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"Photographic archive of the modern New York art scene"

Have you seen this? --Hegvald (talk) 13:13, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Cool! I posted it on the cultural partnerships list. Wish I had time to help! - SarahStierch (talk) 15:35, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

What should my position be...

Hi Sarah, what do you think my position should be on here, as this is complicated by the fact that I approved the article through AfC. Then that is further complicated by the fact that Wikirob78's tried to ask me to vote keep here and has been told off by ConcernedVancouverite on his talk page. I don't want to upset Wikirob or ConcernedVancouverite (the deletion nominator). What should I do? Thanks jcc (tea and biscuits) 16:41, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Jcc! I'm flattered you'd seek my advice. I'm going to be honest, here is what I would do: if Wikipedians are trying to persuade me to vote one way or the other, or I have been told off/trolled, or I have been involved in approving in article on AfC, here is what I do: not be involved in the deletion discussion. Wikipedia causes me enough drama, that I don't want to lose sleep, so I'd suggest either removing the discussion from your watchlist, telling them that you are disconnecting yourself from the discussion, or monitor it and see if others make good arguments and be persuaded by on other people than the one's that have been talking to you. I hate drama, so try to avoid the drama llama so you can keep on feeling good about what you contribute.
Also, you assumed good faith on the offline resources, I would have approved it also. So, just sit back, relax, and let someone else handle it - and don't feel bad about having approved it from AfC. It happens that sometimes the stuff we approve gets AfD'd. Thanks for all you do - and I hope you don't mind my honesty :) SarahStierch (talk) 16:45, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! I'll follow your advice and thanks for the quick reply! I'll now go back to my Wikibreak, jcc (tea and biscuits) 16:57, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
The Third Opinion Award The Second Opinion Award
Thanks for the advice! — jcc (tea and biscuits) 16:57, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Seattle Works

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit if you feel they have been resolved.

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! R J Spog (talk) 23:05, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

R J Spog (talk) 23:05, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for reviewing the article. I was going through another Wikipedia page on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Youth_Garden_Works on Seattle Youth Garden Works. I went through all the content and web citations and am not sure how that has notability. In my unbiased opinion Seattle Works is a notable and growing organization that is connecting the youth and millennial generation to improve Seattle and Washington in a way like no other. The approach they engage the community is different and people need to know more about this and get involved.

Hi. I went ahead and tagged that article as having issues - lacking citations. I did some research on it and they are notable, they are mentioned significantly in multiple reliable sources. Remember: WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS but that doesn't matter - each article is individual and with 4 million articles on Wikipedia we can't keep track of them all. The other organization - again, other stuff exists - and the submitted article lacked significant coverage in multiple reliable sources being used in the submission. It doesn't matter if an organization has a good mission or if they want more people involved - they have to pass the WP:NOTABILITY guidelines for organizations that Wikipedia has set after 10 years of being around so not everyone and everything gets an article. Cheers! SarahStierch (talk) 23:42, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

WildStar

I'm bringing this subject to you, since you were the one that deleted the article. I'm not affiliated with Carbine Studios, just a fan of their work. I would like you to clarify why was the page WildStar (video game) deleted. Like you can see in the Wildstar disambiguation page, the page was about "WildStar (video game), an MMORPG video game developed by Carbine Studios". I cannot recall the original contents of the page, but I don't think they were that "unambiguous advertising or promotion". And even so, isn't there some kind of notice to add to the page so it could be better reworded instead of having to recreate the whole page again? Anyway, hope you can answer my questions. Thank you. --Sekuiyatalk 01:46, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Just to chime in, I've kick-started this discussion at the video games wikiproject in light of this amount of available sourcing. I don't know what the original article was like, so it's entirely possible it failed WP:RS/WP:N, or was poorly written, but hopefully the responsible wikiproject can rectify the issue. Best, Gazimoff 02:31, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
It looks like someone already made the article again. Don't be surprised if someone notices and shakes this up at deletion discussion. WildStar (video game). I'm disconnected from it, and was just doing my job as an admin. Generally things without reliable sources and extensive explanations on how the games work are considered advertising, hence why it was deleted. Please check out WP:GNG and also stop by the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games to get some help on how games are determined to end up on Wikipedia and how they are often formatted and written about on wiki. SarahStierch (talk) 17:48, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Gunjan Sinha page

Hi Sarah; thank you for the feedback, but the USA Today article listed has quite a bit of information on Mr. Sinha in it. Did you read it before making your decision to reject the page?TH1980 (talk) 02:29, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. I'm traveling right now. The best place to get fast and detailed input would be WP:TEAHOUSE. Sorry i can't help more right now. Same for your concerns below. Feel free to resubmit the article if you are concerned with my decline! SarahStierch (talk) 04:58, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

How I can make the WhoWhere? page "notable"?

Hi Sarah:

How can I make the WhoWhere? page notable?TH1980 (talk) 02:31, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Mohammed bin Abdulla Al Thani page

Hi Sarah, I've given lot of citations for Mohammed bin Abdulla Al Thani page, why is it declined, could you please where we are going wrong. I've the full references and articles on him.

Mohammed bin Abdulla Al Thani (talk) 06:10, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi. The footnotes you used (references) are not reliable secondary sources. You can read more about those here: WP:RELIABLESOURCES. Therefore the article can't be on Wikipedia. Also, if you are the subject of the article, you are writing an autobiography, therefore you should stop editing the article. If you are notable enough, someone will eventually write the article about you, or you can request an article about yourself here: Wikipedia:Requested articles. I don't review articles a second time if I am concerned that they won't be able to be accepted, I fear that with yours this time. So I'll let someone else stop by and review it. Feel free to stop by the Teahouse if you need help by visiting: WP:TEAHOUSE. Thanks! SarahStierch (talk) 15:46, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Onyx Moonshine Page

Confirmed user FBell74 was hired to create page and promote products for a fee of $100 US. http://www.freelancer.com/u/fbell74.htmlCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.249.47.163 (talk) 13:02, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Silver overlay

Hello Sarah, thank you for your nice comment ! Also Nhtep assisted once more with a very good example that I could understand the matter with the inline citations. I tried now to link in the text where it was possible for me and make a new resubmit now. Maybe you can have a look for it ? Silberbelagwaren (talk) 16:26, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kansas City Cauldron

Thanks for reviewing my submission. I sought help from other editors as to what exactly could have caused the article submission to be declined. The editors gave me some advice which I have been working on and also they told me to discuss it with you. I have gone through the article and removed some references, and adding others from national sites that give the article more credibility. Is there any chance you could tell me exactly what you saw and didn't like and possibly give me some ideas to improve upon it? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

Rjbass (talk) 20:52, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Denied Gerry Campbell Page

Sarah,

Thanks for taking a look at my page and letting me know what needs to get fixed. The notes that we received were that the references needed to be out of his control to be reliable sources. I went back and changed all but two references to more credible sources (PC World, Wall Street Journal, Tech Zulu, etc.). Are there anything other aspects that you could advise me on so that the page doesn't get another denied outcome? Thanks for your time,

http://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Gerry_Campbell

Greg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greghsnow (talk • contribs) 23:32, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Yahoo!!! I am impressed. The Wikipedia geek in me glows when new editors learn the ropes so fast. I approved the article and you can now find it here: Gerry Campbell. You'll see a template at the top calling it an orphan. Be sure to link his article from other articles to get rid of that tag. It might be a while until someone else does it. Congratulations and PLEASE help us improve or write other content for Wikipedia :) Congratulations!! SarahStierch (talk) 19:36, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Declined Page - XPLR Prods

Hi Sarah,

Thanks very much for your comments and referrals to the appropriate links. While you are right that many of the primary links do not mention XPLR Productions by name, they do document the XPLR films that are distributed worldwide on the various services, Hulu, etc. The Amazon listings do name XPLR Productions as the production company, and the IMDb listings do as well. (I was informed yesterday by someone else, on a different matter, that IMDb is not a reliable source. Could you please verify? I would be surprised if that were true, as IMDb is the only reliable source for film credits. But please advise.)

I think we have documented every assertion of fact. As to the Golden Rule, I think the meaningful role that XPLR Productions has in the distribution of documentaries online, as well as the worldwide distribution of its first three films, should merit a listing in Wikipedia. These films include Emmy nominees and the winners of many international film festival awards. XPLR Productions distributes three films that Mens Journal magazine called among the top 20 adventure films of all time. There is a substantive Wikipedia entry for Snagfilms, XPLR's partner; indeed, XPLR Productions helped launch Snagfilms as one of its first content partners, bringing to Snagfilms these three films among the 24 documentaries it was distributing online in 2008 and continues to distribute.

With regard to the lack of news coverage, as a measure of independent verification, there are ample news stories about Snagfilms, Hulu and EPIX, among the networks where the public can watch XPLR Productions' films. I believe the fact that these three major companies, along with Comcast's Xfinity, and the others mentioned and footnoted in the text, have contracted to stream and download XPLR Productions' films, should meet the standard of reliable independent, third party confirmation. I would value these business affirmations more than random and not necessarily footnoted articles in the media. But I look forward to your comments.

Xplr2 (talk) 02:29, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I'm on vacation and I won't be online for most of the next two weeks. Sadly, if the subject itself - XPLR - isn't mentioned significantly in multiple reliable secondary sources then it does not meet our general notability guidelines. We've had those policies in place for 10 years, and exceptions aren't made for it. And yes, IMDB is not a reliable source - it is a crowdsourced website where anyone can change the information - just like Wikipedia - and that includes the companies listed on it. Sadly, no matter how meaningful something is to you, or me, it if doesn't pass our general notability guidelines it does not merit a Wikipedia article at this time. It might be best for you to perhaps improve articles about the films that XPLR is involved with, versus writing an XPLR article right now. It might just be WP:TOOSOON.

In regards to SnagFilms - we know that WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, however, each article is an individual article and that's what matters. There are over 4 million articles on Wikipedia and tons of crap. Sadly, we don't have enough volunteers to go around and get rid of or clean up the crap (that's why we need you! :) ) What makes the SnagFilms article different than yours (at least, when I looked at it) is that SnagFilms is talked about extensively in multiple reliable sources. There are entire articles in major news publications written about SnagFilms. That's what establishes notability. FEel free to resubmit for another opinion (which is always a good thing), and I encourage you to stop by the Teahouse, a place I created on Wikipedia to help new editors like yourself find easy and honest help. I'm on vacation so I might not be around that much - and besides, a second opinion is important.

I know Wikipedia can be frustrating, but, we have policies in line to make sure not everyone or everything has an article. I adore my grandma, and she was a well known local philanthropist, but, no one wrote books about her or covered her in the newspapers - and no matter how many society mentions I have her, she's not notable enough to have a Wikipedia article. So alas...I must write my own book about her! :) So it can be frustrating. THanks for your contributions and I wish I didn't have this gene to be so damn honest with new editors, but, I'd rather tell you the truth then have you submit an article and have it deleted! SarahStierch (talk) 19:32, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Here's an unusual award for you!

The Laughing Point Award The Laughing Point Award for a Humourous Comment
Hey Sarah, I just took a look at the Prism Skylabs article and wanted to tell you that your tongue-in-cheek comment about Wikipedia being boring just made me laugh out loud. It was both informative and really funny. I hope you stick around and review more AfC articles because you really have a way with newbies. Stay awesome, TheOneSean [ U | T | C ] 20:22, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Sorry for posting here but I laughed out loud too. Miss Bono (zootalk) 20:25, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

OMG. I think that's the best award I've been given in ages. Thanks guys :) And yes..I think I might start an advertising campaign called "Keep Wikipedia Boring" in reference to this. Thanks guys :) Glad I made you smile...and hopefully made my point ;) SarahStierch (talk) 23:53, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject AFC needs your help... again

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from July 1st, 2013 – July 31st, 2013.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
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The Mind the Gap Barnstar

...is awarded to User:SarahStierch who has diligently worked to close the gender gap on Wikipedia and related projects through content contributions, outreach, community changes and related actions. ```Buster Seven Talk 19:03, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Mind the Gap Award
For saying the right thing, at the right time, in the right place, to the right people.
WOW! What a touching surprise after such a long day. Thank you Buster, I am so honored. :) SarahStierch (talk) 21:54, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Review for Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/World Development Foundation.

Dear Reviewer,

I find that you have found that the references are not very good. I have given a lot of references from News Papers of repute in India. Certain references are about President, where his books/articles to highly reputed publications have been referred. I saw the guidelines which says that self written books / publications can not be referred. That being the guideline, do you want me to remove all such references. Pl. help.

Rupalisharma (talk) 11:21, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Rupalisharma. It's a good idea to remove any sources created by the organization or organizations/people associated with them. SOmetimes you can use it sparingly - just to cite when an organization was founded perhaps, or who the current director/president/whatever is, but, sparingly - not to cite an entire article. You can also get a second opinion at the Teahouse, a place I started on Wikipedia to help new editors like yourself. You can visit it by clicking here. Thanks for your contributions! SarahStierch (talk) 21:53, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Let me redo the references and come back.

Rupalisharma (talk) 09:52, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Confused about the WDL project

Hi Sarah, I am a not very frequent Wikipedia editor with particular interests in African history and related subjects, and more particularly southern Africa, South Africa and Swaziland, but also slavery related things and also general historical topics in the U.S. and Europe. I only saw your notice from the end of May just now on my talk page.

Having tried to figure out the WDL project from the links provided, and the pages, I regret to say I find them mostly pretty unhelpful. When I look at the Africa of "to do" I am not really sure where the topics came from. They appear pretty random and not for the most part priorities in terms of what I would expect say the Wikiproject Africa might say. Are the topics selected with reference to the items available on the WDL site?

There is no explicit point that says "Connect to WDL here" -- there is a poorly marked "external link" which I eventually found. The WDL interface itself is hard to navigate and I cannot figure out how to get past the first page of items when more than a page worth are listed.

Looking at the items, it seems to me that they would primarily be for illustration. In relation to southern Africa a cursory look showed a couple of books, one semi-fictional book on Swaziland, and one very old ethnography/history of the Sotho people ("Basuto") of Lesotho ("Basutoland"), neither of which are secondary sources of the sort needed for citation in Wikipedia.

Would you agree with that assessment, that mainly the WDL items would be used to illustrate relevant articles?

I also wonder if the project might do better to encourage people to explore the resources of the contributing libraries in addition to what is on the WDL site. It is pretty disappointing, again I am sorry to say -- I know that just the LOC has much more stuff on Africa digitized. Is it still in a pilot phase?

thanks for considering these questions, Chris Lowe Portland, Oregon USA Chris Lowe (talk) 01:51, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Fanny Adams

Hi Sarah. I'm afraid your "disambiuation" at that article actually accomplished sweet Fanny Adams (if you'll excuse the awful pun). The link you added merely redirects to the article it already pointed at. In fact, you simply undid my edit from a couple of months ago ~ here ~ in which i pointed out that Brain fever is exactly the correct place to go, as it explains that the term was used in Victorian literature and general usage. You might want to undo your edit, or i can, if you like. Cheers, LindsayHello 23:00, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: União Latino-Americana de Tecnologia

Hello SarahStierch, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of União Latino-Americana de Tecnologia, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to schools. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 23:06, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Your proposed deletion of Mount Morris Junior/Senior High School

Hi SarahStierch, I removed the templates you added to this article for the following reasons: 1) the article was referenced with two entries in the NCES database. 2) This article, like all articles on secondary schools would survive deletion requests. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Education. The hope is that once these stubs are created, that later other editors will flesh out the articles.

Thanks --Arg342 (talk) 23:58, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Letter of Complaint

Favourability
Excuse me but i would like to know why you deleted our University's wikipage.

Being an educational institutional of importance, i believe it deserves a right to stay on Wikipedia as it is providing information to the world about our University. IshaqaMilz (talk) 16:08, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Kevin Yates Article - Notability

Dear SarahStierch,

Thank you for reviewing my recent submission on the Canadian visual artist, Kevin Yates. I appreciate you taking the time to make suggestions as to how I can demonstrate the notability of this subject. I have added a list of prominent institutions that have collected his work, and added two more references. Please let me know if the article requires further edits.

Thanks again,

Lynnechristie (talk) 17:54, 26 June 2013 (UTC)Lynnechristie

Thank you very much for the invitation, but I will not be able to attend

Sincerely,

David Davidpdx (talk) 14:04, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership Newsletter

Expand Wikipedia's free knowledge with WDL resources!

Hi Missvain! Thanks for participating in the World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership. Your contributions are important to improving Wikipedia! I wanted to share a few updates with you:

  • We have an easy way to now cite WDL resources. You can learn more about it on our news page, here.
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Keep up the great work, and please contact me if you need anything! Thank you for all you do for free knowledge! EdwardsBot (talk) 16:43, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

English, not that stuff I'm forced to drink stateside Steve Bowen 19:12, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank-you for the lovley Barnstar, it made my day, I must take you to a graveyard of my choice (This one perhaps) --Steve Bowen 19:10, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

RE: "Keep Wikipedia Boring"

Was that a serious suggestion, about creating an advertising campaign? I'm game if you are. We could be a subdivision of the Department of Fun. We could create a Wikipedia ad, and post notices on humorous articles complaining of their humour and reminding people that Wikipedia should be boring. Let's do it! theonesean 23:54, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

I second the above. Neo12345292 (talk) 15:33, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Ha! go for it. I'm pretty busy personally and professionally so I can't really spend much time on it, but, I do think it'd be fun to see something come out of it, especially if there is community interest :) SarahStierch (talk) 16:56, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Sarah

I found this picture File:Teahouse_Hosts_and.JPG in you user page and I wanted to know who they are in Wiki. I only can recognize you and Heather. Ms.Bono(zootalk)☆ 16:37, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Hiya. If you click through to the Commons link I have tagged the picture for who is who :) SarahStierch (talk) 16:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
I have no access to Commons. I just can visit wikipedia. That's why I asked. My Internet access is very poor. Just Wikipedia, nothing else. Ms.Bono(zootalk)☆ 16:47, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Ah, OK. I did not know that. It's Writ Keeper, Ocaasi, me, Heather, Siko (Seeeko), J-mo (sitting) and Doc Tree! SarahStierch (talk) 16:52, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
It is cool finally having meet these people, since I can go to WikiEvents :) And I don't know if I ever could. Ms.Bono(zootalk)☆ 18:08, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Btw, I have revamped my user page. May I ask you to see if I gave a lot of personal info, so i can't remove some?? Thanks! :) Ms.Bono(zootalk)☆ 16:50, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
I can't right this minute, I'm doing some number crunching and work stuff, but, I will when I can! SarahStierch (talk) 16:52, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Ok, no need to rush. I will wait. I have learnt something like this: Wikipedia has no deadline :). Good luck with your work. C u later...btw I like playing p.ball but in computer. I still haven't found a real machine here lol Ms.Bono(zootalk)☆ 17:16, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry bothering again

I have a picture issue. I asked Cullen328 if it would be safe enough to have a picture of my self here. He replied this User talk:Miss Bono#Portrait. Please, take a look, your opinion is required. Thanks! Ms.Bono(zootalk)☆ 19:47, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

You have new message/s Hello. You have a new message at Miss Bono's talk page.

WP:Snugglers & Teahouse hosts collaborate on office hours?

Hi Sarah. I have a proposal for you. I'm planning to hold an office hours next Wednesday (1600 UTC) to gather Wikipedians who mentor newcomers across Wikipedia, to discuss the state of things and figure out if Snuggle can help. Would you be interested in working with me to gather wiki-mentors and come up with topics for the session? I've got a brief write-up (still very Snuggle focused) that I've been working on with Technical 13 and TheOriginalSoni. If you're interested, I'm happy to broaden the topic appropriately. --EpochFail(talk • work) 21:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi there! I think that is great. Regretfully I won't be able to participate, but, I think it's great that you're doing it. I'm pretty swamped personally and professionally right now and I'm going to be unavailable at that time. I do encourage you to invite other Teahouse hosts and perhaps ping Siko B. about making a guest appearance or advising on others to ask. A great idea and sorry I can't be more involved! SarahStierch (talk) 23:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
I see. No worries. Thanks for the quick response. :) --EpochFail(talk • work) 00:10, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Happy 4th Of July

Greetings from Cuba :) Ms.Bono(zootalk)☆ 12:25, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Article Advice

Hello Sarah! I've recently revised the article I've been working on that you rejected on June 15th after some suggestions were made by GorillaWarfare and Mufka on the IRC chat and my talk page. I was hoping you could take a quick look at the article and provide additional feedback before I resubmit it for creation. You can view the article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:InSiteful13/sandbox Thanks! --InSiteful13(talk 13:44, 5 July 2013 (CST)

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For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 00:26, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

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Clayton Zelin article relist help

{{helpme}} I had written an article Clayton Zelin, but you nominated it for deletion because, MLS reserves and Professional Indoor league were not seen as a pro league for some reason. Clayton Zelin has now signed with Phoenix FC in the USL PRO league as #7. Here is the link to the roster, please help put this back together.I am just a rookie at all of this. http://www.uslsoccer.com/scripts/runisa.dll?M2:gp:908940.8691:72011+Elements/Display+E+47116+Player/+58092992+58092651+7005504 Mscdpanda3Mscdpanda3 (talk) 18:47, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

I've deactivated the helpme template, as it appears you're looking specifically for help from Sarah. She will see this message when she comes online; you do not need to use a helpme for messages like these in the future. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 19:25, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, SarahStierch, I was just wandering if that is you. Lotje (talk) 13:35, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Your contributions on ro.wikipedia.org

Hello,

I've recently noticed your constructive contributions to our project and asked a sysop to change your user group. As of this morning (whatever that might mean to someone in another time zone:D) you are autopatrolled on ro.wiki, so your contributions don't have to have to be reviewed anymore.

I'd like to make a single suggestion; when you add a new section to an article the right order of the last sections is:

  • Note/Referințe (widely used interchangeably for individual references)
  • Bibliografie (general references),
  • Vezi și (see also other Wikipedia articles)
  • Legături externe (external links)

Regards, Mihai --Hype supper (talk) 10:17, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mihai! Wow, thank you so much for the update! I appreciate that and I'm glad my contributions are valued, it means a lot to me. And thanks for the reference breakdown. Just when I think I've got it, I clearly don't :) So this really really helps! See you on ro.wiki! SarahStierch (talk) 18:14, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Woolworth Building

Hi. I have reverted your recent change to the skyscraper article. Looking at the Woolworth Building article and this list from the CTBUH, you can see multiple reliable sources have the building's height as 792 ft (241 m). Perhaps the original source used by the WDL was incorrect - they certainly got the ft to m conversion wrong. Astronaut (talk) 12:47, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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Slammin' at GLAM

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I've been watching you rack up edit after edit at Wikipedia:GLAM/World Digital Library/Outcomes and (after picking my jaw up off the ground) I feel I must thank you for your tireless work to expand the reach of the WDL. Amazing dedication! Binksternet (talk) 20:09, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK-Good Article Request for Comment

A kitten for you!

I'm on a kitten giving binge so thought I'd send some to some of my favorite sisters. Yeah team!

User:Carolmooredc 20:17, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Awww! :)

An awesome puppy for you!

That's so sweet that you have thought about me. I regret not being able to be at WikiMania, and next year I don't think I can go either unless it is held in Cuba :P (joking). I don't even have a passport. I hope I can travel pretty soon and be at WikiMania some day...

Regarding the submittion of a talk about WikiProject U2 or running a music project... how does it work? It's interesting to hear about those stuffs, just in case ;) Miss Bono [zootalk] 12:11, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
By the way! You should listen A Sort Of Homecoming!! :) Miss Bono [zootalk] 12:14, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

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Help Project newsletter : Issue 7

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How is Wikimania going? Are you having fun? Miss Bono [zootalk] 18:07, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

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Ohio archaeological sites

What's with the new articles on the Ohio archaeological sites? I can't remember the last time I saw anyone else except this guy creating good articles on sites like these. Thanks a lot for the help! What's more, please note that I have access to numerous sources related to these and other sites (I've just never had time to use them), so I'll be happy to help with anything possible if you let me know. Nyttend (talk) 03:26, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, August 24!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 04:06, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Missa, BWV 232a

The category you added here is new to me, can you explain, please? The category page doesn't ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. It's a part of the World Digital Library WikiProject. It helps to categorize what content we utilize WDL sources in for evaluation purposes. SarahStierch (talk) 08:47, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
I am surprised that BWV 232a is in such a category, not BWV 232, but learning. (I am watching here.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:56, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

New Word to describe SlowKing4

Dear SarahStierch:

Please feel free to comment on my nomination of SlowKing4 on the Wikipedia:Merchandise giveaways/Nominations article. In a fit of wordsmithing, I created a new word to describe the SlowKing4. Geraldshields11 (talk) 15:08, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

I had no clue that page existed. Support added. Hell, I work for WMF and I have to buy my own t-shirts - I don't even have an official wikipedia shirt. So glad to see that page exists to give people a chance! SarahStierch (talk) 01:07, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikimania London suggestion

I'm enjoying Wikimania vicariously through your tweets and the live feed. While watching the live feed, a thought occurred to me. The single camera has to choose between a tight shot of the speaker, a tight shot of the presentation, or something in between. I'd like it if there were two live feeds, one a tight shot of the speaker, and the other a tight shot of the presentation materials. Obviously, this applies only when the setup is a single speaker, and a media such as PowerPoint or a video, but that covers a number of presentations. With a panel, such as the board, a single camera which pans to the speaker is probably fine.

Why am I sharing this with you? Because one of your tweets left me with the impression that you will be involved in London. (I checked this page, but didn't see an obvious person to contact.)--SPhilbrick(Talk) 17:05, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Yup :) I will be involved. A good place to drop this would be here! That's where brainstroming is going, so I don't lose track of this...! I hope you'll be there, right? SarahStierch (talk) 06:12, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the link. Yes, I hope to be in London.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 11:53, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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Are you free on Wednesday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 11:42, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

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Amendments made to article previously declined

You previously declined this article due to there not being many links to reliable sources, other than the BBC's website. I have now added several links to Lyna's work on NME's website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Lyna_Galliara

Thanks for any additional time you spend reviewing this.

Cheers,

ScottDaviesMusicExpert (talk) 16:14, 21 August 2013 (UTC) User:ScottDaviesMusicExpert

Re:Survey I'd like you to take

Hi Sarah- I've activated my email (which I didn't realise wasn't usable), so you can email me through my userpage. I'm always happy to talk about the WikiCup! J Milburn (talk) 07:28, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi there, I actually would need you to send me an email you prefer me to email you through. I can't send the survey, due to security reasons, through the Wikipedia email form. I understand if you're not comfortable with that. If you wish, you can email me at sarah@wikimedia.org. Thanks! SarahStierch (talk) 07:29, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Emailed. J Milburn (talk) 08:43, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Question about formatting error

Hi Sarah - you once kindly offered your help with an article I was working on -. Unfortunately, I think I created a weird gap space when I was editing Chuck Philips, the journalist while trying to add a reference. There's a weird space now between the bio box and two sections of the bio. I'd be most grateful if you could give me any insight into how this happened so I can fix it. Thanks so muchScholarlyarticles (talk) 21:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC).

Hi there. You can take a look at the formatting wikimark up, but, instead of hitting enter and adding two :: before each award, I just listed them in a row and put <br/> between each award, that provides a break, so they appear underneath each other. So now you can copy and paste that method - that's how I learned how to do infobox formatting, by copying and pasting other similar style infoboxes. Oh, and just a tip - you can link to a Wikipedia article by typing two brackets before and after the article name - like this [[Chuck Philips]] and it comes out looking like Chuck Philips. That way, whoever you ask for help or want to share your work with doesn't have to search for it, they can just click. And please don't forget to ask for help at the Teahouse. I'm frequently traveling and not often able to provide timely responses via my talk page, and you can generally get a response within minutes there. Thanks for coming by and for editing Wikipedia! SarahStierch (talk) 17:10, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to enWikipedia, May 22 2013

Hello Sarah, and thank you for your invitation to join en Wikipedia. I was only commenting the Stones song Fingerprint File which is one of the Stones song I have wrote about on (at?) Swedish Wikipedia. And I had a question to an editor here about another task due to my work to write about Stones songs. I have no intention to write here, Swedish Wikipedia is enough. But thanks, anyway. Greetings from Sweden, the ABBA country.Lill-Ann (talk) 21:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Teahouse invitations

Please send a Teahouse invitation to User talk:Aniyunwiya. Let me know, right here, how can I do this more easily. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:45, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

HI. You can find Teahouse invitation information here. It might be best to ask at the talk page there if you have any questions about installing the scripts. SarahStierch (talk) 17:06, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for putting me on the right track.--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:20, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Meet up with local Wikipedians on September 14!

Are you free on Saturday, September 14? If so, please join Wikimedia DC and local Wikipedians for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages are welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please visit the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 18:58, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Hope you are having a great day!--SPhilbrick(Talk) 01:22, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Awe!! Thank you so much Sphilbrick :) I am! SarahStierch (talk) 02:09, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Mounds etc

You're quite welcome! I knew nothing about you (I vaguely remember seeing your username before, but only in passing) and thus had no clue about your Indiana connexion. My interest in these sites is because of their National Register status; I'm not particularly interested in sites that don't have historic designation, unless there's something unusual (e.g. with the Ridgeway Kame, near where I grew up) that makes me interested in them. I've done my best to get pictures for sites, as you've perhaps seen; are you familiar with List of archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana? Few enough of those have articles because I've not had time and nobody else has had interest, but I can supply hard-to-find documentation on most of them if you want to start writing on them. Some have articles (for example, I enjoyed writing the Rockhouse Cliffs Rockshelters article, especially because my photo of a friend helps to give viewers a sense of the size of the site), but comparatively few. Nyttend (talk) 03:06, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 5 at our K Street office.

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We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 14:57, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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