User talk:Miller17CU94/Archive 17

Archive information from October 20, 2009 to February 3, 2010.

The Wikipedia Signpost: 19 October 2009
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 * News and notes: WikiReader, Meetup in Pakistan, Audit committee elections, and more
 * In the news: Sanger controversy reignited, Limbaugh libelled, and more
 * Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
 * Features and admins: Approved this week
 * Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
 * Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Re:Television images
Yes, the Celebrate Freedom 2007 Concert are images about the Gospel Music Channel and WFSH-FM in Atlanta, Georgia. --kathleen wright5 (talk) 20:03, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Celebrate freedom 2007 main stand.jpg is also under Category:Christian radio images --kathleen wright5 (talk) 20:13, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 26 October 2009
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 * Interview: Interview with John Blossom
 * News and notes: New hires, German Wikipedian dies, new book tool, and more
 * In the news: Editor profiled in Washington Post, Wikia magazines, and more
 * Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
 * Features and admins: Approved this week
 * Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
 * Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

List of artificial whitewater courses
Hello Chris,

I am a former resident of Chattanooga and Atlanta, in your neighborhood. (Potomac river area now.) I have noticed your excellent coverage of the whitewater slalom sport. My interest is in the artificial courses. If you have course maps, photos, and other info, I could make use of all of it. I have been doing a lot of research with satellite images. My article on Dickerson is first-hand. I have run the course 25 times and am working on Blue Card certification. HowardMorland (talk) 22:25, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 2 November 2009
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 9 November 2009
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Invitation to participate in SecurePoll feedback and workshop
As you participated in the recent Audit Subcommittee election, or in one of two requests for comment that relate to the use of SecurePoll for elections on this project, you are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome. For the Arbitration Committee, Risker (talk) 08:28, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

re: FIBT links
I'd love to help. I'm currently working my way through articles I can find with broken FIBT links and fixing them. I'm new to these sports, though, so I'm not aware of all the issues involved. I think FIBT link would work for FIBT athlete profiles. I've been looking through the FIL-Luge.org site. Are all the profile URLs on that site of the http://www.fil-luge.org/filext/athlet/erfolge_en.asp?p_id=100417 type? Kolindigo (talk) 21:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)


 * How's FIL-Luge name for the luge profiles? Please move the template if you don't like the name. :) Kolindigo (talk) 22:05, 12 November 2009 (UTC)


 * FIL-Luge link should work for news articles. Let me know if there are any problems. Kolindigo (talk) 00:00, 13 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Rather than try to mimic cite news/cite web, I think it would be better to just make the link templates play nicely with cite templates. I've added a "cite" field which will treat the fibt/fil link as simply the url, not a working link, and will fit into the "url" field in the cite template. Kolindigo (talk) 21:07, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Template for FIS pages
Hi! There is a template for linking to FIS pages. Please use this in the future. See example here. Geschichte (talk) 12:31, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Russian skier
Hi! You created Vladimir Legotine, 	although 2 years ago you had already done  Vladimir Legotin :)

Speedy deletion nomination of First Baptist Church (Conyers, Georgia)
A tag has been placed on First Baptist Church (Conyers, Georgia) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for organizations and companies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 16 November 2009
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Articles for deletion nomination of Marmsoler
I have nominated Marmsoler, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Marmsoler. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:26, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 23 November 2009
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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:World cups
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 30 November 2009
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 7 December 2009
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 December 2009
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Did You Know question
Hello! Your submission of Singing Christmas tree at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! (Note: I always leave approvals to others.) Art LaPella (talk) 05:33, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Art LaPella (talk) 19:37, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Vandal
The warning you gave was the third. But for better or worse, the usual practice is to report vandals to WP:AIV after he has ignored the fourth warning listed at WP:VAND. It's not the only practice, but anyway I've had a hard time predicting what the AIV people are likely to do, so I let them handle it. Art LaPella (talk) 19:59, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 December 2009
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Merry Christmas
I wish you Merry and Blessed Christmas. Have a great, happy and peaceful time, my friend, and a productive 2010. Hope to cooperate with you in next year. - Darwinek (talk) 16:39, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of CFA International Cat Show
Hello! Your submission of CFA International Cat Show at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Calmer  Waters  19:27, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 December 2009
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 1 January 2010
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Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Miller17CU94! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 6 of the articles that you created  are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 18 January 2010
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barnstar
Thank you! Geschichte (talk) 14:30, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 25 January 2010
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 1 February 2010
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WikiProject Olympics interview
Aloha! I am tasked with the Wikipedia Signpost report on WikiProject Olympics, to coincide with the 2010 Winter Olympics. I have compiled some questions at here, and was wondering if you would be interested in answering them on behalf of the project. Thanks, Ks0stm  If you reply here, please leave me a  message on my talk page. 06:52, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

1. First, tell us a bit about yourself and your involvement in WikiProject Olympics.
 * Answers
 * I have been a member of Wikipedia since May 2006. I joined WikiProject Olympics within a month after I joined. I actually joined as a follow-up to the Holmenkollen ski festival in Oslo when I noticed a lot of the winners and Holmenkollen medalists also won medals in the Winter Olympics.

'''2. When did you first join WikiProject Olympics? What are some of the challenges that the project has met since you joined, and how were they dealt with?'''
 * As mentioned in my earlier comments, I joined within a month of joining Wikipedia in June 2006. Some of the challenges I have seen have been standardizing the formats for Olympic athletes in medal tables, in combining this with the various World Championships such as the FIBT World Championships with bobsleigh and skeleton at the Winter Olympics as an example. Another issue has been finding valid sourcing on the athletes. At first we had databaseOlympics.com, but that only dealt with the medalists. In 2008, a lot of the users discovered sports-reference.com which covered all of the Olympic competitors from the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896 to the most recent Olympics in Beijing in 2008. It also includes the Winter Olympics. It has also forced some of the other websites like FIBT or the International Luge Federation to upgrade their athlete database to assist the growth of their sports interest. Main focus has been with event results and their standardization even though what might work in cross-country skiing may not work in gymnastics.

'''3. What aspects of the project do you consider to be particularly successful? Has the project developed any unusual innovations, or uniquely adopted any common approaches?''' One of the innovations I have seen is the ability to use standardized templates for athletes and news articles for different sports where it is now common. Examples of this are from the International Ski Federation and the United States Olympic Committee. Other sites such as the FIBT and the International Luge Federation had their website format changed in the two years so it made sourcing the site difficult. User:Kolindigo assisted on this greatly and has been able to make sourcing of this easier and it was done last November. This has helped on a lot of bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton, especially on the Whistler Sliding Centre.

'''4. Have any major initiatives by the project ended unsuccessfully? What lessons have you learned from them?'''

'''5. What experiences have you had with the WikiProjects whose scopes overlap with yours? Has your project developed particularly close relationships with any other projects?'''

6. What plans does WikiProject Olympics have concerning the 2010 Winter Olympics? Cover every event and every athlete competing in those events. It includes winners and previous champions so that you can see what the results in as close to real time as possible.

'''7. What is your vision for the project? How do you see the project itself, as well as the articles within its scope, developing over the next years and future Olympics?''' My vision is to see more of the people who have actually competed there. Some of Wikipedia's FAs have featured Olympians such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Ian Thorpe. I would like to see an expansion of venues. One of my goals is to get the Sliding Centre mentioned in the third question up the GA and hopefully FA status. No Olympic venue has reached this plateau and I would like to see that happen. Chris (talk) 14:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)