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Attention Tag, WP:MIL
I had a discussion with Kirill on this some time ago, and the consensus as I understood it was that if there weren't MAJOR URGENT issues with an article, it shouldn't have the tag. There are tens of thousands of un-ref'd, or badly underref'd articles within the project right now, so with a total of around 120 attention tags, there should be greater issues with an article than that if the tag is applied. Regards Buckshot06 06:36, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

re: WikiProject Aramaic
''So, this was saved but barely, and userfied to your user space. Mind if I do some editing there? Will you be around at all? Will you "watch" the page? You're clearly the subject matter expert and I'm just an interested editor (spent some time in Ninewah Province, Iraq), so I really wouldn't want to be alone on this. If I don't hear otherwise, I'll just start editing when I get the time. Please respond on my talk page (preferably by moving the discussion so it stays together)--Doug.(talk • contribs) 22:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)''
 * Certainly, please feel free to edit at your leisure. My schedule has suddenly become much busier than I intended, as I had hoped to drum up some interest in the group before it was userified. אמר Steve Caruso 19:23, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Maine Meetup?
Greetings! My name is Garrett Fitzgerald, and I've lived in Brewer for the past year. I just thought I'd check in with the rest of the Maine Wikipedians to see if there was enough interest to start organizing a Meetup somewhere in the state. If you're interested, drop me a note by email or userpage: if there's enough interest, I'll see about organizing a bit more formally. See you around!--SarekOfVulcan 07:05, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Agriculture
Thanks for the warm welcome, I wholly agree that this project has long been needed. When I created Christmas tree cultivation I couldn't believe there wasn't an Agriculture project. I will be pouring over what work needs to be done, and helping out where I can, certainly. You may want to extend an invitation to join to User:Wassupwestcoast, he has a degree in some kind of agricultural field, and helped immensely with the Christmas tree article above. IvoShandor 22:29, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for inviting me. I see that you've discovered WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening. That project is pretty well moribund. I suggest merging everything into Agriculture and inviting the WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening over. I think only one or two are active editors. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 23:26, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Agriculture banner
I think the categories are all set up correctly. Can you show me an example of where the NA class article category is shown? Remember to look at the categories on the bottom rather than in the template itself too. The templates were standardized I don't know how long ago for color and whatnot, but I just assessed Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Agriculture/Assessment and the categorization looks right. John Carter 23:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * All banners are supposed to link to Category:(X)-Class (topic) articles. The Category:B-Class articles, for instance, is the category for all the articles of all projects assessed at that level. None of the banners should be linking directly to that category. If you know of one, let me know so that it can be corrected, because it probably should be. Remember, look at the categories at the bottom of the page, not the banner' statement itself. John Carter 01:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

basic lists topic coverage banner
I don't know how to nest templates. It looks like pretty complex code. The Transhumanist 01:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Long comment
Many people patrol the short pages (you can find it through the special pages link on the side), when one does so and finds that there is no obvious problem, you add a long comment to avoid everyone checking the same OK things over and over again. Carlossuarez46 16:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Dragonfly
Hi, Doug, I've removed the WP:farm tag from dragonfly. I can't imagine why any dragonflies are part of that project, but I assume you know what you are doing. The reason I've removed the tag from this page is that I don't believe that all dragonflies have agricultural importance, and you should just tag the ones that do. To tag the whole order is like tagging insect because silkworms are farmed. Jimfbleak 05:46, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Agriculture
The agriculture list page and the portal and the template need to be fixed. The template should be shorten down. The list should be expanded. The portal should be updated. Please stop removing the navigation template from article pages. The portal link is already on it and using nav boxes is standared practice. Portal links in place of nav boxes is a bad idea. WAS 4.250 19:17, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your warm welcome. I'm sure we can all work together successfully to make Wikipedia better. Your leadership is essential for the agriculture project to be all it can be. I could add more cliches here, but you get the idea. I mean everything I've said, I'm not playing games here. You hold the confidence of the troops. Go for it. (Whoops, more cliches. Oh well.) WAS 4.250 05:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
I've neever seen any other projects who welcome newbies personally. I look forward to editing along side you--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 10:45, 31 October 2007 (UTC)