User talk:Steven Walling/Archive 18

GA Sweeps update
Thanks to everyone's efforts to the GA Sweeps process, we are currently over 90% done with only 226 articles remain to be swept! As always, I want to thank you for using your time to ensure the quality of the older GAs. With over 50 members participating in Sweeps, that averages out to about 4 articles per person! If each member reviews an article once a week this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. At that point, awards will be handed out to reviewers. As an added incentive, if we complete over 100 articles reviewed this month, I will donate $100 to Wikipedia Forever on behalf of all GA Sweeps participants. I hope that this incentive will help to increase our motivation for completing Sweeps while supporting Wikipedia in the process. If you have any questions about reviews or Sweeps let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 00:17, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Removal of Foswiki timeline
Isn't it though? At the present, until sufficient time elapses to garner notability, the WP Foswiki page is deleted. But if anyone enters foswiki in the search bar, they're dumped onto the TWiki page.

This will all go away when the Foswiki page can be recreated, but there needs to be some measured handling in that interim period. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.68.11.165 (talk) 21:01, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Criollo cattle
Hi Steven. Thanks for improving Criollo. Do you think those breeds merit a subcategory of Category:Cattle breeds? --Una Smith (talk) 20:56, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Rare breeds
Thank you for cleaning up Rare breed (agriculture). It looks much better now. Gobonobo T C 00:42, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * My pleasure. Steven Walling  00:44, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Oregon COTW v 3.0.2010ish
Greetings WikiProject Oregon team member. Time for the first new Collaboration Of The Week in 2010. Thank you to those who worked on Bill Schonely and archiving talk pages. For this week, we have Concordia University and the Berry Botanic Garden. Hopefully we can mine the garden’s website before it closes down. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Cheers and stuff. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:49, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

into the woods docu?
Weren't you discussing "into the woods", perhaps on an AFD, recently? It was in the O today. But I couldn't find it listed at Into the Woods (disambiguation). tedder (talk) 05:39, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Just Out, COTW does well in new decade
Howdy WikiProject Oregon folks, time again for the latest installment of As the Collaboration Of The Week Turns. Last week was one of the more successful COTWs in recent memory as we really worked hard as a community to improve Concordia University and Berry Botanic Garden. Both are now at least C class articles and nicely illustrated (thanks to Tedder, Finetooth, and Ipoellet). Plus it really was a group effort as we had five different WPORE editors work on the garden and ditto with the school, with some overlap between the two.

Anyway, this week, we have by request the completely unrelated Just Out and Terrell Brandon. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. This message paid for by Fooians against COTW killing taxes. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:30, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your improvements to Joel Salatin.--John Foxe (talk) 11:58, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Re:me again
-  F ASTILY  (T ALK ) 18:55, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: Anqing Foreign Language School article
Steve, thank you sincerely for your help. School is on break in February, but I will be in touch once we start again. Your edits could be an invaluable way for me to teach my students about how Wikipedia works.

As a side note, as opposed to using my own, I have decided to create a new account, e.g. AFLS 2009-10 English Corner Students, when I actually post the article on the real wikipedia. I feel it is the right thing to do. Then, I can also have the students design their User Profile, too. What do you think? --Charles Jeffrey Danoff 16:16, 3 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charles Jeffrey Danoff (talk • contribs)

February GA Sweeps update
Thanks to everyone's efforts to the GA Sweeps process, we are currently over 95% done with around 130 articles left to be swept! Currently there are over 50 members participating in Sweeps, that averages out to about 3 articles per person! If each member reviews an article once a week this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. At that point, awards will be handed out to reviewers. Per my message last month, although we did not review 100 articles last month, I still made a donation of $90 (we had 90 reviews completed/initiated) to Wikipedia Forever on behalf of all GA Sweeps reviewers. I would like to thank everyone's efforts for last month, and ask for additional effort this month so we can be finished. I know you have to be sick of seeing these updates (as well as Sweeps itself) by now, so please do consider reviewing a few articles if you haven't reviewed in a while. If you have any questions about reviews or Sweeps let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:45, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help on the images for the American Buff Goose being kept. Really appreciated. Chris (talk) 00:16, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Standing-up sheep
Hi Van! Just wondered if you've ever come across any reference to sheep standing on their hind legs? Goats do this quite readily when browsing, and I've often seen sheep stand up on a fence or stump with their front legs to reach higher vegetation, but I've never seen them stand freely on their hind legs as goats can. Is that universal amongst sheep, or is it just the European breeds I'm familiar with? I think the heavy breeds might be physically incapable of it, but I can't think what's stopping my Hebrideans reaching those tasty bushes just above their heads. Regards, Richard New Forest (talk) 20:21, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

done with Oregon Field Guide
I'm done with my expansions: User:Steven Walling/Sandbox. Feel free to expand/fix/whatever. Do you know how to spin it out properly into an article (rather than copying and pasting)? tedder (talk) 06:06, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

References to source material - the Hiromi Uehara example
Good morning Mr. Walling. I hope you find add/delete wars as distasteful as I do, so lets talk rather than undoing and redoing each other's work. It is obvious from your deletion comment that my inclusion of a reference to the Hiromi interview has struck a nerve. I am hopeful that you can refrain from invective in your future comments. To accuse another contributor of inserting spam is a serious charge, and in my opinion one that you should take great care before rendering. I presume that the comment was reactionary in nature -- perhaps caused by previous experiences that you have had with real spammers. I hope I can assure you that I am not one of those.

Thank you and others for your efforts to clean up Wikipedia articles, including the Hiromi article. However, I find that all too often, people who edit many varied articles become more concerned with form, and less concerned with the true purpose of Wikipedia - communicating useful information about a subject within the format of an encyclopedia. In the case of the Hiromi article, a significant amount of useful information was removed when the "External Links" section was recently cleaned up. Please note, that section *needed* to be cleaned up, but cleaning by simple deletion does a disservice to the readers who would find some of the deleted information useful. After all, if Wikipedia is not for its readers, then what is it for?

In the particular case of the most recent addition/deletion of the link to the Innerviews interview with Hiromi, I think you'd be hard pressed to find it irrelevant to the subject, or even relevant to any other subject than the subject of Hiromi. It is also not promoting anything other than a sharing of knowledge about the subject. As such, it clearly does not meet the accepted definition of spam, but instead contains exactly the kind of "further detail" and source material that references are for. Further, the work of referencing some source material for the Hiromi article is still largely work yet to be done. In fact, the article is noted as being without enough citations/references/source material. The interview that I referenced is a serious one. It is not a PR piece. It is not a puff piece by a fan. It is a serious interview by a noted interviewer of other similar artists. I am not sure what caused you to refer to it as spam, and am hopeful that you will take the time to review it and see that it is not.

My question to you is: If not in the way that I did it, how would you prefer that facts in Wikipedia articles about artists be sourced and referenced?

I look forward to your considered response.

Danfreedman (talk) 18:41, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Negroni pic
I like the new Negroni pic, thanks for adding it -Chromatikoma (talk) 21:14, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Non Free Files in your User Space
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Oregon COTW and randomness
Greetings fellow WikiProject Oregon member, it is once again time for the Collaboration of the Week (yes, I know they are not actually every week anymore). Thank you to those who helped out the last few weeks improving Terrell Brandon, Just Out, 75th Oregon Legislative Assembly, and all the unreferenced BLPs. This week we have by request Oregon Coast Aquarium and Arvydas Sabonis (maybe the Blazers can sign him as I think he's healthy). Both need more sourcing. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. And remember folks, the only thing we have to fear is death and taxes, unless of course the dingo ate your baby, at which point you may feel the need, the for speed to get away from said dingos, which in turn can lead to a failure to communicate due to the dynamics of sound waves, though at some point hopefully we can all just get along. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:13, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

GA Sweeps Completed!
Thanks to everyone's amazing efforts in February, we have reviewed all of the articles and are now finished with Sweeps! There are still about 30 articles currently on hold, and once those reviews are completed, I will send you a final message about Sweeps process stats including the total number of articles that were passed and failed. If you have one of these open reviews, be sure to update your count when the review is completed so I can compile the stats. You can except to receive your award for reviewing within the next week or two. Although the majority of the editors did not start Sweeps at the beginning in August 2007 (myself included), over 50 editors have all come together to complete a monumental task and improve many articles in the process. I commend you for sticking with this often challenging task and strengthening the integrity of the GA WikiProject as well as the GAs themselves. I invite you to take a break from reviewing (don't want you to burn out!) and then consider returning/starting to review GANs and/or contribute to GAR reviews. With your assistance, we can help bring the backlog down to a manageable level and help inspire more editors to improve articles to higher classes and consider reviewing themselves. Again, thank you for putting up with difficult reviews, unhappy editors, numerous spam messages from me, and taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:37, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Ignite Portland in 2010
Hello,

I just watched your presentation and, well, good job :) DarkoNeko x 22:39, 6 March 2010 (UTC)


 * This made me deliriously happy. You're amazing.  That was great.  Are you coming to Wikimania?  You have to give this there!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 23:17, 6 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Just read Jimmy's tweet, watched it, and would like to share my appreciation. Great stuff! (yep, I am a bot operator with bots having done over 10M edits :P). Siebrand (talk) 23:27, 6 March 2010 (UTC)


 * That was really funny indeed :-) Very well done! Forrestjunky (talk) 23:37, 6 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Brilliant stuff! matt (talk) 23:43, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the kind words everyone! To answer Jimmy's question, I really hope to come to Wikimania but I'm not sure if I can. If I do get to be there, I would be happy to give my talk. It might even be fun to have an Ignite Wikimania for others to present too. :) Steven Walling  03:59, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I hope you can; that was hilarious. (Of course, in a group full of Wikipedians, you may get more nitpicking from the audience... :-)) Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 14:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Awesome! Totally made my day :) What's even more amazing is that you kept the enthusiasm and passion alive since 2006. Renata (talk) 04:01, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Just thought I'd pile on my feelings about that video - fantastic. My non-Wikipedian friend was in stitches :D f o x   (formerly garden) 23:11, 14 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, it was very good. Funny but at the same time an accurate description of what Wiki is like. Thanks for your dedication and hard work. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:16, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Your wikipedian presentation
I loved it! It's funny and enjoyable. Keep up the good work! --Tyw7 (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 23:32, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Steven Walling  04:26, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

PROD for books
Proposed deletion (books), an  adaptation of the PROD process for Wikipedia-Books has been proposed. Since you are a member of WP:WBOOKS, discussion and comments would be appreciated. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:10, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for noticing my Wiki contributions, and suggested readings for new users. I greatly appreciated both. Captainajones (talk) 08:38, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Mars?
I hope you don't mind, but I just wanted to ask about your reasons for protecting Mars. An article such as Mars requiring fewer then one revert per day hardly seems excessive, and you'll notice that all of the vandalism was reverted very quickly. — V = IR (Talk&thinsp;&bull;&thinsp;Contribs) 14:51, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I protected it not because the vandalism wasn't getting reverted quickly (it almost always is). I protected it because it's a high-profile article that received a relatively large volume of vandalism from diverse sources (more than one individual, both anons and users) in a relatively short period of time. That, plus the fact that a Featured Article is unlikely to need lots of help with drastic or pressing edits in the short term, is why I accepted the protection request made at RFPP. Steven Walling  19:40, 25 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the reply. I thought that you were ignoring me there, for a bit! Sorry about that.
 * I'm curious to understand your "relatively large volume of vandalism from diverse sources" rational, when the page only received 4 vandalism edits over 6 days, by my count. That hardly seems excessive.
 * I'm also curious to hear a defense of your "featured articles don't need IP edits" statement, as well. Are you suggesting that the Mars article, and others like it, should never be unprotected? — V = IR (Talk&thinsp;&bull;&thinsp;Contribs) 20:17, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't say "FAs don't need IP edits". I said that vandalism from diverse sources temporarily outweighs the need for edits from anonymous/new users. Semi-protection is by definition temporary. Anyway, if you don't think it needs protection, you're welcome to put up an unprotect request at RFPP (and I'll leave it to another admin to decide). Steven Walling  21:36, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive
–MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 18:24, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Visual edition of the Oregon COTW featuring the Glass Palace
Hello WikiProject Oregon member, time for a new edition of the Collaboration of the Week. Thank you to those who helped out the last few weeks improving Oregon Coast Aquarium and Arvydas Sabonis. Also thank you to those few of you helped with the attempt to celebrate Women's History Month with Barbara Roberts and Ursula K. Le Guin.

This week we have by request the Memorial Coliseum that has been in the news a lot lately, and then one of the more important political figures in our state's history, Douglas McKay. The MC needs some ref work and EL work, and McKay really needs a lot more sourcing. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:08, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

A sincere thank you from Wikiproject Good Articles
On behalf of Wikiproject Good Articles, I would like to express our gratitude to you for your contributions to the Sweeps process. Completion of this monstrous task has proven to be a significant accomplishment not only for our project, but for Wikipedia. As a token of our sincere appreciation, please accept this ribbon. Lara 01:12, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Unprotected Stick Stickly (song)
The page was one of many targets of a raid, which appears to have ended. Thanks for the protection, you may put it back if you wish. -Frazzydee|&#9997; 21:13, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Anand Chandrasekaran
An article that you have been involved in editing, Anand Chandrasekaran, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/. Thank you.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. &mdash; 71.166.147.78 (talk) 19:39, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Keynote Systems
Hi Steven, I was cleaning up the Keynote Systems Wiki page over the last couple of weeks. I suddenly find that you have deleted the same. Could we not have kept it on with - so that other editors could have modified the content. Belmond (talk) 06:06, 15 April 2010 (UTC)Belmond

It Takes a Rim Village - Oregon COTW
Greetings WikiProject Oregon member, time for the next edition of the Collaboration of the Week. Thanks to those who assisted in improving a few articles over the last month. For May Day edition of the COTW (in Wikipedia time its May already), we have by request Rim Village Historic District and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (AKA OMSI). Rim Village just needs some refinement to get to GA, while OMSI needs a lot of work in general. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Adios (on May 5th that is). Aboutmovies (talk) 04:49, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Internet Brands
Hi Steve. Looking for a little help and input. Some pages appear to have been deleted without any process. For example, World66 is just gone. This page was created before Internet Brands even bought the site. A singe user seems to have revved-up some support for mass deletion of pages related to Internet Brands. Advice? How can we recover lost data, such as the World66 page? CellarDoor2001 (talk) 22:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Steve, here's the scope of the deletions:


 * 1) (Deletion log); 17:56 . . JzG (talk | contribs) deleted "The Bargainist" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
 * 2) (Deletion log); 17:56 . . JzG (talk | contribs) deleted "Ben's Bargains" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
 * 3) (Deletion log); 17:56 . . JzG (talk | contribs) deleted "Tjoos" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
 * 4) (Deletion log); 17:53 . . JzG (talk | contribs) deleted "KidsCamps" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
 * 5) (Deletion log); 17:52 . . JzG (talk | contribs) deleted "CruiseMates" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
 * 6) (Deletion log); 13:26 . . Redvers (talk | contribs) deleted "3FatChicks" (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content))
 * 7) (Deletion log); 13:23 . . Redvers (talk | contribs) deleted "Talk:GrooveJob" (G8: Page dependent on a deleted or nonexistent page)
 * 8) (Deletion log); 13:22 . . Redvers (talk | contribs) deleted "GrooveJob" (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content))
 * 9) (Deletion log); 13:22 . . Redvers (talk | contribs) deleted "Dave's Garden" (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content))
 * 10) (Deletion log); 13:22 . . Redvers (talk | contribs) deleted "Splitcoaststampers" (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content))
 * 11) (Deletion log); 13:21 . . Redvers (talk | contribs) deleted "HuntingNet" (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content))
 * 12) (Deletion log); 13:19 . . Redvers (talk | contribs) deleted "ExpertHub" (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content))

All of these pages appear to be NPOV. And the assertion that there is no explanation of the subject's significance is not true. Each of the pages had a clearly articulated rationale.

Again, any advice most welcome. CellarDoor2001 (talk) 22:40, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

G11 tag?
Hi Steven Walling! I saw your tag at this page and I was wondering two things:


 * if you felt the article was promotional, couldn't you have listed it at AfD or maybe even the BLP noticeboard? I think at first glance the subject appears marginally or maybe just notable enough for our standards, so I would like to think that we could improve it instead of deleting it.


 * I'm assuming this - but did you decide not to use the tools to delete such an article?

Thanks!  ceran  thor 01:41, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I meant NPOVN above, not BLPN. dx  ceran  thor 01:43, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Page Deletion Inquiry
Hello! I was just wondering why the page for Thieves Like Us (originally Thieves_Like_Us_(band)), a quite active band with an album and several singles out, has been deleted. Was the article not detailed enough, or was the information supplied deemed invalid...? If additional information is needed, I'm more than happy to supply it. Thanks :)   Daveyjones1251 16:30, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

A favor, please
Steven, just as a sanity check could you take a look at the "Page notice" on my talk page & see if that is reasonable? Last thing I want is to be slapped with an incivility warning for explaining how I ignore people. Thanks -- llywrch (talk) 05:57, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

CVM
Steven... it's been a while but I thought I'd try to explain why I deleted that entry. So, the CVM link is a redirect to Romeldale. So, to avoid duplicate links and since CVM is a subtype, I thought I would keep the Romeldale link and remove the CVM link. Thoughts? Nice to see you still here!  Blind Eagle  talk ~ contribs  19:46, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your explanation on my talk page. The way I look at is simply, the two articles that you reference are distinct.  The difference on the Sheep Breeds page is that a redirect is listed instead of an article.  I agree that CVM is a subtype and that people looking specifically looking for CVM need to have the ability to make the connection between CVM and Romeldale.  So, in that regard, I will not dispell with the entry.  But, it does make the page inconsistent.  Thank you for your time.   Blind  Eagle  talk ~ contribs  18:06, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Munson Page Deletion
Steve, Thank you for reviewing the page I created for Steve Munson, but I do not understand why its up for deletion. I have tried to make it unbiased, non promotional and have taken in considered the edits from other editors and made changes. All the references I have included are active and valid and the ones that are not have been removed. The legal cases are referenced properly and can be obtained locally or through a database like Gapers - they just cant be directly linked to. Furthermore, I originally provided links to the actual documents from the cases that were uploaded to rapidshare, but I was told rapidshare is not a Friendly reference, hence I only provided the case citation. If you can tell me anyway to improve the page, so it does not get deleted, I greatly appreciate it. I will rewrite some sections again today and hopefully, the page will not get up up for deletion again. Thank you. PlanetVulcan, 23:26, 23 Jun 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by PlanetVulcan (talk • contribs)

New Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador
Just giving you my standard heads-up after I revert an admin action to prevent the appearance of wheel-warring. The above mentioned town is a real settlement in Canada and, therefore, meets inclusion guidelines. Judging from some of the recent additions by a newer user, it did indeed appear to be nonsense, but after a quick reversion back to an earlier stub, the article can now await someone else to have a crack at it in the future. Cheers.  young  american (wtf?) 11:48, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * no prob. I have no connection to the town and will likely never be within 500 miles of the place, but it the article caught my eye a while back when it was prodded and I've sort of adopted it to my watchlist ever since.  young  american  (wtf?) 19:22, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

dildo
as to article new harbour,newfoundland and labrador's repetition of dildo,dildo is a real town,new harbour's neighbor.Keserman (talk) 19:54, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

new harbourand dildo
then I will get to it when i have time to later,as i dont have much now.thanksKeserman (talk) 14:06, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

new harbour and dildo problem fixed.
in a notice on the page new harbour,newfoundland and labrador,I added reference to dildo,with a site name that contains proof of new harbour,dildo,and as i put it,likeky most to all place names on the page.if you want,you can visit the page and tell me if it is satisfactory.it has "from-i signed-and the note below it.i still canadd references,and probably will.cheers,Keserman (talk) 16:39, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Oberhasli goat
I have nominated Oberhasli goat, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Oberhasli goat. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. d u f f  00:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Oberhasli goat
Just curious were you voting for a speedy keep or were you actually closing it? Mauler90 talk 00:56, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Roger that's what I thought, just wasn't sure with the wording.  Mauler90  talk 06:23, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
Armbrust Talk  Contribs  01:25, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Ossabaw Island Hog
Hi Steven, remember how it turned out we were both working on articles on this topic at the same time, but yours was in main space first? Well, I still have my old sandbox article, User:LadyofShalott/Ossabaw Island Pig, hanging around. Do you have any objection to my merging the history of my sandbox with that of the article that is there? I kind of hate just to delete it but feel silly leaving it as a sandbox. What do you think? Lady of  Shalott  23:11, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I've merged the histories now. :) Lady  of  Shalott  18:05, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Helping out as an admin?
Thank you for your giant vote of confidence in me. After careful consideration I have decide to accept your nomination of me for admin. I just hope that I can measure up to you expectations. Cgoodwin (talk) 06:58, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Support, but when?
Steven, I see you are nominating Cgoodwin for adminship. I strongly support this, Cg is a master at staying cool when everyone else is not but I see that the page has no comments or anything yet... so when is it appropriate for me to pop over to the nom page and offer support? (I suppose Cg needs to agree to accept the nomination first, eh??)  Anyway, a heads up when things are rolling would be appreciated. Montanabw (talk) 00:16, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

VPC
— raeky  T  10:29, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Wiki-Conference NYC (2nd annual)
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Thank you
Thank you very much for your support and comments in the RfA. It was an eye-opening experience, but I will not be trying for it again any time soon. Cgoodwin (talk) 07:27, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Removing prod
Heh, I hit the prod button on the wrong tab. Sorry about that, and thanks for removing it. - MrOllie (talk) 18:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Beefalo + Dzo
While it may not be a species in traditional sense, it can still be classifed. It goes pretty indepth | here. Plus, the Liger and the Mule and the Zorse pages have boxes. Sir Robert &quot;Brightgalrs&quot; Schultz de Plainsboro (talk) 00:25, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Collaborative news on quippd
Hey, I noticed that you listed yourself as invoked in the WikiProject Journalism project, and I hoped that you could help out on another collaborative community edited project.

I run quippd, a collaboratively edited social news site, which mixes elements of Wikis, social networking, and social news sites. You can get some more information about what we are doing at: http://quippd.com/about/intro

Basically, we want to get good coverage on news stories, collaboratively edited, like Wikipedia. We are trying to take the ideas of WikiFactCheck -- to make news less biased and speedier (unlike something like Wikinews). By combining social elements to the project, we hope to bring the benefits of wiki enabled fact checking and npov ideas to the masses.

I hope you check us out -- and feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns.

--Yoasif (talk) 02:24, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage
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PediaPress renderer for Wikipedia Books
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Re: Screen Sprint
We met very briefly, but it was nice to meet you nonetheless. Congrats on the new job, and keep up the great work! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 15:49, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
You reviewed (and I think) promoted it to GA status, I'm letting you know I started a GAR which can be found here C T J F 8 3  chat 21:10, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Nashville Meetup?
Hi, Steven! user:Keegan suggested I contact you about a Nashville Meetup - he said something about doing something in conjunction with Wikipedia's 10th anniversary on Jan 15? Would love some more info! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 04:19, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject Bacon !
Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 08:41, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
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It's raining thanks spam!

 * Please pardon the intrusion. This tin of thanks spam is offered to everyone who commented or !voted (Support, Oppose or Neutral) on my recent RfA. I appreciate the fact that you care enough about the encyclopedia and its community to participate in this forum.
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thx re Kickstarter
Thanks for chiming in & executing on removing the NPOV objection on Kickstarter... it seemed totally fine to me too --Jamiew (talk) 18:54, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your support at my RfA last week. I'll do everything I can to live up to your expectations and the trust you have shown in me. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 13:04, 30 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for mentioning the commons photo. It is good to see that WP is referenced as it should be, but it is not always done. Cgoodwin (talk) 06:57, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

deletions of Peter Ralston and Cheng Hsin
Hi Steven,

I'm an instructor of a small martial art in London, and after a student noticed that pages on that art has disappeared from wikipedia, I began investigating and found they had been deleted. I noticed one editor who had given up on saving the articles as he could find no concrete information on a very basic claim by them. I had a brief but useful conversation with him, but as he is not very active at the moment, he suggested that I should perhaps run my questions by someone on the Martial Arts project. I had a look at the Martial Arts Project page, noticed that you practiced Tai Chi and Hsing I, and were active, so thought to ask your help.

My goal is to have the pages resurrected if possible. Could I ask you to have a look please? The conversation is still on BenTels talk page: (talk), but I have also copied it to my talk page: (talk). Could you please have a read of that when you have a chance and let me know what you think?

Cheers... CCCharlie (talk) 15:43, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Mashable
So are you gonna add those sources to the article or just leave it free for someone else who will invariably pass it on to someone else, making yet another WP:SEP infinite loop? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 05:05, 30 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if that is referring to the above 'deletions of Peter Ralston and Cheng Hsin'. If not, sorry for the mistaken response. If so, then the sources I referenced were already quoted in the articles in question (excepting a reference to another wikipedia page, which is not of great importance). I'm not sure why they didn't show up in any discussion I found of the deletions (after the fact), but I'm supposing it's because they are all hard copy (periodicals or books). CCCharlie (talk) 18:04, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Party Pack
Hello, Steven, I just sent an email to apply for a party for Chongqing. Have you got it? --NewSpeaks (talk) 09:25, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Maaaaaaaaaaaail!
Sorry for the pun in the topic, but everytime I say that I think of Blues Clues. Anyway, I sent you an email. Lemme know what you think? :)  D u s t i *poke* 08:47, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

You're Invited! Come Celebrate Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary!
(I realize that you are currently in San Francisco and that you are working on this project, but I wanted to invite you nonetheless. Hope you are doing well!) -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:09, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello
You popped into my mind the other day, so I just wanted to pop by to say hello and hope all is going well. -- David  Shankbone  21:32, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

ANI
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Toddst1 (talk) 19:42, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. Steven Walling  19:57, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Rv
Hey, someone reverted your edits here to a faulty version. Do you mind reverting it please? 84.13.28.220 (talk) 23:53, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Kickstarter-logo.jpg
 Thanks for uploading File:Kickstarter-logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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 * Thanks for the heads up. I went ahead and deleted it. Steven Walling  19:19, 21 February 2011 (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 23:51, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

It has been a long, but
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Proposed deletion of The Vancouver Voice


The article The Vancouver Voice has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * The subject of this article does not appear to meet the general notability guideline. I am unable to find significant coverage of this alternative newspaper in third party sources.

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Nomination of The Vancouver Voice for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Vancouver Voice is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Pending changes/Request for Comment February 2011
FYI, the RFC was re-started today with a different format more like an WP:RFC/U. Hopefully this will help us find a consensus. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:10, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

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discussion info
Hello, Steven Walling. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems/2011 March 12 regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Unscintillating (talk) 01:43, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up! Cheers, Steven Walling  02:34, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
For this. Might apply for it on Commons too, now that I know it exists. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 12:37, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank You
Thank you for the welcome.SeHiLuCuRa (talk) 14:39, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

re:Request for permissions
About how many file namespace contributions should I have, before I can move files?--Breawycker (talk to me!) Review Me! 19:34, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * There isn't an exact edit threshold, but only a few uploads and 9 edits to the File namespace are just not quite enough to make the decision clear. I would suggest requesting some file moves or similar. Steven Walling  00:30, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

WPORE COTW 2.0 - the picture edition
Greetings one and all. For some of you, this will be your first time receiving one of these messages, as it has been a year since the WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week (COTW) was a regular thing. My hope is it gets back to being a regular thing.

Usually I would go over the past COTW, but we are basically starting out anew. So, without further adieu, this edition is our semi-annual picture drive. We usually try to do it when there is decent weather in the state, and today seems to fit the bill. Now although you are encouraged to go out and take pictures, you can also just search the internet for images that have the proper licensing and upload those. Flickr is one site that has a fair amount of content with the proper licensing (most images on Flickr are not compatible). See WP:COPYRIGHT in general. For some “free” sources, check out the our dormant subproject that has some links to sources.

Lastly, if you need to know what images we need, here are the requests. Please remove the request from the talk page if you add an image.

Finally (this is not image related), as the years have passed, we have lost many good editors, and others, like myself, are no longer in school or are working full-time or both, and thus are less active in the project. The project lives on, but it has created a bit of a power vacuum without a de facto cabal still around all the time. With that in mind, I encourage newer project members to step-up and fill some leadership type roles. Granted, we have no formal ruling junta or anything and no real defined roles, but there are many maintenance type tasks that some of us just took on to keep the project going. For instance, I ran the COTW, was pretty much the only one doing assessments, updating the portal, and even handing out the awards. I am sure others in the project can name what things they have done. The point being, that while I enjoyed those and still do some of those, I simply no longer have the free time to do all of it at a level that the project deserves. That said, I hope to start a discussion at WT:ORE where we can see if some newer editors would like to step-up and take on some of these tasks, which will hopefully make for a more inclusive project, and maybe get us back to the heyday of say 2008 when things were really rocking for WikiProject Oregon.

As always, please click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:09, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Regarding "Minor Edits" and a Photo Upload; Can You Help, Please?
Hello Steven: Thanks for your kind note regarding some articles I've started over the years and also, my edits which I checked as "minor." I will have to look into what defines an edit as "minor" versus major; I don't want to assess inaccurately -- and as you guessed, that setting is checked and I need to uncheck it. Today, though, I'm hoping for your help on a photo I uploaded, File:BradLamm2011.jpeg, for the article Brad Lamm. I have permission and evidently I didn't adequately convey that on the photo's info page because I received a message that the photo will be deleted unless it's properly tagged. I just added a "non-free promotional" tag. Thanks for any help you can give. Leoniana (talk) 19:53, 26 April 2011 (UTC)