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That was a mistake on either my part or VandalProof's. I could have sworn that it said that user had not received any warnings for vandalism and was somewhat perturbed after I saw that they had indeed received several warnings. Don't worry; I usually do not have that much patience with vandals.-- Mbc36205:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007
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Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope
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Chrétienite
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In the past few weeks, there has been quite heated discussion about the use of diacritics in article name. The current guideline is using diacritics in the pages of articles of all player names which require them, but redirects are exempt.
This task force was initiated by Krm500. Its current goal is to improve Henrik Lundqvist to Good or Featured article status. It covers all Swedish clubs, leagues and competitions and associated articles, players and coaches that are Swedish, or have played/coached for a Swedish club, and arenas in Sweden. They plan to eventually operate as a sort of a sub-project, which will have its own articles for creation, ranking importance and quality of articles, and co-ordinate article improvement. Its current members are Krm500, Bamsefar75, and CLAES.
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After discussion on the WikiProject talk page, Serte created a page for Requested Images. The page encourages users to license images for use on articles. The page also has section to request images for players, arenas, game situations, miscellaneous, and team and league logos. The page has been quite popular; since it was created on July 21, there have been six completed requests. There are four currently outstanding requests:
By Maxim
On July 12, Kaiser matias announced that he had completed assessing all the articles with a {{ice hockey}} tag, sorting them into Category:Unassessed Ice Hockey articles. Kaiser matias has ranked about 9000 articles in that category, and most were stubs, and "have no information at all", according to him. Everybody is encouraged to expand the stubs into real articles. This effort took around 5 months. A big thanks goes to Kaiser matias from me and all the project.
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Thank you for your advice. With the deepest respect, and given that the article which was expanded last month is now clearly wikipedic, in my view the version which I deleted in June still qualifies as NN-bio. There are several vandalised version of the page of earlier dates, which are of no relevance, and which played no part in my decision. --Anthony.bradbury"talk"22:11, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Scimitar! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been more new thing going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in August, there's been great changes. Read on to find out! Maxim(talk)
Especially due to the featured topic drive, there have been many new featured lists promoted concerning NHL awards. Here's the full list of all the 13 FL's promoted since the last newsletter.[1][2]
^The last one, List of Calgary Flames players, is the only one not associated with the featured topic drive.
^At the time of publishing, there were 5 lists at WP:FLC and 2 lists in the "Holding cell", as there's been an accepted guideline to not put more that 5 trophy lists at the same time to, "compensate for the sanity of the reviewers".
Check the project page if you are interested in helping out. Although it's closer to being done than not, there's still work to be done. The next topic that might be tackled is Stanley Cup, but this remains purely speculative and in discussion.
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.
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
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Robert Walcot / Isaac Brock
You are correct. Walcot's fraudulent claims aren't really relevant to Brock's story. I might do a quick brief article on Walcot, under the grouping of Walter Mittys / Baron Munchhausens or whatever HLGallon (talk) 06:03, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Borsk Fey'lya
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Isaac Brock under FA review
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Hello Scimitar. I've obtained some books that cover Brock's role in the early war of 1812. They include Pierre Berton, The invasion of Canada. I notice that there are no inline cites to Berton at present in this article, and I might be able to help with that. Are you still actively working on more improvements? I don't want to get in your way. I also had a few thoughts for the style of the lead, but I'd review them with you first. EdJohnston (talk) 14:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Proposed deletion of Lieutenant Page
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