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San Jose Task Force Invite
''Please note that this task force is still unofficial, and I would like to have at least five members before asking for approval from WP:HOCKEY.

AfD nomination of San Jose Golddiggers
I have nominated San Jose Golddiggers, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/San Jose Golddiggers. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Undead Warrior (talk) 04:54, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Nomination of San Jose Diablos for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article San Jose Diablos is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/San Jose Diablos until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Soxrock24 (talk) 18:14, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Women's history editathon
Hey - Sorry for the late notice, but since you have yourself tagged as living in the Bay Area, I thought you might appreciate notification that we’re having an event Saturday! It’ll be held at Hoyt Hall, an all-women's house of the Berkeley Student Cooperative from 3 to 6 pm tomorrow. The main event page is here. Anyone is welcome to show up, but we’re expecting a significant number of people to come who have literally never edited Wikipedia before. If you’re an experienced Wikipedian who would be able to provide useful help to some of the newbies, your presence would be especially appreciated (and it might be a good idea for you to show up at 2 or 2:30 instead of three. Thanks, Kevin Gorman (talk) 02:02, 6 April 2013 (UTC) I’m AWB’ing this message to all Wikipedians who have tagged themselves in the bay area.  I’m sorry if the message isn’t of interest to you; feel free to delete it.   I’ll be unlikely to send future messages in a similar way, but if really don’t want to receive future messages of this sort, please let me know.

Happy Valley
Hi, just wanted to inform you that you are mixing up two different documentaries, Happy Valley (film) is directed by Amir Bar-Lev and premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival [here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2171902/] while 365 Days: A Year in Happy Valley is a different documentary film, directed by Erik Proulx [here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3384854/]. I hope this clear up your confusion. I have reverted your edits at Happy Valley (film). If you have any queries leave me a message on my talk page. Regards--Jockzain (talk) 18:53, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 6
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Issue 6, April-May 2014 by ,

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Your contribution to California Republic section Capture of Sonoma June 14, 1846
Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your work on the California Republic article. There is part of one paragraph you've added with which I disagree. It reads:

It was no secret that Vallejo favored the American takeover of California. Because of this, the Vallejos were completely unprepared for the invasion of their home by a group of Americans.[17] It was soon apparent that the rebels had no official leader and though the Americans regarded themselves as a revolutionary party, they had no plan and didn't know what they intended to achieve beyond the seizure of government property, arms, and officers. They acknowledged that most of them merely wanted to obtain arms, animals and hostages and to deprive the enemy of his resources.[17]

and references Jerry Bowen's column as its source.

Mr. Bowen provides part of a written statement reportedly from Vallejo at Castro's April 2, 1846 junta supporting the paragraph's position. I'm a docent at Sonoma State Historic Park and have read quite a bit about the period and question the quotation - especially as the same junta issued a totally contradictory proclamation.

I've emailed Mr. Bowen asking for the source of his quotation. I'll let you know what I learn.

Dean Dean95452 (talk) 00:17, 19 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello. I haven't received a response from Mr. Bowen to my email.  I've started a topic (Edit - Capture of Sonoma first paragraph) in Talk:California Republic and would appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have.  Thanks.  Dean95452 (talk) 22:00, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 7
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Issue 7, June-July 2014 by, ,

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 * Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
 * TWL's Final Report up, read the summary
 * Adventures in Las Vegas, WikiConference USA, and updates from TWL coordinators
 * Spotlight: Blog post on BNA's impact on one editor's research

Rankings of Universities in the United States
Hi there, you might be interested in a discussion on the talk page of "Rankings of Universities in the United States." I found a couple more made up original research rankings, the "YAR" ranking and the "Selectivity" ranking. They're removed right now, but a user named "Download" has been edit warring and has repeatedly put them back in. He's even contacted the Stanford users that created these rankings (or at least made it look like he did; they might just be socks for Download). No way these Wikipedians evaluated every college when they compiled these rankings. Totally bogus. Discussion here: Talk:Rankings of universities in the United States. Thanks.--TDJankins (talk) 02:50, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Please remember to assume good faith. There is no need for these unfounded and very severe accusations. We all have the same interest of improving the article in mind  - down  load  19:27, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

"English language punctuation rule" vs. Wikipedia policy
Thanks for all you work on multiple historical articles. This is in reference to just a very minor part -- your most recent edits on Mexican–American War. While it's common in American English (only) to put quotes after most all punctuation, Wikipedia does not follow that. Per Wikipedia MOS Logical Quotes: "On the English Wikipedia, use logical quotation style in all articles...". --A D Monroe III (talk) 17:08, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 8
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Issue 8, August-September2014 by, ,

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 * Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)
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Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews
Hello. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular. The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered. If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.) If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with. Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors. I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC). Sent via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

UAE - Emirate of Ajman, village of Helio
Hi Jeff

Sorry, I missed your comment on the Ajman talk page. As far as I can see from Google, it's about 25.380104, 55.593825 but I actually need to go out there and verify that with my own eyes. It's not marked on Google but is well documented locally. When I've made sure, I'll drop you a line! Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:28, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Oho! Scratch that - found it. Here: https://www.google.ae/maps/@25.4023828,55.6129646,15z Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:47, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Indo-Bangladesh enclaves
There is some update on that matter: India and Bangladesh Near Resolution on Border Dispute on "The Diplomat", December 5 2014 --112.198.79.164 (talk) 05:35, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)
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Books and Bytes - Issue 9
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