User talk:Designate/Archives/2011

Michael W. Morrissey
Thank you so much for helping improve the article of the Michael W. Morrissey.Plyjacks (talk) 21:06, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Bravo on his biography you edited! Have a happy new year! Plyjacks (talk) 23:18, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you once again for correcting my mistake on the Massachusetts Senate. Morrissey's DA site is up as well: http://www.mass.gov/norfolkda/, Take care Plyjacks (talk) 02:59, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Rutherford Hayes FAC
I've renominated Rutherford Hayes for FAC. If you have any more comments to add this time around, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Coemgenus 15:41, 31 January 2011 (UTC).

Massachusetts State Senate
I've called it Massachusetts State Senators to keep it consistent with the other state templates. I keep a uniform style on all State Legislative Templates. Adding the 187th General Court ruins the uniformity, as well adding the Senate Delegations also ruins it. Leave that information on the State Senate page.--Jack Cox (talk) 21:54, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Of course I can see that. The reason I have it labled as State Senators is because there is a wikipedia project working on it like that. I've been putting lots of hours into going over these articles on Wikipedia. I've made substantial changes along the way but I'm asking for some Brevity here. I've been slowed down because of this protracted fight. I have no intention of changing it, nor will I. I apologize if I sound like a cranky old man but it's just very frustrating.--Jack Cox (talk) 22:02, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I am begging you to leave the Session Number of the Legislature off the Senate Template, I have compromised quite a bit here, I've agreed with your idea of putting blocks for state legislators. I've compromised by allowing you to have Senate instead of State Senate now I'm asking you to compromise with me and please allow that to remain off.--Jack Cox (talk) 23:29, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

William Henry Barlow
Thanks for the review and passing the article for GA. For completeness and clarity, can I just ask that you clear the oppose tag in criterion 1 and mark it as a pass in criterion 7 of the GA review.--DavidCane (talk) 15:53, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Stephen Lynch (politician)
The article Stephen Lynch (politician) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Stephen Lynch (politician) for things which need to be addressed. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:16, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Stephen Lynch (politician)
Hi. Since you seem to know a lot about this individual, I wonder if you could elaborate on the comment: "That year he led a three-week labor strike, refusing to sign a contract with the Associated General Contractors, despite pressure from within his union. The union international ultimately signed the contract without Lynch's approval, causing him to file suit against them." -- the reflink is old and only includes a one paragraph excerpt which does not explain at all the reasoning or background of the situation. If you could fill in some blanks it would be appreciated. Thanks. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 00:47, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Scott Brown GA
I have started a review of this Article. AIR corn (talk) 11:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Have passed the article. Congratulations. AIR corn (talk) 07:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Add alt text description to Barney Frank
I just took a quick look at your GA nomination for Barney Frank and suggest adding Alt Text to each of the pictures. It is a small point and not required, but I suggest adding them none the less to make the article available to a wider audience. WilliamKF (talk) 03:10, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Untied states governors
Greetings. I apologize for the inconvenience with WikiProject US governors. Someone suggested merging a couple of projects into WikiProject United States based on an appearance of inactivity. United States governors was one of them. I did this one without much discussion only because it appeared basically inactive and I could find no evidence of a member list. There is a discussion on the projects talk page and Charles Edwards mentioned that you are the other active editor for the project besides him. I have stopped transitioning the articles over but if you have no objections or concerns I can finish the conversion in the next couple days. Please let me know if you have any questions. --Kumioko (talk) 20:51, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Tim Pawlenty
Just wanted to say good work so far with your balanced and fair expansion of Pawlenty's article. Keep up the good work!  R uby2010  comment!  21:25, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Designate (talk) 21:43, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

June 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 18:03, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Newt Gingrich GA review
I have removed myself from participation in the GA project. Newt Gingrich is the only outstanding review left for me. It seems work is going slow and there is no reason it cannot stay on hold as long as it takes to fix problems. There is no rush, however if you feel more comfortable having another reviewer we can stop and request a 2nd opinion. In this way it doesn't have a "fail" just for my being removed as reviewer. If you have no objection to my finishing the review, take your time and when you think it's ready let me know.--Amadscientist (talk) 00:12, 19 June 2011 (UTC)


 * No problem. I start back to work on Monday so if you notify me that the article is finished and I do not return immediately, I will as soon as I am able.--Amadscientist (talk) 17:45, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Skype plugin
Hey there. Not sure whether you are still following the thread, but JohnnyMrNinja found that this Skype plugin issue has popped up several times already and is apparently causing problems (real ones, editing related, too).

In the thread you wrote that There are ways to disable it sitewide using a tag. I've found the same info in a thread at the Skype forums. The meta tag is



You also wrote that adding the meta tag requires changes to the MediaWiki backend, which won't happen. I have no idea about the technical difficulties involved, so it would be great if you could briefly explain. Would it be useful to file a BugZilla report on the issue (there currently isn't one), or is adding the meta tag technically unfeasible for some reason?

Thanks in advance, --213.168.116.251 (talk) 11:08, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Jim Risch
While I appreciate the work you put into the changed lede for this article, my reading of WP:LEAD caused me to revert it, as the old lede was much terser and much more in accord with what a lead section should look like. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  01:34, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

July 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 00:29, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tim Pawlenty
The article Tim Pawlenty you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Tim Pawlenty for things which need to be addressed.  Ryan Vesey  Review me!  05:00, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Linda Melconian


The article Linda Melconian has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one.  Teapot  george Talk  16:17, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Ohio politicians
Hey Designate. I've seen the great work you've done on politicians. Would you be interested in recreating pages which were recently deleted in regards to nine Ohio legislators? There are only nine current legislators who are not accounted for, due to recent vandalism and their deletion. Please refer to the Ohio house of representatives and the Ohio senate to see which ones need done. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.252.196.185 (talk) 23:39, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 14:52, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

GA success at Elizabeth Warren
Great work on the Warren article! Other editors were involved but you led the push. Congratulations on getting it to GA! Binksternet (talk) 01:19, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

GA review of John Tyler on hold for 7 days
Greetings - I have finished my review of this article and have placed it on hold for 7 days. As you are the nominator and main article contributor, I'm hoping that you'll take the initiative to make the necessary improvements. I'll check back in on the article in 7 days. If the improvements are made sooner, I'll revisit sooner as well. Cheers, AstroCog (talk) 15:15, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

I have promoted John Tyler to GA status. Congratulations! Thanks for making such short work of it. Not every GA review I do goes so smoothly, but you've done quite a nice job with this article. I'm sorry you had to wait so long for this one. There's a backlog at Good Article Nominations, so if you found the review helpful, please consider reviewing an article in return. For example, I've got a nomination that is among those waiting to be reviewed ;-) Cheers, AstroCog (talk) 04:38, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

GA review of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Thanks for the review. I made the appropriate fixes you mentioned in the review. Let me know if there's anything left. Cheers, AstroCog (talk) 22:54, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! AstroCog (talk) 02:04, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Richard Blumenthal Senate Swearing-In
I noticed that you reverted my recent edit to the Richard Blumenthal article regarding his delay in taking office as a U.S. Senator and I have proposed a possible compromise on the article's Talk page. --TommyBoy (talk) 20:38, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for responding to my note. As a result of our discussion, I have gone ahead and updated the article. --TommyBoy (talk) 22:05, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WikiProject United States governors
Template:WikiProject United States governors has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:31, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Newt Gingrich introduction
Hello Designate, my name is Joe DeSantis, and I am the communications director for Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign. I see that earlier this month you had helped to clean up the introduction to Newt's article. It is certainly better now than then, but there are clearly still issues remaining, and I've posted some suggestions on Newt's discussion page. Would you consider returning to the discussion and perhaps making such changes if you agree with them? If so, I would certainly appreciate it. Thank you, Joedesantis (talk) 15:50, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you again for your help last week. I'd like to continue making suggestions to address what seems to me like unbalanced coverage, and I have just posted such a request on the page about Mr. Gingrich's campaign. If you are willing to review these suggestions and make any changes or offer feedback, I'd be grateful, and I have the page watchlisted in case you have any questions. Thank you, Joedesantis (talk) 21:41, 19 December 2011 (UTC)