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Hello again. The Highly Active Users project has gone through a complete revamping per popular demand. We believe this new format will make it easier for new editors to find assistance. However, with the new format, I must again ask you to verify your information on this page. I attempted to translate the data from the old version to the new, but with the extensive changes, I may have made some errors. Thanks again. Useight (talk) 03:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Grr... please, please don't create talk pages prior to creating subject-space pages. I just had to restore about ten. : - / Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You deserve it. Some may argue that your articles are un-expandable dead ends, but that is what they said when a bot created stubs about various towns in the United States in 2003, and most of those have been expanded. J.delanoygabsadds04:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article 24104 Vinissac, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.
I would have to disagree that asteroids are inherently notable. I'll be nominating some for AFD in the near future. Stifle (talk) 23:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Because of the sheer amount of pages that need to be classified, I've started classifying them using AWB. I have it find and replace the template with the same template, only with the |class=stub at the end...I've so far classified 113 articles this way (I'm avoiding the lower asteroid numbers as they have a higher chance of not being stubs. I am pretty sure that most of the articles that I am classifying in this fashion are stub-class articles, but if you notice that I put it on an article that isn't a stub, please feel free to revert my change. Cheers, Razorflame23:07, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
For expanding the Wikipedia universe by creating and updating a lot of comet related articles, I award you this well earned invisible barnstar! Excirial (Talk,Contribs)21:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have seen you creating a lot of articles on asteroids, and for most i have been "Dully Noticing" them. However as i keep seeing them, and your edit history displays you put quite a lot of work in this, i think its no less then appropriate to award you a barnstar for this good work. Congratulations, and keep up the good work! Excirial (Talk,Contribs)21:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi - I don't understand the point of the asteroid stubs you're creating. Aren't these articles pretty much guaranteed to stay stubs, in pretty much their current form, effectively forever? Slightly above you claim asteroids are inherently notable. Is there some policy you could cite to back this up? Is there some wider forum in which you'd be willing to discuss this, perhaps Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy? There's already some discussion there about this, suggesting listing most asteroids in tables would be a better approach. I'd tend to agree with this. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:52, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I saw your note on Rick's page, and apologize for causing problems. I don't see any necessity for deleting the articles you added, myself; and some will surely be expanded. I can see how some of admins worry about them becoming targets for vandalism, but we can wait and see how much of a problem that is. With any luck we will come out of this better off than when you started work, anyhow. Best, Bill Wwheaton (talk) 03:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Lest there's any confusion here, the point is distinctly not to delete anything you've done, but simply to make the information available in a form that's easier to maintain. I know (from personal experience - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Gappei) how much effort is involved in editing thousands of articles. If we can put the same information content in a few (perhaps a few dozen) list articles, preserving access through redirects, aren't we tremendously better off? -- Rick Block (talk) 04:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi CP - for future reference, buildings and structures get {{struct-stub}} or one of its subtypes (in this case {{Massachusetts-struct-stub}}). Also, geography stubs are normally {{geo-stub}}, not {{place-stub}} (which is an old redirect that shouldn't really still be in use). Having said that, thanks for helping sort the stubs - keep up the good work :) Grutness...wha?01:47, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 17:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Please forgive my ignorance, but what's the point of your edits to Simeon López and George Gabb? In the former you added a blank line; in the latter, you deleted one. Neither has changed the appearance of the article as far as I can tell. DO56 (talk) 20:53, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to the Sixth issue of the WikiProject Christianity newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.
Luckily, you all won't have to see my comments very often, as very little I have to say is really that important. But I would like to take the opportunity to say that I hope everyone finds the new General Forum page useful for discussing ideas relevant to Christianity in general, and feels free to make any additional comments regarding general Christianity there. Also, if any of you feel that you want to place a comment here in the future, please let us know what you want included. We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask. Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVIII (June 2008)
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We now have 53 featured articles 6 featured lists, and 130 good articles, with the recent promotions of Thomas Cranmer to FA class, List of encyclicals of Pope John XXIII to FL status, and Hugh de Puiset to GA level. Thanks to all those who worked on these articles!
Welcome to the Eighth issue of the WikiProject Christianity newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.
As many of you will know, we currently have several articles relating to the same basic topics. The articles in the Category:Baptism are one example of such. It is really in the interests of all of us to try to place as much content in the main article of such topics, and then have the other articles "branch off" from there and making the central article as good an article as possible. We also now have a proposal for a new general "Christianity" related award, similar to the Military history project's chevrons, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/General Forum. John Carter (talk), Lead Coordinator
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Last month's new article challenge, Church of Daniel's Band, was begun by User:Jack1956 and was included in the Main page's DYK section on June 15. Thank you to Jack1956 for his great work on creating this article!
Hello! I'm a tiny, innocent newbie come to you for help. Could you tell me how to change the name of an article? If you would rather show me than tell me, I have a sandbox just waiting to be edited. Thank you very much. Lordofmodesty (talk) 01:08, 15 July 2008 (UTC) Oh, haha, maybe it's that tab at the top that says "rename this page." I feel like I should be trout-slapped. Thanks anyway for the potential help. Lordofmodesty (talk) 01:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm back again :). Sorry to pester you, but I was putting in a collapsing box for my userboxes and somehow I screwed it up. Could you maybe take a look at it and tell me what I did wrong? I greatly appreciate any help. Lordofmodesty (talk) 23:11, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
the article for Halo 2 has odd vandalism that only shows up if you are'nt logged in, this appears to be the work of a hacker or script kiddie, rather than a normal vandal. it also isn't in the revision history.
By the way I came to you because I couldn't figure out what kind of admin to report something like this to, and any comments that tell me the proper channels for future reference would be helpful. SMakabwe (talk) 22:21, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry didn't log on to the internet for a while, it is fixed now. Someone else must have fixed before you checked, as you couldn't miss it. Huge Picture with the hackers presumed nickname with a large symbol that took almost the entire screen. The text from the article was almost completely gone, everything but the title and sidebar.
I hope the fixed the server to be more secure, and they probably did make, as it obviously wasn't done with the editing tools built into wikipedia.
Thanks for checking anyway. 144.96.23.26 (talk) 01:33, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Above post was mine, I guess I didn't log back in after checking if the vandalism was still there. SMakabwe (talk) 01:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
TaggingAssessing as Stub class, using Plugin++ using AWB
Hello. Is there any reason why you are editing the talkpage of hundreds of articles by just changing the case of the word stub & low to Stub & Low? For example, like [1]? It's just looks so unnecessary and clogs up watch lists. Thanks Lugnuts (talk) 07:13, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your support in my RFA, which passed with 140 supporting, 11 opposing, and 4 neutral. I will do my best to live up to the trust that you have given to me. If I can ever assist you with anything, just ask.
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