User talk:MatthewDBA

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Circumscriptional name
Hello, Matt! Thanks for criticism on this one. I fully agree, the way it's written is rather confusing. Gonna improve this as soon as I have time or as I can figure out a better way of saying it. Cheers. Vae victis 16:30, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

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Hi. I've removed the use of the religious title as name and in the title because it really doesn't seem to be the way things are done in articles of other religious leaders. I'm afraid I've left it in a bit of mess though without the title anywhere. Do you know all of the forms of address to go in an infobox? Also I think the information that you have put up needs refences. Thanks A Geek Tragedy 17:34, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Autodesk vault
Don't worry about "jumping the gun" sometimes an AfD is what we need to get a fire under someone to do a rewrite. Thats one of the reasons we do the AfD. Hope you keep contributing. --Pboyd04 22:40, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

You beat me to the deletion of BBBD&GWHH
I was just about to tag Big Bad Booty Daddy & Great White Hooter Hunter for deletion, but you got it first. Nice grab. Tim Sailor 22:02, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

convent riots
Are you still working on the Ursuline Convent Riots article? If not, could you removed the "under construction template?--Kerowyn 06:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

LAYYLIAAAAALIALYYAAAALYIAAAAAAAAAA
Was LAYYLIAAAAALIALYYAAAALYIAAAAAAAAAA meant to be funny, or did someone use your computer when you weren't looking? It's certainly a speedy candidate if ever I saw one... in fact it got speedy-deleted even as I typed this. Fourohfour 18:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually I didn't add that: I saw it on the New Pages list. I thought I nominated it for speedy; on the other hand I think it got caught up in an edit conflict -- someone marked it nonsense at the same time I did, I guess. It's not listed any more on my contributions. But then it wouldn't be if it was deleted, now would it? -- MatthewDBA 21:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * (I don't put "funny" in here; I take Wikipedia's status as an encyclopedia very seriously, and I wish I knew how my name somehow got attached to the article. Hmph. -- MatthewDBA 21:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Given that your other contributions seemed to be of good quality, I'm quite prepared to believe you. Haven't a clue what happened, though. BTW, I think contributions aren't listed once they get deleted; it was literally speedy-deleted between my typing the first part of the sentence above and finishing it off, so it certainly would have been gone by the time you saw my reply. Fourohfour 13:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Alice@
Well spotted. Deleted now. Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] 22:35, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

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Version 1.0 "Release Version Qualifying"
Hi, I'm interested in your feedback on Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Qualifying. It's essentially an idea to use a process similar to WP:FAC to identify and handle articles and lists that would go in a release version. Maurreen 19:47, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

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Libya
Hi,

I've recently added Libya to the list of featured article candidates. Overall the candidature is going well with many of the objections now sorted out. The final concrete objection is with the article's prose. I have been the main contributor to the article and have been looking at it for the previous 9 - 10 months. My eyes no longer see it freshly, so I am not a suitable copy-editor!

To meet the final demand of copy editing, I have been advised to ask different people to edit parts of the article.

I would really love to get this article featured as you can probably see from the page's history! I've worked very hard on it and I see this as possibly being the final hurdle.

You can see the prose objections, mostly raised by Sandy, on the candidature page. If you have the time, please choose a section (Politics, Religion, Culture etc.) and copyedit, perfect , ace it! I would be very grateful with any help I can get.

Thanks a lot,

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I have been inactive in assigning articles and running the overhead. If soemone is willing to help then I'm willing to try to get it going again. Are you interested in helping with the organization? You can grab any of the existing articles. RJFJR (talk) 15:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic
I have moved your comments from my user page to my discussion page where I think they belong. Also, I have sorted the problem so please reinstate the article.

Many thanks --John Price (talk) 20:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

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Cosmological argument
MatthewDBA,

I have posted a response on the article's discussion page.

12.208.25.100 71.39.35.41 (talk) 23:13, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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Montessori Method - major revamp
Mathew: I know you have been working on a "major revamp" of Montessori Method. I mentioned to you a couple of months ago that I was doing this as well. I have completed the task,and would appreciate any comments you have before I post it up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Havis1/Montessori_method Havis1 (talk) 19:52, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

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Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.

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I look forward to your participation and hope that because of it, some day the backlog will be gone!

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Excuse me, are you available for copy-editing? URDNEXT (talk) 15:55, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Good articles Future GAN Backlog Drive
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TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.

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GA Cup
Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!

As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:

For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.

For more info on the proposal, click here. As a FYI, the proposal page is not what the final product will look like (if you do go ahead with this idea). It will look very similar to WikiCup's page(s).

The discussion for the proposal will take place here. Please let us know if you are interested, have any concerns, things to consider, etc.

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