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Stay-at-home dad
Hey, thanks for correctly adding us to the good article nomination page, we are VERY new to wikipedia, and sometimes don't get everything quite right. Anyways, my group members and I are currently figuring out how to go about completing the edit you suggested. We will be working together on this a great deal tomorrow, so check it periodically (if possible) and let us know if we're on the right track. If it's ok, I will post some questions to your talk page as they arise. Thanks! Denastroje (talk) 01:14, 28 July 2009 (UTC)Denastroje

Student GAs
Nice work on your reviews. It's kinda fun to students motivated by an actual grade. Do you think any of yours are going to pass? - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 04:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Good Work
Good work on the Winnipeg page. It needed a proper re-organization and more references. Feel free to move some of the history components to the History of Winnipeg page. I am adding to the main page right now and listing the footnotes but some of it can likely get moved over.

Some of the sub-articles could probably do with a cleaning as well once the Good Article criteria met on the main page. jdobbin (talk) 02:03, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

History of the family
That would be her, not his (re: Koliber). I think you could explain it to her why there is no need to renominate her, I am not sure myself why should would do so. How do you judge the article's improvement since the review? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 03:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I do agree; it's a shame that what was supposed a five-person group in the end turned to be about one-and-a-half. I will certainly not penalize her for the hard work - don't worry :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 03:21, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Nikkimaria and Piotrus, I guess I am kind of anxious, I was hoping to get some more feedback before the end of the class and got confused about the review process - I thought I had to nominate again after improving the article from the first review.Koliber (talk) 13:55, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi Nikkimaria, I was hoping to hear from you after my last changes to the article. My class has ended and I am going to take a break for a while but I would like to hear your comments. Thanks a lot. Koliber (talk) 20:55, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I will not have time to work on the article now, you can take it from the hold. I will came back to it later.  Thank you Koliber (talk) 16:17, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks for all your help with American family structure, Nikkimaria. It was pretty tough there for awhile, as only two of our five-member group actually did any work on the project. Tony and I are grateful for your suggestions and contributions!

I think Piotrus' goal in acclimating us to wikipedia was also a hidden agenda to get some of us hooked on it--I personally am very interested in participating further with the site. I would love to know how you got your start and where newbies should go from here in becoming valuable wikipedians. Please feel free to leave a message on my user page and I look forward to keeping in touch. --Red walnut (talk) 18:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

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Musical instrument
Hello, please do not nominate musical instrument for GA status. I have been the only serious editor of this article for at least a year and it is not ready. There are entire blocks of information missing and it is not comprehensive. I believe you should consult with the primary editor(s) of an article before nominating it to make sure of these things. -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  01:09, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  01:21, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. Take a look at the Working outline at Talk:Musical instrument. As you can see, I have some more information to add in the History section. I am at Baroque but I still need to write the last two subheadings. If you want to help out, can you take a look at the Construction and User Interfaces section? The Construction section definitely needs to be expanded to talk more about materials and construction, and both sections need sources. I have not looked for sources yet, but there may be books about it. Thanks! -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  02:24, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar for fairness
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Review
Thanks for taking the time to go through it. It should be fairly easy to find the sources and it mostly seems to be a few tweaks here and there that is needed. I still need to get around to redoing the rest of the history section (post-Middle Ages). How long is it OK to keep it on hold for? - Yorkshirian (talk) 04:03, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 GA nomination
Hi - just a polite nudge about the above which is still on hold. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:33, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

British Library GA Nomination
Just wanted to say thanks for the review, it gives us a good list of points to work towards. Regards, Miyagawa (talk) 12:08, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

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Bravo
Thanks for having created articles about great Russian and Italian clarinetists. I also contributed with Sergei Rozanov ― Velmistr (talk) 15:13, 15 September 2009 (UTC), a.k.a. ru:Участник:Musicien

Welcomestudent
Nice job catching them even before I do :) But I've noticed you are forgetting to subst the template...? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Run-on sentences
Could I ask a favour? You and an anon editor have commented on the number of run-on sentences in Saruman. By my understanding this means having two complete clauses joined only by a comma, and I can't see many (if any) of those in the article. However, I believe there are other definitions of the term (or I may just be missing them!). Would you mind listing a few typical examples from the article on the talk page so that I can get a better understanding of what you think is needed? Many thanks. 4u1e (talk) 21:32, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Bill Clinton
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Flu GA
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Progress at England
Thank you for your persistence with England. A minor note to say that it looks like the Cornish language issue may have been resolved, and it also led to an improvement in the coverage of other languages in England, so that was a bonus. But the modern era for history (namely the lack thereof) is still a problem :-) hamiltonstone (talk) 23:56, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

St. Boniface General Hospital (Winnipeg) - GA review
Hi, I'm doing this GA review. I've posted some comments at Talk:St. Boniface General Hospital (Winnipeg)/GA1. Unfortunately I've had ot pause the review until the issues I've already found have been fixed and you've checked that similar issues in the rest of the artcile have also been fixed. However I hope you will fix them, as this appears to be a world-class hospital. --Philcha (talk) 12:30, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, Nikkimaria, have you checked that the article has no further referencing / WP:V issues? --Philcha (talk) 15:41, 15 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, Nikkimaria,I've rechecked as far as the "lead" part of "Research". There are still sources that don't support what the article text says. There's also a lack of independent sources. Apart from St. B's own publicity, much is from government and funding bodies that will tend to present things in the best possible light. For example I'd accept comments about numbers of patients treated (subject to lack of treatment quality stats) or C$ funded, but not something like like "world-class research centre" as that's just advertising from the hospital or its sponsors. --Philcha (talk) 06:22, 18 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, Nikkimaria, I see you've done a lot of work - especially on focussing on the activities and facilities that make St. B special, that's looking impressive now. Let me known when you're ready for me to resume. --Philcha (talk) 09:01, 1 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, Nikkimaria, for your note. The main issue now is the over-reliance on PR sources - St.B's own PR, the provincial govt's (they have an interest in talking it up to make the pol and officials look good) and industry's (the example I found copied St. B PR). If you replace as much as possible with expert but independent sources, and then scrapping comments that rely only on PR, you'll have a more focussed and more impressive article. It's your job as an editor to make sure that all statements are supported by high-quality sources. --Philcha (talk) 17:21, 3 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, Nikkimaria, I seen you've made no changes since 4 Nov 2009. Have you dealt with all over-reliance on PR source? --Philcha (talk) 11:30, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

2009 flu pandemic GA
Currently working on the wikilinks. Anything further (see review page)?

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Thank you
thank you very much on the GA review of Aboriginal peoples in Canada...much appreciated. I Was hoping it was closer then that to get its GA status, but your right on all you said. It is a very wide topic and with all the different contributors it is hard to keep it neat...like from when i asked for review it has had +10000 bits of info added by no less then 15 people. If i notice that the article gets fixed i will let you know so you can review it again......

Again tks for your time and input...I know your job is hard and is very appreciated by wiki users, Keep up the good job :) Buzzzsherman (talk) 18:54, 4 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Hello my wonderfully GA adviser ...I was thinking of putting up Aboriginal peoples in Canada again for Review...I think we are ready ...but is that Article size thing a problem i see the Canada page  is 134 kilobytes to long, yet it is rated FA. I would believe that this article would fall under Article size as it is a broad subjects.The version now of the article is 121 kilobytes to long. Anyway tks for all your help, your GA summery and SriMesh wording of things has taught me alot,  not only here at wiki, but in-general how write properly.
 * Smiley.svg (talk) 17:39, 7 October 2009 (UTC)]]

Update on Pittsburgh course GA assignment
Just want to let you know that students should chose their subjects by today, see Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/User:Piotrus/Fall_2009. Let me know if any of those seem problematic. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:01, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Deviant subculture group switched to First World with my blessing. Food power is quite notable . The Chinese group makes me a little worried in terms of whether they can frame it as an encyclopedic problem, though. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:21, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I was thinking along similar lines. What about globalization and China? I am actually a bit surprised we don't seem to have any overview of globalization by country. What worries me about this subject is that it may be too broad. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:43, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Students are now posting early plans and comments on the talk pages of articles they have chosen. They may use some advice from you as well, if you have time to look at those pages and leave some comments in the next few days. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

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GA
Hi Nikki, we've finished up the rest of the England article. Do you think its GA passable yet? Comparing it to other GA's (Scotland) and even FA's (Germany) it seems up to scratch. - Yorkshirian (talk) 00:38, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


 * The rest is done now, including alt text for images and ref formating. - Yorkshirian (talk) 08:36, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

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Aboriginal peoples in Canada part 2
Aboriginal peoples in Canada back up for review. Good article nominations ....Hope you had a good thanksgiving.Buzzzsherman (talk) 03:18, 14 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok lets try again........ :) Buzzzsherman (talk) 23:00, 18 October 2009 (UTC)


 * ok ready we think ...no rush take your time........Ps we are going/are already helping with Canada article (well all SriMesh so far) but i will help when he is done ,,no way an article like that should not be updated to keep FA level...

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New article
Greetings! I am submitting an article I've worked on to be peer reviewed. If possible, could you please take the time to look it over? It's the first one I've ever submitted for peer review. Thanks! Here it is: Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne       Ruby2010 (talk) 04:17, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure thing, I'll take a look at it later today. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 13:32, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

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Greco-Persian War
Yes, I started the review, but agreed with the nominator that it will take quite long because I was abroad for a month. If you want we can review it together because it's quite a long article. Greetings Wandalstouring (talk) 14:01, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Prose and MOS are not my strongest issues, so I suggest you may cover them. If I see some difficulties in this field you have not covered I will comment. I suggest the same approach for the other issues. I will start the review this evening. Greetings Wandalstouring (talk) 13:23, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Peer review
Hi Nikkimaria - I got your name from Peer review/volunteers, where you say you're interested in reviewing articles related to Canadian history. I just listed Richard Gavin Reid, and if you have the time I'd love to hear your comments. I'd be happy to review and/or copyedit an article of your choice in return. If you don't have the time, that's perfectly understandable; just thought I'd ask. Steve Smith (talk) 02:11, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your work! By all means, you can postpone it; if I were less lazy I'd find some kind of IOU-style graphic to drop here as a reminder. Steve Smith (talk) 03:23, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I've taken a stab at reducing the colloquialisms and also made other improvements to the prose. If you have a chance to take another look at it, I'd very much appreciate it. Steve Smith (talk) 16:37, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks again, and please do try to think of some way I can repay you. Steve Smith (talk) 23:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Of interest
Best_practices_in_assigning_Wikipedia_articles_as_coursework_to_students. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 04:41, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

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A request to re-read Anna Anderson
Hello. I see you have been active before at Anna Anderson, I wonder whether you might take a gander at the article itself; it is a bit of a mess. An encyclopedic entry must be written a bit better, a bit more tightly. It does not yet deserve the accolades that seem to be heading its way...but much great work has gone into it. Please have a read and give a critique.76.195.81.239 (talk) 01:19, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I failed the article at GA; though some of my concerns have been addressed, others still remain. However, because of my past involvement, I decided to avoid the FAC: the article is controversial, and I'd prefer not to wade into it again. You should feel free to voice your concerns at the FAC page if you feel it's not at that level yet, but you should be prepared to offer specifics. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 02:36, 22 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Cheers, will do. My sympathies, of course. This shouldn't be so difficult, should it? But then, that is the spice of life.76.195.81.239 (talk) 18:42, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Peer review
can you review lisa simpson's peer review-- Pedro J. the rookie 21:09, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

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University of Miami
Thank you for taking the time to review the University of Miami. I appreciate your detailed thoughts, take them seriously, and will address them. Racepacket (talk) 03:20, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Query, sorry
Hello, back when you quoted in full the crazy rant left you by the user we all recognize as aggiebean, (at Talk:Anna Anderson) in the quote is the use of the nonexistent "IP/Rev", who is also frequently mentioned by aggiebean as "RevAntonio". This is an old disruption tactic she uses, though she has been wanred repeatedly that she cannot make references to this nonexistent username or implied identity. My query: is this true, that the nonexistent username and implied identity cannot be referenced? She was warned about it by I think 2 admins....76.195.81.239 (talk) 23:07, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Slipped in to offer a sincere and grateful CHEERS, for your info and input.76.195.81.239 (talk) 02:49, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

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First World
Hi, thanks for the heads up. There is also a section on the discussion page for the article where I said I was putting up sources very soon. I see many articles on Wikipedia that have no sources...I acknowledged that there we no changes... can you explain why a many articles don't have sources but my paragraph is deleted within a couple of hours despite me acknowledging and giving explanation and also saying the sources are coming soon...? I am getting disheartened.. :( Rgg6 (talk) 18:08, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

hello from Buzzz...just FYI
Hello ther hope all is well...Just wondering if your interested and have time and want to ect etc etc...I have sent the article Notable Aboriginal people of Canada up for a GA assessment.. see also (Talk:Notable Aboriginal people of Canada). Your loyal servant Buzzzsherman (talk) 21:43, 1 November 2009 (UTC)