User talk:Pine/Archive 1

First Comment

 * If you have a question that is not one of the frequently asked questions below (moved to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GreenPine/welcome_page by GreenPine (talk)), check out Questions, [ ask me on my talk page], or click the button below. Happy editing and again, welcome! sonia ♫  09:59, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Craig McAllister - article CE
Thank you very much, you have done a fine job there. Absolutly no objections, cheers,  Liam Taylor  09:32, 6 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback! Good luck with getting GA status for that article.  Pine (GreenPine)  t 20:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Your WP signature is malformed
. Your WP signature should include a link to your WP userpage (User:Pine) --hydrox (talk) 20:49, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm confused. First, I DO check this page, and you only left this message yesterday, so I have no idea how you'd come to the conclusion that I don't check this page. Second, the signature is NOT malformed. It links to this page. I see what you mean. Wikipedia seems confused because of the usurp. I'll look at that, thanks.  Pine (GreenPine) t 17:46, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I tried to contact you here, but you made new comment that SineBot fixed after that, so I concluded you were not receiving the message. Thanks anyway, if the problem is now fixed. Your signature must include a link to your logged in username's (User:Pine) user/talk page, even if it is a redirect. --hydrox (talk) 18:54, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Renamed account troubles

 * Usurped page needs splitting

This page, and the associated user page, need a history split.

On 13 June, the previous "User:Pine" was renamed to "User:Pine (usurped), and "User:GreenPine" was renamed to "User:Pine".

At that time, this user talk page had just a single revision - the notification about the usurp.

However, after the rename, the "new" Pine copied over their talk page, here.

Hence, it needs splitting, and the bulk of it merging back to the rightful location at User talk:Pine.

And, User talk:GreenPine needs merging into User talk:Pine.

And, User talk:GreenPine should redirect to User talk:Pine

And, this page - "User talk:Pine" - should end up with just the usurp request.

I think :-s

Same for the user page.  Chzz  ► 20:17, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Just about ✅ I think. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  20:33, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Yep, all good; thx  Chzz  ► 21:09, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Pine, hiya.

I noticed your troubles with the rename; some of the pages got a bit mixed-up; the above request was me, working with an admin, to sort things out.

All should now be fine!

Your user page is just User:Pine, and your user talk page is this one, User talk:Pine.

We've restored the edit history of your user-talk page.

You don't need to edit any other user/talk pages.

You should always log in as "Pine".

The user/user-talk of GreenPine will redirect to this one (just in-case anyone follows a link from your old signature).

The pages at User:Pine (usurped) and User talk:Pine (usurped) serve as a record of what happened.

I hope that is all OK now, and I'm sorry you had difficulties.

Also, my thanks to m'colleague for helping sort it all out.


 * Cloak on IRC

-I am trying to resolve that part right now (I'm in contact with Avic, who I believe you spoke to before) and group contacts; I will write more here within the hour. ...

I'm sorry; I did try to resolve your IRC Cloak issues, but I was unable to do so; I was told, you need to just apply for a cloak in the normal way, WP:CLOAK.  Chzz  ► 05:23, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Cheers,  Chzz  ► 21:09, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

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Page creation in apparent violation of NOTPROMOTION
You wrote that article Infopulse Ukraine LLC appears to violate WP:NOTPROMOTION.
 * 1) Could you explain what exact parts of article violates WP:NOTPROMOTION? I hope it will reduce amount of my work to correct it.
 * 2) How to move the article back to my userspace correctly? Can you do it for me? I would like do not lose the histories of edits of the article. ALEF7 (talk) 14:19, 23 August 2011 (UTC)


 * OK, I let's leave it in the article space for now if you're going to work on it briskly, but tag it with Template:Under Construction so that people know that the article needs work.


 * The basics of Wikipedia are that it is a "neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts," about notable subjects. For example, Microsoft is a notable company, but a single employee dog walking service probably isn't notable. In the article about Microsoft, mentioning that its CEO is Steve Ballmer is probably notable, but the name of Steve Ballmer's secretary probably isn't. When applying the same standards to your article, a company with 700 employees might be notable, but most of the sources that you cite seem to be trade publications or internal company publications that don't demonstrate that the company has any real significance beyond the fact that it exists in its market space, provides some B2B services to other companies, and has some history behind it. There's nothing in the article about notable contributions that the company has made in engineering or any other field other than its service to other companies.


 * So I would say that this article is borderline promotional in two ways, first because its demonstrated notability is so low that the mere existence of the page suggests that its main purpose is public relations rather than informing the reader of anything truly noteworthy for the general public, and second because the article's tone is generally complimentary, even going so far as to mention the employee training center and corporate giving programs which are absolutely not notable but do give good PR to the company, thus violating WP:NOTPROMOTION by their inclusion. I think that you could turn this into an acceptable article but I would start by deleting the sections about the employee training center and corporate giving programs, then working on improving the notability of the article by including more significant facts beyond than the company's support relationships to other companies and the company's employee headcount. See WP:NOTABILITY for more information about what is considered notable. At this point, the article probably fails the Notability standards for inclusion in Wikipedia, as well as having problems with NOTPROMOTION, but you might be able to fix both and I'll be happy to advise. Pinetalk 08:20, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Someone is questioning your support !vote based on a minor change on the image  Cerejota (talk) 23:41, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments on Talk:Inside Job (film)
Thank you for your comments on Talk:Inside Job (film). (",) 97.87.29.188 (talk) 22:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note! Pinetalk 20:29, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Service award
For your 700 edits to Wikipedia, I hereby award Pine the Novice Editor service award. Please post this with pride on your talk page. Sp33dyphil "Ad astra" 07:58, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Pinetalk 21:07, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

A coal ball barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! I did the easy part. The coal ball article is the work of others such as yourself. :) Pinetalk 19:07, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for the help last night. :)
Just wanted to thank you for the help last night Australia time. Your contributions and fixing of my typos, grammatical issues and fixing of clarity issues was extremely helpful. :) I really appreciate the assistance improving it.  I hope to take further advantage of your good will later today/tomorrow to further improve it. :) --LauraHale (talk) 20:31, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
The kitty is joyful! :D Thank you for the help last night with editing. We'll get done with this one day. :) Your patience and expertise is very much appreciated. :D

LauraHale (talk) 19:35, 1 November 2011 (UTC) 

Missed you on IRC
Went out to dinner and forgot to set myself away. :( Sorry about that. --LauraHale (talk) 07:35, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Writing Styles of Female Editors on Wikipedia
 :D  I'm going to see the Caps play tonight, so I won't be available on IRC. I didn't add any additional information of substance to the article between last night and tonight. I did run a spell check on the document, and corrected a few obvious errors. The table that compares Female created articles v Male created articles is in a footnote, starting on line 401. The methodology was as follows: I got a list of articles I created (about 495) and a list of articles Hawkeye7 created (about 46) and checked the formal gender coding of my articles vs Hawkeye7's articles. I did a very basic analysis, consisting of the following table:

This was it. It supports the idea that there is no fundamental difference between male user/male identified and female user/female identified articles on the main space. The sample size of male and female users is limited to one each. These articles have likely been edited by many other users of both genders. The small sample size is why this information was put as a footnote instead of in its own section. If you think it is worth breaking out into its own section, I'm fine with the decision. I just wanted to note the relatively small sample size and fact that we can't assume the articles were exclusively edited by people who shared the same gender characteristics as the creators. (I know some of mine have not, as I have taken about ten to DYK, after asking for editing help from two males.)

I renamed the section that is now Comparison of Articles on Wikipedia and Other Wikis to that. This section is about where I think we left off in editing. Around line 796, "Using the analysis setting for..." I made what had been three paragraphs into one and tried to link it a bit better. The conclusions could be little more firm. I moved the wikiHow information that was in the conclusion part of that section to 623, where I also added information that helps suggest Geek Feminism Wiki has a female contributor base. If you think it would make more sense and give greater cohesion in the conclusion of the section, please feel free to move it back. :)

Outside of the areas mentioned (which please by all means fix), I think the second draft is mostly done and could use a cursory overview for a third reading. I've left the link for you on memoserv. If there are any major issues, I should be back around 9pm UTC+11, though I assume you'll likely be asleep by then. :)

Thanks again for the help. --LauraHale (talk) 05:44, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

A tool for you!
Hi ! I've just come across one of your edits (or that you have been patrolling new pages), and noticed that you might appreciate some help with references.

I case you're not aware, you might consider using this tool – it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script: // Add WP:Reflinks launcher in the toolbox on left addOnloadHook(function { addPortletLink( "p-tb",    // toolbox portlet "http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py/" + wgPageName + "?client=script&citeweb=on&overwrite=&limit=30&lang=" + wgContentLanguage, "Reflinks" // link label )}); onto Special:MyPage/skin.js, then paste the bare URL between your tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for PDF documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well. You may consider taking on Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup. So long! --Sp33dyphil © • © 09:24, 11 November 2011‎ (UTC)

How off task can I be?
More data! --LauraHale (talk) 04:45, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * This essay will haunt me until the end of time! Pinetalk 06:40, 21 November 2011 (UTC)


 * But it is awesome! :D So, because I was curious, I played around got HI! MORE DATA! I used the user boxes on wikiHow to create a list of wikiHow users by gender.  I then ran their userpages through the same analysis I did for Wikipedia users where we knew their gender based on user boxes.  The results are here:

We're dealing with a much smaller sample from a site that has 43% female participation but an overall smaller contributor base. They have a greater percentage of females identifying with userboxes than Wikipedia does. (Suggests to me that women feel even more comfortable expressing femaleness there.) Beyond that, the program correctly identifies women 11% more often than it does on Wikipedia. 11% in this case seems significant to me. I think we can assume some bias for male writing nature in both spaces because of the factual nature conveyance for both… but Wikipedia's population and WikiHow's should match up if they were attracting similar types of females… and they aren't because there is that 11% difference. Beyond that, the program correctly identified male users within 1% (both roughly 71%) for wikiHow and Wikipedia. This says to me the two wikis have unique groups of female users as their characteristics are not the same.

Better idea of the users with in the group…

--LauraHale (talk) 11:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi
I'm wondering if the cn is still required on the iss ? Penyulap  talk 04:16, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it is. The claim that, "its final position at the front of the station increases the risk of damage from debris", is not supported by the referenced sources. Pinetalk 07:38, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Well spotted, I think I popped in the wrong one, I put in a link to the Kibō page rather than the ISS page, which has the swapping positions bit. Any better now ? There are 3 refs now, maybe I should lose the Kibō one ? Penyulap   talk 07:53, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Pine, I've reworded that part to something better, anyhow, I'd invite you to take a look at the new wording. Also, please do keep in mind that the article has images of both Kibō's different position in the freedom space station section, as well as the risk model image in the debris section as well, plus over-referencing, called cite overkill would be something to keep in mind too. Penyulap   talk 22:33, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd agree that the two images showing the risk model and the location of Kibo on the station, combined, support the statement. I also agree that over-referencing could be an issue, so I'm satisfied with not adding references. However, the references don't appear to support that "only significant change has been the placement of it's ballistic shielding." Also, I am concerned that http://www.astronautix.com/ appears to be a website belonging to a private writer who doesn't list his credentials, and is therefore not a reliable source. Pine</b>talk 07:12, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * That's cool. I think sometimes, rather than just plagiarize 8-) I should use some of my own words, but naturally not 'make stuff up'. Summarizing sub-articles into main articles, or large sources into articles, it takes a bit of compression as well as simplification, or using easier to understand wording. They call it 'approachable' language in wiki-speak. I wouldn't worry about that site, if he has gone to that much trouble to come up with such a wealth of info, just to fool everyone, and has got away with it for so many years, well, I say we should all fall for it, out of professional courtesy to the greatest trickster of all time. Now NASA on the other hand, OMG misleading all the time (seriously) I could give you examples all day long. Hey what do you think of that link I gave on the talkpage ? The 'ritual' one ? lolz Penyulap   talk 21:11, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Your vote
Hello Pine.

After you voted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Golden_Gate_Bridge_Sunset alternative was added, and the caption was changed. Maybe you could clarify your vote in regards to alternative.

Thanks.--GXK147 (talk) 03:51, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I like alt 1 better. Unfortunately the time for voting has expired. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b>talk 20:56, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Re:Request to close conversation
I think it would be a little ironic of me to close that discussion, considering I've participated in it! I'm not sure it really needs closing as such- no changes need to be made, nothing needs to be clarified. Everyone seems to agree that there are occasions when a participant may be a closer, but most also seem to agree that no guidelines need to be added. J Milburn (talk) 23:29, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Re:Borderline vandalism on an FPC nomination
That is not vandalism, not even borderline- he is opposing based on perceived flaws in the picture. We might claim that his reasoning is poor, and we may be able to do so more civilly than TropicalAnalystwx13, but we most certainly should not be trying to get him blocked. Further, AIV is rarely going to be appropriate for established users, and the comment was made, and retracted, days ago. J Milburn (talk) 11:01, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

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Editing assistance: Perspectives on women in the WMF movement
Hi. :D As you do a fantastic job editing, I was wondering if you might be willing to help improve some of the articles on Perspectives on women in the WMF movement. At the moment, I've mostly done a lot of random putting of data into these articles, much of which is repetitive across different countries. They have no organisation, no framework and often utilise really poor grammar. :( It would be great to improve the organisation and flow on some of these articles, begin to give some of them a more unique feel… instead of a generic perspective with just the numbers changed. :)  The purpose of these little sections is to bench mark women's related content by country, the on wiki involvement of women women from a certain country, the involvement of women inside the country (chapters or running events) and the involvement of women behind the scenes in the larger context of Wikimedia Foundation projects. It needs to be written as neutrally as possible, to not condemn the WMF for any failures here, nor to make the WMF look extra special awesome for how well they have done that. You're good with doing that balance. :) --LauraHale (talk) 21:50, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

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The Quasar barnstar
Pine, a message awaits you here. Please feel free to delete this notification and also to comment on my talk page if you like. Thank you. Djathink imacowboy  (yell)  10:32, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Regarding the new thread+star proposal.... Pine, I know you will have seen my comment at the thread for the new star proposal. I just wanted to drop a line here and say this really upsets me. Are you all really just going to ignore the fact that the new proposal has stolen the idea from my star? You even say yourself, The Quasar is going to be a PUA so this new star looks delightful. I don't appreciate thieves. You are not being accused of thievery: the proponent of that new star is in my book the thief. He clearly stole the original intent for the Quasar and re-worded it to make you all happy. So now his star will be created with his name on it... but it is my star.-- Djathinkimacowboy what now?! 13:50, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * In case you are going to feel a bit lost, I mean the proposed "Instructor's Barnstar".-- Djathinkimacowboy what now?! 13:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry to bog the page, feel free to delete it all if you like. You ought to see this. It is the way I feel-- what was done to the Quasar wasn't bad enough, now I discover even more evidence that my original idea was simply stolen. Was it stolen? Was it somebody else's original idea too? You decide. This is really upsetting, I cannot overemphasise that!-- Djathinkimacowboy what now?! 15:09, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I have responded to your concerns at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards - <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b>talk 08:41, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Query: new star idea proposals
Pine, as to this may I query? How often may an editor propose a new barnstar? Please reply my talk page, thanks.-- Djathinkimacowboy chase me thru the cemetery 13:48, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
 * For example, though here it's more of a 2nd query about specific stars already in existence: is there a star for editors who enlarge, brnup]]. So long! -- Djathinkimacowboy chase me thru the cemetery 13:50, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Community input required: lowering delist bar at FPC
You are receiving this because of your current or past association with the Featured Pictures project. Following on from several cases where closers did not observe the prescribed minimum votes required for a delisting, there is now a motion to entirely dismiss the requirement for a minimum. Please participate in the discussion as wide-ranging changes may arise. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 13:48, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Courtesy link: Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 13:58, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

A Gift!
For a fine editor who needs a lift! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:21, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks Anna! <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b>talk 09:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

DYKs
User:LauraHale/DYK pass fail. --LauraHale (talk) 01:33, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
 * What are you asking of me? <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b>talk 07:57, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

World Factoring Yearbook
I'm leaving this message as you're listed as a current participant of WikiProject Business. I was informed yesterday that the current World Factoring Yearbook (circa £150) is now free for download as an ebook. It's a matter of filling out this form. I'm not sure if you'll find this useful as a reliable source, but I thought I should let you know that it's freely available online. I apologise in advance if this doesn't interest you! All the best, The Cavalry (Message me) 15:12, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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Saw these and thought of you.

 * Ocaasit 01:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. :) This is what happens when you have bills to pay and have to work. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b>talk 02:07, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
In case you aren't watching, user talk:Dcoetzee. sonia ♫ 19:26, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

All your fault
Featured picture candidates/Australia women's national water polo team set‎. I got three opinions and yeah. We'll see how that goes. Scared to look. Either way, good to nominate just to know the process. --LauraHale (talk) 23:10, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Milk tea for you!

 * Thank you! <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b>talk 08:13, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Reply
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Re: FP category
Panoramas go in the panorama category. It's a panorama, so... If you think that categorising content based on height to width ratio is silly, I'm likely to agree with you. However, that would mean re-allocating all the existing panoramas. I was involved in a big re-organisation that was started many months ago and is now mostly complete, where among other things, the distinction between wikipedian and non-wikipedian images was removed. If you want to argue for something similar w.r.t. panoramas, I will support your argument, but I won't be doing any of the work.

Three other comments:
 * 1) The category specification was originally added to make it easier for closer. So the way I see it, it's still closer's discretion, although closers can obviously make mistakes (and more people should be active as closers).
 * 2) From what I've seen, in those cases where the EV of the picture is for a bridge, they've mostly ended up in Featured pictures/Places/Others. So I see that as the status quo that you would have to challenge (and that your current placement runs against).
 * 3) There are people who think that listing in multiple FP categories is okay or even desirable, and there are some who think that's bloat. For possible future re-organisation, it's definitely easier if each picture is in just one category.

Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 23:44, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

NY training sessions
To tell you the truth, I'm not really much of a powerpoint/slides person. I tend to work more in my presentations directly from Wikipedia policy pages and example articles, and trying to engage the trainees from general points and their particular questions and interests.--Pharos (talk) 12:16, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Paid editing on Wikipedia draft
Hey Pine, hope things are going well. :)

I just finished a massive draft on our own very topical subject of paid editing on Wikipedia. I would love your close copyediting approach in checking it for neutrality, formatting, organization, reference detail, etc. I hope you can take a quick look. Cheers! Ocaasit &#124; c 12:24, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. I don't have enough time to look at that thoroughly right now but hopefully I'll get to it sometime this week. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 23:21, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

You are invited to this local event!
I would like to invite you to attend a Wikipedia meetup described on. This meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 3 April 7pm in Café Allegro. Thank you for your attention and I hope to see you there.

This invitation is a template message, by the way. What do you think of it?  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   23:00, 19 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Replied. The template is ok but how about adding a picture? <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 23:20, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Bloomberg Television Revisions
Hi-there. I spoke with you a few weeks ago about updating the Bloomberg Television article. You originally gave me the advice to post my revisions to the article's talk page, which I did. Unfortunately, I haven't heard back from anyone on the page, I assume from generally low traffic to that article. I know you're very busy with other priorities, but if you have time, would you mind taking a look at my revisions? I have them saved in my Sandbox here: User:RivBitz/Bloomberg_Television_Sandbox. Thank you in advance!--RivBitz (talk) 15:32, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've put this on my to do list. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 20:20, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi-there, I was just wondering if you ever had a chance to take a look at my revisions for this article? I have sought out a few other opinions, but none have proved successful. Thanks! --RivBitz (talk) 19:36, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Hiya Pine! Teahouse question
Hola Pine :) A few weeks ago you mentioned adding the Teahouse to welcome templates, and I said I had to wait to say "yes!" to that. Well now I'm saying...yes! How can we make that happen? Thanks for all you do (I usually have foundation-l go to my trashcan, but, I was told about your posts recently and enjoyed reading about it..thanks for being so positive <3 ) Sarah (talk) 21:15, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Sarah, I have added the link back to Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia after seeing your request here. To add the link to Template:Welcome you will need to contact an administrator because that template is fully protected. You may need to get a consensus to add the link to that template by posting your request at Template talk:Welcome before you request an administrator to add the link from that template. Thanks for your comments about the discussion on Foundation-l, and speaking of Foundation-l you may want to ask Steven Walling if he can include Teahouse information and links in his template testing work. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 08:53, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Pine. Thanks for adding that link. I'll ask an admin about the welcome template and seek consensus. Thanks for your input. We've pinged Steven and Maryana, not really sure if they're doing any template testing right now, but it's on their table at least. Thanks! Sarah (talk) 16:46, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Depression (mood)
Wrt your most recent edit at Depression (mood), my comment that medication, psychotherapy and ECT are the mainstays of medical treatment is readily sourceable, but I agree with its removal until it's sourced to a WP:MEDRS-compliant source. As for the applicability and efficacy of the other interventions for depression associated with psychiatric syndromes, I'm concerned that we don't mislead the reader. Would you consider deleting that content until those assertions are sourced to a WP:MEDRS-compliant source?

The present content of that whole article is mostly uncontroversial, but it nevertheless is badly bereft of sources. I've got a lot on right now, but will eventually get to that if no one else has in the meantime. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 06:57, 3 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I removed the statement "depression associated with a mental disorder" from the section that lists treatments because the article isn't about clinical depression directly, and I don't think that we need to worry about WP:MEDRS as much because most of the studies are talking about treatments for clinical depression instead of the "simple" mood of depression. I think we need to make clear that clinical depression is a separate subject from what's covered in Depression (mood). However, many of the articles that are linked from the treatment paragraph do have references that talk about effectiveness. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 07:51, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * WP:MEDRS is essential for all medical content. As it now stands, that section, Depression (mood), is a bit of a mish-mash. Since most of the included treatments are unsourced, and as a precaution against inadvertently misleading the reader, I'll remove the section for now. Let's work on the wording on the talk page, and post it into the article when we've got something that is coherent, useful and reliably sourced. I can't attend to that immediately - I'm meant to be addressing Cancer pain next - but will get to it soon. Feel free to start without me. My main concern is not having unsourced and possibly useless/erroneous assertions about treatment in the article. (I'll copy this comment to the article talk page so we can continue there. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 09:47, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Two
Hi! Welcome to the second edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse! You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. -- Sarah (talk) 21:46, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Teahouse celebrates one month of being open! This first month has drawn a lot of community interest to the Teahouse. Hosts & community members have been working with the project team to improve the project in many ways including creating scripts to make inviting easier, exploring mediation processes for troubling guests, and best practices regarding mentoring for new editors who visit the Teahouse.
 * First month metrics report an average of 30 new editors visiting the Teahouse each week. Approximately 30 new editors participate in the Teahouse each week, by way of asking questions and making guest profiles. An average of six new questions and four new profiles are made each day. We'd love to hear your ideas about how we can spread the word about the Teahouse to more new editors.
 * Teahouse has many regulars. Like any great teahouse, our Teahouse has a 61% return rate of guests, who come back to ask additional questions and to also help answer others' questions. Return guests cite the speedy response rate of hosts and the friendly, easy to understand responses by the hosts and other participants as the main reasons for coming back for another cup o' tea!
 * Early metrics on retention. It's still too early to draw conclusions about the Teahouse's impact on new editor retention, but, early data shows that 38% of new editors who participate at the Teahouse are still actively editing Wikipedia 2-4 weeks later, this is compared with 7% from a control group of uninvited new editors who showed similar first day editing activity. Additional metrics can be found on the Teahouse metrics page.
 * Nine new hosts welcomed to the Teahouse. Nine new hosts have been welcomed to the Teahouse during month one: Chicocvenancio, Cullen328, Hallows AG, Jeffwang, Mono, Tony1, Worm That Turned, Writ Keeper, and Nathan2055. Welcome to the Teahouse gang, folks!
 * Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, as being welcomed by experienced editors is a really nice way to make new editors feel welcome.

April 21 Edit-a-thon in Portland
Thought you would be interested in this special event if you're up for the trip: Meetup/Portland.--Pharos (talk) 14:16, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Join us Monday for April Wikipedia Education Program meeting
Greetings, I need your help to lead the next Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting! Will you leave a message if you can help? It requires no advanced preparation, just the ability to welcome everyone and move us through the agenda.

The next meeting has been scheduled for Monday, April 23 at 20:00 UTC. See the meeting information page for joining instructions and a time converter. Hope to talk with you on Monday! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)

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 * Hi Pine! Thanks for volunteering to lead the meeting on Monday. Please show up about 2-3 minutes early so we can make sure your sound is working. I've posted the general agenda here: Wikipedia_Education_Program_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting. You'll be responsible for welcoming everyone to the meeting, and then asking Jami to kick it off with an update for the U.S. I will mute and unmute participants for the updates section, then at the end of Tom's update about Brazil, I'll have you ask if any other people who are at the meeting want to give an update (sometimes the representatives from the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Israel, or other countries have something they'd like to share). Then you can turn it over to Ayush for a short presentation of survey results, and then to Jami again for a discussion of the Working Group. Finally, you'll just need to ask if there are any questions at the end. When all questions are answered, or when we're approaching 1 hour, wrap up the meeting and thank everyone for joining us. Please let me know if you have any questions! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 18:15, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * OK. Should I ask people who offer unscheduled updates to limit themselves to five minutes or so? <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 20:05, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Exactly -- each update should be no more than 5 minutes. Thanks, Pine! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 20:09, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I think I've got it. This should be an interesting meeting! <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 07:03, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Service awards
I think this might be of interest to you. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 22:43, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you! <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 23:43, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Phalacrocorax fuscescens - Derwent River Estuary.jpg
Did the crop satisfy your concerns? Thanks. Makeemlighter (talk) 23:13, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice. I replied at the nomination page. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 04:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

 * Thank you! <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 19:18, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

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Yeah, it got through and has had several responses-- did you not receive any of these? <span style="font-family:linux libertine o, times; font-variant:small-caps">Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 15:24, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for the strawberry's,they were delicious! "Selene Scott (talk)" —Preceding undated comment added 05:22, 7 May 2012 (UTC).


 * And I thank you for the barnstars :) Pol430  talk to me 09:25, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Suggestions
Thanks! I had a look this morning, and I'm glad you've clarified these issues that were brought up. I'm a bit confused about the claim that it would violate the privacy policy etc...are you as well? <span style="font-family:linux libertine o, times; font-variant:small-caps">Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:30, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
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 * Hi, that's not my AFC, I added the submission tag on behalf of someone else who was struggling to figure it out. I'll comment on your talk page. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 19:53, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Photo Question.
I was strolling thru my new HighBeam account and did a search on Chesterfield, Idaho, an article I worked on when I first got started. I saw on HighBeam where the photographer of the images, Val Roberts, had passed away a few months back at the age of 75. I've always loved this photo he took of the Denmark Jensen cabin. It is a saltbox house built in 1884, three years after Chesterfield was settled. The small building to the right is a root cellar. Do you think it is FP worth? Sorry, I've done FA and FL, but I'm not a photographer, so I have no idea about FPs. Bgwhite (talk) 06:52, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * A historic building probably has enough encyclopedic value to meet that part of the FPC criteria, but this photo of the building probably would fail FPC because the image size is too small and the image isn't clear enough. This same shot taken with a better camera would have a better chance of becoming a featured picture. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 07:02, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I have a higher resolution photo in my email. I just uploaded and replaced the photo with the higher res version.  Hopefully this is better.  Lucky I kept the over two year old email. I better update the other Chesterfield photos.  I do have a question.  Whenever I goto commons, it asks me to login.  Has been doing this for awhile, but didn't used to.  Is commons different when using the unified login? Bgwhite (talk) 07:29, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Commons is still showing me the lower resolution photo, but maybe there's a delay between your upload and when it becomes available for others to download. Are you logging into one site using http and the other using https, because if so then you will need to log in separately to each site. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 07:32, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Had me scared I did something wrong, but things look ok. Would clearing out the web browser cache help?   I'm logging in via https on both sites.  I just logged out of commons and it also logged me out on Wikipedia.  When I re-logged into Wikipedia, I wasn't logged into commons.  But, if I'm logged out of both and log into commons first, I'm also automatically logged into Wikipedia.  Strange. Bgwhite (talk) 07:40, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I can see the image at 1,280 × 900 pixels but not at 2100 x 1,477 pixels. Can you try your upload again? The login issue sounds similar to one that I have with Outreach. I think it's a known problem. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 07:47, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I cleared my cache and clicked on full resolution and I saw the 2100 x 1,477 pixel version. Commons just doesn't like me. Bgwhite (talk) 08:15, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * OK this works for me now. I'd say that there's a lot of noise in that image that probably would make it not pass a featured pictures nomination, but you could think about a Commons Valued Pictures nomination. <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#000000;">(talk) 18:42, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for judgement. I'll take to valued picture nomination then.  I never heard of that before, so thank you for telling me.  There's a photo of another saltbox house that is a crappy photo, but great house... house has two front doors, a door for each polygamous wife. Bgwhite (talk) 20:42, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

CPO and related drafts
Hi there, Pine. Thanks for continuing to follow up the discussion on CPO and related articles. I've posted a fairly detailed response to Fifelfoo's plagiarism allegation, and offered some alternative sources to Lexology below. I suppose it's more on Fifelfoo to reply at the moment, but I wanted to say thanks for helping to work this through. Also: I dig the green glow in your sig, don't believe I've seen that before. WWB Too (talk) 15:27, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Working Group members page
I like how proactive you are. However, the current questions are just in place until I hear back from a few people about what questions we should post on there. Sorry about the confusion! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 20:40, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Pages
Thanks! Glad to know my work is appreciated. Keep up the good work yourself! <span style="font-family:linux libertine o, times; font-variant:small-caps">Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:24, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

STRAT-X
Hello Pine. We use the GOCE Requests page for requests made by editors to GOCE as a whole, that any editor may pick up. Throughout Wikipedia, many copy edits and similar things are done by private arrangement, and we don't record or archive those, as there is really no need. My understanding was that you did STRAT-X when Sp33dyphil accepted an offer you made privately. If so, we don't need to record that. Have I misunderstood it? Kind regards, --Stfg (talk) 11:47, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll remove the entry from the GOCE archive. <span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉ 19:53, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Stfg (talk) 20:21, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

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You have one - could you please check quickly if possible? Thanks! Risker (talk) 00:03, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
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Making the Wikipedia Education Program Meeting better
Thanks for expressing interest in the Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. I'm investigating ways to make the meeting more effective, and I'd love to get feedback from you as to what we could do to improve the meeting. Please weigh in on the discussion there! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)

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A kitten for you!
Thank you for the kitten! You are the best! I will try to learn and be brillian, I promise.

Fiona Kelleghan (and I'm probably doing something wrong there - but I will learn!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by FiverFan65 (talk • contribs) 11:49, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! <span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉ 20:42, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks, which sandbox? The one on this wiki is empty. <span style="font-family:linux libertine o, times; font-variant:small-caps">Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 15:14, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes. That's what we call a "leak", lol. Thankfully, I don't think any of it wasn't public knowledge. I realized I was drafting it on Wikipedia and moved it to our internal wiki. <span style="font-family:linux libertine o, times; font-variant:small-caps">Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:57, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia and Narnia apparently share that characteristic. <span style="font-family:linux libertine o, times; font-variant:small-caps">Rob SchnautZ (WMF)  (talk • contribs) 15:20, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Four
Hi! Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter for the Teahouse!


 * Teahouse pilot wraps up after 13 weeks After being piloted on English Wikipedia starting in February, the Teahouse wrapped up its pilot period on May 27, 2012. We expect this is just the beginning for the Teahouse and hope the project will continue to grow in the months to come!

Thank you and congratulations to all of the community members who participated - and continue to participate!


 * What you've all been waiting for: Teahouse Pilot Report is released! We look forward to your feedback on the methodology and outcomes of this pilot project.
 * ....and if a pilot report wasn't enough, the Teahouse Pilot Metrics Report is out too! Dive into the numbers and survey results to learn about the impact the Teahouse has made on English Wikipedia.
 * Teahouse shows positive impact on new editor retention and engagement
 * 409 new editors participated during the entire pilot period, with about 40 new editors participating in the Teahouse per week.
 * Two weeks after participating, 33% of Teahouse guests are still active on Wikipedia, as opposed to 11% of a similar control group.
 * New editors who participated in the Teahouse edit 10x the number of articles, make 7x more global edits, and 2x as much of their content survives on Wikipedia compared to the control group.


 * Women participate in the Teahouse 28% of Teahouse participants were women, up from 9% of editors on Wikipedia in general, good news for this project which aimed to have impact on the gender gap too - but still lots to be done here!
 * New opportunities await for the Teahouse in phase two as the Teahouse team and Wikipedia community examine ways to improve, scale, and sustain the project. Opportunities for future work include:
 * Automating or semi-automating systems such as invites, metrics and archiving
 * Experimenting with more ways for new editors to discover the Teahouse
 * Building out the social and peer-to-peer aspects further, including exploring ways to make answering questions easier, creating more ways for new editors to help each other and for all participants to acknowledge each other's efforts
 * Growing volunteer capacity, continuing to transfer Teahouse administration tasks to volunteers whenever possible, and looking for new ways to make maintenance and participation easier for everyone.

You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. Sarah (talk) 17:04, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
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 * Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, as being welcomed by experienced editors is really encouraging to new Wikipedians.

Office hour
Thanks for the question, Pine. It'll be strictly open Q/A, since we know lots of people have questions as of late. <span style="font-family:linux libertine o, times; font-variant:small-caps">Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 19:26, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
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Talkback

 * One more. ;) <span style="font-family:Palatino, Georgia, serif;">Steven Walling (WMF) &bull; talk   21:58, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

OS Run
I would like to thank everyone for your questions and comments. If appointed I will strive to do the best job possible for the community and the project I will also keep in mind that according to this log I will be the only non-admin in the group and the best I could hope for is to pave a strong smooth path for future non-admins, again I appreciate your interest, concerns and support. Mlpearc ( powwow ) 14:50, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

re United States
I didn't get the chance to give a better explanation than what was given when someone else reverted, so here it is: The territories are not part of the country, but rather possessions thereof, just like Gibraltar and Man, etc., are not parts of the United Kingdom. The United States itself is constituted by fifty states, one federal district, and one incorporated, unorganized territory (Palmyra Atoll). Everything else is an unincorporated territory, and thus not part of the constitutional framework. --Golbez (talk) 13:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I was looking at this discussion here. It seemed to me that this hadn't been resolved conclusively one way or the other, so I WP:BOLDLY made the change. Is the distinction the one made in Balzac v. Porto Rico of what belongs to the United States versus what is a part of the United States? If so, I think that the case should be cited in the opening paragraph of the article to make that distinction clear. <span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉ 19:36, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's necessary; we leave a lot out of the opening paragraphs, for example the existence and significance of Palmyra Atoll. We certainly don't need to go into the legal particulars of why Puerto Rico is not part of the country. --Golbez (talk) 22:48, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Stevens Institute of Technology article updates
QueenCity11 (talk) 12:04, 6 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your review and advice. I will go back to the Paid Editor help section to find another reviewer.  Thank you again. QueenCity11 (talk) 12:42, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the barnstar, Pine! A bummer I didn't get to meet you at the Wiknic a few weeks ago. Hope we get to chat at a meetup one of these days. Cheers, - J-Mo  Talk to Me   Email Me  17:25, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

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Participate in a user study on UW campus?
Hi Pine, Us UW folks are looking for a few veteran Wikipedians to participate in a usability study of our new editing toolbar, called Re:Flex. The study would require you to come to our lab in Sieg Hall on UW campus (at a date and time that works for you), would talke approximately 1 hour, and you will be compensated for your time.

This study has been approved by RComm and by UW's Institutional Review Board, and any additional information about the study (such as the purpose of the study, and how we will store and use your session data) is available upon request.

It's possible someone from UW already approached you about this at the WikNic (if so, sorry for the request spam!). Does this sound interesting? Reply here (or email me) if so, or if you have any questions. Cheers, - J-Mo  Talk to Me   Email Me  22:52, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I'm interested. Please mail me with some dates that would work for you. <span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉ 05:36, 10 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Woot! Thanks Pine. My collaborator Anna will email you shortly with some possible dates and times. It should be fun! Cheers, - J-Mo  Talk to Me   Email Me  21:47, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi Pine, thanks so much for this! Glad you liked hearing about the program in Cairo. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 13:01, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!
Thank you for the delicious strawberries. <span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉ 08:13, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

USCAN Education Program strategy
Pine, sorry you couldn't make the meetings in DC. I fully understand the priorities of work. If you have any questions about the work accomplished to date from a strategy process perspective, don't hesitate to ask. Glad to have you on board and thanks for volunteering for the Financial Processes. --Mike Cline (talk) 01:40, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

FP comment
Hi Pine, as you commented and also supported the nomination of FPC IDF soldier put on tefillin I want to inform you I created another nomination of the same image as the old nomination was closed without further comments from other users. If you still wish to support the image it is located Here (tefillin) – HonorTheKing (talk) 14:35, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Adventure: Request for feedback on Community Fellowship proposal
Hi! I'm contacting you because you have participated or discussed The Wikipedia Adventure learning tutorial/game idea. I think you should know about a current Community Fellowship proposal to create the game with some Wikimedia Foundation support. Your feedback on the proposal would be very much appreciated. I should note that the feedback is for the proposal, not the proposer, and even if the Fellowship goes forward it might be undertaken by presently not-mentioned editors. Thanks again for your consideration.

Proposal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/The_Wikipedia_Adventure

Cheers, User:Ocaasi 16:41, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Five
Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!


 * Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteers who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
 * More Teahouse hosts than ever. We had 12 new hosts sign up to participate at the Teahouse! We now have 35 hosts volunteering at the Teahouse. Feel free to stop by and see them all here.
 * Phase two update: Host sprint. In August, the Teahouse team plans to improve the host experience by developing a simpler new-host creation process, a better way of surfacing active hosts, and a host lounge renovation. Take a look at the plan and weigh in here.
 * New Teahouse guest barnstar is awarded to first recipient: Charlie Inks. Using the Teahouse barnstar designed by Heatherawalls, hosts hajatvrc and Ryan Vesey created the new Teahouse Guest Barnstar. The first recipient is Charlie Inks, for her boldness in asking questions at the Teahouse. Check out the award in action here.
 * Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania! The Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania this past month, where editor retention and interface design was heavily discussed. Sarah and Jonathan presented the Teahouse during the Wikimedia Fellowships panel. Slides can be viewed here. A lunch was also held at Wikimania for Teahouse hosts.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

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Advice
Hi Pine, I hope you don't mind, I'm hoping to get your opinion as to the FP potential of these videos: Space Shuttle Challenger address: ranked #8 on the list on top 100 American speeches of the 20th century. Featured in Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Oval Office Address, User:Lionelt/Speeches of Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, John Gillespie Magee, Jr..

Berlin Wall speech: Time Magazine ranked the speech in its list of the top 10 political speeches. "Tear down this wall!" has been called "The four most famous words of Ronald Reagan's Presidency." Featured in Tear down this wall!, Berlin Wall, User:Lionelt/Speeches of Ronald Reagan, Cold War (1985–1991), Foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration

Thanks, – Sir Lionel, EG(talk) 09:04, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think those would be good nominations! <span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉ 22:25, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2012
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Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:06, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Takes America/Seattle
Wikipedia Takes America/Seattle needs you. Please sign up to participate, and discuss a date and meeting location. And maybe volunteer to be the organizer. I've been tagging articles needing photos for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Seattle, Washington. A lot of these articles need proper location data added to that they will appear on the Google map. Thanks! --Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:52, 19 August 2012 (UTC)