User talk:Coldupnorth/Archive4

Userbox count
I found the numbers of users using the various userboxes (a little too much alliteration there) by using AWB. I change the Make List feature to "What transcludes here" and embed "User:Nehrams2020/Userboxes/Blues Brothers" for example and then click "make list". Once it finishes loading, I go to filter and only check "User" and then I use that number. I'm sure that I'm off by a couple as some people's user pages may have the template if they are just making lists of different kinds of genres of userboxes (for example, listing all of the movie userboxes that exist on Wikipedia). But altoghter, this is the easiest way of doing it. I used to handcount it by just looking at "what transcludes here", but this program makes it much easier. --Nehrams2020 22:46, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the barnstar, I really appreciate it. I hope the rest of your wikibreak goes alright. I'm going to have to limit my editing within the next week or two for my own finals. Then I hope to start doing a lot more GA reviews over the summer break. My goal is to somehow organize a way for all of the reviewers to eliminate the backlog over the break. It's going to be a busy summer! --Nehrams2020 18:21, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Loituma Girl GA nomination
I have attempted to meet your objection regarding the parodies and remixes sentence without introducing linkspam, but would appreciate your input regarding my fix. --tjstrf talk 02:39, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Hooray! And thank you for actually responding to the review, the last guy sort of vanished after putting the page on hold. --tjstrf talk 09:31, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Rock Springs Massacre - once again
I have made some major alterations and additions to Rock Springs Massacre, it is in need of some outside perspective, the article is quite different from the GA version you reviewed. I know you are busy, but whenever you get time anything you have to offer would be appreciated. IvoShandor 09:17, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Anything you could contribute would be greatly appreciated. IvoShandor 18:51, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I have addressed some of your comments and had a couple of my own if you want to or have time to check it out. Thanks once again for the assistance. IvoShandor 11:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Hezbollah
Hi, my friends tried to improve the article. Please check it again and tell us your idea. Thanks.-- Sa.vakilian(t-c) 10:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

University of Trinity College GA nomination
Thank you very much for your input - it's truly invaluable.--Sycron 17:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Jurassic Park FAC
You supported my initial nomination, which has been re-started by the FA Director. If you wish, please give your vote again. Alientraveller 17:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

GA medal
Thank you for the medal, I really appreciate it when the work I put in is recognized as well done. I do have some awards, I just display them on a subpage, along with other recognitions. By making my awards less prominently displayed I hope that others will judge me by my contributions and interactions rather than an arbitrary criteria such as "awards," but that doesn't mean I don't really like them. : ) IvoShandor 07:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * That's right! : ) I realized that this morning. IvoShandor 20:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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Malcolm Grant GA on hold
-- VS talk 11:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

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Image:StMarysChurchBrownseaIsland.JPG and Brownsea Island Scout camp
Re above...I found the image while working on the article and have added the image to the article. I want to get the article to at least GA, maybe even FA. Do you have other images I could use or suggestions to improve the article? Thanks. Since you made the image PD, I/you could load it into wikicommons if you like.Rlevse 01:28, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your offer. I would like to get a free image of the actual camp ground, if Scouts and tents are on it, even better. Also, we could use an image of the memorial stone up close, clear, and readable, the only free one we have is blurry. If you make your images PD or GFDL you can store them on wikicommons even if they are not in an article. If you don't have a commons account and don't want to get one, I could load them for you. Thanks again.Rlevse 12:54, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 50 acres on the island is set aside for Scouting. Do you know if all of this 50 acres or just part of it is cleared land (no trees so there's room for tents, etc)?Rlevse 02:15, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all your help on this. Any more is GREATLY appreciated. It certainly helps having a local with access to the place an article is about. I only found one of you new images on wikicommons of the stone. Can you list me the actual stone image names so I can click to them? Let's just use Talk:Brownsea Island Scout camp for all this so Wim and others will see it too. Rlevse 11:46, 1 July 2007 (UTC)...Ah, I found all three on commons. Is it possible to get a close up, sun at the back, where the writing can be read easily?Rlevse 14:20, 1 July 2007 (UTC)...PS, where on the island is the camp? No map I found marks where it is (center, southeast corner, etc).Rlevse 19:09, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for passing But I'm a Cheerleader as GA. I will bear in mind the suggestions you made. Cheers, -- Beloved freak  11:38, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

HK article
Hi, I have fixed up the History of Colonial Hong Kong (1800s - 1930s) according to your recommendations. Feel free to let me know if it now qualifies for GA. Thx. Benjwong 21:03, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thx for the GA and award. I'll be sure to take your advice on those captions when moving to the next step.  Benjwong 23:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Your GA review of Raising of school leaving age
Firstly, many thanks for taking the time to review it. I was hopeful that a review would mostly disregard it being specific to the UK (as that is, and now has been, easily changed) and focus more on its content, layout/style etc, which you have done. I appreciate you explaining in detail your reasons which may allow make any necessary changes to be made, or allow me to seek further advice as per suggested, as opposed to an unhelpful brief. Although some of the "Original research" points you have raised have sources to go with them, on a few, which I admit lack of thoroughness, haven't been referenced with the respective source which is in fact present in the references section. You mention about a graph which I admittedly copied from an external source, that being the work of the UK Government. Could you correct or confirm for me if work of the UK (or any) Government, particularly of this nature, falls into fair use for Wikipedia? Above all, I felt it was a very fair review and I respect the decision you made with regards for your reasoning given. Bungle44 19:34, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Brownsea aerial
I'm dropping this by LordHarris and Wimvandorst. I would like to know EXACTLY where the original camp is on Brownsea, I know it is west of the castle and in the southwest corner, but not exactly where. I THINK it is on the coast of the island. Can either or both of you go here, on my flickr site (also Rlevse), download the image, and mark in red or yellow the boundaries of the original camp site? Thanks.Rlevse 23:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)...PS then email it back to me at rlevseATcox.net Thanks.Rlevse 23:52, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * If you happen to be on Brownsea during the centenary in a few weeks could you take pic of Scouts having fun and active doing things? A pic of the original campsite with tents or Scouts thereon doing something fun would be great too. I hope this isn't asking to much, but you live a WHOLE lot closer to it than I do-;) Thanks again for all your wonderful help.Rlevse 22:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Winston Churchill
Hi. I agree, the first paragraph was interminably awkward, and when I said "See if you don't like it better", I guess I was trying to solicit opinion on whether or not I'd fixed it. Sorry if that came out the wrong way. I also agree that "Prime Minister of the United Kingdom" is more important than any of the other roles, but it would be just as strange to put PM second as it would be to say he was a British politician after saying he was a PM. I'd support a second sentence option, something like "...was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He was a noted statesman, soldier in the British Army, orator, and strategist." Any better? -- Thesocialistesq/M.lesocialiste 21:22, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * No objections. I'll put it in. Many thanks, -- Thesocialistesq/M.lesocialiste 21:36, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

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Digital radio in the United Kingdom
Thank you for your review and guidance on the Digital radio in the United Kingdom article, regarding its current GA on hold status. I have hopefully expanded and added references to the sections you have picked up upon in comparison to the good articles criteria, and I wish to invite you to see if the concerns you have raised have been addressed. Regards. --tgheretford (talk) 19:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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