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You're invited...
In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, establish a membership process for the chapter, review the upcoming Wiki-Conference New York 2009 (planned for ~100 people at NYU this summer) and future projects like Wikipedia at the Library, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the March meeting's minutes).

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About Using Twinkle
Yeah sorry about that I'm still working on all the features of wikipedia. Odd though, I'm pretty sure I was using Twinkly, I must have messed something up in some of my recent edits, I'll make sure I do it right next time. John Collier (talk) 01:41, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

You're invited...
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Wikimeetup: Philadelphia 8
I think you're gonna want to change the date on this one, guys. Or the location. The 14th is the day after Drexel's graduation ceremony. Between possible odd building hours and closings for special events, and the fact that Mikey's will probably be swarming with parents, I'm thinking you're safest just holding it elsewhere or elsewhen. Incidentally, I won't be able to attend at that date and time. -- Te xa sD ex  &#9733;  01:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah I'm aware that it falls near commencement. Based upon the turn-out last time, I don't think that meeting in Creese will be an issue. We can play dinner by ear, although typically the day AFTER commencement is a non-event. --Mblumber (talk) 03:47, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Middle Class Working Families Task Force
Thanks for the help. This is my first real article. I was searching for the solution and when I came back moments later you had fixed it. That's what I call service. I wish my Mechanic was that good! Where can I find an explanation of how I should frame the refs and external sources??? Thanks again.--Buster7 (talk) 05:08, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * For help with references, see Help:References! --Mblumber (talk) 05:12, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Wiki takes Philly
Hello! I'm sorry I missed the Philly Meetup, but I just listened to the Recording of the meeting, and I am really interested in helping with Wiki takes Philly. I personally want to participate, and I think I can help to promote it, too. I am a Film/Video major at Drexel, so I know a lot of people interested in photography and related fields who might be interested in the scavenger hunt. Plus, I know the best places to hang fliers and circulate information.

Another good place to publicize is this event that happens every fall on the parkway. It used to be called Campus Philly Kick-off, but now appears to be called College Day. I'm not sure if you've been there, but there are lots of "vendors" set up giving away free things and also answering questions, and if we could get a booth there, it would be a great way to talk to more students.

So. Please keep me up to date with any changes with specifics, and I will try to get the word around here at Drexel!

Also, if I think of more places to add to the list, should I just add them? Or should I run them by you first? --Secundus Zephyrus (talk) 06:49, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Hello! Thanks for your interest. It's going to be great working with you on this. I've been to college day, and you're right, if there's any way we can promote this there, that would be awesome. However, we don't have money for a booth or anything, so unless they want to give us one free, it's not going to happen. In terms of the list, be bold and add everything you want. Let me know if you have any questions. Talk to you soon. --Mblumber (talk) 12:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

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Overboard EP
Hi Mblumber. Just a reminder that album articles are not eligible for speedy deletion if there is an article about the musician. Thanks, Paul Erik  (talk) (contribs) 04:27, 25 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The article for Drew Gasparini was created after I posted the speedy tag. --Mblumber (talk) 04:30, 25 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, so it was. My apologies for not checking the timing in the histories. Paul Erik  (talk) (contribs) 04:52, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

You're invited...
In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wiki-Conference New York, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia Takes Manhattan and Wikipedia at the Library, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the May meeting's minutes).

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Places?
Do we have places established for the start or the finish of Wikipedia takes Philadelphia? --DThomsen8 (talk) 17:29, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Not as of yet. Hopefully soon. --Mblumber (talk) 03:27, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Already too late for some kinds of publicity. If you have a flyer by Thursday, I can give it out at the Fairmount Civic Association meeting that night. --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:28, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Should be achievable. --Mblumber (talk) 15:06, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I see the starting location. Is there shelter, or what happens if it rains? I can check it out, though. I also plan to check out a possible free parking location within reasonable walking distance. Rather than be on a team, I am volunteering to be a member of the staff on the check-in table, and I expect to be able to return for the completion/upload party.  I do not have a laptop, though.  I will learn about the upload site, but I am curious about how the photos are eventually uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.  I have uploaded hundreds of photos, mostly of Philadelphia but occasionally for other places (Grover Cleveland's birthplace in NJ) using Commonist, but I like to include as much information as I can obtain to the photo descriptions.  This has the advantage of allowing the addition of information without needing citations, but I am careful about accuracy. --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:11, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Questions:


 * 1) What happens if it rains?
 * 2) How do photos get to Wikimedia Commons?
 * 3) Do you have a flyer/press release?--DThomsen8 (talk) 16:11, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Answers


 * 1) If it rains the event will be cancelled
 * 2) We don't know yet. It'll be decided in the coming days
 * 3) I do have a flier. Please e-mail me directly if you want a copy. For more info, you can direct people to the WTP page.


 * I sent the email before reading this. I will revise my flyer to say what happens if it rains. Send along your flyer, but for tonight I will probably use my flyer, which is tailored for my audience.

I am suggesting:
 * Any skyscraper without a photo now. I will attempt to make a list. --DThomsen8 (talk) 17:05, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia
 You're invited to the

Wiki Takes Philadelphia

October 4, 2009

Time: 12 pm

Location: Drexel Quad (33rd and Market) University City, Philadelphia 'RSVP (view/edit this template'')

Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia is a photo scavenger hunt and free content photography contest to be held all around Philadelphia aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles.

Scheduled for Sunday, October 4, 2009, the check-in location will be at the Drexel University quad (between Chestnut and Market, 33rd and 32nd) at noon, and the ending party and photo uploading (location to be announced) will be at 6 PM. To reach the Drexel quad, walk south from Market Street at 32nd Street into the campus.

'''[http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dC1OUlVTRUJwempjREg3VkRHUEF1Z3c6MA.. Register your team here]'''

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Exactly where is the Drexel Quad? Is it by the building with all the fountains shooting up from the ground? Or is it further west near 33rd Street? --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's the one with the fountains. There's a large construction site to the west. It's not in there. --Mblumber (talk) 01:04, 1 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I will put up a photo of the quad for the benefit of those who don't know the campus. Will there be a table and chairs, or are you planning to grab one of those table and chairs by the 32nd Street entrance?--DThomsen8 (talk) 11:21, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Drexel Advertising
Hello! We discussed a few months ago about promoting WTP at Drexel, and since I am a film major there, I know some good places to hang up posters, and also some ways to send mass emails. I read above that there is a flier for the event? If you email it to me, I can print up a bunch and hang them around the various art departments at Drexel. Also, if you want to write up a little blurb for a mass email, I can get it sent to all the Drexel film majors (there are a few hundred)--or I can just write one myself, whatever works best. And if there is anything else I can do as a Drexel student to help with this event, please let me know! I hope it turns out really well! --Secundus Zephyrus (talk) 20:10, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I Just e-mailed you. Thanks!!! --Mblumber (talk) 20:45, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikis Take Manhattan
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Tony Luke's
Were you aware that it's the third time this article has been deleted (in various forms, of course)? Deb (talk) 17:11, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

You're invited!
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Cache Valley Railroad
I removed your speedy deletion tag - this article needs a bunch of cleanup, but it's about a notable railroad. --NE2 05:32, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

ACB Han Noi FC
Yeh go ahead and delete this page I found an already completed page for this team so abandoned it.

Strange tag
I find this tag very strange. It says "consisting purely of incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history". I'm not at all sure the article should be kept, but it's perfectly clearly written and leaves no doubt about what its topic is: it looks as if it's trying to take one step further the sequence that begins with the real numbers, then goes to the complex numbers, then the quaternions, then the octonions,.....etc. Calling it incoherent gibberish when it's so clear and so efficiently expressed is not appropriate. Michael Hardy (talk) 04:47, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Trigintaduonion
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Conflicted licensing on image File:Waffle friedman.jpg
The above noted image or media file appears to have conflicted licensing. As an image cannot be both 'free' and 'unfree', a check of the exact status of this media/image concerned is advised.Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * This is fixed. Thanks. --Mblumber (talk) 06:54, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Converted to PROD: Back to the 50s
Hello Mblumber, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I have changed a page you tagged (Back to the 50s) from being tagged for speedy deletion to being tagged for proposed deletion. The speedy deletion criteria are very narrow to protect the encyclopedia, and do not fit the page in question. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. Thanks again! decltype (talk) 07:36, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day NYC
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Speedy deletion declined: List of BJP MPs in the Rajya Sabha
Hello Mblumber. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of List of BJP MPs in the Rajya Sabha, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: sufficient context that they are MPs from a political party and which state they represent. Thank you. - Spaceman  Spiff  05:18, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

American Society of Tax Problem Solvers
Hi, I removed the speedy deletion of the template from the article. In its current state the article does not reach the level of promotion that would warrant a speedy deletion. Sincerely, -- Pink Bull  21:38, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

You're invited to Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia
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NYC Wikipedia Meetup Sunday, March 21
In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikipedia Day NYC, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia at the Library and Lights Camera Wiki, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, for example User:ScienceApologist will present on "climate change, alternative medicine, UFOs and Transcendental Meditation" (see the November meeting's minutes).

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I'll be there
At Wiki takes Philadelphia. If I put up a bunch of NRHP targets, I may lay off of those, hoping to get others involved in taking these, and I might have an unfair advantage in a couple of ways (knowing where they are and maybe how to point and shoot buildings). In any case I'll probably focus on the non-NRHP's and come back the next week to finish up anything on the NRHP Center City list. Smallbones (talk) 00:39, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I just RSVPed for you on the page. See you there. --Mblumber (talk) 03:10, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Advertising
The Drexel Honors College did not include our blurb in their email. Do you want me to make a Facebook event like last time or have you given up with that idea? -Secundus Zephyrus (talk) 16:24, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113091428706618 --Mblumber (talk) 01:50, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Wiki takes Philadelphia
I am now quite late for this event. Any way to participate? Leave a message here, or email me. --DThomsen8 (talk) 17:28, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Microsoft KIN
Is your suggestion to keep using all-caps based on a belief that WP:MOSTM is wrong and should be changed, or do you feel there is some exception in that policy that applies here? I don't see anything. I must admit I'd previously taken the general view that you should spell trademarks however the holder would like, but that's not house policy at Wikipedia. Rvcx (talk) 08:46, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I see what you're saying about the Wikipedia style and it's very clear on this issue that it should be in lower case. How about as a compromise we wait until the phone is released, just in case they're intending to make it an acronym (no one really knows). --Mblumber (talk) 15:48, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

NYC Wikipedia Meetup Saturday, May 22
In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikimedia Chapters Meeting 2010, plan for the next stages of projects like Wiki-Conference NYC and Wikipedia Cultural Embassy, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the March meeting's minutes).

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Rosemary Hayes
The biography of Rosemary Hayes which you appear to have split recently from the article for the book Troubled Waters is now tagged as an unreferenced BLP. The Troubled Waters (book) article has been deleted. I thought I'd post here in case you would like to take an interest in providing references for the biography.--Plad2 (talk) 22:48, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I do not have an interest in updating that page. I just split it off because the article didn't make sense before. I'm not intending to assert notability. --Mblumber (talk) 03:16, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Rosemary Hayes


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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Western names in Chinese
Could you please explain why you decided that this page was not appropriate to copy to Wiktionary, when you made this edit? Thanks,  Chzz  ► 22:44, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Wiktionary is for definitions of words, not for lists of names like this article suggested. Can you show me a similar article that is included today in Wiktionary? --Mblumber (talk) 14:32, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I am no expert in Wiktionary, however, I did ask some, and they suggested the inclusion. I had a quick look in Scope, and it does appear to be appropriate.  Chzz  ► 01:12, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The way that I interpret The Wiktionary CFI is that given names are appropriate for inclusion. The issue with this article is that it's a list of names. Lists do not belong in the project. The proper way to include this information is to actually insert the Chinese names into existing articles of those names. You follow? --Mblumber (talk) 02:52, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry to butt in, but why is the list format so important? According to your comment at the AFC, you want there to be a resource to allow people to find out what their name is Chinese.  Move these items to their relevant pages on Wiktionary, users can look up their name, hey presto, mission accomplished. Surely this is acceptable to you? Anyway, whether it is or it isn't, the point still stands that the article is not suitable for Wikipedia.  AJ  Cham  03:44, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * AJCham, that comment was added by the IP user who created the AFC -
 * Mblumber, Wiktionary is quite accustomed to dealing with imported lists, and splitting them into appropriate articles to suit that project; that is part of the import process.  Chzz  ► 00:09, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry about that. I guess I was a somewhat hasty in butting in, and should have tried to understand the background a little better. My bad.  AJ Cham  00:28, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's fine. I still disagree with you, in that all you're doing is creating more work for the Wiktionary people. However since I'm not going to be the one who will need to parse your list and insert it into all the articles, it doesn't really matter to me. No more about this on my page. Thanks. --Mblumber (talk) 21:24, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Wiki-Conference NYC (2nd annual)
Our 2nd annual Wiki-Conference NYC has been confirmed for the weekend of August 28-29 at New York University.

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Wikipedia NYC Meetup Sat Oct 16
In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wiki-Conference NYC 2010, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia Ambassador Program and Wikipedia Academy, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the May meeting's minutes).

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File:Waffle friedman.jpg listed for deletion
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 * I created a new page Martha Friedman that might be a better home for it. --Mblumber (talk) 22:30, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

NYC Meetup: Saturday, December 4
Our next Wikipedia NYC Meetup is this weekend on Saturday Dec 4 at Brooklyn Museum during their awesome First Saturdays program, starting at 5 PM.

A particular highlight for the wiki crowd will be 'Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968', and the accompanying "WikiPop" project, with specially-created Wikipedia articles on the artists displayed on iPads in the gallery.

This will be a museum touring and partying meetup, so no excuses about being a shy newbie this time. Bring a friend too!

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Nomination of Leon Pranix for deletion
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