User talk:Pursey



Leave Me A Message
I'll respond to all messages left here on your talk page, unless you request otherwise. Pursey  Talk 22:41, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Tata Elxsi
Please assess the article Tata Elxsi. I have added it to wikiproject companies. Kiran 1.00, 25 October 2007 —Preceding comment was added at 12:53, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

RFA Thanks!
Thanks for your participation for my RFA bid and for your support.--JForget 23:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Triple H
I fixed the issues with the article on Triple H, which you recently reviewed. I hope what I did was sufficient enough for it to pass and become a Good Article. If it isn't, I'll be happy to continue to improve the article. Thanks. Nikki311 02:37, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi. It's been quite awhile since you put Triple H's article on hold, and I was wondering if you were going to pass it, fail it, or if I should relist it so somebody else can review it. Thanks. Nikki311 03:54, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Yep, it's been nearly a month since you reviewed the article. Am I going to have to ask someone else to review it? Thanks, Davnel03 21:09, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Pursey! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page.  Snowolf How can I help? 00:01, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Nehrams2020 RfA Thanks
Thank you for your participation in my RfA, which closed successfully with unanimous support. I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and vote and I can't wait to learn the new tools and further immerse myself into Wikipedia! Please don't hesitate to point out any errors I make so I can prevent them from occurring again. I'm always here to help, so if you ever need anything, just let me know. Also, thanks to Wizardman for nominating me and for guiding many other editors to become admins. Again, thank you and happy editing! --Nehrams2020 06:52, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Andrew Fisher GA
First, thanks again. I note at Good Articles that I listed the nomination under world history - 'asia and oceania'. Looking at the others around it, I can't help but wonder if Fisher should come under 'Historical figures - heads of state and heads of government' or 'Historical figures - politicians'... thoughts? Timeshift 10:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

My RfA
Thanks for supporting my successful RfA, which closed at 63 supports and 1 opposed. I appreciate it and hope to do my best. I especially want to thank Shalom for the nomination, DGG for the encouragement, and Jokestress for welcoming me. Bearian 13:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a new administrator!
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Triple H GAN
This is just a reminder that this article has been on hold for 13 days.  Lara  ❤  Love  16:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. These are just reminders from the GAN report. We all forget about these things.  Lara  ❤  Love  19:50, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

World Community Grid
Just a reminder, but you a GAReview tag on World Community Grid at WP:GAN on September 19, 2007. If you could follow up on this, that would be appreciated; of if you no longer want to review the article, please remove the tag so that someone else may review it. Thanks! Dr. Cash 17:43, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

My recent RfA
I am sorry you felt it necessary not to support my RfA at this time. As you probably know, my RfA did not succeed. I will attempt to get some more experience and diversify myself before applying again in two month's time. I hope I will have allayed your concerns by then, but if not, feel free to comment the way you feel you should. Thank you for participating in my RfA. -- Cobi(t 18:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Family emergency
Hey there, Pursey. I notice you've got a family emergency going on. Just a note to say hello and good luck. Lemme know if there's anything I can do, etc. – Scartol  ·  Talk  14:53, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for the note. I'm half-back, but not really. I'm having a bit of a rest. Had a death in the family, sadly. So I'm just resting for a bit. Pursey  Talk 19:02, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Another check-in. Things okay? – Scartol  •  Tok  02:50, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Smashing. Welcome back! – Scartol  •  Tok  15:13, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Activity survey for members of WikiProject Companies

 * placed on talk pages of all participants

I wanted to get a notion of the level of activity of people who are members of WikiProject Companies with respect to monitoring the WikiProject Talk page and participating in discussions of interest and/or responding to requests for input.

Could you please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Companies/Member information and adding yourself to one or more of the several groupings listed?

Thanks for your assistance.

--User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 03:54, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Texas
Thanks for the quick review! Oldag07 (talk) 02:55, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I created this page to facilitate ways of giving tips to improving our page. Thanks again for your help.  Oldag07 (talk) 05:15, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Tyrannosauridae Second Opinion
Hi, Pursey, thanks for offering to provide a 2nd opinion. I requested it because I thought there was a risk that I might be expecting too much. I'm puzzled by your uncertainty that it meets the Stability requirement of GA Status - e.g. I don't think there's any sign of an edit war. Look forward to hearing from you at the review page. -- Philcha (talk) 23:03, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your message. I'll accept your "If I'd come to the page, not knowing anything about the topic (which incidentally, is the case with me), I feel the article provides a stack of information and references" as my concern was that in this case I might have too much existing background knowledge. -- Philcha (talk) 23:59, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks again, this time for fixing the banner on the Talk page. GA reviews can sometimes be fun, but the tax returns at the end ... -- Philcha (talk) 04:16, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Userbox for GA reviews
The userbox User Good Articles reviewed has been updated so that it can now link to a page in your user subspace where you keep track of all your GA reviews, if you have such a page. This can be done by adding a | and then the name of your user subpage (or subsection of your regular user page) wherever you have the template called. For example, on my user page I am using ""which displays as There is more information on how to do this at Template:User Good Articles reviewed.

Note: If you are not interested in doing this, you don't have to do anything; the template will still work for you exactly as it does now.

Best, r ʨ ana ɢ  talk/contribs 17:50, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.

We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 08:39, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive
–MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 18:06, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

March 2011 GAN backlog elimination drive a week away
 WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 00:04, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Meetup 12 June 2011
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that Liam Wyatt is in town, so we were thinking of doing a quick meetup at Brunelli's cafe in Rundle Street (at the Rundle Mall end, near the car park) at 6pm on Sunday, with a possibility of drinks afterwards. So if you're interested we hope to see you there. :) - Bilby (talk) 03:18, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)
Hello, you are receiving this message because you are currently a participant of WikiProject Good articles. Since the creation of the WikiProject, over 200 user's have joined to help review good article nominations and contribute to other sections of the WikiProject. Over the years, several of these users have stopped reviewing articles and/or have become inactive with the project but are still listed as participates. In order to improve communications with other participants and get newsletters sent out faster (newsletters will begin to be sent out monthly starting in October) all participants that are no longer active with the WikiProject will be removed from the participants list.

If you are still interested in being a participant for this WikiProject, please sign your user name here and please help review some articles so we can reduce the size of the backlog. If you are no longer interested, you do not need to sign your name anywhere and your name will be removed from the participants list after the deadline. Remember that even if you are not interested at this time, you can always re-add your name to the list whenever you want. The deadline to sign your name on the page above will be November 1, 2012. Thank-you. 13:32, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Update for: WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)
Sorry for having to send out a second message but a user has brought to my attention that a point mentioned in the first message should be clarified. If user's don't sign on this page, they will be moved to an "Inactive Participants" list rather then be being removed from the entire WikiProject. Sorry for any confusion.--Dom497 (talk)15:21, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

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WikiProject Good Articles Recruitment Centre
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DYK RfC

 * As a listed GA participant, you are invited to contribute to a formal Request for Comment on the question of whether Good Articles should be eligible to appear in the Did You Know? slot in future. Please see the proposal on its subpage here, or on the main DYK talk page. To add the discussion to your watchlist, click this link. Thank you in advance. Gilderien Chat&#124;Contributions 03:04, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

GAN December 2013 Backlog Drive
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March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive
It's that time again! Starting on March 1, there will be another GAN Backlog Drive! There will be several changes compared to previous drives:


 * This drive will introduce a new component to it; a point system. In a nutshell, older nominations are worth more points than newer nominations. The top 3 participants who have the points will be awarded the Golden, Silver, or Bronze Wikipedia Puzzle Piece Trophy, respectively.
 * Unlike the December 2013 Backlog Drive, earning an additional barnstar if you reached your goal has been removed.
 * The allowance to have insufficient reviews has been lowered to 2 before being disqualified.
 * An exception to the rule that all reviews must be completed before the deadline has been created.

Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.

More info regarding the drive and full descriptions regarding the changes to this drive can be found on the the drive page. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on the drive talk page.

I look forward to your participation and hope that because of it, some day the backlog will be gone!

--Dom497

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:58, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

GAN March 2014 Backlog Drive
The March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive has begun and will end on April 1, 2014! Sent by Dom497 on behalf of MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to Adelaide Wikipedia Users Group meetings
Hi, in case you're not already aware of it, a group of Adelaide Wikipedians has been meeting on a monthly basis since April, with the aim of improving the scope and quality of articles on South Australian topics. We meet at UniSA's City West campus, and our 23 July meeting will have a guest speaker from the National Trust of SA.

This coming Sunday, 6 July, we will be holding our first Edit-a-thon. This will be an opportunity for new editors to come and learn either basic or more advanced editing from very experienced wikipedians, so if you know anyone who would like to get some practice, please let them know - and beginners will be very welcome. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 06:17, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Good articles Future GAN Backlog Drive
Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!

TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.

If you would be interested in participating in a Backlog Drive sometime before the end of this year, please notify TheQ Editor. Also, make sure to specify what month(s) work best for you.

At the time this message was sent out, the backlog was at 520 nominations. Since May, the backlog has been steadily increasing and we are currently near an all time high. Even though the backlog will not disappear over one drive, this drive can lead to several others which will (hopefully) lead to the day where there is no longer a backlog.

As always, the more participants, the better, and everyone is encouraged to participate!

Sent by Dom497 --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

GA Cup
Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!

As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:

For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.

For more info on the proposal, click here. As a FYI, the proposal page is not what the final product will look like (if you do go ahead with this idea). It will look very similar to WikiCup's page(s).

The discussion for the proposal will take place here. Please let us know if you are interested, have any concerns, things to consider, etc.

--Dom497, Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Fair Use in Australia discussion
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