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Hello Stefan!
I have dedicated my considerable time to massively improve the "Megalodon article" with latest and reliable information and I have recently noticed that some people who are not members of the wikipedia have tried to vandalise this article and the "registered members" have to use the "undo" command to prevent this. So if possible, kindly place some "editing restrictions" on this article, according to which only the "registered members" of the Wikipedia are allowed to edit this article and those who are not members of the wiki community are prevented from editing it. This article has been nominated for GA Class and I want this process to go smoothly and without any problems.
--LeGenD 12:48, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
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In case you are interested in such things, you now appear on WP:WBFAN. Yomanganitalk 10:03, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
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I was going over the list of bots and noticed that StefanBot (talk · contribs) has not edited in a very long time. Is this bot still active and if not, would you object to it being de-flagged? Please post your comments to Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Dead_bots since this is a rather widely-posted message. MBisanz talk 02:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, this is how I did my count of Syrah wines at Systembolaget:
This search, while a little clumsy, includes both regular products and special order products. You probably went for a detailed search by country. Then don't remember that you have to go another form for special order products, per country. My intention was originally to see "from what countries are there Syrah wines at all". I found more Syrah-labelled New World wines than I had thought, so that's why I counted them. Tomas e (talk) 18:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I've done a quick bit of copy-editing on it, but mostly I've just reworded what was there, when it could actually do with some rearrangement. I don't think it is FA material yet - it lacks precision and is overcited in places. The pop culture list wouldn't survive FAC either. Yomanganitalk 23:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Stefan
you don't know me, but I'm need help with something i think you'll love. i recently made a Shark wikia, (granted it's very small and I'm not good with some of the templates, and of making thousands of articles) but I'm hoping you will be interested in this, an entire Wikia dedicated to sharks. you can do what you want to the wikia, make new articles i made a updated list of the List of sharks, not much introduction, but big list of sharks. the address is [2] feel free to come and conquer, you can even use the project here to add more details to the sharks. anyway i'll be up and if your interested, visit and write me thanks --LeafGreen Ranger (talk) 21:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey Stefan! Concerning Unified login, I would like to ask if you would be so kind to rename your account? That would allow me to add it to the global one. I guess you’ll hesitate, but nevertheless I did not want to miss my chance to ask you. Thank you. Best wishes, Stefan on German Wikipedia (and almost all other wikimedia wikis) --84.174.28.214 (talk) 20:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Let me add that you wouldn't have had the chance to get the global account Stefan even if you had been the first to try to create one. To the software, it doesn't matter how long you've been contributing, and it doesn't even matter how many contributions you have if there is a local account with sysop privileges. And since the only account with sysop privileges is Stefan@dewiki, dewiki is the homewiki of Stefan. And that's why the global account belongs to St-fl. —Pill (talk) 18:19, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
...happy editing! Kukini háblame aquí 03:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Just to note that I blanked your monobook.js in response to this request. Happy‑melon 09:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, when it comes to your recent edits of Alternative wine closures, I must say that I have never before encountered a claim above 10%, with rates from statistically significant samples (rather than peoples' estimates from memory) being something like 2-5%. "Anecdotal evidence from wine professionals suggests that the rate may be substantially higher" without a reference does in my opinion not fulfil WP:RS requirements. It seems that the cork industry and the alternative closure industry quite frequently "plant" various numbers that work in their favour, so I think we need to be very strict with sourcing on this subject. Also, since I'm not a Wine Spectator subscriber, could you confirm that the 7% figure refers specifically to cork taint rather than wine faults in general? Tomas e (talk) 14:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
when i was doing the list of shark species on my shark wiki, i did more research and found most have problems,
here are the sites i like to use, you can visit my site to see the list but here is the sources i have been using (i've been using others to, but not as much)
this will come in handy for your list here, but the help users and people know more about sharks, good luck (i have been doing a lot of work on the list i didn't do much on the pages for the sharks so if your still interested, you can come and invited more people to come, i'll make sure i make you a editor, plus i won't do the pages because i'm busy with the list and also i don't like to copy and paste) --LeafGreen Ranger (talk) 14:19, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Whatever you decide is fine with me. The article looks better everytime I look at it. I see you even have an image on there now. Sorry. This is the first time I've nominated an article and I thought I could close it. --Npnunda (talk) 02:25, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
No problems, all is well now anyway, an ANI report would only hurt the encyclopedia, everyone was acting in good faith so no worries. Thanks for helping sort things out. :) Aujourd'hui, maman est morte (talk) 02:26, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Stefan,
I saw that you were the last one to edit the Caribbean reef shark article. The reason I point this out is that I am a highschool student trying to raise an article of my choice to GA status. And as you can probably guess I am interested in doing my article on the Caribbean reef shark. I was wondering by any chance if you would be interested in assisting me? If you have any questions refer my school project page Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008. --Duckhunter92 (talk) 20:10, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Stefan, Unfortunitely I found no helpful studies on the caribbean reef shark so i shifted my focus to Shortfin mako shark. I don't know if you are still interested in assisting me, but if you are please let me know. Oh and by the way thanks for all the shark links. They were VERY helpful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Duckhunter92 (talk • contribs) 14:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
I noticed earlier you said you may be busy at the present time. NO RUSH. Whenever you can get around to helping me would be perfectly fine. I have the whole semester to finish the article, but i would much rather finish it before then by all means. The article itself is pretty well layed out but lacks much information. I plan on adding information but would love your help to make it look nice and organized, such as a good or featured article would. Feel free to look in my sandbox to see what I am working on at the present time. I plan on working on one section at a time and then introducing it into the actual article. --Duckhunter92 (talk) 19:25, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Ok Im really not quite sure how to do all that. So is there a Citation maker you want me to use to make this step easier or is the one I am using ok?? I dont care if I have to put more information into the citation maker, this is perfectly fine. I just want to make sure I am citing correctly. Oh and after I get this part figured out I would like to know how to use the two of the same refernce tags in different parts of the article.--Duckhunter92 (talk) 21:37, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the link. Yes, it was slow but it gave me what I needed. Cheers, --Richardrj talk email 15:08, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
I have been extremely busy lately and have not had to work on the page. I have to have the article ready for peer review by Nov. 19. This means I would like to add a lot of information and let you or others proof it. Now I am focusing on amount of creditable content instead of seeing if it is already stated a different way. If you would please proof everything I add to make sure I dont make anyone mad.--Duckhunter92 (talk) 01:32, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok so from now on i will try to use better grammer. I think my teacher is cutting our mentors off from us but im not completely sure. I really hope he doesnt do this. Even if he does thank you for helping me. I will be making major changes sometime this weekend.--Duckhunter92 (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
The Template Barnstar | ||
For your help and assistance through the minefield of esoteric code and simplifying it by creating a template, Thank you. Nanonic (talk) 13:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC) |
Hey there, I noticed your message at Template:FootballSeason about needing StringFunctions for your template to work. I'm not sure what this template is supposed to do, but the issue of turning "9" into "09" is trivial:
((padleft:9|2|0)) = 09
((padleft:10|2|0)) = 10
Does that solve your problem? —Remember the dot (talk) 23:27, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
..by Metro International, a huge newspaper. You can see it here. /Ainali (talk) 21:59, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I've proposed the merger of Types and uses of radar article into Radar. Could you give your input on that as one of the author at Talk:Radar#Types and uses of radar. Pierre cb (talk) 13:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, couldn't help noticing your post on Mr.Z-Man's talk. If you're interested in a little WikiGnoming, one of my tools, Image Checker, will grab you a list of articles tagged as needing a photo but actually including one. Bug reports will be acted on immediately! Well, they would do, but some idiot seems to have scheduled a load of exams right in the way.. If you're not interested, no matter, just ignore this message and get on with your life. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 20:03, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I reviewed the Tiger shark article as part of the GA sweep, and have a number of concerns that need to be addressed for the article to maintain its GA-status. I saw you were the most prolific contributor to the article, so am leaving this note here to notify you. Feel free to contact me with any concerns or questions you might have. Cheers, Sasata (talk) 06:22, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
here it is: [5] a worse title i think but there we are
Hi.
Thank you for the tweak to the outline generator template, and for the watchlist (though I've redirected it to the more comprehensive list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Watchlist using Related changes).
I love the Outline of sharks you're building. Nice. Keep up the good work. I've added a link to it to OOK and WP:PROL.
If you have any questions about outlines, or about lists, or about Wikipedia, feel free to ask me on my talk page anytime.
The Transhumanist 21:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome! I'm probably not going to be the most active but I will try to expand the odd article or so, again thanks for the welcome!--Giants27 (t|c) 00:37, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Several members of the WikiProject have been hard at work.
Buaidh has been building and refining the outlines on the U.S. States, the states' historical outlines, and the Historical outline of the United States. Lately, his edits have dominated the project's watchlist readout. (I think he's overdue for a barnstar or two. hint hint)
Penubag has been working on medals for all the main branches of the OOK, and has completed the OOK WikiProject's animated advert banner (see below).
Highfields has been filling in the currencies for each country on their respective outlines.
NuclearWarfare and Thehelpfulone have been busy with WP:AWB, posting banners and notices, and helping our sister project, the Index WikiProject, get established. Indexes work hand-in-hand with the outlines and are prominently linked to from the top of most of them. And the outlines, which serve as tables of contents, are only as good as the pages they link to.
Since we started integrating (linking) the OOK and its support pages into the encyclopedia and into the Wikipedia community, activity on outlines has been increasing. Though there's still much left to do.
But I digress. There are a couple more...
Stefan is building the Outline of sharks.
MacMed has joined our advanced wiki-tools team, and is currently adding links to outlines in the corresponding subject articles' see also sections.
Welcome to the team!
Penubag has finished this WikiProject's animated advert banner, and it is now being displayed on the Wikipedia ads template which in turn is displayed on about 2000 user pages. Each time someone access one of those pages, there is a 1 in 184 chance of them viewing this:
Wikipedia ads | file info – #184 |
If you'd like to display the banner on your userpage locked-on to the ad as above, use the following code:
((Wikipedia ads|ad=184))
(By the way, it's been awhile since we've barnstarred Penubag).
If you haven't already, please add the entire project's watchlist to your watchlist. Here's how:
I forgot to mention this step above. :)
I can't make heads or tails of 'em, but these links were on Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge:
I discovered an AfD discussion on possibly the first article named "Outline of", which was called Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics, and which was created 4 years ago. Of course they deleted it. But now it has many friends, and so it has risen from the dead. :)
See the DRV discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 7#Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics.
Recruiters needed. Drop me a note if you are interested.
I'm impressed with the level of enthusiasm and work going into the outlines. I'm proud to be working with each of you.
The Transhumanist 21:54, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
This outline is approaching completion.
I added a bunch more links, finding them with the following Google site-specific searches of Wikipedia:
(You can use the wikicode for the links above as the basis for new searches - just replace "Gibraltar" with any other country or region name).
The redlinks need to be bluelinked where possible. The most useful way is to create redirects leading to the material (which is usually included in a section of an article - see Wikipedia:Redirect#Redirects to page sections. That way, when the redirect pages are replaced by the actual articles, the links will already point to the right places.
Please take a crack at it, and bluelink a few.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 00:44, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
That was fun. :)
The Transhumanist 23:32, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that your creation has caught the attention of Rich Farmbrough.
He's like way up at the top of the Wikipedia editor list (he used to be at the very top for years, and still is if you include all the bots he runs).
Nice job!
The Transhumanist 23:42, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Work is proceeding apace...
The current consensus is that we can't place a hatnote leading to an outline at the top of a subject articles unless the outline being presented is of at least the same quality-level as the article.
Improve outline quality by completing them.
Place hatnotes for the outlines of high enough quality.
Guidelines pertaining to outlines need to be updated. Outlines emerged as a class of pages only a few months ago, and most of the relevant guidelines don't cover them specifically. For example, Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists is incredibly out of date.
Invite wikignomes, wikielves, and wikifairies (all 2500+ of them) to help on the outlines .
Identify 600 more subjects with coverage extensive enough to justify outlines, create rudimentary drafts for them, and post notices to the corresponding WikiProjects and subject talk pages to help build them.
Convert outlines titled "List of" to outline articles, and add them to the OOK. There are a few hundred of these. Conversion instructions are needed.
Add a description of outlines to About Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Basic navigation, and add tips about outlines to the WP:TOTD and Tips library.
The Transhumanist 20:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Is there any outline currently that meets good article criteria? If not, my suggestion is that we should make that a priority. If we do then I think we should start a collaboration to get it up to featured status. We really need a featured outline. It would benefit our project tremendously. Burningview (talk) 21:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Because outlines are a type of summary, their "completeness" is highly subjective. What is included in a summary is discretionary and not subject to a definite criterion.
Therefore, statements of completeness are inappropriate. Please don't post them on the outlines.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 21:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
A hatnote is a message at the very top of a page. The hatnotes I was referring to were these, about the incompleteness of the page:
((expand outline))
It's unnecessary clutter. And it implies that someday we'll be able to say with authority when the list is complete. But we never will be able to, because it is a summary, and summaries are by definition incomplete: summaries don't include everything, which is why they're called "summaries".
"Complete summary" is an oxymoron.
And by extension, so is "incomplete summary". A summary can be as long or as short as desired. You can summarize something in a single word.
The Transhumanist 18:40, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Minnecologies has done an incredible amount of work on Outline of forestry and posted a note to me on my talk page requesting feedback.
I've posted my observations at Talk:Outline of forestry#Finished outline review.
Please take a look at the outline and let Minnecologies know what you think of it on the outline's talk page.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 19:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 20:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC).
See [6], the 26:th I put it as see also link on main shark page!!! I want a hat-note :-) --Stefan talk 01:55, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Stefan,
I'm splitting this task up for everyone on the team to work on...
The government branches sections are in error on many of the country outlines.
Since those are in article space, we need to fix those ASAP! This is our most important task right now.
Here's a list of links that goes right to that section: User:The Transhumanist/List of country outline government sections.
I'm working on U-Z.
Your task is to complete and correct these:
WP:LINKY is especially useful for this.
Let me know when you are done, so I can check them over.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 22:08, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.
A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:
The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I was just wondering what interesting subject you'd be adding to the WP:OOK next. :)
If you can't think of anything, I just converted this: Outline of ancient Rome. Maybe you can touch it up.
The Transhumanist 02:01, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Why did you add Category:Wine styles to Syrah with this edit? First, there is very little homogeneity of style to all Syrah wines and surely we don't want to list all grape varieties as "wine styles" as well??? To me, "Barossa Shiraz" could possibly be called wine style, but so far I haven't seen any articles of this type. Regards, Tomas e (talk) 15:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Phase two of outline integration (de-orphanizing outlines by adding links leading to them into article see also sections) is nearly complete. The better that outlines are integrated into the encyclopedia, the more use they will be to readers.
Due to greater exposure through outline integration, and with most of the OOK team on school summer vacation, development activity on outlines has increased a lot...
Thank you.
Here's what else has been going on...
There are a lot of contradictions in guidelines related to outlines. I'll be turning my attention to fixing those.
The number of "Outline of" articles is rapidly catching up to portals, and will probably pass them by the end of the summer!
Keep up the excellent work.
The Transhumanist 00:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
P.S.: Stephan, have you chosen your next subject? The last two you chose turned out great! I can hardly wait to see what you will come up with next. :)
...to award Buaidh for all his hard work.
It's at User:Penubag/Sandbox3.
But it's not done yet. Feel free to help improve it.
I'm hoping that everyone involved with the WP:WPOOK will sign it (please sign without a timestamp).
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by –Juliancolton | Talk at 21:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Shark has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:51, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
As you are one of the principal contributors to this article I wanted to be sure you were aware that Whale shark has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Malleus Fatuorum 12:55, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Time for some catching up...
Congratulations and kudos to Buaidh, the first recipient of the Wikipedia World Developer Award, and the first inductee into the Outline of Knowledge WikiProject's Hall of Fame.
The award was announced about 2 months agos on the WikiProject's talk page, and on Wikipedia's Community Bulletin Board.
Buaidh created the historical outlines for all of the U.S. States, the U.S. capital, and most of the U.S. insular areas. He has also worked indefatigably day after day, improving all of the outlines of the U.S. States, and the outlines of all of the countries of the world!
Discussions can sure be frustrating - try getting a proposal through on a guideline's talk page sometime. Most of the time, it seems like the opposition is mindlessly following each other, like...
Zombies. (You've got to see this).
Yes, it's a proper noun. It's only proper, since we also have an article called Outline of knowledge which is about knowledge generically.
After a couple month vacation, I'm ready to slam the gas pedal to the floor. Are you?
Things are speeding up!
Take a look...
The following outlines have been added to the OOK within the past couple of months or so. Some of them were renames, some of them brand new, and some of them recently discovered after sitting in article space for awhile as orphans.
Here's some more pages that have been renamed to outlines even more recently, but that need to be converted to OOK format:
The following pairs of pages are content forks and need to be merged:
Only a few hundred more to go. :)
The Transhumanist 04:46, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry Stefan thanks for the heads up, will be more cautious. SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 08:33, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Ok, i would like to learn to see how you do it. Is most editing in large part deleting content, I notice a lot of articles are very small? SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 09:50, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Some other links that may help:
You definately did a lot better job and cleaned up it nicely. I could try and find the article from Simon Evans, The Australian Financial Review as if i remember correctly it had a large A3 page on the topic so it should be online somewhere with a little searching. SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 10:04, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
I was just going to ask you if there was a rule weither or not to remove the tone icon or if it needed to be kept there. Have reverted the text and added feedback. SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 11:35, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
I used AWB to make a list of members of the category, sorted and removed everything beginning with "List of.." etc.. I then took a perly script I wrote for downloading and analysing history and changed it to read the user names and put them in a hash. I reported the size of the hash at the end of each history page. In theory it's a minor tweak to give a frequency of edits too. Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 11 October 2009 (UTC).
Please remain WP:CIVIL. this edit is far beyond any reasonably civility limits. Next time you feel yourself entering "rant mode," instead step away from the computer untill you can comment with a level head. Thanks. Hipocrite (talk) 13:45, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Really appreciate your help with improving the table at List of Portuguese grape varieties. Thank you! AgneCheese/Wine 17:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I really don't care if the categories get deleted or not, their existence doesn't cause the encyclopedia any harm. However, having articles inappropriate categorizes does cause some harm. On the surface I agree with your common sense call for reason over the drama. If we are allowed to take care of these simple house keeping chores and clean up the horrendous mess of wine article categorization, that would be great and the encyclopedia benefits. But my fear is that the editors who objected to the clean up efforts previously as "out of process emptying" will continue to object to the clean up efforts if we remove inappropriate categories from wine articles. Your own clean up efforts, Stefan, have been reverted with the inappropriate cat re-added. I'm not sure how we will be able to make any progress in cleaning up the cat mess if these obviously wrong and unneeded cats are still around. AgneCheese/Wine 18:04, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I have replied to your question regarding WikiProject Activity on my Talk page, Regards ZooPro 07:41, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Lfstevens did some nice clean up on the Outline of sharks.
I just thought you might want to know.
The Transhumanist 05:59, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hey Stefan,
I've been working on the outline, especially sorting the "other" items into their respective subtopics.
Feel free to leapfrog me and improve the article further.
Keep in touch,
The Transhumanist 22:35, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I added predation to the behavior section of Outline of sharks.
What other behaviors do sharks engage in?
The Transhumanist 23:03, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
There appears to be consensus to keep the lead you inserted.
The Transhumanist 18:53, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Stefan, the policy is here: WP:OVERLINK, these excepts might help:
Nevertheless, I won't rise to the challenge of starting an edit war ;) --Kudpung (talk) 02:17, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Stefan, thanks for working on Decompression sickness again, it's good to see you back. But would you have a look at MOS:ANDOR, please? It's really discouraged on Wikipedia, and there's always a better way of writing what you mean than using that construction. Regards, --RexxS (talk) 02:55, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).
Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.
When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.
If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Stefan, good to see that someone deals with the category tree. But please remember to tag them for WPWine, so we have a reasonable chance of tracking what happens with them! :-) Tomas e (talk) 12:40, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Note there is a discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Inclusion criteria for Lists that you may wish to comment on.--Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 13:42, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Stefan, I have returned to this article to try and address some of your comments. Particularly trying to reduce the "review" style. The article is not copied and pasted, it is written "ground up". I do have references for all of the article from magazine articles of the day and Suzuki factory press releases. But I just can't work out the wiki "language" for adding them (I gave up trying to upload the picture but it seems someone fixed that for me).
If this is of any use, I could reference the article in a "Word" document and perhaps email it to a Wiki editor who could then do it on the page?
Thanks,
PS: Just as an aside, an editor has helpfully referenced a couple of things and the source for these is listed at the end of the article. Both those sources are web based and both contain incorrect information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gtregs75 (talk • contribs) 03:01, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
A discussion is under way at Template talk:TaxonIds#Identifiers concerning the desired appearance of the identifers shown by ((TaxonIds)). As a contributor to the last discussion, your input will be greatly appreciated. --Stemonitis (talk) 06:42, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
are you swedish? if so would you mind updating the template? ive donesome but there are still some holes and i dont speak swedish. the source is mentioned and my queries are on talk.Lihaas (talk) 05:39, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Being the main author of Outline of sharks, I thought you might want to comment there. The Transhumanist 20:22, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
See the discussion at:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Canada
The Transhumanist 23:30, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
This one is getting close to completion. It needs some annotations (descriptions), especially in the motorcycling section.
For an example of the quality level we're after, see Outline of canoeing and kayaking. The Transhumanist 08:24, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Stefan,
I'm looking for someone insane enough to prepare an outline for the Featured list candidates process. The two outlines you have done the most work on present interesting possibilities. They are well developed and are more than half way to being finished to FL quality. To get there, the Outline of wine or the Outline of sharks need section leads, annotations, and reference citations. Do you think this is feasible? Are you interested?
Speaking of outlines, here's an update on the project, followed by an invitation...
We've undergone a name change: the project has been simplified to "WikiProject Outlines".
The current main focus is on increasing the availability of outlines. If readers can't find the outlines, the outlines can't help them. We need to figure out the best places to put links, and the best ways to attract external traffic directly to these pages.
While studying the link structure to outlines, I came across a navigation aid I forgot we had that you might find useful:
Due to the occasional sniping attempt on outlines and their support pages, outlines now have an alert page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Article alerts. Please go there now and add it to your watchlist.
Tarheel95 and Robert Skyhawk are working on a project to track traffic to outline pages. Speaking of traffic...
A discussion on outline traffic analysis has been started on the Outlines WikiProject talk page. You are cordially invited to participate. Your input is greatly needed on possible ways to increase the availability of the outlines. All ideas and feedback are welcome. I look forward to seeing you there.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 07:30, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
P.S.: don't forget to watchlist the alert page mentioned above. Cheers. -TT
P.P.S.:: I look forward to your reply to the opening paragraph above. -TT
Here's the latest addition to the religion section of Portal:Contents/Outlines. Wikipedia has rich coverage on this subject. Very interesting, especially from sociological and historical perspectives.
This is a call to all members of the Outline WikiProject and outline aficionados to help refine this outline. It needs annotations, missing topics added, and the entries in the general concepts section placed in more specific sections.
Come join in on the fun and get acquainted with members of the Outline WikiProject!
User talk:The Transhumanist 04:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
P.S.: Stefan, this outline could sure use your glossary-building and entry-arrangement skills. Let's see if we can get the Outline team active again.
OK, OK. I've been sending you boring links. Well I think I have found a subject you will enjoy sinking your teeth into (no pun intended)...
The Transhumanist 00:08, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
P.S.: I lied about the pun.
Stefan, for an editor who has been editing as long as you have, you demonstrate a shocking lack of understanding the policies above. Moreover, having read the Top Chef Masters discussion, I notice you have a tendency to take edits and reverts personally. You may want to give serious consideration to stepping away from the Top Chef article, and arrange to be adopted by a senior editor who can get you far better versed on how to source and verify content, how to reach consensus, and above all how to respect the boundaries of original research. You might also look at WP:SYNTH, which doesn't precisely apply, but into which territory you're straying. -- 199.36.244.11 (talk) 22:15, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
I would also suggest you pay careful attention to the post above, and add WP:CIVIL to the list. Drmargi (talk) 07:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
The Outline of relationships was nominated for deletion.
It was then overhauled and the nomination was withdrawn.
Only a couple members from the Outlines WikiProject showed up at the AfD.
Do you have Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Article alerts watchlisted?
If not, please watchlist it.
Thank you. The Transhumanist 08:04, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
You are suspected of using the sock puppet Norbythrrobot to avoid WP:3RR violations on the article for Top Chef All-Stars. Please review WP:SOCK. Future violations may result in your being blocked from editing. 198.228.212.217 (talk) 16:58, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Template:Expand outline has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Decstop (talk) 15:03, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Outline of wine hasn't received much attention lately. I was wondering if you could look it over for completeness, add some missing links, etc. Thank you. The Transhumanist 01:40, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Please solve this mystery if you can...
On September 23rd, traffic to Portal:James Bond doubled, and has stayed at the new level since then. I can't figure out what happened.
See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Portal%3AJames_Bond
Traffic to Outline of James Bond stayed the same (though it was at the higher-level already), which leads me to suspect changes made somewhere in Wikipedia.
See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Outline%20of%20James_Bond
I'd like to find out what happened, in case it reveals helpful link placement tips that can double the traffic to outlines.
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 22:18, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Please go to Portal:Contents/Outlines' and fill in as many missing annotations as you can, even if it's only one or two. Every little bit helps!
The annotating of the entries on Portal:Contents/Outlines is nearing completion.
Annotated entries look like this:
Entries needing annotations look like this:
Even if all you can do is one or two, the support will be greatly felt. Many hands make light work.
Thank you. The Transhumanist 00:27, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering if you would consider dual licensing your Yule Goat image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gavle_christmas_goat_2006.jpg as CC-BY or would you grant me permission to use it commercially without the SA clause in one of my youtube videos? --CGPGrey (talk) 12:28, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. The Transhumanist 02:23, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Stefan-S (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
I get blocked by blocking of my shared ISP IP due to TOR usage, i'm sure you as an admin can check and see that my ISP is VERY large, so I'm requesting IP block exemption, this is happening more and more often, three time tonight so far and my edits have been lost.
Accept reason:
See below. TNXMan 15:36, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
I have granted your account an exemption from IP blocking. This will allow you to edit through full blocks affecting your IP address when you are logged in.
Please read the page Wikipedia:IP block exemption carefully, especially the section on IP block exemption conditions.
Note in particular that you are not permitted to use this newly-granted right to edit Wikipedia via anonymous proxies, or disruptively. If you do, or there is a serious concern of abuse, then the right may be removed by any administrator.
Appropriate usage and compliance with the policy may be checked periodically, due to the nature of block exemption, and block exemption will be removed when no longer needed (for example, when the block it is related to expires).
I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. TNXMan 15:36, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Is this section accurate? Is it complete? Please take a quick look. Thank you. The Transhumanist 00:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Science lovers wanted! | |
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Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 00:46, 17 April 2012 (UTC) |
Template:Cto has been nominated for deletion. Template:Cto creates a conditional topic overview linkbox for the See also section of an article with links to (1) the topic article, (2) the outline of the topic, (3) the index of topic-related articles, (4) the bibliography of the topic, and (5) the Wikipedia book on the topic. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:Cto. Yours aye, Buaidh 19:57, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Category:People related to wine, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The Bushranger One ping only 02:48, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking for outlines embedded in articles.
I've run across a number of these over the years. One example is the Outline of fencing, which used to be part of the fencing article.
If you know about or spot any structured general topics lists in articles, please let me know (on my talk page).
Another thing you might find are articles that are comprised mostly of lists (without "Outline of" or "List of" being in the article's title). If you come across any of these, please report them to me on my talk page. I'd sure like to take a look at them.
Happy hunting.
I look forward to "hearing" from you (on my talk page). Sincerely, The Transhumanist 07:34, 11 June 2013 (UTC)