2010 (UTC) Kate Thanks for letting me know, Tony. I worked quite hard on the article over time and think it is in fairly good condition. I'm looking forward to working with you on it. (I promise not to take as long as I took on Scarlett Johannson!) Wildhartlivie (talk) 05:41, 9 January 2010 (UTC) No problem. I was just reading through and found a typo error and I have a couple WP:GARs (Forest Whitaker and Ben Stiller sitting on my plate plus one waiting for checking after updating it (Daniel Day-Lewis). I'm busy too. Good luck! Wildhartlivie (talk) 05:55, 9 January 2010 (UTC) DYK for The Restorers On January 9, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Restorers, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Materialscientist (talk) 18:00, 9 January 2010 (UTC) DYK for Flight of the Red Tail On January 10, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Flight of the Red Tail, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Materialscientist (talk) 00:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC) Congratulations Woo-hoo! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:27, 11 January 2010 (UTC) Television ratings Unfortunately, I don't know of any good complete archival source. American television ratings are generally provided by Nielsen, but the problem is that to get large sets of historical ratings, one has to pay some kind of subscription fee. Without doing so, one basically has to resort to Googling for specific news articles and for entertainment sites which provide more recent data. Also, to clarify, I was pulling those specific television ratings out from the pre-merge page history, so I was not the one who originally added them. —Lowellian (reply) 07:54, 11 January 2010 (UTC) Millennium Park Looking at the map, I think Lurie Garden is the second largest feature in the park, so that might be my preference over the theater. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 11:58, 11 January 2010 (UTC) Hi. Good to see this at FAC. Can I recommend you add File:2005-10-13 2880x1920 chicago above millennium park.jpg as the main image in the infobox instead as the main image should be an overivew of the whole complex rather than a restricted view in a concert.... I haven't switched images myself as I know you are often very strict with image layout in the article. If possible I'd recommend somebody creates a montage which could combine the two images or even one or two others in the main image, but I think File:2005-10-13 2880x1920 chicago above millennium park.jpg would be far better as the main than the one at present and immediately gices an understanding of the site... Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:19, 11 January 2010 (UTC) Comment copied to ongoing FAC where further discussion will be held.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:05, 11 January 2010 (UTC) OK.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC) Thanks for the note and good luck. Assume you've seen Dr. Blofeld has also supported - I can make a new composite image with the side view you prefer, but want to make sure Dr. B is OK with trying that before putting the time into it. Will ask on FAC page. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 15:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC) Actually I was thinking more along the lines of a side by side photo, I think I preferred it as it was before with just the one image..... Sheeks Tony you can lift 600lbs deadlift? That's amazing!!! Even Magnus Samuelsson's personal best is 825! I am into bodybuilding and fitness myself but I think you'd kick my ass in martial arts and powerlifting!. But compared to this guy. Unbelievable.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:13, 17 January 2010 (UTC) Nah I think it looks OK. If I had a serious concern with it I'd say so at the FAC. Besides, images side by side are likely to be too wide and have to be reduced in px. A good poker player eh? Money, now we're talking... I wonder if they raised enough funds through fundraising drives to create enough to pay editors for making articles featured whether or not we'd see a dramatic imcrease in FAs..... Mention money and paid editing on here though and people go all weird... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:25, 17 January 2010 (UTC) OK I've commented there. The side view sounds interesting but I would not even object to a montage of four images arranged two by two but scaled down in the infobox like File:CityChicagoMontage.jpg but with say, four images??. A trial and error is probably best until we find something that we are all happy with. It might look two bloated but it woould be scaled down and is more informative.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:41, 17 January 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 11 January 2010 From the editor: Call for writers 2009 in review: 2009 in Review Books: New Book namespace created News and notes: Wikimania 2011, Flaggedrevs, Global sysops and more In the news: Wikipedia in British schools, Hitler's Downfall meme, and more Features and admins: Approved this week Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 09:31, 12 January 2010 (UTC) Kate WInslet I was working on the lead rewrite via email with another editor. I was unaware there was a rush on the rewrite. Wildhartlivie (talk) 04:54, 13 January 2010 (UTC) Trump Tower Chicago Congratulations on Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) finally becoming an FA! It is a great accomplishment, and one that was definitely deserved; I know I've said this before, but the article is probably the best skyscraper article on Wikipedia, or at least one of the top few. I responded to your query at Talk:Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)/Archives/2013#Height and floors; I'm sorry it took me a few days. I just got back from a trip, but hopefully now I'll be editing more frequently. Cheers, Rai•me 05:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC) I'll write it, but which section do you think it should go under? Cheers, Rai•me 05:53, 13 January 2010 (UTC) Well, we could put in a new "Height" subsection below "Construction" - the change came after the building finished construction, so chronologically that is where it should be. It would, however, also fit in the "Design and architecture" section without a separate subsection, as that is where its record for the highest residence is discussed. What do you think? Cheers, Rai•me 06:08, 13 January 2010 (UTC) Okay, I wrote the section and put it as a "Height" subsection below Construction. Feel free to change/improve it any way. Cheers, Rai•me 04:46, 17 January 2010 (UTC) Congrats on the FA. Mr. Trump would be very proud eh? Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:59, 17 January 2010 (UTC) Username The user name appears to be a direct copy of Tony the Tiger cereal. Perhaps is was purposely orchestrated or it could be pure and simple coincidence. South Bay (talk) 01:49, 14 January 2010 (UTC) E. J. Mather Given the work you put into the Michigan basketball article, I thought you'd be interested to know I started an article today on E. J. Mather. Feel free to add any pertinent information you think should be included. Cbl62 (talk) 06:43, 15 January 2010 (UTC) Kate Winslet GA nomination Hi Tony, Wildhartlivie has asked me to keep an eye on the GA nomination for Kate Winslet, which I am happy to do. If there are any concerns that you would otherwise have discussed with Wildhartlivie, could you please let me know, and I'll do anything I can to assist in her absence. Thanks in advance. Rossrs (talk) 13:27, 16 January 2010 (UTC) Thank you. I will watch the talk, and I've commented there. I think the article is strong, but the lead worries me somewhat. I'm aware there were issues during the nom so I've gone back through the diffs to try to see who did what and when they did it.  :-) I do want to see this nomination succeed, and any guidance you can give, no matter how slow, will be appreciated. Rossrs (talk) 14:49, 16 January 2010 (UTC) I'll give it some more thought. I've been working on film articles, or more correctly WP:ACTOR articles, for a while and the leads are often the hardest element to get right. I'll read through some featured article leads and see if I can find something to model this one on. I agree that the current lead is a vast improvement and it's on the right track, but it's somewhat repetitive and the handling of awards is fragmented. I'd like to see it all brought together in a simpler form, while conveying the same info. A bit of challenge. I'll comment on the talk page if I'm struck by inspiration. Rossrs (talk) 15:10, 16 January 2010 (UTC) Unreferenced BLPs Hello TonyTheTiger! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 243 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article: Herbert Fisk Johnson III - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 05:06, 17 January 2010 (UTC) DYK for SitNGo Wizard On January 18, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article SitNGo Wizard, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Materialscientist (talk) 12:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC) File:2009 Sports Illustrated Cover.jpg listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:2009 Sports Illustrated Cover.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Mosmof (talk) 12:48, 18 January 2010 (UTC) File:A Second Decade of Guess Images- 1991-2001.JPG listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:A Second Decade of Guess Images- 1991-2001.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Mosmof (talk) 12:51, 18 January 2010 (UTC) TalkBack Hello, TonyTheTiger. You have new messages at DegenFarang's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. You should not be contesting my edits - you were paid to write the article and I am attempting to make it less spammy so it will deserve inclusion. If other editors do not agree with my edits, they can revert them - you are in no ethical position to do so. And fwiw I have likely forgotten more about poker than you will ever know. The article is about a product - it does not need to give a whole bunch of background on the nature of a SNG tournament. The CardRunners article does not give a bunch of background on the game of poker (what their instructurs teach) and the Harvard article does not go into a bunch of detail on the need for education. Anybody finding that page will already understand what an SNG is. If they don't, that is what internal links are for. DegenFarang (talk) 22:52, 18 January 2010 (UTC) AN3 Regarding WP:AN3#User:DegenFarang reported by User:TonyTheTiger (Result: ). It looks to me that both of you have may have gone over WP:3RR today. (The 3RR rule applies regardless of who is right). Please join the discussion at the noticeboard and promise to stop edit warring on this article. This might be a way to avoid sanctions. I have my own opinion as to who is being less reasonable, but whichever admin closes the report may not take that into account. EdJohnston (talk) 00:34, 19 January 2010 (UTC) User:DegenFarang Please take a look at this ANI notice. User:DegenFarang has a long history of abusive edits, particularly BLPs like John Roberts, and has stated that the only rule he will abide by is ignore all rules. As you know he violated 3RR today, and abused another BLP. 2005 (talk) 01:31, 19 January 2010 (UTC) SitNGo Wizard & compensated editing FYI, I've reported your creation of SitNGo Wizard at WP:COIN#User:TonyTheTiger compensated editing. As it says at WP:Conflict of interest#Financial, editors shouldn't edit any articles where you "derive monetary or other benefits or considerations from editing Wikipedia." Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 02:13, 19 January 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 18 January 2010 News and notes: Statistics, disasters, Wikipedia's birthday and more In the news: Wikipedia on the road, and more WikiProject report: Where are they now? Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 15:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) AFD-related discussions Please don’t discuss AfD votes on my personal talk page; there’s too much flamage and bad vibes there that I want it out of my talk page. Samboy (talk) 02:14, 20 January 2010 (UTC) Seasons I was going to do a few more strikes at the Big Ten GA tonight, and possibly address a few of my own concerns (some of them were admittedly a bit nit-picky). I've learnt the hard way how frustrating edit conflicts can be during a GA/peer review, so I thought I'd wait to be on the safe side. Let me know when you're done on that article and GA for the time being, and I'll get to work. Also, I think this diagram may have been what Yellowmonkey was referring to in your FAC. Regards, WFCforLife (talk) 03:16, 20 January 2010 (UTC) Looks pretty good. I've moved my two remaining concerns to the bottom of the page, and then I'll be very happy to pass this. Sorry if the review was a bit long-winded, I'm still quite new to GAN. WFCforLife (talk) 04:39, 20 January 2010 (UTC) I've promoted it, and left a couple of further suggestions if you intend to take this one all the way. Well done! WFCforLife (talk) 05:47, 20 January 2010 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:CHICOTW GAonhold Template:CHICOTW GAonhold has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:13, 20 January 2010 (UTC) New fields I don't think anything has happened with the new fields for Template:NCAATeamSeason since your last comment about the subject on the talk page. As you know, I mocked up a working version of the template with the new fields and an example in use, but I don't think we had any sort of consensus to warrant pushing the change to the template into production. Looks like the only two others who chimed in on the topic were against the change. Jweiss11 (talk) 22:39, 20 January 2010 (UTC) Jay Pritzker Pavilion FAC Wanted to let you know that I asked Karanacs what the status was at User_talk:Karanacs#Question - only thing still needed is a more detailed image review. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC) It has been listed as an FAC needing image review at WT:FAC, so hopefully that will get it a (second) image review soon, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 00:59, 24 January 2010 (UTC) Latest from the FAC - there is some sort of issue with the News Bank links now - not sure why but the link checker finds problems with them and the few I checked seem to be broken. Could you take a look please? Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:44, 25 January 2010 (UTC) In case you had not seen this, or even if you had, congratulations! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:06, 26 January 2010 (UTC) SitNGo Wizard I'm afraid I've quick-failed SitNGo Wizard's good article nomination for the reasons listed on the review page. You are welcome to renominate once the issues are resolved. J Milburn (talk) 00:33, 22 January 2010 (UTC) Non-free images Could you please remove the non-free images from User:TonyTheTiger/sandbox? Non-free images aren't supposed to be used in the User/User talk namespace.--Rockfang (talk) 03:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC) GA reassessment of Washington Park (Chicago park) I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the aticle which you can see at Talk:Washington Park (Chicago park)/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:50, 24 January 2010 (UTC) MP plans I think the ice rink would be easier to work on next (since I already peer reviewed it). The other two major features are the Lurie Gardens and Harris Theater, so whichever is easier for you - I just know the one review of the gardens (in the Pritzker Pavilion article) was quite detailed. I need to get some Waterfalls featured first... Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:03, 26 January 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 25 January 2010 BLP madness: BLP deletions cause uproar Births and deaths: Wikipedia biographies in the 20th century News and notes: Biographies galore, Wikinews competition, and more In the news: Wikipedia the disruptor? WikiProject report: Writers wanted! The Wikiproject Novels interviews Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 04:52, 26 January 2010 (UTC) Zak Kustok Hey Tony, nice job improving that article. I hope you won't be offended that I took out the mention of his high school ride though. All the best—  Glenfarclas  (talk) 07:33, 26 January 2010 (UTC) No worries, if you particularly want it it can definitely stay. My general view is that a tidbit like that makes sense if it explains or relates to other material in the article, if it's particularly unique or interesting, or if the person is so prominent that people actually would want to know what car they drove in high school.  Glenfarclas  (talk) 07:45, 26 January 2010 (UTC) Hello. You have a new message at Glenfarclas's talk page. Jay Pritzker Pavilion I see this has been promoted. I know how much work went into this, so congratulations to you and your co-nom. Brianboulton (talk) 10:53, 26 January 2010 (UTC) McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink next? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:39, 26 January 2010 (UTC) Righteo. I see we need 3 FAs in 13 months to sustain it as a featured topic. That should be manageable... although it would be nice to see the full set at FA eventually... The Harris Theatre interests me but needs a great deal of work.... But I think the ice rink would make sense to develop to FA next. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:49, 26 January 2010 (UTC) First major thing I noticed is that it is missing an entire section on the construction phase. I suggest we write a new section to cover construction details. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:52, 26 January 2010 (UTC) Thanks for the update on the FT push. I have to get the Waterfalls article done first, but it looks like you and the good (evil?) Dr. Blofeld are on it already. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:16, 27 January 2010 (UTC) Thanks, I do not have a to do list on wiki, just in my head ;-) The article is currently at Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park, then Dincher and I plan to work on Hyner View State Park, I also want to work on a covered bridge or two and Lycoming Creek, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:44, 27 January 2010 (UTC) Well we can only go with what reliable sources we have at our disposal. If there is now specific solid info on the rink as with the others like CLoud Gate etc then we'll have to do the best we can with what we got. I'll see if I can find something on it later. You'd think there would be at least a few newspaper sources covering its construction.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:28, 27 January 2010 (UTC) Yep, I see what you mean. There is little online about it and even many of those are blogs or unreliable sources.... Perhaps there is something about it in your library in Chicago? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:33, 27 January 2010 (UTC) That was exactly the sort of source I was thinking of. I've always found book sources to be extremely valuable in contributing towards wikipedia articles as a lot of information is still not online yet. Other than this I can only think of possible PDF files on contractor details which probably don't exist online but I don't think it would be impossible to contact the developers and request information. Perhaps find an email address of somebody related to the development or the overall Millenium Park building/running and let them know we are writing encyclopedia articles about it. It is possible probably to contact the McCormick Tribune Foundation and request sources, whether they;d be willing to release certain details is uncertain though.. but worth a try... But to get hold of such a book would be start. especially if you also intend developing others to FA and the main Mill. Park article itself. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:51, 27 January 2010 (UTC) OK cool, best of luck in finding a solid source. I'll scout around and see if it is possible to find an email address or something and request details.... Its worth a try. When I wrote Virginia House a few weeks back I emailed the Virginia Historical Society for photos and they gave us some images to use so worth a try asking for information... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:56, 27 January 2010 (UTC) I'll let you do the formal contacting. See http://www.mccormickfoundation.org/contact.aspx. Try sending a formal email requesting or even better contact them by phone (the number is given) and say you are writing about the ice rink they funded for wikipedia, could they release more information about its development or something but in a way in which their sources can be cited in the article formally.. So they'd have to email you info and it would have to be citeable online... Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC) Congrats on the promotion, and good luck on your topic. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:26, 28 January 2010 (UTC) Four Award Four Award Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work all through on Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Kustok is before my time, I'm afraid. Thanks for the heads up, though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steve Smith (talk • contribs) 15:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC) Conflicted licensing on image File:20070520 Lifesize Darth Vader at Lego Store.JPG The above noted image or media file appears to have conflicted licensing. As an image cannot be both 'free' and 'unfree', a check of the exact status of this media/image concerned is advised. Killiondude (talk) 08:21, 27 January 2010 (UTC) Thanks <font=3> Thanks again for all of your work and for including me in the FAC nomination. As you know, Jay Pritzker Pavilion is now a featured article! 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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Hammersoft (talk) 22:02, 27 January 2010 (UTC) Re: merging T:AH and {{oldpeerreview}} I personally do not edit article history templates but if a bot can do it, seems like a good idea. I know that SandyGeorgia is often involved with T:AH issues and that Gimmebot updates article histories already after FACs close. I would ask Sandy and at the bot's page - it might be that Gimmebot could be tweaked or the code for it could be used for a new bot somehow. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:08, 28 January 2010 (UTC) I have asked at Sandy and Gimmetrow's talk pages. Mal sehen was passiert (let's see what happens) Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:58, 28 January 2010 (UTC) Timothy Blackstone GA Sweeps: On Hold I have reviewed Timothy Blackstone for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since you are a main contributor of the article (determined based on this tool), I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 03:58, 28 January 2010 (UTC) FA Sorry, only just got there to find it's been archived. Any chance you could make the "t" (and the "c" next to it, I guess) just a little bigger in your sig? It requires patience to locate with the mouse. Tony (talk) 07:13, 28 January 2010 (UTC) Much easier! Hard to think how the seasons links at the top could be piped shorter. "Junior college"—is there a more specific link, like, to a subsection or daughter article on this as a sports level? I've removed a few geographical chain links (states): when you hit "Lockport", you immediately get a link to the state. WP:LINK says try to avoid bunched links. I can't imagine a reader would want to hit the state first and not Lockport. But wait: they're both chained from the School link just before. "Master of Science" degree: they vary so much from institution to institution, and around the world, I can't see the point in linking it to one article. Bachelor and Masters degrees are common terms, anyway. In [[1997–98 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1998]] with a "hidden" plain-year pipe won't be clicked on. In the [[[[1997–98 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1998 season]]. More effective wikilinking, I think. There is a 2001 in this category below, and may be others. Why not pipe consistently using the acronym "NIT", having explained it at the top. This is an easy way of reducing the blue. Although I see BET would be more logical, too, and you may not want that. This is not the overlinking problem that your architectural nominations have been, where you've found it harder to draw the line between the technical and the non-technical. Here, not objects or styles, but people, teams, and tournaments all deserve linking (once, normally). This topic will inevitably be quite densely linked; that's a pity in terms of readability and the lesser likelihood that readers will click on densely packed links. You might consider the idea of putting all of the seasons and perhaps the tournaments (except for the first one?) in the See also section at the bottom. That is what I'd do, but there's no rule about it. That would allow links to the teams and players to "breathe" a little easier in the main text. See also is where you could add explicit links to lists, too. The default thumbnail size will be raised from 180 to 220px (nearly a 50% increase in area). But WMF seems to be fussing and forgetting and not able to make a decision about the best time: in the meantime, I'm encouraging people to put at least 220 on most of their thumbnails. Your on-court pics are lost because they're tiny. Are you aware of the debate about inline citation templates going on here? I'd much prefer vertical than horizontal: your articles are almost impossible to edit with the horizontal. And have you considered changing to list-defined referencing? IMO, that would be so much better. Please see dabomb87s remarks on my talk page. Tony (talk) 08:29, 28 January 2010 (UTC) FAC Barack Inaug. The congressional committee released the full schedule of the January 20 inaugural events on December 17, 2008. The inauguration schedule referred to the President‑elect as "Barack H. Obama", even though Obama specified previously that he wanted to use his full name for his swearing-in ceremony, including his middle name Hussein, in "follow[ing] the tradition, not trying to make a statement one way or the other".[7][ The article should say what the conclusion was. What was used, H or Hussein? Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 20:11, 28 January 2010 (UTC) If criticisms are on the FA page, then it might hurt promotion. This is just a little hint and question to help you. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 21:45, 28 January 2010 (UTC) DYK for O'Brien Schofield On January 29, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article O'Brien Schofield, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Materialscientist (talk) 00:01, 29 January 2010 (UTC) Jack Kemp Just for the record, dead people (like Jack Kemp), do not have current residences. My correction certainly was not vandalism. Stop being so arrogant. 68.35.250.248 (talk) 05:29, 30 January 2010 (UTC) Orphaned non-free media (File:SitNGo_Wizard_logo_slightly_cropped.jpg) Thanks for uploading File:SitNGo_Wizard_logo_slightly_cropped.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). 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A special well done also goes to Fetchcomms (submissions)- his artcle Jewel Box (St. Louis, Missouri) was the first content to score points in the competition. Around half of competitors are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. 64 of the 149 current competitors will advance to round 2- if you currently have no points, do not worry, as over half of the current top 64 have under 50 points. Everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places in round 2! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! J Milburn, Garden, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:23, 1 February 2010 (UTC) PR and GAC Hi Tony, there is no restriction on an article being listed at both PR and GAC. Since PR almost always reviews an article within 14 days at most, some editors count on the GAC backlog to allow them to start a PR and GAC at the same time and (hopefully) finish the PR and article improvement before the GA review is done. I have seen GA reviewers request that either the PR (or GAC nom) be closed before they will review. It is usually not a problem for PR. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:08, 1 February 2010 (UTC)