User talk:Alanbly/Archives/2008/March

Edit summaries
Thank you for the support vote! Regarding summaries for minor edits: you raise a valid point, but let me just say that in my experience, an edit made by a registered user whose username is a blue link (ie has a user page) is highly unlikely to be vandalism. Certainly not impossible, but improbable. Biruitorul (talk) 02:31, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't disagree, it's a question of time. And it's just courtesy. I mean five seconds for a well-considered edit is nothing, even if it doesn't matter to you, the consideration it shows is valuable both in an editor and an administrator. Adam McCormick (talk) 03:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

School Important Rating
Can you request that a certain school's important rating be improved to another level? I just saw that you changed the category of Magnet Schools to High Importance. I am wondering on behalf of Advanced Technologies Academy. I request information on it in the talk page and stated a reason. Please advise! Chexmix53 (talk) 19:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied on Atricle talk and sent to assessments Adam McCormick (talk) 04:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstars survey
Hi Alanbly I'm running a small survey about wikipedian barnstars. If you have the time, I would really appreciate you taking a look and participating. The survey can be found here. Thank you! Bestchai (talk) 02:02, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey, sorry the comments field didn't get explained well -- it was not meant to be for writing the text of the barnstar, but rather for leaving comments on the survey instance. The option of not giving a barnstar is an interesting idea, I'll see if I can include that. Also, if the typo was in the barnstar then it was intentional -- I left the barnstars as they were originally used. If you found typos elsewhere in the survey and can remember where they are let me know! Thanks for participating. Bestchai (talk) 04:23, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

CS Articles Assessment Question
Hi Alanbly, quick question. I saw you were on the Assessment Team for WP:CS, and I was wondering about assessment's for a sister project: WikiProject Databases. We're sort of piggy-backing off the CS project, and I'm trying to figure out how assessments for A-class articles work. I was hoping you might help with some advice or links? Thanks! SqlPac (talk) 05:06, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Well I assess a lot more on the schools project but since I kind of created the assessment "department" at the CS project I suppose I'm a good one to ask. Basically, The A class is all of the articles that are already GA but are Better than that. To put it another way, it's the project's way of saying "We think this is close to FA." There are other takes on this and GA is not strictly required, but as A-class is supposed to be better than GA, we believed that community consensus was necessary. Adam McCormick (talk) 22:32, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Awesome, thanks for the info. Do you know if the CS project has guidelines for the community concerning what constitutes an "A-class" article?  We're working on a few articles and I'd like to recommend some standards for the WikiProject Databases project.  Since we're really "borrowing heavily" from the CS project anyway, it seemed like a natural to first figure out how it's done over there.  Thanks again! SqlPac (talk) 01:04, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The Article assessments are standard accross wikipedia and can be found here and that should be the standard. The CS project isn't really organized in how they assess. Adam McCormick (talk) 05:02, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * OK thanks, I thought projects might have specific assessment guidelines. I'll check out the link you gave, appreciate it! SqlPac (talk) 23:54, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks

 * You're welcome. Adam McCormick (talk) 03:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Stonyhurst College
Many thanks for assessing this article. 163.1.126.120 (talk) 18:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem, happy to help as the article is well-written. On another note, please consider creating an account as you would be a value to the project. Adam McCormick (talk) 00:18, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

my RFA

 * You're welcome and congratulations. Adam McCormick (talk) 01:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your bot updating the Chain of Lakes Middle School article
Thanks for your bot cleaning that page up. It's been in horrible shape for a long time. Cheers, --Royalmate1 (talk) 01:24, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Rollback feature
I noticed you are a long established user and admin candidate, but you do not currently have access to the rollback feature on Wikipedia. This is a "no big deal" thing which allows you to revert vandalism like edits and your own edits quickly if you see the need, and it can be given to any trusted user even if they do not frequently use it. I have found no evidence in your history that you will abuse it, so if you let me know here or on my talk page that you would like it I will grant it you. Thanks. Camaron | Chris (talk) 20:44, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure Chris, I use the software version often enough that it would be plenty useful. Thanks. Adam McCormick (talk) 01:56, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, your account is now part of the rollback group, use it well! Camaron | Chris (talk) 11:56, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Adam McCormick (talk) 16:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)