Following a manhunt in two states, police have arrested Nicholas Troy Sheley whom authorities suspect in eight murders in the United States. The FBI launched the manhunt on Tuesday after four victims were discovered on June 30, 2008.
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I reverted your non-admin close of this RFD because even though I did retarget, there was still discussion on whether or not the redirect should exist at all. Just letting you know. --UsaSatsui (talk) 03:46, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Barnstar
I was actually going to give you one a few weeks ago, and then forgot about it, so here it is now.
Thanks :). I'm going to be recording the second half tomorrow; would you be interested in getting involved in the project as a contributor? Ironholds21:38, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent ideas, and not ones i'd thought of. Which would you be interested in discussing? We also have a debate on Age and Adminship which we'll be covering; if you'd like to do a segment of that debate i'd be very grateful. Ironholds22:40, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
2 it is then. My view is semi-deletionist, so that could work quite well. Do you see it working as a standard interview or a debate? The deletionist/inclusionist thing, that is. Ironholds22:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm quite confused now; I thought you said 2 interviewers? Or was that for the age/adminship thing. Sounds like a good idea though; do you know any other deletionist/inclusionists? We could also generally do something on other WikiPhilosophies as a seperate segment/episode as well, with people of each opinion talking about their philosophy to a couple of interviewers per your idea. I think planning this sort of thing will get a lot easier after a few more episodes since we'll have a base pool of interviewee's/contributors of different philosophies/ages/whatever else we debate to pick from. Ironholds23:04, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Again, good ideas. Now I can retire, safe in the knowledge that someone better is doing my idea work for little or no praise ;p. Standard episode format would be intro followed by X followed by general wiki-news (successful RfA's, failed RfA's, ongoing RfA's, any other news) where X is a debate/interview/broadcast. Do you think the WikiPhilosophy thing would be best done as an interview or a broadcast? A broadcast would be simpler than juggling several interviewee's, but no broadcaster is going to be familiar with all viewpoints. I'd advise picking up the next issue, btw; i'll be going through various changes to WUPDATE we're working on. Ironholds23:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Starting a new section so it doesn't get too difficult to read. So we have:
Age and Adminship; I now feel this would be best as an interview. We could get a user pro/against age making an impact and then two interviewee's with differing viewpoints; what's yours, out of interest? We could work this as a debate, alternatively, but the problem is that both sides seem to have strong opinions, and with one side going to be (relatively) young and possibly immature things could run out of hand
Inclusionist/Deletionist: Debate, maybe 2 of each and a moderator. I'd like to work as either a deletionist rep or moderator, preferably moderator as I've got a mixed sort of viewpoint and dont feel I can really act as a full rep; i'd bring the side down, as it were.
General WikiPhilosophy thing: Debate, but how would that work? pro's and con's of each one? Or we could split it up; interviews with people of different philosophies, one per episode.
The thing to remember, btw, is that WikiUpdate is nothing like Radio Wikipedia. It's run by the contributors, not the creator; if people think it's a good idea we'll run with it. So don't be scared to 1) suggest new things or 2) tell me/redthunder/any other contributor that our ideas are stupid. Ironholds23:29, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed on all counts. My view is fairly similar to yours. Age does affect maturity, yes, but judge it per user not as a general rule; you can't say all 12-15 year olds are immature any more than you can say all 18 year olds are therefore trustable as admins. So we'd need either 1) an older user who's anti-age-restrictions or 2) a young editor. I'd like to see if Ryan is available; young editor who's admin request was denied partially because of age, sparking off the whole debate. Inclusionist/Deletionist: Do you know anyone who might be interested? I'd be happy to act as moderator if you'd like to be one of the inclusionists, or you could act as moderator. Your idea, your baby. For the philosophy thing i'll start checking people out per userboxes and so on, but i'm thinking that debate would be best put quite a time away. The update schedule is being changed to Mon-Wed-Fri or equivalent to give us some time for padding and extra material (so we dont end up with yesterdays problem with me having to upload a tiny tiny segment designed for a later episode) which should give us some leeway. Ironholds00:04, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent; sorry to write so much. So to summarise; i'll find people for the philosophy interviews if you can find people for the inclusionist/deletionist debate. Would you like to act as moderator, inclusionist rep or what? Ironholds00:23, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Wonderful! i'm running out of synonyms. we're working on Friday's version at the moment, so if we could get the debate done for monday? Ironholds00:27, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm actually out friday and saturday evening; whereabouts do you live? I.e what time zone. Evening for you might be afternoon or morning for me, or vice versa. Ironholds00:46, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm GMT (London) so i'm guessing you're 3 hours behind then. In that case a morning (your time) debate may be doable on friday/saturday if we can get someone in for that. Alternately tomorrow would work fine; i'm probably closer to your time zone than mine in terms of sleep patterns right now. I'm not sure we'd be able to get it organised that fast, though. Ironholds00:52, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough. I can do up to about 9AM your time, really; seeing the lady-friend in the afternoon and a birthday party in the evening. Do you have any ideas for interviewee's? Ryan sparked off the whole debate, but i'm sure he's sick of being linked to it by now. Ironholds00:56, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speak soon then; i'll drop ryan a line and we can work out avenues of questioning and so on tomorrow. Do you have an email address or whatnot? It might be a bit more reliable for dropping messages off at; if I get 12 talk page messages I only get 1 alert, and I might miss some
age/adminship
Ryan had an interesting idea; he can't participate normally because he has no mic, but if we had a text-based interview and then simply got in person X to read ryans bit and convert it into audio do you think that'd work? Ironholds23:06, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough, I'll leave it, I'm sure I can overcome my intense hatred for the letter Z this one time. ~ AmeIiorateUTC@03:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
User:Granpuff or Pink Panther
Hey, the user Granpuf just messed up the Pink Panther template, which I fortunately managed to revert.
Reply on my Talk Page, under section Pink Panther
There are currently 4,675 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 141 unreviewed articles. Out of 186 total nominations, 28 are on hold, 14 are under review, and 3 are seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
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There are currently 4 articles up for re-review at Good Article Reassessment. Congratulations! There really is no "backlog" here! :-)
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GAN Reviewer of the Month
ThinkBlue (talk·contribs) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for July, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. ThinkBlue had a whopping 49 reviews during the month of July! ThinkBlue was also one of our two reviewers of the month from June, and has been editing Wikipedia since December 1, 2006, and is interested in articles dealing with Friends, Will and Grace, CSI:Miami, Monday Night Raw, Coldplay.
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GA Sweeps Process
The GA Sweeps process has recently reached its first year anniversary. If you are unaware of what GA Sweeps is, it is a process put in place to help ensure the integrity of the ever-growing number of GAs, by determining if the articles still meet the GA criteria. Experienced reviewers check each article, improving articles as they review them, and delisting those that no longer meet the criteria. Reviewers work on a specific category of GAs, and there are still many categories that need to be swept. In order to properly keep track of reviews, a set date was used to determine what articles needed to be reviewed (since any future GAs would be passed according to the most recent GA criteria).
The number of GAs that were to be reviewed totals 2,808. Since the beginning of Sweeps, the progress has reviewed 981 by the end of July 2008 (or exempted them). For a table and chart breakdown of the current progress, see here.
With more than twenty editors reviewing the articles, progress is currently a third of the way done. At this rate, it will take another two years to complete the Sweeps, and active involvement is imperative to completing on time. We are always looking for new reviewers, and if you are interested in helping in speeding up the Sweeps process and improving your reviewing skills, please contact OhanaUnited.
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... that the goal of GA Sweeps is to reviewed all articles listed before 26 August2007?
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Crommorc
Cheers for your help with that vandal. Has now been blocked - having done a massive amount of vandalism, including accusing me of being a sockpuppet! I know I shouldn't let things get personal when I block someone, but I must admit, it did feel nice blocking that vandal.... (grin) StephenBuxton (talk) 14:52, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The Office newsletter
Hey sir! I appreciate your work with the newsletter but I'm quite busy and can't keep up these days. Can you remove me from the list? I can't figure out the correct way to do this hah Mrtea(talk)22:15, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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I don't care about if other people co-nom it/them. Anyway's, I had just submitted it a couple of mins ago so I did not have time to actually check for contributors. I usually add the list of major contributors once I see that the nominationa ctually has a decent chance of passing. Nergaal (talk) 02:47, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Considering the amount of words you used for your reply it means that you actually got angry. Geee, give me a sec to check the contributor histories and I will edit the noms accordingly. Nergaal (talk) 03:05, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Re: Office
I'll help when I can, I just don't know how much time I'll have. Also, I am interesting in gettings some characters to GA status (Was Dwight Schrute ever nominated?). Anyway it is nice to hear from you again. Later --Mr.crabby(Talk)14:53, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
