Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".
The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.
Thanks for taking the time to vote in my RfA, which passed with a final vote of 54/2/1 despite my obvious inadequacy for the job. I'll do my level best to use the mop and bucket — or, as I said in my RfA, plunger — responsibly. Of course, in the best tradition of politicans everywhere, I've already broken a campaign promise (I blocked a vandal last night despite having said "I don't anticipate using the blocking tool very often"). Nevertheless, I'll try not to let the unbridled power corrupt me. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 14:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Random quote comment...
Hi Smurrayinchester... If you don't mind me intruding, I saw you list "De gustibus non est disputandum" in your Quotes page and give "There must be no arguments regarding opinion" as the translation... Now, that's now quite right. A better translation is "There’s no disputing about taste" [1] and since there is a big diff btw "taste" and "opinion" this makes a diff indeed! Just a thought :)... Mikker...22:31, 14 February 2006 (UTC) (ps. love the user page!)[reply]
For being a great anonymous user, I award the Exceptional Newcomer award.
I'd like to thank you for clearing up that issue on hello. ...
I am the person who submitted comments on "hello" from this IP address.
Thank you for your kind words. However, for your information, this is not
the only IP address I have made submissions to Wikipedia from, nor am I the
only person making submissions from this or from any other single IP address.
207.176.159.9000:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you!Thank you!
Hi Smurrayinchester/Archive 3. On behalf of my right eye, I'd like to thank you for giving me your support on my recent RfA. It ended with a final tally of (73/2/2) and therefore I have been installed as an administrator now, and I'm ready to serve Wikipedians all over the world with my newly acquired mop and bucket. If you have any questions, do not hestitate to forward them to my talkpage. Once again, thanks for your support. SoothingR20:14, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My RfA
Thank you for your congratulations regarding my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA ultimately succeeded with a final consensus of 52/1/0, so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any comments regarding my editing, or I can help you at any point in the future, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you!
How do you implement your signature changes? Do you just stick the whole code, with the Switch template, into your signature box in My Preferences? haz(user talk)e15:00, 21 February 2006
My RfA
Thanks for voting!
Although this is a bit late in coming, I want to thank you for voting (no matter what your vote was) in my recent request for adminship. You might be aware that it did not pass due to a lack of consensus. The final tally was 21/9/10. I think I will try again this spring or summer after I have gained a bit more experience and met a few more fellow editors. Thanks again!
Thanks for your input on Tip of the day. The project is picking up momentum faster than I thought it would. (I think we are already experiencing the snowball effect). I like the level of excitement you are bringing to the project. It's a lot more fun now than when I was in there alone. Thanks. By the way, I'd like to draw your attention to your signature. Just as a heads-up in case you weren't aware of this... It tends to drown out your messages in the source text, making them hard to find/read. A couple of suggestions, if you don't mind the feedback: you could place your signature under your comments, using a blank line, and another blank line after your signature to avoid the "sandwich" effect. When a single-line comment is packed in between a double-shot of your sig, it's easy to miss altogether. Maybe there's a way to tighten up the code?
Just thought you might like somebody to bring this to your attention. I know I would.
Nothing at the present time, but I will be rewriting the whole photosynthesis article soon. I'll get in touch with you then. Thanks for your help.--Miller16:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Templates and "what links here"
I want to see what other articles contain information on Raritan Landing, New Jersey, but since I put a Template on every town in the county that has a link for this community, I now see dozens of links for "Raritan Landing" and have diluted the text links. If Template links were a seperate category, or not counted, I could see the more important links that are from embedded text, and actually relate to the article. Try the search and see. Perhaps if Template links were a seperate category, I could still see the embedded text links, that would give usefull information for writing the article. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )19:24, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for adding your thoughts. It will be interesting to see if a little collection eventually arises out of this experiment. Cheers, Bratschetalk23:48, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
UPA
Congratulations, Smurrayinchester/Archive 3! Your user page has been nominated for the Esperanza User Page Award! Five judges will look over your user page and award it 1-10 points in four categories:
Attractiveness: general layout, considering colour scheme and/or use of tables if applicable
Usefulness: links to subpages or editing aids, helpful information
Interesting-ness: quirky, unique, captivating, or funny content
General niceness: at the judges' discretion
But first, you must be chosen as a finalist. If your user page is chosen as one of the five finalists, you'll have the chance to win an award created just for having a great user page!
Say, could you help me again? I was creating accounts on the other large wikis and wanted to add a table of interwiki links to my various user pages to my :en user page, but for some reason the markup fucks up. The table looks fine when it's not in my cornflowerblue box -- do you happen to know what the problem is?
Hey. The code immediately preceding the first subhead on my talk page is responsible for changing the color of my TOC. I was immensely surprised when it worked out that way -- I really had no idea what I was doing :)
In response to some of the comments about archiving discussions, and how awards are vetted, last week I tweaked the Guidelines. No one noticed. I also archived the discussion that was used to create them. I just wanted to give you a heads up. evrik18:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Would you like to put your name in the hat again? I was neutral in your last RfA, but I think you've since gained enough experience. If you still want to be an admin, I'd be willing to nominate you. --TantalumTelluride21:00, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
After stumbling across a few of your recent contributions, I just dropped by to ask the very same thing — freaky! I think you'd make a great admin and with more experience since your last RfA it should be successful. I was going to offer to nominate you, but it seems you've already got an offer — do drop me a note if you accept it and I'd be happy to support. └ UkPaolo/talk┐10:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry that I didn't get a chance to help out with your DFA trial run. (I haven't been following the discussion very closely, so I would have needed to read quite a bit in order to figure out how it was supposed to work.) Anyway, I'll try to draft an RFA nomination as soon as possible. --TantalumTelluride22:27, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Help needed!!
Hi, just saw the above message as I dropped in. I think it may be better to wait till the first week of April at least, but either way, my vote would be the same as last time, support. btw, I needed some help. The DYK medal, has a lot of support, as you'd know from WP:BAP. I am unable to locate the templates to close the discussion and institute the medal. Since you have done this for templatemaker's barnstar, Can you please close this as well? There is another detail as well - the medal needs to be uploaded in a 100px size from commons with the attribution intact so that we can start awarding it asap. Do let me know if you are in a position to do these. In case you wnat to go ahead, do so even if I am not online. TIA, --Gurubrahma09:45, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks a ton. I was actually caught up in the middle of a DYK update and had to rush immediately after that. However, I wanted the image to be put on Wikipedia rather than Commons - something like the Image:Wikimedal.jpg page. I'd be getting to it hopefully sometime during the weekend, if you can take a crack at it before that, please do so. Thanks again, --Gurubrahma15:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My bad, true, it is automatically uploaded to en. I was just wondering if it would make sense to have a description of DYK medal on that page as it would appear on commons as well, where it would be irrelevant. If it is ok to have it on commons, then it must probly be updated to the format of Image:Wikimedal.jpg page. Else, it shd be created here in the same format - I'd think it is better to have it here rather than on commons and risk deletion there. It also needs to be added to Other Awards page as well. <sigh>A lot to to do</sigh> --Gurubrahma16:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks a ton for doing all the work on the DYK medal and being very supportive in barnstars discussion. For the AFD rescue barnstar, we should probably add Azatoth's version as the fifth draft and invite comments from other editors who were active in the discussion sometime back such as Royboy etc. btw, the templates for losing are {{consensus top}} and {{consensus bottom}}. --Gurubrahma09:49, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
