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User talk:Go Phightins!/Archive 17
AdoptionI am done with lesson one. -- Lee Tru. 15:10, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind acknowledgement Ben, thank you for awarding me an Editor's Barnstar on 2013/06/17. Random acts of kindness seem an endangered species these days. Your encouragement to "Keep Calm and Carry On" is appreciated. I've enjoyed being in the WikiSOO class with you during Spring 2013. I love the quotation from Umberto Ecco on your user page. I will be putting that to use ;-) ChristineBushMV (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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Signpost reportsThanks for working on "In the media"! Jarry is stepping down from writing the Tech report. I gave him a Signpost barnstar. Will you sign it with me?. Thanks, --Pine✉ 06:34, 21 June 2013 (UTC) EotW criteriaWhen we as a group started brainstorming and putting together the criteria for the EotW award we all agreed that it should be for the un-sung, un-acknowleged editors that work here. We seem to have drifted just a bit off-course and I wonder if we should do some corrective maneuvers so that our Original Purpose doesn't get lost and we become a glorified barnstar. So far, except for some Admin nominations we have rubber-stamped every nomination. Not a problem so far except for all the rubber-stamp ink on my hands. Here is the rub. I was working on the infobox for next weeks recipient and I noticed that he had about two dozen barnstars. Again, no a problem. He is a hard working editor that deserves everyone of them and probably more. Its been twenty weeks (or so) since we started. Maybe it would be a good idea to have another brainstorming session with Dennis and whatever clerks show up. In no way do I want to rescind Chaswicks nomination or put a hold on his Award. He deserves it and he should get it. We just need to be sure that we are all on the same page moving forward. Maybe we need to be stricter. maybe we need a Nominations patroller who will gather the interested parties to discuss a non-conforming nomination. Let me know what you think. ```Buster Seven Talk 20:29, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
UncletomwoodHey. I've been stalking Uncletomwood's adoption page and he just does not understand vandalism. Acting like I want to help, what should we do? Is he still interested in adoption? By the way, I saw your examples. I would reverse your theory that the user who blanked Mandadan and replaced it with school information is bad faith vandalism/spam and the user who blanked a section in List of Big Time Rush episodes is not vandalism (WP:AGF). It's a {{uw-delete1}} scenario. It's pretty clear you don't like Big Time Rush. Just kidding.
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The Signpost: 26 June 2013
Adoption QueryHi. I know you're not gone yet. (song lyric) Before you leave, get up to go, I wanna know. Uncletomwood: He's on a personal break. He was going a little fast.
Ghorpaapi: He is on lesson 8 doing the test.
Benedictdilton: He is working on lesson three.
Lee Tru.: He has been inactive for two weeks. Do I archive him?
Thanks. ~~JHUbal27 23:10, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
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All right, so on point one, the article says that the Calgary Olympics were the most expensive, winter or summer, ever held at a price tag of $829 million Canadian. The second source says that Calgary has a total of 57 nations, 17 more than ever before, are participating. I believe this is all you needed. Thanks! Go Phightins! 12:05, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Blatant CopyvioHolla, Just informing you that there might be some blatant copyvio going on in my adoption, as I currently try to set up my adoption school. I might end up taking portions of your adoption programme and your tests for my own adoption school. Hope you dont mind :) TheOriginalSoni (talk) 16:39, 30 June 2013 (UTC) RfCThank you for your comments. I'll just stress that the RfC is intended only to test the community's response to such a proposal - it's not an RfC proposing the solution itself. That's what needs clarifying. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 20:57, 30 June 2013 (UTC) WikiCup 2013 June newsletterWe are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project. Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 10:17, 1 July 2013 (UTC) Go Phightins!, we moved your Teahouse host profileHello Go Phightins!! Thank you for being a host at the Teahouse. However, we haven't heard from you lately, so our bot has moved your Host profile from the host landing page to the host breakroom. No worries; you can always just and our bot will move your profile back. Editing any Teahouse-related page will do the same thing for you. If you would prefer not to receive reminders like this, you can unsubscribe here. Thanks for your help at the Teahouse! HostBot (talk) 03:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC) AdoptionHello! I am a relatively new user on Wkipedia although I have been editing on Wikia for a year and a half now, Wikipedia guidelines and style is fairly new to me. You look to be a good adopter and so I am requesting you to adopt me! Thank you. =} Rainbow Shifter (talk) 19:25, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
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