User talk:Trevj/Archives/Archive 6

Please comment on Talk:Buff (colour)
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The Tea Leaf - Issue Five
Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!


 * Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteers who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
 * More Teahouse hosts than ever. We had 12 new hosts sign up to participate at the Teahouse! We now have 35 hosts volunteering at the Teahouse. Feel free to stop by and see them all here.
 * Phase two update: Host sprint. In August, the Teahouse team plans to improve the host experience by developing a simpler new-host creation process, a better way of surfacing active hosts, and a host lounge renovation. Take a look at the plan and weigh in here.
 * New Teahouse guest barnstar is awarded to first recipient: Charlie Inks. Using the Teahouse barnstar designed by Heatherawalls, hosts hajatvrc and Ryan Vesey created the new Teahouse Guest Barnstar. The first recipient is Charlie Inks, for her boldness in asking questions at the Teahouse. Check out the award in action here.
 * Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania! The Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania this past month, where editor retention and interface design was heavily discussed. Sarah and Jonathan presented the Teahouse during the Wikimedia Fellowships panel. Slides can be viewed here. A lunch was also held at Wikimania for Teahouse hosts.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

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A beer for you!

 * I'd have appreciated this last night but it's a little early in the day now! As for the 10k, I guess it depends which counting stats you have access to. Anyway, it looks as if you'll be staying ahead of me for a long, long time yet. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 08:08, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
SarahStierch (talk) 23:17, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Trevj (talk) 07:58, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry - too much stuff going on IRL to get to this after all. } -- Trevj (talk) 08:09, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Abortion
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Talkback
Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 15:07, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Bicycle Shaped Object (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:59, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notification. -- Trevj (talk) 13:21, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biographies
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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Rebecca Spencer (singer)
Hello! Many thanks for your help in editing. I have made a number of edits as you have suggested, as well as added two additional cited sources for more background, as also suggested. Any further comments are welcome! And thank you for helping me create my FIRST article. I look forward ti joining the effort as I get more experience. Best- Jim — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimdas2012 (talk • contribs) 21:28, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. I'm pretty sure this message wasn't intended for me, as I've not been involved in this! -- Trevj (talk) 09:28, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
SarahStierch (talk) 06:12, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Infobox software
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Nomination of In the Faxed Atmosphere for deletion
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The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/In the Faxed Atmosphere until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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 * Thanks for the notification. -- Trevj (talk) 08:46, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Don't forget to make your new host profile!
Hi Trevj! Thanks for being a host at the Teahouse! We're working on the Host lounge renovations and we've created a new way for hosts to become hosts. Please take a few minutes and test it out here, by creating your new host profile. It's also a good excuse to update your image, quote, and information about yourself :) You can join in on the host discussion about the new feature here. See you at the Teahouse! SarahStierch (talk) 19:46, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Trevj (talk) 08:29, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Reincarnation research
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Ecce Homo (Elías García Martínez)
I am curious about your AFD close. No consensus? It seems to me that there was a clear consensus to keep with 21/27 !votes going that way. What exactly is your rationale against closing as "keep"? Elizium23 (talk) 15:09, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. By simply counting the !votes, yes it looks as if the consensus was to keep. However, it's true that the subject of the article may not have the lasting notability required by WP:PERSISTENCE. The nominator's WP:NOTNEWSPAPER rationale was also supported by another editor. There was some support for merging, with such editors concerned that notability isn't established. A number of the keep !votes seemed to me to be little more than WP:ITSNOTABLE, which doesn't equate to an overwhelming consensus to keep based on policy. Another alternative would have been to relist the debate in the hope that more policy-based reasons would be discussed. But IMHO that would waste editors' time because it really seems too early in this case to categorically determine whether the painting is notable or not, as judged by enduring news coverage or WP:EFFECT.
 * I hope that explanation is of some help. If an admin disagrees with my closure and rationale, s/he can always reopen the discussion. Thanks. -- Trevj (talk) 15:37, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Six
Hi! Welcome to the sixth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
 * Teahouse serves over 700 new editors in six months on Wikipedia! Since February 27, 741 new editors have participated at the Teahouse. The Q&A board and the guest intro pages are more active than ever.
 * Automatic invites are doing the trick: 50% more new editors visiting each week. Ever since HostBot's automated invite trial phase began we've seen a boost in new editor participation. Automating a baseline set of invitations also allows Teahouse hosts to focus on serving hot cups of help to guests, instead of spending countless hours inviting.
 * Guests to the Teahouse continue to edit more & interact more with other community members than non-Teahouse guests according to six month metrics. Teahouse guests make more than twice the article edits and edit more talk pages than other new editors.
 * New host process implemented which encourages anyone to get started as a Teahouse host in a few easy steps. Stop by the hosts page and become a Teahouse host today!
 * Host lounge renovations nearing completion. Working closely with Teahouse hosts, we've made some major renovations to the Teahouse Host Lounge - the main hangout and resource space for hosts. Learn more about the improvements here.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

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Colorfulness
Heads-up see Talk:Colorfulness. I have reformatted you request. If you want to place a requested move in future please use requested move template as described at WP:RM -- PBS (talk) 14:51, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Yes, that makes sense. -- Trevj (talk) 11:57, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Information technology
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WikiProject Graffiti
Hi Trevj, with your Brizzle interests, you might be someone who'd like to join in. Sionk (talk) 11:27, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * You're right that it does interest me. I'll give it some thought, but don't plan on joining for the moment because I've simply too many other things going on (in no particular order, a photo, some computing stuff, possible article resurrections, plenty of userspace drafts, and IRL things too). Cheers anyway. -- Trevj (talk) 11:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)