User talk:Driken

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 * Thanks for the welcome!--Driken 21:42, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Welcome from another North Dakotan!
By the way...welcome from another North Dakotan! It's always nice to see someone from the area join up. Feel free to ask me anything you are curious or confused about on my talk page. Also, there are quite a few other North Dakotans on here. You can find many in Category:Wikipedians in North Dakota. Once again, welcome! See you around. --Matth e w UND (talk) 22:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Participant alert regarding Wikiproject on Advertising
The Wikiproject No Ads, created as a backlash against the Answers.com deal, has served an important function in providing a space for users to express their disagreement with the Foundation proposal. While the current controversies about userboxes raise questions about political and social advocacy on Wikipedia, there should be greater flexibility regarding advocacy about Wikipedia in the Wikipedia namespace. Reported and linked by Slashdot and other press sources as a unique and spontaneous occurence in Wikipedia history, it has apparently had some impact as, despite being scheduled to begin in January, not a peep has been heard about the trial and proposed sponsored link since the deal's controversial announcement months ago. Currently, however, there is an attempt to delete the project or move it off Wikipedia altogether. Since the Foundation has provided no additional information and has not attempted to answer the specific questions that participants in the project raised, it is unclear if the Answers.com deal has been abandoned or simply delayed. Until the situation becomes more clear, I believe the group should still have a place in the Wikipedia namespace. Sincerely, Tfine80 00:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
--Matth e w UND (talk) 05:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject North Dakota

 * WikiProject North Dakota is official! Sort of.  Lot of cleanup needed on the project page and plenty of work to do making a decent to-do list, etc. etc., but it all starts somewhere.  Thanks for all your help! -- AlexWCovington  (talk) 05:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!
Welcome,, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of KnowledgeOfSelf, JoanneB, FireFox and Titoxd. The next set of elections will be in April, and I would be glad to see you vote, or even consider running for a position.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

—   nath a(?) nrdotcom (T • C • W) 06:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikibreak
Hope your computer troubles work out soon. Enjoy your Wikibreak till then. - Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  ) '' 07:31, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I hope you enjoy your break too. —    nath  a  nrdotcom  ( T •  C  • W) 09:15, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back
Hope you enjoyed your unintended Wikibreak! Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  ) '' 20:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Image of Source 4
Hey, I cropped the image of the source 4 you uploaded so that I could use it in a userbox I;m making for us theatre techs. Do you have any input as to which license I use? --KeepOnTruckin 19:08, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject: Stagecraft
Hey I have noticed that most of the images on Technical Theatre articles were uploaded by you. You should concider joining WikiProject Stagecraft to contribute your knowledge to Stagecraft related articles.
 * JWGreen 18:52, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

MatthewUND's RfA
I just self-nominated myself for administrator's status on Wikipedia. As an active member of WikiProject North Dakota, I feel that having admin status would allow me the ability to be more useful to the project and to curtail vandalism and other problems. An admin is able to protect pages that are being bombarded with vandalism and to more quickly revert pages that have been vandalized. I've always hoped that we could get an admin to join the WikiProject so we would have someone to turn to in times of need. Since we still don't have an active admin within the project's membership, I decided to nominate myself. I really hope you will visit my request for adminship and support me. Thanks! --Matth e w UND (talk) 10:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Senior Senator
Hey. I do not know you, but i see you are a member of North Dakota Wikiproject. Please, could you answer my question. I would like to point out that in 1992, Kent Conrad retired, and Byron Dorgan won. Dorgan is still in the Senate. And then Conrad ran and won a few years later. Wouldn't this make Dorgan senior senator from North Dakota??

Thanks, Politics rule 23:01, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter - Issue 1
This newsletter has been delivered to you by --Matthew UND (talk) 05:54, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter - Issue 2 - July 2007
This newsletter has been delivered to you by --Matthew UND (talk) 22:05, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

WP:CVU status
The Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to and/or  status. Another proposal is to delete or redirect the project. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU and at the deletion debate. Thank you! Delivered on behalf of xaosflux 15:28, 10 August 2007 (UTC)