User talk:Esrever/Archive 3

WikiProject Good Articles January Newsletter
Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 03:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

A new round of Collaboration of the Fortnight is about to begin!
Yes, it's that time again. New articles have been added. I finished this process early because I'll be running around packing and sorting out Friday's weather patterns so I can get back to Florida in time. Just in case things don't go well, at least I don't sabotage the COTF program. Anyways, the three new articles will start on Friday and you may edit the three technically still in COTF (although I've placed the collaboration-past tags already) or you may start editing early.

Here's something I want to try, start treating it as a peer review. Start by skimming through the article, making sure the article fits our article guidelines. Then review for content: any copyvio, notability issues, reference listings, following the Manual of Style.

And here's something even more radical. See if you can attract authors currently maintaining the different COTF articles to join our WikiProject and better yet, our COTF project. I found when I started this program, jumping ships and editing other universities' articles was a big leap, but it's been very fun so far. I'd like to see more people actively participating.

Let's start off the new year the right way. I want to see those articles in GAR and FAN soon. I was sad we didn't have enough people working on the Harvard article to push it to FA or GA. But no matter, let's start fresh and begin! Hope everyone had a good holiday vacation (and if you didn't get a vacation, I hope you got a lot of double time). - Jameson L. Tai  talk ♦ contribs 10:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Request for copyedit
Sitakunda Upazila has gone through a rigorous peer review that dealt mostly in content (thanks to Amartya). Then it was put forward as a WP:GAN, but was withdrawn by Miranda as she disagreed very much with the quality of the copy. I have formally applied to the LOCE Request page, but it has long backlog and it's always nicer to work with individuals. The article has almost no content issues (apart from a few redlinks) and is very stable at the point. I myself am a lousy copywriter, but I will be there to meet you every need in developing the article (that includes answering questions, filling in gaps, clarifying information and everything in that line)... I promise. I have high hopes for the article. As far as I can see, all that stands between an FA status and this article are "brilliant prose" and a few, really few, areas of content improvement. Aditya (talk • contribs) 08:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: Rollback
Sure thing; good luck and happy editing! --Merovingian (T, C) 03:00, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Your deletion of the kosher products section in the Starbucks article.
I feel that the kosher products paragraph in the Starbucks page should remain. You wrote that you deleted this paragraph because it cited kosherstarbucks.com as it's resource. I have researched many sites about kosher at starbucks, and found this site to be quoted as reliable by many kosher observant people. Example: (Begin at comment 20): www.kosherblog.net Additionally, There is an extensive FAQ page there where they list the sources of the information. I don't think it's fair to completely omit the kosher status of starbucks products from the article, as there are many kosher observant people interested in this information. If you could find other sources that would be great, but I don't think deleting the subject in any way improves the article. Please contact me to explain your position.

Ted19 (talk) 02:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Richard C. McCarty, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 16:33, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Uh oh!
You've started archiving your talk page, surely a sign of the apocalypse!128.91.199.197 (talk) 18:41, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

New WP:UNI/COTF!
Round 4 has begun! - Jameson L. Tai  talk ♦ contribs 06:38, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
Delivered sometime in January 2008 (UTC). SatyrBot (talk) 23:28, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
The February 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 05:31, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:UNI/COTF Round 5
Sorry about the late notice. My 21st birthday was on Wednesday and I was pretty much sick all day Thursday, so I wasn't able to get a chance to do this. Anyways, three new articles.

Note: I didn't place the Portal on the ENT because I felt that the portal was more like a collection of articles rather than an actual article focused on the university. This semi-goes against our original goals of the COTF in which university articles would get attention first before handling the subarticles. (Portal is more like a collection of articles). Anyways, if you believe it should be back on the ENT, I'll make sure it'll be Round 6's ENT, so if you do feel it should, talk on the COTF talk page.

Oh yeah, I hope the coding works. I'm using WP:AWB to do signpost delivery by "Append Text"...hoping that it'll work. If this comes out horribly, please let me know if I haven't already fixed the error(s).

Any personal questions regarding the management and coding of this program should be directed to me talk page. Thank you for your understanding. - Jameson L. Tai  talk ♦ contribs 09:00, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

The WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue V (January 2008)
The January 2008 issue of the WikiProject Universities newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you for your continued support of WikiProject Universities! &mdash; Noetic  Sage  22:02, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Round 6 of University Collaborations of the Fortnight has begun
Enjoy! - Jameson L. Tai  talk ♦ contribs 05:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Changing sixty-four to 64
MOS says two-digit numbers can be either way. -- Zsero (talk) 18:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
The March 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 05:58, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
Delivered by SatyrBot around 17:14, 3 March 2008 (UTC) SatyrBot (talk) 17:32, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue VI (February 2008)
The February 2008 issue of the WikiProject Universities newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you for your continued support of WikiProject Universities! &mdash; Delivered on 19:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)

Round 7 of WP:UNI/COTF is finally here!
Hope everyone got a good two week rest in observance of Spring Break. Here are the new articles for the next fourteen days until 27 Mar 2008. I've taken advice to purposefully scramble the articles so they must be multi-nation (so we don't get complaints that it's too US-centric). This time we've got an article in UK, one in US, and one in HKG. Hope this will suffice. As always, please let me know if there are any questions.  - Jameson L. Tai   talk ♦  contribs  23:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

ROUND 8 WP:UNI/COTF
OK... so Columbia's a B-class article looking at FA nomination. Let's see if we can push it through FAN! (And good luck to anyone who speaks Thai and can translate the Thai version of Chulalongkorn University article into English) See you all 5 days before tax day (for those of us who are US taxpayers)!  - Jameson L. Tai   talk ♦  contribs  03:44, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Aww
I've got ties back to Vandy, so I was sad to delete Image:Vanderbilt.png. Bummer. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 16:26, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking care of it. :) Esrever (klaT) 17:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue VII (March 2008)
The March 2008 issue of the WikiProject Universities newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you for your continued support of WikiProject Universities! &mdash; Delivered on 17:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)

Banner and good editor consideration
I read your comments on Ken Griffey Jr.'s talk page, and decided to change the second section to a much more neutral and statistics-driven one.

I wish to be considered for any committees/groups involved in the expansion of (or rewriting of) articles involving MLB and baseball-related articles. Is this something I just do on my own or may I contact anyone at Wikipedia?

Thank you for your time, Benjammin2u (talk) 07:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

April GA Newsletter
The April issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is now available. Dr. Cash (talk) 03:50, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Hi Esrever, Thanks for welcoming me on my talk page. Hopefully I'll be a good contribution to the community! Lot49a (talk) 22:25, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Juan Diego Flórez
Thanks so much for rephrasing that tackily worded addition about his marriage by a previous editor. When I saw it yesterday (just before I went to bed), I literally groaned. Lo and behold! When I went to fix it today, you'd already done it, as well as further excellent copyediting and referencing. Much appreciated! Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue VIII (April 2008)
The April 2008 issue of the WikiProject Universities newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you for your continued support of WikiProject Universities! &mdash; Delivered on 21:30, 2 May 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)

WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter
The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Requested image deleted
The image that you requested to be deleted,, has been deleted. -- Nataly a 19:20, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Esrever (klaT) 19:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Alexander Hamilton SOS
Hi, you seem to be a reasonable and knowledgeable editor. Perhaps you can help me. I am trying to figure out how to infuse as many good faith editors into the Alexander Hamilton article as I can. I have put a request into an American History Taskforce, but no one is home, apparantly. I also put in a request at the Biography Wikiproject page. Again--no response so far. Do you know of any groups, or any talented editors who might be willing to dedicate some time and effort to this article? The Hamilton article needs a masive infusion of new blood. What little I had to offer up is about gone. Any help or advice you could offer would be appreciated. AdRem (talk) 21:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Neat picture of the day! AdRem (talk) 21:05, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Could you comment on our dispute over Newburgh, where AdRem is insisting on saying something his source does not say, and which (as far as I can tell) no one else does. The issues may be clearly enough laid out at Talk:Alexander_Hamilton for someone who hasn't looked into the matter to follow. If not, please ask questions. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:02, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice, Esrever. For the record, my source said exactly what I said--the editor above is my constant abuser, and has a problem with telling the whole truth sometimes. In any case, I abandoned the article for a few days, as it had gotten far too heated, and I lost my cool. The dispute seems to have attracted a few temporary editors, and been kindasorta worked out in the meantime. However, the article is still in need of a huge influx of editing help. This experience has soured me on Wikipedia a bit, and I no longer have the energy or the time to respond to an endless train of half truths and untruths from this guy. I think I will try to help the article primarily by trying to get more help for it, since this one editor has a very fringe view, and thus a surge of editors can only serve to drastically improve the article. As I mentioned, I have already put up notices for help for the article everywhere I can think of, but if you know of anywhere else, please, please help spread the word. Thanks again. AdRem (talk) 00:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello
I have made a minor edit to the Vanderbilt page. I have been working on updating several notable early 20th century gay novel pages. Would you be interested in reviewing my updates? For now I am merely trying to get most of them out of stub status, so I think it is a bit much to request a formal peer review. Let me know your thoughts. Npd2983 (talk) 00:10, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the offer to review a novel page. Check out Strange Brother and let me know what you think. Thank you. Npd2983 (talk) 02:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I have updated The City and the Pillar in major ways. If you feel so inclined, read it over and provide feedback. Thank you... Npd2983 (talk) 19:49, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Starbucks reversion
Hello. I reverted your reversion of a few sentences that I added about the protests about the new Starbucks logo.

You justified this reversion by citing lack of "notability." Well, WP:N only refers to the notability requirement for the topics of articles. So, if I were to create an article about the boycott, then, yes, that is not notable. But, that's not what I did. I added a perfectly encyclopedic mention of it to a relevant article.

As an aside, I think this protest is stupid. But, if it is getting this amount of international news coverage, then it is worthy of wikipedia. So, please do not remove it again without establishing consensus on the talk page. --TheZachMorrisExperience (talk) 02:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * But I don't think it's "perfectly encyclopedic"&mdash;I think it's trivia, plain and simple. But I've indicated that on the talk page. Esrever (klaT) 04:31, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Copyedit request
Hello, I am contacting you because you're a member of the League of Copyeditors. Would you be interested in taking a look at Highlander: The Series (season 1) which is currently a Featured List Candidate ? The quality of the prose is the only remaining objection to its promotion and I would really appreciate your help. Have a nice day, Rosenknospe (talk) 13:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good articles newsletter
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Rankings in lead
So what is "highly selective"? Is it 10% admissions rate? 20%? Does it imply a threshold for an average SAT score? Does it actually mean that tuition and financial aid are structured in a way to "select" only those students most able to afford it? It's the epitome of a weasel word and should never be used in the lead of an encyclopedia article, regardless of its prevalence in the practice of admissions or university administrivia.

Rankings are not useful at all and should never be in a lead. Space in the lead is too precious for summarizing everything about the history, campus, organization, enrollments, research activity, and alumni to waste sentences expounding on how one magazine's problematic formulation of an unquantifiable concept of prestige or quality should override the aforementioned information. Madcoverboy (talk) 16:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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Hello, members and friends of WP:LGBT! I'm not one to be writing newsletters, but I miss our cruise director, Miss Julie, and our project is drifting along with a few leaking plugs in the bottom of the boat. Hey, it happens. Every group we join goes through changes. If Wikipedia weren't so interesting it wouldn't also be so frustrating sometimes. And vice versa. More than one Wikiproject has tumbleweeds blowing through it, but this is one that can't afford to let that happen. Even if you pop in to the talk page of the project, you can let us know you're still around.

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WP:LGBT's Role in HIV / AIDS articles
It wouldn't be a proper gay community without a li'l bit o' drama! That's right. If we aren't arguing about something, then we should be asking if we're still queer. Maybe that's for the best, since we know we're still kicking. Our most recent topic is how far the role of our project should go in dipping our toes into HIV/AIDS articles. The main AIDS article was delisted as a Featured Article last month, sadly. (Sending a swift kick to WP:Medicine.) A spirited discussion is available for your entertainment on the WP:LGBT talk page about just how much of HIV and AIDS should we take on. As ever, we'll take your opinions under advisement. We're going to have to, because it doesn't seem to have been settled.

Is Pride POV?
We have a pretty cool sidebar that identifies core LGBT articles. Its symbol is the iconic gay pride flag, much like other Wikiprojects have iconic symbols denoting the topic is a core subject in a series of articles. However, a question recently arose asking if the symbol itself is not neutral. Should a pride flag show up at the top of the article on Conversion therapy? How else would anyone know the article is about queer issues? Is there another symbol that is as widely recognized and that includes all our many splintered facets? At what point do we stop asking ourselves all these questions and just go have a mint julep on the verandah and stop caring?

Harvey Milk and Jim Jones
For the love of all that is holy, no Kool Aid jokes. However, an editor involved in pioneering San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk's article has included a section about the late supervisor's support of Jim Jones and the People's Temple. While it may be accurate, there is a Request for Comment regarding how much emphasis the section places on Milk's support in light of his overall political influence on the city, and indeed the rest of the United States. Milk's article is a sad one in more ways than one. It lacks the detail and heart that honors its subject. Anyone want to do a barter with me? I'll bring Harvey Milk to featured status (give me a month or two so I can read stuff), if you do something of equal value to WP:LGBT?? Make me an offer...

Queer Studies is offensive!
The established branch of study known as Queer studies was brought up as an category for deletion because an editor was offended by the use of "queer" in the title. It was overwhelmingly rejected mostly by the usernames I see here on our Wikiproject page. (A clue that I know you are out there, hiding...biding your time...) So, I wish I could congratulate you, but now I'm all confused by my sympathy for the editor who was offended. So, if you're reading this, Moni has a short memory and can't remember your username. Don't be put off by our demonstrative pushiness. Join us. We can always use involved editors.

Lambda Literary Awards
What can you do to help the project out? Be a wiki-fairy, on many levels. There are all kinds of articles that need help. Why, just this morning I removed those ugly wikify and cleanup tags from four articles at random. If you can put  around stuff, you can clean up articles. There's a list of articles that need attention at the top of the WP:LGBT talk page. Or you can start with the Lambda Literary Awards, where the goddess of my altar received a pioneering award, and was "reduced to rubble" by Katherine V. Forrest's wonderful speech. The 20th ceremony of the Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrates LGBT literature, took place in West Hollywood on May 29th. The page needs to be updated with the new winners, to be found on the official website.


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Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Arthur C. Clarke and Bernard Montgomery
Why on earth would someone want to delete material about homosexuality? 'Tis truly a mystery. But these embattled articles have some random evil gnomes removing information that places these folks under our queer umbrella. Help us keep an eye out for the deletions. Take a peek at the articles, familiarize yourselves with the info, and be handy with the undo function in the article history. If tempers flare, take it to the Hall monitors and let them sort it out. Best solution is to make sure your sources are immaculate.

This month's Wiki stars
This is what I get for opening my big fat mouth and suggesting the newsletter should be revived. Here I am writing it. So, to pat self on back (*cough*) Mulholland Dr. became a featured article in May. This is A Good Thing since it is my personal declaration that there is no such thing as lesbian porn. I don't care what Benjiboi says about the video collection at goodvibes. Instead, we have hot women who connect on a deep, personal, soul-touching level, so this film should qualify as some of the skankiest porn available for lesbians. Plus, it's completely confusing and surreal! D'you think Laura Harring would care that the article is featured? I don't think so either... (Call me, Laura!)

Compulsive hoarding of templates
Once I saw a harrowing episode of Animal Planet's Animal Cops where this guy had, like, 250 cats in his house and it freaked me right out. I'm drawing a parallel between 250 cats and, well...three, really, templates in articles involving LGBT issues. Can we stick to one, maybe? In the aforementioned Harvey Milk's article there's a core LGBT template, a link to the LGBT portal, and a sidebar for LGBT rights. Jiminy! You'd think we weren't the folk to set industrial grey carpeting and track lighting in vogue. An LGBT footer was designed to link to articles of interest that aren't the aforementioned core articles. What do you think, can we have either an LGBT template for core articles, a footer for LGBT articles that are high profile but not core, or an LGBT rights template? As ever, anything's up for discussion on the WP:LGBT talk page.

The Violet Quill and magazines
Zigzig20s suggests we create an article on The Violet Quill, as it seems such a milestone in the advancement of gay/queer literature. Members of the Quill all have pages of their own (Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and George Whitmore). We need to find more info on the Quill per se to reference the page that we create. Perhaps Google Books - and libraries? - can help.

A number of magazines also need articles, perhaps most notably QW, LGNY, and Lesbian Feminist Liberation.

Mom's nagging for Pride Month
It's June, Pride month. Wear sunscreen, stay hydrated, get a designated driver, then go half-dressed in the streets find a girlfriend or boyfriend, or some homo who's standing there looking lonely and kiss 'em up real good. Remember, it all started 39 years ago when a bunch of drag queens just got fed the f*ck up by the cops raiding the bar and dragging them all out to the pokey again. Rock on, queens! Enjoy your celebrations. My town's is in October, and 200 people attend. I miss Denver.

Fresh faces to brighten our pages
Hey, I've seen you around! Sorry there seem to be so many—it's been a while. But we welcome you all: Cheezisyum21, Taineyah, Dustihowe, Avesta69, RachelSummers77, Vivekgopinathan, AMK1211, Staffwaterboy, Ted Ted, Joe5150, Leahtwosaints, Robapalooza, Arthomure, Confusionball, Affinity likely, PrinceOfCanada, Yobmod, Npd2983, Neagley, Bvlax2005, Bvlax2005, Rhullsf, Textorus, Kieran.casey, Tyciol, Meojive, Sappho'd, Bookkeeperoftheoccult,  Gaywarrior, Aujourd'hui, maman est morte, and Balin42632003.

It looks like we've picked up a lot of talent lately. We have no doubt you'll be making your indelible mark on LGBT knowledge as we know it, here at Wikipedia.

- In the immortal words of Miss Julie, "May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your Love Boat never turn into a Poseidon."
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We miss you, Miss Julie, as well as all the others who have graced our project and are on wiki-breaks or just got fed up with all the nuttiness and went to live their lives. Get your stupid houses built and hurry up and come back. --Moni3 (talk) 16:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC) To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Moni3 know.
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User:Weirdo82
Then which photo should I use for the user box? You said that it can't be copyrighted, but I thought every photo of wikipedia is copyrighted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Weirdo82 (talk • contribs) 16:35, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


 * How about Image: ANGELA *.jpg? -User:Weirdo82


 * So does that mean that I can use it for my user box? -User:Weirdo82

OK..........- User:Weirdo82

Hi, I'm having trouble uploading an image onto the "phil&teds (strollers)" page... The image appears as a link, instead of an image. Can you help me please? Parkaveking (talk) 19:30, 30 June 2008 (UTC)