User talk:John Carter/Archives/2012/March

WikiCup 2012 February newsletter
Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was, again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was, thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were, , and. February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from. At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.

The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.

The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk &bull; email) and The ed17 (talk &bull; email) 00:00, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Genesis creation narrative
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Genesis creation narrative. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 01:15, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Perambalur
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Perambalur. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 02:15, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Ushuaia
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Ushuaia. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 02:15, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

WPX Assessment dept
I just noticed 3 people have signed up within the last 2 mos. I wonder if they know what to do--there aren't any goals nor a to-do for that dept. – Lionel (talk) 11:23, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Richard Dawkins
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Richard Dawkins. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 02:15, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Pakistan
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Pakistan. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 03:15, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

A clearing house for information mining of external media
Please see Village pump (idea lab) (permanent link here). —Wavelength (talk) 04:08, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Dave Camp
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Dave Camp. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 03:15, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Northern Ireland
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Northern Ireland. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 04:15, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Carlingford Lough
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Carlingford Lough. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 05:15, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

7 points
Looks like this is now at WP:RELMOS. I'm trying to find out if there's a bot to mail the talk pages of the related projects about this as right now it's a tiny group of editors working on this. O n an unrelated note, did you get my email? Dougweller (talk) 20:50, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Oops, missed that, I was away, sorry. Dougweller (talk) 16:34, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:PNS Ghazi
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:PNS Ghazi. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 06:15, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello
I'm trying to get people who are willing to help me out with a pet project I've begun but realised that it will be extremely hard for me to even make a small dent in. First of all, I got your name from the list of active members on the wikiproject for mining articles. Please disregard this, if you're not interested.

So, here's what I'm trying to do and what you could do to help me. I noticed that there were very few articles that list mines. I've tried (to the best of my abilities) to create a sub-page that lists all of the probable articles for lists of mines that I could think of, you can review this here.

Basically, I need help. Suggestions on different lists to add, I need lists created, if the lede I've been using should be changed, I'd like community consensus on the standard layout (I've been going with listing articles like List of gold mines by country and List of mines in the United States by output. If someone would like to make templates for these articles.

Please, don't feel obligated. I came to you, and others like you because of your implied interest in mining articles. List articles are not exactly in everyone's taste. If you are completely uninterested, but think you might know someone who might be, please let them know about it. I could use all the help I can get.

Oh, and if you happen to create any new articles on mines, please add them to any of my recently created lists. Sorry for this being so wordy, have a good day and happy editing! Ncboy2010 (talk) 22:31, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Anti-Pakistan sentiment
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Anti-Pakistan sentiment. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 06:15, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 07:15, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Intelligent design
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Intelligent design. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 07:15, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:September 11 attacks
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:September 11 attacks. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 09:02, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Ebionites etc.
I must admit I am completely unfamiliar with those particular issues, and I think in general that Biblical archaeology and the like is a field where it is very difficult to know what is fringe and what isn't (and perhaps even a field that challenges the definition and meaning of the term "fringe science"). If there are any particular questions you'd like my opinion regarding Eisenman etc. I can look into it - but the field is somewhat too large for me to acquire a general acquaintance with the issues.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 00:02, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Third user conduct warning - Stalking
You were warned to stop following me around diff. And Unwarranted accusations of WP:Stalking are themselves a form of stalking diff. Ignocrates (talk) 20:37, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * First, your warning on Tabor's page is a gross misrepresentation of the comments made. Your self-obsession seems to make it clear that you, for whatever reason, completely ignored the comments I made to Tabor himself. Also, you have been repeated told to stay of this page. So, yes, I very much agree that your own completely unwarranted accusation of stalking on User talk:Jdtabor is itself a violation of WP:STALKING. Has it ever occurred to you to actually read the comments others make before making false accusations, I wonder? And, by the way, you only indicated one previous warning. You, however, have received three in recent days, including those on Jayjg's and In ictu oculi's user talk pages. John Carter (talk) 20:41, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I have requested an administrative review of your fitness to perform your duties as an administrator on Wikipedia. Ignocrates (talk) 20:51, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for notifying me 'this time. As I recall, when you accused me of being a sockpuppet of User:John earlier, you couldn't even meet the basic standards of civility to notify me. John Carter (talk) 21:01, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Taipei
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Taipei. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 17:49, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Reply
I'm not sure exactly what you were referencing, I've added a lot of information to various lists of mines, though my primary goal (in the beginning) was to create some of the list articles as a mere list of mines grouped from appropriate categories. As you can see on List of gold mines in Canada and List of mines in the United States, I've been trying to include a wiki-table with information including name, dates operational, current activity (or lack of), coordinates, output and notes. This endeavor is a huge undertaking and would be close to impossible to complete by myself. Luckily, I've received quite a bit of help from volcanoguy. Please, feel free to make any edits to any of the articles that you deem necessary. I'd prefer if there were more interested members, but alas mines aren't nearly as interesting as most other articles. Thanks for the input though, I appreciate it! Ncboy2010 (talk) 21:56, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Alright then, let me know if you want / need any help. Although I'm on and off at the moment, I'll do what I can to assist! Ncboy2010 (talk) 22:06, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Christian Union
Hi John, I note that in 2009 you tagged Talk:Christian Union (students) as mid-importance for WP New Religious Movements, but Low for WP Christianity. I suspect that including NRM at all was an error; do you mind if I remove it? – Fayenatic L (talk) 08:35, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:List of kings of Iraq
Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:List of kings of Iraq. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Feedback request service. — RFC&#32;bot (talk) 18:15, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

How times have changed
I remember even just 2 or 3 years back complaining that we couldn't find info on towns in Africa in countries like Gabon. Lebamba and Donguila would have been the typical one line sub stubs! Not any more! Obviously its still sketchy and most African villages are still not covered but its a major improvement. BTW would you be interested in a challenge to get 100,000 articles on Africa on wikipedia? We so far have 69,000 articles tagged but we need all articles tagged and many new articles!♦ Dr. Blofeld  11:02, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 March newsletter
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! , of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's, thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's, who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to, whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to, who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk &bull; email) and The ed17 (talk &bull; email) 23:21, 31 March 2012 (UTC)