User talk:Tea and crumpets/Archive 1

Japoteurs (animated short)
Since you helped create this, I figure you deserve credit, too. Wrad 22:29, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

King Arthur project collaboration
The King Arthur Project has begun a collaboration to bring its main article, King Arthur, to WP:FA status. If you wish to contribute, please review the to-do list on its talk page. Let's make this article an FA! Wrad 03:28, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Saturdays warrior.jpg
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Brigham Young University Wikiproject
This new wikiproject has been proposed at WikiProject Council/Proposals. Please sign up in order to improve the quality of BYU related articles on wikipedia, including BYU-Idaho and BYU-Hawaii. Thanks. Wrad 01:13, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Changes to the article Book of Mormon
Hello Tea and crumpets:

I'm putting this note here because I saw your name in the edit history of the Book of Mormon article. There have been two "batches" of changes to the article recently. As I explained in the Talk, I reversed these changes, not because of the substance of the changes but because of the "process". Talk:Book of Mormon

I'm hoping you and others will look at the substance of these changes. I don't want the people who made the changes to think their efforts were reversed and then simply ignored. (And I'm not able to comment seriously on the proposed changes.)

The two batches of changes I'm referring to are the ones made on December 15 by 24.2.75.193, and on December 17 by DJ Clayworth. (Because the changes were reversed, the best place to see them is through the article history.)

Thank you, Wanderer57 (talk) 18:44, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

PS You may find this amusing. I saw your note "I am an autodidact" and thought, "I wonder what that is, maybe that's something I should take up".

So I followed the link and realized that autodidactism was one thing I could not take a course to learn. W

Help please
Hello! Can you constructively help me with this? I am slightly completely unprepared for it. I got the first question by my self, then the tough question that I don't know the answers to came, so that is why I need help... Thanks for your help! Sincerely, Sir Intellegence - smartr tahn eaver!!!! 21:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Africa Image
Hi. I just wanted to thank you for your support on the Africa Portal image. I made it because i think portals have the potential to look more attractive. Of course some people totally disagree. User CJ for instance has been chasing my works on the base of copyrights for the wikipedia logo. Which I have found baseless since i am not using it for commercial purposes or outside the wikipedia. The logo is being added within the Wikipedia and i do not see how it infringes any copyright. I have some other images in the Asia portal and the Latin America portal. I will be adding more images to the other portals whenever I have time. The Europe portal became a controversy because another user wanted to add his. I lost the feud because some comments found my banner a little unreadable and I totally respect those opinions. Anyway thanks.Camilo Sanchez (talk) 19:51, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:Redflags.svg
Bulgaria definitely has red in its flag. The red originates from the Pan-Slavic colours - red, blue and white, but in the Bulgarian falg the blue has been replaced by green. Could you possibly fix the image? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.36.9.144 (talk) 15:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for alerting me. I took care of it. -Tea and crumpets (t c) 03:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alternative education
There has been a proposal brought forward regarding a merger of WikiProject Alternative Education, and as you are member of that project, I am notifying you. Thanks. Twenty Years 13:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Homeschooling May 2008 Newsletter
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WikiProject Years
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File:Jungledrums2.JPG listed for deletion
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Request for tagging WP:Energy categories
Hi. As a participant of the WP:Energy, I would like to ask you to comment the request for tagging WP:Energy articles by bot. The list of potential categories for tagging is located here and the discussion about which categories should be excluded from this list, is going on at the WP:Energy talkpage here. Your comments are welcome. Beagel (talk) 12:03, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Homeschooling Roll Call
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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Volcano1.jpg


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WikiProject Years
Hi, since your name's down on this project, I'm just writing to let you know that there's a discussion going on at the moment on how to format events – and in particular, events that go on for multiple days – on year pages. Your input would be appreciated. — Smjg (talk) 18:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Upcoming Wikimedia events in Missouri and Kansas!
You're invited to 3 exciting events Wikipedians are planning in your region this June—a tour and meetup at the National Archives in Kansas City, and Wiknics in Wichita and St. Louis:

Request for help concerning energy...
Hi,

I noticed you listed yourself as a participant of the Energy WikiProject.

There are 2 new outlines in this area that attempt to consolidate Wikipedia's coverage of their respective subjects, gathering and organizing the articles about them into one place and including descriptions for convenience. The purposes of these outlines are to make it easier for readers to survey or review a whole subject, and to choose from Wikipedia's many articles about it.

The new energy outlines are:


 * Outline of solar energy
 * Outline of wind energy

Please take a look at them, and....


 * if you spot missing topics, add them in.


 * if you can, improve the descriptions.


 * add missing descriptions.


 * show parent-offspring relationships (with indents).


 * fix errors.

For more information about the format and functions of outlines, see Outlines.

Building outlines of existing material (such as Wikipedia) is called "reverse outlining". Reverse outlines are useful as a revision tool, for identifying gaps in coverage and for spotting poor structuring.

Revising a work with multiple articles (such as Wikipedia) is a little different than revising a paper. But the general principles are the same...

As you develop these outlines, you may notice things about the articles they organize. Like what topics are not adequately covered, better ways to structure and present the material, awkward titles, articles that need splitting, article sections lacking Main links, etc.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines.

Thank you. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 00:57, 2 June 2012 (UTC) P.S.: see also Outline of energy

Come to the First Topeka Meetup, January 15!


Come celebrate Wikipedia Day with other Kansas Wikipedians sponsored by Wikimedians Active in Local Regions in the United States (WALRUS) and hosted by the Topeka and Shawnee Public Library. Come chat, hang out and enjoy good company while find out more about Wikipedia in our regional community! RSVP at Meetup/Topeka/Wikipedia_Day.

If you can't come, but still want to find out about events in the greater Topeka region (which may include KC, Manhattan, Lawrence, Salina, or other places where volunteers are interested) sign up for future notifications at Meetup/Topeka/Invite list.

Hope to see you there Sadads (talk) 20:21, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Jungledrums1.JPG
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 * I've added a generic source for this. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 08:03, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Better source request for File:The underground world still.JPG
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Population update project
Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the sigfig template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

— kwami (talk) 02:13, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

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