User talk:Buaidh/Archive 2013

Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado updates
I see the great job your doing with project updates in new article section - are you aware a robot-generated list just like {Recognized content} - Can be setup like WikiProject Canada/New articles - Its running now ......(Colorado Search result and  Colorado Log and  Colorado Rules) .... for a complete list of all the new article running bots see User:AlexNewArtBot.Moxy (talk) 00:23, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Discussion regarding WikiProject Kansas
I have started a discussion about making WikiProject Kansas a standalone project separate from WikiProject United States. Please join the discussion at the WikiProject Kansas talk page.

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Thanks, Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 01:07, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject Kansas
Hi there, writing to you because you are a member of the wikiproject kansas. created a GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) group for kansas, mailing list for topeka and a facebook page linked from here Meetup/Topeka. would like to organize some more meetups at different historic sites in topeka (and even other places if we can find someone with a car), go there and take photos, collect information and work on the articles. It could be a great group event. please let me know what you think, and sign up on the mailing list if you like. Also if you know of GLAM sites anywhere in kansas, please add them to the list. Also I would like to organize a photo contest for Kansas. you can send me a mail if you like as well, my mail is on my user page.

thanks, James Michael DuPont (talk) 14:06, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

New Milwaukee CSA
There is a new designation for the Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha CSA

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/bulletins/2013/b13-01.pdf

Scroll down to page 105 and you'll find they have added 3 new MSAs to the CSA. This needs to be updated on all the population pages that reference the Milwaukee metro population. Thanks!Maximilian77 (talk) 04:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. The 2012 population estimates will be released on March 15, 2013.  Yours aye,  Buaidh  14:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Just a heads up
I just accidentally wiped out some of your updates on this page, but I know that fixing all of them would take a long time on my end, so would you be able to do it yourself since you have the faster connection? If you're for it, I'm more than willing to start spliting it, because it will crash slow connections with its sheer size (it's the largest article on the site by a lot). Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:23, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem. It will only take a couple minutes to fix.  Yours aye,  Buaidh  01:12, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

CSA moves
I undid one of your moves, to change back to styling per MOS, New Orleans–Metairie–Hammond, LA–MS combined statistical area, before I noticed that you changed more than the styling. The new name is not consistent with the article contents; if you want it to be about the new CSA, it needs to have contents updated. And it needs a reference.

In general, the styling is a mess, with many articles having the spaced-en-dash styling that the MOS specified with two-word names before the summer 2011 revision of MOS:DASH. But moving back to hyphens and capitals is not a good fix. See MOS:CAPS and MOS:DASH. We don't generally copy the styling of lists, especially not copying capitalization from items listed like headings that are not really proper names. That is, there's no reason to capitalize combined statistical area. These are just generic terms. And we connect names of cities that remain separate entities with en dash, to avoid things like the ambiguity of the tightly connected "Rock-North" in Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR Combined Statistical Area, etc.

So, there's a lot to be fixed... Dicklyon (talk) 01:12, 24 March 2013 (UTC)


 * The Office of Management and Budget issued OMB Bulletin No. 13-01: Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Combined Statistical Areas, and Guidance on Uses of the Delineations of These Areas on February 28, 2013. Since United States statistical areas have no meaning other than that defined by the OMB, I strongly feel that we should use the statistical area names exactly as defined by the OMB.  If articles are about generic metropolitan areas, then they should not be given names that resemble official OMB statistical area names.


 * Please see User talk:Orlady for more. Yours aye,  Buaidh  01:41, 24 March 2013 (UTC)


 * PS: Per the MOS, the United States of America should be properly spelled the United states of America.  Buaidh  04:27, 24 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Please see Wikipedia talk:Article titles for more on this subject.  Buaidh  23:54, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Minneapolis-St. Paul
I just thought I'd let you know that I reverted your page move for the reasoning I provided in the revert. If you still feel it should be moved, feel free to start a requested move. Ryan Vesey 01:19, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area
In the metro page youve been editing, did you mistakenly remove Poughkeepsie? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.104.164 (talk) 04:38, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * It is my sad duty to inform you that the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area is no more. When the the Office of Management and Budget issued OMB Bulletin No. 13-01: Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Combined Statistical Areas, and Guidance on Uses of the Delineations of These Areas on February 28, 2013, it eliminated the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area and merged Dutchess County and Orange County into the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
 * Actually, isn't that really now called the Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY Metropolitan Division within the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area and similar for Orange county? Vegaswikian (talk) 02:40, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Undiscussed move
Did you not notice the currently open Requested move discussion at Talk:Statistical area? Were you aware of it, but forgot to comment? Or did you make this move without discussion because you figure your knowledge and insight are sufficiently superior that you didn't need to discuss the title again? Or is there some other explanation? --Orlady (talk) 20:56, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I was completely unaware that a new move discussion was begun on Talk:Statistical area. No one gave me a heads up, and I didn't bother to look for a discussion before I moved the article.  I will be happy to move this article wherever consensus dictates.  I think we have pretty much discussed these titles to death, and I'm not sure I will even bother to participate.  With the new OMB definitions I have huge amounts of data to update.  I have nothing but the greatest respect for you personally.  Yours aye,  Buaidh  23:08, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for 'splaining. I've been seeing your work on the new definitions and associated data -- not a small job! I continue to think that "statistical area" is a terrible name for the topic -- and that a better name could be created if we quit trying to treat the article like a dictionary definition and instead convert it into an article about the designation of "metro" areas in the U.S. Your thoughts on that matter would, of course, be helpful... Meanwhile, I hope that the data-insertion project goes smoothly for you. --Orlady (talk) 23:40, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * On the subject of discussions you may have missed, I don't believe you have commented at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_March_4. --Orlady (talk) 16:55, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Template:User in the US
What is the possibility of adding an option "This user grew up in ..."? I'd do it, but can't figure out how to do so. Probably should invoke same categories as "former resident of". StevenJ81 (talk) 19:49, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The terms "grew up in", "was reared in", and "is from" are somewhat ambiguous. Do they mean:
 * "is a native of"
 * "is a native of, but no longer resides in"
 * "is a former resident of"
 * Yours aye, Buaidh  15:10, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * My meaning was: "is a former resident, but no longer resides ... and spent most of childhood in, but is not a native of (because was not born there)". It is the bit about "spent most of childhood in but not born there" that is missing from the current options.  (I plan to use it in a State template, not the US template.)  StevenJ81 (talk) 01:46, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Then what you want is . Yours aye,  Buaidh  19:30, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * That's what I'm using now. I wanted something reflecting that I spent most of my childhood there.  I'll just subst: it and leave the code on my page.  StevenJ81 (talk) 21:44, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * If you want something more personal, just create your own personal userbox from Template:Userbox. I'll give you some help.....


 * Try  which produces:
 * Yours aye, Buaidh  22:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * That would have been easier than what I did, which was to subst: down Template:User in Maryland until I reached Template:uir and then add my own custom info line. My user page shows the result.  But I do appreciate your help and advice. StevenJ81 (talk) 02:51, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area
Your creation of redirects to invalid target reeks of POV and vandalism. I know that you have strong views on how the census bureau articles should be labeled, but redirecting into city articles is just wrong, especially where articles exist. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:38, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I don't understand your point. I'm attempting to work with 1098 U.S. statistical areas concurrently, and not everything gets done instantaneously, (nor always correctly the first time.)  I will be happy to redirect any links you find inappropriate.  We have hundreds of redlinks to resolve on the List of metropolitan areas of the United States.  I would greatly appreciate your help with this.  Yours aye,  Buaidh  19:16, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * In the case of the Birmingham, Alabama metropolitan area, there are numerous definitions of this urban area including two OMB defined statistical areas: the Birmingham-Hoover, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Birmingham-Hoover-Talladega, AL Combined Statistical Area. I believe the title "Birmingham, Alabama metropolitan area" should link to either an article or article subsection about the metro area and its many definitions rather than arbitrarily to one of the two OMB definitions.  Do you not agree?
 * It is my intent to create such an article or article subsection for each of the 1098 U.S. statistical areas. I am a still-more-than-fully-employed senior citizen, so I get these done a rapidly as I can.   Buaidh  19:48, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * You can see my metro working link pages at User:Buaidh/Test, User:Buaidh/Test1, User:Buaidh/Test2. I update the link targets regularly as I work through the tables.   Buaidh  20:38, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * P.S. – It's rather petty to accuse editors of our stature of vandalism.  Buaidh  01:08, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Red links are not bad! If you goal is to write articles, then that's fine but redirecting to a city article is not appropriate.  Vegaswikian (talk) 04:58, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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Who is going to search for these?
Who is going to type into search something like Winona, Minnesota micropolitan area...and why does the redirect go to a section that doesn't exist in the article? --Onorem♠Dil 15:50, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The Winona, Minnesota micropolitan area is included in the List of metropolitan areas of the United States. The United States Office of Management and Budget has designated Winona County, Minnesota as the Winona, MN Micropolitan Statistical Area (see the List of Core Based Statistical Areas).  I will insert the subsection #Micropolitan Statistical Area into the Winona County article as soon as I can.  (I have more than 2000 of these to create.)
 * To your question, anyone searching for "Winona" or "micropolitan area" can find the micropolitan area link. Yours aye,  Buaidh  16:05, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Who is going to type "Winona, Minnesota micropolitan area" into a search. Why create redirects for a search term that isn't likely to be used. Whatever. I guess it doesn't hurt anything. Just seems like a massive waste. Glad to know that you have thousands of them to go through. --Onorem♠Dil 16:19, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much!!! These links are created primarily as table links rather than search links.  I suspect the New York metropolitan area may be used somewhat more frequently than the Winona, Minnesota micropolitan area.   Buaidh  16:37, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Mapping the Global Economy
Hi Buaidh,

I am looking for volunteers to re-create the link below for all 196 countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_States

The goal of this project is to map out the global economy. Here is the project page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcnabber091 (talk • contribs) 03:03, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

County lists
Hi, I just wanted to say great work on List of United States counties and county-equivalents. That's something that WP has needed for a long time, and thank you for your excellent effort on it. I'm sure that if you expanded the lead with information from the county (United States) and County statistics of the United States articles it could become a Featured List. You could also definitely merge List of the least populous counties in the United States to your list since it's redundant. Reywas92 Talk 22:02, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The list is enormous at 694,135 bytes, so I've tried to keep extraneous information to a minimum.  The sortable table is actually quite efficient, and it should be easy to update each March when the U.S. Census estimates are released.  Yours aye,  Buaidh  22:15, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

RMs
Can you put all your recent metro area RMs together as a multiple RM, or at least do so going forward? It's tiresome to have to weigh in at each one separately and they're going to exacerbate the backlog with duplicated discussions. Thanks,--Cúchullain t/ c 15:30, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Each of these articles have individual as well as common issues. I'm not sure why I should make it easier for you to grandly oppose these moves.   Buaidh  16:00, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * You're making the same justification at every article, so we're just repeating ourselves across them all. It would be far less demanding to discuss them in one place rather than repeat the same things across numerous articles.--Cúchullain t/ c 16:58, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I have not made a proper justification for most of these moves because they seemed routine. Henceforth I will consolidate these requests as you suggest.  Yours aye,  Buaidh  17:05, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Buaidh.--Cúchullain t/ c 17:08, 11 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Buaidh. Due to the relocation of multiple comments at Talk:Mobile metropolitan area I've found it necessary to close the thread as No consensus; it's impossible to glean a valid consensus from a discussion in which the majority of commentators were !voting on something else (namely, individual page renames, rather than a mass page move). Doing so indicates no disapproval of the process, and I'd encourage you, if you wish, to create a new move discussion for the topics in question. I'm sorry for effectively forcing a restart of several established discussions, but to my mind it seemed the correct and most efficient route towards resolving the issue. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  07:47, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I concur. What I thought were routine move requests, turned into a huge unexpected mess.   Buaidh  15:48, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Haha, your description of it is perfect... a huge unexpected mess. Well said! :) 76.189.111.2 (talk) 22:24, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll set up the metropolitan area links first and worry about the titles later.  Buaidh  15:35, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

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Dab pages
Hi Buaidh. Regarding your recent creation of disambiguation pages, you don't need to create them when there's a primary topic and only one other (ostensibly) ambiguous article. If anything, they just make the second article harder to get to when the same purpose could be served by a hatnote - see at Miami metropolitan area. In cases where a disambiguation page is called for, please make sure you format them correctly according to MOS:DAB, with the primary topic on top. Thanks,--Cúchullain t/ c 18:50, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Where do you think I am not following the Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages?  Buaidh  18:54, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * You weren't following WP:DABORDER on any of the ones I looked at, Miami metropolitan area (disambiguation), Jacksonville metropolitan area (disambiguation), Augusta metropolitan area (disambiguation), and Dayton metropolitan area (disambiguation). The primary topic goes above the other entries (and the article that's currently located at that title, or has the title redirected to it, is the de facto primary topic).--Cúchullain t/ c 19:03, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * You are correct.  Buaidh  19:21, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Please also make note of WP:DABENTRY, which says "Include exactly one navigable (blue) link to efficiently guide readers to the most relevant article for that use of the ambiguous term. Do not wikilink any other words in the line" (emphasis theirs).--Cúchullain t/ c 21:03, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm removing the additional links. You are a stickler for WP rules other than the ones you dislike.   Buaidh  21:17, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * So pot, have you met kettle? People often find it helpful to familiarize themselves with the usual style before they create dozens of pages. Measure twice, cut once.--Cúchullain t/ c 21:35, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I have two and one half times as many edits as you and correspondingly two and one half times as many mistakes. I'm pretty much a boy scout.  If I make a mistake, its usually due to senility rather than subversion.
 * I try to avoid creating disambiguation pages, but the anti-WP:USPLACE cabal has created a huge mess for those of us who update United States Census Bureau and Office of Management and Budget data. I hope its all worth it to you folks.   Buaidh  21:51, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Haha, I'm totally using that line. Obviously ain't nobody immune to mistakes. As far as the dab pages go, they're actually detrimental when there are only two ambiguous articles and one of them's the primary topic, it's more clicks to get to the second article, which should be avoided. Either way, I've never been convinced that these "micropolitan areas", which are really "Micropolitan Statistical Areas" in the only sources that talk about them, are noteworthy under any name, let alone the made up names you've given them. They appear in virtually no sources outside of the primary sources - government statistics. I'm even less convinced that someone typing in, for instance, "Miami metropolitan area" is looking for a hopelessly obscure statistical entity in Oklahoma, and that we should disregard the common sense arrangement to accommodate those hypothetical readers. Unfortunately common sense isn't all that common at Wikipedia.--Cúchullain t/ c 01:31, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It appears you know very little about this topic. Yours aye,  Buaidh  15:27, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * However, I do know how to read.--Cúchullain t/ c 15:53, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Congratulations. I have better things to do.   Buaidh  15:59, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * One would think ;)--Cúchullain t/ c 16:10, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

2012 population estimates
Thanks for the tip. If you're referring to my work on the County (United States) page, I didn't change any of the values that were already there, just rearranged some of the content. There may have been conflicting or outdated stats there, but I didn't mess with them. 70.235.84.17 (talk) 21:42, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

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Wiknic in June in Arvada, Colorado?
Hi Buaidh. From the Wiknic page, it appears you mentioned a tentative plan for an Arvada Wiknic on June 22, 2013. Since that was three weeks ago, might I suggest you go ahead and start the meetup page for that particular location so that others might have a place to interact without leaving notes on the main Wikipedia:Wiknic page. Thanks. N2e (talk) 16:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, you can start a new page at Meetup/Boulder/Wiknic, and maybe borrow much of the content from the previous Meetup/Boulder/June 2012.--Pharos (talk) 19:49, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Please see Meetup/Colorado/Wiknic/2013.  Buaidh  14:09, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! N2e (talk) 22:19, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Quick Question
Hey! I just have a quick comment, I believe someone is vandalizing the list of Combined Statistical Areas in the United States, as according to the US Census Bureau, St Louis is 15th, followed by Tampa, Cleveland, and Denver. Could you revert the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.220.199.124 (talk) 23:19, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The List of Combined Statistical Areas is currently correct.  Buaidh  15:22, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!

 * Yahooooooo! I'm so glad you're involved in the WDL project Buaidh. You do great work on Wikipedia! I can't wait to see your contributions - let me know if you need anything at all. Thanks for all you do. SarahStierch (talk) 15:08, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Template:Colorado
Please don't add Colorado to articles about individual places in the state (e.g. Thede Farmhouse or Cascade Boy Scout Camp); like other navboxes, it's meant for placement on the articles that it links, not for placement on every article about a location in the state. Nyttend (talk) 00:10, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Each of these articles link to Colorado and to a Colorado county. I'm not sure where you draw a line.   Buaidh  02:29, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * But the template doesn't have a link to the farmhouse and it doesn't have a link to the Scout camp. It belongs on articles for which it has links.  Nyttend (talk) 04:20, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hunting for embedded outlines
Hi Buaidh,

I'm looking for outlines embedded in articles.

I've run across a number of these over the years. One example is the Outline of fencing, which used to be part of the fencing article.

If you know about or spot any structured general topics lists in articles, please let me know (on my talk page).

Another thing you might find are articles that are comprised mostly of lists (without "List of" in the title). If you come across any of these, please report them to me on my talk page. I'd sure like to take a look at them.

Happy hunting.

I look forward to "hearing" from you. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 06:56, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

In recognition of your awesomeness
Hey Buaidh

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:52, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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August 2013
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 * ] The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition from August 10 - September 10 travels in western Colorado e.g., Mesa Verde while maping the Colorado Plateau and the surrounding mountains for a
 * Fixed.  Buaidh  19:30, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

WikiIndaba and Wikipedian in Residence Notice
Dear

As a Wikipedian interested in African subjects and specifically Malawi, I would like you to be aware of the following two opportunities:

1. Wikimedia South Africa and WikiAfrica are organising an WikiIndaba for February 2014 – a continental meeting for Africa-based Wikipedians to get together, discuss challenges and drive the agenda for Wikipedia from Africa. If you support this initiative, then please sign up on this site: http://wikiindaba.net – we also want to hear what you want the Wiki Indaba to achieve. What are your expectations? What does it need to include? Who and what do you want to see happen at WikiIndaba? What is your area of interest? Languages? Data? Please share your ideas and thoughts on the Community Portal

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October 2013
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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter
Books and Bytes Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013 by , Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved... New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted. New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis?? New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration Read the full newsletter ''Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 21:15, 27 October 2013 (UTC)''

Sergeant (E4)
I created the USAF Sergeant (E4) userbox the way I wanted it for my own use. When you edited it previously, I reverted your edit, which should have given you the idea that I did not want it that way. If you want a userbox with larger stripes, please make your own... GWFrog (talk) 00:52, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I apologize for modifying your userbox User:GWFrog/UBX/sergeant. Since you placed it on Userboxes/USAF, I assumed that it was designed for public use.  You may wish to update the Wiki markup to:

""
 * Since we are of similar vintage, you may also be interested in Template:User sexagenarian or Template:User old. Best of luck,  Buaidh  16:42, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, if the user box is in someone's personal user space, as is the case with "User:GWFrog" then others should leave it alone. If a user box is under the user profile "User:UBX" then that is the generic userbox user space and you can edit it, but keep in mind it will effect how it looks on other people's user spaces. Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:16, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

User:UBX/AFJROTC LTC
Hello, you added the category "People in the United States Air Force" to the above-named userbox. This is in accurate. The US Air Force JROTC is a high school organization and not everyone who participates goes on to be in the U.S. Air Force... I know I didn't. Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:18, 14 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the correction. I did add    to the userbox.  Yours aye,  Buaidh  20:29, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thumbs Up Eric Cable  |  Talk  12:57, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Category:Northern America templates
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Category:Northern America user templates
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Wikipedian in community notice
Dear

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Nomination for deletion of Template:MG
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Help creating page?
Hello again, Buaidh! I've been pretty absent from Wikipedia this year, and upon return discovered that the process for starting pages seems to have changed. In August I created draft text for William A. Reiners (latest addition to the list of Eminent Ecologists) in my Sandbox and I'd like to move it forward as a stub so it can get improvements from others. I'm so rusty I have to look up how to do refs again! You've been interested in my projects in the past, so I'm hoping you can give me a nudge in the right direction. Thanks, as ever! Araucana (talk) 18:21, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Please see User talk:Araucana. Yours aye,  Buaidh  20:17, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I will see about fixing it up a bit. Araucana (talk) 14:00, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey
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 * Fixed.  Buaidh  15:45, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hi Buaidh! I apologize for reply to your message on my talk page so late: however, maybe you've already noticed that I, using the template User IEEE member as you suggested, identified myself as a proud member of the glorious IEEE Electron Devices Society. Well done! Daniele.tampieri (talk) 22:32, 15 December 2013 (UTC)