User talk:Vampyrecat

If you need to talk to me, Vampyrecat, about an article or edit please do so here.  Please feel free to make a new section .

Enforce inclusion of categories
Hi, I've made a proposal to change the software to prevent mainspace pages from being saved unless they contain a category. Since you've done a lot of work at User:Bluemoose/Uncategorised good articles, which would be affected by this proposal, I'd appreciate your thoughts! bd2412 T 23:39, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Eureka
Thanks for being nice about the Eureka edits. I thought editors would get really loud about my edits (I guess not much time has gone by yet). Oh boy! --al95521 23:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hollow-body
As a new editor I appreciate you kindness. I followed a couple of your edits to see your work and I have a question about your Hollow-body comment. How do you make a merge proposal? I found a page Adventure capital and I think it should be merged or redirected to Venture capital. Can you give me any suggestions? Thanks again. --al95521 23:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Here is the wiki article on Merges

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging_and_moving_pages


 * When using wikipedia example pages, I have a standard way of doing it:
 * A. Find a usage that you like of the thing you are trying to do

1.Hit edit on the example page 2.copy the text of the example you want to use 3.hit the back button or close without saving
 * B. (Note: I usually have a tab (firefox) open with the page I am editing)

1. Paste the example text 2. modify it to fit your needs 3. Hit the preview button before saving 4. say what your edit is before saving

Jack Black
Sorry about the revert on Jack Black yesterday. It didn't occur to me that you'd be creating the page you wikilinked, after changing the link. Salamurai 17:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. It took me a really long time. Vampyrecat 03:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Award
Here is a WikiCookie award for your help. Thanks!

Notability
I've read your comment about the notability guidelines which are multiplying like rabbits. At minimum I'd like to see them trimmed back as the permutations are out of control. I'm trying to get some of the most onerous retagged as essays, and trim the rest. In a perfect world I'd like to see us relying on verifiability. Please join in some of the discussions.

Cheers!

--Kevin Murray 02:39, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Tibet: el joc de rol
Hi Vampyre. I took a look at Maqui Edicions' official website and other possible sources. I think I found some external links that should satisfy your request.


 * A permanent link -or supposed to be so- inside the official Maqui Edicions' website


 * The official website of a convention (or meeting?) celebrated last December in Girona, headquarters' city of the Maqui Edicions company. The name of the convention, VII Trobada de jocs de taula de Girona, could be translated as "7th Girona Tabletop Games Convention".


 * Ayudar jugando 2009 is not Catalan but Spanish, but it's only the name of the meeting ("Helping to play, 2009"). The text is in Catalan...

As you can notice the dimensions and translator are the same, only change the title, language of the book, publication date and ISBN code. Should we indicate "paperback" instead of "softcover"? In original English bibliographical references I often see the simple word "soft."...
 * A personal comment: the Tibet role-playing game had also been translated into Spanith since Maqui Edicions had produced two different books, one into Catalan and the other one into Spanish. Those are the bibliographical references, following the rules I learned in Barcelona and Paris universities:
 * For the Catalan translation: ST. CLAIRE-KING Brian, Tíbet, el joc de rol, Maqui Edicions S.C., Girona, April 2009, translation from English to Catalan by Mateu Pastoret i Jou, 222 p. il. 27x21 cm, softcover, ISBN 978-84-935248-2-1
 * For the Spanish translation: ST. CLAIRE-KING Brian, Tíbet, el juego de rol, Maqui Edicions S.C., Girona, September 2009, translation from English to Spanish by Mateu Pastoret i Jou, 222 p. il. 27x21 cm, softcover, ISBN 978-84-935248-3-8

Now (but not related to Wikipedia) lets take a look at the guy situated on the right side of this picture (at the side of the only girl of the group), as you can see it in the Ayudar jugando 2009 meeting webpage. He's Eusebi, a Catalan guy who I personally know. I met him in Catalonia more than 15 years ago, when RPGs where still raising in Spain, an expert roleplayer. His collection of role-playing games is... awesome ! a real mountain of books...

And that's all, I hope I was helpful to you. Don't hesitate anyway to request again my help if something's not clear or if you need more information or data. Regards! Kintaro (talk) 09:02, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm glad my help semt to be enough for you, but I forgot to explain the relation between the three links I gave you and the Tibet role-playing game:
 * A permanent link -or supposed to be so- inside the official Maqui Edicions' website: An insider Maqui Edicions page about the game.
 * The official website of a convention (or meeting?) celebrated last December in Girona, headquarters' city of the Maqui Edicions company. The name of the convention, VII Trobada de jocs de taula de Girona, could be translated as "7th Girona Tabletop Games Convention": the convention organized Tibet game sessions to promote the game.
 * Ayudar jugando 2009 is not Catalan but Spanish, but it's only the name of the meeting ("Helping to play, 2009"). The text is in Catalan...: the meeting organized Tibet game sessions to promote the game.
 * And that's all! Good luck! Kintaro (talk) 00:26, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

For the guideline on reviewing, see Reviewing. Being granted reviewer rights doesn't change how you can edit articles even with pending changes. The general help page on pending changes can be found here, and the general policy for the trial can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. —DoRD (talk) 14:59, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Vote comment
As you commented in the pending closure discussion I am notifying you that the Pending changes/Vote comment is now open and will be for two weeks, discussion as required can continue on the talkpage. Thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 00:07, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob (talk) 23:52, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Free RPG Day


A tag has been placed on Free RPG Day requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. Inanygivenhole (talk) 23:59, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * It was already gone! It did need some updating, but speedy deletion? Oh well, that's wikipedia for you *sigh*. I'll go through the undelete request, I suppose, since that's what it's there for. --Vampyrecat (talk) 18:00, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Tibet: The Roleplaying Game for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tibet: The Roleplaying Game 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 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tibet: The Roleplaying Game 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 notice from the top of the article. Inanygivenhole (talk) 19:22, 12 September 2013 (UTC) I'm not sure what to do because every time I get a notice that an article I worked on is being deleted, it's over with by the time I get the notice. I don't WANT to care, but I did spend many hours working on articles in the RPG project in 2009-2010 and it seems sat that they are all being deleted without fair discussion or consensus.

I went to try to discuss it and the discussion was closed without even 24 hours of discussion. There was a merge suggestion, but the "main" article is now flagged for deletion as well. Another article I created a while back (Free RPG Day) was nominated for speedy deletion and then deleted but it didn't fit the category given in the speedy deletion process. There was no discussion of the Tibet article on Articles for Proposed Deletion, only on the Talk page of the article. Vampyrecat (talk) 02:48, 27 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Deletion discussions usually take a week, sometimes longer if consensus has not been established by then. The Tibet RPG discussion was open for two weeks, from 12 September until 27 September, and while few editors commented, their comments do correctly represent the state of the article: No reliable sources that are independent of the game, thus not enough notability for an article of its own. If I had expressed an opinion in that deletion discussion I would have agreed with those editors. The Vajra Enterprises article is not (and at a glance never was) nominated for deletion, though it suffers severe problems and has been tagged with the appropriate cleanup tags. Free RPG Day also wasn't deleted but was instead turned into a draft in your userspace. Given that much of the content wasn't based on the cited sources and that many of those sources were of rather dubious reliability, that seems an appropriate solution: This way you have a chance to improve the article without the threat of an immediate deletion nomination hanging over it. Huon (talk) 03:39, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! The Free RPG Day article needed improvement, but it was speedily deleted without discussion. I had to ask for it to be placed in my user space so I could improve it. I'll look at the dates on the Tibet page when I have more time. I guess Tibet wasn't on my watch list. Thanks again! Vampyrecat (talk) 14:55, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Portland Oregon (March 7, 2015)
 You are invited!


 * Saturday, March 7: Art+Feminism – noon to 5pm
 * Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Portland Art Museum's Crumpacker Family Library (Mark Building, 2nd Floor; 1219 SW Park Avenue). Art+Feminism is a campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend. Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.

Hope you can make it! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Thanks,

Another Believer

To unsubscribe from this newsletter, remove your name from this list. -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Women's Health Information Edit-a-thon: Tuesday, May 12 at OHSU
 You are invited!


 * Tuesday, May 12, 2015: Wikipedia Women's Health Information Edit-a-thon – 1 to 4pm
 * Wikipedia Edit-a-thon hosted by OHSU's Center for Women's Health in honor of National Women's Health Week
 * Location: Biomedical Information Communications Center (3280 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239)
 * This edit-a-thon is intended to address some of these important differences and to generally improve women’s health information in key articles and topics. Areas for improvement have been identified in cooperation with WikiProject Medicine. Prior Wikipedia editing is not required; assistance will be available the day of the event. Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.

Hope you can make it! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please post to the event page.

Thanks,

Another Believer

To unsubscribe from this newsletter, remove your name from this list.

Upcoming Art+Feminism events in Oregon
You are invited to participate in Oregon's upcoming Art+Feminism events, which will be held in Portland and Eugene on Saturday, March 5, 2016. Please see the following links for additional information, or to sign up: About Art+Feminism: Art+Feminism is pleased to announce its third annual Wikipedia edit-a-thon, an all-day event designed to generate coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and encourage female editorship. Last year, over 1,500 participants at more than 75 events around the world participated in the second annual campaign, resulting in the creation of nearly 400 new pages and significant improvements to 500 articles on Wikipedia. For more information, see Art+Feminism.
 * Portland: Yale Union (800 SE 10th Avenue), 12:00–5:00pm
 * Eugene: Architecture and Allied Arts (A&AA) Library (200 Lawrence Hall, University of Oregon), 12:00–5:00pm

You received this message because you have attended a Wikipedia meetup in Oregon or contributed to WikiProject Oregon. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, remove your name from this list. -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:18, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Art+Feminism @ Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (March 18, 2017)
You are invited to the upcoming Art+Feminism edit-athon, which will be held at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (415 Southwest 10th Avenue #300, Portland 97205) on Saturday, March 18, 2017 from 10:00am – 5:00pm. For more information, visit Eventbrite.

Hope to see you there! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ PNCA Library (April 29, 2017)
You are invited to the upcoming Art+Feminism edit-athon, which will be held at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) Library at 511 NW Broadway on Saturday, April 29, 2017, from 11am to 4pm. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Hope to see you there! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:32, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride at PNCA: Tuesday, June 27
You are invited to the upcoming Wiki Loves Pride edit-athon, which will be held at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (511 NW Broadway) on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, from 5–8pm. For more information, visit the meetup page or Facebook event page.

Hope to see you there! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:38, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming Wikipedia edit-a-thon dedicated to artists of color - Thursday, Oct. 26 at PNCA
On Thursday, October 26, a Wikipedia edit-a-thon dedicated to artists of color will be held from 4–8pm at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (511 NW Broadway). Learn more at Facebook. Hope to see you there! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:27, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Jewish Women Artists (March 8, Oregon Jewish Museum)
On March 8 (International Women's Day), the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and artist Shoshana Gugenheim will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create and improve Wikipedia articles about Jewish women artists. Click here for more information. You can also express interest or suggest articles to create or improve here. This event is free and open to the public, and will serve as both a public art action and a public educational program. Participation is welcome in person and remotely (for those outside of Portland). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (March 10, Pacific Northwest College of Art)
On Saturday, March 10 (11am to 4pm), the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create and improve Wikipedia articles about art, feminism, and women. You can read details on the Facebook event page, or this Wikipedia meetup page. Tutorials for new editors, reference materials, childcare, and refreshments will be provided. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, you're welcome to stop by to show your support! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:50, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (April 13, University of Oregon)
On Friday, April 13 (3pm to 6pm), the University of Oregon will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create and improve Wikipedia articles about art and feminism. You can learn more at the Dashboard page, or our Wikipedia meetup page. Tutorials for new editors, reference materials, and snacks will be provided. Please bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support and have snacks! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:01, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Editathon: The Visibility Project - Saturday, January 19
Make+Think+Code and the Pacific Northwest College of Art are hosting a Wikipedia editathon at the Shipley Collins Mediatheque (511 NW Broadway) on Saturday, January 19 from 10am to 2:30pm. The purpose of the event is to make Wikipedia a more vibrant, representative, inclusive and diverse resource. Please visit Meetup/MakeThinkCode/TheVisibilityProject for more information. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:46, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Oregon State University Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Friday, February 8
To commemorate Black History Month, Oregon State University, Wikimedia Nigeria, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and AfroCROWD are hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at the Oregon State University Valley Library on Friday, February 8 from 2–5pm. The purpose of the event is to reduce Wikipedia's diversity gap by creating and improving articles about African American culture and history, as well as notable people of African descent and the African diaspora in general. Please visit here for more information. Remote participation is welcome! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:37, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

PNCA Art+Feminism Wikipedia Editathon, Saturday, March 9
The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in the Shipley Collins Mediatheque (511 NW Broadway) on Saturday, March 9 from 10am – 2:30pm. This is a free community event designed to teach people to add and edit information about cis and transgender women and nonbinary folks to Wikipedia. We'll have training sessions, artist talks, snacks, free childcare, and plenty of exciting energy and collaboration! You're welcome to drop in any time during the event. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops and charging cables, though if you are not able, computer stations will be available. Please visit this link for more information. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Oregon Jewish Museum, Thursday, March 7
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, in partnership with social practice artist Shoshana Gugenheim and as part of the Art+Feminism Project, will host the 2nd Annual International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to edit and/or create Wikipedia articles for Jewish women artists. The event will be held at the museum on Thursday, March 7 from 4 to 8 pm. Pre-registration is preferred but not required. Members of the public are invited to come to the museum to learn about the editing process, its history, its impact, and how to do it. We aim to collaboratively edit/enter 18 Jewish women artists into the canon. Support will be provided by an experienced local Wikipedian who will be on site to teach and guide the process. This edit-a-thon will serve as both a public art action and a public educational program. Participants will have an opportunity to select an artist/s ahead of time or on site.

Please visit this link and the meetup page for more information. Thanks! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:25, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Monday, December 23, 5:30pm PST
18:04, 18 December 2019 (UTC) To subscribe or unsubscribe from future messages from Meetup/Portland, please add or remove your name from this list.

Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia - Editathon 2021
Cascadia Wikimedians placed this banner at 03:46, 24 February 2021 (UTC) by using the Meetup/Portland/Participants list. To subscribe to or unsubscribe from messages from Meetup/Portland, please add or remove your name here.

You're Invited! Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia
On, Friday, February 25, 2022, Oregon State University will be hosting an online editathon focused on Black history of the Pacific Northwest. You can learn more here and/or register here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:26, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Portland Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon: March 12, 2022
You are invited! An Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon will be held in Portland, Oregon, on March 12, 2022. Learn more here!

Wikipedia is one of the most-visited sites on the internet—and it’s created by people who volunteer their time to write and edit pages. Learn how to edit Wikipedia and be a part of shaping our understanding of our world. In this workshop, volunteer Wikipedia editors will be on hand to train participants on how to get started editing pages and offer ideas for which pages you can pitch in to help improve. Show up at any point during the four hours to get started!

Also: Free burritos!! We will be providing vegan, vegetarian, and meat burritos from food cart Loncheria Las Mayos. Alder Commons has a large, fenced playground. Children are welcome! Some computers will be available to borrow, but if you have a laptop, please bring it to use. We will also be leading an online training for new editors at 11am-12pm PST. Please feel free to join that training if you are not able to show up IRL.

This event is part of the international month of events organized by Art+Feminism, which is building a community of activists committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:37, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

International Women’s Day Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, Sunday, March 10
Cascadia Wikimedians placed this banner at 22:50, 29 February 2024 (UTC) by using the Meetup/Portland/Participants list. To subscribe to or unsubscribe from messages from Meetup/Portland, please add or remove your name here.