User talk:Talkstosocks/Archive 1

Request for edit summary
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Cloyster GA
Hey TTS, I noticed you may be thinking about improving Cloyster to GA standards, I just thought you may want to look over thePokémon style guide, which has some information on pluralization and intros. Cheers, H ig hway Return to Oz... 17:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Mirko Norac
Hi there. Thanks for your constructive criticism of the article I nominated for GA a month ago. I did my best to fix all of the issues you raised. Could you, please, take another look at the article and see if it is, in your oppinion, fit for GA status or it needs more work? --Dijxtra 12:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

The Price Is Right (US)
Thanks for your comments on the good article nomination. Very helpful information. &mdash;Twigboy 17:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce
You're listed in the cleanup taskforce but your desk doesn't seem to be setup correctly. Would you like assistance? RJFJR 17:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

The dates on the 9th Century article
Please check Wikipedia style guide WP:DATES, Talktosocks. Either the AD/BC or CE/BCE use is acceptable, but the first editor of this article used AD. You may use the page history tab to see for yourself. JBogdan 19:16, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Mirko Norac
Thanks for your interest in your role played with the Mirko Norac article. I was in the process of reading the Afd about it and was in the middle of leaving a reply that I thought it should be kept but edited, made neutral or etc in the case that it wasn't neutral. Right as I tried to leave my reply I saw that Adam Bishop had deleted it I think on the grounds for being bad faith. I hope you don't mind but I undeleted the article and did my best to edit it and make it neutral

Personally, I'd had no knowledge of Mirko Norac and am neutral as far as to whatever his or his followers or dejectors have to say about him. But in all due respect I hate seeing one's ideas censored. I think we should encourage others to make Wikipedia the best we can. If what I've submitted is neutral, I hope that not anyone else reverts it to an unneutral article.

Thanks again and feel free to check out my work on the public access television article where I make numerous contributions. DavidWJohnson 18:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Template:Story
Hi. Could you please direct me to the specific Wikipedia style policies and/or guidelines you based this template on, so I can respond to it appropriately? Best, Dan —DCGeist 00:43, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Edits to Boolean algebra
Hi Talkstocks,

I saw your latest edits to Boolean algebra. Really I think they would go better at Boolean logic. The Boolean algebra article is intended to be about the objects, not so much about the algebraic propositions that hold within them. --Trovatore 02:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I've responded on my talk page. --Trovatore 05:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Untagged image
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commons:User:Talkstosocks
I assert to be the same user as commons:User:Talkstosocks - The Talking Sock talk contribs 18:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

GAC backlog elimination drive
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July 2007 GAC backlog elimination drive
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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for November 2007
The November 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the December 2007 issue. Dr. Cash 01:23, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for December 2007
The December 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the January 2008 issue. Dr. Cash 01:12, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Good Articles January Newsletter
Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 04:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Chyld
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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
The February 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 05:17, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
The March 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 06:12, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikification tasks template
Hello, Talkstosocks. As part of a broader reorganisation of the WikiProject Wikify project page, I'm trying to figure out how best to incorporate the Wikification tasks template back onto the page, and I'd like to try to persuade you to change the task box back to its previous format.

The earlier (and now present) function of the template in showing selected articles from a few of the oldest monthly backlogs is, I believe, useful mainly to those editors who already search the relevant "Wikify by month" categories directly. I think that the template could serve a more useful purpose in showing potential newcomers a much wider variety of articles that may appeal to their interests. Also, I think that the article count and timestamp on the task box are redundant: both appear on the Wikification progress template, and having them on the task box only makes it longer than it needs to be.

I'd appreciate your thoughts on changing the task box format. If we can't agree, then I'll likely leave the formatting as it is; nevertheless, I hope I've been persuasive in my reasoning. Hope to hear from you soon. – Liveste (talk • edits) 16:39, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd like to include all of the monthly backlogs on the template – I don't think that thirteen months is that many, although I can foresee problems in the future. Three or four articles should be selected from each month. The articles on the template should represent different fields of interest (e.g., science, literature, pop culture, various regional articles), that will hopefully have broad appeal for potential newcomers. In my opinion, the more of these articles there are on the template, the better.


 * Overall, I'd like to include the template in a "Find an article to wikify" section on the project page. This will include three things:
 * Finding articles in, or alternatively, the monthly backlogs;
 * The Open Tasks box, which gives a visible selection of (hopefully interesting) articles in the backlog;
 * The proposed category intersections, which would make searching for articles by field of interest possible.


 * I hope I've explained my ideas more fully. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 23:12, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I hope you don't mind, but I've gone ahead and restored the template's previous formatting. Let me know if you have any concerns. Cheers again. – Liveste (talk • edits) 07:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

April GA Newsletter
The April issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is now available. Dr. Cash (talk) 04:04, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter
The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good articles newsletter
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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Sorry about the delay. AWB has been having a few issues lately. Here is the august issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 20:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)