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Svenska/svenskspråkiga
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Mike Bigg Page
You questioned why I capitalized Killer Whale.............It is no different than displaying the word "person" and then displaying a name "Scott Williams".

You can display dolphin, whale, shark, fish, etc., but displaying a specific animal, you display with Capitals just like you would a person's Name.

Gregg

grm.phd@gmail.com

'''To add further, if you look at the first portion of the page, you will notice Falcons, Water Shrews, and Harbor Seals are all Capitalized!!!!

Robsonbight 3-14-15 grm.phd@gmail.com''' — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robsonbight (talk • contribs) 17:30, 14 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I have no problem with capitalising the names of individuals whales, but that's not what you did. You changed all mentions killer whales to Killer Whales. This is just not the accepted way to capitalise words. Nouns are not capitalised, and 'killer whale' is a noun, not a pronoun. Look at the way it is written on the page killer whale, for instance. The capitalisation of those other animals is also not correct. See WP:CAPITALISATION and capitalisation in English. Liam987  (talk)  17:34, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

'''So if I understand what you are attempting to explain is a person's name a.k.a. Scott Wilson should be scott wilson. A Killer Whale or Beluga Whale or Blue Whale, Bottlenose Dolphin, Great White Shark, etc. are specific types of animals and not displayed as a singular whales, dolphins, fish for example.

Animals do not have specific names like humans, but are classified individually by species and such, the correct labeling is like a person's name. ''' — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robsonbight (talk • contribs) 17:55, 14 March 2015 (UTC)


 * That's simply not true. Look at the pages for beluga whale or blue whale or any of those, or look in a book, or Google it, and you'll find that types of animals are not capitalised. Liam987  (talk)  18:08, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

No sense in arguing. You're right and I'm wrong so you win. Just glad there is a page dedicated to Mike and will let it go at that. You're happy to be the English Pro and I'm happy to see a page dedicated to Mike. Will be changing all the killer whale names to your specifications. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robsonbight (talk • contribs) 18:30, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Sonia Lagarde


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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 2
For this month's issue...

Making sense of a lot of data.

Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.

We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.

We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.

Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.

As a couple of asides...


 * Database Reports has existed for several years on Wikipedia to the satisfaction of many, but many of the reports stopped running when the Toolserver was shut off in 2014. However, there is good news: the weekly New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes reports are back, with potential future reports in the future.
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My article
Hi liam, on my recent article i submitted Jonathan has given me his chartered institute membership number so this can be proven if you wish to contact them, or I can show you his accreditation?

thanks

Up&#39;n&#39;ComingJ-lists (talk) 19:52, 22 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You can remove the WP:BLPPROD tag if you have even a reference. The one you provided to the Chartered Institute does not mention Jonathan Shaw. It needs to be a reference everyone can check, so his membership number won't help, as that requires contacting the institute. The best way for you to find a reference would be to cite an article this journalist has written.
 * However, also not that most likely this journalist does not meet the notability guidelines at WP:NPERSON and WP:JOURNALIST, and will be deleted anyway. Also, you seem to know Jonathan Swift personally. Editing articles about people you know is discourage by Wikipedia and regarded as a conflict of interest.
 * I'm sorry your article has been nominated for deletion and hope this doesn't discourage you from continuing to edit Wikipedia. Liam987  (talk)  19:59, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi liam, it's gunna be hard to reference as the only proof is via contacting the Institute, thanks for your help. I'll see what articles i can find Up&#39;n&#39;ComingJ-lists (talk) 20:04, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

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