User talk:Geniac/Archive 11

Odd edit at Bare Bones (Bryan Adams album)
Hi Geniac! I can see you started the article. What do you make of this edit? --Shirt58 (talk) 09:47, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Just another sock of User:Dr.Mukesh111 to revert, block, ignore. --Geniac (talk) 14:29, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Tag as such?--Shirt58 (talk) 12:29, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Rajesh khanna
YOU HAVE WRITTEN --- fixed POV and incomplete sentence. does the incomplete sentence make any sense ? He formed on screen pairs with many actresses but his pairing especially with actresses like Sharmila Tagore, Asha Parekh, Mumtaz, Hema Malini, Tina Munim, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil and Poonam Dhillon.......what? it needs to be mentioned that these were the most popular as they delivered big hits as a pair. I do not see any copyright concerns in the content above.The final source seems to support the content listed for the second source.Shrik88music (talk) 12:09, 1 January 2011 (UTC) also there was no personal analysis...as adviced to me by copyright dministrator....reference has been provided which says the same thing in different manner....Shrik88music (talk) 12:10, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

genaic ...it was very well written before u edited the article, from the same source that he formed popular onscreen pairs with so and so actresses...u removed it. check the source yourself once again. its clearly mentioned Shrik88music (talk) 16:09, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

dear sir,
olease revert to earlier version of kishorekumar article. my impression is that the current version is not at all proper. it is unnecessarily listing details of eccentricities while not allowing aboit charcterstics of qualities in singing. thuye voice has expressed almost all moods of life. P.l deshpabe's comment is not listed. also lata mangeshkar awrd nd kishorekumar awrd inititaed by m.p govt are not listed. in comparsion to playback singer rafi this article is not giving comp;lete info of kishore making vikipedia biased. and very incomplete nand not focused — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anilped (talk • contribs) 15:30, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Happy New Year
WP:DEATH talk page might or might not interest you - cheers SatuSuro 05:09, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

== kishorekumar atticle. sorry to ay that wikipedia article is not upto standard and biased gainst kishorekumar an icon for todays youth. the MP govt has initiated award after him and conferred prestigio ==

sorry sir, vikipedia existing article is biased. users alreay forced wikipedia to cancel derogatory reference s about kishorekumar a very unorthodox versatile singer who is still youth icon.

Mp govt conferred prestigious lm awrd on him and initiated kishorekummar award after that gujrat govt has given him best singer awrd these facts are not mentioned. unnecessay space hass been spent talking of his eccentricities. But his voice had an exceptional depth ewhich was seen in "zindagi ka safr" 9 philosophy of life) is not mentioned. his soft rendering ( softer than lory songs) of "ye jeevan hai " is not mentioned. he was extremely versatile nd his fact is not mentioned "ik rutu aaye" a song on drought, " aanewala pal" . in the song "hume tumse ppyar kitana" his simple version scored over clssical singer "parveen sultanas version a fact mentioed ion TV is not mentioned. sony tv initiated k for kishore on him the only program this is not mentioned. there was no program for any other singer. compare and contrast the article with article on mohd rafi also why shud para be wewasted on stupid stories that sd burman faell sick rahuldev burman took over recording and aradhana songs became famous. he initiated yodelling in Indian music he was most successful in that not mentioned. he was unorthodox never said "aaa aa by had "he he he and he namde a gr8 pair with sd burman is not mentioed. these are analytical points. i am not biased. unfortunately this wikipedia artocle has been cleverly cornered by rafi fans and trying to put more emphasis on his eccentricites rather than the important charactersticks of his singing. this unorthodox singing forced rakkamal to opt for a very unorthodox prose sad song " maine tumse kuch nahi manag" for katha in 1986. the charcterstic ttan of kishore was gain sen in aankhome hume aapke sapane sajaye hai ( lata misses it) and jab bhi koi kangana bole. he sang a philosohical song on train a trulty versatile singer who has expresed many mmods of life. the song koi hota jisko apana goes in 3 octaves and a sad song at that! it is that vikipedia article is not analytical and it has to be replaced. why doesnt vikipedi contact some composers rajesh roshan bappil lahiri and his immitators abhijit and kumar sanu for the article. i think before putting a comment u shud note how abnnalytical i am! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anilped (talk • contribs) 14:41, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

hello! In need of a mentor!
Hello, My name is Talia and I am in the MPA program at Western Carolina University. We are suppossed to choose a mentor for our Wikipedia project and I chose you b/c of your sweet picture of a cat! I love animals, especially cats- mine is awesome and her name is Stella. Anyways, thanks for the help! TaliaTrovb5 (talk) 20:09, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 28 January 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:32, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello again!
Hello again, Thanks for being my mentor. I am still a little confused about the wikipedia world, but am figuring things out slowly. My assignment for class is to evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class and leave suggestions for improving it on their page. I am going to search for topics now and play around with it. Talia Trovb5 (talk) 01:44, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentorship request
Hello, I am new to Wikipedia and will be working on the Public Policy Initiative for a class at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. I wanted to ask you if you were accepting any new learners? We are working in groups, and our article topic is water trading. Thank you for your reply! Gwaleko (talk) 20:05, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Geniac! I'm not sure if this is the proper way to respond to a message. We have to edit some articles related to our topic by Wednesday, so I was starting to look around. We also have another training session, so hopefully with practice Wikipedia will become clear! I noticed that you are in Pittsburgh- I went to Pitt and miss the 'Burgh! (Although, after Sunday, I am glad to not be in town at the moment with all the other disappointed fans). Thanks again and talk with you soon. Gwaleko (talk) 20:19, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

disambiguition pages needed
it would be great if you can create disambiguiton pages for 1)Amrit - one is a Amrit (1986) 2) Chakravhyuha - one is Chakravyuha 1978 3) Naukri - one is Naukri 1977 4) Avtaar and Avataar 5) Redrose - one is 1980 film 6) also for Fiffty Fiffty and Fifty Fifty 7) Ashanti - one is 1982 film 8) Joroo Ka Ghulam 9) Tinku a 1977 film

the infos are very much important Occurallow (talk) 15:52, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Alan Keen
Hi thanks for helping with the Alan Keen article. Just yesterday I had to deal with the same editor making exactly the same type of edits to the Ann Keen article. I think you've actually missed a few inappropriate other alterations of Alan's article they've made so I'll deal with those. I really don't think Multicultralist quite understands the importance of using sources yet so maybe something to keep an eye on? Thanks once again. --Shakehandsman (talk) 03:19, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

marking mentees' userpages
Hey Geniac! This is just a quick reminder: please be sure to add WAP student (for an example, see User:Sfofana) the user pages of your mentees. And once they are working on articles, be sure to tag the talk pages with WAP assignment. Cheers--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:50, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring students: be sure to check in on them
This message is going out to all of the Online Ambassadors who are, or will be, serving as mentors this term.

Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!

If you aren't mentoring anyone yet, it looks like you will be soon; at least one large class is asking us to assign mentors for them, and students in a number of others haven't yet gotten to asking ambassadors to be their mentors, but may soon. --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:06, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

mentoree response
Hello- I saw where i made a mistake and got you and Gorilla warfare confused. However, I think I will just stick with Mike since I have already asked him as well. I really appreciate you offering to help and sorry about the confusion! Thanks again!Trovb5 (talk) 15:18, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring Trovb5
Hi Geniac; sorry about the confusion, but it sounds like Trovb5 is a friend of someone I'm already mentoring, and they both want the same mentor. I hope that's OK with you. Mike Christie (talk – library) 00:01, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I am a student at Indiana University taking part in the public policy project. I am new to editing Wikipedia and would be very grateful for assistance. Would you take me on as your mentee? Thanks! Tempus vernum (talk) 01:15, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassador Program
Please take a look at this project page and see if you can be a mentor to one of the many Areas of Study. If you can, please put your name in the "Online Mentor" area of the Area of Study of your choice and then contact the students you will be working with. As the Coordinating Online Ambassador for this project, please let me know if I can be of assistance. Take Care... Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 04:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Marking articles students are working on
Howdy, Online Ambassador!

This is a quick message to all the ambassadors about marking and tracking which articles students are working on. For the classes working with the ambassador program, please look over any articles being worked on by students (in particular, any ones you are mentoring, but others who don't have mentors as well) and do these things:


 * 1) Add  to the articles' talk pages.  (The other parameters of the WAP assignment template are helpful, so please add them as well, but the term = Spring 2011 one is most important.)
 * 2) If the article is related to United States public policy, make sure the article the WikiProject banner is on the talk page: WikiProject United States Public Policy
 * 3) Add Category:Article Feedback Pilot (a hidden category) to the article itself.  The second phase of the Article Feedback Tool project has started, and this time we're trying to include all of the articles students are working on. Please test out the Article Feedback Tool, as well.  The new version just deployed, so any bug reports or feedback will be appreciated by the tech team working on it.

And of course, don't forget to check in on the students, give them constructive feedback, praise them for positive contributions, award them The WikiPen if they are doing excellent work, and so on. And if you haven't done so, make sure any students you are mentoring are listed on your mentor profile.

Thanks! --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:11, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:23, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Service award level
 There has been a major revision of the the Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable. Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.

Herostratus (talk) 06:40, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I didn't change anything on your page as it's a little confusing because you have both Senior Editor and Master Editor userboxes on your page... Anyway according to my count you are at Senior Editor II now. Whatever, what really matters is: thank you for your many contributions to the Wikipedia! Herostratus (talk) 06:40, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

hi my name is Maria and i am a student at syracuse university and am in a class called "ngos in world affairs." In this class we have to pick a topic on wikipedia that has something to do with world affairs and/or ngos and the United States public policy initiative. I was wondering if you would be an ambassador and helper for me as i try to add information and fix the wikipedia page for the Center for Economic and Social Rights. I would really appreciate your help for my class, so please let me know! thank you! Sincerely, Maria R Maria cuse (talk) 16:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi My name is Abbey and I am also a student at syracuse university. We are working on class projects dealing with editing wikipedia for the public policy initiative. We were asked to get help from an online ambassador for any editing trouble! I was wondering if you would be willing to help me navigate wikipedia and such! I would really appreciate it! please let me know! Thanks, Abbey User:AbbeyTurt —Preceding undated comment added 18:49, 30 March 2011 (UTC).

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:33, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Please help assess articles for Public Policy Initiative research
Hi ,

Your work as an Online Ambassador is making a big contribution to Wikipedia. Right now, we're trying to measure just how much student work improves the quality of Wikipedia. If you'd like contribute to this research and get a firsthand look at the quality improvement that is happening through the project, please sign up to assess articles. Assessment is happening now, just use the quantitative metric and start assessing! Your help would be hugely appreciated!

Thank you, ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 17:11, 6 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) 20:39, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject Pittsburgh
--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk 20:56, 26 June 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) 17:24, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Classroom Creation
Hi Geniac,

I am a high school science teacher (former engineer). I found your user info on the classroom coordination page. I really want my students to use Wikipedia as a learning and exploration tool this year.

I have only ever edited anonymously to Wikipedia, so I was hoping you could give me some pointers on how to orchestrate this whole project.

These students come from an underprivileged community, so many of them will have very little background in this kind of community. How would you recommend starting this project?

Thanks, MrHardyIdea be inspired. be inspiring. (talk) 19:58, 28 July 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅ - Taken care of via e-mail; awaiting reply -- Addi hockey  10  e-mail 00:01, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassadors: Time to join pods
Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:
 * Working closely with the instructor and Campus Ambassadors, providing advice and perspective as an experienced Wikipedian
 * Helping students who ask for it (or helping them to find the help they need)
 * Watching out for the class as a whole
 * Helping students to get community feedback on their work

This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.

You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.

Once you've found a class that you want to work with&mdash;especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area&mdash;you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.

If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 16:32, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!

sockpuppet editing
There is an open WP:SPI case looking at sockpuppet editing primarily on the Johann Hari/ Talk page. As you edited the Johann Hari/Talk page between 2004 and 2011, your input is welcomed. Yonmei (talk) 22:30, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Update on courses and ambassador needs
Hello, Ambassadors!

I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.

On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.

Courses looking for Online Ambassadors
Still waiting to get involved with a class this term, or ready to take on more? We have seven classes that are already active and need OA support, and eleven more that have course pages started but don't have active students yet. Please consider joining one or more of these pods!

Active courses that really need Online Ambassadors:
 * Sociology of Poverty
 * Architectural Design
 * Introduction to Educational Psychology
 * Intro to Mass Communication
 * Psychology Seminar
 * Theories of the State
 * Advanced Media Studies

Courses that may be active soon that need Online Ambassadors:


 * Housing and Social Policy
 * Anthropology, Wikipedia, and the Media
 * History & Systems
 * Horror Cinema
 * Digital Media... just bits in a box
 * Composition I
 * Telecommunications Management
 * Training Systems
 * Stigma: Culture, Deviance, Identity
 * Art and Terrorism
 * Political Violence and Insurgency

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 23:12, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

about that "hardwood" and those jumpers
Yes re the jumpers, but I think the discs were something like Masonite. The budget probably wouldn't have stretched to hardwood. Don't forget the nuts, bolts, lightbulbs, and a battery!

By the time you started using the name, Geniac Classic probably was indeed over 50 years old.

24.102.150.92 (talk) 02:02, 11 November 2011 (UTC) Dave Milne - wideview@ptd.net

Future of the US Education Program and the Ambassador Project
There is a discussion about the future and the growth of the US education program along with the future of the Wikipedia Ambassador Project here. Voceditenore (talk) 06:37, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Hey
Saw your edit on Dimple Kapadia. Your username sounds so familiar to me, does mine to you? I think we've collaborated once in the past on some article? Shahid •  Talk 2 me  19:56, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Suicide
Hi! Your feedback is welcome here: talk:WikiProject Death: Turn WikiProject Suicide into a taskforce within WikiProject Death?. (A note was also left on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Suicide but you may have missed it.) — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 11:27, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Half life 3
Hello, i was wondering if we could discuss any possibility on the creation of a dedicated half life 3 article. yes i do have references that is is not called episode 3 and that it is in fact still in development. you were quit quick to delete my base article but i think dedicated article would receive many visitors that would help to quickly expand the page. please consider. Sincerely, Ike Smokeydude(talk) 07:18, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Raman Lamba
I am disappointed as you removed section " Shocking end of a brave cricketer " from Raman Lamba. It was a true article appeared in Indian cricket annual book. Rajeshbieee (talk) 10:09, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

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