• Thanks for the reminder... MyNameIsNotBob has decided he's gotten what he wanted. So I've updated accordingly. Theoretically Petros471 and I are ready for new assignments... I may want to take a bit of a break from coaching and try to get caught up on some other matters I am behind on though... ++Lar: t/c 21:56, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No, I'm not really able to take on anyone else. I've now just managed to get myself into a position (now you've taken over coordinating) that I don't have to do anything on Wikipedia. I'll probably just be dropping in occasionally to block the odd vandal and close an afd discussion, but I don't want to commit to anything at the moment. Petros471 22:17, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Keep me on the list as inactive for now. Unless I find I have to leave Wikipedia fully (not the case at the moment, but could happen depending on what I end up doing in my life) I'd still like to help out with the program. Petros471 22:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Nope, just treated them in same way as anyone else. Petros471 22:30, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I would need another partner to be able to take a new coachee on... pretty heads down with other stuff. SO mark me inactive for now too i guess. ++Lar: t/c 17:29, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yeah, I'm okay to receive a trainee now. Just tell me when I've been assigned, and I'll be ready to go. --Mr. Lefty (talk) 22:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ah, I don't really care. It looks like all the free admins are fairly new as well, but again, no preference either way. --Mr. Lefty (talk) 22:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I left that a long time ago. I'm not even an admin! I'm kind of busy for it anyways. If you can take my name off the list, great. Thank you for letting me know I was still on there! --D-Day ^{I'm all ears How can I improve?} 22:31, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Just noticed that linked to my talk page- maybe some of the other templates still do as well? Petros471 23:05, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yeah, you can give me a person to train for admin coaching. Tell me whenever you find someone, and I'll gladly start from there. Nishkid64 23:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'd love to recieve a trainee! I'll become a permanent helper at Admin Coaching if it's acceptable that I'm not an admin and I've been around for less than a year. Helping less experienced editors is something I really want to do. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 23:39, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• I'm sorry for the confusion. If you look in the requests, you'll see a unsigned comment by me. It was actually signed, but my the four tildes must of been placed in the volunteers. I'm no admin, but I know enough about wikipedia to assist a less knowledgable trainee, but, I actually requested a coach myself, and I'm not sure if I could help enough. Sorry about the mess. I hope I can help coach someone someday :). --andrewI20^Talk 03:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Highway,

Yes, I'm ready for a new trainee. I had let Petros know I was ready for a new one, but never got a response; the same thing happened previously. From what I gather above, you're taking over the coordination. Best wishes, Firsfron of Ronchester 06:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I am continuing to be interested in recieving admin coaching. I would certainly love to recieve a coach. Thanks for following up--¿¡Exir Kamalabadi?!^{Join Esperanza!} 08:16, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

BTW: I think instead of calling them coaches, we should call them mentors--¿¡Exir Kamalabadi?!^{Join Esperanza!} 08:21, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

:HighwayCello, where will coaching take place? Esperanza subpage? My talk page? Coaches' talk page?--¿¡Exir Kamalabadi?!^{Join Esperanza!} 08:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

::Thanks HighwayCello, I also wish to have admin-coaching before going for an RfA. Please assign some volunteers for the coaching process. Regards, Shyam ^(T/C) 08:35, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi HC! I am actually coaching User:Richardshusr at User talk:Richardshusr/Admin coaching. Szvest 09:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC) Reply[reply]

You can count on me. I'm ready to train someone. NCurse _work 09:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi HighwayCello. Me and Ilyanep were assigned Master of Puppets, but it looks like he's taking a break (no edits since Oct 5). So I could be assigned another coachee, and if MoP returns, I wouldn't mind coaching him as well. Thanks for taking over this project! --Fang Aili ^talk 14:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oh, I gotcha. Sorry about missing my already-listed name! Yes I can be assigned a new coachee. Btw, did you become an admin while I wasn't looking? :) --Fang Aili ^talk 17:11, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi there — yes, I am still interested in receiving coaching. Now that I'm a bit more active again, I should be able to benefit more from it. Thanks! Feezo (Talk) 23:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For going above and beyond the call in helping Wikipedia grow and improve. Sharkface217 00:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi HighwayCello, just thought I'd let you know your talk page header doesn't display well in Firefox - the contents box overwrites the bottom part of the category tracker summary box. Only a n00b with wiki, so no suggestions how to fix, sorry. RoscoHead 00:29, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yep, I'm still interested, though my RFA about 6 months ago failed and I'm not planning another one until probably December. I'm still interested in the admin coaching. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 01:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I wish to discontinue my admin coaching with Zapptastic / Zappa.jake (Deryck Chan's is already stopped due to inactivity). Regards, Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 01:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Soumyasch would be great. :) --Fang Aili ^talk 04:04, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Yes, I am still interested on Admin and would greatly appreciate it if you could organise it. Jasrocks ^(talk) 07:25, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Holy Hell Hound!! I don't know what gets me more; the fact that I got pulled into this user's twisted rage, or the fact that he had to "research" about me on my user page before coming up with an insult. Some people just need to be sedated and locked away. -サターン・ヨッシー ^{HAPPY HALLOWEEN} 08:21, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Y'all will be pleased to know that I have fully enshrined this story in my Keepers subpage, at the bottom section. R&R if you please. :) Erik Jensen ^{(I appreciate talk!)} 22:58, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi HighwayCello! You've signed up to be a judge for the Esperanza User Page Award! You'll have three user pages to examine. The user pages you get coincide with your signup number. So if you signed up to be a judge in spot 1 than you will get nominations 1-3. Pick your favorite one, and list it in the finalist section. After all 5 judges have chosen a finalist it's time to award them 1-10 points in the four categories:

• Attractiveness: general layout, considering colour scheme and/or use of tables if applicable
• Usefulness: links to subpages or editing aids, helpful information
• Interesting-ness: quirky, unique, captivating, or funny content
• General niceness: at the judges' discretion

Please remember to include Subpages in your judging criteria. See the Scores section on this page for additional information on your job as a judge.

Keep in mind that your scores are confidential! Email Celestianpower with your scores and final picks. As soon as all the scores have been tallied, a winner will be announced! Thanks. Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 09:42, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for bringing to my attention some possible problems with the templates. If you have further concerns about them, leaving comments on their respective talk pages is the usual problem. You can also provide constructive criticism at ((PokePage)) or at the PCP talk page - which i see that you have. It seems from your edit comments that you found PAGENAME particularly inappropriate. I'll address the other issues at the talk page. This was a first test run, following the directions laid out at the main template page. The PAGENAME issue was actually being addressed as you were removing the templates. The problem was with ((PokeVideoGamesIntro)). I'm in the middle of working on a solution, even while you were removing the headers. I ask that you be civil and refrain from deragotory, unconstructive statements like "train wreck" and "mess". With more feedback before i had started this, perhaps problems like these could have avoided. I will ask that you attempt to refrain from outright removals of the templates for the time being. I hope you can show the respect mandated by wikipedia and help to improve upon these templates as opposed to removals. If you are dead st against them, continue to make your case at the PCP talk page, because as of now i have only garnished support for them and you are essentially going against consensus. -Zappernapper 17:20, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I do not wish to continue admin coaching.

Also, I did not "abandon" Wisden17, I left WP for reasons I will not disclose. You may wish to modify your message to him to reflect that.

If you have any further questions, please contact me via email, not talkpage. Jaxl 00:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This is as a follow up to the message you posted on my talk page. I am very inactive in Wikipedia these days, due to some work that eats up most of my time in real life. So, feel free to delist me off the coachee's list. --soum^সৌমোyasch 16:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi HighwayCello. Since Soumyasch doesn't want admin coaching right now, feel free to assign me a new coachee. Thanks! --Fang Aili ^talk 16:55, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oh, I see you've assigned me Jasrocks. I will wait until he confirms his interest with you. --Fang Aili ^talk 16:57, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ok, I got it. Thanks. :) --Fang Aili ^talk 16:58, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi. Your signature-end seems to be too bright. Consider mending it? Regards, _o/ — Nearly Headless Nick ^{L} 17:06, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sure! I was actually considering signing up, so I'll be glad to be on the list. :) By the way, I'm not sure if the discussions that got moved to the Admin Coaching main page are meant to be there, but they make the programs page really long, since everything on the Admin Coaching page is transcluded onto there. Would it be okay to put a shorter description of admin coaching there, with a link to the real page? -- Natalya 18:53, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

:Awards given to admin coaching? Regardless; I'll shorten what is there, and you are most welcome to add what you think would be useful! -- Natalya 19:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No worries. :) -- Natalya 19:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You read my mind! I was actually logging to tell you not to worry, that I'm going to put it up later this morning (well, morning for me), which will give me some time to mull over it once it's up. I've just been brainstorming how to phrase things that past couple of days. It's almost time - exciting! -- Natalya 12:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, it has begun. A lot of questions, suggestions. But if Mr. Lefty doesn't mind, you can assign him to an other editor (there is a lot waiting for a coach), because I can handle it. If it's not possible, then we will work together. NCurse _work 20:35, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yeah, I think that'll work. Anything to clear the perpetual AC backlog. I'd be happy to take on a coachee of my own. --Mr. Lefty (talk) 22:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hey there. There's an important debate occuring at the WP:PCP talk page about taking down and redirecting the majority of the 493 Pokemon creature articles, and I think you'll need to make some comments. This could mean the destruction of the Bulbasaur and Torchic FAs that I think you did a lot of work on, and I wouldn't know about how you feel about that, but maybe all this is for the best. Hope we can upgrade the project throrugh this. Best, Erik Jensen ^{(I appreciate talk!)} 19:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I know you're jumping with replies, but I need to make you read this. I would like you to be an admin coach, I know you're not an admin, but you've more than proved your ability on the coach page. I've cleared all the archived requests, so the next coaches that enter will be taking coaches from the top of the list. What are you thoughts? (Please! :) Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 20:59, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

*hides in corner* This job is harder than it looks! I'll give you a student, and go back to my medication. Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 21:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'll take ten, or however many you have left over. Please have them meet me at the Wikipedia:Admin school. Their first assignment will be to help me get things started there. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to help. If you need help with anything else, just let me know.   The Transhumanist   23:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hey, thanks for your message re:Esperanza admin coaching. I'm still very keen to be coached in the ways of the Admin and have taken steps I consider important to do so. Please consider my application for assitance live, active and keen! Cheers! Budgiekiller 23:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• In reply to User talk:AMK152#Esperanza Admin coaching - November 2 - Held requests. Yes, I am still interested. -AMK152 00:06, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, I would certainly like to receive ninjaadmin coaching. I won't be able to start editing regularly until about the 8th, but that's close enough now that I'd like to move on with it. Thank you! Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 02:30, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I've replied. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:26, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

and again.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:40, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello HighwayCello,

All I was originally asking for was a confirmation that you would abide by the "gentleman's agreement" that was recommended the archives of WT:DYK that

• The updater should not choose their own nominations at all
  • A second thing that wasn't discussed, but which I feel follows is that one should not select nominations by WikiProjects with which one is involved or close Wikipedian associates, should there be an objection or query raised about that nomination. As such, having relaunched WP:EURO and Portal:Eurovision and encouraged Eurovision people to participate in DYK, I have only chosen the Eurovision nominations of my wikiproject team-mates if there are no objections. On the few occasions that there were objections against the Eurovision, I have abstained from choosing them, despite my personal support for the nominations. In your case that would correspond to only picking Pokemon and Nintendo items of other users and only if there were no dissent.

1. I have to reiterate that the only reason I asked you these questions was that DYK is traditionally a very sleepy corner of Wikipedia, so with your emotional reaction to your suggestions being declined, I felt it necessary to ask you to reaffirm your commitment to the "gentleman's agreement". I was hoping that it was quite clear from the wording of my original comment that my original opposition was very conditional, and that I would withdraw it were you to clarify your commitment to the agreement, in much the same was as an FAC oppose, so it is unfortunate that your RfA has taken a major turn for the worse due to this. In any case, I am very sure that you are mistaken that Samir and ALoan have self-selected, especially as ALoan has only begun updating in the last fortnight, and as you make noted above, you have not been at DYK for a substantial amount of time. In any case, as my request for confirmation has been fulfilled, I have withdrawn my objection to your candidacy as I had implied and promised. I'm sorry for what has happened to your RfA. Regards, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, I am still interested in receiving Admin coaching. Regards, _└ ^VodkaJazz / _talk ^┐ 14:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Its not from me, actually. Its from a very good editor, Ambuj Saxena. He offered me some advice on my last ER that really changed my perspective on communicating in tense situations. I pass this on to you:

As others have said above, you need to work on the time you take to react to situations. Often, as time goes by, we start seeing the situations differently; in a completely different perspective. From my experience, I can tell that in most cases (as much as I have seen), you tried to do the right thing, without giving a gestation period to your actions. Reacting too quickly is often seen as agression, and was the primary reason why your first RfA failed. I too, reacted too quickly to SV's edits, and as a result missed the fact that the FAC in question had already closed. The episode that followed is very well known to you. From what I see, you have the tell-tale signs of becoming a rouge admin, who tries to do the right thing without thinking of the consequences. But my experience tells that many people see it as a negative quality, and this may result in their opposition to your RfA. The trouble is that 100 cases of civility can't be cited to back you, and even if someone finds one hint of incivility against you, it would be used against you. As a completely independent, and equally important issue, I find that you haven't mentioned what kind of admin you are planning to be. Looking at your contributions, I found little janitorial work, and you may need to work on that too. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 14:17, 26 September 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

(copied from Wikipedia:Editor review/Rama's Arrow 2) Rama's arrow 15:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm ready, but Hoopy seemed to leave the coaching thing. He has been busy, and I can fly solo with no problems. I'm ready. :) Yanksox 22:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Haha, no I'm around, it's just that you were doing such a good job, I couldn't really think of anything else to say! hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 22:11, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

heheheheh, Hoopy you are great. I couldn't work with anyone else. :D Yanksox 22:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

*pretends to laugh along* Just as well, there's no one else to work with... Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 22:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yeaahhhhh...sorry, a tad bit tired here. That's for the new student. Yanksox 22:21, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You probably misread my comments above. Though Yanksox certainly did much of the coaching, I acted as an assistant coach, so to speak, and am still very much interested in helping out program, so definitely go ahead and fix me up! Thanks a lot and cheers! hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 08:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sure, I think we worked well last time (though he certainly was able to provide a bit more help than I with his extensive admin exerperience). Thanks again! hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 08:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, you can assign me to someone. :) NCurse _work 07:27, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Can you please select your finalist a.s.a.p., at Wikipedia:Esperanza/User_Page_Award#Finalists. Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 07:47, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, HighwayCello. This is a quick message to remind you that all 5 finalists for the Esperanza User Page Award have been chosen. You now need to judge those 5 pages, awarding each one 1-10 points for attractiveness, usefulness, interesting-ness, general niceness and quality of subpages. Refer to the Scores section at the project page if you are unsure of how to score.

Once you have scored the 5 pages, email Celestianpower using the specified format. As soon as all the scores have been tallied, a winner will be announced. Thanks. Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 08:55, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi HC, I've changed my !vote after thinking about your comments. Sorry about that, but what with the concerns raised by some users, I'd rather exercise caution. Just make sure you don't get too personally involved with articles as an administrator, if this RfA succeeds.

On another note, great work with admin coaching - it's really been revived all over again!

Take care, riana_dzasta 08:56, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi again! Per your request, I'll leave questions here, which actually leads me to a question, hehe; why would you want users to bring RfA discussion to your talk page rather than keeping it in a centralised viewable location on the RfA page where users are encouraged to submit questions for optional response by the candidate? hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 15:12, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sure thing, but I actually thought that the question was quite relevent, as you violated Wikipedia policy on the RfA itself (unknowingly, it seems) and actively removed content pertinent to your RfA and which users have commented on as part of their rationale. As such, the question was indeed appropriate by your own language; admin behaviour and views on policy. Also, your past actions are important as well, as one's actions largely define one's character and abilities. Furthermore, if you agree that this question is relevant to your RfA, I'd ask you to paste it onto the actual page or just drop me a line with your opinion and I'll paste it if you concur. Thanks for your quick response! hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 15:28, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Haha, I'm not sure I fully understand the reference, but I'll go ahead and paste it. Cheers hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?}

I've gone ahead and pasted it, but left out your last bit about the jedi thing... I'm assuming that was your response to me, not your answer, but feel free to do whatever you want with it ;) hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 15:54, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No problem at all! First, RfA actually isn't a vote. It's a bit difficult for me to give you any specific points to work on. My issue is in regards to how you view adminship and Wikipedia, in general. I feel that in order for one to be trusted with extra responsibilities, one must have the best interests in the project at the forefront of one's mind, regardless of any personal biases. Also, I believe that one must never use the buttons to further one's own ambitions. Lastly, I feel that one needs a demeanour and approach that I don't think you possess. While I think it's great that each person approaches Wikipedia in his/her own different way, especially as it's a purely voluntary effort, I don't feel that your approach suits you for being an administrator. Sorry if this is a bit vauge, so feel free to follow up with more specifics, and I'd be happy to try to elaborate. As an aside, unrelated to RfA, I noticed that you crossed out my comments in regards to the admin coaching, but I haven't yet received any confirmation of new participation. Thanks hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 03:36, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello. It seems I'm a new arrival on a much-discussed topic, so I apologise if I've been a little slow in getting up to speed. It seems that there are difficulties arising from a difference of opinion about what constitutes "out-universe" wording. In the interests of furthering understanding, would it be possible to ask you to explain what you consider needs improving in the Characteristics section, and what is required in order for a section to be "out-universe"? Thank you for reading this. -- Grgcox 20:31, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm sorry if I've irritated you with my edits to the Charizard page. You haven't yet replied to the comments I've made, but you have reverted the edits I've made almost immediately. Is this a sign that you don't welcome my attempts to contribute to this article? It's difficult to know what you think unless you tell me. -- Grgcox 12:19, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for your message. There's no need to rush - please rest if you need to! -- Grgcox 13:19, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

When I posted comments to everyone's posts on the admin coaching page, I contacted everyone of them with a note that said "you've got mail" and directed them to the admin coaching page. I've just received a message from one of them that he couldn't find my reply to his post there, and upon checking discovered that you have been removing entries as part of standard operating operating procedure. There's nothing wrong with that, except that I'm going to get a flood of emails from people wondering where their replies are. I've added a simple system to the Admin coaching page to accomodate the threads. I've restored all threads, using (assigned) to mark them. No need to move entries from the numerical list to any other section on the page, as new entries will naturally be posted as new headings at the bottom of the page. Simply mark entries (assigned) to keep track. This system should also make it easier to archive as well, because you won't need to move entries to another page every time you make an assignment. Simply archive the page the same way normal talk pages are archived when they become too long. I look forward to your reply.  The Transhumanist   06:51, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You have mail

You have a reply waiting for you at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Admin coaching  The Transhumanist   18:57, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oops, sorry, I cleared it along with your request for coaching when I was updating. Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 23:47, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You said I got a message in Wikipedia:Esperanza/admin coaching. But I couldn't find my message. May I ask where it is? --¿¡Exir Kamalabadi!? 23:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The thread got removed due to an administrative glitch. I've restored the thread. If it disappears again, please see the project coordinator.  The Transhumanist   07:41, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sorry for the delay bud I've been away on a bit of a holiday (still managed to find my way to a PC at times however!)

Re admin coaching, Ive been chatting with User:Riana dzasta for some time about it (last discussion with her can be seen here... so if okay may I "assign myself" to her?

Hopefully that's not queue jumping or anything? Plan to start on Wednesday... is that all okay?

Thanks for your patience too! Glen 06:22, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks mate. I believe my aspiring sysop-to-be has already moved us into the active. A partner may be is a great idea, as a) Much as I believe I have all the answers Im well aware thats a bunch of the proverbial ass, and b) Im a coaching virgin so if there's a person available who perhaps has done it before may save a bit of the ol' trial and error (like weeks! :)

How would I be best to coerce some poor soul into joining my happy throng? Thanks again Glen 09:59, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If thats the case then please save yourself the bother. Riana is as close as an ideal pairing as anyone could ever have so it'll be smooth sailing just the two of us - thanks for the offer. And yes, just "!voted" in your RfA, so consider it a little less rocky now :) Good luck my friend - buzz me anytime if I can assist too. Glen 10:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

zOMG!

Is that right... you've got an RfA active as I type??? Glen 10:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Getting sort of passive coaching lately, but I've got pretty austere coaches (of which I felt lucky to get, sort of like being assigned Thor and Aphrodite as coaches). I try not to bother them unless I get into serious stuff. I'm feeling good about where I am, but not enough controversy under my belt. Kinda quiet in the history cluster. No one's ever really given me direct feedback on my body of work, which I kinda would like. Is that an WP:ER? BusterD 13:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Okay, I've got everything set up for my two students. I've been inviting some of the most prolific and talented editors of Wikipedia to participate, and some very useful advice has already been posted. The Virtual classroom has grown to a scale at which it can accomodate many more students, and many more coaches. Feel free to send as many of each there as you like, and you are most welcome to come join in too. Sincerely,  The Transhumanist   16:18, 7 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hey Highway, let me be the first to congratulate you on a strong showing during your RfA. And yes, you still deserve congratulations, even though it didn't make it! Hope all is well, -- Natalya 23:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please do not be disappointed. You are highly valued around here. Personally, I think you're a true asset to the goals of the project. -- Samir धर्म 00:13, 10 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hey Highway, I'm so sorry to see that your RfA failed. I know that it doesn't mean much now, but you're a wonderful wikipedian, and a great person, and, as Samir says, you are highly valued. As I say, I know it doesn't mean much now, but it's true. Keep strong. Thε Halo ^Θ 00:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, I agree. Actually, you were only about 10 votes away. That is, if 10 "oppose votes" had voted "support" instead, the tally would have been 60/20 which would have met the requisite 75%. Given that at least 10 votes focused on the tone of your RFA comments, I think that you are very close. I would discount the suggestion of waiting 9 months. I almost think it was deliberately put out there as bait to see if it would trigger a negative reaction from you. Unfortunately, it did. I think another RFA in 3 months would likely succeed. Continue being civil and argue more circumspectly in your next RFA. I would have switched my vote on this one if it would have changed the outcome but it became evident that it wouldn't so I left it as "oppose". I look forward to supporting you in your next RFA. --Richard 01:25, 10 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Well, it's too bad you didn't get adminship. I know you will if you stick with it.--Ac1983fan^{(yell at me)} 01:51, 10 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Augh, man, I was sure you'd get it this time. :( Well, on Sunday, I'll paste a joke involving you and other Wikipedians on my user page to try and lighten up your day. Hope you enjoy. Erik Jensen ^{(I appreciate talk!)} 00:40, 12 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Have you ever been to the southern hemisphere? respond here Deadline is December 15th. AstroBoy 02:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello HighwayCello, very thanks for supporting my successful RfA. I am very thankful to you for co-ordination in my admin coaching. I would say, please do not get disappointted with your previous RfA. But I would still congratulate you for showing great enthusiasm in your RfA. Thanks again, Shyam ^(T/C) 06:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I am sorry, but I am very busy right now. Is it at all possible for there to be coaching during the Holidays (i.e. end of December, early January)? ~ clearthought 21:44, 11 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter Issue 007 – November 2006
Issue of the Month Again, the issue of the month is inline citations. A Day in the Life, A Hard Day's Night (song), and Get Back have all been defeatured, as they failed to satisfy criterion 1(c) of What is a featured article?, and other song FAs are due for the chopping block. Inline citations are an important aspect of articles—they ensure verifiability and reliability, and they remove original research. Additionally, they give readers the option to read the original source material and view it within context. Basically: All direct quotations attributed to Beatles members pooled from interviews need full inline citations. All critical comments about songs or albums need full inline citations to notable music critics, magazines opinions, or reviews, as opposed to being merely comments by Wikipedians. Inline citations need: author name, article name, publication date, and name of publication. Such info is still preferable even if quoting from an interview posted upon a website; when this is the case, place the URL link at the end of the citation with the date it was last accessed. (This will help editors retrieve the page using the Wayback Machine, should the link go dead in the future.) Beatles News The Beatles are due to release a soundtrack album, LOVE, at the end of November, as a companion to their Cirque du Soleil adaptation of the same name. It will feature remastered and remixed versions of their previously released songs, including some new medleys. Paul's getting a divorce. Pain, arguing, and fighting abound. Project News Featured Article drive: A number of project members are collaborating on Paul McCartney's article, with the aim of getting it to Featured Article status. The work is going well and all help is welcome! Check in at Talk:Paul McCartney if you want to help. The Wings tours are really nicely documented now (see Category:Wings tours), but Category:The Beatles tours is almost empty. Kingboyk and the rest of us would love to see (and read) articles on each Beatles tour, including the pre-fame tours of the UK—and the Hamburg trips, of course! The article on Alistair Taylor has been adopted by Alexcalamaro. Two new articles have been listed in the Project Log since 1 October: "I'll Be on My Way", a Lennon/McCartney song from 1963 (Zakko) Wings tours, a list of Wings concert tours (Kingboyk) The hottest Project page this month has been Paul McCartney, involved in the Featured Article drive, as mentioned above.	Member News New members to the project since the last issue include NauticaShades, Raymond Arritt, Alexcalamaro, Willie the Walrein, Peanut33Tillman, and Samboha. Our project members are too modest to report any awards they may have given or received. From the Editors Wherever possible, editors should help to trim down on list-like prose within Beatles articles. They should convert list-like sections into fluent, cohesive prose which ties an article's sections together. Lists make articles disjointed, awkward, and difficult to read. Be sure to take part in the Featured Article drive, and don't forget those inline citations! If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 008 – December 2006). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue GPHemsley (Lead Editor) LuciferMorgan (Editor) Kingboyk (Editor) Lar (Distributor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the project infrastructure, classifying articles, and listing/assessing red links. Your assistance is welcome. If you would prefer to just edit - and why wouldn't you? - we have a choice selection of red links to turn blue and articles to clean! Now let's get busy. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. To Merge: To Create: Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Songs covered by The Beatles: Hippy Hippy Shake. The Big Three. Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Macca single: My Brave Face. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). Be-Bop-A-Lula. Go Now (song) - Moody Blues song sung by Denny Laine on Wings Over America (also needs wikilinking from various Wings and Moody Blues related articles). Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Mal Evans, Flying (song), Astrid Kirchherr, Jimmy Nicol, Cynthia Powell, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park. We need a better open-licenced photo for the project, to replace the Abbey Road crossing. If you provide a photo, please remove the ReqPhoto tag from the article's talk page and remove the article from this list. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add ((WPBeatles)) to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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There are many proposals to change the charter floating around Esperanza right now. Let's talk about all of them in an Esperanza IRC charter "debate". I believe a good time would be exactly one week from today. In US Eastern Time, 5:30pm, next week, on Friday. What do you think? WikieZach| talk 04:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hi!

You may or may not be aware of the Wikipedia Weekly podcast, which is now approaching its eighth weekly episode, on which I'm a regular presenter. This episode, we'd like to cover the Esperanza dispute now that the dust has had time to settle, and would very much like for you to come on the show to talk to us about it. We'll also be inviting a few other representatives of Esperanza, and User:Robth to provide an opposing view.

All that would be required are a microphone, a reasonably fast internet connection, and a free copy of Skype. We'll likely be recording at around 1500 UTC on Saturday, although feel free to suggest an alternative time if this wouldn't suit you. You can also join us in #wikipediaweekly on FreeNode prior to the podcast. Thanks for your time, and I hope you can join us on the weekend. :) Daveydweeb (^chat/_review!) 00:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hi HighwayCello. You're on wikibreak, but I thought I'd ask before doing anything major with the admin coaching page. I'm trying to figure out who still needs a coach. I hope you're having a good break. --Fang Aili ^talk 16:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I decided to take over management temporarily. If you'd like the job back at any time, let me know. I'm just trying to keep the project running. Thanks. --Fang Aili ^talk 16:45, 6 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter Issue 008 – December 2006
Issue of the Month Wikipedia's standards are improving all the time, with the result that many articles in The Beatles Wikiproject are being nominated for review of their FA and GA status - and many are losing that accolade. It is difficult, with such a large number of articles and the ease with which editors may make changes which are detrimental, to maintain the standard of articles, let alone improve them. As ever, members efforts are both appreciated and needed to keep the Project on course. Beatles News A Beatles compilation called "Love", featuring tracks remastered by George Martin (with his son Giles), has been released and has made number 1 in Canada. The impending divorce between Paul McCartney and the former Heather Mills continues to make the pages in the tabloid press in the UK. Project News New to the Project Log is the nomination of four articles for consideration as suitable for collaboration, in the manner in which Paul McCartney is now being edited, once the aforementioned article is completed. The nominations are George Harrison, Apple Corp, The Beatles(!!), all proposed by Kingboyk and John Lennon, proposed by LuciferMorgan. Interested editors should make themselves known on the various article talk pages. Three new articles have been listed in the Project Log since 1 November, being Wings tours by Kingboyk, and List of Beatles concerts and Mathew Street, both by Liverpool Scouse. The hottest Project page this month has been Paul McCartney (see above and below). Another Project article, I Want to Hold Your Hand, has lost its FA status and both Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and Beatles For Sale have lost their GA (Good Article) status. In the meantime, Real Love is being considered at WP:FARC. Some great news is that Paul McCartney has passed its nomination for GA status, although with the polite request that the introduction be looked at. Member News New members to the project since the last issue include mrmaroon25, Kyo cat and "I Am the Eggman".	From the Editors If one is to be mercenary about the subject, it should be noted that Paul McCartney is going to be more noteworthy than usual in the near future as his divorce case comes to court. In that case it is great to note that a small group of Project Members (plus another individual who does not feel compelled to register himself despite important contributions) have worked very hard, and in an atmosphere of good humour, to take the McCartney piece to a succesful Good Article nomination. Perhaps this is the method to use for future articles, a small dedicated team concentrating on one subject at a time. Of course, all members are invited to join any existing group or even go about forming their own. Please note any such action in the Project Log. If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 009 – January 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue LessHeard vanU (Editor) Lar (Editor, Distributor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the project infrastructure, classifying articles, and listing/assessing red links. Your assistance is welcome. If you would prefer to just edit - and why wouldn't you? - we have a choice selection of red links to turn blue and articles to clean! Now let's get busy. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. To Merge: To Create: Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Songs covered by The Beatles: Hippy Hippy Shake. The Big Three. Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Macca single: My Brave Face. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Mal Evans, Flying (song), Astrid Kirchherr, Jimmy Nicol, Cynthia Powell, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park. We need a better open-licenced photo for the project, to replace the Abbey Road crossing. If you provide a photo, please remove the ReqPhoto tag from the article's talk page and remove the article from this list. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add ((WPBeatles)) to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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... for past favors. Some informed opinion/votes needed. Let me know if I should vote to keep. Best regards and happy holidays. // FrankB 16:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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for your work on Pokemon and other Nintendo related topics.

Feel free to add it to your award page (or what have you) --Honeymane_{Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam} 03:07, 21 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, I know that we have never met before, but I need to ask you a favor. I'm the logged out form of User:The Hybrid. I was trying to get myself some new vandal fighting tools, but I messed up. My skin got messed up, and my internet froze. I can't log back in. I noticed that you are currently in, so could you go to User:The Hybrid/monobook.js and blank the page for me please? It freezes when I go there to. If you do, I'll add every single Pokémon creature article as well as the video games to my watchlist and keep them vandalism free. After you're done, let me know on my IP talk page please. Cheers, 71.223.40.167 08:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I can do that, if it still needs to be done.--Honeymane_{Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam} 08:43, 22 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Or not, it seems to be locked.--Honeymane_{Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam} 08:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm back, so nevermind. Cheers, -- THL 09:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Congratulations on Torchic being THE Featured Article of the Day for 23 December 2006! I knew it would get there eventually, but I didn't expect it to be featured on the Main Page so quickly. Let us hope that this will be the beginning of a bright future for Pokémon next year, and, to a somewhat smaller extent, the Pokémon Collaborative Project. Once again, congratulations! As a frequent editor of the article, you, as well as every other Wikipedian who has done good to the article, have certainly earned this recognition (and something I doubt any Descent (computer game) article would get). -- Altiris Exeunt 02:12, 23 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

congrats on finally getting it up to snuff! I assumed you were the one who had been working on it the most because of the last FAC you tried for. I was checking some of your refs (the Hasbro recall was interesting) and you make an analytical claim about them in the real world, noting their aesthetic appeal, but the claims are reffed with serebii epiguides.

Like major Fire-types before it, such as Charmander,[47] Torchic's popularity is partially due to its aesthetic appeal. Torchic have been promoted in this way in the Pokémon anime, where characters have shown a liking towards it because of its attractiveness.[30][48]

This is in the "other media" section, first paragraph. -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 17:11, 23 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I noticed that you were instrumental in bringing a recent article to FA status. I have been trying to get the Ohio Wesleyan University article to FA status. One of the critical areas for the article that remains an issue is copyediting and prose. I was wondering if you might be willing to help me in this area? I'd greatly appreciate it! Thank you. WikiprojectOWU 22:56, 24 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Highway. Thanks so much for your response (Nov 2, 2006) to my coaching request. You may have already seen that I'm not currently very active (maybe two edits in three months). I'm certainly still interested in coaching. And I wonder if that can happen at a slow pace, since I won't have much time until May('ish). I don't want to waste resources or for anyone to feel slighted if I'm not responding quickly enough. What do you think? ~ Deebkie 22:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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May I draw your attention to Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 December 28#Template:Pokestart? As you've been justifying it's existence in the PCP for ages now, you might as well try doing so in this AfD. Cheers, The Raven's Apprentice ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 07:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter Issue 009 – January 2007
Beatles News The ongoing divorce proceedings between Paul McCartney and the former Heather Mills continues to occupy the attention of the media - Heather Mills reportedly receiving unspecified death threats. The British Post Office have released a series of stamps depicting various Beatles album covers. Project News The Paul McCartney article is being primped and primed for submission as a Featured Article candidate. The good folk who have been working on the above article have turned their attention to the John Lennon page. Everyone is, of course, invited to contribute. 1 new article (by keithmall) has been listed in the Project Log since 1 December 2006, being The Beatles Book, a monthly magazine. The hottest Project page this month has been the Macca (Paul for those not in the know!) article, again. Other Project news... Please let the editors know if anything is happening, or just contribute it to the next newsletter. Member News New members to the project since the last issue include Beggarsbanquet, Keithmall, Sturgeonman, and McTavidge Sir Sean de Garde appears to have developed multiple personalities.	Issue of the Month The question of capitalising of the letter "t" in The of The Beatles has been raised again. It appears that UK style references (here and here) also maintains that the letter should be in lower case. If the Project is to be appear professional then it may have to change the format. Polite discussion is invited at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles/Policy. If possible, please provide sources/references to support your position. From the Editors It has been a fairly quiet time with regard to the Project (or at least that is how it seems). If you are reading this and wondering why your efforts in respect of a Beatles article has not been mentioned, it may be that you haven't told any editor. This is your Newsletter, which means you can contribute to it, so please do! If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 010 – January/February 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue LessHeard vanU (lead :) Editor) Lar (Editor, Distributor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the project infrastructure, classifying articles, and listing/assessing red links. Your assistance is welcome. If you would prefer to just edit - and why wouldn't you? - we have a choice selection of red links to turn blue and articles to clean! Now let's get busy. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. To Merge: To Create: Phil McDonald (engineer). Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Songs covered by The Beatles: Hippy Hippy Shake. The Big Three. Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Macca single: My Brave Face. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Mal Evans, Flying (song), Astrid Kirchherr, Jimmy Nicol, Cynthia Powell, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park. We need a better open-licenced photo for the project, to replace the Abbey Road crossing. If you provide a photo, please remove the ReqPhoto tag from the article's talk page and remove the article from this list. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add ((WPBeatles)) to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter Issue 010 – February 2007
Beatles News George Harrison's handwritten lyrics to the song While My Guitar Gently Weeps have fetched $300,000 (£152,552) in a Scottsdale (Arizona, United States) memorabilia auction (15 January). It contained lines omitted from the final version of the song. Specifically : I look from the wings at the play you are staging While my guitar gently weeps As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging Still my guitar gently weeps On the reverse of the page appears the lyrics to Hey Jude in the hand of Mal Evans. Project News The Project lead article (The Beatles, for those not paying attention) has had its Good Article status reviewed, and the consensus was 'keep'. The efforts of User:Andreasegde in supplying the requested citations, and other editors in helping with general editing, and the strength of arguments for retaining the grade sufficiently impressed the reviewers. After a great deal of work Paul McCartney was promoted as a Featured Article candidate. Unfortunately it failed to succeed. Among other comments, including the correct length of dash (or hyphen), from reviewers was that the article was too long and also that it needed further information included in some of the sections(!?) The promotor, and driving force behind the insertion of a great many references, citations and facts (and the remover of unwanted text, and splitter of information into daughter articles), Andreasegde vigorously argued the case for promotion but was unsuccessful. Mimi Smith was successfully nominated for WP:Good article status. The major editor to whom accolades should be directed is... Andreasegde. Two new articles have been listed in the Project Log since 1 January: The Beatles' Influence on Recording Music by Apepper and Wings 1973 UK Tour by Danthemankhan. Eruption257 has adopted the A Spaniard in the Works article. The hottest Project page this month was possibly, despite the Article Status related issues regarding both The Beatles and Paul McCartney mentioned above, the third attempt to delete The Beatles trivia in less than a year. As was the case for the second attempt at AfD the result, after an energetic discourse, was keep but with a suggestion that the article be retitled to reduce the incidence of deletion requests. Editors are invited to discuss possible new titles, and/or the need for same, at Talk:The Beatles trivia. Other Project news - Lar did a bit of a purge of the subscription list during last month's newsletter delivery. Some folks were kept (and are at the active list), some who clearly are not active on wikipedia at all were removed with a "you've been removed" message left (and are at the inactive list), and some folks who were less active but not as clearly completely inactive were given a "this may be your last newsletter" message (and are at the possibly inactive list). A more nuanced subscription list is now here (in several subpages as outlined above), and anyone who wants to tweak their status (moving one's self back is a clear cut sign that we should deliver the newsletter to you!) should feel free. Please respect the rather spartan formatting though, this list is used by WP:AWB currently, and may be used by other automation in future.	Issue of the Month Hottest issue or concern for this month is the perennial matter of Project articles losing their Good or Featured Article status. The main Project page now includes a status board that gives the current ratings of some of the more important articles. Let's make sure the core articles (The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr) reach or retain Good Article status, if not Featured Article. If you are aware of another major article whose status is at risk, add it to the board. Issue of last Month Since there has been no response in the matter of the use of lowercase for the initial letter of the when applied with Beatles from the opponents, it is likely that the case for using lowercase only will be adopted as Project policy by default. User:LessHeard vanU will draw up a recommendation and submit it to the Policy talkpage in a few days. From the Editors We are pleased to welcome the contributions of Alexcalamaro to this newsletter. Any editor can include an item of interest or news; this medium can be an excellent tool for getting a comment seen by a great number of project members. As it says below, this is your newsletter. If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Member News New members to the project since the last issue include Sturgeonman, McTavidge, Discordant, SUIT, apepper, Darrenhusted, Cbing01 and Eruption257. The Silly Name (Beatles) Cabal have been awarding each other sundry awards, with one rather obvious exception, recently. This practice is contrary to WP:YouDoNotNeedToBeMadToEditHere(ButItHelps) and reflects badly on the serious work being done on The Greatest Band In The World and should cease immediately. Any further transgressions will likely incur the wrath of The Really Scary One. Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 011 – March 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue Alexcalamaro (Editor) LessHeard vanU (Editor) Albert Goldman (Editor) Lar (Editor, Distributor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the project infrastructure, classifying articles, and listing/assessing red links. Your assistance is welcome. If you would prefer to just edit - and why wouldn't you? - we have a choice selection of red links to turn blue and articles to clean! Now let's get busy. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. To Merge: To Create: Phil McDonald (engineer). Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Songs covered by The Beatles: Hippy Hippy Shake. The Big Three. Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Macca single: My Brave Face. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Mal Evans, Flying (song), Astrid Kirchherr, Jimmy Nicol, Cynthia Powell, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park. We need a better open-licenced photo for the project, to replace the Abbey Road crossing. If you provide a photo, please remove the ReqPhoto tag from the article's talk page and remove the article from this list. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add ((WPBeatles)) to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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delivered by ++Larbot - run by User:Lar - t/c 03:02, 8 February 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I notice that you have two user subpages which use Image:Pokeballicon.gif:

• User:HighwayCello/PCP
• User talk:HighwayCello/PCP

Pokeballicon.gif is now obsolete and it is recommended that Image:Poké Ball icon.svg be used instead. So, I'm wondering: what is the purpose of those two pages? Are they kept for historical interest, or are they personal sandboxes, or what? Please let me know so that I know if it's appropriate to change the instances of Pokeballicon.gif on these pages to the SVG version. —Remember the dot (t) 06:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		Wow. You've made a crazy amount of edits and you're I see you everywhere on pokemon. I hereby present you a Working Man's Barnstar! Llama! 16:22, 17 February 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You have so many! How does one go about earning one? Or a few? --Floramage! 17:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have added a "((prod))" template to the article Dilexia, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the ((dated prod)) notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Theunicyclegirl 17:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Torchic has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:57, 10 March 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

"If you need any help with articles, just leave me a message." How about with Kirby's Dream Land? :P - A Link to the Past (talk) 21:46, 12 March 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter Issue 011 – March 2007
Beatles News On February 5, 2007, the Beatles' Apple Corps and Apple, Inc. (Apple Computer) announced a settlement of their latest trademark dispute involving use of the Apple trademark on the iTunes Music Store. In May of 2006, the High Court ruled in favor of Apple, but Neil Aspinall, manager of Apple Corps, vowed to appeal. Evidently, in the intervening months, the two companies negotiated a settlement. The settlement is discussed in this AP story. For background on the case, see Apple Corps v. Apple Computer. For fans, this may mean that Beatle music will be available someday on iTunes. Despite rumors of a February 2007 release, the material is still unavailalble. The divorce case between Paul McCartney and his estranged wife Heather Mills McCartney has begun with a preliminary hearing in the London High Court on March 1, 2007. See the McCartneys Have Their First Court Date. Chronicle Books has reissued I, Me, Mine, the 1980 George Harrison autobiography. See details in the editors page Project News The articles Freddie Lennon, Julia Lennon, Mimi Smith, Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans have all been promoted to Good Article status. The identity of the individual largely responsible for this outcome remains a mystery, but anyone correctly identifying said person will be treated to dinner with Sir Sean de Garde (cost of meal, air tickets, hotel and trips to houses of ill-repute will be borne by the Mighty Crestville). There were no Project article adoptions for the month of February. One new article has been listed in the Project Log since 1 February; namely The New World Tour, relating to the 1993 World Tour by Paul McCartney, created by the Project's Macca/Wings tours resident expert Danthemankhan. The hottest Project pages this month have been.... Julia Lennon, Freddie Lennon, Neil Aspinall, and Mal Evans, which are now all GA, and Mimi Smith, which has been peer reviewed to see if it could be FA. Project Policy has now been altered to reflect that the use of lowercase for the letter "t" of the word "the" in the Beatles is now considered the correct rendition. Member News New members to the project since the last issue include (although the first is a long time contributor who apparently has only just found the Participants section); Tvoz Freshacconci Liamshaw John Cardinal Mezlo ErleGrey Captain Waters Hey jude, don't let me down Apepper has been awarded a Barnstar for his considerable contributions to The Beatles' influence on music recording. LessHeard vanU has also acquired two Barnstars, and a WikiFish(!), mostly due to undue influence.	Issue of the Month See below. There is genuine concern that the Newsletter is getting stale in terms of content and variety, and that the same individuals are featured each month. Furthermore, lack of "news" is hindering the timely distribution as the editors wait for something to report. All Project editors are encouraged to give their news, suggestions and thoughts to keep the 'Letter vital and interesting. If making direct contributions do not appeal, please give a mention on the Newsletter talkpage and it will be incorporated! From the Editors Help is needed for the job of putting future Newsletters together. The present incumbent is finding it difficult to reflect the breadth of the Project, focusing on much the same individuals and articles each month, and has decided to beg for contributions from other individuals. Interested persons need only start working on next months issue to qualify. It really is that simple! If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 012 – April 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue lEaD ediTor (Lead Editor) John Cardinal (Editor) LessHeard vanU (Editor) Lar (Editor, Distributor) Alexcalamaro (Editor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the project infrastructure, classifying articles, and listing/assessing red links. Your assistance is welcome. If you would prefer to just edit - and why wouldn't you? - we have a choice selection of red links to turn blue and articles to clean! Now let's get busy. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. To Merge: To Create: Phil McDonald (engineer). Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Songs covered by The Beatles: Hippy Hippy Shake. The Big Three. Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Macca single: My Brave Face. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Mal Evans, Flying (song), Astrid Kirchherr, Jimmy Nicol, Cynthia Powell, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park, Tony Barrow. We need a better open-licenced photo for the project, to replace the Abbey Road crossing. If you provide a photo, please remove the ReqPhoto tag from the article's talk page and remove the article from this list. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add ((WPBeatles)) to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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delivered by ++Larbot - run by User:Lar - t/c 00:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I am contacting everyone who participated in the discussion that became inactive in December. Due to the length of the previous discussion, I have proposed a new amendment and you like you to weigh in so that we may actually have a consensus on this matter as it doesn't seem there exists one either way. -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria

Hi!,

I just realised that you review the articles for GA status, regarding music topics, and am wondering what you think of the article concerned. I hope to bring it up to GA status and go from there :-).

If there are any problems, could you if possible please list them?.

Cheers!

Marcus Bowen 19:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter Issue 012 – April 2007
Beatles News On Friday 30th March, a deranged fan was held after attempting to force his way into Paul McCartney's mansion. See here for more details. Apple Corps continues to make news, after the recent settlement with Apple Computer over the use of the Apple trademark. On April 10th, the company announced that long-time chief executive Neil Aspinall had stepped down and had been replaced by American Jeff Jones. It was also announced that another long term dispute, this time with EMI over royalties, had been amicably settled prior to Aspinall's departure.[1][2] Project News The article "Jeff Jones (music industry executive)" suddenly becomes of top importance in the Apple sphere of Beatledom. User:Kingboyk has created a stub on the man, but the article needs urgent beefing up (including basic biographical data such as date and place of birth) and, if possible, a photograph of the new Apple chief executive. Mimi Smith promises to have the last word over John yet again; her article is currently a Featured Article Candidate. Brian Epstein is a current GA candidate. See the Status board for more article news. 2 new articles have been listed in the Project Log since 1 March: Tony Barrow and Jeff Jones (music industry executive). With the debate over "the Beatles" vs "The Beatles" continuing to cause ill feeling and a number of resignations from the project from advocates on both sides, Kingboyk attempted to diffuse the situation by blanking the Project Policy page and tagging it as ((historical)). Although this unilateral action hasn't been reverted as of the time of writing, the reaction was mixed, with two members rejoining the project and others stating their disagreement. With the issue still not resolved, the page was sent to Miscellany for Deletion, for the wider community (and WikiProject The Beatles members) to consider the issue. Member News The membership list has been trimmed, with inactive members listed seperately to help gauge the status of the project. If you've been incorrectly listed as inactive, please don't be offended - just move yourself back to the main list.	From the Editors This has been a tumultuous month for the project yet again. We need your input on how the project should work and what it's role should be. And we need to start getting Featured Articles, folks! :) Next issue This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 013 – May 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue Kingboyk (Lead Editor) Andresguacamayo (Editor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the project infrastructure, classifying articles, and listing/assessing red links. Your assistance is welcome. If you would prefer to just edit - and why wouldn't you? - we have a choice selection of red links to turn blue and articles to clean! Now let's get busy. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. To Merge: To Create: Phil McDonald (engineer). Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Songs covered by The Beatles: Hippy Hippy Shake. The Big Three. Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Macca single: My Brave Face. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Mal Evans, Flying (song), Astrid Kirchherr, Jimmy Nicol, Cynthia Powell, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park, Tony Barrow. We need a better open-licenced photo for the project, to replace the Abbey Road crossing. If you provide a photo, please remove the ReqPhoto tag from the article's talk page and remove the article from this list. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add ((WPBeatles)) to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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BetacommandBot 23:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Just a happy Birthday message to you, HighwayCello, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Politics rule 22:42, 19 May 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Wikipedia Birthday Committee wishes you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day.

Extranet is now E ^talk 01:07, 20 May 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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You have received this message either due to your membership with WikiProject: Good Articles and/or your inclusion on the Wikipedia:Good article candidates/List of reviewers. --Nehrams2020 23:23, 10 July 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Pokémon in other media, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Pokémon in other media satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pokémon in other media and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Pokémon in other media during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 03:54, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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This notice is to inform you that because many people have added their names to Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon#Participants but do not seem to be active, all names are being deleted in an effort to find out who is still truly interested in the project. All you have to do is re-add your name if you'd still like to be considered a member of WP:POKE. Any questions, you can contact me on my talk page. -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 17:40, 22 July 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Per WikiRage.com, the article Charizard received heavy editing today by unregistered users and may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 06:49, 13 September 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello friend! I know you haven't been around in almost a year, but on the off-chance that you ever even decide to look at your user page, I thought I'd say hi, and that I hope all is going well. -- Natalya 21:06, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Where ya been, buddy? Even my sluggish five-edits-per-week-at-most is surpassing you! I know the Pokémon sections of Wikipedia are yearning a good beat-down my your mighty editing prowess! You're not missing much on T:SSBB, though; it's pretty much screenshot this and reference that and two-day hyper debate over here and stagnant article there. Hope to see ya again!--The Ninth Bright Shiner 18:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have to say that this edit gave me a laugh. :-) Ta bu shi da yu 14:35, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi. Could you do me favour and quickly read the Preity Zinta article and participate at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Preity Zinta when you have a moment. Your words would be much appreciated cheers. I'm looking to get this to a FA asap thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 15:34, 28 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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 01:12, 1 November 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

List of Kirby powers, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that List of Kirby powers satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Kirby powers and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of List of Kirby powers during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 23:33, 26 November 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your user name is on the “Inactive, or have just popped out for a cup of tea...” list on the Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles page. You can move it back to the “Participants” list if you feel this is not the case. :) -- WikiProject The Beatles 15:13, 28 November 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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 01:02, 4 December 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 03:59, 3 January 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 3 - January 2008 December issue | February issue Project News There are now 3,301 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. With 1,789 current featured articles, that brings the total of good and featured articles to 5,090! The most recently promoted articles are: Hurricane Daniel (2006), Tarbosaurus, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Wicca, Seth MacFarlane, Stanley Internment Camp, Hurricane Karen (2007), Interstate 155 (Illinois), Tropical Storm Ingrid (2007), Brian Sings and Swings, Winston Churchill, Mzoli's, John Kefalas, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The backlog at Good Article Nominations has recently exploded to 236 unreviewed articles! Out of 264 total nominations, 17 are on hold, 10 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Attachment disorder, Byzantium under the Palaiologoi, Byzantium under the Angeloi, Wowowee, Tyrone Wheatley, Mina (singer), Jon Burge, Mercury Hayes, William Lowndes Yancey, and Toni Preckwinkle. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (47 articles), Film and cinema (25 articles), Television and journalism (16 articles), Art and architecture (15 articles), and Politics and government (14 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 17 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! Reviewer of the Month Dihydrogen Monoxide is the GAN Reviewer of the Month of December, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 of the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Dihydrogen Monoxide hails from Brisbane (which, incidentally, is almost a GA, kids ;)) and has been editing Wikipedia since August 2006. He mostly likes to review articles relating to music, Australia, or anything else that takes his fancy! He also has two articles waiting, and notes that there's still a huge backlog,... so get cracking! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of December include: Awadewit (talk · contribs) Canadian Paul (talk · contribs) Derek.cashman (talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 (talk · contribs) Elcobbola (talk · contribs) Jackyd101 (talk · contribs) Kane5187 (talk · contribs) M3tal H3ad (talk · contribs) Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs) The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) VanTucky (talk · contribs) Wassupwestcoast (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 166 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 7 new members that joined during the month of December: Majoreditor (talk · contribs) Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs) The4325 (talk · contribs) Pepsi2786 (talk · contribs) Monowi (talk · contribs) Rankun (talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! GAReview Template Lots of you that frequent WP:GAN have undoubtedly seen the articles under review, marked with "Review - I am reviewing this article. ...". The articles have been marked as being under review by an editor using the ((GAReview)) template. The purpose of this template is essentially to prevent two editors from reviewing the same article at the same time, so it's essentially a common courtesy notice to other editors so that they don't pass or fail an article while you're in the midst of collecting and writing comments. However, just because an article is marked, shouldn't preclude another editor from contributing to the review. If you'd like to review it, go ahead; simply collect your comments and write them down on the article's talk page – but don't pass or fail the article – leave that to the other reviewer. To use this template yourself, simply write "#:((GAReview)) ~~~~" on the line immediately following the article's nomination at WP:GAN. You can even leave additional comments as well (e.g. "#:((GAReview)) I will finish my review in the next 24 hours. ~~~~"). Reviewers marking articles with this template should also observe some common etiquette; please don't mark more than 1-3 articles as being under review at a time, and please try and finish your review within 3-5 days of marking the article. GA Sweeps After openly requesting the community for more participants into the Sweeps, we have 3 more members on the board. They are (in no particular order) Canadian Paul, VanTucky, and Masem. Canadian Paul will be sweeping "Middle East and the World" articles. VanTucky will be sweeping "Religion, mysticism, and mythology" and "Literature" articles. Masem will be sweeping "Television episodes". We're still looking for more reviewers. Interested individuals should contact OhanaUnited for details. At this moment, participation in the sweeps project is by invitation only, as we desire experienced reviewers who have a thorough and extensive knowledge of the criteria. This is to ensure that articles that have "fallen through the cracks" would be found and removed, and that additional articles don't fall through the cracks during the sweep. Currently, there are 16 members working on the project, and we have reviewed 74 articles in December 2007. Of those that are swept, 275 articles are kept as GA, 126 articles are delisted, and 5 promoted to FA. Did You Know,... ... that the total number of good and featured articles is now over 5000? ... that GA was formed on October 11, 2005 and was formerly called "Half-decent articles"? ... that there is a bot (StatisticianBot) that gives a daily report on GAN? ... that many discussions were made over the years on whether GA should have a symbol placed on the main article space, yet at the end always removed? ... that there was a proposal to change the GA symbol to a green featured star? From the Editors Happy New Year, everyone! I'm just filling in for Dr. Cash as he's busy (or away) in real life. This explains why I wasn't prepared for a full-length article on GA process, and instead I resort to a tiny DYK for GA. OhanaUnited Happy New Year as well! I'm still here, and haven't totally disappeared. I had to cut back on editing and reviewing during the month of December as I made the transition from Flagstaff, Arizona to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But I should be about settled in the Keystone State, so I'll be contributing more to Wikipedia again in the new year. Thanks to OhanaUnited for putting together much of the content for this newsletter! He's been working hard with the Sweeps, and the 'Did You Know' section is also a great idea, so I think that will become a regular feature now! I also figured out how to have a collapsible newsletter, so that will change our delivery options a bit. Cheers! Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Premiership of Maurice Duplessis (talk | history | start review) • Mis Mejores Canciones – 17 Super Éxitos (talk | history | start review) • Raymond Flynn (talk | history | start review) • History of philosophy (talk | history | start review) • Mario Choque (talk | history | start review) Reassessment: Francis Bok • Briarcliff Manor Fire Department • Battle of Antietam • Kraków • Saadanius • Task forces: Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013) Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations list | edit

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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 4 - February 2008 January issue | March issue Project News There are now 3,485 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 206 unreviewed articles. Out of 251 total nominations, 37 are on hold, 7 are under review, and 1 is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Johan Derksen, Trafford, J. Michael Bailey, Greg Skrepenak, Paleolithic-style diet, Alan Dershowitz, Natalee Holloway, Slovenian presidential election, 2007, San Francisco Municipal Railway, and Marcela Agoncillo. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (57 articles), Theatre film and drama (34 articles), Music (19 articles), Transport (17 articles), Politics and government (16 articles), World history (13 articles), and Meteorology and atmospheric sciences (13 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 8 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! GA Sweeps Update During January, 57 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 35 were kept as GA, 20 delisted, 9 currently on hold or at GAR, and 3 were exempted as they are now Featured Articles. Reviewer of the Month Ealdgyth is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for January, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Ealdgyth, known in real life as Victoria Short, hails from Central Illinois, and has been editing Wikipedia since May 26, 2007. In this short time, she has made significant contributions to 9 Good Articles, including Baldwin of Exeter and Hubert Walter. Her interests in editing are in the areas of the Middle Ages, History, and horses. Outside of Wikipedia, she is starting her own photography business, and owns three horses. She likes to read science fiction, history, and geneology books. Congratulations to our GAN Reviewer of the Month for January! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of January include: AnonEMouse (talk · contribs) Canadian Paul (talk · contribs) Casliber (talk · contribs) Derek.cashman (talk · contribs) Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 (talk · contribs) Jackyd101 (talk · contribs) Johnfos (talk · contribs) M3tal H3ad (talk · contribs) Miranda (talk · contribs) Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs) VanTucky (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 176 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 15 new members that joined during the month of January: Atlantik (talk · contribs) Auawise (talk · contribs) Cyclonenim (talk · contribs) Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs) Ddstretch (talk · contribs) Ealdgyth (talk · contribs) FamicomJL (talk · contribs) Hamiltonstone (talk · contribs) jackturner3 (talk · contribs) Kbthompson (talk · contribs) Keilana (talk · contribs) Miranda (talk · contribs) pcbene (talk · contribs) Skeeker (talk · contribs) Snowolf (talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! On Hold versus Failing an Article This month, I thought I'd focus on a less technical and more of a procedural issue at WP:GAN – determining what the appropriate course of action to take when reviewing an article. Currently, there are four options to decide what to do with an article: Passing – it meets all six of the good article criteria; add it to WP:GA and add ((ArticleHistory)) or ((GA)) to the article's talk page. Failing it – it does not meet the criteria; remove the article's listing from WP:GAN and add ((ArticleHistory)) or ((failedGA)) to the article's talk page. On Hold – The article meets most of the criteria, but might fall short in a few areas; keep it listed at WP:GAN, add #: ((GAOnHold|ArticleName)) ~~~~ below the listing and add ((GAonhold)) to the article's talk page. Second Opinion – Similar to the on hold option, except an editor is either inexperienced or not knowledgeable enough about a given topic and asks another reviewer to offer another opinion before passing or failing; add #: ((GA2ndopinion|ArticleName)) ~~~~ to WP:GAN below the article's listing and add ((GA2ndoptalk)) to the article's talk page. So how to you know when an article fails outright, or fails initially, but meets "enough" of the criteria to be placed on hold? The answer to this question probably varies by about the same amount as there are reviewers of Good Articles! Everybody treats this slightly differently. The most important thing to consider is that articles should not be on hold for longer than about one week. Although there is no hard and fast time limit for this, most editors would probably agree that five to seven days is enough time to address any GA-related issues with the article to get it to pass. Some editors have extended this a few days in the past, due to other extenuating circumstances, such as an article's primary editor being very busy with school or work, so they have asked for extra time. But as a general rule, a GA nominee that is placed on hold should meet enough of the criteria to be able to be passed within five to seven days. Some examples of articles that might be placed on hold would be: the article is mostly complete, but might be missing one topic (subcategory). minor copyediting is required (needs a few minor manual of style, spelling, or grammatical fixes. mostly well sourced, but missing maybe a handful of references. a couple of images need to be tagged with appropriate copyright tags. On the other hand, an article should be failed if it: is missing several topic categories, or there are several sections which are very short (1-3 sentences per section). contains numerous sections which are just lists of information, as opposed to written out as prose. there's entire sections of text that have no references, or there are a lot of ((cn)) or ((unreferenced)) tags. has evidence of an active edit war in the article history. has major neutrality issues. has any ((cleanup)) or other warning tags in various places. Did You Know... ... that on July 19, 2007, 1,548 good articles that have not been categorized at all were categorized in 15 days? ... that in Chinese Wikipedia, articles need to have at least six net support votes before they are promoted to GA? ... that the English Wikipedia has the most Good Articles, the German Wikipedia has the second most (at over 2000), followed by the Spanish Wikipedia (at over 800), the Chinese Wikipedia (at over 400), and the French Wikipedia (at over 200)? ... that Simple English Wikipedia has zero Good Articles? ... that "Sport and games people" category has the most Good Articles? ... that Virginia Tech massacre (which is now a featured article) was promoted to GA just only about one month after the shooting incident, but took more than seven months to reach FA status? From the Editors Originally, I wasn't planning to do "Did you know" other than as a fill-in for Dr. Cash. However, I decided to continue writing this section until I ran out of ideas. OhanaUnited Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps and Did You Know correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Premiership of Maurice Duplessis (talk | history | start review) • Mis Mejores Canciones – 17 Super Éxitos (talk | history | start review) • Raymond Flynn (talk | history | start review) • History of philosophy (talk | history | start review) • Mario Choque (talk | history | start review) Reassessment: Francis Bok • Briarcliff Manor Fire Department • Battle of Antietam • Kraków • Saadanius • Task forces: Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013) Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations list | edit

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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 5 - March 2008 February issue | April issue Project News There are currently 3,647 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 185 unreviewed articles. Out of 237 total nominations, 42 are on hold, and 10 are under review. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Ian Browne (cyclist), Tony Marchant, Reginald fitz Jocelin, Annie Russell, Brodie Croyle, and Jimmy Moore. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (39 articles), Theatre, film, and drama (34 articles), Transport (23 articles), Music (21 articles), Politics and government (18 articles), Culture and society (13 articles), Places (13 articles), and World history (12 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 13 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! GA Sweeps Update Two members joined the sweeps team this month. They are Jwanders and jackyd101. Jwanders swept Physics sub-category quickly and is now sweeping "Astronomy and astrophysics". Meanwhile, jackyd101 is sweeping "Armies, military units and legal issues". During February, 66 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 33 were kept as GA, 21 delisted, 17 currently on hold or at GAR, and 1 was exempted as they are now Featured Articles. Reviewer of the Month Blnguyen is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for February, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Blnguyen is from South Australia and has been editing Wikipedia since 2005. He was also the reviewer for the month of December 2007, so this marks the second time that he has been GAN's Top Reviewer for the Month. Congratulations to our GAN Reviewer of the Month for February! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of January include: Blnguyen (talk · contribs) David Fuchs (talk · contribs) Derek.cashman (talk · contribs) Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs) Calbear22 (talk · contribs) Ealdgyth (talk · contribs) Jackturner3 (talk · contribs) TimVickers (talk · contribs) VanTucky (talk · contribs) Wrad (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 185 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 9 new members that joined during the month of February: Bibliomaniac15 (talk · contribs) Canyouhearmenow (talk · contribs) Chrisisinchrist (talk · contribs) Ed! (talk · contribs) Juliancolton (talk · contribs) Kakofonous (talk · contribs) LOTRrules (talk · contribs) Matthewedwards (talk · contribs) Nousernamesleft (talk · contribs) Did You Know... ...that the shortest timespan for a GA to be listed and subsequently delisted is 8 minutes? (The article is Project Chanology and currently listed on WP:GAR) ...that the current nominations system started on March 10, 2006? ...that in May 2006, number of GA surpassed number of FA? This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! One GA Requirement - The Lead Section By Geometry guy In this issue, we will focus on one of the requirements for good articles: a good article article should follow Wikipedia's guideline on lead sections. So what does this guideline say, why does it say what it does, and how can good article reviewers help? The lead section is particularly important, because for many readers, it is the only part of the article which they will read. For instance, they may have come to the article by following a wikilink in another article simply to obtain a quick overview before they continue reading the original article. They may only read the first paragraph, or even the first sentence. On the other hand, one of the joys of Wikipedia is the way that it embodies the endlessly branching tree of knowledge; if a lead is well written, it may encourage even such a reader to read on and learn something new. This is reflected in the terminology: "lead" is a word taken from journalism, where it recognized that many readers will only read the beginning of a newspaper article, and so it is important to convey the key points first, before going into detail. Note that "lead", in this sense, is pronounced as in "leading question" and is sometimes spelled as "lede" by journalists to distinguish it from lead, the metal, which was once very important in typesetting. Wikipedia supports both spellings. Wikipedia:Lead section is written with all this in mind, and describes two different roles for the lead: first, it should introduce the topic; second it should summarize the article. This is not always as easy as it seems; indeed, it is almost impossible to write a good lead if the article itself does not cover the topic well. It has a side benefit that an article which satisfies this guideline is probably also broad: if the lead is both a good introduction and a summary, then the article probably covers the main points. The good article process is often the first place in which an article is judged against this criterion, yet many current good articles may not meet it. A common fault is that the lead is purely an introduction, while the rest of the article contains other information, which should be summarized in the lead, but isn't. So, how can reviewers help to improve this? One approach is to read the rest of the article, and not the lead, first. Make a note of the significant points discussed in the article. There is usually at least one important issue in each section. Then, go back to the lead and ask the following questions: Does the first sentence of the lead define the topic, as described in the article? Is the most important information mentioned in the first paragraph? Is the lead a suitable length for the article? The lead guideline recommends 2–4 paragraphs depending on the article length, but judgment is more important than counting. Are each of the significant topics that you noted mentioned in the lead? If the answer to each of these questions is "yes", then the article probably meets the guideline. If not, you may be able to fix it yourself by summarizing the article. If you can't, then it suggests that there are not only problems with the lead, but also the rest of the article. That is the beauty of Wikipedia:Lead section. Finally, there isn't universal agreement on whether the lead should contain inline citations. As long as the material in the lead is developed and cited elsewhere in the article, then inline citation is not required. There are exceptions, the most significant being quotations and controversial material about living persons. Good luck helping more articles meet this important criterion! From the Editors Well, this is somewhat GA-related but at the same time not totally GA-related. However, I think this is important. Thanks to everyone who supported me at my 2nd RfA. It passed unanimously at 79 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral. As many are impressed by my work in Good Articles processes, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone giving me a very enjoyable time at GA. There are 2 people that I want to explicitly say thank you to. They are Nehrams2020 and Epbr123. They patiently taught me how to do GA reviews properly in summer 2007. I couldn't achieve better without them. Now that I have the mop and the bucket, some of my time will be working on reducing Commons image backlog. Nevertheless, you will still see me once in a while in matters related to GA. OhanaUnited Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps and Did You Know correspondent) Geometry guy (News Correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Premiership of Maurice Duplessis (talk | history | start review) • Mis Mejores Canciones – 17 Super Éxitos (talk | history | start review) • Raymond Flynn (talk | history | start review) • History of philosophy (talk | history | start review) • Mario Choque (talk | history | start review) Reassessment: Francis Bok • Briarcliff Manor Fire Department • Battle of Antietam • Kraków • Saadanius • Task forces: Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013) Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations list | edit