User talk:Arsenikk/Archive 2

hello
I would like to help in reviewing the WP:DYK, suggestions section. How can i do that? Do i have to have a special status for ex. to be a member of WP:DYK? Thanks in advance. Mario 1987  20:32, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * and how does the monobook.js tool work? Mario  1987  13:48, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * never mind i already know. Sorry for the trouble. :) Mario  1987  13:55, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

TT Class 8
Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible. Rosiestep (talk) 20:35, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I do have access at the university, but I found the old url for the Adressa article. It's a 404, but the url itself indicates that the piece was submitted as a 'kronikk'. Are these RS? Punkmorten (talk) 09:50, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it was a page 2 kronikk by Hermann Hansen. As far as I can see from the article, it is just a synthesis of what happened between 1979 and 1990; the author choses not to make any real opinions in the matter. Chances are, given the 2005 date, he has just taken the highlights from Kjenstad's book. Of course, if he is a journalist, he could have taken it all from the contemporary Adresseavisen articles too. Arsenikk (talk)  11:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that the same person, who has an @adresseavisen.no e-mail address, wrote a similar article in 2001, though about a slightly different time period. I would therefore presume RS—he is just a journalist interested in the past. Arsenikk (talk)  11:59, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

hi again
Could you please take a look the the Port of Constanţa article to see what else can i adjust. I've been making many improvments in the last couple of days and i want to see your oppinion. Thanks! Mario 1987  11:59, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Most certainly. See Talk:Port of Constanţa. Arsenikk (talk)  22:40, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

I know
First the original titles were bad and i got my idea from this and several others Presidency of George W. Bush. I'm goin to make prime minister pages for all the norwegian prime ministers, when i'm finished with the list. So just for now can you just let it be? --This Feels Right (talk) 18:38, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by Prime Minister pages? Overviews on each period under a specific Prime Minister? Could I request that you please don't use the current pages as a base for expansion, as they (especially with secretaries) are too long to fit in such an overview page. They should be retained as lists of their own. Punkmorten (talk) 20:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

GA
Is Ýdalir really a GA? With 1,212 characters (excluding block quote and the usual stuff) it would not even be accepted at DYK; some would say it's a stub. Punkmorten (talk) 11:36, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * GA was created to allow articles too short for FA to become recognized in some way. The problem with articles like Ýdalir, it that while they are notable enough to have an article, there is not much to say about them. In this case, it is mentioned in one scripture, and there are a few, but not particularly long, "theories" regarding it. There is no length demand for GA, and I am certain Bloodofox would have added more if there was more to say. If you disagree with me, you can allways challenge the GA, since anyone can degrade a GA article, or pop a note on Talk:Ýdalir. Remember, GA is neither DYK or FA. And for the record, I did dwell at the length issue for some time. Arsenikk (talk)  11:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

GA review
Hi i improved the article Faidherbe Bridge as much as i could. Could you take a look again? Thanks Mario  1987  16:48, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * How about now? Mario  1987  10:02, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:GA review of Currencies of Puerto Rico
You are welcome to finish the review of this article. Sorry for not making the proper notices. Reywas92 Talk 21:33, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

GAN review of Oslo Airport
Hi Arsenikk. I was having problems correctly seeing the track diagram for this article; and this was a problem in both Firefox Mozilla and MS Windows browsers. I therefore moved the text into Template:Oslo Airport and redid it. Could you confirm whether is it correct or not?Pyrotec (talk) 23:20, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing that. I spent an hour trying to fix it without getting anywhere, so I'm glad you took the trouble (I even considered removing it just to get it through GA). It looks correct. You can find the original at no:Gardermoen stasjon. Arsenikk (talk)  23:49, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Nativity scene
Thank you for reviewing the article! I followed your recommendations and await your approval. Thank you again! ReverendLogos (talk) 02:18, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Well deserved barnstar
Well deserved!! I had thought about adding a train to it but I thought ah you've always done great work on Norwegian topics in general so... Have a good day and keep up the good work! Dr. Blofeld      White cat 12:00, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: GAN of Narrows Bridge (Perth)
Thank you for taking the time to review this article. I have replied to your notes on the review page. - Mark 02:27, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar
It was a pleasant surprise, as IIRC we haven't worked together on any articles or projects. However I hope we will have the chance to do so. --Philcha (talk) 22:04, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Can you help?
Hi Arsenikk, You how how good (rather bad) my Norwegian is can you help? We have a bit of an argument whether Gigha has a Proper Norse name and one reference states that it is "Gudey" and that it come from Håkon Håkonssons saga []. The saga mentions Gudøy; and the discussion is here: Talk:Gigha. Could this Gudøy be our Gigha? If you have the time to assist, could you please reply on Talk:Gigha. Thanks.Pyrotec (talk) 21:07, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

GA
Congratulations with the latest GA. Your recent work is marked by good, thorough research of some quite narrow topics. Also, perhaps as importantly, the articles look good and are well laid out. Punkmorten (talk) 21:44, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliments; I am glad my efforts are appreciated, even if I fear there are few that will read about Flekkefjord Station. Arsenikk (talk)  23:18, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Apollo Management GA
Arsenikk -

I made a number of improvements to the Apollo Management article and would love to get your further feedback on the progress. I thought your initial comments were very useful. If you have any additional specific comments, let me know. |► ϋrбan яeneωaℓ  •  TALK  ◄| 04:56, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments left at Talk:Apollo Management/GA1. Arsenikk (talk)  10:31, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Zaprešić
Thanks for the review! I have addressed your concerns on Talk:Zaprešić/GA1. Admiral Norton (talk) 20:20, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Rampart Dam GA review
Thank you for taking the time to look over the article. I'll definitely incorporate the changes you've suggested in regards to the legacy section and non-breaking spaces. If I were to submit it as a featured article candidate as is, what other changes would you suggest? I've done a few before, but not with an article of this type, so any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you. JKBrooks85 (talk) 03:12, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response. JKBrooks85 (talk) 10:35, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

GA Review Randolph, Tennessee
First off all, thanks for your review and for fixing some of the minor issues the article had. It was interesting to get an expert opinion on the article. I will answer here instead of appending it to the review, if you don't mind. Usually, I would like to keep the discussion close to the article but as it failed the GA, this would be more to exchange some ideas with you. As you have offered it in your review, I would like to keep in touch with you for the evaluation of further developments. And if I decide to re-list it one day after improvements are done, maybe your time allows to re-review the article.

It is interesting, a few of the points you have criticized I have noticed myself and there is a reason for some of them. So on one hand it is a pitty that the article failed without a discussion but your detailed evaluation is still very helpful and I like that more time is available than with the GA on hold and all has to be done within a week.

Extensive history section: I wanted the article to be comprehensive and close to complete and to reflect the right proportions. Randolph is not only a small village in 2008, it is a small village since 1865. Since then, nothing big has happened there. The big things to say about Randolph (if you want to exclude pre-history) happened for the most part between 1800 and 1865, for the next 150 years until the present time there is relative silence. So the extent of the history section is in the right proportion, in my opinon.

Splitting History section into a separate article: I have done that many months ago with the Memphis, Tennessee article. I have considered that as well for Randolph but did not do it for a reason. As mentioned above, most of what is known about the place is history, that would not leave much for the main article. Some history facts need to be mentioned in the main article, too, if the history is split off. So to avoid redundancies of two artciles I added the few facts of present day to the vast history and have it all in one article. But, I am sort of torn back and forth here, too. If you think this really makes sense, let us exchange a few ideas before I make the bigger changes here, OK?

Indians vs. Native Americans: Wikipedia is a worldwide encyclopedia, the English version does not represent a certain cultural identity or country. It is worldwide knowledge that happens to be in the English language. In my opinion it would be of no importance to ask whether it is politically correct or not in a given country. Who determines political correctness, anyway? And why? There are two reasons why I sometimes call the inhabitants prior to European settlement Indians and sometimes Native Americans. (1) Variation of speech (2) In my opinion, political correctness produces an undue bias in the information. Honestly, "Native American" is a pretty friendly and neutral to positive term, so nice and friendly that you could almost forget that 5 million of them were killed by Europeans, their land was taken and those few who survived were transferred to reservations. The term "Indian" carries more of the beforementioned slightly negative connotations. And that is important to reflect the historical accuracy and to balance out the slightly too positive bias of nice term.

Earthquake: The settlement is in an earthquake zone and there are earthquakes every once in a while. I picked this example earthquake because it was recent and pretty close. I would like to let it stay but would not insist on it, either.

More than single sentence diversions: You mentioned that in your evaluation. I was pretty sure that I kept the diversions short enough not to disturb the context but long enough to establish context. My aim was to be as short as possible and to include all information that a casual reader might need to understand the topic without necessarily following all the links. (If you print the article, does it leave any questions open?). Would you please let me know where I was carried away too far?

If you prefer the discussion appended to the talk page of the article, I can copy it there now or we discuss it here and I append it later, I am not sure what is most proper. Thanks for your opinion and take care, doxTxob \ talk 23:27, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

History of Randolph, Tennessee
Hey, you suggested the history section split off into a separate article History of Randolph, Tennessee to cover the details that would be too much for the main article about the settlement. I have prepared a version of that in my sandbox. Would you mind to check this out: Sandbox:History of Randolph, Tennessee.

My question to you would be if you are of the opinion that this could be a reasonable start for the article about the history? In case you edit there, be aware that a lot of stuff is commented out at the moment that would be erased eventually, of course. I would do the detail work once it is closer to the final shape. And of course, the history section in the main article would have to be reduced. Would you mind to let me know suggestions what of the Randolph article you would skip once the History of Randolph article is in place? There is no urgency with this. Thank you very much!


 * Reply at Talk:Randolph, Tennessee/GA1. Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  19:07, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK
Shubinator (talk) 01:45, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Sultan Iskandar
Hey! Thanks for your inputs into the above article. On my part, I have responded to your suggestions in the GA, and I sincerely hope your analysis can help to improve the article. Your assistance is greatly appreciated--(though we also have real life work to considere). Thanks!Mr Tan (talk) 13:36, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

KKR
Arsenikk -

Thanks for the vote of confidence on the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts GA. I turned around the comments in the GAR pretty quickly and it was closed up favorably earlier today. Thanks again. |► ϋrбan яeneωaℓ  •  TALK  ◄| 01:14, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Launceston, Tasmania
Thanks for the review. I'm a bit rushed at the moment and I'll soon Start fixing GA issues in spare time. After homework and sports training I'd imaging. Although I do need a little help from another editor, as I'm only very young and not exactly one of the brightest kids going around =P, but unfortunately there aren't many other contributors to Tasmanian related articles.  Aaroncrick (Tassie talk) 10:49, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your help on the Thorbjørn Jagland article, of you need help just tell me :) --This Feels Right (talk) 16:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, what is the Standing Committee of Foreign Affairs? --This Feels Right (talk) 14:18, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Stortingets utenrikskomité. We don't have articles on any of the Storting committees, but someone might get around to it... one day. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  15:59, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * First i dont really know what a GA is, just saw many other articles being GAS. And second i'll add more information to the Jagland article, but information before 2000 with the exception of the AUF scandal is HARD to find because he was only prime minister for one year and he didn't accomplish much. And har right for the labour may be right, but i can't find anything stating that, but i do agree with you. Question do you know a place where i can find sources for events before 1999?

And i'm goin' to work on the Storing committies okay....--This Feels Right (talk) 17:26, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * If you don't really know what GA is, you should not be nominating for it. Good articles are those that editors feel they are "finished" with; they are complete, fully referenced, illustrated and have been once or twice copyedited since they were done. GA is not quite as hard as featured article, which is where people who have nothing better to do than find all the most quirky errors in prose, grammar, structure, formatting etc. live, and chop the article that you though was really good into pieces.
 * As for pre-2000 sources, the key is to use Atekst. This is a database that has a lot of printed newspapers in it, and can be searched just like a normal news search. If you are a university student, you school library might have access to it. I can connect to it at home via a VPN connection I have with NHH. The referencing of for instance Color Air (all pre-2000) is based on this method. If you do not go to university, I honestly don't know how to search pre-2000. The other thing is Government.no (http://www.regjeringen.no), that has lots of publications and press conferences from old governments. Material becomes more and more scarse as time passes, but there might still be some things. I know I have found press releases from 1996 there. Remeber: sources do not need to be in English (I somehow presume you speak Norwegian due to your eagerness in the subject).
 * A final tip: don't get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff left to do. We've only been working at the encyclopædia for about seven years, and there are perhaps half a dozen working on politics of Norway, most of us having it as a "second base". There is lots to do, and don't worry too much about how much is left, just enjoy breaking ground every time you complete a task. Again, thanks for your devotion to trying to fix up the mess. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  17:49, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No, i'm not a university student just jet, sorry. And yes i'm a Norwegian living in Oslo City. Again thanks for your help.... --This Feels Right (talk) 18:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you think the AUF membership scandal is ready for a GA, its fully referenced and well written (i hope).... --This Feels Right (talk) 14:03, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It is a lot closer than Jagland, anyway. However, it is in dire need of a copyedit; there are areas where the prose it a bit cumbersome, and the Manual of Style (MoS) is not followed. The MoS is the "rules" for how we write here on Wikipedia, such as when to use italics, how to format dates, and probably a thousand other things. One of the GA criteria is that the article must be in accordance with the MoS, and be faily well written, without any grammatical errors. However, the prose does not need to be briliant. To get back to point: the "Timeline" section needs to be converted into prose, and perhaps the background become a little longer. Also, the location of the Jagland image is not suitable, since he was not one of the formally accused in the matter. I would suggest a more neutral top image, and that his portrait is placed beside his testamony. I'll see if I get around to a copyedit today. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  18:30, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay thanks. I've started working on the Jagland article again. I've started the section President of the Storting.... --This Feels Right (talk) 18:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Those the premiership section (Thorbjørn Jagland) still need expanding..... --This Feels Right (talk) 13:00, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Well between 1997-2000 it was a dead period for him. I ges i can add information about how the labour parties elections in Norway went down hill after his resignation. But this is more focused on the labour party than Jagland. Thanks for your comments :D.... --This Feels Right (talk) 16:57, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Added tons of new information on the jagland article now about his quotes and what he did. Something else i should add???? ......--This Feels Right (talk) 19:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Looking long enough now, though I will try to make a search to see what pops up. Several of the incidents mentioned are new to me, so obviously I was a bit too young when he was prime minister to follow much of the politics. Though i remember both the Norwegian House and 36.9 vividly. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  22:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * sorry for the late, reply. Punkmorten just added much more information about Jagland's resignation from some books. See for yourself, he did a great job. If the Jagland article goes to GA status it just shows that collaboration is the best answear to problems. I'll fix the remaining problems on the Jagland article afterwords, but right now i'm working on the Red (Norway) article and afterwords i'm going to try to get the Norway article to GA. Again thanks for your help on the Jagland article :)...... --This Feels Right (talk) 21:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Please don't touch the Jagland article until I have submitted it again. I'm working on a copyedit, and I've already had to paste in the good work of Morten. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  21:14, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, one favor to ask, how do i get this picture to this article Red Youth (Norway). Can you fix this for me?....... --This Feels Right (talk) 21:16, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I will do it, but also provide a guide, so the next time you can do it yourself.
 * Save the file on your hard drive, and use a logical file name, such as
 * Open your favorite image editor; I prefer GIMP, but if you like spending your hard-earned money supporting propriatory software, you can always use Adobe Photoshop.
 * Open the image, and perform two actions; first, autocrop to remove any border of white around the image.
 * This bit is a bit tricky if you have not used layers before, and can be skipped: Go to the layer window, click on the layer, and select "add alpha channel". Use the fuzzy select (looks like a magic wand on the toolbox) and select the white background. Then press the "delete" button. Do not remove the white star, since that is part of the logo, not just colored background.
 * Save. All logos should be saved as .png (not .gif or .jpg). Photographs should be in .jpg, though.
 * Select "upload file" form the left menu on Wikipedia.
 * Press "this is a logo from an organisation"
 * Brows to select the image
 * Two lines need to be filled out: "Article" (the article name) and "Souce" (the URL where you found the image).
 * Scoll down under "licencing" to find "logo"
 * Tick "watch this page"
 * Press "upload file"
 * Add the image to the article
 * Voilá. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  21:38, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks again Arsenikk, i'll do those things next time i'll need a picture...... --This Feels Right (talk) 21:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem. If you need the layer bit explained in more detail, just ask (now or later). <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  21:46, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello again Arsenikk, the Jagland article is being GA reviewed by another user and i'm wondering if you could take care of the copyedit part?.... --This Feels Right (talk) 08:36, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Randolph, Tennessee
Hello Arsenikk! Following your advice, I reduced the history section in the article dramatically and the lead section, too. I am not asking for a GA related review here, so I do not append this to the review page. With that article I am not planning to pursue GA status at the moment, but as you have suggested it, I would like to hear your opinion on it. I have added a climate section and added statistics to the earthquake section. There are only two questions I have (1) Do you think the intro is balanced enough? (2) Do you think that the proportions of history section and the rest are good enough to leave it like this for the moment? Thank you! doxTxob \ talk 22:27, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Sultan Iskandar
Hi there! You may consider giving further inputs if necessary. Thanks! Mr Tan (talk) 12:27, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

New Kongsberg Automotive logo available
As of January the first 2008 Kongsberg Automotive has a new logo. Below is a link to the new one, it would be great if you could update it in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg_Automotive

http://www.kongsbergautomotive.com/Templates/Public/Styles/Kongsberg/images/KA_logo_web.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Erka99 (talk • contribs) 15:09, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Martin Kolberg
Shubinator (talk) 23:54, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Sultan Iskandar
Hi! Is there any further areas which you feel that more improvements is needed for GA? Pls do not hesitate to voice them out if necessary. Thanks! Mr Tan (talk) 12:37, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi there! Ive made my opinions with respect to your questions in the GA review. From what I see you do not have any further opinions. Is it ready for a final review? If not, please let me know where it needs further imrpovements in other fields needed, or if you intend to let another user do a final review, please let me know also. Your inputs are sincerely appreciated. Thank you! Mr Tan (talk) 02:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Blackstone Group
Arsenikk -

Take a look at the Blackstone Group articles. As this came later than the other PE firm articles that went through GA I think it reflected most of the comments from the previous run through. I revised the article after going through your suggestions. I would love to hear any additional comments you might have.

Also, my next task is to go back to the main Private equity article and get that in somewhat better shape. It still needs quite a bit of work but would be very happy to get any suggestions you might have. My goal with that is to try to get that to FA status which I have never done. I am a little wary that with a subject like that, FA may pose a challenge.

|► ϋrбan яeneωaℓ  •  TALK  ◄| 18:52, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Nice comment
Hi, I have complimented you at Requests for adminship/Msgj. Martinmsgj 20:23, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

York Park
Some issues on GAN review:
 * What's unreliable with references 3 and 33?
 * I can't find much info on the transport section. It's Tasmania I suppose, hmm.. I do personally know a bit but then it would be unreferenced.  Aaroncrick (Tassie talk) 08:04, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank very much for your review! Very well done. Your doing a fantastic job with all the GAN.  Aaroncrick (Tassie talk) 08:54, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The article is being reassessed. Ah dear.  Aaroncrick (Tassie talk) 03:18, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Thorbjørn Jagland
Sorry to see that TFR was apparently blocked, but glad to see you'll be continuing addressing the GA suggestions! --Hunter Kahn (talk) 06:39, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The Thorbjørn Jagland review has been dead for a few days now. Are you still working on this? I just wanted to check, because if it stays inactive for a while, I'll have to reject the article. I'll give it until at least next Wednesday (March 4). --Hunter Kahn (talk) 01:59, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Follo Line
The article Follo Line you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Follo Line for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a reassessment. SriMesh | talk  23:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Launceston, Tasmania GAN
Can you please fail this article. I'll fix up these issues, probably within a month. Thanks.  Aaroncrick (Tassie talk) 08:37, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Congratulations on the huge amount of reviewing you've done. I'll renominate the article once I've given the article a copyedit. cheers,  Aaroncrick (Tassie talk) 09:30, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry
Soory, It was that damn rollback buttons fault. Do you want one? Rettetast (talk) 11:05, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That would be nice. I've been using Twinkle, but rollback claims to be faster, and faster is always better, is it not ;) Or wait, was that the one argument not to use when asking for rollback rights? <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  21:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. Rettetast (talk) 23:07, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

1956 Winter Olympics GAC
I've made scads of corrections per your recommendations. The breakdown of what I've done is on the GA review page. Let me know what you think when you get a chance. Thanks. H1nkles (talk) 19:04, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Peter N. Myhre
--Dravecky (talk) 22:52, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi! Thanks for the detailed review to Land value tax. It was very constructive and provided a clear direction to take the article. -- Explodicle (T/C) 23:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Ultima Underworld GAN
I have worked on Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss in an attempt to meet your specifications. Your reevaluation of the article would be much appreciated. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 09:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Cunard Line
Thank you for the review. I will have the revisions completed by the end of Saturday, if not earlier. (GRUBBXDN (talk) 19:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC))
 * The corrections have been made and I think it is now ready. Thank you again for your help (GRUBBXDN (talk) 14:02, 14 March 2009 (UTC))

GA review
I would like to re-open the GA review of Norman I. Wengert. I would like more editors to comment before it's closed. I'm willing to go over the article within the next few days and comment on it myself, especially if other editors can't be found to comment. Also, I think it would be good to allow a few days for the problems you mentioned to be fixed before the review is closed. I may help fix some things. See discussion on my talk page User talk:Coppertwig. I wonder what would be a good way to find more editors to comment. ☺ Coppertwig (talk) 22:44, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll flag that I will try and pop in to the article and help with revisions. Probably over the next 3 days. Cheers. hamiltonstone (talk) 22:56, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Reply at Talk:Norman I. Wengert <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  12:22, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

(ec)Just to clarify: Arsenikk, I'm not criticizing you nor necessarily disagreeing with you about anything. I appreciate the work you did reviewing the article, and from what I've been able to gather from a preliminary look, your review is thorough and contains many useful comments. It's just that as the situation stands at the moment, I think it would be beneficial to have the review open for a few days, during which I expect that I and perhaps a few other editors will put in some hard work trying to improve the article and trying to get it to pass; whether or not it actually passes, I think this will be helpful both as a way of getting some improvement to the article, and to provide encouragement to the author of the article. ☺ Coppertwig (talk) 12:31, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I understand that. Perhaps I would have done it differently again. But I cannot reopen the review (it is not possible according to the GA rules). Also, I would presume that the nominator would feel they were being treated more fairly if a different reviewer looked at it next time. Thanks for your consideration and helping out with the article. I know it is no fun getting an article failed. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  12:35, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

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Adamstuen station
Hi! I was wondering when the station Adamstuen opened. Oslo byleksikon seems to say that the square/junction at Adamstuen had a loop from 1909 ("Fra 1909, da trikken ble ført opp Thereses gate til trikkesløyfen ..."). Is it possible that Adamstuen had a loop, but no station? Did the station open together with the Ullevål Hageby Line in 1925? Do you know? Punkmorten (talk) 17:30, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * According to "Kristiania Sporveisselskab", the line was extended from Homansbyen to Adamstuen 24 September 1909. Ref: Aspenberg (1994): 11. The source was from a library book, so I cannot consult it. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  17:37, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Nitrogen narcosis
Just wanted to say a big "thank you" for the copyedit on Nitrogen narcosis - it is much appreciated! Cheers --RexxS (talk) 23:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

News report
In case you were wondering how far the construction of Lysaker Station has come. Punkmorten (talk) 16:47, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it's Bestumveien. This image shows the underpass clearer. I had trouble finding the remnants of Bestum tram station, though! Punkmorten (talk) 19:01, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I noticed that the page Ullern bears a "coord missing" tag. How does one measure the coordinates for a borough? Punkmorten (talk) 19:01, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

I managed to pinpoint a coord. It took me a good ten minutes to figure out, though. Had to use Yahoo Maps to retrieve the coord. Thanks for the guidance on the issue. Punkmorten (talk) 23:13, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
Good evening. Myself and two other editors worked on editing the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 article per your suggestions. Please review. Thanking you in advance. Chris (talk) 23:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello. It's me again. Have you had an opportunity to review the article? Is there anything else I need to do to the article beyond what you have requested? Please advise. Thanks. Chris (talk) 14:06, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello again. Have you had a chance to review this article after all of the requested adjustments have been made? Please advise. Thanks. Chris (talk) 15:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. However, you forgot to change the main list from hold to pass. Can you please do this? Thanks. Also, thanks for your review on this. Much appreciated. Chris (talk) 21:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Chris (talk) 23:31, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Fjord City
Hi,

I've had a go at improving the article a little;


 * I've started changing the main section from a list to paragraphs, as preferred in the WP:MOS. I think this section is a classic example of text that could be changed to paragraphs, of course if you hate it feel free to change it back.


 * Be careful of WP:CRYSTAL with this one - I think some parts might need to be changed - just because there are plans, we've got to be careful not to assume they will happen.

Please see User:Chzz/10

Thanks! --  Chzz  ►  15:22, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Cunard Line
I want to thank you for your help on this article. This is the first time that I have taken an article through this process and your guidance will help in other articles as well. The improvements you suggested for the New York Times references have been made. Again, thank you.(GRUBBXDN (talk) 16:51, 22 March 2009 (UTC))

Medal and Barnstar
Chris (talk) 14:06, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Regarding a Southern American liking skiing, my interest is mainly nordic skiing though it is most of the winter sports, specifically cross country skiing and the sliding sports (bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton). The main reason I like the sliding sports is that I am a speed freak and I have get that fix in when the NASCAR (US) and Formula 1 auto racing seasons end. Chris (talk) 20:33, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK
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DYK
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Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
In addition, you may use the userbox located at User:Drilnoth/Userboxes/GAN backlog elimination drive to indicate your participation on your user page. Thanks! –Drilnoth (T • C) 21:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

FL?
Do you reckon that List of Oslo T-bane stations could be suitable as a Featured list candidate?
 * That was my intention, yes. However, the other day I finally found a "list" of ridership for each station (page 33), and was considering adding them. The only problem is that the figures are from 2002... <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  08:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * And I thought that my station, Tjernsrud, was the least trafficked. Oh well. If you want newer figures, maybe biblioteksvar can help you (email, not chat). The reason I was asking in the first place was this thing: Good topics. Punkmorten (talk) 20:38, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I had also been pondering about GT (or even FT is I can get List of Oslo T-bane lines up to FL one day). It is now nominated; just have to see how picky they are at FLC. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  10:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Pretty picky, it turned out. Just noting that for a good topic, let's say "Oslo T-bane" as a GT, one'd probably need GA status for at least all the individual lines (maybe except Haslesvingen), as well as the already Good Oslo T-bane article (or whatever its name be), and "History of ...", which is already underway. Punkmorten (talk) 13:12, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Personally I would have made the topic as shown below. The elegance of this is (unintentionally) that two FLs will reach the 33% featured quota, thus making it possible to reach FT without creating FAs. Of course, I have no idea what the folks down at FT think of my logic. But it seems from what I see and have read, that they prefer fairly short topics, and then making subtopics; for instance, they might accept this and the make Oslo T-bane lines its own topic. In the mean time, I have Ring Line, Nydalen (station), Storo (station) and Sinsen (station) up for GA review. Perhaps these will warrent a GA. User:Bellhalla, who makes lots of GAs on ships and submarines, has gotten GTs for submarine classes (with the two individual submarines supplementing the class article). Here are two possible topics for the T-bane, with assessments: <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  15:44, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

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Kalmar Verstad
There has never been a company such as "Kalmar Mekaniska Verkstad", which is the headline for KVAB (Kalmar Verkstads AB), can someone please correct the headline? Mats Fredsson (talk) 10:56, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Rail transport
Your recent major edit to this article has been reverted. Major edits/rewrites should be discussed on the talk page beforehand. As this is an important topic, trying to do a major edit without some form on consensus will always be unsuccessful. This article has been nominated for a featured article in the past, and so there cannot be as much wrong with it as your major deletions would suggest. 07:57, 13 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhtpbank (talk • contribs)
 * The fact that someone nominated it for something is irrelevant. They could have, and apparently did, misjudge its quality (the nom reasons were "very important subject aroud the World (...) very complete article, many images, etc"). Punkmorten (talk) 16:41, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Bærum Tunnel
If you're interested in the Bærum Tunnel, why not write up on the excavation and blasting process over at the article Skallum? Hehe. Of course you don't have to, that'd be no problem. Punkmorten (talk) 16:44, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Now I understand
After seeing your recent award for speedy GA reviews, I guess I understand the poor GA review on Wengert. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 20:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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Proper nouns and station names
Hi there. You make a good point and one I have been thinking about too. I proposed a convention for German railway names, but got slammed by a couple of editors - see the talk page - who wanted to change Kirnitzsch Valley Railway to Kirnitzschtal tram (a strange half-translation of Kirnitzschtalbahn and only half a proper noun). You will see the convention proposes "station", but I can now see a logic for changing it to "Station". The only thing I am not certain about is whether this is standard English practice for station naming, but I will do some checking.

I have also started to put together a proposed naming convention for German placenames. It doesn't mention stations, but logically they would be Group C. Even if we propose that stations should be fully capitalised - e.g. Bahnhof Mellrichstadt becomes "Mellrichstadt Station" - there are other 'special cases' we need to think about:


 * Where the city has a different English name, do we change e.g. München Hauptbahnhof to Munich Hauptbahnhof?
 * Where it is a Hauptbahnhof, do we translate Hbf? There has been a debate and current consensus appears to be "no".
 * Where ...bahnhof is part of the name, do we call it e.g. "Munich Eastern Station", "Munich Ostbahnhof", "München Ost Station" or leave it as München Ostbahnhof?
 * Where it is adjectival, does e.g. Anhalter Bahnhof become "Anhalt Station"? What about Basel Badische Bahnhof? I had my wrist slapped for changing this to "Basle Baden station"!
 * Where it is a U-Bahn or S-Bahn station, do we add the city name e.g. does Berduxstraße on the Munich S-Bahn become "München Berduxstrasse Station", "Berduxstrasse Station" or just "Berduxstraße" as shown on the S-Bahn map?

Please feel free to add you comments to either proposal. I will meanwhile do a little more research on "Station" becoming the new convention. But then we have a lot of work on our hands! Gruß, Paul. --Bermicourt (talk) 12:31, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Triple Crown
Thank you for contributions to the project, Great work, especially on Airport Express Train - always good to see more quality Norway stuff :P. May you wear the crowns well. Cirt (talk) 12:03, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

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Being included in an American publication
I just wanted to inform you that you will be part of an article I am doing for Quality Progress, the monthly publication for the American Society for Quality for your review of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 which will come out in June. Your user name was not mentioned though its lists you as a reviewer from Norway. I will send you the link when the article comes out. Thanks for your help again from earlier. Chris (talk) 21:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Question
Hi, just a question this time, when Aspenberg writes that "For første gang måtte NSB legge ned jernbanestrekninger", which lines are he referring to? Punkmorten (talk) 09:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I am not sure. A complete chronology is available at Jernbanestatistikk 2007 (page 46), however, no NSB lines were closed until the 1950s. Many private lines were closed during the 30s, and passenger transport on NSB lines was terminated at the time too. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  13:14, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I added the cease of passenger traffic (to Eivind Heiberg, that is). Thanks for supplying the information. Punkmorten (talk) 08:39, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Another question. Do you know what kind of body the Mellemriksbanekommisjonen av 1921 was, and what work they did? Punkmorten (talk) 08:32, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Don't know, but I guess it could be a commission of some sort, i.e. an ad-hoc body appointed by the government created to find something out. Where did you come across it and what line is it referring to? <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  09:03, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * <-- "Medlem - Mellemriksbanekommisjonen av 1921". Don't know what line, but I would have guessed that they created some sort of train service/connection between Østfold and Sweden (he was also a member of the "Tilsynskomiteen for Smålensbanen"). Punkmorten (talk) 21:06, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Beats me. The Østfold Lines were finished in the 1880s, and after that they didn't touch anything south of Ski until the 1990s (except electrification, but that was a bit later, with the Drammen Line being electrified around then, but that could be what they were considering). I haven't really red much about the Østfold Line, so I don't know. If you really want to know, there is a book about the Østfold Line that maybe a library close to you has. I think the book is called Skandiapil og Sydbaneracer or something down that road, eh, rail. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  21:16, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Tandberg Storage
Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible.

Thanks!
Sorry for my silence at Talk:Fulla/GA1, I somehow missed the review. I always appreciate the time taken to look the article over! Thanks again. bloodofox: (talk) 08:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

FAR on BC Rail
Omigod there's so much that needs updating and it's a huge quagmire, really; I'll explain on the FAR page but nothing could be more at-odds with current-affairs timing; the circumstances of the sale of BC Rail are a mounting scandal which is not just playing out in court and but also on the hustings in the coming week (election day May 12). I also happen to know, in a sort of insider-information kind of way from journalists/bloggers researching the case, that a whole lot more revelations are about to break.....on the one hand, good reason for the article to be featured; on the other hand a big enough swamp that it woudl be difficult to prep the article fully for an FA.... last time I looked there was a lot of POV obfuscation (similarly on CN Rail). Other than the current-affairs/scandal (see BC Legislature Raids, which likewise needs updating in the same contexts), a lot of early history/politics of teh railway is still really not well-developed enough in the article IMO. ..... so I'll save such comments/points for the FAR page, just wanted to express my - dismay - that this FAR would be coming up just now.....for further info try searching "BC Rail" at http://thetyee.ca and you'll get an idea of the scope.....Skookum1 (talk) 14:51, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.

We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 07:59, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for helping out. Be sure to update the articles at the running total page. If you reviewed the article(s), list it under pass, and if it was started under a regular GAR, list it as exempt. Again, thanks for assisting, I appreciate it. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 09:21, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I've done some individual GARs on some clear cases the last week, but I guess I could be more systematic. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  09:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I've added your name to the running total page, feel free to update as you review articles. Thanks for your efforts in improving the quality of GAs! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 19:54, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Request for tagging WP:Energy categories
Hi, Arsenikk. As a participant of the WP:Energy, I would like to ask you to comment the request for tagging WP:Energy articles by bot. The list of potential categories for tagging is located here and the discussion about which categories should be excluded from this list, is going on at the WP:Energy talkpage here. Your comments are welcome. Beagel (talk) 12:04, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

WP:Good articles/recent
Hey. I would just to apologise for and explain the disruption you may have noticed on WP:Good articles/recent. Following a bot request, it became apparent that it would be handy to have a bot pipe new additions to WP:GA onto the /recent subpage. Now, I admit that the bot's been having a few problems (it's still officially in trial), but I hope these have now been worked out. It should mean that every 5 minutes the newest additions are added automatically, so all users like you have to do is add the newly listed GA to WP:GA and let the bot do the work. Of course, you're allowed to do it yourself, but you don't have to. That's the plan, anyhow, so it might be an idea to add the article to WP:GA, then wait ten minutes. If the bot hasn't added it yet, add it manually and come straight to me so I can fix the bot. Essentially though, you can either carry on as normal or take advantage of the bot, as you wish. Thanks for your patience and sorry for any disruption caused. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 15:29, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

John Berry
Thanks for the review. I addressed the issue. Hekerui (talk) 14:19, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Several articlehistory errors
Please read the instructions at Template:Articlehistory and scroll to the bottom of the talk page when building articlhistories to see if the red error category is lit; I've removed your last few articlehistories as they had errors that need to be fixed. Regards, Sandy Georgia (Talk) 20:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Wimbledon & Sutton Railway
Thanks for the review on Wimbledon & Sutton Railway and highlighting the option for undefined undefined ; I hadn't seen that before. --DavidCane (talk) 20:17, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Kenilworth Road GA
I've sorted all the issues you pointed out — can you run through it again please?

Cheers,  Cliftonian  • talk  11:25, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S., if you've got time can you please review Luton Town F.C. as well? :)  Cliftonian  • talk  11:25, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Rio Tinto Group
Hi Arsenikk, thanks for your GA review of Rio Tinto Group. I've responded a few days ago to your comments, and would like your additional feedback. Thanks again. Bantman (talk) 16:28, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I must have missed it. I'm onto it now. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  16:33, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Help for template
Hello, I've seen your name on the project template and I permis myself to ask you help: I've just created a new portal Portal:Lyon and I would like to create the templates for the subways, trams, bus. They already exist on the french wikipedia of Lyon metro for example. would you accept to help me ? Thank you Lulu97417 (talk) 16:41, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you :) More look like Paris. The best way to see how it looks like click here Transports en commun lyonnais, go te french page and you will see the templates of the lines A,B,C,D, the trams and buses. (Sorry I could redirect you to the french page directly but I'm a beginner in Wikipedia and too uch things to learn :).
 * Thank you very much ! good job ! I will put it in the talk page of Lyon transports with your name to thank you :) Lulu97417 (talk) 19:41, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I forgot to tell you, I asked User:Faizhaider to contribue too to create a good infobox for Lyon Public transports, trains, metro, trams ... [[file:transportsinlyon.jpg|100px]] 100px
 * But the metro have to be with the templates you just created, the express bus and trams have to be circle and funiculars have to be like in my french user page and screenshot. If it seems boring for you dont break your brain :) Lulu97417 (talk) 20:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Eurostar
Thanks for doing the job of doing a complete and properly conducted GA review of the Eurostar article. several users including myself have undertaken extensive changes based on your recommendations; if you could drop by and let us know how we're getting on and if there are still major flaws that need to be resolved, it would be greatly appreciated.81.111.115.63 (talk) 20:00, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay, I think the article is as ready as we are going to be able to get it. Whatever the outcome, thanks for doing the job of passing/failing the article. At least it is in a much better condition that it was before it was entered for GA status, and that is something of benifit to all. 81.111.115.63 (talk) 13:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

History of the Oslo Tramway and Metro
This is a very thorough and well-written article. Have you considered putting it up for GA or even FA status? --Leifern (talk) 21:39, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps June update
Thanks to everyone's dedicated efforts to the GA Sweeps process, a total of 396 articles were swept in May! That more than doubles our most successful month of 163 swept articles in September 2007 (and the 2 articles swept in April)! I plan to be sending out updates at the beginning of each month detailing any changes, updates, or other news until Sweeps are completed. So if you get sick of me, keep reviewing articles so we can be done (and then maybe you'll just occasionally bump into me). We are currently over 60% done with Sweeps, with just over a 1,000 articles left to review. With over 40 members, that averages out to about 24 articles per person. If each member reviews an article a day this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. I know that may be asking for a lot, but it would allow us to complete Sweeps and allow you to spend more time writing GAs, reviewing GANs, or focusing on other GARs (or whatever else it is you do to improve Wikipedia) as well as finish ahead of the two-year mark coming up in August. I recognize that this can be a difficult process at times and appreciate your tenacity in spending time in ensuring the quality of the older GAs. Feel free to recruit other editors who have reviewed GANs in the past and might be interested in the process. The more editors, the less the workload, and hopefully the faster this will be completed. If you have any questions about reviews or the process let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 17:53, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Forcing images
I was wondering if you could help me out on something, I want to know how one can tell when an editor is forcing an image size? In doing GA reviews I want to be able to identify when people are forcing image sizes but I don't know how to tell. In a previous GA review you did for one of my articles you warned against this and so I'm assuming you must be able to see when the image is forced. Your help on this is appreciated. H1nkles (talk) 22:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Ring Line GT
Hi. I was wondering if you had seen the latest comments on this nomination? I wanted to close this soon, as it is pretty old, but it does not have clear consensus to pass, and Nergaal's objection seems valid (it really is difficult for people not familiar with the layout to understand which stations in the lower infobox image are part of the line). If nothing changes, it will have to close with no consensus, but fixing this image (just a colour change/bolding might do it?) would allow it to pass, imo.

Any plans to change this, or are you too busy at the moment? (in which case i will close, with no predudice against a later renomination).<b style="color:#0000CD;">Yob</b><b style="color:#008000;">Mod</b> 20:00, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Article will now be in July
This is an update to an e-mail sent a couple of months about the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 being included in an American Society for Quality Quality Progress. It was not in the June, but will be in the July 2009 issue. Sorry about that. Chris (talk) 20:55, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Feil logo
Hei :o) Kan du hjelpe til med å endre logoen på artikkelen du har laget om TINE? Logoen som er brukt er fra før 2002. Dersom du kontakter meg på janne.sandvik@tine.no, skal jeg sende riktig logo. På forhånd takk for hjelpen. Jannesa (talk) 12:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

GA/GANs by a spam editor
FYI, you reviewed a GAN by a sockpuppet of the crat/OS Nichalp used to write spam articles for clients in return for pay. Although he has now blanked the identifying stuff I still have screenshots of it. Talk:Marketing performance measurement and management/GA1. You might want to be careful as in one paid article Zithan wrote, all the frauds/violations of corporate law committed by the client was omitted. So the article might conveniently overlook quite a lot of stuff  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:17, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Rio Tinto Group
Hi there. I note RTG has been on hold for a while at GAN and that the nominator appears to have gone a bit AWOL (no WP contribs for several weeks now). Rather than fail it outright at this point, if you could summarise for me what you see as the outstanding issues for it to pass (either in a summary at bottom of the RTG GA talk page, or at my user talk, i will look at whether I can do the necessary work - i have a vague interest in the topic. cheers. hamiltonstone (talk) 01:16, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Following the absence of both nominator and reviewer from editing WP for over a month, the article Rio Tinto Group has been removed from the GAN list. If you want to re-nominate the article or take the decision to remove it to GAR, you may do so, or you can drop me a line at my talk page and we can discuss. Regards. hamiltonstone (talk) 02:24, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps July update
Thanks to everyone's dedicated efforts to the GA Sweeps process, a total of 290 articles were swept in June! Last month was our second most successful month in reviewing articles (after May). We are currently over 70% done with Sweeps, with just under 800 articles left to review. With nearly 50 members, that averages out to about 15 articles per person. If each member reviews an article every other day this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. This may sound difficult, but if everyone completes their reviews, Sweeps would be completed in less than two years when we first started (with only four members!). With the conclusion of Sweeps, each editor could spend more time writing GAs, reviewing at the backlogged GAN, or focusing on other GARs. Again, I want to thank you for using your time to ensure the quality of the older GAs. Feel free to recruit other editors who have reviewed GANs in the past and might be interested in the process. The more editors, the less the workload, and hopefully the faster this will be completed. If you have any questions about reviews or the process let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 17:37, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

TEA
--Guru42 (talk) 03:05, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

If you ever come back...
...your last two GA noms, Cargolink and Teddy Air, have been passed. What's next? :-) Cheers, hamiltonstone (talk) 10:46, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Railway stations by served venue
I have nominated railway stations by served venue for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps August update
Thanks to everyone's dedicated efforts to the GA Sweeps process, a total of 215 articles were swept in July! We are currently nearly 80% done with Sweeps, with under 600 articles left to review. With 50 members, that averages out to about 12 articles per person. Once the remaining articles drop to 100, I'll help in reviewing the last articles (I'm currently taking a break). If each member reviews an article every other day this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. Again, I want to thank you for using your time to ensure the quality of the older GAs. Feel free to recruit other editors who have reviewed GANs in the past and might be interested in the process. The more editors, the less the workload, and hopefully the faster this will be completed. If you have any questions about reviews or the process let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 19:21, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Mentioned in this week's WP: Signpost
I put you in the WP:Signpost this week regarding to the July 2009 Quality Progress article on the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009. If you want a copy of this article, you can e-mail me in private and I will send you the pdf attachment for your reading pleasure. Chris (talk) 13:18, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Railway stations serving airports
I have nominated railway stations serving airports for renaming to airport railway stations. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

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SM91
Hi Arsenikk! I decided to break my spell of no new articles by adding another article about one of the former Oslo tram models, in this case the SM91 which I'm afraid gained a bit of notoriety in that city. I wonder if you can help me with that one, since your rail literature is better than mine. (I have seen you make some impressive expansions to some other articles related to the Oslo tram system). My greatest regret with the article I just wrote is that it almost totally ignores the tram's career as "M25" in Gothenburg, and the magnitude of that ignorance became clear when I saw the Swedish Wikipedia article. I feel I may have done something along the lines of writing an article on Kåre Willoch, with a main focus on his career as fylkesmann instead of prime minister. Anyway, it is great to see you back on Wikipedia again! Best wishes, Sjakkalle (Check!)  15:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Good work on the article. Unfortunetly, I have not been able to find any good sources about the SM91. I looked through all the issues of Lokaltrafikk I had (which is all but a few of the issues), but found nothing. Otherwise I don't have any books that cover the topic, and I don't think there are any books that cover the time period. Concerning the scope, I ended up something similar with the Ullevål Hageby Line, where most of the article currently deals with the 1.6 km Rikshospitalet extention, and not the first 125 years of the line's history. There may be some books in Swedish about the Gothenburg trams, but I don't have any such. If I come over somthing, I'll tell you and write about it. Keep up the good work. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  16:25, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks :-) I rewrote the article slightly so that it explicitly says that it is about the trams career in Oslo, and set up a red link to M25 to give readers/editors a subtle hint that there is a gaping hole in the coverage here. Hopefully someone will fill in the gap eventually. I think the the fact that sources are hard to come by on historical subjects has been a bane to almost all Wikipedia editors. Sjakkalle (Check!)  05:56, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

An exciting opportunity to improve yourself!
As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. -  Trevor  MacInnis   contribs  05:50, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Fornebu
Hi Arsenikk. Welcome back. Great work with Oslo Airport, Fornebu, are you going to DYK nominate it? Manxruler (talk) 20:16, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the nice words. And thanks for giving it a little polish as well. I keep forgetting to DYK-nominate stuff these days, but I guess I should. Have any good suggestions for a hook? <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  20:19, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * You're very welcome. When I get back home to my books I plan to add a little bit more info. It certainly deserves attention and recognition, so you really should DYK nom it. A suggestion for a hook? "...that a German Lufthansa Junkers Ju-52 was the first aircraft to land at Fornebu Airport in Norway, more than a month before the airport officially opened?" Or something like that. Manxruler (talk) 21:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems like the article data from the hook stems needs some work, according to DYK. Could you look into that? Manxruler (talk) 16:25, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * This is why I stopped nominating DYKs. They never find what I find "interesting", and are very picky on stuff that is irrelevant concerning article improvement. But yes, I'll look into it. Thanks for the help, anyway. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  19:29, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Heck, don't let that stop you. I found that hook interesting, and I'm sure others do too. Also, I believe there are good hooks in both Viggo Widerøe and Widerøe. Stiff upper lip, chin up, and all that kind of stuff. :) Manxruler (talk) 22:11, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Oslo Airport, Fornebu
Hello! Your submission of Oslo Airport, Fornebu at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Materialscientist (talk) 05:50, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of SL95
Hello! Your submission of SL95 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! cmadler (talk) 15:13, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

SL95 query
Hi Arsenikk! Thanks for the expansion you made on the SL95 article! I have one question about the article; it says that the Viennese Class T tram "could not be operated on the Briskeby Line and the loop at Jar on the Ekeberg Line." I am fairly sure that you meant to write "Ljabru on the Ekeberg Line", or "Jar on the Lilleaker Line", but I'm not sure which one. Best wishes, Sjakkalle (Check!)  14:20, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out. The source stated "Jar", so it was just me that did a mis-think. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  20:30, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Thank you :).  Airplaneman  talk 21:49, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Falkenried


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2009 election figure
Hi, thanks for making the Storting seat image. There is one mistake there because two of the yellow seats (KrF) should have been dark green (Sp), and that change would suddenly give the non-socialists a majority.

In my case I voted like a cowardly rat fleeing a sinking ship. In fact not only cowardly, but a stupid rat as well, seeking refuge on another sinking ship. Ah well, I've done my duty at least... Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:26, 15 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks like someone beat us to it. That is what I like with .svg: they are so easy to manipulane and rearrange. Since I taught myself it this spring, I don't think I've made a raster image. And it's easy too. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)

Bjørn Kjos
I OK'ed your ALT1 as well after you provided that extra ref. Btw: Are we going to see some accident noms from you soon? Like, for example: "that the Hummelfjell Accident was Braathens SAFE's first fatal accident" and "that in 1985 Braathens SAFE Flight 139 was hijacked by a man armed with an air gun?" or "that in the 1985 hijacking of Braathens SAFE Flight 139 the hijacker exchanged his gun for beer?" Manxruler (talk) 17:54, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I was laughing so loud when I read about the guy exchanging his gun for beer in the newspaper archives. Not the most well though-out hijacking of all times, anyway. Ya, I'm gonna get around to nominating them ;) <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  18:02, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I laughed and shook me head too when I read that. :) Good stuff, there are good, concise hooks in there that I think will attract a lot of readers. Manxruler (talk) 00:58, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikicookie

 * Thanks. Glad I could help :) <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  22:10, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Star Air Service
Thank you for your constructive suggestions as well as your offer to answer questions. In an example sentence: The new owners named the company Xyz in October, 1940. If source A verifies the name and date, but source B only verifies the name, would you put reference A at the name and B at the end of sentence, or would you put them both at the end of the sentence? I am sure I will have additional questions as I work thru the article & will appreciate your suggestions and clarifications. Old33 (talk) 14:51, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * re: references go at the end of sentences, not in the middle
 * In a paragraph with multiple sentences, each stating a fact that needs to be referenced, where all of the facts are from the same source, is it sufficient to put a single reference at the end of the paragraph, or is it necessary to put a reference a the end of each sentence that states a fact needing a reference?
 * Personally I never put references in the middle of the sentence, unless part of the sentence is totally unverified. In the case you mention first, I would put two references at the end. I am sure that other people might do it otherwise, but I personally feel that readability is more important than exact pinpointing of the references. In the second case, I always put a single source at the end of a paragraph. If you look at Braathens SAFE Flight 139 that I wrote a few days ago, the first paragraph under 'hijacking' has two references. Neither reference supports all the claims in the whole sentence, but in between them they do. The book does not mention the type of aircraft (i.e. the -205 suffix) while the web site does not mention the name (i.e. Harald Gille). Otherwise the two references both state all the other facts in the sentence. All the remaining information until ref 3 is then referenced in that ref, also those sentences that are not referenced. This practice some people do not like, but it looks a lot better than having one reference per sentence, which really breaks up the article. Hope that was a helpful answer. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  15:44, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, helpful. Another question - Picture positioning - I have 4 pics in the article - 2 are posiioned on the right, and 2 are L/R sandwiching text which I need to change. What is a preferred positioning? all on one side?, alternating left then right? I could move left-sandwich pic to the right in a different paragraph - any suggestions? Old33 (talk) 17:48, 16 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Ideally, you want to avoid sandwiching, positioning the images alternately right and left, and in chronological order and with even distances at the point in text where they are relevant. Planes (and other vehicles) should be traveling into the article (i.e. a plane with the front to the right should be left-aligned and vice versa) Of course, you cannot do all of that unless you have an infinite number of good images, so you just have to pick some of the images. The rule on sandwiching is absolute (it has to do with accessibility), everything else is a matter of aesthetics—which is important to give Wikipedia a professional look. Personally, I would have left-aligned image number two from the top, and moved the orange plane to the right, putting the two bottom images on top of each other, although with a paragraph of text between them. But I will leave it to you to play around to find the best location of them. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  18:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

I am working thru the suggestions (learning as I go) but it is taking some time. So plz be patient. Another question - Is it OK to write the lead without any references as long as all the statements of fact are referenced in the later sections? Old33 (talk) 15:09, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Take all the time you need. The lead does not need references as long as everything is referenced in the body. However, there may be a few instances where repeating a reference in the lead is important, but only in highly controversial articles (not aviation and the likes, but perhaps stuff on conspiracies or natural selection and the like). <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  17:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I have posted a draft of a proposed new lead section for the Star Air Service article on User:RoyDickson/Sandbox. Smallman12q helped tune it up a bit, and I would appreciate your reviewing it & making any suggestions. Old33 (talk) 20:19, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Braathens Helikopter
Nice article. Did Braathens Helikopter have any major accidents/incidents worth mentioning? Mjroots (talk) 14:35, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) I didn't come across anything in the newspaper archives, and I looked at the Aviation Safety Network without finding anything. So I guess they got out of it without accidents. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  14:48, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Trondheim Airport railway station
I've replied on the talk page. Mjroots (talk) 05:51, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorenskriver
Hi! The translation for "sorenskriver" seems to be "district stipendiary magistrate". Compare this with this. Geschichte (talk) 08:54, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hm, okay. I was basing myself on this. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  09:31, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Ordnett says 'district recorder'. But that does not sound right at all; after all sorenskriver is a kept archaic term from the Middle Ages when the term was used for the secretary of the court. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  09:38, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * My paper dictionary (Willy Kirkeby, Gyldendal, 1974) says district stipendiary magistrate. "Chief justice" (quoted from domstol.no) is equivalent to "justiarius" in other sources. Geschichte (talk) 09:46, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

By the way I created an article for district stipendiary magistrate Røsæg. He was also presiding judge (lagdommer) for some time, which I presume to be notable. Geschichte (talk) 09:46, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I saw that. Nice work. I presume such judges would be notable; the judicial arm is an important part of society and we don't just need articles on politicians. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  09:50, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Scholars talk about "det rettsliggjorte samfunn" (don't know English adjective), so the work of judges is growing in importance. But by the way I have a VPN Client now (of which you tipped me), which is most practical. Geschichte (talk) 19:22, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Rettetast (talk) 12:51, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination Trondheim Airport Station
Hi Arsenikk,

I've commented on the Template talk:Did you know page, about the 'Northern Europe's first' bit. Mvh, Mikenorton (talk) 15:28, 26 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for making the change, Northern Europe seems a bit odd to me, I think that I live in northwest Europe, which to me includes the Netherlands & Belgium as well. Mvh, Mikenorton (talk) 11:02, 27 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Personally I would have said Northern Europe was the the Nordic Counties, the UK, Benelux and perhaps Germany. But everyone has their own idea. I try telling people in Poland they live in Eastern Europe, and they get all mad and say they live in Central Europe (whatever that is). People from Northern Norway would call people like me, who live at 64°N, Southerners. I guess these terms are best left out of an encyclopedia ;) <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  11:31, 27 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Just for fun, let me add: I had a lecture in 1500s-1600s European history, and the lecturer quoted a Spanish source which stated that the northern European countries were Poland, Russia and Sweden. Times change. Geschichte (talk) 10:45, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Awards time!

 * Thanks :) <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  20:10, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

New round
Hi! I signed up for the aviation contest for fun. Thought I could get a DYK out of Turi Widerøe. I don't think I can expand it further however. It's currently at 3,900 and needs 4,860 bytes. If you have any info about her in your books... Geschichte (talk) 13:17, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice to have you along in the competition. According to the talk page, the "winning recipe" is through DYKs and creating B-class articles of marginalized articles. Best of luck to you. Concerning Turi, one of my books has a section on her, but there is nothing not already mentioned in the article. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  20:13, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for checking anyway. I'm not expecting to collect that many points, but figured it'd be fun. After all Fornebu is within walking distance from where I live. Geschichte (talk) 21:57, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * By the way if you have any photo requests regarding Fornebu (or the surrounding area for that matter) don't hesitate to ask. I'll take a photo of Norwegian Airline Pilots Association's headquarters, for instance. Geschichte (talk) 21:58, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

GA
Thank you for very much for your work, your comments and the promotion. Your effort and contributions to the project are very much appreciated. Thanks again, Crum375 (talk) 14:29, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Drax
Thanks a lot for your comments and review of Drax Power Station. I'll go through the list, and follow through with the suggestions tomorrow, and I look forward to seeing the article passed in the coming days. Fintan264 (talk) 19:00, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it did take a while for someone to pick up on it. But thank you for being so swift in getting it passed. You should see more nominations from me in the future. Fintan264 (talk) 15:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Bharti Enterprises Limited
Hi Arsenikk,

We appreciate your interest in us and the fact that you have done a page on Bharti Enterprises. However, we don't want to promote ourself on Wikipedia. For this reason we had changed the page named Bharti Enterprises to make it shorter and strictly informative. We notice that the page has been changed back to the earlier version. May we please request you to edit the content of the page to align it more with the edit we had done to it, which you would no doubt find in the earlier revisions.

We would greatly appreciate your co-operation.

Best regards, Corporate Communications, Bharti Enterprises Limited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Juinchakraborty (talk • contribs) 05:50, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

$
It is considered polite to notify editors when nominating their contributions for deletion. In future, I expect you will do so. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 23:55, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I could not access the deletion log of the template, and simply asked an admin to look at it for me, so that the TfD could located (which I could not do after some searching). It was his choice to perform a speedy deletion, since it was a clear-cut case. Had I been an admin myself, I would have performed a speedy deletion momentarily, since it meets the speedy deletion criteria. Had this been a TfD or prod, I would of course notified you, but this is not necessarily the way things are done with SD. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  09:16, 18 October 2009 (UTC)


 * It wasn't actually a clear-cut case, as explained on that admin's talk page. For what it's worth, I do in fact consider that speedying a contribution from an editor in good standing (as opposed to vandalism, or an obvious mistake by a new user) is exceptional enough to warrant a ping. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 08:18, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Parliament of Norway Building
Hello! Your submission of Parliament of Norway Building at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! doncram (talk) 22:15, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

By the way, i like the article. doncram (talk) 22:15, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

usurpation on pl wiki
Hi, user Arsenikk on pl wiki has been just deleted. You have to log in now on pl wiki to merge this account, regards. Maikking (talk) 15:00, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Edwin P. Morrow
Thanks for your GA review of Edwin P. Morrow. I was off-wiki all weekend, but I've responded to your comments on the review page. Let me know if further action is needed. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 17:37, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Inge Staldvik
Hi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced biography of a living person: Inge Staldvik. Our verifiability policy requires that all content be cited to a reliable source. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! --LaraBot (talk) 00:10, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

"Duane Barry"
Thanks for reviewing the article :D I appreciate it.. I've finished with all your comments you left me! --TIAYN (talk) 08:58, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed. --TIAYN (talk) 10:01, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Aker
Passed. I figured if I helped review more articles, my article, which is the last in the FT cog, might not have to wait so long if it wen higher up the sports list  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (help the Invincibles Featured topic drive) 04:18, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Where's Herb?/GA1
Thanks for the review. I have replied to all of your concerns. Please let me know how you think it looks now. GaryColemanFan (talk) 17:51, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I have replied again. GaryColemanFan (talk) 18:45, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Stenkjær
Hello! Your submission at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! <span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">decltype (talk) 07:42, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Airport Express Train
You are probably interested in this discussion; Talk:Airport Express Train. Rettetast (talk) 17:55, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Widerøe Flight no.X
Hi! I'm about to expand Bård Mikkelsen. Three disasters occurred in his time, one of which is missing from en-WP: no:Namsos-ulykken. Which flight number did it have, how do I find that out? Geschichte (talk) 11:04, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * You download the official report from Accident Investigation Board Norway (here). You look for kallesignal = Widerøe (WF) 744, which gives the article Widerøe Flight 744. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  11:31, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Gassled
Hi, Arsenikk. I created an article on Gassled. As the author of Gassco article you are welcome to expand it. Beagel (talk) 12:59, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

County Governor
Hi! Gustav Sjaastad is said to have assumed office as county governor in 1959. However I doubt that since he was a member of Parliament from 1959 to 1961 (previously: govt minister). If you ever come across information on who was the acting county governor in this period... Geschichte (talk) 21:17, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Can't say I've heard of this guy, put I'll keep my eyes open. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  21:56, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Didn't excpect so either, but because of the Nord-Trøndelag connection, and even Fylkesbilene, it might be plausible that you come across it en vakker dag. Geschichte (talk) 09:36, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Dovrebahnen
Hi Arsenikk! I noticed that the track diagram in Dovre Line has some broken wikitext at the top, but I don't know how to fix it. Would you like to have a look. Cheers! Robert Will (talk) 17:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks for letting me know. Someone once changed the code for the header template, and after that all the templates needed to be recoded manually. Guess I didn't get around to doing all of them. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  21:56, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

English name
I'm asking User:Manxruler and you since this is about aircraft. There was a notable school named Hærens Flyveskole at Kjeller before WWII. Any idea what to call this in English? Geschichte (talk) 09:36, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Windmills
Arsenikk, you create a lot of Norway related articles. As you are probably aware, I've created many lists of windmills by country. Are there any windmills in Norway, other than wind turbines? If less than 20 then they can be added to the List of windmills as a subsection of Europe. More than 20 would justify a stand-alone list. Mjroots (talk) 09:23, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Can't say I have ever come across any, although I've seen them in Sweden, so they got to have been in Norway at some time. For the record, I found this list of current wind turbines (I just came across it and wanted to archive it somewhere, I know you're not really interested this new, fancy stuff). One problem is that in Norwegian, the word vindmølle (windmill) is used for both windmills and wind turbines, so searching about the old stuff is a bit difficult. To translate a section from the Norwegian Wikipedia: "Norway had lots of water power to run mills; therefore only a handful of windmills were built in our country [sic] and most had a short life-span." I made a search on the official tourist site, which in theory lists all tourist destinations in Norway, and there was not hits on any windmills (except wind turbines and a restaurant). I cannot say I have ever heard of any, so I guess we'll just have to presume there are none left, and haven't been any in a long time. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  12:05, 2 December 2009 (UTC)


 * This was an interesting question so I had to do some searching. The best image I found was this. Searching in Trondheim byleksikon I found that it mentioned three separate windmills in Trondheim, all destroyed. In Bergen, Bergen byleksikon mentions one windmill at Sydneshaugen. I think it would be hard to create a list when the sources are so spare. The lack of mills is probably because Norway has a lot of hydro power. Rettetast (talk) 13:08, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I Found some more. This report about windpower in Norway has some great images of mills in the Stavanger area. Rettetast (talk) 13:20, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The image in question is now File:Railway and windmill at Nærbø.jpg. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  13:31, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

admin?
Hey. Maybe I shouldn't ask this given my recent track record on these, but I've seen your edits and am very impressed by them. Ergo, I was wondering if you had thoughts about becoming an admin; I'd nom you if you are willing, just let me know. Wizardman 04:17, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll take the lack of response as a no :) Wizardman  04:10, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was just thinking about the matter. Although I can see some advantages of being an admin and being able to help out, I just don't have the energy to go through with a RfA right now. Perhaps later I will reconsider your request, although for the moment what I enjoy the most is simply writing long and good articles. Thanks for having enough faith in me to consider a nomination. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  10:08, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

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Q
Would you that this is the inside of the NSB Di 1? I believe it is. Manxruler (talk) 04:23, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. Take a look at the front of this image of a Di 1. Notice that there are three windows at the front. Instead, I would think the images was of NSB Class 66 (per this image) since there are four center windows and two side windows that are slightly up on the sides. The diesel version NSB Class 88 was very similar, but lacked the distinctive side windows (per images here). <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  13:08, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, that seems right. And the Class 66 looks like a "lightning train" too. Thanks. Manxruler (talk) 13:51, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Did you ever upload the image, or should I just go ahead and do it the next time I'm doing a batch? It would look nice on my GA article about Class 66. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  08:44, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Nutreco logo.png
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Hi
You seem to be really good at design on Wikipedia and I really like your user page, very clean and organized. Did you create the page for WikiProject Norway ? Just asking because I'd like to learn how the WikiProject Norway page was made. Any ideas ? (Ice Explorer (talk) 17:36, 24 November 2009 (UTC))
 * Thanks for the kind words. It was fixed up by the now banned user User:This Feels Right. As for my user page, I simply copied the design from someone else (I think on the Norwegian Wikipedia). So you just have to find a user page you like, copy the code and fool around, and something nice will come of it. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  21:56, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you know anyone who could help change a Wiki Project page ? I would like it to be similar and have some coding experience only not on Wikipedia. (Ice Explorer (talk) 00:19, 2 December 2009 (UTC))
 * Sorry for missing your second question. I don't really know about anyone; I think the best thing is to just steal what you like from other places. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  22:39, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

"CfD tagging, a how to"
When nominating a category (or anything else) for deletion, as you did here, PLEASE add the CfD template to the category page, so that those of us who watch the category can voice our opinions in the discussion, or fix the issues that are found with the category. Wuh Wuz  Dat  03:44, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, but I acted in good faith believing the automated system actually works. I manually added a notice on the creators tag, so I am sorry a tag was not properly added. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  08:23, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Speaking as someone who has also had TW fail to complete all the edits required for an AfD, CfD, and other similar multi edit scripts, PLEASE check your contributions after each nomination, to see if ALL the edits were indeed made. I have personally experienced many TW failures in this regard, with TW cheerfully (incorrectly) reporting each edit was made in its script box. While I AGF your actions in this regard, I always assume the worst (of TW) when using TW for deletions.  Wuh  Wuz  Dat  14:01, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Recreation of deleted material and speedy CfDs
Category:Low-emissions locomotives I only made this category as a part of the speedy CfD process. I have nothing to add on a discussion of its deletion or suitability on Wikipedia. Please respond on my talk if you are so inclined. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:24, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Apology accepted Thank you for posting on my talk. For what it's worth, I'm still a little confused, as I did not create any articles, but a category, although I'm assuming that was merely a slip of the tongue (slip of the type?) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:03, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

GA Review: Ingeborg Steinholt
finished --TIAYN (talk) 14:43, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the much needed help! I'm finished and i have a question for you (at the review page). --TIAYN (talk) 16:54, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for passing the article. --TIAYN (talk) 17:29, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Oslo metro lines
Sorry about that. I'm normally pretty good at keeping track of my reviews, but I've been a bit preoccupied in recent days. If memory serves me correctly my main concern was to ensure that the list was as self-explanatory as possible, but that overall it's pretty close to passing. I'll go through it properly in about five or six hours' time.

Sorry again for the delay. WFCforLife (talk) 19:00, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Oasis
I just saw your GA review and will get on fixing/addressing your concerns. Thank you for taking the time. Racepacket (talk) 07:06, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I think we have made major changes to address your concerns and that the article should now meet your standards. Racepacket (talk) 04:01, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Bergensbanen
Hi Arsenikk. Good news if you ever need images from Bergensbanen. NRK has just released seven hours of HD video in CC-BY-SA-3.0. See nrkbeta.no. Rettetast (talk) 13:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the wink. Although I would love to extract some images, downloading 22 GB is a bit excessive for some snapshots of the stations. I am glad, however, that NRK is releasing content through CC. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  09:25, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * There is going to be a contest to make the best remix, so there is probably going to be smaller versions out there soon. Rettetast (talk) 11:41, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Chipotle Mexican Grill
I have done some substantial edits to the Chipotle article in accordance with your suggestions. A list of actions done is on the talk page, along with a few of the areas I have questions about. I would appreciate your input on the progress so far. Angryapathy (talk) 14:02, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for you input on the article. I can see you put a lot of work into reviewing it. I am glad the article was able to be promoted, and I appreciate your time spent on the review process. Keep up the good work! Angryapathy (talk) 14:02, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

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Ring Line
Sorry! I didn't realise. I'll help fix it - rst20xx (talk) 22:44, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Wait, what are you calling the resulting topic? Ring Line or Ring Line (Oslo)? rst20xx (talk) 22:49, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Argh, you could have told me you weren't moving it back to Ring Line, now I have to go change some things for a third time... rst20xx (talk) 23:04, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

List of Formula One drivers
Hi there, I was wondering if you could take a second look at this FLRC. A lot has happened to it since 26 November. I think I've addressed Giants' concerns, and Wizardman has indicated neutrality based on the improvements, so I was just wondering where you stood on the current version? Regards, WFCforLife (talk) 02:43, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

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Fishslap
For Talk:TARDISODE civility issues. —  SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 12:04, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

GA Sweeps update
Thanks to everyone's efforts to the GA Sweeps process, we are currently over 90% done with only 226 articles remain to be swept! As always, I want to thank you for using your time to ensure the quality of the older GAs. With over 50 members participating in Sweeps, that averages out to about 4 articles per person! If each member reviews an article once a week this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. At that point, awards will be handed out to reviewers. As an added incentive, if we complete over 100 articles reviewed this month, I will donate $100 to Wikipedia Forever on behalf of all GA Sweeps participants. I hope that this incentive will help to increase our motivation for completing Sweeps while supporting Wikipedia in the process. If you have any questions about reviews or Sweeps let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 23:59, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Milwaukee Airport Rail Station
Hello! As I was looking for templates of a GA rail station article, I noticed that you have had quite a few promoted. As such, I was wondering if you could take a look at the expansion I have made to the Milwaukee Airport Rail Station article to see if I am on the right track for a GA promotion. As I have never attempted a rail station article for GA review, I would like another set of eyes to check it out to see if I am on the right track before submission. Thanks for your consideration! Patriarca12 (talk) 00:18, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the input on the article! It is greatly appreciated as I did need another set of eyes on it for review prior to GA review. Listing it there now :) Patriarca12 (talk) 23:48, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Illinois Tollway oasis GA
Please take another look. I believe that we have met your expectations. Thanks. Racepacket (talk) 17:14, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Please also take another look at Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 12:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Arsenikk! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 43 of the articles that you created  are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:


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Hans Christoffer Bøckman
Hi! Hans Christoffer Bøckman is not mentioned in ''Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene''; however a lieutenant colonel Nils Christoffer Bøckman born in 1880 is (page 368). Same person? Why the name discrepancy? Geschichte (talk) 22:37, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * This is just embarrassing. The book clearly states 'Nils' in big huge letters. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  23:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, cool that we had it fixed. Fangeleksikon even has his birthdate. Geschichte (talk) 23:34, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 and Dermatology-related content
I noticed that you are participating in the 2010 WikiCup. I have been working on the Bolognia push which is a project to make sure Wikipedia has an article (or redirect) on every know cutaneous condition. With that being said, there are still many cutaneous condition stubs to be made, and Bolognia could be a source for a lot of DYK articles, etc. Therefore, I was thinking maybe we could help one another... a competative WikiCup that also serves to improve dermatologic content on Wikipedia. I could e-mail you the Bolognia login information if you have any interest? ---kilbad (talk) 03:20, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Featured list removal candidates/List of Formula One drivers/archive1
Hi, when you get the chance, can you return to this FLRC and see if there is anything left to be addressed? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 04:47, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Not trying to hurry you too much, but if the FLRC is stagnant for a while, it is usually kept (unless there are actionable issues remaining), so I will probably close it as a keep soon (either Saturday or Tuesday) unless you or somebody else indicates otherwise. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 04:54, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I assume you meant "keep". :) Dabomb87 (talk) 22:45, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Anderson Street (NJT station)/GA1
Waiting on you. Thanks for the review :) Mitch 32(Live from the Bob Barker Studio at CBS in Hollywood. Its Mitch!) 17:01, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: GAN
Thank you for your kind words. As I have been editing for a few years now, only now have I really started to work more for GA status articles as I do enjoy the challenge and collaboration that goes with each submission. As for reviewing others, that is something I will probably be interested in sometime in the future. For now I want to keep refining my style and become more familiar with the process as a whole. I do appreciate the compliments on some of my work. I myself have enjoyed reading through your GA's and FL's on Norwegian rail and the Oslo Metro. Great stuff! It's cool to see others with similar interests. Have a great day! Patriarca12 (talk) 03:32, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Oslo
Hi, you have written many articles about Oslo's waterfront, do you reckon that this article deserves to exist? Geschichte (talk) 12:18, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I've never heard the term "New Oslo" or "Nye Oslo" before, and I presume it is just a synonym for Fjord City, although the author seems to have a scope that is slightly narrower than that. Perhaps it should just be redirected to Bjørvika. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  12:48, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Illinois Tollway
Thank you for your helpful comments. I am a bit puzzled. Originally, I put the coordinates of the intersection of I-57 and the Tri-State Tollway in the text of the article. In your first review, you said that coordinates can't be in the main text. Although I have seen such coordinates in the main text of other articles, I deferred to you and move the coordinates to a footnote. Now in the second review, you comment that footnote 69 is not a reference. May I move the coordinates back to the main text, or how do you want me to fix this? Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 20:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

In a sense, it was original research because all of the coordinates I have added to articles were obtained by locating the point on the map and copying the coordinates into a template. I have added a reference for the fact that the interchange is being planned. Racepacket (talk) 03:52, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Please take another look at Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 08:23, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
I just noticed, thanks for reviewing my GA nominee; Erling Folkvord. :D --TIAYN (talk) 13:13, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hm, sorry about the delay. What happened was that I wrote about half the review and then my computer crashed and I lost the text and got a bit fed up. And since I guess I've just forgotten about it. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  13:35, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thats okay, take your time. --TIAYN (talk) 11:14, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reviewing the article and for fixing my grammar. I'm finished with all your comments. --TIAYN (talk) 17:28, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ --TIAYN (talk) 23:23, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

United States Secretary of Transportation
Thanks for your comments at Featured list candidates/United States Secretary of Transportation/archive1. Could you please revisit the article/FAC and either support or give additional comments? Thanks, Reywas92 <b style="color:#45E03A;">Talk</b> 22:31, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 January newsletter
We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. We've had some shakeups regarding late entries, flag changes and early dropouts, but the competition is now established- there will be no more flag changes or new competitors. Congratulations to, our current leader, who, at the time of writing, has more listed points than and   (second and third place respectively) combined. A special well done also goes to - his artcle Jewel Box (St. Louis, Missouri) was the first content to score points in the competition.

Around half of competitors are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. 64 of the 149 current competitors will advance to round 2- if you currently have no points, do not worry, as over half of the current top 64 have under 50 points. Everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places in round 2! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! J Milburn, Garden, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:09, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/United States Secretary of Transportation/archive1
Can you take a last look at this and see if your concerns have been resolved? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 16:02, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Aviation Contest
Hi Arsenikk! This note is to inform you that your Aviation Contest submissions page has been archived from the previous round! You are now free to add submissions for this round! Note: This next round will run from January through February, so feel free to update your submission page with work from both months! Thanks, and happy editing! (Note: I will not be watching this space. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the Contest discussion page. -SidewinderX (talk) 13:10, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

GA review of Pont-y-Cafnau: procedure questions
Not having been under or given a GA review before, I hope you don't mind a couple of procedural questions. (I didn't want to clutter the review page with this; please pardon me if I should have put this there.) Should I reply to each of your points one at a time or in small batches at Talk:Pont-y-Cafnau/GA1 as I correct them, over a period of days, or should I just accumulate them, perhaps in a personal sandbox, and post them all at once? If I need some explanation of what you've said, should I ask you for it here or there? Thanks, again, very much for the help. Best regards,  T RANSPORTER M AN  ( TALK ) 19:25, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Any questions directly related to the points raised are best asked and answered on the review page. Feel free to ask questions, either directly under my points or at the end. Reviewers sometimes makes mistakes, so if you disagree you it is always better to speak up. How you fix the article (in one batch or in several edits in one) is no concern of mine; do what you are most comfortable doing. What is very nice is if you tell the reviewer once you feel you have addressed everything. The reviewer will have watchlisted the review page, so a message there is normally fine. If this is your first nomination, I must say I am impressed. Although a short article, the mistakes you make are the sort that even veteran nominators could have coughed up; and many of the n00b errors which frequent nominations are lacking :) It shouldn't take that long to fix things up. One small comments: the normal waiting time at GAN is about a month, but I try to prioritize first-time nominators, so next time you may have a much longer wait. Oh, and I really liked your signature, its among the best I've seen on WP ;) <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  19:39, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks again, both for the nice words and for the help. —  T RANSPORTER M AN  ( TALK ) 19:51, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I've taken a shot at it and would very much welcome your additional review. Regards,  T RANSPORTER M AN  ( TALK ) 17:47, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you very, very much for the speedy, positive review. Best regards,  T RANSPORTER M AN  ( TALK ) 21:08, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

February GA Sweeps update
Thanks to everyone's efforts to the GA Sweeps process, we are currently over 95% done with around 130 articles left to be swept! Currently there are over 50 members participating in Sweeps, that averages out to about 3 articles per person! If each member reviews an article once a week this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. At that point, awards will be handed out to reviewers. Per my message last month, although we did not review 100 articles last month, I still made a donation of $90 (we had 90 reviews completed/initiated) to Wikipedia Forever on behalf of all GA Sweeps reviewers. I would like to thank everyone's efforts for last month, and ask for additional effort this month so we can be finished. I know you have to be sick of seeing these updates (as well as Sweeps itself) by now, so please do consider reviewing a few articles if you haven't reviewed in a while. If you have any questions about reviews or Sweeps let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:27, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

new Biman lego
hello ! the logo of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has changed but the old logo is still visible in the wiki article..as it's a FA class article and going through a review i think we should update the logo in the article.. but i'm not a specialist in graphics work. so, can u help me in this regard ??? this link may help u finding out how the logo should look, Souvik.arko (talk) 07:15, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I found the logo on a third-party web site, checked that it was the same as on the article and then uploaded. The problem is that the web site of Biman hasn't even managed to update to their "current" logo, so it is going to be virtually impossible to find an image file of the new logo. A Google image search finds nothing, so until something pops up, we just have to wait. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  07:34, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/List of Sacramento Regional Transit light rail stations/archive1
Hi, can you revisit the above FLC? Thanks for your recent reviews. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 22:20, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

El Al
First deletion of C-46 Commando photos was not explained at all. I find these photos unique because they present human aspect of both crew and passengers in the very early days of the company, and show passengers transportation in semi-cargo plane to the desolated airfield of Eilat. Trying to evade argument I changed the relevant sentence and added a reference to the same (still undeleted) photos in other articles (<nocode< ). You asked for citation and you got it (Or are these photos not good enough evidence to prove the statement?) Well, now you even deleted the reference and ask again for a citation for the still existing statement which is supported ONLY by the very photographs you deleted. Pls. explain. Etan J. Tal 18:37, 12 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Etan J. Tal (talk • contribs) 18:37, 12 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Feel free to add the images in a suitable place; however, this article is trying to be a featured article, so there can be no gallery and references need to be references. You cannot just refer readers to another article in a reference for images, it is not the way things are done here. As for references, using images is original research and cannot be used in a featured article (nor any other article for that matter). I honestly don't care so much about this article, so if other editors are going to be making non-standard violations of guidelines and policy, I can stop copy editing and support a delisting. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  19:39, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying. I accept your point in regard to the reference issue. Nevertheless I still argue these photos contribute to the article. If gallery is not permitted in a featured article one can choose one photo and include it in the "Normal way". Etan J. Tal 22:48, 12 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Etan J. Tal (talk • contribs)
 * Why don't you pick the one you like the best and add it :) I might move it around, but the article is a little under-imaged at the moment, so adding more images is no problem. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  22:52, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

GA review of Hobart International Airport: questions
Hello Arsenikk, thankyou for your quick and efficient review of this article. I have a few questions for you in regard to this review. Once again thankyou for your feedback. I'm not trying to hassle you with these questions but rather clarify what you have asked of me. Thakyou for your time. Wiki ian 10:09, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 * File:Checkin-hbtairport.jpg should use the upright syntax.... please explain
 * The images that are hosted on en.wikipedia should be moved to the Commons. This tool makes it easy.... I get a litle confused about licences, are all the non-commens pictures eligble for commens?
 * The operational history is lacking. When were various routes introduced? When did different airlines arrive? When were there international services? - Can you give me an example article on which i can learn from?
 * Could you mention the actual runway lengths, not just the aircraft they allowed to run (keep that, just add the lengths).... The runway lengths are mentioned. Can you be more specific?
 * I would not call transferring ownership from the federal to state governments "privatization".... The federal government did in fact privatise the airport (and all aussie airports), ironically the tasmanian goverment purchased this particular airport. I have reworded that sentence, but would like further advise on this.
 * What do you mean by "modern facility"? If it is only a single story and has no aerobridges, it is not what most people would regard "modern". Subjective terms like these are best left out.... I do not believe there are any pictures to demonstrate, but compared to what it used to look like and given that Hobart has a population of less than 200,000 it is a very good facilty. Please advise on how i can reword this.
 * I replied at Talk:Hobart International Airport/GA1. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  23:13, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Norsk Kontantservice
I've withdrawn my AfD nomination. Please follow through and add some details from Norwegian sources, because that's not very likely to be done by others given the language barrier. Thanks, Pcap ping  17:45, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

re:aircraft name
Well, if it has anything to do with Birger Hønningstad then I'd say Ø, not Ö. Manxruler (talk) 21:33, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Rollback
You seem to have lost rollback when the new autoreviewer user right was added. Matt removed autoreviewer from inactive users, and at the same time removed rollback. For more info, see your user rights log. Mvh <span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">decltype (talk) 12:28, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Rapid Transit
Thanks for your revert here. I wasn't sure if BRT should stay, so I only reverted the Commuter Rail section. I appreciate another set of eyes looking at those edits from 4wy1327. Acps110 (talk • contribs) 01:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 February newsletter
Round one is over, and round two has begun! Congratulations to the 64 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our first round. A special well done goes to, our round one winner (1010 points), and to and , who were second and third respectively (640 points/605 points). Sasata was awarded the most points for both good articles (300 points) and featured articles (600 points), and TonyTheTiger was awarded the most for featured topics (225 points), while Hunter Kahn claimed the most for good topics (70). claimed the most featured lists (240 points) and featured pictures (35 points), claimed the most for Did you know? entries (490 points),  claimed the most for featured sounds (70 points) and  claimed the most for In the news entries (40 points). No one claimed a featured portal or valued picture.

Credits awarded after the end of round one but before round two may be claimed in round two, but remember the rule that content must have been worked on in some significant way during 2010 by you for you to claim points. The groups for round two will be placed up shortly, and the submissions' pages will be blanked. This round will continue until 28 April, when the top two users from each group, as well as 16 wildcards, will progress to round three. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup; thank you to all doing this last round, and particularly to those helping at WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:41, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

GA Sweeps Completed!
Thanks to everyone's amazing efforts in February, we have reviewed all of the articles and are now finished with Sweeps! There are still about 30 articles currently on hold, and once those reviews are completed, I will send you a final message about Sweeps process stats including the total number of articles that were passed and failed. If you have one of these open reviews, be sure to update your count when the review is completed so I can compile the stats. You can except to receive your award for reviewing within the next week or two. Although the majority of the editors did not start Sweeps at the beginning in August 2007 (myself included), over 50 editors have all come together to complete a monumental task and improve many articles in the process. I commend you for sticking with this often challenging task and strengthening the integrity of the GA WikiProject as well as the GAs themselves. I invite you to take a break from reviewing (don't want you to burn out!) and then consider returning/starting to review GANs and/or contribute to GAR reviews. With your assistance, we can help bring the backlog down to a manageable level and help inspire more editors to improve articles to higher classes and consider reviewing themselves. Again, thank you for putting up with difficult reviews, unhappy editors, numerous spam messages from me, and taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:21, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Featured article reviews
Hi Arsenikk! You may have already seen this, but two FARs that you started have moved to the FARC phase and look to be heading towards "keep" closures, but still need more input. The two reviews can be found at Featured article review/Biman Bangladesh Airlines/archive1 and Featured article review/Søren Kierkegaard/archive1. If you would like to stop back by and offer up any further comments you have, and perhaps give a view towards keeping or delisting, it would be much appreciated. More help in bringing in additional commentors who may be able to give insight into content would also be helpful, if you have the time. Thanks in advance! Dana boomer (talk) 23:33, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk:EasyJet/GA1
Hey. This review looks like it petered out a month ago. Might want to double check and pass or fail it if needed. Or if it's really close poke the nom again. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 04:07, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Hobart Airport
Most of the grammer related and picture moves have been made, however I'm having trouble finding extended hitosry on the airport. I have got enough to expand it briefly, but not by a huge amount. Is that going to affect this article's chances at GA status? Wiki ian 04:28, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Airline destination articles
While I do appreciate that your Braathens article made it to the featured list, please also remember that it - and the NAS article - is also governed by established guidelines, which are available at WP:Airlines and WP:Airports. I have also started a discussion here - so please add your input there. That way other contributors can also weigh in. Thanks, Jasepl (talk) 18:05, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

List of members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Just a quick note. I haven't reviewed the list at all really, but a quick thing stood out for me. As usual, using my Safari (under Mac OS X) browser, I had some sorting issues. So... I'm happy to review the list whenever but these sorting issues seem unique to me as a Mac user. The notes thing needs sorting out too. All the best. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:28, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * End sorts incorrectly, I'd guess because you have a mix of text and numbers.
 * Secretary table: names seem to not be sorted by surname.
 * Notes aren't referenced.
 * Thanks for the comments. I fixed the sorting, but regarding the notes, I am not quite sure how to do it technically (sticking a ref inside a ref didn't work) and the notes are referenced from exactly the same place as the whole table, namely ref 2. Since the table isn't referenced at a per-entry level, but only overall (it being composed from a single source), I personally don't see the need to reference the notes. You are of course free to disagree. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  23:01, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
Aviator006 (talk) 10:19, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
Aviator006 (talk) 15:49, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/Venues of the 2010 Winter Olympics/archive2
Hi, can you revisit the above FLC when you get the time? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 23:54, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
Aviator006 (talk) 09:50, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Medicinernes Skiklub Svartor
Hello. I am contacting you because you are listed as a participant for WikiProject Norway, and the above-mentioned article is sourced by all Norwegian-language references. Moreover, the references do not appear to support notability; they might be mere trivial references to the subject. Since these sources are all offline, and I do not speak or read Norwegian, I'm hoping whether you can assist me in determining whether the article qualifies for speedy deletion. Many thanks! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 12:41, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Biman logo.svg
 Thanks for uploading File:Biman logo.svg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Socialist Left
Finished! --TIAYN (talk) 18:31, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

FAR
Hi Arsenikk! Thank you so much for the reviews of transportation articles at FAR. There are a couple of articles there now that might interest you, so I thought I would drop you a note:


 * Featured article review/Manila Light Rail Transit System/archive1 - You added a delist declaration last November (yes, it's been hanging around that long!), but the article has had a lot of work since then, and it would be great if you could take another look.
 * Featured article review/Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907/archive1 - I don't know if you have any interest in getting involved in this one, but more opinions are definitely needed.

Thanks in advance for any comments you may have on these two. Your reviews are much appreciated! Dana boomer (talk) 20:46, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the cue. I was just sitting writing some more comments on the Manila article, so it will be around shortly. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  21:11, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi! I'm unfamiliar with the FAR process, but do you not agree that Harry S. Truman doesn't meet Featured criteria with regards to referencing? Geschichte (talk) 12:33, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, the references aren't good enough. And it isn't really that well written (it's okay, just not FA standard), and I spotted some MOS errors. The FAR is a risky business; with half the articles virtually nothing is done, while with some, everything is corrected within days or weeks. But if either of us (not being regular FAC participants) can see it doesn't meet the criteria, then it most certainly does not. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  13:35, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * What's so risky about FAR?? As for the amount of noms, I certainly don't worry about it  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  04:03, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, that was a bit poorly worded. What I meant is that things go fine if "nothing" happens and the article is delisted in three to four weeks. However, I have never managed to write an FA article (nor has Geschichte) and although we are both most excellent article writers (particularly regarding content), at least I myself feel uncomfortable when it gets down to the nit-picky details of a featured review, because I am never 100% sure of the criteria and never able to get the prose up to the last inch needed to get it past FA. However, I sometimes find myself defending the FA criteria from other editors, often less experienced than myself, where neither party is able to create featured prose. I can hammer down the MOS and content, but it kind of stops there. And often feel I get the backing I need at FAR (unlike FAC). That is not in any way to say that I am recommending that the article above (or any other) not be nominated. <strong style="color:green;">Arsenikk <sup style="color:grey;">(talk)  10:03, 26 March 2010 (UTC)