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Biography Newsletter September 2006

The September 2006 issue of the Biography WikiProject 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. Thank you. plange 00:03, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Berthold Ullman

Could you please take another look at the Berthold Ullman article? I think he was a notable scholar. I expanded the article a bit. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 19:48, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Thomas Tate Tobin

Regarding the discussion we had a couple of days ago, I just moved Thomas Tate Tobin into the main namespace, sack of heads rolling on the floor and all. Crockspot 20:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thanks, and happy editing.

Mak (talk) 03:46, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Assessments

Hi. You have put the Biography assessment tag on a bunch of articles related to G&S today. Since I created most of those, I should not assess them. Can you give them an assessment? Not many editors have visited most of those pages. Best regards, -- Ssilvers 20:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for yr interest in Temple-Poole. A comment would be helpful. regards Fred.e 16:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 22:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter

The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject 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. Thank you. Mocko13 22:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Assessment from an article page

Thank you for helping out with the Biography assessment drive. Good news. Outriggr recently designed a script that will cut your biography assessment time down by about ten fold (what took ten hours now may only take one hour with Outriggr's script). For more information, please see the 'assessment from article page' discussion. -- Jreferee 20:19, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree, using his script has cut down my time at least 5-fold. W3stfa11/^{Talk to me} 23:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Assessment Drive

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Triviaa for tirelessly assessing hundreds of Biography articles as part of the assessment drive. RHB Talk - Edits 20:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Last push for the Biography Assessment Drive

We've done great work so far on the WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive, reducing the 135,345 backlog by 38,626 to 96,719 as of March 20, 2007. We have only 6,720 more to go to get below 90,000. That would be outstanding and any extra effort that you can offer in these last few days of the drive (which ends March 24, 2007) would be much appreciated. If you haven't already, you may want to load Outriggr's assessment script in your monobook.js. If you have any questions, please feel free to post them on my talk page. -- Jreferee 23:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive

Thank you for your contributions! -- WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive 16:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your tireless and endless efforts in assessing biography articles, WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive hereby awards you The Working Man's Barnstar. 16:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

		The Golden Wiki Award
		For your exceptional contributions to the WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive, WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive hereby awards you The Golden Wiki Award. 16:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007

The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography 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. BetacommandBot 20:31, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Graeme Hick

Hello; thanks for the WikiProject Biography assessment. As I wrote large chunks of the Hick article, I'm more than interested to hear any comments you might have about what would need to be done to get it up to B standard. I know it's lacking a photo, which is a perennial problem with living people, but what else do you think needs to be improved to get to B standard at least? Thanks. Loganberry (Talk) 23:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

American Furniture Makers

This is not really a Biography problem, but the Duncan Phyfe stub (which Triviaa created) caused me to search for other notable American furniture makers, authors, dealers, etc. All these people are biographical and none of them are present in Wikipedia. I wrote a note to talk in "Duncan Phyfe" that lists a few: John and Thomas Seymour, Nancy McClelland, Israel Sack, etc. I am volunteering to help fix this, since I have considerable knowledge and reference material at hand on this subject. But this requires more than Biography. There is really a whole area of American decorative arts or decorative arts in general that is absent from Wikipedia. I am interested in whether this project is of interest to anyone else and would accept any useful advice on getting going on such an effort. I am not a registered member/user, but may be contacted at ldmjr@comcast.net. Naturally, I will register before trying to make any significant contributions. Thanks for reading. 68.55.164.69 02:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)ldmjr@comcast.net

WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
Complete To Do List Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a bishop a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a lawyer a military person a musician a photographer a saint a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references adding categories Review an article Romano Volta • Suzanne Carrell • Mullá Husayn • John Gilchrist (linguist) • Thomas Brattle • Answer requests for comments Work on the Portal Portal:Biography Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles Assessment Progress Biography articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Core Other ??? Total FA 35 1,633 1,668 FL 203 203 A 1 131 132 GA 41 8,357 8,398 B 97 39,347 39,444 C 32 167,971 168,003 Start 2 760,061 760,063 Stub 1 1,035,356 1 1,035,358 List 8,057 8,057 Category 2 343,511 343,513 Disambig 8,161 8,161 File 31,710 31,710 Project 231 231 Redirect 3 45,117 45,120 Template 20,629 20,629 NA 512 512 Assessed 214 2,470,987 1 2,471,202 Unassessed 1 24,823 24,824 Total 215 2,495,810 1 2,496,026 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,819,651 Ω = 5.37
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Newsletter for WikiProject Biography

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter no. 6 - October 2007
Project News Just a reminder, there is a new irc channel for WikiProject Biography, #wikipedia-en-bio. The Collaboration department has been restarted. The department will provide help in improving biographicle articles. New Collaborations and requests will be publiished here in the future Article News Newest featured biographies: William Shakespeare John Mayer Collaboration: This months collaboration is Woody Allen. Current requests are: Benito Mussolini Member announcements From now on members of this project make announcements or voice their opinions on anything	Members news Our new members: JPmaverick (talk · contribs) From the Editors As said before, the newsletter will publish new collaboration requests every month. If there are a large number of requests, only the most recent requests will be published. This newsletter will now be delivered on the 20th day of every month We're looking for new writers to help write this newsletter. All those who wish to help must do is add news to next months newsletter before release Contributors to this Issue Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
Complete To Do List Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a bishop a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a lawyer a military person a musician a photographer a saint a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references adding categories Review an article Romano Volta • Suzanne Carrell • Mullá Husayn • John Gilchrist (linguist) • Thomas Brattle • Answer requests for comments Work on the Portal Portal:Biography Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles Assessment Progress Biography articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Core Other ??? Total FA 35 1,633 1,668 FL 203 203 A 1 131 132 GA 41 8,357 8,398 B 97 39,347 39,444 C 32 167,971 168,003 Start 2 760,061 760,063 Stub 1 1,035,356 1 1,035,358 List 8,057 8,057 Category 2 343,511 343,513 Disambig 8,161 8,161 File 31,710 31,710 Project 231 231 Redirect 3 45,117 45,120 Template 20,629 20,629 NA 512 512 Assessed 214 2,470,987 1 2,471,202 Unassessed 1 24,823 24,824 Total 215 2,495,810 1 2,496,026 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,819,651 Ω = 5.37
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Stub assessments

Hi there. I notice you do a fair bit of assessment on articles. Please keep in mind the definition of a stub per WP:STUB: "A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information." You marked Robert Birchall as a stub, but it's certainly not a stub, especially since it made WP:DYK (DYK articles cannot by definition, be stubs). Cheers, BuddingJournalist 20:59, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Needing Wiki contribution assistance!

Hello Triviaa,

I am looking for an experienced Wikipedian to contribute an article for our band Mr. Meeble. I have checked and we meet the Wikipedia "notability" guidelines for a band. We have a very basic Wikipedia article written already, but I know that someone like yourself may be able to point out our formatting errors and critical omissions. You can hear our music and see our videos here:

http://youtube.com/mrmeeble
http://soundcloud.com/meeble

Let me know if you would be willing to help!

Regards,
Devin
mm @ meeble.com

Devbot (talk) 04:17, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Typo

Don't you just hate it when you fix a typo in an article and make a typo in the edit summary? I do it all the time and invariably notice it just after I click on Save. Thanks for fixing the typo in the Fillion article.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:01, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Global account

Hi Triviaa! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:16, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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E. Temple Thurston

Thanks for WPBiography. However, do take a look at the talk page - perhaps you can offer some advice?Picknick99 (talk) 20:24, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

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Proposed deletion of A Makeover Story

The article A Makeover Story has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Despite the show's length, I cound find no good sources at all, just "Local X to appear on A Makeover Story" fluff pieces and press releases. This has been unsourced since 2008 and is unlikely to ever improve

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:41, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of A Makeover Story for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article A Makeover Story is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Makeover Story until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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