User talk:JamieS93/Archive 3

Thanks for your work
Dear JamieS93, thanks for your work. I've seen some good contributions from you. Keep up the good work. Have a nice day! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 14:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the kind reply. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 15:16, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Dear JamieS, I've nominated Hurricane Bud (2006) for the "Did you know". I've also add a link. Please see the hook at Template_talk:Did_you_know. AdjustShift (talk) 15:28, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for quick confirmation of my DYKs today! Lampman (talk) 22:08, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem, glad to help! I'm kind of trying to get a date section at T:TDYK (just decided to pick today's hooks) mostly verified or at least looked over with a comment, as they come in, so that section is dealt with for DYK verifiers over the next several days. :-) Keep up the good work with your DYKs! Cheers, Jamie ☆S93  22:19, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Adoption...
Hi, was wanting know if you could adopt me. I am somewhat new to this Wikipedia enviroment and only have approximately 500 contributions. Please answer back on my talk page!

 Hairy Perry  18:38, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Cool, I'm really enthusiastic and am really excited. See most of my edits have been on Talk Pages trying to learn about Wikipedia, but now I have started to work on articles and thought it was time to get serious. So, I found you and you had some similar interest and I was really for an adoption under a girl because some girls are more forgiving if you make mistake. Which I hope you will be because I might make a couple. Once again, thank you and hopefully we edit together nicely. Thanks and Happy Editing.

 Hairy Perry  16:59, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Image:PaparizouMad2008_cropped.jpg
I think we could use this image of the Greek singer instead for the update; it will definitely grab attention. What do you think? --BorgQueen (talk) 05:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * You seem to be offline. I've replaced the image for the update. --BorgQueen (talk) 06:24, 28 September 2008 (UTC
 * Yes, I was AFK at the time of your message. I agreed with your idea, that kind of image will be more eye-catching for most people. I'm still getting the feel for designing the "perfect update" all balanced with the topics, nationalities, and even length-positioning, which is interesting. Since you do so much great update work, though, I guess for now I'll tend to stick with verifying and leaving notes at T:TDYK, the job that always needs doing. ;-) Thanks for the note! Jamie ☆S93  11:11, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't mean to discourage you from selecting hooks for updates. You are always welcome to lend a hand as long as you can make a reasonably balanced group of hooks. It is just that we've had a lot of U.S. building images so I try to avoid them if I can. --BorgQueen (talk) 12:06, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, agreed about the USA buildings. And no worries, :-) it's just that I edit conflict sometimes if you're around filling the next update. I'd like to try my hand at doing the full preparation for this next update round, just to gain some experience in the process. I'm starting on it now. Cheers! Jamie ☆S93  12:30, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Quick note
Thanks! I spent a long time going through the page's history to see who deleted it. Thank you, very much. And Fireproof made $6,500,000! --  American Eagle ( talk ) 01:35, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, np! Unfinished or incorrect tags can really rock an article's formatting, since it's wrapping the text following into a hidden reference – so that's one little thing to look for when tracking down formatting problems. :-) I saw the movie, by the way. Thanks for the note, Jamie ☆S93  01:51, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

René Dagron
Hi Jamie. I added another hook for René Dagron here. Could you please, if you have the time, verify this too? Thanks. Dr.K. (talk) 01:40, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, I verified it just now. Thanks, Jamie ☆S93  02:24, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I am very obliged. Sorry for the trouble. Take care. Dr.K. (talk) 04:06, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
I'm actually quite embarrassed that I didn't catch that myself. Maybe I should start preview non-mainspace edits... Thanks ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 01:46, 1 October 2008 (UTC)



ErikTheBikeMan (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Pumpernickel

 * At your request.  Syn  ergy 02:36, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

A really bizzare section title
Sorry, I had to do it... –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  02:39, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You silly folks... ;-) At least through the trouting you are, by definition, being thankful, so you're welcome for whatever. Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  14:31, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

"Clocks"
Hello Jamie, thanks for the image. --Efe (talk) 01:06, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

AAU reminder notice

 * Notice delivery by xenobot  14:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

References in infoboxes
There must be something going on that I'm not aware. I notice that the refs in Brandon Heath infobox suddenly broke after I saw a bot was fixing them. Then I saw your fix. Any idea what's going on?  Royal broil  14:52, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Good, I always that that placing an article in a genre was WP:OR. Thanks for the response!  Royal broil  16:02, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK reviews needed
Hey there, Jamie. I was going to ask you to review several expiring nominations, but I looked at your contributions and it looked like you were offline. So I then left a message at WT:DYK, and you came online! Could you take a look at this please and see if you can help? Help would be appreciated. Yours, – <font color="navy" face="cursive">RyanCross (<font color="navy" face="cursive">talk ) 02:00, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Ryan, but unfortunately I think I'll have to leave now even though I just made a couple of edits. Yes, the situation doesn't look too great as it is backlogged and all, but at least I know I'll be available tomorrow to verify the late DYK noms for the updates after this one. Cheers, I hope you get some folks to help out. :-) <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  02:06, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  02:09, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, thanks anyway Jamie. Hope you can get to it tomorrow! Good job Julian for being a "talk page stalker". ;) – <font color="navy" face="cursive">RyanCross (<font color="navy" face="cursive">talk ) 02:11, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed I am. This is one of those rare cases in which talk page stalking results in usefulness, rather than the far more-common "Do you have my talk page as your homepage?" :-) –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  02:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

What are you doing?
Hey you working on anything, that you might need help with, because I am super bored out my mind right now. <font face="Kristen ITC"> Hairy Perry  13:33, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

FYI
I moved your DYK suggestion for Kayabukiya Tavern to the April Fool's Day DYK suggestions because several people including myself found it quite funny! April Fool's Day Main Page (AFMP) DYK articles come from the prior year instead of the past 5 days, so don't worry about that part. Last year I wrote an AFMP on alien abduction insurance and I already proposed 2 for next year ( 1) the midgets on HBO pay-per-view at the Chili Bowl and 2) a word play on another Holyland region in Wisconsin).  Royal broil  04:36, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That'd be neat to possibly have the DYK for AFMP, thanks! I had seen your comment at T:TDYK earlier but never got a chance to respond because of my Internet being down since yesterday. And I remember the alien abduction insurance one this year; it was bizzare and caught my attention. ;-) Only just recently (a couple weeks ago, coincidentally) did I really learn the goal of the April Fools' DYKs, however. Thanks for the note, <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  19:49, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Inuse tag
Please respect the inuse tag on the next update page. Thanks, Gatoclass (talk) 02:49, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No problem :) Gatoclass (talk) 02:54, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello...
...I am very bored. Please talk to me on my talk page. i-am-entertainU (talk) 02:51, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Christian Music
Thanks! Where do you join? :-) --i-am-entertainU (talk) 03:08, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

thx for...
Preparing that load. I moved it to the front page as I thought you were notan admin??? Anyway... would you like to award the credits? Ive only done the first one so far? Victuallers (talk) 14:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Doing the credits is a good way to get your name known (esp good for prospective admins) cheers Victuallers (talk) 14:28, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

HAI
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPSLOCK DAY! </FONT>

–Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  HAS GIVEN YOU A CAPSLOCK KEY. CAPSLOCK KEYS SPREAD EPIC LULZ, SO I HOPE YOU LOL'D!

SPEAD THE GOOD WORD BY ADDING TO EDITOR'S TALKPAGE, KTHNXBAI.

–Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  20:22, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Haha, this has got to be my least-favorite cyber holiday. OWAI, LULZ??? you say. ;-) <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  20:29, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * OWAI, LULZ??? –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  00:11, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Status report on the Country outlines (Around the World) project
Penubag has been hard at work developing awards for this project. He has completed a very professional looking medal, and is almost done with a trophy that is truly awesome - both of these awards are visually stunning.

I and a few others have been working steadily on the country outlines - one for every country of the world! They're shaping up nicely. So far, 28 of them have been moved to article space - these aren't complete, but they are complete enough to be made available for readers to benefit from them. The rest of the set still includes temporary data that was generated by template (because it matched most but not all of the countries), and before the lists can be moved to article space, all the temporary data needs to be checked for accuracy, and if incorrect it needs to be replaced with correct information.

The effort on the lists has been on 3 fronts:
 * 1) Working on the lists in article space to complete them so they will be good examples for editors working on the rest of the set.
 * 2) Adding or correcting other data (fixing redlinks, filling in blanks, etc.).  The main type of work participants in "the contest" will be doing.  The reason we're doing this is to get a feel for it, to develop the fastest methods for each type of task, etc.
 * 3) Improving the overall design and implenting changes on all 247 pages, whether in article space or not.

There has been some opposition to us running the contest based on edit counts or iterations. The concern is that we should reward quality work and not quantity, for fear of crappy edits done quickly without thought. I pointed out that the collection of pages are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (therefore posing no danger to article space) and that most of the work needs to be done with power tools like AWB and Linky (which are specifically designed for repetitive work), but the reply was that we shouldn't set the precedent of rewarding barnstars for numerically-based tasks, and implied the threat of continuously MfD'ing the contest if we attempted to do so (like they did with the Awards Center - I was very surprised and disappointed that participants didn't step up to defend it). So we need to be careful in determining what exactly the awards will represent, and how they will be awarded.

Since rewarding iterations (passes with AWB on all of the pages in the set) are out, we really don't need the globe in stand anymore. Two awards should suffice.

Once we get started with the contest, I'd like to kick the whole thing off with a round of medals for those dedicated few who have worked hard on the project so far.

What do you think of all of this?

Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   23:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Your wonderful new article
I was just doing New Page Patrol and I saw your new article Abandon (band). I just wanted to commend you on this wonderful contribution to Wikipedia -- thank you for your successful work in expanding the project's contents. Ecoleetage (talk) 16:58, 23 October 2008 (UTC) <div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">

Ecoleetage (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
 * Thanks so much for the kind note, Ecoleetage! That's always really nice to hear, and I appreciate it. :-) Cheers and good luck, <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  17:06, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Addison Road (album)

 * I was humming when I read the article!  Royal broil  04:58, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Haha, same here! (As a matter of fact, I'm actually listening to the first single on my iPod right now). Similar situation for me with this one that I worked on earlier, amongst others. ;-) <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  14:58, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Egypt)
Done! WWWEEE! AdjustShift (talk) 14:49, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 14:56, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

For my favourit kiddo on Wikipedia
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks"> Your Cyber Dad need anything help in your homework etc.. lemme know, Danger^Mouse (talk) 15:49, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Hanwei
Thanks for working the credit out:) I was wondering what happened... :) Malick78 (talk) 16:54, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

"No Jacket Required"
Hello! I was recommended to talk to you by RyanCross. I have been extensively working on the article No Jacket Required, and it is at GA status as of right now. However, I stink at copyediting, I'm pretty sure I have heavily mucked up the article in many different areas! I was just wondering if you'd like to take a look at the article, and give it a copyedit of your own. Any sort of contributions would definitely be appreciated! I have worked very hard on the article, and am trying to get it to FA quality. A lot of work is involved. Wow! But I digress. If you have no time to copyedit, or you don't want to do it, it's OK and I'll definitely understand. Thank you and have a nice day! CarpetCrawler (talk) 00:52, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, thank you very much! As I said, any sort of contributions will definitely be appreciated! Thanks for your time and have a nice day! :) CarpetCrawler (talk)

Your DYK submission
Hello! Your submission at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed. There still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! &mdash;Politizer talk / contribs 07:16, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied to. <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  15:55, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey there...
I haven't talked to you in a while, I thought I would say Hi and see what your working on, I'm trying to get myself worked up on some AFD's and stuff like that so maybe one day I can open up an RFA and be the best admin I can be (if I get chosen). It'd be nice to here from you, Later, <font face="Kristen ITC"> Hairy Perry  18:44, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice and yes I was looking for it to be in the distant future for me to go for an RFA I have to some experience first I only have 1,200 contribs and that is not enough. I'm trying to work in a variety of places such as AFD, reporting vandalism, and I guess I'm going to try DYK. I really can't wait though, I want to bring this encyclopedia the best editor, whatever i'm gonna be, that I can be. <font face="Kristen ITC"> Hairy Perry  16:49, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

My Rfa
Hi Jamie. Thank you for the post-Rfa support. --Efe (talk) 07:07, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!

 * Ditto! --  American Eagle ( talk ) 06:32, 27 November 2008 (UTC)


 * From me as well. :) Though...I don't know how you Americans cope; two public holidays in less than a month! ;) Peter <b style="color:#02b;">Symonds</b> ( talk ) 22:27, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Haha, thanks for the messages. :) Oh and how do we cope? A lot of food is consumed I guess... :P <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  23:20, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you know us Americans; there can never be too much food to eat! –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  23:21, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm...I guess you haven't seen the British Marks and Spencers TV adverts then... :) Peter <b style="color:#02b;">Symonds</b> ( talk ) 23:27, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Norma (2005)
Dear Jamie, thanks for developing Tropical Storm Norma (2005). Nice work. Have a nice day. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 15:58, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks AdjustShift! I'm just getting used to how to write the met. history sections of these hurricane articles with all these terms. :-) Good luck, <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  16:20, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Account creator tool
You don't seem to have used the account creator tool in a long time. Note that for security reasons, accounts which are inactive for over 45 days are generally disabled. If you wish to continue using the account, just log in. If not, do nothing. Stifle (talk) 11:54, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!
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The Helpful  One  is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to their talk page with a friendly message.

Speaking Louder Than Before dyk
Hello! Your submission at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed. There still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!

Barnstar!

 * Oh, thanks a lot Icewedge! That's really nice to hear. :-) Cheers! <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  15:18, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Monarchy in Ancient India
It looks like you added the credits, but I didn't find the hook in the next update. -- Suntag  <font color="#FF8C00">☼  18:11, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Also, I copied your "Skip to bottom" mbox notice and posted it on my talk page. -- Suntag  <font color="#FF8C00">☼  20:29, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

FYI
You don't use your signature. ;-) The new process is a bit confusing at first, but you'll eventually understand it. :-) The new formatting is actually more organized than the previous one. – <font color="navy" face="cursive">RyanCross (<font color="navy" face="cursive">talk ) 21:56, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, thanks for the correction. I've seen the new system plenty, but I guess I didn't think of how a would work with the DYKsug params. The suggestion template is a decent idea, since it encourages nominators to provide sufficient info, but I personally think it's a little messy at times (a section for each nomination is very nice, though). Thx again - cheers, <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  01:44, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Meh, those templates are too much work for me. ;-) –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  01:53, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I can kind of share your opinion there... ;-) I actually didn't use it in my last nom (when the nom template was a newly-implemented idea), but it seems to be a commonplace system now, which I'm fine with. <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  01:59, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Curious
"For this reason, I tend to strongly oppose the usage of byte estimations - since we're looking for a fivefold expansion of main prose, it's counterproductive to count the article's file size as a whole (markup and all)"

Now, I would like to know - do you feel that the purpose is to create an encyclopedic page or to create just more text? An encyclopedia seems to include all of the formatting and other important aspects, such as tables, pictures, etc, when necessary. They don't take up that much size, so if a 5k page goes to 25k, I really doubt that you could add more than 5k worth of templates, formatting, and the rest to a page. Also, you have to remember that pages start with templates and the rest, so if you expand that by 5x also, it would cover everything (i.e. 4k of prose 1k of markups expanded to 20k of prose and 5k of marks, total being from 5k to 25k). Ottava Rima (talk) 02:19, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Merry Christmas, too, Jamie. And happy New Year. Welcome to Wiki2009. --Efe (talk) 08:28, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Dear JamieS93,

Thanks for this. I was sick, so I couldn't reply on time. I wish you a Merry Christmas! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 14:00, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Lisa Rossbacher
Thank you for the Christmas wishes! Much appreciated! And thank you for the support of my DYK nomination for the Lisa Rossbacher article. I'll try and expand it (it's hard to source every claim), but I look forward to expanding it a couple more times to meet the requirements. It's the "first" article I have written from scratch, without splitting it from another article. I'm just happy it was worthy of NOT being deleted! I'm almost (ALMOST) getting a hang of editing 'n such. Merry Christmas to you, too! Sirkevinalot (talk) 23:37, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Norma (2005) failed GA nomination
I reviewed your article for GA nomination, and I did not feel the article passed the GA criteria. I left comments on the talk page for ways to improve it further. --♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 19:16, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I can help out with the jargon stuff, or you could always come onto the IRC and ask there. Good luck improving the article. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 19:53, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Number/# preference
Thanks for the reassessment of Satisfied (album), but I'd like to know where in the MOS I can find that "#" is preferred over "number" when it comes to music charts. I ask because during the course of my FAC for Lions (album), "#" got changed to "number", and I've been using the latter ever since. —Zeagler (talk) 01:26, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

thanks
thanks, for improving the article Pristimantis. --Globalphilosophy (talk) 00:41, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
Dear JamieS93,

Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

 Majorly  talk  21:12, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yea, Happy New Year to you. I've listen to Weekend 22's Top 22 Christian CHR songs of 2008. I'm proud to say that I started articles for 3 of those artists (4 songs)! Chasen, Addison Road, and Tenth Avenue North are the articles. You should be proud, too, for Francesca Battistelli was #16 for the year, and you made her article into a DYK. I'll be adding the Top 22 songs of the year to the appropriate articles once the list is published on their website. If you hear any other year end countdowns, please add those to the appropriate articles. We need to be especially diligent to demonstrate notability for CCM artists. I'd hate to see another one of the major artists deleted by people who don't understand the industry.  Royal broil  23:47, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

reverts in the Copenhagen
You have just made me aware that I may have made a mistake with a revert in the Copenhagen article U'm totally Being fairly new to this I'm quite confused and don't really know what I've reverted so if you would plase check that I haven't made a mistake I'd really appreciate it. And thanks for the support and attension! Ramblersen (talk) 20:20, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for being so helpful! I never understod why he undid me revision though, wasn't it just a change of some notes to make them comply with the standard? Shouldn't be all that controversial! Well thanks again!:)

Ramblersen (talk) 21:12, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

A contest you may be interested in
Hello, JamieS93. There is a new contest for U.S. and Canada roads that you may be interested in. To sign up or for more information, please visit User:Rschen7754/USRDCRWPCup. The contest begins Saturday at 00:00 UTC. Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 04:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Comments about George Harrison article
Hi SilkTork. I happened to see the George Harrison article nominated at WP:GAN and skimmed through it. I spotted a few MOS-related formatting issues that may be kind of time-consuming to fix, but since it's GA standards you'd have probably had to fix it anyway. I'm not planning on reviewing the article for the time being (haven't even really read the prose), but I just left some comments at the talk page in hopes to give you as the nominator more time to make those changes. Cheers, <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  22:43, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jamie. I took another look, and checked the ref layout in the article against the ref layout GA criteria, and the article meets GA standard requirements for the layout of the cites. Your points are well noted though, and people may take your points on board and use them as a guide to generally improve the article, especially if people wish to take it up to FA standard.  SilkTork  *YES! 10:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

A note from the GACC

 * Notice delivery by xenobot  13:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Miller's early life
Should be done now. Thanks,  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 00:03, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you could take the Keith Miller package as you should now have some more background knowledge on who he is. Thanks again for the review.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 02:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Jada Pinkett Smith...help!
Hi there. I got your user name from the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors list and noticed that you mainly help with biographies. I have the Jada Pinkett Smith article nominated for FA status here and have been advised by several editors to find a fresh pair of eyes to conduct a thorough copyedit of the article. I was just curious if you, by any chance, would have the time to help out. I would appreciate it so much. If you can't, no worries at all. Thank you for your time. Let me know! – Ms. Sarita  <sup style="color:#0000FF;">Confer  16:39, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi again. I wanted to let you know that I received your message and am extremely grateful that you've been able to help. I've been extremely sick, so I have not been able to work on the article or the FAC. I have been watching your edits, and they are all wonderful! Again, I thank you so much for your time. – Ms. Sarita  <sup style="color:#0000FF;">Confer  16:55, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Brittainalford
I have "userfied" the newbie page and will delete the original link ASAP. Bearian (talk) 19:36, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
For fixing my epic fail. :) –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  04:13, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Heh, no problem. I guess snooping around the AfD logs for errors sometimes does turn up good results. ;) <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  13:42, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Progress report: Country outlines
Development has been slow but continuous:

Penubag has done a fantastic job on the images for the awards we'll be using for our project's collaborations and contests. We now have 3 awards: a medal, a trophy, and a race ribbon. They all look tight. The trophy needs a small adjustment, but other than that, all 3 award images are complete and ready to use to create awards with.

Spartaz has warned us of (threatened to take) G4 (speedy delete) action if we run a competition that resembles the previously deleted Awards Center page. So whatever we do, any contests we run must differ substantially from the methods used there.

One type of competition I've been exploring is edit racing. I'm in the process of working the bugs out of this concept - the first race didn't work as expected - you see, because we only had an award for first place, the opponent didn't think it worthwhile to continue once it was clear who the winner would be. And since editors are in different time zones and usually need to start the race at different times, we need to base winning on personal start times - he who completes his assigned edits in the least time (rather than first), wins. And last but not least is quality control. What good is winning if your edits are ripe with errors? So I'll be exploring possibilities such as using a referee (whoever is overseeing a particular race), having participants watching each other for errors to knock them back, etc. I'm not sure yet.

Rich Farmbrough has been applying his bot expertise to filling in blanks in the country outlines (the population and area entries). I'm amazed at the number of edits he pumps out each day on a myriad of projects - ours makes up but a small time slice of his activity, and yet he has saved us many hours of manual work. Perhaps we should look into how he gets so much done. :)

Zlerman has chosen to work on one outline at a time, and is taking on Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. He also has been keen on noticing and reporting design issues pertaining to the whole set of country outlines. Keep up the good work!

Highfields has been filling in the names of capitals, and is our first race winner. Check out the award on his user pages.

As you probably know, this project has expanded to include working on any and all sets of pages that are linked to from the country outlines. Once the set of country outlines go live (in article space), traffic will likely increase for all the links included on them. The quality and usefulness of those pages will reflect heavily on the country outlines (the outlines, which are essentially lists of links, are only as good as the links they present), and therefore we've branched out to solve the biggest problems with those as well. So far, we've taken on:
 * The creation of disambiguation pages for country adjectivals ("German", "French", "Taiwanese", etc. About half done.)
 * The clean-up of the CIA World Factbook statistics on the "demographics of" country pages. We've been renaming those sections to provide a key string that AWB can use for targetting (for skipping and filtering).  Once that's done, we'll be able to break the clean-up down into simple AWB search/replace tasks, because we'll be able to target just those pages that include the CIA stuff.
 * Renaming the "Cuisine of" articles to their adjectival forms ("Chinese cuisine", "Italian cuisine", etc.)

Blackadam2 and Thehelpfulone have been helping out with the "demographics of" pages mentioned above.

And we have a couple speed addicts (addicted to wiki-velocity, not drugs)...

Both Robert Skyhawk and Thehelpfulone prefer (and excel at) simple AWB search/replaces. Robert hasn't actually joined our team yet, but he has been helping out quite a bit from the sidelines (via the WP:AWB/Tasks page. Unfortunately, there has recently been a non-AWB chore that has been holding things up on the AWB front - an edit to all the the headings which had to be reverted before too many new edits were made, because any new edits would make the reversion more difficult.  The headings have been restored, so now the way is clear for AWB operations, and there are many search/replace tasks in the queue.  AWB assignments have started again!

There's a similar bottleneck on the "Demographics of" pages (the "keying" mentioned above), but that's almost cleared too. :)

With my internet access somewhat crippled, I've been finding it difficult to keep up with you guys. However, I expect to be accessing a Linky-capable workstation on a faster server (I'm on it right now, as you can probably tell from my contributions list for today), and so I should really pick up speed. Feels goooooood. :)

Recruiting has been a bit slow (but steady), due in part to my crippled access, and because we've been waiting for the images for the awards to be completed. I expect the team to grow more rapidly as the bottlenecks are removed.

Well that's what's been happenin', and here's what's in the pipeline...

I'm about to begin work on a set of lists that corresponds to all the standard links on the country outlines, and these will be presented on the Topic outline of countries which will be organized exactly like the country outlines. Aside from being an extremely useful navigation aid, it will allow editors to easily see the state of country coverage on Wikipedia. I'll provide you with a link once I get up to speed on this.

In the meantime, keep up the good work!

Cheers,

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   05:55, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Hey
Hey Jamie,

Welcome back to WP. You were inactive for some days. Were you busy in RL? Glad to see you back on WP. Have a nice day. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 09:06, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Welcome back. :) Peter <b style="color:#02b;">Symonds</b> ( talk ) 09:10, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, glad to see you guys again! AdjustShift, yes I was busy in RL (without much internet access) - I've been moving from SC to FL over the past couple of weeks. And then finally getting an internet connection yesterday was nice. :-) I should be able to continue at least some work here, but in the near future, real life involvements may be calling for more of my attention. Cheers, <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  13:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

USRD-CRWP WikiCup Status
This is just to let you know that you have been eliminated from the USRD-CRWP WikiCup. However, Scott5114 is planning another contest to open within the next few weeks. Also, there is always next year :) Good luck. --Rschen7754 (T C) 08:57, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Another contest from USRD!
Hello there! Now that round 1 of the USRD Cup is over, we're starting another USRD participation contest. The USRD Road Trip will involve expanding articles to B-Class in cities throughout the United States. Signups are open and the game will begin on at 0 UTC on February 17. Hope to see you play!—Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 09:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Country outlines project update - 2009/03/08
Remember "Around the World"?

Well, we've been around the World, and around again (virtually speaking, on Wikipedia), on this project.

Things have been slowing down again, so it's time for a big push...

We've gone live
This project needed a shot in the arm. Also, its draft pages have been littering Wikipedia's categories for months. The time seemed right to move all the country outline drafts to article space.

WHAT???

Well, the drafts had been sitting in Wikipedia space for a year.

WHAT???

Development has been moving at a snail's pace and we could use the help of the Wikipedia community at large (who are more likely to find these if they are in article space).

WHAT???

Yes, we've gone live. :)

This puts pressure on us to get the blatantly incomplete elements of these outlines done. The only glaring problem is the government branches sections. These need to be corrected ASAP.

I've mentioned THE GOVERNMENT BRANCHES SECTIONS many times to many people over the past year, but the problem just doesn't seem to have been taken seriously. So let me put it another way:

HELP!!! I need your help on this now. Almost all the countries have a government with an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. The links for these branches need to be completed for each country outline:


 * Here's a convenient list you can use WP:LINKY on to access and edit these quickly. Please copy the list's link to the top of your talk page so that you can access it easily.

If you spot any standardization in links, and ways we can automate parts of this process, or for groups of countries that have links in common, please let me know!

Administrative support for outlines
There has been growing pressure on me to write up the administrative pages for outlines - their instructions, guidelines, etc. Therefore, I'm now in the process of composing these. Fortunately, it is mostly a matter of gathering material from messages I've written to you guys over the past year. Still, this is taking up most of my time, and I will be buried in these for the foreseeable future.

Traffic control
The next big task after the government branches sections are cleaned up is link support for the outlines.

There's quite a list of links and notices that need to be put in place around Wikipedia, providing access to them to readers, and alerting editors to the need to develop and maintain these pages. This will keep our bot people very busy (and happy).

But the most important thing right now is to get the government branches sections completed. So please, put your bots aside, roll up your shirt sleeves, and start typing.

Thank you.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   03:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

RfA again?
Hi Jamie, I was one of your supporters in your first RfA, and I'm wondering if you'd be interested in running again. I think that your chances of success are considerably higher, now that you've really established yourself on here, and I would be happy to support you again or, if you'd like, even to nominate you. Cosmic Latte (talk) 13:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Cosmic. :) Glad to hear from you again, and that you'd be willing to support a second RfA. I have just been thinking about this topic recently, and my initial conclusion was that I'm not sure it's going to happen. Due to real life busyness and moving to another state I haven't been as active recently. Lack of activity can be a stumbling block for an RfA, but within the past week or so I've had more time on my hands, and I've just picked up some speed. So I'm reconsidering the possibility, yes, after I wait for some time, and regain more experience in a few areas again. Since my last RfA, I've had two admins willing to nominate me, and I'd have to check with them and discuss it sometime soon before possibly proceeding. Thanks again, <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  16:52, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem! Feel free to let me know if you give it another try, and keep up the good work. Cosmic Latte (talk) 16:57, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Be comfortable with everything before I co-nom you. There's lots of time. Like you said, RFA's are nit-picky. You might want to wait until after your next birthday to help with some of that issue.  Royal broil  00:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Unfortunately, ageism is so rampant at RfA that people have opposed a current candidate merely because he joked that he was young. If anything, though, I guess I'm an "ageist-in-reverse"--that is, I have a lot of respect for young people, such as you, who contribute in mature and intelligent ways, as well as for much older people, who have embraced technology enough to contribute at all. But what really matters about adminship is that people are able and willing to use the tools in ways that will benefit the encyclopedia, and I have no doubt whatsoever that you're both highly able and highly willing. Keep up the awesome work, don't let people get to you, and go for that RfA when the time feels right. As one of my favourite songs goes, "the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn." Best wishes, Cosmic Latte (talk) 08:54, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Good thoughts. For what it's worth, only a rare few people online know my birthday, so I'm not sure that would make a difference, besides the possibility of folks making year estimations based on other tidbits. If I run again sometime soon, I'm honestly not afraid of "ageism". In a way, I can agree with those people.
 * I always tend to view the contribs of "minors" and younger teens/kids at RfA with an eye that examines the maturity level a bit closer. However, with a website like this, I believe that the younger people who are dedicated to contributing, who are then nominated for adminship, lends automatic evidence that they are probably different than the average youth in real life. Of the youth I've known in RL, it totally differs per person, and a slapped-on number just isn't a sufficient description of someone. There's a certain cut-off in the teen years that lends an inevitable lack of maturity and good judgement, absolutely. All in all, I usually end up just viewing everybody case-by-case, though, like any other candidate — assessing their trustworthiness for the extra responsibility, and I hope others would simply see that overall aim, too. :-) Best, <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  02:01, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the greeting
Thanks for the welcome, but I should say that I've actually been on wikipedia for a long time. It logged me out one time I and I didn't log back in, and I use so many different usernames across many different websites that I forgot which one I used, so I just made a new one, ha ha. Thanks though!JesusFreakForReal89 (talk) 13:59, 12 March 2009 (UTC)JesusFreakForReal89

Geography WikiProject update - 03/15/2009
The award images are complete!

After months of toil and attention to detail, Penubag has completed the set of images for this WikiProject's awards!

There are five race ribbons:



There's an engraved medallion:



And by far the hardest to create, a golden trophy:



If you have any ideas about awards these images can be placed upon, and how to award them (to show appreciation and to attract participants), please let me know.

And be sure to pop by Penubag's talk page to let him know what you think of his graphics artistry.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   22:04, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: You commented on the awards effort when it was just getting started many months ago - I thought you might like to see the end results. -TT

Barnstar

 * Enjoy the barnstar; that was my 50,000th edit. :) –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  00:31, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey there, congrats for yourself. :D That was very kind, and I appreciate it. :) Best, <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  17:32, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

No prob...
In which case, I'll fix it. Thanks for letting me know. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible.

Deletion
I accept that OHH had survived for over a year since its last deletion, and probably should not have been speedied, although I am unconvinced that it meets the notability guidelines. I've restored it now jimfbleak (talk) 07:02, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Country music
There was a members list, but I removed it per suggestion after I listed the wikiproject at MFD. Most of the users were inactive since about 2007 anyway. Briguy52748 is one of the big ones, but is constantly doing a ton of other things. Caldorwards4, Eric444, Martin4647, CloversMallRat and EnDaLeCoMpLeX have helped me by writing stubs and doing other minor fixes, but they're all mostly wikignomes and aren't really the type to write more than a couple sentences (not to knock them). Expansion is the area where I need the most help. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 15:23, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Allmusic, CMT, and Great American Country are good sources for country music. For more recent acts, Country Standard Time is useful, and even more recent (last 3 years), The 9513. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 15:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Album artwork
Hi, I've added a couple of album articles recently (e.g Millennium Metaphors). Do you know what the policy is with adding album artwork to wikipedia? Can you just copy an image from elsewhere on the web? Thanks Smartse (talk) 16:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your help - managed to get a few images uploaded. Thanks! Smartse (talk) 12:54, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Ayiesha Woods

 * Thank you. :) And haha, yes! <font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  14:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

April Fool's DYK for Kayabukiya Tavern
Thank you for your contribution to the April Fool's Day fun!  Royal broil  00:27, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Happy April Fools!
Hehe, thanks! :) This is going to be a long 24 hours... – Juliancolton  | Talk 02:17, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Happy April Fool's Day
Happy April Fool's!!! :P - Fastily (talk) 03:55, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Happy April Fools!
Thanks! I nearly replied on the talkpage of Jimbo! Haha! AdjustShift (talk) 04:12, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I'd just like to announce...
...that I love you all. Super srs. <font color="FF00AA">Glass <font color="DA70D6">Cobra  13:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

RE : RfA
It's great news to hear that you're considering to run for the mop. I'll just need one user subpage to go through one round of revision to gauge if you're ready for RfA. Let me know where I can post it to. - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 16:13, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * D – Juliancolton  | Talk 20:06, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * :) –<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="green">Jamie ☆<font face="Bradley Hand ITC" size="2px" color="blue">S93  20:09, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Check the subpage :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 04:36, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK Jacob Rigg
Glad to hear it's good to go forward. Thanks for your help on the DYK submission; I would have pointed you to the reference I obtained the information from, but I was away and things seem to move quicker when I'm not seeing them! MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 13:18, 9 April 2009 (UTC)