Since you have already looked at the image ....just FYI Wikipedia:Non-free content review#File:Oka stare down.jpg.Moxy (talk) 16:28, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikki, I wonder if you have a bit of spare time to undertake a reference review for an article at FAC, Ian Fleming? I'm reasonably confident of the refs, but there is always a chance that things have slipped through to add to any of my errors. Many thanks if you have the time! Cheers - SchroCat (^ • @) 08:22, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I was going through WP:FAC the other day, and I saw your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/IPad (3rd generation)/archive3. I was wondering if you could help me copyedit the article Samsung Galaxy S III or review the article Nexus 7 at Wikipedia:Peer review/Nexus 7/archive1. They're virtually complete, but need a major touch-up prior to a potential FAC. Cheers --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 08:09, 17 September 2012 (UTC) PS please disregard this message if you've got other commitments.
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Hello, Nikkimaria
I'm bothering you about the FAC of Microsoft Security Essentials. Do you think we have sufficiently addressed your concerns? Or do you think some of your concerns are still not properly handled, especially in the light of the latest developments which you are no doubt aware of?
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 14:56, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Nikkimaria
Although the FAC is over, I don't still understand your objections to the citations. Can you please tell me what was it all about?
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 16:13, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
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for such sources, at the cost including none for others?Nikkimaria, sorry to bother you, but yours was the first name I recognized in the Coordinator list for WP:MILHIST. I'm a bit at sea (apologies for the pun) about the above article, in part because I'm wondering where the name "Battle of Olongapo" came from, and what the policy is on coming up with names for historical events. Can you please weigh in as someone who has experience with the issues involved? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:28, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria
You tagged Hossam el-Hamalawy as a possible close paraphrase, but didn't indicate the possible source. Is it one of the references, another source, or the style? I want to look into it, but not sure where to start (I have tried CorenSearchBot, but it seems to be out of order.)--SPhilbrick(Talk) 21:33, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, can you please do me a favor and take a look at this article? One of the new QPQers, Futurist110, took this one on. It's a long article and very comprehensively cited, though almost all inline cites are from a few offline sources. There are two blockquotes, one four paragraphs, and another a single paragraph. I was able to find an online source for the really big one, and it was written in 1833 (an account of a murder) so I'd imagine it's public domain—I found another version on Scribd—but it seems an awful lot to quote, and the ref given doesn't work. Still, what I know you'll be able to address is what needs to be done regarding the sourcing, and what is appropriate usage and citation for these blockquotes.
Thanks for anything you can do: I'd like to leave this in your hands, including whether a different icon should be used (even if it's an AGF tick!) for the review. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:25, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a unregistered user, but can you read the Final Fantasy VII article again and support (or oppose) its promotion to FA? 71.142.228.188 (talk) 19:45, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I was hoping you would be able to take a look at this nomination. I've already done a round of copyvio deletions, and the text has been paraphrased and returned. I wouldn't mind having an overall close paraphrase check. What I'm unsure of is the neutrality and the sourcing, all of which are Armenian-American authors or institutions. I think it is almost certainly a notable article, and there was an LA Times article in 2011 about the unveiling of the freeway sign to the memorial, which itself was noteworthy. (The press covered the unveiling on April 1 rather than the physical installation of the signs ten days earlier that the article concentrates on.) Can I ask you to do the icon honors as well, or do you think a complete new review is in order, or a reiterated request for more independent sources? BlueMoonset (talk) 04:35, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria. I'm dropping you a note because you've been using the Page Curation suite recently - this is just to let you know that we've deployed the final version :). There's some help documentation here that shows off all the features, just in case there are things you're not familiar with. If you find any bugs or have requests for new features, let us know here. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:57, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I noticed that you changed Ivory Coast to the French version in the Crex article, and I wondered why. We normally refer to countries by their English name rather than what they call themselves — Germany and Burma, rather than Deutschland and Myanmar. I wonder what the logic is of making an exception for Cote D'Ivoire? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:25, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Come on, this is getting silly. You know that there is no consensus for stripping out relevant geographical links from country articles; that has been demonstrated numerous times at the linking guideline page and elsewhere. I've no issue with you removing genuine over-linked material, but there are several of your ongoing edits that do not fit that profile. Again, I implore you to please stop; let's find a better way to work this out. --Ckatzchatspy 02:20, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I dinged this one for close paraphrasing, but I've entered a busy day or two and am not able to give it the time it needs to check. Can I ask you to see whether it's okay to go, and give it the appropriate icon? Thanks, and apologies for dropping this in your lap. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:23, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi -- can you take a look at the comment Jim Bleak made in the New Worlds FAC about using "US" and "UK" in the references? I don't know if there's a precedent to be followed here, and I know you do a lot of work with references and would probably know the answer. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 09:32, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia 5 edits project is underway in the GEL. Looking forward to working with you. TomHaffie (talk) 19:40, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikki- I just have a quick question in regard to the 5 edits assignment. Would you be able to tell me how you change info. on a person's Wikipedia page (ie. I was hoping to change Dr.Phil's page by adding that he is now a grandpa). Could you also let me know how you change the principle of a school. It is located in a box on the right hand side (ie. St. Michaels Catholic Secondary School). Thanks in advance! ibertens (talk)
Hello NikkiMaria. I'm the instructor for a section of students at Ball State University in Indiana USA who are beginning a collaborative research project on Wikipedia for our Introduction to Digital Literacies class. I've been teaching with WP since Spring 2011; from my user page you can see a few example projects highlighted. We are currently in need of an online ambassador to advise five class groups on selecting topics and putting articles together: this means there will be five topics for an ambassador to assist with. Might you be interested in helping us? You can see the project timeline in my user area project subpage.
I have gone through the appropriate channels and application documents with the Wikimedia folks in charge of education programs, but have not heard back in nearly two weeks (I've emailed Jamie Mathewson twice). But time is getting short and we must begin—thus I'm taking the liberty of contacting potential ambassadors directly. Thanks for your consideration and good luck with your projects! (Pardon the duplication—I will also send this by email). –Webster Newbold (talk) 16:03, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
In recognition of your election as a co-ordinator of the Military history project for the September 2012 to September 2013 period, please accept these co-ord stars. Thank you for standing and I hope it will be another fruitful year. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 05:03, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I've just realized that I forgot about this one, and I'm flat out of time right now. Since it's your specialty, can I ask you to take a look, and give the appropriate icon? It also means that I can promote it, and the building screams "lead hook" to me. (I was disappointed when I realized the article had problems and I couldn't select it as I had wanted to do.) Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:19, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hello do I actually have to create a sandbox inorder to do the edits or can I just click on the edit button and type something in and how would I link the page to our course homepage if I have to add the link under my name? Azafar8 (talk) 23:23, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Nikkimaria. When you find the time, could I bother you for a source and image review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Going, Going, Gone (Grey's Anatomy)/archive1? Thanks, TRLIJC19 (talk • contribs) 00:31, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello my second question was about posting a link on my course homepage under my name where we can do free edits how would I post the link on to my course page if I edit an article? How will I be able to see it once I log into the course page under free edits.Azafar8 (talk) 14:23, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello I tried editing one the articles on wikipedia called Canadian Indian residential school systems and I tried adding the link to my course page just as you suggested,but I had encountered two problems one that it kept saying that the page didn't exsist even though when I searched it up I was able to find it so it wouldn't let me link the article to my course page second any edit that I made from myself under one of the sections of the article and saved the page it was removed couple of minutes later even though the sentences were not from any specific website I think it still requires me to cite how am I able to do that if the info is from myself when I am adding stuff from myself what am I supposed to do then?Azafar8 (talk) 00:50, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikki - Just a note that I'm leaving Wikipedia:Featured article review/Search engine optimization/archive2 and WP:Featured article review/Barack Obama/archive10 up to you. I started the former, and was involved in some pre-FAR discussion on the second (although that was in a delegate capacity, so I'm not completely sure I have a COI, but would still rather be safe than sorry). Let me know if there are any that you're involved in that I've missed - I plan to make a run through later today in any case. Thanks, Dana boomer (talk) 13:09, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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I see you welcomed a bunch. You may want to use ((welcome student)) or the ambassador variant linked there instead of a generic welcome template. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 16:56, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
I see that this has just been approved, though without a concurrence from you. Has it conquered all the close paraphrasing issues you identified, or do some still exist? BlueMoonset (talk) 17:05, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this nomination when you get a chance? The associate article uses an unusually large number of inline and block quotations and I would appreciate your option on whether this represents a problem with close paraphrasing or other similar issues. Nomination is currently held up with concerns over the article's citation density and style, so no big rush on this request. --Allen3 talk 23:33, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hello!
I just wanted to touch base with you and let you know that I am one of the pathfinders for our class. Thanks for working with us!
Zcbp (talk) 02:36, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Here are our three possible topics... What do you feel would be the best option for us? Thanks!
Okay, here are our 3 possibilities for an article... 1. Fruit Gushers (http://www.generalmills.com/Home/Brands/Snacks/Fruit%20Snacks/Brand%20Product%20List%20Page.aspx#%7B57546B5C-D377-4D5E-B280-9CCF6C771C94%7D) (http://www.generalmills.com/default.aspx) (http://www.fruitsnackia.com/) 2. Pizza Rolls (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jeno-paulucci-food-visionary-behind-the-pizza-roll-dies-at-93/2011/11/30/gIQAkU4XEO_story.html) (http://www.totinos.com/products.aspx?id=F8E0AA63-A497-480F-A341-A8F917120C46) (http://kotaku.com/5945929/totinos-pizza-rolls-the-snacktaku-review) 3. Gardettos (http://www.generalmills.com/Brands/Snacks/Gardettos.aspx) (http://eatthis.menshealth.com/content/worst-snacks-supermarket?article=10&page=1) (http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=2381a8b3-3603-46be-abcf-e61d9d725be5%40sessionmgr10&vid=1&hid=10&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=2330777) Zcbp (talk) 14:39, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello!
We have made a rough draft of our article (we switched topics) and have it posted in my sandbox. Could you please take a look and tell me what you think? Thanks! Zcbp (talk) 14:55, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
We have "finished" our article and posted it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_salamander. Please take a look and see if there are any problems with what we did, or if there are old templates/banners still associated with the article. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zcbp (talk • contribs) 15:15, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I'm one of the pathfinders for the Ball State Group. I just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks for taking the time to be our ambassador.
Ashleynk (talk) 04:25, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
These are ideas my group had for either starting a wiki page or adding on to one
1. Ball State College of Communication, Information, and Media building http://www.msktd.com/project/academic/Ball+State+University+-+Letterman+Communication+and+Media+Building http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CollegesandDepartments/CCIM.aspx http://www.bsudailynews.com/ball-state-students-take-home-emmys-1.2742800#.UHbZ52g_5UQ
2. Stargazer Lily http://www.gardenguides.com/75313-stargazer-lilies.html http://thefieldofflowers.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/flowering-facts-stargazer-lilies-a-type-of-oriental-lilies/
3. Bath and Body Works http://www.limitedbrands.com/our_company/about_us/timeline.aspx http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/fdaDrugInfo.cfm?archiveid=40732 Ashleynk (talk) 01:20, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
It was more for the college! I think I was on cruise control when I typed building, but it would be about the Ball State College of Communication, Information, and Media and it's sub departments and activities as well as awards. and functions. Ashleynk (talk) 23:55, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
My group has a draft of our article in my sandbox if you could please review it and give us suggestions/corrections. Thanks! Ashleynk (talk) 01:40, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
There are 1,300 majors/minors (Journalism, Audio, Video, etc;) and 2,100 actual students enrolled in those programs. They are different numbers for different things. We are working on editing and I'll get back to you when it's ready to be reviewed again. Thank you! Ashleynk (talk) 22:09, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Could you review our groups' article again? Thank you! Ashleynk (talk) 22:39, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Our article is published! Could you check it for any errors or old templates/banners? Thanks! Ball State University College of Communication, Information, and Media Ashleynk (talk) 15:00, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
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<Megan Tolley> Ball State group pathfinder
Hello,
My name is Megan Tolley and I am in english 213 Digital literacies. I believe you are our ambassador for our class project!! I was just emailing you to let you know that I am the path finder for our group! MeganTolley5 (talk) 13:31, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
<ChadRagan> Ball State University Hi Nikkimaria. I am one of the Pathfinders for my ENG213 Digital Literacies class with Dr. Newbold. I appreciate you agreeing to offer your expertise and guidance with this project our class is working on! I look look forward to hearing from you. Thank you again. (ChadRagan (talk) 14:22, 9 October 2012 (UTC))
Hi Nikkimaria.
Can you please check out my groups finished wikipedia page for our Ball State project!!
Ball Brothers :)
Thank yoU! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChadRagan (talk • contribs) 18:45, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
My name is Kameron McBride and I am the pathfinder for my group and I just wanted to thank you for being willing to be our ambassador and I hope this project goes well!
Thanks!
Sincerely
Thanks for your review of the "We Can Do It!" article. It made FA status today but it can still be improved. You made several observations at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/We Can Do It!/archive1 but I'm not certain they were all answered. Cheers - Binksternet (talk) 18:10, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey Nikki. There's a couple open applications at WT:Online Ambassadors. I've commented, so I shouldn't close them. Could you? Best, The Interior (Talk) 04:30, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
Our group (for English 213 Digital Literacies) has come up with three topics for our project. The topics are Hot Sauce, Zebra gum or the plastic balls used in the ball pits. We would really like to do a certain type of Hot Sauce (a specific brand). Please let us know what you think.
(MeganTolley5 (talk) 14:10, 11 October 2012 (UTC))
Hi Nikki. You did such a great job on reviewing and doing a source check on Yogo sapphire that I was hoping you'd do the source check in this Kafka FAC. It has two supports and an image check already. It's a dual nom of Gerda and I. We'd appreciate it. Thank you. PumpkinSky talk 10:55, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey Nikki,
I'm doing a project for my english class. I chose to setup a page on Clemson University's Experimental Forest. My layout is in my sandbox. How would you grade it? Is there anything I need to take out or add? Your help is very appreciated.
Here is a link to my page: user:bennyvu/sandbox Ben Vukov Bennyvu (talk) 16:36, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
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Really? Go on then, block me... to be honest I will take it as a badge of honour because Wikipedia has just been reduced to bunch of trolling idiots over the past couple of years. I feel I have been hounded by J3Mrs (and to some extent Malleus Fatuorum who is his sidekick friend and a reputation for being uncivil to others) for over a year now. No one ever does anything about it. MediaCityUK (August 2011 onwards and Rangoon11 was a victim too), One Angel Square, even List of warehouses in Manchester the other day, J3Mrs was straight onto me like a hawk and suggested the list was not even required. I do not enjoy it and it seems to me their ulterior to drive any editor away who they don't like. If that's the Wikipedia you want where current and prospective editors are turned away then you can forget it. I feel I am a productive editor. I have been on here for over 6 years and have made 7000+ edits but I am at the end of my tether. I have just about had enough.... Stevo1000 (talk) 16:29, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, would you be able to give Cyclone Rewa a copyedit please? Many Thanks in advance.Jason Rees (talk) 22:17, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
It made it. Thanks for your help! Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:56, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi there Nikkimaria I am one of the Ball State students working on our Wikipedia project and I had a few potential research topics I wanted to run by you (included are some sites form preliminary research we conducted):
Scopophobia
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1131/ —http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=paq.045.0634a —http://sb6nw2tx4e.scholar.serialssolutions.com/?sid=google&auinit=A&aulast=Albrechtslund&atitle=Surveillance+and+ethics+in+film:+Rear+window+and+the+conversation&title=Journal+of+criminal+justice+and+popular+culture&*
White Widow (Cannibis)—I don't feel great about this project, but it was just a random idea thrown out
http://www.kindgreenbuds.com/marijuana-strains/whitewidow.html http://www.medicalmarijuanastrains.com/white-widow/ http://www.ministryofcannabis.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=19&lang=en&limitstart=0&vmcchk=1&Itemid=19
And another one we're thinking about is the idea of Family Secrets
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-long-reach-childhood/201010/family-secrets
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/family-secrets
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/family-secrets
We tried to pick topics that we could really expand upon.
Thanks for your input!
Kameron (*Kameron.McBride (talk) 01:17, 16 October 2012 (UTC))
Hello,
After much thought, our group for the English 213 Digital Literacies class has decided to try out three new topics and this time I have also provided some possible references. I appreciate your patience and look forward to reading your input!
Three Topics
1. expanding the Indiana Beach (local amusement park) page
2. Indy Scream Park
3. The Indianapolis Zoo
Three References
1.http://www.indianabeach.com
2.http://www.indyscreampark.com
3.http://www.indyzoo.com/SitePages/home.aspx
(MeganTolley5 (talk) 02:05, 16 October 2012 (UTC))
Nikkimaria, this is an odd situation. The author of the article seems to have commissioned the report that's so much of the article (details on the article's talk page and author's talk page), but as far as I can tell there is no release in the report PDF for the photo in the nomination (despite a pointer to the report), or for that matter, the report itself.
As the article appears to be almost completely a copy of sections of this report, I'm about to flunk it because I seriously doubt there are 1500 prose characters original to Wikipedia, but I'm worried that there are more serious issues involved. Can you please take a look and do whatever is appropriate? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:49, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Nikki
I hope your clarinet is sounding great these days.
I'll be doing my best to impersonate you on thursday with a session on referencing in WP. Would you be able to meet with me before then. Maybe I can just do a similar exercise to the one you did last year?
I'm available Wed 2 - 4 and Thurs am before 10:30. Again at 12 until 3:30.
Just pick something that works for you and let me know by email.
Thanks
TomHaffie (talk) 18:07, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi: This article appears to me not to meet the DYK minimum of 1,500 characters. Is my Microsoft Word malfunctioning? I count 1,386. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:27, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, and thanks very much for the helpful comments on the sourcing and images for the subject article. I think I've answered the mail, except am trying to get some help with the Hutchinson statue image. I greatly appreciate your detailed comments.Sarnold17 (talk) 00:41, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikki, quick request. I'm not around much these days - or hoped not to be around much. If ILT sees this situation (sigh!), and leaves abusive messages on my page, will you please protect. Thanks. Truthkeeper (talk) 20:20, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
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Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:03, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Ms. Maria. My name is Brodie Davila and I am currently working on two pages. I am editing the page for Suwanee, Georgia, as well as creating a new page for the 2004 State of The Union Address. I was hoping you could give me any feedback or ideas for things to include in my pages. I'm nowhere near done, but I would really appreciate any feedback. Thank you so much! My page is: User:Btdavila/sandbox Btdavila (talk) 19:08, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, My name is Mimieux Land. I am currently working on an assignment for my Eng course. I would really appreciate you advice and feedback on my contributions so far. Thank you. User:Mxland/sandbox
Hi there, I'm Jake Collins and I am working on an article for James U. Jackson. I would appreciate any advice or feedback on what I have written so far. Thanks! User:Jake29841/sandbox
Jake29841 (talk) 15:47, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Ms.Maria I am Alex Watson and I am working on creating and article on forensic limnology. I would appreciate any feedback or help you are willing to offer. Thanks! AWATSO6 (talk) 14:18, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey Ms. Maria, my name is Brad Tedstone and I am editing the Harbour Town Golf Links Wikipedia page for my English class. If you have any advise or help that would be awesome. Thanks BTedstone (talk) 21:17, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ms. Maria my name is Frank Marrero and I am working with (Groom's Cake) paage. The link to my sadbox is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fmarrero/sandbox and can you help with any feedback. ThanksFrank Marrero (talk) 14:14, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi my name is Andre Bourg. I am editing a page entitled, "Night Markets in Taiwan." I would really appreciate any help. Here is a link to my sandbox, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andrebourg/sandbox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrebourg (talk • contribs) 14:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ms. Maria, my name is Vicky Schwehr and I am recreating the Leonidas (chocolate maker) page. The link to my sandbox is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vickyleighgirl/sandbox and I would really appreciate any feedback you have. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vickyleighgirl (talk • contribs) 14:07, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
HI NIki, Meet my newest group of students at Clemson. Pfancher (talk) 13:28, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi my name is Andrea Cooper and I am a student at Clemson University. My english class is doing a project on Wikipedia creating or editing an article. I found that the page on the hawk needed some work so i choose that one. I still have a good bit of work to do but if you had any suggestions on my sandbox i would love to hear them. Thank You My name is John Schappler and the article I am doing in on Irasburg Vermont. Any feedback that you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Her is the link to my project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Johnnyschapps/sandbox Johnnyschapps (talk) 12:32, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi there Ms. Maria, I'm working on an article for my ENG101 class on a film. I was wondering if you would be able to review my to-date work in my sandbox? Thank you for your time! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Traddalonious/sandbox Traddalonious (talk) 12:34, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria! I'm Mary Kate (a freshman at Clemson University) and I wanted to thank you so much for helping us out on our assignment. My topic is Desserts and its been a little difficult since its such a broad topic so any help or suggestions you have would be awesome. Here's my sandbox and what I've been working on lately. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mkt324/sandbox (talk) 12:40, 18 October 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkt324 (talk • contribs)
Hi my name is Christy Czarnecki and I am working on the article for Hacklebarney State Park. Here is the link to my sandbox user:christyczar/sandbox if you have any suggestions please let me know! Thank you.Christyczar (talk) 12:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, my name is Parker Jones and I am in Professor Fancher's english class working with wikipedia. I am working on the article for the Mars Exploration Program. Here is the link to my sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pacojo29/sandbox; please let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback, any help is appreciated. Pacojo29 (talk) 12:40, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria! I'm Mary Kate (a freshman at Clemson University) and I wanted to thank you so much for helping us out on our assignment. My topic is Desserts and its been a little difficult since its such a broad topic so any help or suggestions you have would be awesome. Here's my sandbox and what I've been working on lately. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mkt324/sandbox (talk) 12:43, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I'm Corey Stoner and I am a student at Clemson University. My class is currently working on a wikipedia article, and mine is about a comic book group, Mandarin's Avengers. Do you have any suggestions or ideas. User:Clevebluff2012/sandboxClevebluff2012 (talk) 13:28, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikki, my name is Zee Sneed. I'm editing the article on the comedian Kevin Hart. If you have any advice for what to add or how to word my writing or anything at all, it would be very appreciated! Msneed19 (talk) 14:18, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, my name is Reece Wilber and I'm working on the Environmental Law article. If you have any advice or suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Reecelw/sandbox
Hey, my name is Will Clevidence and here's my sandbox to my Chia Seed article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wclevid/sandbox Any advice, critique, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!Wclevid (talk) 14:07, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, my name is Thomas Rapp and I chose to work on articles concerning the Summer of Love and the Second Summer of Love. Any advice or suggestions would be awesome. Thanks so much! Tsrapp (talk) 14:18, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, my name is Sarah Jean Hinson and I'm a freshman at Clemson University. My class is currently doing a project on working within wikipedia. Thank you so much for your time and effort. I have chosen to work on the article for Johns Island, South Carolina. Here is the link to my sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sjhinso/sandbox; any feedback or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks! Sjhinso (talk) 14:20, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Ian Finley. I am currently working on an article on Custom Robo in my sandbox. Do you have any advice for using sources in foreign languages? My topic is about a Japanese game that was not released in America, so there are very few sources in English. I really appreciate all the hard work you do to help us, and I hope to hear from you soon! Kaitoyuuki (talk) 16:57, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi my name is Andrea Cooper and I am a student at Clemson University. My english class is doing a project on Wikipedia creating or editing an article. I found that the page on the hawk needed some work so i choose that one. I still have a good bit of work to do but if you had any suggestions on my sandbox i would love to hear them. Thank You Andi7855 Andi7855 (talk) 17:37, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi NikkiMaria, my name is Julia Simpson and I am working on the article Fauna of Belize for a class assignment. I was wondering if you had any suggestions or comments for my work. The link to my sandbox. User:Jsimps8174/sandbox Jsimps8174 (talk) 18:40, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Cody Key and I am working on a class project at Clemson University. I am working on the article for my former high school, Goose Creek High School. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. The link to my sandbox is User:Ckey11/sandbox. Thanks.Ckey11 (talk) 20:32, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Jason Moustafa and Ive started a page for Matt Chandler in my sandbox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClemsonScholar4/sandbox any feedback and advice is much appreciated. Thank you, ClemsonScholar4 (talk) 21:14, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Ms. Maria my name is Ethan McAlhaney and I have just created the page for the SweetWater Brewing Company if you have any advice I would appreciate it. Mcbadphish (talk) 21:53, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello! My name is Cole Swartwood and I'm a freshman at Clemson University. In my english class we are doing a project with Wikipedia where we have to edit and add material to a page. I chose to work on the page Sports in Venezuela and here is the link to my sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cworld7/sandbox, your advice or any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for all that you do with Wikipedia! Cworld7 (talk) 23:09, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Trevor Hanna. I am currently working on a project for an English course at Clemson University that requires a change to a wikipedia page. Can you please look in my sandbox and see if there is anything that I can improve on. Thank you for your time. User:Tqhtherock17/sandbox Tqhtherock17 (talk) 00:19, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello NikkiMaria, my name is Nicole Bronola and I am working on a project for my English 103 class. I am writing about Lee III Hall at Clemson University. Your advice would be greatly appreciated! This is a link to my sanbox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nicobro1/sandbox Thank You! User:Nicobro1/sandbox
Hello! My name is Shannon Fischer, and I am working on the Cahaba River Page. I would appreciate any advice you have! Thank you so much! Stfisch (talk) 17:12, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, My name is David Bell. I am working on the article for "Carbon neutral fuel" for my project for English. I would appreciate any advice, Thank you. User:Davidbell1383 — Preceding unsigned comment added by David1383 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! My name is Nicole Chimenti. For my English 103 class I am writing the article about cross country running shoes. I haven't posted a lot of my information yet, but I would be so grateful if you could give me some advice on my article! Thank you so much for your time and help.
Nchimen (talk) 19:57, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am Sean McDowell and, yes, I am also from Clemson University. I am currently working on the American cockroach page. I would also appreciate any advice that you are able to give, mostly about what I could add because I am currently drawing a blank. Thank you for all the help that you are giving us! Clemsontiger8 (talk) 00:18, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! My name is Bennett Love and I am a student from Clemson University. At the moment, I am working on the mixed-sex education page. Currently, I am somewhat struggling as far as where I should look to get information for this article. Also, I would love it if you could tell me how to cite my data on Wikipedia. Any other advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for all the help! User:ttenneb42 / User:ttenneb42/sandbox —Preceding undated comment added 21:04, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Harry S. Truman is at FAC now. If you'd look that over it'd be appreciated. PumpkinSky talk 12:46, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Im one of the students you are an ambassador to and I was wandering if you could explain how to make charts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amleplat (talk • contribs) 03:44, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this nomination has been moribund for three and a half weeks. Can some final action be taken on it? The basic positions seem to be laid out: the question is the proper characterization of the event, and whether it should be a separate article or merged somewhere. Thanks for whatever you can do to get this settled; if you need to bring in some of your MILHIST colleagues, please do so. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:14, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I've nomed for FAR [2]. I don't think discussion is required; should be a straight delisting. But not sure you guys have ever had anything like this. Maybe the FAR page is a good place to document the history of the article. Don't quite know how something like this is done, but giving you a heads up. Truthkeeper (talk) 00:13, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I have a disclaimer to state. I am not an American and do not live in the United States. This makes me, along with my personal desire to be objective, totally neutral. I am not a Democrat or Republican. If forced to state, the political parties of my country lean closer to the Democratic Party, even the more consrvative parties.
The FAR process is supposed to (according to the instructions) take 2-3 weeks. Nearly 3 months have passed so this process has exceeded the time frame by about 4-5 times. One positive thing is that everyone has been civil.
The FAR instructions say that if there is no consensus, the process should proceed to the 3rd step. There is a fairly good consensus to proceed to the third step although some don't want that to happen for around 3 weeks because they are afraid of inciviity during the election. Note, however, that the FAR discussion has been very civil, much more civil that even the talk page.
Raul 654 has not edited since August.
Please declare the Barack Obama FAR to go to the 3rd and next step. It's my hope that we can really start to discussion on some key improvements so that the article will keep its FA status. The current FA status is based on a version several years old. Furthermore, there has been so much added on that it is no longer a comprehensive biography but rather a choppy and incomplete mix of stuff. Thank you.
Wawaxi (talk) 01:08, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
One chance soon, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Nikkimaria
As a party involved in the 2nd WP:FAC of Microsoft Security Essentials, you might be willing to participate in Wikipedia:Featured article review/Microsoft Security Essentials/archive1.
Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 08:02, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I was hoping you could, sometime in the next few hours, take a quick look at the three articles in this nomination for close paraphrasing before this is promoted to the main page in a little over five hours.
Normally, I wouldn't ask, but a hook by the same author was just pulled from the main page: the nomination template was Template:Did you know nominations/Muhlenbergia pungens, and the article was hit with a copyvio complaint, though Crisco 1492 disagrees with it, as it appears that what was involved was a bit of close paraphrasing that slipped through.
If you're feeling ambitious, Template:Did you know nominations/Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino by the same author has just been approved after an initial review that questioned some close paraphrasing in one source. I'm not left with a warm fuzzy feeling when I see an approval with the words "I guess", even with the Duplication Detector report provided, which made me reluctant to promote it even with the impressive photo image. I'm not sure others will be as hesitant, which is why a trustworthy vetting would be nice. Thanks for anything you can do, especially with the already queued nomination. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:52, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria...in your edit at Jclemens, you didn't see that one editor came forward and said that the first email was theirs...also, I would like to see the barnstar I awarded Jclemens restored if you don't mind please.--MONGO 03:11, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Well...its mostly been taken care of already. Best wishes.--MONGO 03:30, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I don't disagree with your interpretation here [8] but changing text attributed to other editors isn't good. I'd appreciate it if you'd revert; if not, please let it go if someone else does. Nobody Ent 12:56, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I'm actually writing this as I'm about to reject this particular article, because I think someone well versed in copyvio and close paraphrasing needs to decide whether Biodiversity of Wales is salvageable, or if something more serious needs to be done. The entire Evolution section has been commented out by Kevmin after Sasata identified copyvio problems that weren't addressed, and I've just taken a quick look at one other source, ref 9, a copyrighted page, with Duplication Detector and the number of identical long phrases that show up, even not counting the overly close paraphrasing to either side of some of them, leads me to believe that the issues are serious indeed. Thanks for whatever you can do with this one. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:51, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello ambassador Nikki! This is Megan from Eng 213 the digital literacies class. So you mentioned that the zoo needs some TLC - what exactly do you mean? Possibly on the zoo itself? Instead of the all of the animals do a review on the zoo itself?
Also, we will be expanding on the Indianapolis Zoo - this is our final choice for the project so any suggestions are much appreciated! (MeganTolley5 (talk) 14:23, 25 October 2012 (UTC))
Please read and undertand what tag says. Do you want me to copy it here for you? Please stop deleting immediately relevant information someone lazy mislabeled as "trivia". Staszek Lem (talk) 18:30, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
I responded some time ago to your comments on the DYK nominations for Template:Did you know nominations/Grootegeluk Coal Mine, Waterberg Coalfield and Template:Did you know nominations/Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino. Are you satisfied that these articles are ready for the front page? If not, can you specify the changes that would be needed to satisfy you? If there are any problems you are confident you can fix yourself, please go ahead. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 01:25, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Welcome your thoughts here Wikipedia_talk:Emailing_users#email_privacy. (Not trying to stir anything else up here, just seems like our existing documented policy is really vague and it would be good if folks knew what the rules were.) Nobody Ent 02:04, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
If you shorten a section that contains trivial, minor or unrelated references in popular culture, you end up with a shorter section that contains trivial, minor or unrelated references in popular culture. In such instances the section should still be tagged as an "in popular culture" section. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:05, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Close paraphrasing#Request for comment - clearer expression of principles. Your comment on one of the DYK articles I started got me thinking, and this is the result. I am genuinely interested in views on what should be done, if anything, not trying to push a particular point of view. Clarity is, to me, by far the most important goal. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:45, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Please review the tweak made here in response to your comment. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 11:54, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
The issue has been discussed on the talk page. I have not seen you participate though [9]. You are also abusing a help page by giving advice that overrides the policy WP:POSTEMAIL and by removing the link to it. Tijfo098 (talk) 15:47, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Nikkimaria
Thank you very much for making the broom in the article Octoechos. I changed some of your brief titles, but in general I agree with most your edits and shortened some more titles. Only concerning your selection in the section "see also" I wondered what have been your preferences.
There are still some mistakes in the content to correct and when I have finished my work, I will let you know. I would like to ask you, which are the subsections or passages which sound absolutely cryptic for you. You will do a nice present for me, also because I am not a native speaker. Platonykiss (talk) 13:51, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, I was wondering if you had any time could you look at my sandbox where we have been working on our article on Scopophobia and just see if we're on the right track thus far?
Thanks!
(*Kameron.McBride (talk) 13:57, 1 November 2012 (UTC))
I checked out the link, and I have no clue why it claims I changed someone's post. The link says a replaced every instance of @#!*% with @#!*%, but that doesn't seem like a change, and in any case I have no recollection at all of editing those posts. Maybe there's a bug somewhere in the website? ypnypn (talk) 03:49, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
You may want to chime in at User talk:BlueMoonset#Stalled DYK nominations. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 23:21, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, can you take a look at this to see whether the amount of quoting from a single source is excessive? I removed a "selected quotations" section because that seemed to me to be black-and-white copyvio and likely inappropriate for an encylopedia article besides (if I'm wrong on both, just reverse me), but I was worried about the rest of it. If you could comment there, and restore the tick if the article is on the correct side of the fair use divide, I'd appreciate it. I should not that I have not done a close paraphrasing check myself; based on the review I wouldn't count on one having been done, so you may not want to apply a tick under that circumstance, which I would completely understand. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:40, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, would you show me the guidelines you are talking about regarding removing the infobox at Toni Castells? I am curious about them and I couldn't find anything anywhere that references not having an infobox. Thank you! heather walls (talk) 18:53, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Please discuss the issue on the article's talk page. Thanks! - SummerPhD (talk) 05:42, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that. TFAs really should be protected as a matter of course (in my opinion). Parrot of Doom 16:05, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Our 213 groups are moving toward the finishing stages of their project work this week. I'll ask them to contact you when they are ready to go on-wiki, but here is a glimpse of what's coming
—Webster Newbold (talk) 04:34, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello ambassador,
This is Megan from the Ball State University digital literacy class. We have decided to permanently work on the indianapolis zoo wiki site. We have decided to add citations and reorganize the page to be more aesthetically pleasing. We would like to add a table, instead of one long list. If you have any hints as to how to do this or know of any applicable resources. Please let us know!! Thank Also, what is the best way to go about reorganizing a web page on Wiki- the page has a lot of lists that take away from the main topic of the zoo? Let me know what you think and have a great day!
(MeganTolley5 (talk) 14:49, 6 November 2012 (UTC))
I wasn't aware of the policy/guideline on avoiding redirects, but I don't see why NOTBROKEN merits reverting them back either. I'm giving up on it anyway given that it's going to be a waste of my time to try to change all 500+ instances. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:33, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
You kindly commented on my successful FAC nomination at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/La Coupole/archive1 back in September. I've now nominated the second of the three articles in this series, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Blockhaus d'Éperlecques/archive1. I'd be grateful for any comments you could provide in the review. Prioryman (talk) 23:54, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria. I may have let Prof Newbold's students get into a bit of a quandary. They've begun to draft a new article on The Dark Side of Chocolate (not theirs), a doc about choc. Here's their draft page: User:Kjrichardso2/sandbox. I failed to notice there was already an extant article. What do think is the best course - ask each student to place their own contribs into the existing article, or do some sort of page merge? (I have no experience with those, do you?) The Interior (Talk) 20:00, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
A post there says your close paraphrasing concerns have been addressed on this nomination. Can you check to see if this is indeed the case? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:48, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello NikkiMaria!
We just finished editing our article on Scopophobia and are now live! We pasted in our information to the page and were wondering if you could look over it to see if there are any problems and/or any banners—like the stub ones—that may need to be removed.
Thanks so much for helping us with this page, you've been awesome!
Kameron.McBride (talk) 15:26, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello, ambassador
This is Megan from the BSU digital literacy class (our group is working on the Indianapolis Zoo.) So we edited some of the content on the site however, last night I went to add tables to all of the links- to make it to where the website isn't just one continuous list. This morning someone else decided to undue the little that I had done and include drop tables. The question to you is- should I leave the drop down bar or should I edit it to where all of the text is showing. If I should edit it, how would I go about deleting this drop bar edit, without deleting my fellow teammates work on the site?
(MeganTolley5 (talk) 18:54, 8 November 2012 (UTC))
Hi Nikki, if you get a chance, can you see if I'm being too harsh here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Debora Green/archive2, and article I've already supported. Thanks. Ceoil (talk) 05:14, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. You have now hit 3 reverts of the infobox in less than 24 hours over at Stephen H. Wendover. If you are against inclusion of the infobox can you please engage in discussion at the talk page? I have no opinion on the issue myself but the weight of the discussion currently seems to be against your actions. Road Wizard (talk) 03:03, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
please take a look. I did some small changes. It would be nice if you list the issues. The article is not very large. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 12:15, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey Nikki. I know you participated in the previous The Emancipation of Mimi FAC, and would love it if you could do a review for it. I'm struggling to find good reviews. I remember you were always nitpicking with sources so I've made sure to keep em perfect :) Let me know what's up!--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 08:43, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am in the late stage of developing a sources script, and was wondering if you would be interested in being one of my testers. I've written up most of the documentation and built up most of the script functionality. There are some minor missing features. I have already created and stocked three extensive in-built libraries/vocabularies (1,2,3) which I will continue extending. There's still work to be done to rationalise linkages and optimise the precision in dab situations. I'd value your input regarding any aspect, whether the documentation, objectives, structure or the library itself, and of course how it works. -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 09:03, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your recent articles, including Henri Akoka. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like ((WikiProject Keyword)) to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. This can help you too, as the WikiProject members will often defend your work from deletion and try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 22:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC) |
I don't want to revert you on your article, but please consider that keeping refs inline makes the article more scary for new editors, and even for old hands like me, it makes it more of a chore to edit. Reducing the ref presence in the main text makes the article one step closer to WYSIWYG level, makes it easier to work on multiple references, and there is nothing we lose. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:03, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
I am rather aggregated at your reverts. Feel free to start an RfC about that if you feel so strongly, but please do not revert me en masse. My reverts are in line with our policies, and a number of articles use this style. I have considered the increased file size, and I believe this is much less of an issue than having the edit text look more friendly; editors can edit individual sections and the load length will be not affected; in fact my +10% or so size increase does not significantly change the already bad load time for most large articles - it just makes editing their sections more friendly. Please revert your reverts of myself, and then ask the community for input. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:41, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I just went through your talk page and like the classy way you navigate arguments. I thought hey why not drop in and say hi. Oh and by the way, ever notice how some users have redundant userboxes? Like for example Am New Zealander, Speaks New Zealand English, Lives in New Zealand, Lives in South Island, Lives in the eastern part of South Island, Lives in Christchurch. Or Am American, Speaks American English, Lives in the States, Lives in the Mid West, Lives in Indiana, Live in Indianapolis. SlightSmile 02:02, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
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The DYK project (nominate) 08:22, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I think I've addressed all the issues you raised in your image review of Shunzhi Emperor. There were two pending issues: a dead source link for a flag image and missing sources for this map. I deleted the flag from the infobox (because that flag was only created around 1890), and I asked the map's creator to provide sources, which he has. You're welcome to look at his sources and to let me know if the map is now acceptable. The FAC review page is here. Thank you! Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 01:13, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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DYK for Vito Pascucci[edit]
Since the 17 articles in this category really constitute one long list broken down into convenient alphabetical chunks, and I've performed my ref cleanup on two of them without any objection, can we save ourselves unnecessary conflict by agreeing that the remaining 15 don't individually need prior permission? Colonies Chris (talk) 15:39, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks[edit]Hi Nikki, I just wanted to thank you for your help on getting Debora Green through FAC. I can only wish I had the eagle-like typo-spotting eyes you're graced with! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 17:32, 26 November 2012 (UTC) A question[edit]Concerning the question of parents in Talk:Stephen H. Wendover, it seems you (and likely Carrite, per your suggestion) favor the removal from the infobox, and I have spoken up against. Would it be acceptable to you if I were to ask Bbb23 and Kraxler for their opinion on the matter? It seems likely they will not be in support of my position, but it would look better for a consensus with more than three of us discussing the idea. (I don't know that either would chime in, but it seems worth a shot since both have posted to the page before). --Nouniquenames 05:20, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Dear Nikkimaria, please permit me to ping you again (it was done before on 22 Nov): your response is needed at Template:Did you know nominations/The Making of a Teacher. Thank you! -- Presearch (talk) 06:22, 27 November 2012 (UTC) GEL course page is missing content[edit]Hi Nikki I hope the term is winding down peacefully for you. I've discovered that our Course Page in the GEL is now missing all of the students' entries for their "5 Edits" exercise. I can't decipher what has happened and hope that you can have a look. Thanks TomHaffie (talk) 12:43, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
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The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. Link removal[edit]Please remove this external link Call of Duty wiki thanks. FPSFAN321 (talk) 11:37, 20 January 2013 (UTC) |