User talk:NoSeptember/archives/Esperanza

The last time I'm spamming you all with Esperanza stuff
Hello NoSeptember. As you may or may not know, there have been some troubles with Esperanza. So now, as a last ditch to save the community, please vote at Esperanza/Reform on all neccisary polls. P.S. I'm very sorry for spamming you all with these messages, and this will be the last time. I recommend putting ESP on your watchlist. Cheers and please look at that, let's stop the civil war then. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:51, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections
Hi : This is a quick note just to let you know that there's an election under way at Esperanza. If you'd like to become a candidate for Administrator General or the Advisory Council, just add your name here by 15 December 2005.

Voting begins at 12:00UTC on 16 December and all Esperanza members are encouraged to join in.

This message was delivered to all Esperanza members. If you do not wish to receive further messages, please contact Flcelloguy. Thank you.

➨ ❝ R e  DVERS ❞ 10:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

News from Esperanza
Hello, fellow Esperanzians! This is just a friendly reminder that elections for Administrator General and two advisory council positions have just begun. Voting will last until Friday, December 30, so make sure you exercise your right to vote! Also, I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Esperanza mailing list. I urge all members to join; see Esperanza/Contact for more information. All you need to do is email me and I will activate your account. This will be a great way to relax, stay in touch, and hear important announcements. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note? )

This message was delivered to all Esperanza members by our acting messenger, Redvers. If you do not wish to receive further messages, please list yourself at WP:ESP/S. Thanks.

Esperanza's 200th member
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An Esperanzial note
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: EA-welcome (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Cel e stianpower háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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Another Esperanzial note...
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,

--Cel es tianpower háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you (DakotaKahn)
Hello NoSeptember and thank you for your support in the Esperanza advisory council election. I appreciate it.-- Dakota ~   °  06:33, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Elections (Bratsche)
Hello NoSeptember: Thank you very much for the support on the Esperanza elections. While it looks like my chance to take up an AdCom post is a bit slim, I still appreciate the vote very much. Cheers, Bratsch e talk 19:34, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza elections (Moe Epsilon, JoanneB)
Hi NoSeptember. I have decided to leave Wikipedia for good. Before I go, I wanted to thank you for your support in the Esperanza elections. M o e  ε  04:42, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi NoSeptember! Thanks for your vote in the Esperanza Elections! Please let me or any of the other advisory board members know if there's anything we can do for you! --Joann e B 21:17, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!
Welcome,, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of JoanneB, FireFox and Titoxd. The next set of elections are right now.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, please see the IRC tutorial. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

— -- George Mon  e  y Talk   Contribs 17:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I joined on Sept. 21, 2005, as member #55, but a welcome is always welcome :-). NoSeptember   talk  17:49, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day
Congatulations on this, the anniversary of your first edit. Hopefully, you'll still be around next time we come to wish you well. RyanG e rbil10 01:07, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Hello. Congratulations on all your contributions over the last year. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 01:45, 21 April 2006 (UTC). Congratulations! Happy First Wikibirthday. --Ter e nce Ong 11:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Heya, just wishing you a happy First Edit Day! Have a great one! &gt; I r i d e s c e n c e &lt;  ( talk )( <font color="#0060AA">contrib  ) 02:02, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I had seeing references to Esperanza everywhere, so I finally decided to jump in! Also, your welcome, and thanks. :) Linuxerist  L/T  17:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

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Happy 2
Primat e <sup style="color:#6699CC;">#101 Primat e <sup style="color:#6699CC;">#101  17:32, 23 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the tip. I've fixed the template!


 * Primat e <sup style="color:#6699CC;">#101  17:43, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Elections
 Esperanza elections 

Thanks for supporting me in the Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. Although I wasn't elected to the Advisory Council, I am very happy with the response I received from my fellow Wikipedians. I was shocked at the support, and was touched by it. Hopefully I will re-apply in June and try again for the job. Thanks again, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers

Re: Esperanza Newsletter Note (Linuxerist)
You can blame the plankton lover. I had no idea. :p ~Linuxerist E/L/T 01:13, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Well the calendar was actually the thing that led me to join. I am just now starting to find out about everything in it. (I guess I am not too singled out after looking at the irc transcripts;) ~Linuxerist E/L/T 01:25, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

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A short Esperanzial update
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 * Thanks Miszabot, that was informative ;-). NoSeptember  16:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * ;-) Sorry! Misza 13 T C 16:50, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

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Non-admin (GangstaEB)
I am not anti-admin, but there is too much power in admins hands and not enough in normal editors control. Gang s  t  aEB •  ice slides ) 00:23, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Still, is Esperanza an admincracy or a consensus group? If our whole government is going to be a group of sysops normal editors don't have much power. Plus, several non-admin Esperanzians have been around a long time and are liked. Gang s  t  aEB •  ice slides ) 00:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

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RE: Wanna be list (EvocativeIntrigue)

 * Thanks for your efforts maintaining the Esperanza wanna be list. When I created that section back in February, I wasn't sure people would want it, but we were in the habit of deleting the names of people who added themselves to the member list without qualifying. But this section needs to be watched, something I have not been doing much of late, and I am glad that you are notifying people when they become qualified :). NoSeptember 12:55, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem, I was at a lose end and Esperanza could always use some new civil editors! Sorry about the slack reply, I was sunning myself in Paris.

EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 17:47, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks (Natalya)


You are most welcome, you certainly deserve it! That's rather convinient that it's almost been around for six months - I'll pretend that I planned it that way. ;) It's great to have that section, I imagine that all those who want to join, but can't yet find it rather welcoming. -- Nataly a  23:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks (Aeon1006)
Thanks NoSept. Æon Insane Ward 20:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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