User talk:SMasters/Archive 33

And another barnstar...

 * Thanks for the barnstars. I like! Especially since they are two new ones that I have not had before. – SMasters (talk) 17:31, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

WP Math
I goofed this week's teaser, alluding to your Math interview rather than the Classical Music interview that's coming up next week. If you're ready, we can move the Math interview up to next week. If not, I'll correct this week's article so it alludes to music instead of math. -Mabeenot (talk) 22:06, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, I read that but it didn't click that it was a mistake. No problems, it is nearly ready. I have been crafting it here User:SMasters/Signpost. I'll move it to the interview room in the next few hours and you can run it next week. Is the length OK or is it too long? – SMasters (talk) 22:10, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Update: I have changed the publication date and moved the final draft to the interview room. – SMasters (talk) 23:26, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up about the math interview. I only have one significant comment. The current draft says
 * Kiefer believes that "many graduate students write short articles that promote their advisor's method, without establishing notability or importance with reliable secondary sources",

What Kiefer actually said was
 * "In mathematical optimization and engineering, many graduate students write short articles that promote their advisor's method, without establishing notability or importance (with reliable secondary sources). "

Those are just two relatively small areas of mathematics (engineering is almost out of scope for our project). I think that overall the problem of grad students writing things is not especially severe, although I have seen a few examples as Kiefer indicates. I think the current text of the interview article is a little out of proportion to the actual quote. I don't want to edit it too severely, but I hope you revise it somehow, or ask him to clarify. Maybe you could use the later part of his quote instead:
 * "Life is too short for me to patrol Wikipedia for self-promoting and erroneous articles on trivial topics. Instead, like most project members, I try to provide references and short improvements to the core articles, while developing a few articles."

I think that would fit in well with the paragraph in the interview article. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 01:15, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback, I have decided to use the later part of the quote. Cheers. – SMasters (talk) 01:30, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:TheDesignerMagazine.jpg
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 * Not sure who removed this. Have added it back to the article. Cheers. – SMasters (talk) 05:28, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

WP Math article
Hi, your insertions in my statement ("One way to deal with this issue in a more systematic way might be a "non-peer review" or just a forum for editors to meet mathematically [so that] untrained editors willing to work together on the accessibility of advanced scientific articles [can work] outside the rather hasty FA process.") in the Signpost article about the math project are actually distorting what I wanted to say. I'm talking about a forum where a forum where, say, members of WP Math can meet editors that have received little mathematical training (beyond school), and that a tandem of such an untrained editor plus a scientifically experienced editor work together. Maybe you find a better way to rephrase my sentence if you don't like it as I wrote it... Jakob.scholbach (talk) 06:51, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. I think the lack punctuation made that sentence hard to understand. I will re-edit it so that your point comes across. Cheers. – SMasters (talk) 07:41, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Copyediting of Asura Cryin'.
Greetings, SMasters. I completed the copyedit of this article just now, although it seems to need to be worked on by someone who knows more about the subject. But for grammar, spelling, and such, it seems to be alright now. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 23:32, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, I had a look at it and it seems fine. Our job as copy editors is to correct grammar, spelling and improve general readability. If we know the subject/topic well, we can improve it further, but this is not always the case, and is not usually necessary. Good job and hope you join us in our upcoming drive. – SMasters (talk) 02:16, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * But what about the 10K part? Wilhelmina Will (talk) 02:53, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * What 10K part? – SMasters (talk) 03:04, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * You said earlier that if I completed it by the 19th, I could have a 10K award, and I should report it to you when I was finished. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 04:21, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm so sorry, I completely forgot. Thanks for a good job. Well done! – SMasters (talk) 04:40, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you, SMasters! As I said to Diannaa, copyediting in these drives is a lot of fun! I hope we'll all meet up again in the next one! Cheers! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 04:45, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Great, see you next week at the March drive. – SMasters (talk) 04:51, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Special edition WikiProject Video games triple crown
Hi SMasters, you're listed at WP:TRIPLE as the person to contact to inquire about creating WikiProject triple crowns. User:Guyinblack25 asked about creating a WikiProject Video games crown in the past a few times (the previous discussions: 1, 2, 3), but the discussions never really went anywhere and they just got archived. It was recently brought up at the project talk page and the project expressed strong support to create the award. We have a number of members who already qualify to receive it (see this discussion), and we'd be willing to put up a lot of the leg work if you'd be willing to let us create it. Let me know if you'd be interested in letting us create the award. Nomader ( Talk ) 01:27, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll be very happy to create a project TC for you. To qualify, you need 5 or more members who qualify for a TC individually. For the project TC, all the individual TCs must be under the project, i.e. video games related articles. Please list all the entries on the TC nomination page (not here), as per this example. One entry for each DYK, GA and FC is sufficient, there is no need to list more than one of each. Do follow all the normal rules for a TC and provide all the necessary proof to make it easy for us to check the validity of the entries. If all is in order, the award will be sent to your project and its members around a week or two. Look forward to seeing your nomination there. Cheers. – SMasters (talk) 01:50, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll write up the proposal. Nomader  ( Talk ) 02:13, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and added the diffs for all of the users listed right now for the WP:VG triple crown. And wow! Great job on the tables, it looks fantastic! Nomader ( Talk ) 09:59, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. I'm really busy this next few days with the start of the drives for both WP:GAN and WP:GOCE. I'll have a look at it soon and hopefully, everyone will get their award by the weekend. Cheers. – SMasters (talk) 10:31, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey, no worries SMasters, I'm really impressed by the quick progress you've helped us make on this. Good luck with the drives. Nomader  ( Talk ) 20:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Update at WP:TRIPLE
Hi... I think this update went somewhat wrong, the DYK entry for my triple crown seems to have a lot of code displayed. Thanks. EdChem (talk) 09:02, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I have fixed it. Cheers. – SMasters (talk) 09:23, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring students: be sure to check in on them
This message is going out to all of the Online Ambassadors who are, or will be, serving as mentors this term.

Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!

If you aren't mentoring anyone yet, it looks like you will be soon; at least one large class is asking us to assign mentors for them, and students in a number of others haven't yet gotten to asking ambassadors to be their mentors, but may soon. --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:08, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

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