User talk:Dylanstaley

Hello!
Hi! I look forward to meeting you this week at the training at Louisiana State University. Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 17:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

New Block for Campus Ambassadors
Thanks! I had created a new block for Campus Ambassadors because I was told there was not one yet. However, Basket of Puppies  also created one. I am removing the one that I created to keep it consistent. You can add it to your userpage by adding. If you add this one instead of the code that you sent me, it adds a clickable link at the bottom like the USPP block does. Lsukari (talk) 13:56, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 28 January 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:31, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:22, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Some feedback?
Hey Dylan. Would you mind taking a looking at the list of potential articles I posted on my talk page? Thanks! Emilyhholden (talk) 02:07, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Dylan, I'm in the MC 4520 class and I'm really confused about how to edit existing articles and work on my page. Can you give me any suggestions/tips? Thanks! Rmill39 (talk) 13:18, 15 February 2011 (UTC) rmill39 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 20:02, 14 February 2011 (UTC). Hey, I am a student of the MC 4520 class with R.Mann and I would like to know if you could review the draft of my article. I would like to get some advices in order to improve it and to be able to nominate it for “Good Article” status as asked in the course of the class. Thanks a lot. DCamille (talk) 01:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)DCamille

Orthopedic class
Hi Dylan,

Just a heads-up that I've left a medicine-specific welcome note for each of the members of the orthopedics class, so they should all have a new message the next time they log in.

I've asked WP:MED folks to watchlist the class page, but students should feel free to post to WT:MED with any questions or problems they encounter if they prefer. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:34, 14 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I glanced through the articles listed at the class page today, and I have left a few practical formatting comments at the class's talk page. Those seemed to be the more common problems, and I hope it's helpful.
 * In terms of content, students probably need to remember that Wikipedia is WP:NOTHOWTO (as we all do), but overall I think they're on the right track. I hope that in the end their articles will both describe the tests and also explain why these tests are important.
 * As always, if you need help, just let me know. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:02, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Help
Hey Dylan. I'm in MC 4520, and I was wondering if you could look at my page and give me suggestions about the sources I plan to use for my article. Thanks. Nkobet1 (talk) 02:35, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm having trouble making my article live, can you help me please? Nkobet1 (talk) 16:18, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

HELP!!!!
Hi Dylan, I just contributed to an article, but my formatting is wonky. The text is basically scrolling off the page. Do you have any idea how to fix that?

Thanks, Allen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awomb (talk • contribs) 07:30, 15 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I got it covered. The issue was that you were adding a tab before your paragraphs, when you're supposed to use : instead, because of the wiki formatting. Silver  seren C 07:33, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Help for 4520
Our assignment for tomorrow is to start the article summary in the sandbox. We have to print it and turn it in. Should we be working in the sandbox if it's going to get deleted? Mine got deleted before I could even save it. Should we just preview it and print it, or should we be working on our talk pages instead? We're also supposed to ask you for feedback, but I'm not sure how we can do that if it's already deleted. Emilyhholden (talk) 21:13, 2 March 2011 (UTC)emilyhholden

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:22, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of PoliScience
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Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:32, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Contacting User:Emilyhholden
Can you please poke and tell her that I am reviewing her GA nomination. Cheers --Guerillero &#124; My Talk  03:12, 3 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Dylan,
 * Can you help us reach Emily again? It appears that the GA nomination is being held up just for a trivial fix about page numbers.  It shouldn't take more than a few minutes to resolve, but she doesn't seem to have logged in for a couple of weeks.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:11, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Help Going Live
Hey Dylan, I'm having trouble getting my article to go live. Could you please help me? Nkobet1 (talk) 18:30, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Please take the Wikipedia Ambassador Program survey
Hi Ambassador,

We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.

WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_talk

Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!

Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:38, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Some resources for you
Hi Dylan! I enjoyed speaking with you at the Summit and working with you in the workshop. Chzz and I have made a page with some links to guides and resources to supplement the information we gave you at the workshop. You can find it at User:Chzz/gw. Feel free to ask either of us any questions you may come up with. Thanks, and good luck in the semesters to come! Also, I know you had some questions about the deletion processes. If you want me to go over some basics of the different types of deletion, let me know. Also, if you ever need a page in your own userspace deleted, remember that the template is db-userreq. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 01:47, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Ambassador Program: assessment drive
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.

In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.

Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:23, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Follow-up to message from Sage Ross to me
Please see your email for message from me DrJA (talk) 16:38, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:PiKappaAlpha_Coat_of_Arms.svg)
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File:Slice_1.pdf
I have tagged File:Slice_1.pdf as orphaned fairuse. In order for the image to be kept at Wikipedia, it must be included in at least one article. Otherwise, it will be deleted in seven days. Melesse (talk) 01:16, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

A Question
Hello, I noticed that you recently edited the Pi Kappa Alpha article and want to know if you can answer a question for me about it's edit "history" page. Why are there lines drawn through some of the dates of the edits? Do you know what those are? I'm asking because some of my edits from an old IP address of mine have the lines through them and now I cannot see the "contribs;" I mean the "diff."
 * The edits you see with lines through them are considered unrestorable edits due to copyright infringement. The reason was listed as "Wholesale addition of material copy / pasted without evidence of permission. DO NOT RESTORE." Since these have been marked as unrestorable, you cannot use the diff feature to see the differences between the current article and those edits. Dylanstaley (talk) 05:23, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, but what are they really?Ghostprotocol888 (talk) 05:25, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * "material copy / pasted without evidence of permission" I don't have access to the edits, so I'm trusting the decision of the previous editor. Dylanstaley (talk) 05:28, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Oh hey, thanks for your quick reply. That was meant as a joke with some truth in it. So, since I have your attention, what do you mean about the previous editor? Can you see which editor made those edits unrestoreable? Very curious, thanks.Ghostprotocol888 (talk) 05:32, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yup. It seems that the administrator Mlauba reverted the changes and also semi-protected the article. If you are curious as to what content was on the page, there is a snapshot of it on January 5 which you can view here. After taking another look at it, that material is directly copied from the website. Dylanstaley (talk) 05:39, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again. That is interesting to me. I don't want to waste your time, but the majority of the entire "history" seems to be unrestorable, including previous years 2007-2011 roughly. Are you saying that MLauba made all of those edits unrestorable, even the ones from 2007?Ghostprotocol888 (talk) 05:54, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yup, it would seem so. On March 25 2005 it seems material was copy/pasted from the national website. It remained for many years. Furthermore, the page was rampantly vandalised. The admin then chose to revert all the edits to the last known version that did not contain the infringing material, which just happened to be many years old. I noticed that the article was seriously lacking, so I took it upon myself as a brother of PIKE to restore it to a respectable state. While the editors may have had positive intentions (providing more information about PIKE), they went about it in the wrong manner (simply copy/pasting narrative text from the national website). Dylanstaley (talk) 06:05, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Very interesting Dylan, I'm Austin Gamma Delta "AH." I would like to communicate with you as soon as possible privately. phi phi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghostprotocol888 (talk • contribs) 06:14, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

COI reminder
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Wikipedia Ambassadors update
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Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

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Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

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