User talk:Warofdreams/2012

Roller Derby national teams
Good work on getting the remaining national team articles started; I've gone through and added team logos and colors. Whoever started the New Zealand article used a different template which allows for different info, but not colorboxes; I wonder if trying to retroactively match everyone's infoboxes to standardize the layouts is more trouble than it's worth. For Brasil, I added a mention of the fact that the skaters, while having traditional derby names in their home leagues, skated at World Cup using single nicknames in the manner of soccer players as a homage. I haven't yet found a credible source to that effect, however, and my insertion of this detail, while referencing their team page, might amount to original research, I don't know. Thoughts? I was at the Cup as an announcer, so while I know this fact to be true, I would feel better if I could find a mention of it on DNN or in a news article somewhere. I'm also hoping to be able to add a mention and ideally photo of New Zealand performing the haka at the Cup; this seems noteworthy, but all photos I have found are not licensed for reuse. Something to keep your eye open for should you find yourself with time to kill. Echoedmyron (talk) 01:12, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Heh. I posted a mention in a forum on facebook today noting that all the countries' teams articles were up; and I see that all heck is breaking loose as inexperienced editors are trying to make changes. Could get interesting - especially noting what the Brazilian editor is doing... Echoedmyron (talk) 19:22, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries - it's good that articles are getting attention, and these things usually result in improved articles in the end. Most of the changes seem to be updates to rosters, which is all good.  I'll broadly stay hands-off, unless this attracts outright vandalism, and can fix up references, etc, later.  Incidentally, which forum was it which attracted so much attention? Warofdreams talk 20:22, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It was here, in a small group of people who attended World Cup and swapped info before, during and after: A while back there were people talking about the first team pages for USA and Canada, after I had shared the initial Cup article. Last week it got shared on twitter also. Echoedmyron (talk) 21:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Can
you Autoconfirm me accounts please?? Thxbaii :D  — Preceding unsigned comment added by MandingoWarrior (talk • contribs) 12:45, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

File:Great Cumbrae.PNG listed for deletion
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MSU Interview
Dear Warofdreams,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC) Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 22:06, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

WORD is now defunct, replaced by RDCL
I've seen that you've edited/created some stuff on WORD (World Organization for Roller Derby).

From what I can see/hear out there, WORD has ceased to exist as an organization (for the most part it has only served as a rule set/tourney organizer in the past). The new organization which many of the former WORD members seem to be making up (sans TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls) is called Roller Derby Coalition of Leagues (RDCL). From what I can pick up on via their web site and the Banked Track News site, the new organization seems to be aimed at being more of a governing body/sanctioning body for banked track derby. More akin to WFTDA than a loose collection of leagues that hold a tournament once per year and tend to use the rules solely at that event. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TimBRoy (talk • contribs) 07:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

MADE
Can you keep an eye on the roller derby article? There have been recent edits trying to include MADE back into the article. --LauraHale (talk) 23:29, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, absolutely - looks like plenty of people have their eyes on it at the minute. Warofdreams talk 21:40, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Vauxhall
Afternoon Warofdreams

For reasons I can't fathom, it was only noticed today (by an IP) that the 1997 election results at Vauxhall (UK Parliament constituency) were a copy of the preceding or subsequent election. I corrected this using David Bothroyd's election website using only initials and surnames. If you know the full names that'd be a great help doktorb wordsdeeds 16:47, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

changing username
Hello Warofdreams, I have been a few months in wikipedia but I have mistakingly applied my own name in my wikipedia username. Will you please change it to solomon7968. Thanks in advance.Sourodeep25 (talk) 09:58, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah I have read it and it tells to request to a bureaucrat. That's why I am requesting you.Sourodeep25 (talk) 16:34, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Blue Ridge Rollergirls WFTDA membership
Thanks for the additional fixes -- these hadn't occurred to me. --Nemonoman (talk) 16:21, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Please contribute to this discussion
Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  09:23, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

List of rock formations in the United Kingdom
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of rock formations in the United Kingdom regarding the scope of the list and a proposal, because of your edits to Flat Holm, a listed item. --21:48, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Name change
Hello Warofdreams. Can you change my name to simply Progenie? Thanks a lot. Progenie of the great apocalypse (talk) 18:36, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Domesday
I see that you are entering a useful link to Anna Powell-Smith’s University of Hull’s domesdaymap.co.uk in numerous settlement articles’ ELs, with the "Domesday" element blue-linked. Some articles already have Domesday text with the book blue-linked, and with descriptive Domesday text inline-cited to Smith. Doubling-up blue links in long articles is understandable, but in stubs or starts wouldn’t this be overlinking ? Is there a way of de-blue-linking “Domesday” in the EL tag for when Domesday is already blue-linked? Is there value in adding an extra EL to Smith’s Domesday when one already exists as an inline that supports text ? Many thanks. Acabashi (talk) 10:26, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Tommy English
Nice article, Warofdreams!--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 14:44, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Usurpation request
Hello, Warofdreams. I made that requesst after your reply on my e-mail, I hope you approve it in 11 July. Thanks in advance.-- M.Gedawy Talk 16:13, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Robin Graham
Hi Warofdreams, Just wanted to say thank you for your support in keeping this page. Best regards, David. David J Johnson (talk) 09:42, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Compactness of countries
Hi. How could one get to see your list? Would you publish it here again or elsewhere? Stpaul (talk) 11:10, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi - which list is this? I've not put a list like that together; is it something I've referred to in the past, or perhaps edited some time ago? Warofdreams talk 11:45, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. I know this happened just recently but no administrator would close these frequent rm's down, so here we go again. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:23, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Election predictions table
Hi. I've had another play at Talk:Electoral Calculus, if you have any time to offer further advice! Thanks. -- Trevj (talk) 15:00, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Name change, please. :-)
Please change my username to monotonemonolith. Thank you very much! Lesbianadvocate (talk) 14:28, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Team USA (roller derby)
Hi there. All of a sudden, having a content issue at Team USA (roller derby). A handful of skaters have changed leagues since the World Cup, and editors keep changing their league affiliations. Since the reference for the roster relates to the state of the team last year, and references the home teams they were on then, this information should not be changed, but that isn't stopping other editors. Reverted numerous times, and am wondering if you have any bright ideas. I'm going to revert one more time, and post on the talk page, but since these editors are not using summaries and all nearly all new or SPAs, I feel like it's an uphill battle. Wonder if semi- protection s in order. Echoedmyron (talk) 20:05, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Richard Edmonds
Fair point Warofdreams, there's not wanting to put too much of an autobiography and then there's being misleading ;) doktorb wordsdeeds 12:06, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Mo Sanders
Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:04, 5 November 2012 (UTC)