User talk:Juliancolton/Archive 6

Move of 1928 Okeechobee hurricane
Hi there. I've fixed the double redirects created by your move of this article. (I have no problem with the move itself, only with these annoying glitches such moves create.) I just wanted to remind you to check for them yourself next time you move a page. Thanks, and happy editing. Terraxos (talk) 02:16, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem, don't worry about it - it's easy to do. In fact, the policy page I linked to above noted that users don't actually need to fix these ourselves, since there are bots programmed to do it - it's just something worth checking for if you remember to do so. Terraxos (talk) 02:24, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I need your feedback...
Which of the following medals looks better. This one:



Or this one:



Which one do you like better?

Please let me know on my talk page.

Thank you.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   21:24, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

SarekOfVulcan RFA
Thank you for !voting on my RfA. If you supported, I'll make sure your confidence is not misplaced; if you opposed, I'll take your criticism into account and try to adjust my behavior accordingly.

See you around the wiki!--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 01:07, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Thank you for volunteering.

To provide examples for the participants to see what the pages they will be working on are supposed to look like when they are completed, there are about 20 pages we're trying to finish before the big collaboration starts:


 * List of basic Albania topics • List of basic Argentina topics • List of basic Australia topics • List of basic Canada topics • List of basic Ecuador topics • List of basic Egypt topics • List of basic France topics •  List of basic Germany topics •  List of basic Iceland topics •  List of basic India topics • List of basic Indonesia topics • List of basic Iraq topics • List of basic Republic of Ireland topics •  List of basic Italy topics • List of basic Isle of Man topics • List of basic Israel topics • List of basic Japan topics • List of basic Macau topics • List of basic Mexico topics • List of basic Russia topics • List of basic Taiwan topics •  List of basic United Kingdom topics •  List of basic United States topics

What I need you to do is make sure the culture section of each of these pages has image support, and add as many images as comfortably fit in that section. See List of basic Japan topics for an example. The images you select for the pages should be mainstream and/or interesting. Dull and boring is not what we want. Eye-catching and educational are what we're after.

Don't use copyrighted images. All the pics should be GFDL or public domain. You can find pics on relevant articles around Wikipedia, and on Wikimedia Commons.

I look forward to seeing your improvements to these pages.

If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page so the alert feature works. Thank you.

Good luck.

Have fun.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   09:27, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your !vote at my RFA
Thank you, Juliancolton, for your support !vote at my RFA. -- lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 18:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

What is Around the World?
It's a collaboration!

A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!

If everything goes according to plan, it will begin on July 15th.

The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia and perhaps beyond) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."

The set of pages we are working on is currently located at WikiProject Lists of basic topics.

Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.

The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!

For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.

And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.

The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.

For an example of what a nearly complete page looks like, see these:


 * List of basic Albania topics • List of basic Argentina topics • List of basic Australia topics • List of basic Canada topics • List of basic Ecuador topics • List of basic Egypt topics • List of basic France topics •  List of basic Germany topics •  List of basic Iceland topics •  List of basic India topics • List of basic Indonesia topics • List of basic Iraq topics • List of basic Republic of Ireland topics •  List of basic Italy topics • List of basic Isle of Man topics • List of basic Israel topics • List of basic Japan topics • List of basic Macau topics • List of basic Mexico topics • List of basic Russia topics • List of basic Taiwan topics •  List of basic United Kingdom topics •  List of basic United States topics

There are only about 200 more pages to go!

During the collaboration, co-coordinators will be standing by, to lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators will also be using advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.

Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   04:36, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

PR experiment
Dear Juliancolton, I'm writing in hopes of enlisting your aid in a four-month experiment at Peer Review (PR). The success of the experiment will depend on finding at least 10 editors willing to review at least one article a week through the end of October 2008. The experiment will employ a streamlined review process designed to insure that every nominator who seeks a review gets one and that reviewers do not waste time doing long reviews for nominators who do not respond to an initial short review.

The way it works is this: (1) Choose any article at Peer Review that lacks a review. Peer reviews by date, especially the backlog list, is still a good place to find such articles. (2) Provide a short partial review based on your initial observations and wait to see if the nominator responds. Examples of short reviews can be found at Peer review/Foreign relations of India/archive1 and Peer review/Ed Stelmach/archive1. (3) If the nominator does not respond, the review is done. (4) If the nominator responds, continue the review as you see fit.

The experiment will require no noticeable administration. However, if you plan to participate, it would be helpful if you posted a brief note to Wikipedia talk:Peer review to that effect. At the end of October, we can see how the experiment turned out and whether this process or some modification of it could sustain Peer Review permanently with minimal backlogs. If you can help, that would be great. If not, that's perfectly OK. We are all tremendously busy with a lot of different projects.

I have chosen to write to you in part because you've done peer reviews from the backlog during the past four months. Please forgive the form-letter nature of this note, which is more efficient than a personal note. With respect and thanks for your hard work on many projects, Finetooth (talk) 04:51, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Problem with a bot removing coats of arms
While I was checking your work on matching up flag and coats of arms sizes on the country lists (thank you, by the way), I came across a problem that you should be aware of. A bot has been coming along and removing coats of arms images from pages in the set.

The bot has hit the following pages so far:
 * WikiProject Topical outlines/Draft/Topical outline of Tibet
 * WikiProject Topical outlines/Draft/Topical outline of Tokelau
 * WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic Cocos (Keeling) Islands topics

I've written a message to the bot's talk page, informing the bot operator of the problem.


 * See User talk:BJBot.

If you should run across any more images removed from the country pages, please contact the bot operator (check the history to see which bot did it), and contact me too, right away.

Thank you.

And keep up the good work.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   11:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

List of Interstate Highways in New York
Hi Julian. In your absence (hope you had a good one!) I archive your FLC for the above list. Nothing personal, some concerns were raised and since you weren't going to be around for another 9 days or so I thought I'd delist to allow you to take another look at it when you got back. Give me a shout if you want to talk it over. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 16:49, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Can you help?
I see you were listed as a participant in the League of Copy-Editors so it seems likely. The thing is the Military history wikiproject urgently needs prose pros to help with our best articles. In Milhist, A-Class has become the last port of call before FAC and we are looking for people to help identify prose and MoS issues at A-Class A-Class Reviews and help fix them prior to featured article candidacy. We also have a copy-editing section in our Logistics Dept and that can always use experienced copy-editors. For most of our articles, you don't need to be a specialist in the subject matter, just good with words.

If you think you can help, please do! Thanks for your time, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 03:37, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks
My RfA  Thank you for your support in my recent RfA, which closed successfully. I felt the process was a thorough review of my contributions and my demeanor, and I was very gratified to see how many editors took the time to really see what I'm about and how I can be of help to the project. As a result, some editors changed their views during the discussion, and most expressed specific, detailed points to indicate their opinion (whether it was, , or ).

A number of editors were concerned about my level of experience. I was purposeful in not waiting until a particular benchmark occurred before requesting adminship, because I feel - as many do - that adminship is not a reward and that each case is individual. It is true that I am not the most experienced editor around here, but I appreciate that people dug into my contributions enough to reach the conclusion that I seem to have a clue. Also, the best thing about this particular concern is that experience is something an editor - or administrator - can always get more of, and I'll continue doing that, just as I've been doing. (If I seem a little slow at it, feel free to slap me.)

I am a strong believer in the concept that this project is all about the content, and I'm looking forward to contributing wherever I can. Please let me know if I can be of any help. In the meantime, I'm off to school...

Thanks again! Frank |  talk  14:49, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Tropical Cyclone Peer Review
Good day!

I have recently put a tropical cyclone article up for peer review (Meteorological history of Hurricane Dean) and noticed that your name is on the list of Peer Review volunteers interested in Tropical Cyclones. I was hoping that you wouldn't mind having a read over the article and leaving a few comments.

All the best,  Plasticup  T / C  17:24, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

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Third FA for the Everglades project!
Way to go team! Restoration of the Everglades has just become an FA! Three down and two to go! Geography and ecology of the Everglades and Everglades could use your eagle eyes! Awadewit (talk) 16:26, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

FA-Team Proposals
Please comment on the current FA-Team proposals. Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 16:45, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #18
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FA-Team successes!
Indigenous people of the Everglades region, Draining and development of the Everglades and Restoration of the Everglades have all recently become FAs! King Arthur is now at FAC! Thanks to our hard-working team members! Awadewit (talk) 18:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back!
Welcome back! How was the vacation? «  Milk's Favorite   Cøøkie  00:25, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Effects of Charley in North Carolina
Not a problem. It just needed a little bit of cleaning up. It seems like ever since then, I've been cleaning up formerly declared GAs (some of them my own) just to keep them good articles. I guess our requirements were looser back in 2006 than they are now. Check out C class, in case you missed it. It appears they finally have included inline references within the B and C class criteria, no longer just a GA class and higher option. Thegreatdr (talk) 04:16, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

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List of Interstate Highways in New York
Julian, you're welcome to give me a shout before resubmitting it for FLC. All the best. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:26, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Per my RfA
Hi there! Thanks for your recent oppose on my RfA, I appreciate your participation. I've left a reply under my answer to your question to clarify incase you opposed based on a misunderstanding. If you still wish to oppose, no worries! Thanks — CycloneNimrod Talk? 22:13, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Two Milhist A-Class reviews
Thanks for joining up! Could you have a look at these please from the point of view of a prose pro? And perhaps comment on any MoS weaknesses? Milhist A-Class is the last port of call prior to FAC so standards need to be rigorous! Many thanks in advance, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 04:29, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * A-Class review for 2007–2008 Ethiopian crackdown in Ogaden
 * A-Class review for Citadel of Saigon

Concerning the edit..
All I did was clear up some vandalism by reverting to a previous version of the page. Take a look at the page history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.131.132.26 (talk) 15:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Sunderland Echo
Hi, I've spent the last couple of hours checking, and re-checking, the refs on this FAC article. Hopefully, they are now up to scratch if you get the chance of taking another look. Thanks -- Seahamlass  00:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Many thanks - every bit of help welcome!-- Seahamlass  13:36, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back
Nice to see you returned as promised. Welcome back. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 01:55, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Maindates
Julian, Gimmebot fixed all your maindates (they need the year). He does them regularly (but backup checking is welcome :-) Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 03:41, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, darnit. Sorry 'bout that. Juliancolton Tropical   Cyclone  13:26, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

MJ comments
I replied to your suggestions at the Michael Jackson FA review. Thank you for the suggestions. — Realist 2  ( Speak ) 15:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Need your help
We didn't quite make it - the "Around the World" event isn't ready yet.

Could you chip in on the tasks I've posted at User talk:Gimme danger? Please start at the Z's and work your way backward. Gimme danger will be working from the A's and hopefully you guys will meet somewhere in the middle.

Keep in mind he's fast. :)

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   00:54, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Here's what we need help on...
Almost every country has administrative divisions. For example, the USA is divided into states, which are divided into counties, and the counties have municipalities (cities and towns). You can tell an administrative division because it has its own local government. States each have their own local government, and so do counties and municipalities.

Not all countries use the same names for their administrative divisions. A few have "states", many have "provinces", and some have "regions". You'll have to check the material on each country to see what its administrative divisions are called. You can find them in the main article on that country, or maybe in the Administrative divisions of x or Politics of x articles (where x = the country's name).

Look at these lists to see how the administrative divisions section was done in each:

Countries: Albania • Argentina • Australia • Canada • Ecuador • Egypt • France •  Germany •  Iceland •  India • Indonesia • Iran • Iraq • Ireland •  Italy • Isle of Man • Israel • Japan • Macau • Mexico • Russia • Taiwan •  United Kingdom •  United States

Have fun.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   00:17, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Alright, I'll get on that as soon as I can. Sorry, I completely forgot about it. Juliancolton Tropical   Cyclone  00:20, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I forgot as well, but something has come up, and I am unable to complete you request, and I'm very sorry. I hope all goes well! Cheers, -- iMa tth ew  T.C. 10:46, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't forget again, but I just wanted to let you know that I might not get around to doing it until tomorrow or Monday. I will get to it when I have enough free time. Juliancolton Tropical   Cyclone  21:35, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Cool. Thank you!   Th e Tr ans hu man ist    01:17, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyediting
After the collapse of the LoCE, the only semi-official place to try is WP:PRV, as far as I know. A second option is to ask individual editors you've encountered. If you get stuck, I'll try to help. Finetooth (talk) 17:44, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2007 Atlantic hurricane season
The article 2007 Atlantic hurricane season you nominated as a good article has passed, see Talk:2007 Atlantic hurricane season for eventual comments about the article. Well done!  Plasticup  T / C  19:55, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Washington, D.C.
Hi. I noticed you made comments about Columbia, Missouri on WP:FAC and was wondering if you could take a look at Washington, D.C. if you have time. I've been working for a few months to get it up to FA standards and any reviews would be helpful before submitting to the FAC board. Thank you. Best, epicAdam (talk) 20:31, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Great! Thanks for your help. Best, epicAdam (talk) 23:10, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Juliancolton. I'm sure Dolly is keeping you busy, but I just wanted to get your final thoughts on the article. My hope is to get it through FAC while I still have spare time this summer to work on it! Thanks again for your help. Best always, epicAdam (talk) 03:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Just wanted to let you know that the article is now at FAC. Best, epicAdam (talk) 20:12, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyediting, part 2
Hi Julian. Let me know which article, and I'll try to have a look tomorrow (Sunday) or Monday. Finetooth (talk) 04:20, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

i need your help
Hello Juliancolton. My name is Soccer5525, and I have a question for you. You know how at the top of your userpage and talk page, it says Juliancolton and then, "tm". Well, I'd like to add that to my page, but with my user signature. I was wondering if you could help me. If not, then it's okay. But it would be great if you could! :) Thanks, and have a great day. -- Soccer 5525  ( Tk  •  Ctrb ) 20:59, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I'll be sure to talk to him/her. Thanks! -- Soccer 5525  ( Tk  •  Ctrb ) 21:05, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I wrote Milk's Favorite Cookie about it, but he hasn't replied. Is there anyone else that could help, maybe you? -- Soccer 5525  ( Tk  •  Ctrb ) 14:14, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyediting part 3
Hi Julian. Thank you for reviewing Balch Creek. I have not abandoned the hurricane article, and I will get back to it later today. My computer crashed in a big way this morning. I think the monitor or maybe the video card is dying, but I hope not. Finetooth (talk) 21:52, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Awesome Homepage!
Hey Julian - you have an awesome homepage. Great stuff. Keep up the good work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bsrcrgrieve (talk • contribs) 22:52, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

anti harris
I very rarely do anything even vaguely administrative. I screw up.

Anyway, please handle the AfD.

I browse wiki a lot and occasionally find funny stuff. I've always posted it on admin.notices for experts to handle. Where should I post things like that?Aaaronsmith (talk) 00:49, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyediting, part 4
Done. I went through it carefully from top to bottom. Someone else came in at the last and changed a Pacific to an Atlantic in the lead. You might want to check what he/she did and also to check my many changes, most of which were at the level of nits and gnats. Best of luck with the continuing FAC. Finetooth (talk) 03:27, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * In the night, I remembered that I had not undone the autoformatting of dates in the citations. Groan! For consistency, this probably needs to be done (but not by me). I saw that you had begun removing the autoformatting, and, not quite realizing what I was getting into, I removed many more instances from the infobox and the tables. It's pretty tedious work. If Wikipedians eventually reach consensus on removing existing autoformatting, it will need to be done by a bot, methinks. Finetooth (talk) 16:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, you are right about cite web. This is looking like a horror show to me this morning. What is required for absolute consistency vis-a-vis the removal of autoformatting from the article is going into each of the citations, removing the autoformatting brackets from each date, and, since this is a U.S.-centric article, changing each date from non-U.S. style such as 2007-09-02 to September 2, 2007. Compounding the woe is the fact that cite web also includes an access date that also need to be re-done in the same way. This adds up to about 80 more tedious changes not yet done. If I had realized at the outset what reversing the autoformatting was going to lead to, I would have suggested leaving the autoformatting alone in this finished article. A new article not yet autoformatted would be an entirely different matter; it would take no more effort to create a new one without autoformatting than it takes to create one with autoformatting. I am of two minds about the inconsistency in this one. I like consistency; on the other hand, this particular inconsistency causes no great harm, and most readers will not notice it. Maybe you should just leave the citations as they are and keep your fingers crossed rather than spending valuable time on this particular nest of nits. If you get called on it at FAC, let me know, and I will help with the clean-up. Finetooth (talk) 17:06, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Butting in, I came across this thread and wanted to let you know that Forksville Covered Bridge had the autoformatted dates removed in FAC (by User:Tony1 himself, who then supported the article), but the autoformatted dates in the cite templates remained during FAC with no comment (and are still in there). I would leave them be for now. Hope this helps, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 17:31, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome - I also watch Finetooth's talk page. I think the cite templates may be changed eventually (to drop the formatting) and agree a bot will be needed to clean up. I recently had to clean up articles using cite where the "title =" parameter suddenly started putting quotes around the title. I had to remove all the quotes I had put in by hand - still not done with that. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 18:09, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the offer - I have cleaned up all the FAs and FLs I put the quotes in and need to go thropugh other articles - not sure when I started adding quotation marks to tiltes, so also not sure what to look at (so I can't say please fix all these). Sigh. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 18:35, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Hudson Valley/archive1
What do you think should be done about this? Have you modified the portal per the changes suggested? Regards, Rudget   ( logs ) 10:24, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It's no problem. I can close it if you wish (which I think is what you're hinting at) and I'll give some help too. Hopefully with your expertise of Hudson Valley and my experience with portals it should be back up at FPOC in no time. Rud  get  18:03, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/List of Norah Jones awards
If you get a chance, could you take another look at the list and offer a Support or Oppose? Thanks! Gary King ( talk ) 00:54, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Done Gary King  ( talk ) 01:05, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Gary King ( talk ) 01:34, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * No, I purposely posted the signature without the comment. It adds to the mystique. Gary King  ( talk ) 01:43, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles Needing Copy Edit
Hello former LOCE member :)

This is an invitation for you to join a brand-new WikiProject that aims to improve the articles tagged for copy edit. This is pretty important to Wikipedia because there are now over 4,000 such articles, some of which need quite a bit of help. This is not a clone of the LOCE because we will not deal with requests for copy edits, but will happily make improvements to articles at our own pace. If you're interested, sign up at the project page!

Cheers,  Samuel  Tan  02:40, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bandwidth.com
I added some references to Bandwidth.com. You may wish to revisit Articles for deletion/Bandwidth.com. -- Eastmain (talk) 18:57, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Hurricane Dolly (2008)
Hurricane Dolly (2008) is now a Cat.1 MountCan (talk) 20:01, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Yea info is coming in to me as we speak so we should keep it as a Cat.1 until more info  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MountCan (talk • contribs) 20:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Here wait 5.mins. I am going to get info in a while, visit th National Hurricane center website and search for Dolly there.MountCan (talk) 20:11, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Dolly has winds of 95mph so is now a Cat. 1 officialy MountCan (talk) 20:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Questions about the GA process
Hey Juliancolton

I'm considering jumping into WP:GAN as a reviewer (as a way to give myself more working knowledge of the MOS for use in editing in general), and since you're listed as a mentor...

Just a simple question: am I right that all reviewers need to do is ensure the article follows WP:GACR? Are there other "unwritten" things to look out for, or certain things on which reviewers are expected to focus more?

Thanks for the help :) -- Samuel  Tan  04:18, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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RFA thankspam
Thanks for your support in my RFA, which passed with 140 supporting, 11 opposing, and 4 neutral. I will do my best to live up to the trust that you have given to me. If I can ever assist you with anything, just ask.

Cheers!

J.delanoy gabs adds 19:40, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

FAC removal
Julian, when you do this, don't forget to follow through with this (and perhaps a note to the nominator). Best regards, Sandy Georgia (Talk) 18:03, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm, when I checked, it appeared that the article didn't exist. I must have mistyped the title in the search box. Seems I can't do anything correctly at FAC. :) Juliancolton Tropical   Cyclone  18:16, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter, Issue 5
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 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   01:54, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA thank-you
Thank-you for your support of me at my recent RFA, which was successful. I have appreciated everyone's comments and encouragement there. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:41, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Status report
The awards images are almost done (Penubag and Greyknight are working on them), and the pages themselves still have a couple sections that need to be completed before we can move them to article space. That pesky bot hit a couple more of the lists and removed their coats of arms images. (Which is why we need to move the pages to article space, but we can't until the temporary data is replaced, as some of it is incorrect - and we might as well complete those sections rather than simply replace the temporary data.).

I've been working on the location item, because the specs for that are kind of difficult to explain, and I keep running into new situations (in a body of water vs. on land, equatorial, transprimemeridial, transcontinental, etc.) - so I don't even have complete specs for that yet.

But the pages are shaping up, and are getting closer to usability.

Do you see where this is heading?

Eventually, the "Lists of basic topics" will be the most useful site map of Wikipedia, and of knowledge in general!

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   16:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Task overview - What we desperately need your help on!
QUIT FORGETTING! :)

Here are the details of the work on one of the two sections that need to be completed before we can move the country basic topics drafts to the article namespace...

Track down the administrative divisions types for each country
The first task is on the "Administrative divisions of" sections.

In each of these sections, there's an initial hierarchical list of the division types in that country, followed by subheadings for each of the types. Unfortunately, the types listed are those from the template I used to create these pages, and they aren't accurate for many countries.

The defaults that I used were:


 * Provinces of x
 * Districts of x
 * Municipalities of x

For each country, change the links to the names of the administrative divisions for that country, adding more links if there are more than 3 division types. Those that are subdivisions of another type are indented under the parent type. In most cases, you would leave municipalities in place, because that's a generic name for "city". We'll blue-link those later. (Blue-linking is creating a redirect so that a link turns blue - that way, the link remains standardized on all the pages in the set).

Also change the subheadings in the same section to match the initial list, including the "main article" links presented just below each subheading.

To find out what the administrative divisions are for a country so you can add them, try looking on the government of x or politics of x pages for that country, and on the country's main article as well.

Add the administrative divisions to their respective subsections
For each country, find the list of administrative division for each type, and add them under that type's subheading.

For example, copy and paste the provinces listed at Provinces of Angola under the "Provinces of Angola" subheading on that country's list page.

See the countries listed at Lists of basic topics for examples of how this has been done for those. If there's a map showing the administrative divisions, grab it too.

Generally do not add towns and cities to the municipalities section, as there are usually way too many of them (and will unnecessarily bloat the page). Instead, provide links to the various pages (Cities of x, [Towns of x, Villages of x, etc.

Have fun!

Don't worry, I'll be helping (once I'm done with the location item), and will be asking others to chip in as well.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   16:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: Start from the Z's and work your way through the countries in reverse alphabetical order. Somebody else is working from the other end of the alphabet. Hopefully, you'll meet in the middle!