User talk:DeirdreAnne/Archives/2010/01

New user rights: why me/lol/ty
Happy New Year, Doug, and thanks very much for the vote of confidence here. I admit to being somewhat baffled: we've had only one minor interaction, as far as I remember, so it was a bit like a bolt out of the blue. (A pleasant, low-voltage bolt, of course.) Also, I had to laugh, since I actually opposed the rollbacker concept back when it was being debated. I do appreciate the thought, however, and promise not to abuse the tools (assuming my clumsy mousing skills don't lead to accidental clicking on these strange new links that have appeared on my watchlist...) Rivertorch (talk) 17:11, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVI (December 2009)
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Conducting research on WikiProjects
Dear Doug,

We are professors at Carnegie Mellon University conducting research on how online groups operate, with a strong history of research on Wikipedia.

We would like to discuss collaborating with you with the goals of both improving integration of new members into your WikiProject as well as advancing the understanding of the science behind online groups.

Our recent research has shown that joining a WikiProject boosts editors' contributions to the project substantially, and that specific kinds of interactions between existing project members and newcomers encourage newcomers to contribute more and longer. We are now working on translating these findings into interventions that will increase the vitality of WikiProjects, helping them attract, motivate, and retain members who are knowledgeable and able to contribute to the project. We have identified your project (Agriculture) as an initial candidate that we would love to work with moving forward based on your participants and the amount of assessment work your project needs accomplished. Please feel free to contact me (Prof. Robert Kraut robert.kraut@cmu.edu) with any questions and to find out more.

Information about our research can be found at http://community.hciresearch.org/content/improving-socialization-newcomers-wikiprojects.

If you are interested in this collaboration please contact Rosta Farzan at rfarzan@cs.cmu.edu or leave a note at Rosta Farzan's talk page at (talk)

Thank you,

(Rosta Farzan (talk) 09:40, 6 January 2010 (EST) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.237.230.146 (talk)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Doug! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 00:22, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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