User talk:Owen/archive

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Aulus Plautius

Hello, i found Aulus Plautius and corrected the links to the legions. If you want to write more about them, you can follow List of Roman legions for pointers. Cheers, Muriel 12:51, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

thanks muchly :)

A note

Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! When you tinker with Anglo-Saxon stuff, be careful that you're not implicitly asserting certainty where none exists. For instance, dates and family relationships are often reported inconsistently by the sources (typically meaning Bede and the ASC differ), and even the modern researchers will disagree too. In such cases we're not competent to choose among them, and we fall back to reporting the several versions, and ideally mentioning which authorities make which claims. Stan 14:38, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Spelling

Thanks for the typo corrections! I know my spelling is atrocious! Chhers, Muriel Victoria 11:23, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I think you should have a look in Wikipedia:Typo. Muriel HG

Image source

Hi Sarge, can you mention the source of the image image:Anna_kourn.jpg uploaded by you and used in Anna Kournikova. Jay 15:25, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

The Upload page does have a warning about copyrights. Also there's a check-box which has to be clicked saying you have the copyrights. Maybe these were absent when you had uploaded.

Anyway I'll get the pic replaced soon enough by uploading another with the same name. Or you can send mail to the guy at http://www.igs.net/~bmitchell/Tennis/tennis.htm and get his permission to use the pics of women tennis players. Jay 08:37, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Expanding the Foundation Series article

Just thought I'd let you know - for the Foundation Series page, I added some content re: Foundation's Friends. I just got my copy of the book last week or I would have added it earlier :) --Raul654 09:14, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Contact me on AOL instant messanger (same SN as my username here) and I'll send you it in ebook (.doc) format. I've only gotten through the foundation stories, though. I really liked the Card and Turtledove stories - the Zebrowski one was pretty bad, IMHO. I've intentionally avoided the rest because I'm still progressing through the Robot series - then I am going to write a bunch of articles for them here. --Raul654 09:25, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

H. P. Lovecraft article

Just wanted to thank you for nominating H. P. Lovecraft as Brilliant Prose a while back. The article is to some degree my "baby" and it was a pleasant surprise to notice it on the list, the article having been posted there a few days after I revised it—not that I had anything to do with it <grin> as the entry was already good. But is it really brilliant prose? I'll attempt to make it thus. Chris Roy 07:11, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

As the person who created the list of Z languages article, I'd like to thank you for creating Zimakani. Even though it's a stub, it really showed great initiative! - user:zanimum

Sysops

Hi, you are now a sysop. Enjoy. Bmills 16:03, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Regarding Paris Hilton

Sarge, why do you not want the link to the Rotten.com article in the Paris Hilton article? I don't see what's wrong with it. WhisperToMe 08:33, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Earlier work

Oh, yeah. That earlier stuff we do. It makes me cringe thinking of mine of early attempts. -- Decumanus 09:03, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

List of aliens in fiction

Your latest edit of this page has taken out the initial description, the TOC and all the sections. Why? Please put them back. --Phil | Talk 12:47, Mar 18, 2004 (UTC)

Cheers, that's smashing. --Phil | Talk 12:55, Mar 18, 2004 (UTC)

Interwiki

Hello dear Sarge, I've written a welcome to you in german wp. I would appreciate if you could add some interwiki links between en <-> de as I do in french or danish wp. Greetings Old European Mikue 13:10, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Greek Prime Ministers

I note your interest. Do you know if Xenophon Zolotas is still alive? He would be 100 if he is. Adam 20:33, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

Rivers

Thanks for your comments. I very much appreciate them. I know you've written a few river articles for Oregon too. I've written a bunch for other states, but Oregon is special because I know a lot of them first hand and they have memories attached to them (I went to Willamette U. in Salem). Maybe that's why I left them for later. -- Decumanus 14:25, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Culture of Hungary

Hi ! Sarge,
Saw Culture of Hungary on the Opentask... A good request.
Thought I should let you know that I have nominated this topic for WP:AOTW, 'coz I think it's a good candidate. I think it will get more attention there than from Opentask.
-- PFHLai 20:59, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)

Babylonia as AOTW

Hi, Sarge,
Shall we merge this article with those listed under 'See also:', and also with Babylon, to make 1 giant article ? I'm not sure what else to add that is not already in Wikipedia.
In contrast, Babylonian literature and science is incomplete.
-- PFHLai 20:56, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)

Commercialism

Hi Sarge, i thought you would like to know that Commercialism has been created. -- PFHLai 05:30, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)

Rock the vote

A vote has been initiated on the standard template for computer and video games. As a member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and Video Games, you are being solicited for input into the proposed template. Please cast your vote any make any comments at Rock the vote! Thank you! — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:33, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Edit attribution

Hi Sarge. The edit from your IP has now been reattributed. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 02:41, 2004 Sep 5 (UTC)

Same for 63.162.72.111 and 63.162.73.137. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 07:37, 2004 Sep 5 (UTC)

Ageing

I noticed your change to Potassium hydroxide and just wanted to note that this is not a misspelling but an alternate one. A google search brought up the Australian Minister for Health and Ageing. Rmhermen 12:29, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

Granularity of DOOM coverage on Wikipedia?

Have a look at User talk:Schneelocke#Articles on DOOM people in Wikipedia - Fredrik | talk 20:43, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Featured articles on the main page

Uh, Owen, I (and I alone) choose the main page featured articles. You added Mount Saint Helen, which (a) is timely (which means it shouldn't be the main page FA because it belongs on ITN) and (b) an almost identical article was featured less than 3 weeks ago. If you want something featured, ask me on my talk page or on one of the related talk pages - I'll either say yes or give you a good reason why not. →Raul654 02:28, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Thank you for protection. As the version you protected includes the blunt lie "237,062 atom-bomb victims have died, but this tally includes everyone who was in the city when the bomb exploded who has since died." that can be easily shown to be wrong with the link the other version includes - the cumulative death toll associated with the effects of the bombing was 237,062. - I would like to ask you to make use of the rule that the protecting sysop may choose to protect the version favoured by those more closely complying with the guideline on repeated reverts. TDC reverted repeatedly and even went on when he had admitted at talk that his reverts made a lie reappear. Get-back-world-respect 18:27, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A couple things. Do you think you should be protecting and favoring a particular version of the article when you are personally involved in the article? I would also like out point out that GBWR has also violated the three revert in 24 hours rule. Also the article provide by GBWR, unlike the link to the pathological report on the long term radiological effects of the bombing, provides no clue whatsoever as to how the "City of Hiroshima" came to its conclusions. TDC 19:19, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Get-back-world-respect 05:28, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Barnstar

Catching up after field work, i noticed the stars. Thanks, that was nice. Muriel G 08:51, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Moving Popes

Was there consensus somewhere to move all the popes to remove their titles? Somewhere in the instructions for editing (I don't have time to look up a link at the moment) it specifically said to use "Pope" for the titles of those articles. I don't really care whether it's there or not, but this is going to create a huge number of redirects (hopefully not double redirects)... Mpolo 19:27, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, the decision to leave "Pope" on is of long standing and is useful for distinguishing Popes from temporal authorities with exactly the same name. I don't think this one was thought through sufficiently. Stan 00:45, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I understand your reasoning, but it would have been better to post the idea for review at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles), which is pretty specific about correct pope nomenclature. The existing convention was hammered out after much dispute; the only way you'll avoid excoriation now is if all the original debaters have died or moved away. :-) Stan 01:13, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Admin nomination

Hey, thanks for the support for admin nomination! Glad to see you like my work :-) - Ta bu shi da yu 03:21, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Woodstock Pub

You like it? I haven't spoken to my friend yet. I will be able to put more precise dates on evrything than and maybe get some more info. Waerth 10:17, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Bush Image

Jimbo removed the pic for the following reason "Especially please don't add non-free images to replace free images!" I made the image free as he seemed to expect it. Since I hate blurry pics. PPGMD

Oregon ballot measure category

Thanks for making the ballot measures category.--Clipdude 07:33, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Karl Marx

well just say that he had equivalent to high school education most American readers will understand that.--198 03:13, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well you must try to compromise say secondary school and high school in the same sentence.--198 03:15, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Micronations

I notice you've made a number of positive contributions to various micronation articles recently. You may wish to keep an eye on Sealand in particular. A foaming-at-the-mouth anti-micronation nutter named Gzornenplatz has been using it as the subject of an edit war and stalking campaign for a number of months, and it looks as though he/she is at it again. --Gene_poole 05:45, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Bombing of Dresden in World War II

If you are interested please cast a vote in the straw poll.

Thank you

Thank you for nominating me for adminship. What a pleasant and unexpected surprise. SWAdair | Talk 03:33, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Deletionism

I think it is very unfortuant that Gay Kingdom is being deleted. I have made a copy before it gets deleted. It maybe helpful to work on it then respost it later when it is bigger. People cannot see beyond the stub in many cases. There is also the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians to help save important articles. Bye, --ShaunMacPherson 19:51, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

Thanks, Owen, for your support in my adminship. How much WikiMoney did we agree on? ;-) JOHN COLLISON [ L u d r a m an] 16:02, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Don't delete my votes

Anon "votes" on talk pages are valid if anon IP user has many edits - I do. 216.153.214.94 08:50, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

However, sockpuppets, like 216.153.214.94, are not legal to vote with. -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:08, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

License ?

Hi, could you tell me if Image:Lemming.jpg is GFDL or what its license is ? Thanks in advance. Tipiac 21:12, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer, we use it on french wikipedia. I'll post a message to say that license is unknown and it should be replaced. Thanks. Tipiac 01:36, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Deletionist campaign

Hi there. As someone who has displayed a fairly rational and objective attitude towards micronation articles in the past I thought you might be interested to note that the rabid deletionist lobby is on the march against them again.

The latest target is New Utopia, which although a poorly written article in its current form concerns a subject that is eminently encyclopaedic, being the latest in a long line of libertarian "new country projects" (and therefore representative of a notable social/historic phenomenon), being the subject of dozens of international press and TV stories, as well as the subject of a widely-known US Securities & Investment Commission investigation for fraud.

You might want to take a look at the VfD and respond accordingly.

For future reference you might also want to note the articles in the Micronations Category, in order to keep an eye on its contents; I’ve been adding a number of well-researched, illustrated, fully referenced articles to this category in recent months, but there are moves afoot thanks to a highly suspect ongoing arbitration of process to have me banned completely from writing anything at all about micronations on the basis that as the founder of one, anything I write is somehow self-promotional and/or controversial. --Gene_poole 22:11, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Culture of Greece

Culture of Greece is this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Keeping "In the news" NPOV and credible

Following various attempts to add partisan and fringe stories to Template:In the news, I've proposed a new criterion to keep such stuff out. Could you please take a look at Wikipedia talk:In the news section on the Main Page and let me know what you think? -- ChrisO 19:10, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

U.S. embargo against Cuba

You voted for U.S. embargo against Cuba, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Zhuang Zi/Chuang Chou

There's really nothing in the Chuang Chou article worth saving; it should just be made a redirect. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽

Article Licensing

I was looking at the U.S. city and county articles and noticed that you've made some number of changes. I've chosen to multi-license all of the rambot contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or even {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. State]] article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain (which many people do or don't like to do, see Wikipedia:Multi-licensing), you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}} -- Ram-Man 13:47, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

A quick note to say thanks

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your support in my request for adminship. It was certainly a wild ride, and I really appreciate you taking some time out to contribute. ClockworkSoul 16:32, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Partition of India

You voted for Partition of India, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Wikipedia:Requests for_adminship/GeneralPatton

Hi, I'm actually named after the M-46 General Patton Tank, and its not the full name i.e. GeorgePatton. However, since the User:M7 did raise some important issues, I've officially requested a namechange over at the Wikipedia:Changing username, not wanting to offend. GeneralPatton 22:18, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Please read: User:M7it or it:Utente:M7. Thank you, M7it 22:22, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following images:

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 04:37, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Also:

Image:Kinky.jpg

Collaboration of the week

Article Creation and Improvement Drive

Though this project is inactive, you can help with :
Aaron Coundley (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 27 Dec 2024 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF).

Congratulations, the candidate you voted for, Underground Railroad, is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please help edit the article to bring it up to feature standard.

chocolate chip cookies

Thanks for uploading the high resolution chocolate chip cookie imag, it's a nice alternative to . I'd give you one, but seeing as you're the one who uploaded it I'm sure you're fully supplied. --fvw * 09:55, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

Current events

(Sorry about that, I accidently hit the enter key prematurely!)

I hope I did this right: right before you added Buneous Aries nightclub fire story to the Current events page, someone had (accidently, I hope) deleted all the content from 29 December to 20 December. I reverted this, but also added back your contribution, in the same edit. Was this the right way to do it?--Clipdude 07:46, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Grace Kelly

FYI, I restored the ((PromoPhoto)) tag on the Grace Kelly image, and gave my reasoning on Image talk:AmazinGrace.jpg. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 13:54, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

Sociological Imagination

HiOwen, My contribution to Sociological Imagination is basically a small paper I wrote for my undergraduate Arts degree. You are right about sociological - or any other field of humanities - content on Wikipedia. I have done a lot of work for the Dutch Wikipedia on this subject. Pprevos 07:45, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

More schools on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion

As of March 25, 2005, there are an additional (6) articles listed for deletion under the POV notion that schools are non-notable (even though this is invalid reasoning as per the Wikipedia deletion policy). Please be aware that the following schools are actively being discussed and voted upon:

In response to this cyclical ordeal, a Schoolwatch programme has been initiated in order to indentify school-related articles which may need improvement and to help foster and encourage continued organic growth. Your comments are welcome and I thank you again for your time. --GRider\^talk

RfA thanks

Thank you for the vote at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Henrygb2. It has made my week. --Henrygb 01:57, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Req. for your work on Sony v Universal

I think Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios could make a great featured article. It doesn't quite meet the requirements yet, but it could with a little work. In light of the debates and cases about digital piracy and the obligations of hardware/software creators, the affirmation/modification/elimination of the Sony precedent is a key issue for the future of information technology.

Since you've worked on the article in the past, feel free to take another look to bring it "up to code" for a nomination. Feco 21:05, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tesanj population

Where did you get the 1999 population number for Tesanj? Is it perhaps for the municipality rather than the town itself? It seems like too much of a growth since the last actual census... --Joy [shallot] 13:34, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense. I read that web page and confirmed your conclusion, and updated our article. Thanks :) --Joy [shallot]

Mary's vs Marys River

Just wanted to drop you a note about the apostrophe in geographical names. Basically in the U.S. the apostrophe is supressed in all geographical names, at least if you follow the conventions of the USGS USGS query form. I think they adopted this policy for all official names sometime in the early 20th century, much to the chagrin of many locals across the nation. The upshot is that basically there are no apostrophes in official names of features anywhere in the U.S. You're welcome to defend the apostrophe if you truly feel it necessary, but be aware that its no longer the "official" USGS name of the river. -- Decumanus 06:32, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)

Probably should move it back then, without the apostrophe, if you want the official version. You can always use the query link above to double check, but the rule does indeed apply to rivers. As you've seen, it doesn't stop colloquial local usage of continuation of the apostrophe, especially in newspapers (I used to copyedit for a small paper many years ago and can tell you that in many cases, the style enforcement is horrifyingly lax at times). I think it's good to make a nod to the colloquial usage. I tend to phrase it something like this: St. Marys River. -- Decumanus 06:48, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)

Thanks

For fixing up my Kevin Barry article. It's my first, so thanks for fixing up the formatting. --Agathon 72 18:33, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Anarchy

Thanks for your polite and insightful comment on my talk page, Sarge. While i'd love to have a world where hierarchy is no longer needed when people come together to accomplish tasks, we as a species are going to have to overcome millions of years of built in instincts that you probably know about better than I do as a sociology student.

Until that day, we'll probably need rules, even minimal ones, and make sure there's public oversight to see that they're enforced so we don't all kill each other. I mean, look at what happening with Bush and Iraq...

As for my comment earlier, I apologize. I was talking about group decision making structure specifically if I recall, a tricky situation in any group of anarchists.

If it were for the fact that I think Libertarianism is a right wing ploy from around 90% of the Libertarians i've met, I'd be a Libertarian too, which is basically "Anarchy Lite" it seems. However, it's more appropriate to call myself a pragmatic and individualistic Liberal more than anything else. --Karmafist 28 June 2005 19:32 (UTC)

Stub Sorting Project

Hello. I've noticed recently that you have been adding a number of stub templates to Category:People stubs. I just though I would pop by to point out Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub Sorting. --TheParanoidOne 4 July 2005 22:05 (UTC)

bio-stubs

Hi Sarge Baldy - not sure exactly what's going on with all the bio-stub subcategories you've been creating, but none of them have gone through the debating process at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria, and many of them don't meet the criteria required for the creation of them. All of them have been listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria#Newly-discovered stub templates, and we'd really welcome some comment from you about them. Grutness...wha? 5 July 2005 11:16 (UTC)

You replied - Well I must admit I hadn't realized Wikipedia had entered a period of such bureaucratic morass that it was now necessary to receive permission prior to adding new form of categorization. Also beyond simply a means of categorization, it would seem radically POV to mark only some nations as "acceptable" choices for stub categorization. Particularly since it seems clear to me that the root category of bio-stub is choked and in need of additional categories. Frankly I see no reason to think I should need to ask before making such additions, and in fact would much rather abandon the matter entirely than touch the bureaucratic machine. So I suppose I'm done sorting these stubs, and if you would like to nominate any number of my stub types for deletion somewhere, I will not care enough to generate protest.

Stub categories are not ordinary categories, and require different treatment. They are there to help editors, rather than readers. For that reasons different guidelines are required in their formation. As to some nations being acceptable choices and others not being, consider the area I work in mostly, geo-stubs. I could quite happily make stub categories for eery country that has stub articles. There would be a category for the one Dominica geo-stub, one for for the four Anguilla geo-stubs, and one for the four Anguilla stubs. Which would be useless for editors and Wikipedia alike - an editor working on the caribbean would have to search through a couple of dozen separate categories, and namy of the categories would be emptied and end up being proposed for deletion. For this reason, set minimum sizes prior to stub category creation are set. Furthermore, since there are a lot of different stub categories in a specific hierarchy, the addition o new ones first needs to be checked against that hierarchy - a hierarchy which has things like one overally grouping for articles relating to both Koreas, since the history of the two countries overlaps to such a parge extent. Having two separate categories for North and South Korean bio-stubs therefore goes against that hierarchy, and only makes sense if every bio-stub for Korea was for someone born after 1950 (the opposite is very much the case). There is a reasonable amount of bureaucracy related to the project, but it is there for very good reasons. Even with ordinary non-stub categories, many are sent daily to WP:CFD - the same is true with the number of badly-created stub categories and templates sent to WP:SFD. When one person decides to create a dozen or more new stub types, without adding them to any stub-type lists so that other editors can find them, without announcing that he is going to make them or has made them, and without checking whether they meet the minimum requirements for stub creation (as detailed on all Wikipedia pages dealing with stubs), it causes a huge amount of work for the stub sorting Wikiproject, is of no use to editors (as there is no indication anywhere that the new stubs exist), and potentially rediuces the effectiveness of having stubs categorised. It would be good if you continued to help sort stubs, but there are many people at WP:WSS who might also feel it was better if you abandoned the matter entirely if you do not intend to work within the system. Grutness...wha? 5 July 2005 12:13 (UTC)

Greetings

A page that you joined to help with associate with other members of the Wikipedia community is on VfD. Please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Wikipedian citizens of the world, and the related page Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Wikipedian supporters of the sovereign nation-state. Cognition 10:16, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

re: County seal images

No my source would not be of service. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 02:07, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

re: County seal images

No my source would not be of service. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 02:07, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

thanks for supporting me

Hello, just a quick note to express my gratitude for your support of my RfA. I'm sure I'll become a familiar face on places like the Administrator's Noticeboard and Requests for Adminship, as well as the murkier parts of my new job. "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." (Luke 12:48, NIV) Never was a truer word spoken. I feel empowered, yes, but not in the "oooh cool delete button!" way I was kind of expecting. Already I feel the weight of the responsibility I have now been entrusted with, a weight that will no doubt reduce given time. Thank you for believing in me. :) Garrett^Talk 10:16, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

IDRIVE

You showed support for This week's Improvement Drive.
This week Lhasa was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help…

Hall Monitor's RFA

Thank you for the taking time to comment on my recent RFA nomination. Your confidence and support is greatly appreciated. Hall Monitor 22:32, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Me too, thanks for your vote of support. :) Coffee 06:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_art

I see you were doing some admin stuff to the Sound Art page. I am new to wikipedia and am still learning the ropes for terms, additions, moves, et cetra. The Sound Art page needs greater change than just a clean-up, but I am not completely clear on how to address the community on the matter. I left some talk on the discussion section of the page regarding my thoughts. Can you perhaps help me with this issue? Cheers.

About Italian Radicals

Hi Sarge, the Italian Radicals are not that easy to classify. They claim to be liberali, liberisti, libertari, but their interpretation of the words might be different from English. They are a "fluctuating" party, i.e. they have rather volatile opinions on some issues, but definitely not socialists. They do not fit well on the left-right axis, to put it straight. --Orzetto 09:59, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Anti-semitism within anarchism

I notice that you removed the references to anti-semitism within anarchism because it is not part of anarchist doctrine - but the page is not about anarchist doctrine but about anarchism. If you want to deal with issues by settimng up a page on anarchist dioctrine, why not propose such a shift. You have also removed the reference to Anarchist Integralism - which I have replaced. Perhaps you could explain why you are so fanatical about removing critical references to anarchism. Unfortunately racism is clearly part of anarchism both today and in the past. I am concerned that anarchists like you spend your time sweeping this kind of stuff under the carpet, instead of fostering a critical undertsanding of anarchism, so that people can understand its strenghts and weaknesses.Harrypotter 23:28, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Girl

Why did you remove the image from the Girl article? There was no problem with the picture, and it was a perfectly appropriate place for it. jmd 02:50, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

I replaced my own photo of a few days ago with a nicer one. Still only a stopgap, though. BTW, it seems like the CotW might need a little push to get going; needs 2 more votes... --Janke | Talk 09:16:47, 2005-09-03 (UTC)

Girl is the collaboration of the week! Please come grow this article... Mamawrites 03:20, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Hi Owen, just a quick note to thank you for your support on my RfA. I was pleased to see so much support, especially from people such as you who I do not know very well, if at all. Now that I am an administrator I will do my best to please the community’s expectations. Best regards, Sam Hocevar 17:28, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Your comment about elminating the distinction between adminss and bureaucrats

I agree, at least in principle. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 01:59, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Me too. Andre (talk) 03:58, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

2005 Indian subcontinent earthquake

Thanks for being at 2005 Indian subcontinent earthquake -pradeepsomani

Thanks you, Sarge

Thank you for your support on my RfA. It is sincerely appreciated. ≈ jossi fresco ≈ t • @ 15:49, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Question On Anarchy and Anarchopedia

Hey Sarge, since you're the resident Anarchy expert around here, I figured I'd ask you this question.

Considering that Anarchopedia is basically Wikipedia except slanted towards Anarchist topics(although not officially since they refuse to enforece it by their philosophy) and run with an Anarchist organizational structure (which still seems overly idealistic and somewhat oxymoronic considering the current average mental attitude of the human race), I was wondering what you thought about suggesting transwiki-ing articles that fit under WP:CSD over there in an attempt to reach out to inclusionists whenever there's a dispute and consensus can't be reached.

Also, what do you think they'd think to using the project as kind of a "resort" for good users who feel like vandalizing things every now and then due to the Dualism of humans, making sure that the negative side of the users' personality stays out of Wikipedia? I like to think that the positive attributes can be cultivated and grown to the point where someday the negative portion can be totally negated, constructively integrated or even eliminated from the human psyche (Nirvana?), but i'm skeptical looking at the way the world has been going lately, both off and on Wikipedia. Anarchy would be nice, but it doesn't seem to be able to work unless there is an unwritten covenant between everyone participating in the system(which seems to theoretically go against the concept of anarchy), or until it's actually some kind of "Post-archy" where people have progressed beyond the need or desire for interpersonal cooperation. Karmafist 04:20, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks Sarge, I was beginning to think I insulted you with my comment, which definately was not my intention.

On #1: Hopefully we and other people on Wikipedia can work together towards fixing the problem with the deletion process. I don't think it's as broken as alot of people say, but I do think it needs some work, especially in instances like yesterday when some guy asked to delete an article "Because He Didn't Like It"[1].

I don't agree with the whole "Voting Is Evil" thing, but I do think voting arbitrarily is. Voting isn't the focus, discussing ideas and trying to reach a perceptual consensus is.

I never quite understood why non-sysops couldn't see deleted versions either. I dislike censorship 99.9% of the time(the only time it's ok is if you saying something would almost definately cause harm in someway, and even then, that's not great.), and not allowing a "lower" user to see something smacks of censorship to me. I became a sysop a few weeks ago, so if there's a user who isn't a sysop but wants to see the deleted version and you're too busy, please feel free to send them my way. I enjoy circumventing injustice without causing other problems.

On #2: Since you're more of an expert on Anarchy, you'll have to excuse me for being perplexed on your answer. Wouldn't a block be something indicative of power, something that I assumed anarchists disliked? Is it ok when it can happen at random or it's not organized? To me, even Anarchopedia doesn't seem to be an anarchy with all those "Blocs" and "Factions" on there. It seems like a government to me, except it's a government of will power(I'll do what I want, and you do what you want, and if what either of us wants conflicts, it'll be decided by whoever is willing to go farther.) That's why I asked you, I was going to make a block of nihilists on there as kind of a WP:POINT thing and as an experiment regarding anarchy. However, I'm not a jerk by nature, I tried doing that on some political web game a month or two ago, but just couldn't go through with it because people started to get beligerent and i'm just not very good with Professional Wrestler-esque posturing. I still might make a faction based on Monster Raving Loony Party philosophy.

Oh yeah, one more thing. What's the difference between Libertarianism and Anarchy in your opinion? To me, Libertarianism always seemed like lazy man's Anarchy. Some of them are fairly cool, and I can even almost agree with competely, apparently(the Libertarian Socialists), but many others are just selfish people who only want government when it suits them and don't mind trampling on other peoples' rights in order to serve their own interests. Karmafist 16:06, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Saul Newman

Hiya Sarge, found yr stub on Saul Newman, but you mixed him up with a completely different Saul Newman in the US. The post-anarchist lives and works in Australia, so I made a couple of changes to the stub. Hope you like them :)

Ensuring consistency

I have edited the intro of this the anarchism article to point to anarcho-capitalism and removed the section on anarcho-capitalism. This is an attempt to mirror the status of the libertarianism article in regards to the lesser known libertarian socialism, please take a moment to look at each article and compare. It is my belief that given the featured status of the libertarianism article, its relative stability compared to this article, and the clear similarity of the subject matter, this is a road toward a legitimate compromise. I would ask that the two major catalysts of the ongiong edit war of this article (RJ and Hogeye), both of whom have also edited the libertarianism article, please ensure that you are consistent in any standard you apply to this article. Hopefully this will help us reach the point of stability that the civil editors of libertarianism have been able to do in the relative absence of constant antagonism.

This message has been posted to the user pages of all the current major contributors I could find, if you know of someone I have left out please feel free to forward it. Revkat 16:52, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Finished translating Pietro Gori, per your request

I just finished translating the Pietro Gori article, per your request.

> Thanks

And thank you for fixing it up after me! Davide User:DavideAndrea Davide Andrea 01:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup

Hi, Owen. Thanks for your vote of support on my nomination to become an administrator. I passed, and my floor rag has since been bestowed upon me. Please let me know if you need me to help with anything in particular! —BrianSmithson 17:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Jtkiefer's RFB

Owen/archive

Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.

The final outcome was (17/17/4) meaning that it failed, if you have any advice on how I can be a better editor or administrator please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again for your support. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 20:38, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Sarge Baldy,

Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Regards, Joann e B 23:05, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Ianblair23's RfA

G'day Owen,

I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. It closed with the final tally of 57/0/0. I can only hope I can live up to the expectations that this wonderful community of ours demands from each of its administrators. If you ever need anything, please just let me know. Cheers! -- Ianblair23 (talk) 03:44, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Ann's RfA

Hi, Sarge! I want to thank you for voting to support me in my RfA. I know I'm very late thanking you, but I've been a bit caught up with college work. I hope I'll live up to the expectations of those who voted for me. I look forward to working with you as a fellow admin. Thanks again. Cheers. AnnH ^(talk) 18:54, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

World Citizen userbox, {{User:1ne/Userboxes/User world}}

Hi, I noticed the message saying you're a World Citizen, I would like to invite you to add {{User:1ne/Userboxes/User world}} to your user page if you wish to proclaim it in a more effective way, and this template will also add you automatically to the Wikipedians with World Citizenship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Always good to meet a fellow anarchist on Wikipedia.

My philosophy is post-Spinoza anti-Cartesian proto-Nitzsche anarcho-Judaism; part green, part red, part purple, part gold. Daykart 04:46, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Anarchism and political compass

Sarge Without wishing to get into an "I'm a better anachist that you" argument (in part because I don't like the label and, in any case, I'm almost certainly not), shouldn't a pure anarchist be -10, +10? Not sure how an anarchist can support collectivism which is, after all, a form of compulsion?

Like I say, I ask out of interest and not to start an argument. ElectricRay 17:29, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Sarge, thanks for your reply - of course you're right, i did mean +10,-10. I am familiar with your view - it's more or less the Chomsky approach, which I've never found persuasive. It may be a justifiable or defensible politcal position (pretty much any political position is), and it may be coherent, but in the ordinary sense of the word, just isn't anarchy. The market is anarchy. ElectricRay 10:02, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I see where you're going - but there's a contradiction there, isn't there, becuase to require a state of no actual rule by anyone requires imposing rules, pretty much on everyone. All the data and philosophical argument (Adam Smith in economics; Darwin, Dawkins, Dennett et al in biology; Axelrod in game theory) says when you take away all the rules (which is all anarchy can, without contradiction, mean) certain courses of dealing and ways of interacting will come about, algorithmically, out of the interactions of those members of the "ecosystem" (or market, or society, or whatever) that happen to interact. All predict that the best state of affairs will come about without any better rules than those - they'll promote maximum diversity, efficiency, and reflection of received value judgments amongst members of the community, exactly because people will tend to follow their own best interests, be it by being part of a hierarchy, or a beauracracy, or not. As long as they're not compelled to be part of any "~archy", then the invisible hand will work out which is the best. That's pure anarchy to me. Yes, *some* people will get stomped on, but no more (and probably less) than get stomped on in any other system. To me, banning people from voluntarily forming hierarchies in the name of preventing people from being ruled isn't a coherent or sustainable philosophy. ElectricRay 21:23, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Sarge! Thank you for your kind support on my RfA. See you around. Cheers -- Szvest 17:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}

thanks for your vote

Greetings Sarge Baldy,
I wish to offer my gratitude for supporting me on my recent nomination for adminship. Even though it didn't count, because it closed shortly right before you posted, passing with the final tally of 65/4/3, I appreciate your support anyway. :-) If you would ever desire my assistance in anything, or wish to give me feedback on any actions I take, feel free to let me know. Cheers! Elle vécut heureusement _{toujours dorénavant} (Be eudaimonic!) 09:48, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations (redux)!

Congratulations on your affairmation. You're an admin (again). I think you know what to do. -- Cecropia 07:06, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Indeed! Sorry for missing the vote. Fredrik | t c 07:54, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Ditto - congratulations. -Will Beback 05:25, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Recent Changes Camp in Portland

FYI RecentChangesCamp Tedernst | talk 22:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Request For Protection Until Dispute Resolved

Hi, i want to know if its possible to protect the Gothic Metal article. A while back i performed a revision of the page after a near 2 month dispute on the articles contents. After intense discussion and several revisions of the talk page on the since deleted temp article, one of the users has proceeded to start vandalising pages ive edited. This user is DanteInferno. This user was involved in the debate in opposition to the revision i wished to make, which was made due to consensus being reached on the revision and the argument being abandonded against it being posted. Since the users return he has demanded that i am vandalising pages, and has claimed me of using sock puppets to make edits to pages, and has claimed several users dislike me and refuse to work with me. Both of these claims are unsourced. Dante also seems to exhibit Meglomanical Point of View, reverting any edits made to pages listed on his user page, on the basis he 'owns' the articles. I do not know clearly how to deal with this user, and i have posted this message to several admins as i wish to ask advice from several admins i have had no previous contact with, as i do not wish to seem biased. I hope that the page can be protected against this vandalism, as it is disrupting Wikipedia to prove a point, which along with the users other actions against me, is in violationg of several Wikipedia policys. Sorry for having to seek help this way, but i am at a loss at the best way to handle this users personal vendetta against me. Leyasu 17:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from Lulu

Storm clouds ...	and silver linings	Thank you for your support on my RfA.
		Unfortunately, it failed to reach consensus. Nonetheless, it proved an opportunity to establish contacts and cooperation with many supportive editors, which will be beneficial to editing Wikipedia in the future. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters (t @)

Hogeye conduct

Hogeye keeps adding that anti-consensus, pov tree (like he has for past YEAR) and has started abuse - look at anarchism history. Please do something. -- max rspct leave a message 16:15, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Individualist anarchism and anarcho-capitalism

Thank you for your comments on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Individualist anarchism and anarcho-capitalism. I have closed the debate as no consensus. Please note that this does not preclude further discussion of eventual disposition of the article, including keeping, merging, redirection, or a further nomination for deletion. Again, thank you for your comments, especially in not responding in kind to uncivil comments made towards yourself. -- Jonel | Speak 03:22, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Marie Equi, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Participant alert regarding Wikiproject on Advertising

The Wikiproject No Ads, created as a backlash against the Answers.com deal, has served an important function in providing a space for users to express their disagreement with the Foundation proposal. While the current controversies about userboxes raise questions about political and social advocacy on Wikipedia, there should be greater flexibility regarding advocacy about Wikipedia in the Wikipedia namespace. Reported and linked by Slashdot and other press sources as a unique and spontaneous occurence in Wikipedia history, it has apparently had some impact as, despite being scheduled to begin in January, not a peep has been heard about the trial and proposed sponsored link since the deal's controversial announcement months ago. Currently, however, there is an attempt to delete the project or move it off Wikipedia altogether. Since the Foundation has provided no additional information and has not attempted to answer the specific questions that participants in the project raised, it is unclear if the Answers.com deal has been abandoned or simply delayed. Until the situation becomes more clear, I believe the group should still have a place in the Wikipedia namespace. Sincerely, Tfine80 00:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Epistemic Advantage

I found this article in dead-end pages where it has been lingering for a number of months. The original author has made no other wiki contributions. As you have contributed substantially to articles in the PostModernist Feminism field, could you take a quick look at this and see if it is salvageable and let me know, otherwise I will put it on the AFD list. Thanks MNewnham 02:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

No particular concern, just trying to make an impact on the huge number of dead-end pages, so I'm being fairly agressive on either passing them on to others for expert opinions, or getting them into the deletion queue. Thanks for your responseMNewnham 03:07, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Sarvodaya

Hi Sarge Baldy, you just added Sarvodaya to the list of anarchist concepts. In what way is this an anarchist concept? I don't see anarchism mentioned on the Sarvodaya page or on Vinoba Bhave's page. Thanks! - N1h1l 16:02, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it definitely seems to parallel anarchist thought, but I'm not sure that it should be included in a "list of anarchist concepts" (since it isn't directly an idea generated by anarchists or embraced by anarchists). Maybe we should add a section called "Related concepts" to the list? That would seem more appropriate, perhaps. What do you think? - N1h1l 16:41, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

What else should be included? Perhaps Situationism and Liberation theology. - N1h1l 17:34, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Anarchism

No, no, if it's a banned user, you can take what steps are necessary, and semi is a good step (if blocks don't work and range blocks are too much collateral). Try to keep the protections brief though, else the banned user effectively wins by forcing us to restrict all anons and all new editors just for the sake of stopping them. Can I encourage you to provide explicit reasons in your protection reasons, as this will make it clear to other admins who come along — it's pretty hard to work out what's going on from a blank summary! -Splash^talk 21:29, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Indefinite blocks

Please don't use indefinite blocks on IP addresses, unless you know they are open proxies. In case you know for sure they are fixed, you can use long blocks such as one year; otherwise, use much shorter blocks. In the case of Special:Contributions/72.21.55.90, for instance, the edit patterns point to either a dynamic IP address or an open proxy. --cesarb 01:23, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Restoring items

Hi. Please do not restore something deleted by another admin without attempting discussion with them first. Most of the time, a resonable compromise can be reached - and the admin may have had a reason for his/her actions you arn't aware of. Discussion helps to avoid to wheel wars. In the recent usrbox case, which resulted in desysoppings, Arbcom defined wheel waring as 8.2) Wikipedia:Wheel warring (undoing an administrative action by another administrator) without first attempting to resolve the issue is unacceptable; see Wikipedia:Resolving disputes#Avoidance, "Do not simply revert changes in a dispute.". Yes, that came as a surprise to me too, but I thought you might like to know about it. Thanks. --Doc ^ask? 19:05, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:User independent Quebec 2

User:Physchim62 deleted this template. He and I have been deleting templates ever that fit into Jimbo's CSD T1. I deleted it as well... since I didn't check to see that he had and that you had restored it. (See deletion log and template talk) I thought it was pretty explicit that Jimbo didn't want these templates and that they were for deletion? I suppose not. I just want to apologize for deleting it after your restore (not that I restored after my delete) beacuse my obvious point wasn't to make this a wheel war. Just to question... why aren't they supposed to be deleted in your opinion? gren グレン ^? 19:21, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Please don't restore any more userboxes. You are not wrong, but please don't do it. Fred Bauder 19:34, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I've stopped, as I've responded to others. I think the policies are mistakes, and effectively promote administrative vandalism, but I'm not going to actively violate them. Sarge Baldy 19:38, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I see, different understandings. Umm, I'm not going to re-delete anything... in fact, I've stopped. We'll see what happens. But I'm right the template caused you to restore... isn't that pretty inflammatory? :) gren グレン ^? 19:37, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello

It's been a while since we've had contact (I was gone for two weeks and now I'm avoiding the anarchism article b/c it's a mess). Anyway, I've been very involved in the userbox restoration movement, as you appear to have been as well. I think you might want to see this manifesto I just wrote. I tried to make it a reflection of anarchist principles, but I trust as an admin and an anarchist you can add a great deal to it on the amendments and discussion sections. I welcome criticism and support for this if you are willing to give it. Either way, stay stong comrade. The Ungovernable Force 07:24, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for signing. I like that bit about ethnographers, seeing as I'm studying anthropology right now. I really do value your judgment based on what I have seen of you, and I was very glad that you signed. If you have time and don't mind, I would like you to help me maybe work any kinks out by adding amendments . It might take a day or two of comments though before anything that needs to be changed comes to our attention. As an admin you are probably quite busy and I can understand if you do not have the time or energy. Also, see the newsflash on my userpage, it is quite telling of the authoritarian nature of some admins on this site. Also notice that MarkSweep actually took my newsflash out and called it harassment of Kelly Martin. These are troubling times. The Ungovernable Force 08:30, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Thinking ahead

In short I think it's best to ignore the short term benefits of any action, and think entirely ahead. For instance, I see actions such as merging as generally worthless if the smaller article is notable enough to have an article at all, because in the end it will only need to be recreated.

How true. This should be policy. Fredrik Johansson - talk - contribs 15:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Unprotection

Hey, I think you can unsprotect anarchism now. If Hogeye comes back under an anonymous IP, just re-start his 1 month ban (that's the banning policy, after all). Infinity0 ^talk 00:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

AFD

Care to vote?

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scholars for 9/11 Truth (second nomination)

--Striver 20:39, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Proposed block.

Hi Sarge,

69.223.11.14 (talk · contribs · count) has been chronically vandalising the Tony Stewart page, and I have warned him/her four times now to stop, but they've persisted. The next test template is a block, and I'm not an admin, so that's out of my range. Could you do the honors for me? Thanks. --D-Day ^{Somebody talk to me. Please somebody! Anybody!Click to view my evil userboxes} 20:38, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Dan O'Brien (baseball)

Your article Dan O'Brien (baseball) has appeared in the Dead End Pages list because it is not wikified. Please consult the Wikipedia Guide to Layout for more information on how to write a good, wikified article. I would encourage you to revisit your submissions and {{wikify}} them. Thanks and happy editing! James084 22:13, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I meant no offense to you. I usually don't read these articles very closely when I am making my initial pass and I don't discriminate between experienced users and non-experienced users. I simply look at the first name on the history list and send a standard message. Please accept my apologies if I did offend you in any way. James084 01:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Adminship

Hi. I recently nominated myself for adminship. I would appreciate it if you voted and/or commented. Thanks! Infinity0 ^talk 20:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Anarchism

Hey, can you unblock Anarchism? A friend of mine from Infoshop.org wants to edit the article, but is reluctant to register. -- infinity0 00:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of orphan templates

For goodness' sake, it's a template, i.e., a tool, not an end unto itself. There is no presumption to keep it like there is for articles. Everybody who wanted it, has it, and they can still get it from the userbox project page. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 07:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Eros + Massacre

I'm afraid I don't know where to find the movie "Eros + Massacre" in english, and doubt very strongly that it is available at all. I haven't seen the movie in full myself. I've only seen few screen shots and read several reviews. However, I am familar with the actual events of Osugi Sakae's life, and so I was able to construct the entry by cross referincing my knowledge with the aforementioned reviews. Realizing that my knowledge would be iffy, as the movie itself could have improperly portrayed some facts, I left the entry somewhat bare. However, I had neglected to include two important notes. Thanks to this little reminder, I've now added two stubs, "Japanese Films" and "Anarchism," respectively. My hope is that eventually the movie will increase in popularity and eventually be released in english, or that fan producers will take it upon themselves in the grand tradition of direct action and create a fan-sub. Cast, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Hogeye

The list of currently blocked users shows three concurrent blocks for Hogeye. You do know that, when the first of these expires, all the blocks will expire at the same time, right? --cesarb 01:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

No, I wasn't aware that's how it worked. I assumed the most recent ban took priority. I just unbanned and then reset it. Is that the best way to do it? Sarge Baldy 01:52, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes (and, in fact, it's the only way to do it). Just look at the block log and you will see a lot of admins doing it. --cesarb 01:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Join In!

Hey there - I've submitted Oregon State University as a Join in page and thought you might be interested in signing up. Thanks! VegaDark 02:03, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

On the Jews and Their Lies

Hi, Sarge! I believe their was a discussion on the title of this article and that some folk objected to the unqualified form of the title because it suggested that Wikipedia believes the Jews actually lied. We had added the (Martin Luther) to avoid this confusion. Would you please move the article back and open a discussion on its talk page? Thanks! --CTSWyneken 03:48, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Oregon State University is an active collaboration

Hi, you may begin working on Oregon State University with your two fellow editors. The collaboration will continue to be listed under active collaborations, so more editors may join later. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 09:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Johnleemk | Talk 16:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Deletion for Coco Gordon Moore article

Hi, I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Coco Gordon Moore, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. I am of the opinion that it does not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and queried about notability on the talk page, but never received an answer. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Thank you. (And note that part of this message was a script provided by Wikipedia and part of it I altered to suit the situation better). --Jakob Huneycutt 13:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

yo dogg

you seem to want to keep the assoc of anarchist 'pedianz page pretty free of garbage, so- I wann ask this simply- if it's not true that anything goes on that page, what goes? CoolHeadz skizzno^logic3.1 04:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Commemoration

Dude - I saw your comment about the plaque on the train station. If you have the time please drop your vote at the commemoration page here. Stop the madness! Regards Celcius 09:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Stubs

Hi, you moved the stub to below the cats on London (2006 film). I always thought that only interwikis were meant to go after the cats so I'd appreciate if you could point me to the page that stipulates stubs should go after cats? Thanks Arniep 20:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Knives in V for Vendetta

Hey Sarge, I looked a little more closely at the comics, and I found a couple of things you may want to look at before dismissing this issue. In the chapter called "Video," V uses a knife against the guards within the studio. Also, in V's final encounter with Finch in the subway, he is shown throwing one of his knives to incapacitate him. These two instances would make "appears to kill using only his fingers" incorrect. Thoughts? Hedymiguel 00:53, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

That's exactly what I was thinking... The preference is obviously knives in the film, which is most definitely understated (though present) in the comic. Hedymiguel 03:43, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Exploration

Thanks for the new +cat SirIsaacBrock 22:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Rogue admins

Regarding your comments on the Jtkiefer rfb, I don't know of any truly rogue admin incidents happening on the English Wikipedia, but it happened in September 2005 on the English Wiktionary. Wonderfool went crazy, and was desysopped by Brion Vibber, and infinitely blocked the next day. See the logs, [2][3] --Phroziac ♥♥♥♥ 19:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Oregon

Wikiproject Oregon is now up and running! I invite you to join at WP:WPOR PDXblazers 22:44, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

	My RfA
	Thank you for supporting/opposing/commenting on my request of adminship, sadly the result was 54/20/7 an thus only 73% support votes, resulting in that the nomination failed. As many of you commenting that I have to few main-space edits, I'll try to better my self on that part. If you have any ideas on what kind of articles I could edit, pleas send me a line. :)	_→AzaToth 09:44, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Swimming

Hello Sarge Baldy. As you have done work on swimming content on wikipedia, I invite you to have a look at this portal and see what you think about it and how it can be improved. Also, at the moment, the news section is mainly about Australian swimmers, so if you can think of some relevant US content, feel free to add this. I have also created an article Swimming World Swimmers of the Year and have submitted it as a featured list candidate at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Swimming World Swimmers of the Year. Please comment on how it could be improved, etc. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 01:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sarge

Left a message in the Talk:V for Vendetta film. It was aimed at everyone, but since I you're the only person I know who has a personal collection of scanned V for Vendetta pictures, it was mostly addressed to yourself. What do you think about this? Advice from someone who knows the comic would be appreciated. --P-Chan 07:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Something happened to the peer review

Hi Sarge. Something very odd. The peer review doesn't seem to be there anymore! (It used to be right after Genesis (Band)). As a sysop, would you know what happeend or how to fix this? I have a feeling this may have something to do with an order on the page to remove all FAC articles from the peer review. It is quite possible that someone mistaken the V for Vendetta (film) for the V for Venetta article. Thanks Sarge. --P-Chan 06:58, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Glad you found out how to fix that page!--P-Chan 07:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

A little favour

Hey, could you please help the discussion at Talk:An Anarchist FAQ? I'm having a few problems with RJII - he keeps persistenly trying to insert the same stuff, and he is not listening to the reasons I give him against his insertions. Could you come and give your thoughts on the matter? Thanks. -- infinity0 19:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Peer Review

I noticed that you did a peer review for V for Vendetta (film), a film based on a comic book written by Alan Moore. Presently, the Watchmen article has been put forward for a peer review and, since this is also written by Alan Moore, I was wondering if you could give an opinion on that article? It would be very much appreciated. Thanks Adasta 23:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Oregon

I'd like to see some type of collaboration or cohesion with regards to the Oregon Wikiproject, so that we can see some sort of progress toward a goal. Please list any suggestons on the talk page. PDXblazers 19:59, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Can you take a look at the discussion about "towns" versus "unincorporated communities" and let me know what you think? Thanks! Katr67 20:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you!
Hello Owen/archive. Thank you for your support in my RfA! It passed with a final tally of 91/3/5. I am quite humbled and pleased by the community's show of confidence in me. If you need help or just want to talk, let me know. Cheers! -- F a ng Aili ^說嗎?

Thanks

Thanks for supporting me in my RfA. I really didn't think people appreciate my work here that much, but it's nice to see you do: my Request was closed with 66 supports and 4 opposes. I'll do my best not to turn your confidence down. If in any point in the future you get the feeling I'm doing something wrong, do not hesitate to drop me a line. --Dijxtra 12:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Salut

Religion+anarkism Even the fat guy is in on de act. You get the original vvendetta book over pond? -- max rspct leave a message 00:59, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Paul Wolfowitz

I have Travb making personal attacks (my edits pathetic, i am howard stern (antisemitic?) [4] , called me a clown in edit summary[5]. Possible you could do something about that? Ta very much. max rspct leave a message 13:38, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Caribbean Sea, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -Scottwiki 03:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

V for Vendetta (GA)

Hi Sarge. I'm going to launch a GA for the V for Vendetta (film) in the next 24 hours, unless there is some objection from any of the major editors/contributers. Is there any imput you'd like to add before we launch it? If you see any red flags in the next little while, it would be appreciated if you could comment on them in the talk page. Your comments are always welcomed. Cheers. --P-Chan 05:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sarge. I just made a change to the article via your suggestions, so that now the scope of the statement only focuses on how the regime was overthrown, as opposed to what happens afterwards. Cheers.--P-Chan 02:43, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello Sarge. I closed the peer review, in anticipation of the upcoming FA nomination. Is there anything you would like to add or give advice on before the FA nomination starts? --P-Chan 05:00, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Man. (Actually, some guy already beat me to it!) :) --P-Chan 04:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Cambridge MA?

Hi Sarge - are you from Cambridge, MA? I saw your edit of Hafsat Abiola's page and wondered if you were a member of the Youth Peace & Justice Corps at Rindge & Latin... -- Brw12 11:04, 5 May 2006 (UTC) wheeler.benjamin@gmail.com

RFA thanks

Thanks for your support for my RFA. Judging by some of the neutral and opse votes, it seems that my self-nomination may have been a little premature, but it has all been a very pleasant and encouraging process. --BrownHairedGirl 13:17, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Recent "rvv" edit

Sorry, made my edit a little too fast, as I thought it was another removal of anarcho-capitalism. SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:WPOR : Oregon

Thanks for being a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon. Our first article we'll be improving to FAC status is, oddly enough, Oregon! Please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oregon to discuss the contributions you can make to improve Oregon to a FAC level article. the iBook of the Revolution 04:51, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Sociology Portal

Proposed Sociology Portal

Portal:Sociology has been proposed from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sociology. - CQ 13:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Blocked ISP caching proxy

This IP is a web cache for a large UK ISP. You might want to shorten your block from 24 hours to something like an hour. That length of block is sure to cause collateral damage. I was about to block it myself, but you beat me to it. --GraemeL ^(talk) 18:29, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, he's hopping IPs too. Fun all round. I've just blocked him on 217.134.92.42 --GraemeL ^(talk) 18:33, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes: A New Proposal

Hey, I've noticed that you've been active on the Userbox deletion page, either strongly FOR or AGAINST the use of the new T2 for deleting userboxes. I have noticed that most of the community is strong in their opinions on this issue; for that reason, I created my own proposal which attempts to create a middle ground for the two groups, and finally get this debate settled once and for all. I welcome your input into the proposal, as well as your (non-binding) vote on the straw poll. Thanks! // ^The True _Sora 01:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Greetings from Oregon!

Thanks for the note. I was surprised that no one had removed the mention of "vermin" before, and I am glad to see that my change is supported! If you get a chance, I'd love to get your input on a topic I just wrote about on the Oregon talk page. Thanks! roma rin[talk to her ] 04:06, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

CorbinSimpson's Request for Adminship

Thanks for voting in my request for administrator rights, even though it failed (13/30/4). Sadly, work has forced me to respond to you all using a substituted message rather than a personalized response. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that administrators, to me, should be chosen and approved by the community, and I will continue working to become a better editor and Wikipedian. No matter what the alignment of your vote was, I will take your comments seriously and use them to improve myself. If you wish to discuss your comments personally with me, I would be more than glad to talk about things since the RfA is now over; just leave your concern on my talk page and we will sort things out. Thanks again for voting, and happy editing! - Corbin ^{Be excellent}

Tone's RfA thanks

Dear Owen/archive — Thank you for your support on my recent RfA. It succeeded with a final tally of 46/2/3 so now I am an administrator. I'll be taking things slowly at first and getting used to the new tools, but please let me know if there's any anything I can help you with in the future. And please correct me, if you spot I make a mistake. Thank you again. --Ton e 23:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC))

V for Vendetta comic

Greetings Sarge. I invite you to participate in building the Anarchy Fascism (themes) section in the V for Vendetta article. From reading your comments in both the film and comic articles, I know you've displayed a lot of interest in those themes and would think you'd be one of the top people to speak with. No rush or anything like that at all, just thought I'd let you know directly Have a good one! --P-Chan 17:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good. --P-Chan 22:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

A haiku of thanks

Thanks for your support

In my RfA, which passed!

Wise I'll try to be.

-- Nataly a 03:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

AID

Hello,

As a recent editor of the article Shania Twain, you may have noticed the page isn't up to par with several other artist's pages. That's why I'm asking you to help it's nomination for an Article Improvement Drive, all you have to do is simply vote for it. If you would like to help, just vote here.

Thankyoubaby 23:14, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Owen/archive, thank you for participating in my RfA. It passed with an amazingly unopposed 77/0/1. Thanks for the support everybody! If you see me doing anything wrong, want to ask me something, or just want to yell in my general direction, leave me a note on my talk page. I promise to try and knock out Wikipedia's problems wherever I may find them!

Staxringold _talk^contribs 21:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Hogeye

Hi Sarge,

User:AaronS has alleged that User:Hogeye is evading his ban by using open proxies at anarchism. I don't know enough about this to determine if it is true, but the revert war going on there is ridiculous. I have asked for the page to be fully protected temporarily on the requests for protection noticeboard.

Additionally, I notice you are the blocking admin for Hogeye, so perhaps you can best determine if it is him editing, if so perhaps semi-protection is more appropriate?

I also noticed there is no notice up on Hogeye's page about the ban...

In this I don't know which version on Anarchism is superior - there are too many edits going on to keep track. Be great if you could look into it. Many Thanks, CaptainJ^{(t | c | e)} 21:11, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

It looks like hogeye to me, who has shown no qualms of evading blocks in the past. The Ungovernable Force 07:42, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

BOT - Regarding your recent protection of Anarchism:

You recently protected[6] this page but did not put in a protection summary. If this is an actual (not deleted) article, article talk, or project page, make sure that it is listed on WP:PP. Please be sure to use protection summaries when you protect pages. Do not remove this notice until a day or so, otherwise it may get reposted. Thanks. VoABot 16:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

My bad

I reverted without looking closely. I thought the only difference was the spacing of where the tags were. Your version had the templates overlapping, and I thought that was the only difference. Sorry 'bout that. The Ungovernable Force 19:07, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Juneteenth

While is is unfortunate that Juneteenth is apparently not a public holiday where you live, there are celebrations occurring in Oregon. [7] I hope one of these might be close enough to you for you to join in the celebration. I have now sourced the relevant statement in the article - thanks for your conributions there and elsewhere. Best, Johntex\^talk 22:17, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. It's nice to see it is being celebrated here, even if at a much smaller scale than elsewhere. Looking at that site it seems pretty clear it isn't something entirely known in some areas yet. For instance, Utah, Vermont, New Hampshire, Montana and the Dakotas have no events listed and Washington has only one. Although I don't doubt it's spreading into these areas, the article should still clarify in some way that events remain largely centered in specific areas, and that it's not widely known or celebrated in many parts of the country. Sarge Baldy 22:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, you are right. The article should be more specific. I'll work on it again. Johntex\^talk 22:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

A belated hello

From one long-time Wikipedian in Oregon to another. Do you have plans to attend OSCON next month? (Or will you even be in Oregon over the summer break?) I am in the process of organizing a BOF on Wikipedia for that, & would like to invite you to it. (And I've learned that you don't need to pay money to attend BOFs, so that shouldn't be a problem.) -- llywrch 15:35, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Problems with another admin

Hey Sarge, could you look at this and tell me if I'm wrong for wanting information on this? I really feel that this admin is being incredibly patronizing because I am merely a commoner and not some big fancy admin. Even if my original request was invalid (which I did not think it was at first), I feel as if this user should at least have the common courtesy to explain these decisions to us. I don't feel like continuing because I can tell they are upset with me and I'm afraid of a block, but I really feel like I'm being pushed around merely for wanting information into a decision I disagree with. Am I out of line here? The Ungovernable Force 07:15, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Anarchism

It would be nice if you would do a rollback of controversial changes. -- Vision Thing -- 22:02, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Testing proxy.

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Keep an eye on RCP

The same anon who constantly inserts the anti-crimethinc links in the crimethinc article is now trying to "NPOV" the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA article. The Ungovernable Force 02:31, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Murray Rothbard

Thanks for your work on the templates on the Murray Rothbard article---the page is much more easily readable now. Cheers! ---Charles 03:51, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Individualist anarchism

Hi, Sarge. It would be great if you could semiprotect individualist anarchism. It seems that our Hogeye sockpuppet is becoming less subtle (just look at the edit history). Thanks. ---AaronS 19:16, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

ummm... help, RE anarchism?

Oh wow, I have no idea if I'm doing this right. Sarge Baldy, I see your name plastered all over the Anarchism article and the pages it links to, which suggests to me that you'd be a good person to ask for help on this. I notice that when it comes to celebrities who endorse Anarchy, there is a disturbing lack of punk rock artists on the list. Now, I may not be an expert, but in my experience, absolutely everyone I've ever met that's into Anarchy was brought into the fold by punk rock. Don't these folks deserve at least a mention? Even as a general group? I would edit this myself, but for a couple of reasons... 1) I just created an account about 1/2 an hour ago (I read encyclopaedias, I don't write them) and 2) It seems that the editing for the Anarchism article is locked out, due to vandalism (which makes perfect sense... when the anarchists themselves don't do it, the opponents of anarchy will). By no means do I have a definitive list of punk artists that ought to be on the page, but perhaps at least the Sex Pistols, for a start? I don't feel confident to write this edit, but is there anyone who could? If you want to contact me to tell me what I should be doing when I see a situation like this (or to tell me that I suck out loud... y'know, whatever), I don't think a talk page is the most efficient way. Try emailing me at john.laduke@gmail.com, so as to assure I'll actually realise you're trying to tell me something. Or just ignore me... I don't suppose it really matters in the grand scheme of things. In any case, thanks for any help you can provide!

POV warrior Hogeye strikes again

Perhaps some more semi-protection is in order: here. --AaronS 23:48, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

H. P. Lovecraft

I don't know if you noticed but this page has been on WP:FAR for about three weeks and may lose it's FA status soon (it's toward the bottom of the page). You nominated it way back when so I thought you might want to have a look. Marskell 18:26, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

We've got another one!

Yet another sock for hogeye! The Ungovernable Force 20:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Hogeye evading (again)

Ever since anarchism had the semi-protect removed, hogeye started editing with IPs (probably open proxies) again. User:64.159.81.81 is the one I'm dealing with most right now. Others include User:217.160.230.161, User:Beeboe and User:FreeJohnG, as well as a few IP's that have already been blocked. I suggest semi-protecting anarchism again, and blocking all the socks. Also, keep an eye on American individualist anarchism, which is a POV fork created by one of the Hogeye socks a while ago. It currently redirects to Individualist anarchism in the United States, but hogeye readded their POV fork after I reverted it back to the redirect (calling me an asshole in their edit summary no less). Thanks. The Ungovernable Force 02:00, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Georgia Move

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 04:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sarge

The following user just blasted most of the Ivy league school sites with spam: 68.126.201.227 You may want to use your magic admin powers! Hope you're doing well. Cheers! --P-Chan 04:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Anarcho-capitalism as featured article

I have posted the anarcho-capitalism article to undergo a major review due to my belief that it is not up to the standards of being the best wikipedia has to offer. If you are interested in participating in the process please do. Blahblahblahblahblahblah 11:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!

File:Esperanza.Party.gif

Congratulations on your graduation! The Ungovernable Force 21:21, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Anarchism table

Template:Anarchism table has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. FrancisTyers · 23:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

A(nti)sexual?

Hey, I saw you removed your label as asexual. I've been wondering about your ideas on that for a while, since I think they might be interesting. I've never talked to an anti-sexualist (although I have talked to an asexual). I don't know if you removed it because you no longer feel that way, which would add more layers to the discussion, or if you just felt it was unimportant. I was going to email you about this since it's not really related to wikipedia, but you don't have an email registered. The Ungovernable Force 23:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Response on my talkpage. The Ungovernable Force 04:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I just have to know, after you took the shot of this cookie, did you eat it? I'm wondering what happened to it... that is if you actually took the picture of the cookie... Spawn Man 23:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Intersexed

Hi, I found this interesting, I am a prostitute, and have a unique body in that I am an Intersex woman. I have an ability to see both sides of the gender divide, and this is both disconcerting and thought provoving. I have genitaly an ovary and testicle, a vagina and penis, medium breasts and feminine/masculine looks and feminine voice. My body is slim and athletic, I am not very strong physically but i can be mentally strong. Being able to see matters in both feminine and masculine perspective helps me understand my clients needs in a more loving way. I work in my own flat, however I would love to be given the chance to work in a brothel. I love what I do and would have it no other way. SL x

~~==User: HiIIary Clinton== Can you block this user permanently? All of his/her edits have consisted of nothing more than viciously racist slurs. Stanley011 12:29, 26 July 2006 (UTC)~~

Please disregard my previous message--I have been informed by Redux that if this user returns to vandalize, he will take the appropriate action. Stanley011 17:24, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding your comment: ´´Actually, I already did block the account permanently, which is why the user hasn't "returned"´´-- Thank you!Stanley011 11:55, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Sociology Project News

Sociology Project • News • August 2006
The Sociology WikiProject has been re-activated and new developments are afoot! We are putting in place some tools for classifying, categorizing and assessing sociology-related content on Wikipedia. Please have a look at the Tools section on the project page. Also, the Sociology article has been identified by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team as a Core Topic, one of the 150 most important articles for any encyclopedia to have. This article has been listed as a good article for meeting the criteria for this category of articles. We're going to be working to improve the article to Featured article status. Please place Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology on your watchlist and Get involved!
You have recieved this newsletter because you are listed as a participant at WikiProject Sociology. • CQ 04:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Sociology Project • News • August 2006

The Sociology WikiProject has been re-activated and new developments are afoot! We are putting in place some tools for classifying, categorizing and assessing sociology-related content on Wikipedia. Please have a look at the Tools section on the project page.

Also, the Sociology article has been identified by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team as a Core Topic, one of the 150 most important articles for any encyclopedia to have. This article has been listed as a good article for meeting the criteria for this category of articles. We're going to be working to improve the article to Featured article status.

Please place Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology on your watchlist and Get involved!

You have recieved this newsletter because you are listed as a participant at WikiProject Sociology. • CQ 04:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

User: Anarchism

Please tell me there is a policy against this. Blahblahblahblahblahblah 10:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Romanisation of Korean

Hi, it seems you have used the romanisation kolisuchae in the baekjeong article. Would you mind to give the original hangul spelling? It's obviously not Revised Romanization of Korean, which doesn't allow the string oli. My only guess that has yielded some search engine results was 거리수채, which would seem odd to call people. I think it's generally a good idea to include hanja or hangul if you're not sure about how to romanise a term. Wikipeditor 14:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Anarcho-monarchism

I put that page up for deletion. Comment here if you want. The Ungovernable Force 09:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Derrick Jensen

There has been some pov editing there recently. I haven't read anything from Jensen yet though, so I've been pretty wary of editing it since I don't know enough about what he has said and what emphasis he places on some of the various topics discussed on the page. An anon claiming to be Jensen has left two messages on the talk page (and I think it's actually him, but I could be wrong). If you have read his stuff, could you try and check the page, the recent versions of it and the talk and try to see if it's npov or not? Thanks. The Ungovernable Force 20:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Posting Image:Alan Greenspan color photo portrait.jpg on the main page

Thanks for posting Image:Alan Greenspan color photo portrait.jpg on the main page. However, I noticed that you forgot to protect it. As per WP:PPOL#Uses, "A permanent or semi-permanent protection is used for: Protecting high visibility pages such as the Main Page from vandalism."

The {{Mprotected}} template should be applied to images stored here on the English Wikipedia.

However, for images from Wikimedia Commons, there are two options:

Copy the image, upload it locally, and add {{C-uploaded}}. Or,
If you are an admin at the Commons, protect the version at the Commons, and add Commons:Template:En main page. Then put {{Mprotected}} in the image description page here and protect the image to keep a local image from being uploaded here.

Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:22, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Zimakani

Out of curosity, what is your interest?

New page you might like to contribute to

I just started a stub on Feminist anthropology. I thought you might like to help expand it. I'll try to work on it later today or tomorrow, but the more people helping the better.

How are things going? Haven't seen you around much lately. Ungovernable Force^{The Wiki Kitchen!} 10:52, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I was also thinking of starting an anthropology wikiproject. You interested? Ungovernable Force^{The Wiki Kitchen!} 11:08, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

response

Well, even petty things can have major effects. Trust me, I know. Anyway, sociology and anthropology do overlap a lot, so I'm sure you have a lot you know without knowing! And for some reason, it still says you don't have an email specified. Hope everything gets better though. Ungovernable Force^{The Wiki Kitchen!} 21:32, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Feeling better yet? I just made a proposal on the "list of proposed wikiprojects" page. If you're interested, you can sign up at our entry and on the temporary project page. Peace. Ungovernable Force^{The Wiki Kitchen!} 21:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Glad your a bit better. Good call on adding that ethnic groups one. I thought about adding it, but there are so many projects that could be added to that list that I just chose some of the basic ones. Feel free to add others you think should go there though. Ungovernable Force^{The Wiki Kitchen!} 21:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

FYI

I know you haven't been around the anarchism lately, but if you could comment on ANI on some of the newer problems on anarchism, that would be good. It's under "Lingeron/thewolfstar". Ungovernable Force^{The Wiki Kitchen!} 23:27, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, aaron just quit. He left a note and an explanation on his talk page. Ungovernable Force^{The Wiki Kitchen!} 04:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Image movement in Hawthorne Bridge

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Thanks for moving the image! Your placement is excellent. The barnstar is for all the other great work you do. Thanks again. — EncMstr 07:05, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Association of Anarchist Wikipedians

I'd be interested if you went back there. —Toby Bartels 22:59, 10 September 2006 (UTC) (meta talk)

AfD Nomination: Katie Jackson

An article that you have been involved in editing, Katie Jackson, has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katie Jackson. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

-- Malber (talk • contribs) 16:07, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 00:22, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Our dear friend

Hogeye's back and making pov edits on the anarchism template. Can you keep an eye on it? Why isn't he indef blocked yet anyways? Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 18:52, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

restore DIY culture please.

You shouldn't have deleted this page. There are still links to it. --Snarius 06:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Hogeye's anarchism tree

Hogeye has one of his trees on Individualist anarchism. I started a thread on the talk page and removed it (which he put back in) and I would appreciate your help. Thanks. Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 04:52, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Copyright issues over Food Not Bombs logo

I would appreciate your feedback at Image talk:Food Not Bombs logo.png. Also see User talk:Nv8200p#Image:Food Not Bombs logo.png for more info. Thanks. Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 22:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Environmentalism

I saw your concern over the Environmentalism article. And I thought it couldn't be that bad. But WoW It is terrible. I am an environmentalist who could cry at just thinking of what we as humans have done to this Beautiful world. Well anyway I have changed the format a little bit by moving the list to the middle section. I hated seeing the list as the first thing on the whole page. Let me know what you think. P.S It still needs alot of Work.--The Dog 00:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Opinion needed

Hey, there is a bit of an edit war going on in the external links section of The World Can't Wait and Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. The talk pages of each include the relevant info (although posts keep getting removed, so you may need to look in the history. It seems to me that User:In the Stacks has an axe to grind with Chuck Munson (which appears to be mutual) and as such is refusing to allow any links to infoshop.org. This isn't going anywear, so I thought I'd ask you to take a look. Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 04:19, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

User:In the Stacks keeps removing the link whenever anyone puts it in and is not discussing this. We need some kind of dispute resolution. Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 03:13, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Undeletion request

Hi Sarge, could you undelete Doom clone? - Fredrik Johansson 06:35, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Fredrik Johansson 07:04, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Howdy from Portland

Hi Sarge, I emailed you about a WikiMeetup here in Portland, but haven't received an answer from you. Are you still thinking it over? -- llywrch 02:31, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to hear about things. Been there, done that: it sucks. If you change your mind, you're still welcome to stop by. If not, let's try to arrange a WikiMeetup closer to your part of Oregon; I always enjoy meeting another old-timer Wikipedian. -- llywrch 17:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I added up a brief description of the Meetup to the page at the link above. There were a lot of non-Wikipedia people there eager to meet Jimbo, & we Wikipedians -- who had not met before -- just socialized. (A Venture Capitalist based in Seattle joined us at one point; I remember it well because as pleasant as he was, he really wasn't on our wavelength.) I'm hoping that we might have another Meetup in a few months -- this time on a weekend when more people will have the time to participate. -- llywrch 19:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Waldo Park

Thanks for doing an article on Waldo Park. If I lean back in my chair quite aways I can see it from here in the cube farm. Katr67 23:46, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

You helped choose Environmentalism as this week's WP:AID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Environmentalism was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

AzaBot 18:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Regarding in the news

If there is no debate over it, then add it to the article with some reliable sources. The news on the main page should never contain information that the article itself doesn't have. The news is to showcase Wikipedia articles; Wikipedia is not a newspaper. —Centrx→talk • 08:14, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Anthropology project

I have communicated with The Ungovernable Force regarding the proposed anthropology project which you indicated an interest in, and have gotten the OK from him to move the project into wiki-space and make it active. He indicated that he is busy in school right now, but will be as active as he can be given that. The project page as it now exists is only a minimum page, and could use the input of interested parties such as yourself. Personally, I did noticably poorly in the one cultural anthropology class I took in college, so I'm bowing out of this one, but wish you and the other members of the project the best of luck with it. Thank you. Badbilltucker 21:44, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

ITN

Hi- you might be interested in the ongoing discussion to be found here. Comments and contributions greatly appreciated. Badgerpatrol 00:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Let's see, you fucking idiot

If you support the independence of the so-called """"Cascadia"""", that's a contradiction with being an "unboxed anarchist", fucking moron. Furthermore, I bet that if the "masculist" userbox were blue, you wouldn't complain about that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.50.130.179 (talk) 21:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

WikiProject Anthropology Collaboration of the month

Hello. I noticed that you signed up for WikiProject Anthropology and thought that you might be interested in participating in the Collaboration of the Month. This month's article is Marvin Harris. Thanks. Stilgar135 19:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Time to celebrate!

Did you hear the good news? Woot, woot! Took long enough. Too bad he was never made responsible for any of that crap though. Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 02:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I usually feel that way, especially with the more petty authoritarians (like cops and soldiers), but I just can't help it with people on that level. Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 00:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to have to see that. I hadn't even heard of it. Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 20:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

white tea

The edits on flavonoids etc. to add white tea are likely unjustified. White tea is clearly a form of green tea, and there is mixed evidence for white tea containing more catechins than green tea. Processing of a tea from raw tea leaves to green tea can result in as little as 5% loss of catechins through withering and firing, while clonal and seasonal variations in catechin content can be greater than 25%. Some darjeeling teas, processed as black tea, have been observed to contain more catechins than some green teas, even some white teas, because of their growth in mountainous areas exposes them to lots of ultraviolet radiation and catechins is a protective plant response to this.

In addition, there are substantial undifferentiated processing methods in oolong and black tea, and it is unnecessary to differentiate all the types of tea if those distinctions are made directly in the tea article. Propose removing green/black/white/red/oolong mentions separately in articles such as flavonoid and just linking to tea, since this is not well established science and looks like a promo/advert for white tea, which can be sold at a premium and yet does not have any proven "health benefit", which is deceptive advertisement. MatthewEHarbowy 14:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Moving pages

Hey, I've seen that you just moved the on-going Ipswich murder/serial killer/whatever page without discussing it. This is confusing for other editors and I'm not sure your chosen title is correct since there have been multiple murders so it would have been better to include something about the fact that there more than one person had been killed. Also, have you ensured that no double redirects are now in place (e.g. Gemma Adams)? The last editor who moved the page didn't bother removing these which is bad practice. Cheers! Budgiekiller 08:44, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

As per Budgiekiller, please could you fix up the double redirects on this please? Cheers. — Matt Crypto 09:11, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Sarge Baldy! Wishing you a very happy birthday and an awesome upcoming year! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

Best regards from the Birthday Committee and myself! --lov e laughterlife♥^talk? 18:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Ditto, from a fellow editor! Budgiekiller 18:37, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that :) I just wanted to wish you an early birthday (it's about 6 hours off, according to Wikipedia time) so that you get to see it tomorrow for sure. But you were online today, so you saw it early! ahh well, happy early birthday, and hope you have a wonderfully delightful day tomorrow! -- 18:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! – Heave n's Wrath ^Talk 01:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

A Happy Birthday From Randfan

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A request for assistance

Would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 05:02 3 January 2007 (UTC).

images

hey, the ungovernable force suggested i ask you about how to go about legally attaching photos to articles. i did an article for Richard Mock, and would like to add a photo of one of his prints, or a photo of him (if i could find one that is), haven't really grasped the rules of fair use and all that. any advice you could give would be much appreciated. cheers! Murderbike 06:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

images

sorry if this got posted twice:

V for Vendetta move

Hi! I just wanted to ask if your recent move of V for Vendetta (comic) to V for Vendetta means that, in your judgement, the comic has the far more significant meaning compared to the film. Thanks :-) User talk:Neonumbers/Neonumbers 02:53, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay. I've never heard of that convention before — is it part of a WikiProject, or on a non-WikiProject guideline page that I've missed (which would be rather embarassing because I've worked in disambiguation for a while now :-P), or something that simply tends to happen?

I'm not opposing it, I'm just intrigued to know where it came from. Neonumbers 07:26, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I did get a bit sidetracked by your user page on my way here so I'll just mention that I found it interesting to learn about what agnosticism and related beliefs are, having never heard of them before. Neonumbers 07:26, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Feminist

Perhaps the userbox should be purple? (blend of blue & pink) ;-)Jance 20:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

RCP, again

I think I've mentioned this before since it keeps flaring up, but there is a debate going on at Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and the associated talk page regarding an external link to an infoshop page critical of the RCP. This is getting really old. I don't really care as much what the outcome is, but I do want this person or someone else to give a good reason to remove it, instead of repeating their same cliche without addressing the criticism of their "justification." Thanks. Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 07:21, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Project Gender Studies

Hi Sarge, I'm asking a few Project gender studies members for opinions on a few changes to the project templates. The discussion is here. If you're interested have a look. I'd also like to have the project page unprotected so it could be editted to give due balance to the Gender Theory activities of the project as well as the removal of systemic bias activities - what are your opinions (discussed here)?--Cailil 18:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you again Sarge but an IP User (probably the same one as last time) is making non-consensus edits to WP:GS. The page may needed partial protection so that only registered users can edit. I've made an offical request on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection--Cailil 04:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I added bio material to D. E. Smith page, and some links

its all true

Projet:Sociologie

Just a little look on this page !

My RfA

Thanks for your support in my RfA. I withdrew when it became clear that the uphill climb had crossed the snowball threshold, but I appreciate your support and the process gave me some good ideas for other ways I can be contributing to Wikipedia. I'll work on the areas that came up in the discussion, and try again after I've gained wider experience. -FisherQueen (Talk) 12:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

"Official website"

Hey Owen, I see on Chemeketa Community College you changed the title of the link from "Chemeketa Community College website" to "Official website". I often find myself doing the *opposite* on articles (except leaving out the "website" part) and I was wondering if there was any consensus on this issue. I asked on one of the Wikipedia MOS talk pages and never got a response. My reasoning is that people are familiar enough with the web now that if the article is about an entity that clearly should have its own webpage, then we can just title the link the same as the entity. I guess it should be clear that that anything listed as "Official webpage" as the first link would be the official webpage of the article in question, but my editor's mind always makes me think, "Official webpage of what?!" Anyway, when I see people revert my link titles in the course of other editing I never revert them, because that would be silly. Still it would be nice to have consistency, at least in our little corner of the wiki. Any thoughts? Katr67 22:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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TfD nomination of Template:Isu

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Splittists movement

I made this picture for the Association of Splittist Wikipedians page. I was hoping you could maybe put it up on meta.wikimedia.org here's the image and you can see my profile for the little profile box thing I made too. Wieners 22:20, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Eros + Massacre

In February, 2006, you contacted me regarding subtitles of the Japanese movie, Eros Plus Massacre, asking if I had access to unofficial english subtitles. I have in fact recently found files that serve that purpose, available for download through emule. The files themselves are intended for use with the extended version of the film, and is split into multiple files for use with the film in a ripped version, split into six sections. Assuming you still have your copy of the movie, and are at all interested in translating them, you could rip them to your computer and place these files within the same folder as your videos. They will then automatically play with English subtitles. However, you'll soon note that the sentences are not written with the best of grammar. A bit of effort may be needed to edit these files, and adjust them for your versions of the ripped files. However, I'm sure that as a wiki editor, it's nothing you aren't you used to. If you are interested, I've placed the files here for your convenience: http://www.mediafire.com/?eyymyn2tmmw --Cast 23:38, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Several scenes of the film, Eros + Massacre, are currently available on Youtube. I encourage you to watch them video, as they include improved translations in their subtitles.

Eros Plus Massacre (1970) #1

Eros Plus Massacre (1970) #2

Eros Plus Massacre (1970) #3

Eros Plus Massacre (1970) #4

Eros Plus Massacre (1970) #5

--Cast (talk) 04:43, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

You helped choose Vladimir Lenin as this week's WP:ACID winner

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Nazism poll

Thanks for dropping by, but you voted for both propositions, which is a bit confusing. :-) --Cberlet 01:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Ahhhh, caffeine. Me too. :-) --Cberlet 03:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Maps

Hey, would you be well enough versed in the legalities of adding maps? I'm having a really hard time finding the protocol for it, and see so many articles that would be improved by them. most of the maps I'm finding though, don't have any copyright info with them. Cheers! Murderbike 02:54, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. I think I found an out by using NASA maps, which are apparently always free use. Cheers! Murderbike 06:16, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

White privilege

The White privilege (sociology) article is the focus of attacks by at least one and possibly more individuals who believe the idea is racist (white people really make me ashamed to be white). Thought you might want a heads up. I can help a bit, but I think as a sociologist you would have better luck with that topic than I would as an anthropologist. Ungovernable Force^{Poll: Which religious text should I read?} 05:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Anarchism template

Hey, would you be into weighing in on this discussion Template_talk:Anarchism#Removal_of_USA_from_regions? Cheers! Murderbike 05:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Not to bug ya, but this one could use some input as well. Template_talk:AnarchismOpenTask#new_section Murderbike 21:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Orphan tags

Hey Sarge, do you know of a standard for how many articles need to link to an article before it becomes a non-orphan? Cheers! Murderbike 21:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Paul Aranas

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Images

Hey, I've had 3 of my uploaded images tagged because they have a fair-use tag, but no fair-use rationale. the problem is, I don't know how to add a FUR after the fact, and i'm about to get on the road for about a week so my internet time is gonna be severely limited. can you advise me how to fix this? the images are at: Image:Behold a Pale Horse cover.jpg, Image:Beetlejuice soundtrack.jpg, and Image:Clickpoplogo.jpg. Cheers! Murderbike 20:24, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Help!

Hey, sorry to bug ya, but I don't know to many admins, and really need help. User:Custerwest has violated 3RR, and then deleted my report of the violation, followed by a fourth revert (I only did two, as to avoid 3RR, others were by other users). Can you help? Murderbike 00:39, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Heh, no problem. Real life preventing you from wikifying? Aaaaaaahhhhh, say it ain't so! No really, I understand. Hope things are good! Murderbike 00:50, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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Kathy Ferguson

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WPOR Collaboration of the Week

Greetings WPOR member, we are starting a weekly collaboration project where we will announce two articles that are currently stubs that we hope to work together to improve. No pressure to help, but if you would like to, just stop by one of the articles and see if you can find information to expand the article with, copy edit what is there, help with formatting, or add some images. This week’s articles are: Alis volat propriis and Fusitriton oregonensis. Aboutmovies 22:21, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

WPOR Collaboration of the Week

Greetings WikiProject Oregon employees. Well a big thanks to all those who helped improve Alis volat propriis and Fusitriton oregonensis last week. This week’s Stub improvement are: Government of Oregon which should be easy, and Miss Oregon. Again, no pressure to help with the collaboration, choose one, both, or neither. Also, feel free to opt out of the notifications at the new page dedicated to collaborative efforts at WPOR (newsletter is in R&D). Aboutmovies 18:43, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Marie Pitt

The Marie Pitt on your to-do page is the Victorian socialist/anarchist/feminist/pacifist/poet yes? I was also planning to start an article on her but I gladly yield place. Jeremytrewindixon 09:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Stub set up. Jeremytrewindixon 11:50, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

WPOR Collaboration of the Week

Hello again, its time for the next Collaboration of the Week. First a shout out to Sprkee for putting together some templates for this project. Now, in honor of Labor Day weekend and the outdoor nature of the activities that often accompany the three-day weekend, this week’s item is to de-redlink as many parks from the List of Oregon State Parks. Some may even by going to one of these places, a great opportunity to take a picture or two for an article. As always, participation is not required, though it is appreciated. And if you are caught, we will disavow any knowledge of your existence. Since we don’t want to waste any effort through duplication, please make a note on the talk page of which park article you are going to start. Good day! Aboutmovies 19:30, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

September WPOR Collaboration of the Week

First off, great job to all WikiProject Oregon folks for last week’s List of Oregon State Parks work. We pounded out six new state park articles: Sarah Helmick, Bald Peak, Bob Straub, Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge, Tumalo, and Peter Skene Ogden. Plus numerous other edits to improve the existing articles. As a reward, we are introducing the COTW award {{WPOR COTW award}}, and this time it goes to User:Woodstein52 for starting three of the articles.

On to this week. We are back to the usual two Top importance Stubs: Sunstone and Oregon, My Oregon. Both are stub pluses, so it shouldn’t take much to upgrade them both. Again to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts click here. Good day! Aboutmovies 22:20, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Anarchism in Cuba

Hey Owen, I've started working on this article in my sandbox, and figured I'd see if you cared to contribute anything. I've finished the first sub-section of the "History", and will soon be finishing the modern section. If you could take a look at it, and give me any advice on how to make it better, that'd be great. Cheers! Murderbike 02:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

WPOR Collaboration: 09172007

All righty WPOR ladies and gentleman, great job last week with our state song and gemstone. I have bumped them up to Start class. I haven’t looked at the contributions, so the COTW award will be later. This week’s articles are Darlene Hooley, by special request, and another Top stub, our very own state rock, the Thunderegg. Yes, apparently we have a state rock and state gemstone. No word on whether there is a state stone too. Hooley basically needs some sources to make it to the next level. Again to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts click here. In the words of Beaver Joe, whoop! Aboutmovies 18:02, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Fall WPOR COTW

Welcome to autmun and the weekly COTW news. Great job to those who helped out with last week’s articles: Darlene Hooley & Thunderegg. Both made great improvements. This week, something a little different. With fall upon us, the photo ops are going to be harder to get, so we have a photo request fulfillment drive. Take a look at the requested pictures for Oregon category or the graphics subproject for what’s needed. Then go take a picture, or search online for a free picture to upload (US gov sites are great and there are links available from the above links). If you fill a request, be sure to remove the request template from the article’s talk page. Our other item is another red link removal drive, this time on the flagship Oregon article. Like the state parks red link drive, try to coordinate on the talk page. Again to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts click here. Aboutmovies 01:23, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Week 1 October WP:ORE COTW

I know everyone has been waiting anxiously for this week’s COTW, so here they are: Barlow Road and Columbia River Plateau. Both are almost Start class, just some formatting and referencing, plus a little expansion and they will be there!

As to last week, it is difficult to track the items we were working on, but I know some pictures were added and at least three red links were removed from Oregon, so thank you to all those who participated. The award winner will be GoodDamon for their creation of the Oregon Forest Resources Institute article. We have now worked through all the Top class stubs and are into the High class stubs. Again to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts click here. Happy editing, and remember if you see a downed power line, don’t pick it up. Aboutmovies 20:13, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Marie Pitt

Marie Pitt stub set up. Oh, signing....Jeremytrewindixon 11:51, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

WPOR CoTW: Don Schollander & Conde McCullough

Greetings WPOR world. Last week was great with the Barlow Road seeing lots of improvement, maybe even B class. Columbia River Plateau also saw some improvement, maybe enough to bump it to Start. On with the countdown, another two Stubs in the High category, both happen to be people: Don Schollander a multi-gold medalist; and then world-renowned bridge architect and all-around swell guy Conde McCullough. Schollander needs sources more than anything, and McCullough needs more of a bio, plus maybe a nice chart for the bridges with type/year/location/length. Again to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts click here. This week’s safety tip, stranger=danger. Aboutmovies 18:03, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiOregon COTW

Greetings once again WikiProject Oregon members. Thank you to those who help out with improving Conde McCullough and Don Schollander last week. This week is a Stub break, with a Ref improvement drive for Oregon and a request for work on Portland Police Bureau. For the ref improvement, this means sourcing tagged statements and standardizing all existing citations, both of which are needed for GA and FA status. Again to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts click here. Aboutmovies 18:05, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:V for Vendetta

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Wikipedia:User categories for discussion on -isms

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Collaboration of the Week

Howdy doody ya’ll WPOR poke, time for more COTW. Thanks for the work on Portland Police Bureau and improving the references at Oregon. This week we are back to Stubs with Eastern Oregon and Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Both need just a little TLC to make it to Start. Again to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts click here. Aboutmovies 01:47, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

SPAM ala COTW

Ladies and Gentlemen its time for another episode of Collaboration of the Week. Last week’s show starring Fort Vancouver National Historic Site & Eastern Oregon received high ratings. This week’s show star two more stubs, Johnny Kitzmiller & John Wesley Davis. As always, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Don’t delay, act today! Aboutmovies 18:16, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

New COTW

Hello again from WikiProject Oregon. A round of applause for the project in October when we added three GAs, one FA, plus 10 DYKs! Next, thanks to all those who participated in last week’s Collaboration of the Week, John Wesley Davis & Johnny Kitzmiller. This week we have the Cayuse War, and in honor of the home opener, the Portland Trail Blazers. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies 18:35, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Evey.jpg

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WPOR's newest COTW

Thank you to all those editors who helped improve Cayuse War and Portland Trail Blazers last week as part of the Collaboration of the Week. They are looking much better. This week, with the election season over, we’ll tackle a request for Oregon Ballot Measure 37 (2004), which should have plenty of WP:RS available to work with on improvement. Our other article is another Stub in the High category, our only Miss America, Katie Harman. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Legal disclaimer: WikiProject Oregon and its affiliates are not liable for any personal injuries acquired while editing on the COTW including but not limited to carpel tunnel syndrome, Wikistress, alcoholism, anxiety attacks, or extreme emotional distress. Aboutmovies 20:02, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Oregon Book Award

Thanks for starting the article! I'd love to have more coverage of Oregon writers (besides Kesey and Palahniuk), which is sadly lacking, but I've been distracted by the history stuff, so it is a good incentive. Hopefully I can get around to writing a stub on Frances Fuller Victor tonight. Helen Hall is interesting as well. Cheers! Katr67 21:36, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh I just ♥ Searoad! I'm going to have to reread it for the 5th or so time. I've been tempted to add Klatsand to Category:Fictional towns and cities in Oregon. Katr67 21:46, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Oregon COTW version 11.20

Welcome to the jungle folks. Thanks to those who helped out with Katie Harman and Oregon Ballot Measure 37 (2004) last week. This week, we have two high priority stubs, one of the two major hospitals in Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center, and Oregon Department of Education. Enjoy your turkeys, or for some enjoy your tofurkeys. As always, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:53, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Rfc

I was browsing through this Rfc: Talk:Royal Burial Ground#Outside opinions, and saw your name come up. I'm not sure you were aware of it, but I thought it was pretty amusing. Katr67 (talk) 23:58, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

WPORE Civil War COTW

Hello again to WikiProject Oregon members, time for this week’s Collaboration of the Week. Thank you to those who helped out improving Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center and Oregon Department of Education last week. This week, in honor of the annual Civil War, we have the University of Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State University Beavers. Or if you attended some other school, feel free to improve your alma mater’s article. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:56, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Frances Bean Cobain

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FA for WPORE COTW

Greetings boys and girls from the fine folks at The Wettest Place on Earth! A thank you to those who helped last week make some good improvements on the U of O and ~~OSU~~ OS articles. For this week, the next stub on the list is Fortune 1000 company Lithia Motors, Inc. way down south in Dixie, which only needs a little added to make it to Start. The other is a bit more of a challenge, but Linus Pauling I believe is our only Nobel Prize winning Oregonian, and a former FA. So hopefully we can get it back to FA, check the talk page’s article history template for comments. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies 20:49, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Anarchism task force

Greetings, Sarge Baldy. I'd like to invite you to participate in the creation of a task force for anarchist related articles. The article is currently under construction here. You need not devote any time to building the infrastructure, but I hope you'll be willing to participate after it gets underway.--Cast (talk) 22:06, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Oregon COTW #25 (or so)

Hello again from the COTW of WikiProject Oregon. We thank ye who went forth through the rain and mud and helped out with last week’s articles Lithia Motors and Linus Pauling. Hopefully Linus can return to FA status early next year. This week we have the request of Oregon Ballot Measure 5 (1990) and High importance article Portland Rose Festival. Whatever work you can contribute would be greatly appreciated by our master. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here.^{[citation needed]} Aboutmovies (talk) 07:55, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Would you take a look?

An image used in the article on the first Bangladeshi pornstar Jazmin, Image:WorshipThisBitch3.jpg, the cover of the DVD that made her the selling point, a first for a Bangladeshi, is up for deletion here. You may be interested to take a look. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 21:30, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy Holidays from WP:ORE

Hello again from the Collaboration of the Week for WikiProject Oregon. This week are two more stubs, the Oregon Garden and former Congressman Robert B. Duncan. Both are close to moving up to Start class, so only a little work is needed. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 23:56, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

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

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Replaceable fair use Image:Kristiina ojuland.jpg

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Holiday COTW

Greetings to all the WikiProject Oregon crew. Happy holidays to those who celebrate holidays. Thanks to those who helped out with last week’s articles Oregon Garden and Robert B. Duncan. Due to the holidays and people likely to be spending less time on Wikipedia, the new Collaboration of the Week will run for two weeks (OK actually I’ll be out of the country, but same difference). The first item will be a general Reference Improvement Drive. So find an article, source an tagged sentence or bring all the citations up to WP:CITE standards. The other item is a Tagging Drive, looking for those random articles about Oregon that do not yet have a {{WikiProject Oregon}} tag on the talk page. In the past I’ve found the Category:People from Oregon and its sub cats fertile ground for the lost Oregon souls. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 05:51, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR

Hello fellow Wikipedia administrators open to recall category member!

I am leaving you this message because recent events have given me concern. When Aaron Brenneman and I, and others, first developed this category well over a year ago, we visualized it as a simple idea. A low hassle, low bureaucracy process. We also visualized it as a process that people would come to trust, in fact as a way of increasing trust in those admins who chose to subscribe to the notion of recall. The very informal approach to who is qualified to recall, what happens during it, and the process in general were all part of that approach.

But recent events have suggested that this low structure approach may not be entirely effective. More than one of the recent recalls we have seen have been marred by controversy around what was going to happen, and when. Worse, they were marred by some folk having the perception, rightly or wrongly, that the admin being recalled was trying to change the rules, avoid the process, or in other ways somehow go back on their word. This is bad. It's bad for you the admin, bad for the trust in the process, and bad for the community as a whole.

I think a way to address this issue is to increase the predictability of the process in advance. I have tried to do that for myself. In my User:Lar/Accountability page, I have given pretty concrete definitions of the criteria for recall, and of the choices I can make, and of the process for the petition, and of the process for other choices I might make (the modified RfC or the RfAr). I think it would be very helpful if other admins who have voluntarily made themselves subject to recall went to similar detail. It is not necessary to adopt the exact same conditions, steps, criteria, etc. It's just helpful to have SOME. Those are mine, fashion yours as you see fit, I would not be so presumptuous as to say mine are right for you. In fact I urge you not to just adopt mine, as I do change them from time to time without notice, but instead develop your own. You are very welcome to start with mine if you so wish, though.

But do something. If you have not already, I urge you to make your process more concrete, now, while there is no pressure and you can think clearly about what you want. Do it now rather than later, during a recall when folk may not react well to perceived changes in process or commitment.

Further, I suggest that after you document your process, that you give a reference to it for the benefit of other admins who may want to see what others have done. List it in this table as a resource for the benefit of all. If you use someone else's by reference rather than copy, I suggest you might want to do as Cacharoth did, and give a link to a specific version.

Do you have to do these things? Not at all. These are suggestions from me, and me alone, and are entirely up to you to embrace or ignore. I just think that doing this now, thinking now, documenting now, will save you trouble later, if you should for whatever reason happen to be recalled.

I apologise if this message seems impersonal, but with over 130 members in the category, leaving a personal message for each of you might not have been feasible, and I feel this is important enough to violate social norms a bit. I hope that's OK. Thanks for your time and consideration, and best wishes.

Larry Pieniazek

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...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "K"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "L"s through "O"s! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 00:05, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

New Year COTW from WP:ORE

Happy New Year to all the Oregon WikiProject People. A big round of applause for everyone last year, we got a lot done. A thank you to everyone who helped with the last Collaboration of the Week, I saw a large number of articles in the unassessed section and our total number of articles is over 5000 (we were around 4000 in June when the assessment program finished the initial run) so I know at one person was busy tagging. This week we are back to a High importance Stub article the one and only max security prison, first prison, and only one with a death row in the state, the Oregon State Penitentiary. Then, by request we have one of the most prolific ballot measure sponsors in Mr. Bill Sizemore. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 16:43, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Your MOM

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Oregon COTW

Howdy to WikiProject Oregon members, time for another edition of the Collaboration of the Week. As you may have already noticed, our flagship article Oregon is up for the third time as we make a push to get WP:GA status before going for WP:FA. Since this will take some time to get where it needs to be, this will be the COTW for more than just a week. Also, so we hopefully don’t trip over ourselves, try to coordinate on the article’s talk page. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here.

On another note, just a general good job/pat on the back to the project for a great 2007, the first full year of the project. We had 83 DYKs about Oregon, improved one article to FA, and went from around 4 GAs to 17 GAs. Plus numerous new articles, improvements to existing, the introduction of the COTW, and the introduction of article assessment at the project. Again, great job and here’s to a new year. Aboutmovies (talk) 10:07, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Availability for Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anthropology/Collaboration_of_the_month

The probable sorry state of 'core anthropology' articles on Wikipedia has been recently identified here

As a self-nominated Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anthropology member, I thought I'd check on your interest and willingness to see anthropology better represented on Wikipedia? Bruceanthro (talk) 15:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

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Snowy COTW from WPOR

Hello again from WP:ORE. Please note the Collaboration of the Week is running two hours late, no morning kindergarten, and routers are on snow routes. Thank you to those who helped improve Oregon, we are inching towards GA quality. This week we have another High importance Stub in our official state insect (who knew?) with the Oregon Swallowtail, and then a new article I came across, Biglow Canyon Wind Farm. Help if you can get out of the snow. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Good day! Aboutmovies (talk) 16:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Tom Peterson says it time for Oregon COTW

Wake up! Wake up to a happy day! Says Tom Peterson. Greetings to the gang at WP:ORE, its time for another round of Collaboration of the Week. Last week was a very successful endeavor with great improvement to Oregon Swallowtail and Deuce Biglow Canyon Wind Farm. OK, so there’s no “e” but it makes me laugh. The Biglow production was so successful we got our first DYK out of it. So, let’s try for a second with the tallest building in the state, the Wells Fargo Center. Then by request we have the former governor (among other things) Neil Goldschmidt. Again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, visit here. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

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31Knots

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Clown COTW

Greetings once again to members of the best encyclopedia online about Oregon (aka WP:ORE)! Last week we improved Neil Goldschmidt to close to GA level, and moved the Wells Fargo Center from Stub to Start for the Collaboration of the Week. This week we’re clowning around with some bozo from Oregon, Pinto Colvig, and then in an attempt to garner another DYK, the rather stubby Cooper Spur. As always, any contribution is appreciated, and to opt out of these messages visit here.

As we have quite a few new members over the last six months, I’ll make another pitch for our various subprojects. Listed here, you will find a variety of groups focused on specific areas of Oregon from transportation to culture. Not only can you sign up and coordinate work there, but each often has useful sources and templates related to that topic. No pressure, just an introduction to those new to the project. Adios. Aboutmovies (talk) 16:53, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Frances Bean Cobain

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Our weekly COTW message from WPOR

Welcome to another wonderful world of WP:ORE COTW. Thanks again to those who lent a hand improving Pinto Colvig and Cooper Spur ski area this past week or so. This week we return to the High importance Stubs, with the mighty Seal of Oregon and former governor and legal superstar Sylvester Pennoyer. To opt out of these messages, or suggest an article, swing by here. Or to stop receiving any WPORE messages just remove your name from the list of members at WP:ORE. Auf Wiedersehen. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Old Buildings and Pictures

Greetings from WP:WikiProject Oregon. Blah blah blah. This week we have our semi-annual Picture Drive and a article creation drive for the NRHP List. For the picture drive, go take a picture, or find a free use one (lots of links to gov sites above) and upload it Wikipedia. For the National Register of Historic Places, find a red link on the main Oregon list or one of the county lists at start a new article. If its more than just a stub, don’t forget to nominate it for a DYK! Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:57, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

March 14 OR COTW

Hello again or welcome if you are new to WP:WikiProject Oregon! Last week we did a picture drive and a NRHP creation drive. It’s hard to track the picture results, but I know I saw quite a few pictures added, so great job. With NRHP we added 7 that I saw: Mitchell Recreation Area, Salem First United Methodist Church, Portland City Hall, Crater Lake Lodge, Central Library (Portland, Oregon), Watchman Lookout Station, and Alvin T. Smith House; with most now nominated for DYK’s! So great work everybody.

This week, its back to stubs with one of the largest newspapers in the state, The Register-Guard, and a request with Oregon Coast. Feel free to help with either one, and the paper article is so short a DYK should be pretty easy to get (just need 5X expansion). As always, to opt out, opt in, or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 23:57, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Vera Katz and History

Howdy folks, its time for another installment of WikiProject Oregon’s Collaboration of the Week! Last week we made some improvements to the Oregon Coast and brought The Register-Guard up to B class while garnering a DYK! Great job to those who lent a hand. This week we finish up the High priority Stubs with former mayor and Speaker of the House, Vera Katz, which is pretty much a Start class now and could easily get to B class. We also have History of Oregon by request. Help out if you can, where you can. As always, to opt out, opt in, or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:36, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Acracy

Yo, Owen, I notice you created the article on acracy back in the mists of time. The article is a bit unclear to the casual reader and lacks references. User:Fang 23 proposes we delete it unless sources can be found, but I'm wondering if you can shed any further light on the concept or its use in political theory? A Google search of the term yields a very low signal to noise ratio. Thanks for your attention, Skomorokh 23:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Acracy

I aggree it should be deleted or removed to wikitionary.--Fang 23 (talk) 00:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Elected Oregon

Hello fellow WikiProject Oregon folks and entities. Thanks to those who helped out with improving Vera Katz and History of Oregon during the last Collaboration of the Week! As you may have noticed, we have changed the banners a bit, but not our dedication to everything Oregon! This week, in honor of the political process, we have: Current Oregon Senate members & Current Oregon House members. Hopefully by November we can have an article on every current member of the Oregon Legislature. So feel free to turn a red link blue or expand an existing article. Since it is an election year, there should be plenty of newspaper stories. Plus, the state archives has this site that allows you to go back and see when they started serving and district info, plus at a minimum show they were a state legislator from a WP:RS. And per WP:BIO, all state legislator's are notable so no need to worry about AFD. As always, to opt out, opt in, or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Juxtaposition COTW

Howdy Ho WikiProject Oregon! Time for another installment of Collaboration of the Week. The last few weeks we’ve knocked out quite a few articles of our current state legislators, and even a few former ones too. Great job to all those who helped make it happen. On a related note, we have had several DYKs from this and now have 53 DYKs so far this year (not counting multiples), less than four full months into the year. Last year we had a total of 83 DYKs for the entire year, and 7 combined for 2006 & 2005. So we are well on our way to another record year. Each time an article makes it to the main page as a DYK it will typically get an extra 1000 hits, which is usually far more than the typical 100 hits per month most minor articles receive. With that said, this week we have two requests, Portland Lumberjax and Silicon Forest. As always, to opt out, opt in, or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 03:12, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Cinco de COTW

Greetings once again from the Collaboration of the Week at WikiProject Oregon. Thank you to those who helped out with the last set of articles. This week we have the lone Stub class article left in the Top importance classification, Flag of Oregon, and by request, Detroit Lake. Help where you can, if you can. To opt out of these messages, leave your name here. Adios. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:02, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

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Zzzz Oregon COTW

Howdy ya’ll, time for another Collaboration of the Week from WikiProject Oregon. Last week we improved Flag of Oregon & Detroit Lake, enough I think to move them to Start class, so great job everyone! This week, we have another request in Oregon Ballot Measure 47 and a randomly selected two sentence stub that should be easy to expand enough for a DYK in Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. To opt out of these messages, leave your name here, or click here to make a suggestion. Aboutmovies (talk) 18:43, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

QWERTY: Oregon COTW

Hello WikiProject Oregon participants, time for another edition of Collaboration of the Week. Last week we made some great improvements to Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and Oregon Ballot Measure 47 (1996), with a DYK for the forest. Great job everyone! This week we have another stub, George Lemuel Woods, one of only two governor stubs left, and should be an easy job getting it to Start class. Then, in honor of the long weekend, we have our second State Park Article Creation Drive. Lots of red links to turn blue, lots of opportunities for DYKs. Help if you can, even if it is only adding pictures of state parks. To opt out of these messages, leave your name here, or click here to make a suggestion. May the The Schwartz be with you. Aboutmovies (talk) 10:25, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

X marks the WPOR COTW spot

Guten Tag WikiProject Oregon team members! Great job last week with the Collaboration of the Week, we improved George Lemuel Woods and added eleven new state park articles. This past week we also surpassed the 6000 article mark as a project. The weather may suck, but WPORE is not. For this week we have by request Music of Oregon and Phil Knight. Both need some help, and with Knight we might be able to improve it to GA standards. Once again, to opt out of these messages, leave your name here, or click here to make a suggestion. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Photo of Prairie Creek Redwoods trailside

Hello.

Just a note to say I really like that photo you submitted for Prairie Creek redwoods - the one with the tiny waterfall. Very peaceful looking.

We just moved back to the Portland area. But I had hiked the redwoods almost every 3 weeks while we were in Applegate Valley west of Medford.

Had a chance to photograph 2 groves while down there...

Grove of Titans and Atlas Grove

Those, and much of the redwoods, is what I will miss most about living in southern Oregon.

I plan to go back once a year minimum, if not twice per year. Well worth the drive down.

On your page, I noticed "Orick" on your things to do. I think I may follow how that topic develops. I know almost nothing about Orick, but find the place intriguing while driving through there, and would like to know more about it.

Best,

M. D. Vaden of Oregon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.253.164.77 (talk) 02:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

A is for Apple at COTW

Hello again to those of the WikiProject we call Oregon. Time for another edition of Collaboration of the Week. Last week there was some good improvements to Music of Oregon and Phil Knight, great job everyone. This week, by request is the Applegate Trail, which is short enough to easily conjure up a DYK. Then, I’m trying something a little different, with the Portland State stuff. We included the two high profile schools during Civil War week last year, so now its time for the younger sibling that gets no respect to get some attention. After all, it is the largest college in the state. Feel free to help with whatever aspects you like, though to help with some ideas I added some to the article talk page. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Nana na na, hey hey hey, goouud byeeee. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:03, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Xtra COTW

Greeting once again WikiProject Oregon Folks. Time for another edition of the Collaboration of the Week. First, thank you to those who helped out on the last few COTWs. This week we have the soon to open Westside Express Service, formerly the Washington County Commuter Rail, so lets see if we can get it up to WPORE standards. Then there is a Coordinates Drive to add coordinates to any articles currently missing them, to help increase readership by allowing them to be shown on Google Earth/Maps. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 23:43, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

images on commons

A number of interesting images you uploaded have been marked as suspicious on commons for lack of source (see the user talk page there for sarge baldy). I'd personally like to know the source of Media:Alice_Liddell_2.jpg. Thanks for staying around, despite the upped bureaucracy these days... I reckon it comes and goes in waves +sj + 19:58, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Qrazy sale at COTW! Act now! Total liquidation!

Greetings WikiProject Oregon folks, time for another edition of the Collaboration of the Week! Last week we saw some good improvements made to Westside Express Service, while we also worked on a Coordinates Drive. I don’t know how many articles had the coordinates added to, but thanks to those who helped out. This week we have two more requests: William Clark of Lewis & Clark fame and the famed Oregon Bottle Bill. Hopefully we can work both up to B class. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Adios. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:54, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Summer Time in the COTW

Hello again to those of the WikiProject Oregon Clan. Time for another new edition of Collaboration of the Week. Last week there was some good improvements to William Clark and the legendary Oregon Bottle Bill, great job to those who helped out. This week, by request is the Owyhee Reservoir, which is short enough to easily conjure up a DYK. Then, also by request is a red link elimination drive on Oregon newspapers. Feel free to help out with either. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:30, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Zebras are not allowed to participate at COTW, but penguins may

Howdy ya’ll, its WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week time! Thanks to those who helped improve Owyhee Reservoir and start some new Oregon newspaper article, we had four new ones. This week it is time for a Stub Improvement Drive. So select a Stub, any Stub, and try to improve it to at least a Start class. If you expand it by 5X, then think about nominating it at Did You Know so it can be featured on the main page. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:19, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

To all members of the Anarchist Task Force - about improvement of the AI-Wiki-page

I have just joined the Anarchist Task Force, and I have had some problems with publishing of my Anarchist International Wikipedia page, see my sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anna_Quist/Anarchist_International for the present version/proposal. This page needs improvements to reach Wiki-consensus, and this should be a somewhat collective project to avoid a "COI"-template. As I am new to editing here on Wikipedia I need help with the page, I hope for your cooperation with this improvement. As an introduction to this cooperation, feel free to read this note on my talk page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anna_Quist#Message_to_all_anarchists_on_Wikipedia_-_Anarchy_is_cooperation_without_coercion.2Fdestruction.2Fdeletion_-_about_the_deletion_of_the_AI-Wiki-page_and_cooperation_to_achieve_an_updated_AI-page_with_general_Wiki-consent .

Any contribution, matter of fact criticism, to give input and advice, or even contribute to new sections, will be helpful, and is much appreciated. Please join in the project...

(Anna Quist (talk) 17:16, 29 July 2008 (UTC))

hey

So, how's life? I see you're still wasting your time here at wikipedia :)

Anyway, hit me up sometime: www.myspace.com/the_battle_continues

Ungovernable Force^{Poll: Which religious text should I read?} 05:35, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, I'm technically in Sacramento right now which sucks, but I go to school in Arcata. Can't wait to go back in a couple weeks. I actually met someone traveling through named Owen last year, but it wasn't you as he's currently in SLC and I already have him added. Definitely let me know if you travel through again. I've been meaning to head up towards Eugene sometime but just haven't done it yet. Ungovernable Force^{Poll: Which religious text should I read?} 06:04, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

1 Year of the Collaboration of the Week

Hello again to those of WikiProject Oregon. It is time again for another Collaboration of the Week. The last two weeks were a Stub Improvement Drive, and thank you to those who improved any Stubs.

This week marks the one week anniversary of the COTW, so a brief highlight reel:

At least 10 DYKs
Three articles passed GA after being listed at COTW
Probably around 25 articles started
Almost all Top importance articles are now better than Stub class

And now on with our countdown. This week we have two requests, the Willamette Meteorite and Tom McCall. Hopefully we can get both to GA quality. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Thank you. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Jim N E Cricket, its another Oregon Collaboration of the Week

Greetings WikiProject Oregon folks, it is time for another edition of the Collaboration of the Week! A big thanks to those who helped out in improving Tom McCall and the Willamette Meteorite last week. This week we have a request for Mr. Greg Oden who has been back in the news as of late, so hopefully we can get him up to B class before training camp starts. Then we have a Hospital red link drive with plenty of opportunity for DYKs! As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Bu bye. Aboutmovies (talk) 15:40, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Ssssh, Be Very Very Quiet, its Oregon COTW time

Howdy folks, its time for this week’s edition of Oregon’s Collaboration of the Week. First off, great job the last two weeks with Greg Oden & the Hospital red link drive. We had close to ten new hospital articles and two DYKs () plus other improvements to the list itself. So thank you to those who helped out. This week, we have on a sad note Kevin Duckworth, and the Statesman Journal. Duckworth should have plenty of sources so hopefully in tribute we can get his article up to standards. With the SJ, hopefully we can get it above a stub so all three of the top three papers are no longer stubs, and maybe even a DYK and GA like we got from the Register-Guard? Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Hasta la bye bye. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:13, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

WP:ORE COTW Version 2.2

Hello WikiProject Oregon contributors. It's time for another COTW. Thank you to those who helped improve Kevin Duckworth and the Statesman Journal last week, we received another DYK () for the SJ. This week, by request we have Mr. Ken Kesey and not by request Nike, Inc.. Nike is the only Start class article in the top 30 of those articles selected for the hard copy edition, and it could easily be improved to B class. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 23:47, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

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Red red links make me feel so fine...

Greetings WikiProject Oregon editors. It's time for another edition of the COTW. Thank you to those who helped improve Ken Kesey and the Nike, Inc. last week. This week, by request we have the Northwest Forest Plan and then a Red Link Elimination Drive. For the red links, pick any one you want from any article, the list provided is just to help make it easier. And if you get a good article started, don’t forget to nominate it for a DYK. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:37, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Very Special COTW, act now!

Greetings WikiProject Oregon peoples. It is once again time for another edition of the COTW. Thank you to those who helped eliminate some red links the last few weeks (the NWFP received little attention). This week, we have the stub High Desert Museum and then in honor of losing airline service again, McNary Field. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:10, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

XXX<-COTW->XXX

Howdy WikiProject Oregon humans. Time for another edition of the C to the O to the T to the W. Thanks to those who help out on McNary Field and Bend’s High Desert Museum. For this week, we shall tackle Bridges on US 101 and then with the last few days of decent weather, The Semi-Annual Picture Drive. Plenty of red links on the bridge list, or improve a stub! Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:55, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Elect the Best Financed, Least Offensive Person For the Job (aka Oregon COTW)

Hello fellow WikiProject Oregon folks, it’s time for another COTW. But first, just remember that those other guys only want to raise your taxes, but I won’t. A big thank you to those who helped make improvements to Bridges on US 101 and participating in The Semi-Annual Picture Drive. And unlike the other guys, I won’t ship your jobs overseas! This week, we have Mr. Bipartisan Wayne Morse who went from being a Republican to an Independent and finally to a Democrat. Then, let’s see if we can finish up creating articles for members of the Oregon House before their January inauguration. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. I’m Aboutmovies, and I approve this message. Paid for the committee to elect Aboutmovies. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Harvest Time @ COTW

Greetings WikiProject Oregon folks, it’s time for another edition of the fabled COTW. Thank you to all who helped make improvements to Wayne Morse and creating some members of the Oregon House. This week, we have by request Upper Klamath Lake which think made the news lately with a salmon plan. Then, in honor of the end of the harvest time, we will go farming with Fort Stevens. There is a beautiful link farm in the article that is ripe for harvesting into citations. It should provide for a bountiful feast, or alternatively you can take your hoe to it and weed some out. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. WARNING: COTW is not approved for children under 3 and may contain choking hazards for small children. DO NOT leave your child unattended with COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Zero Down, Zero Interest at the Oregon COTW

Hello to all the WikiProject Oregon folks, time once again for yet another bone chilling edition of the Collaboration Of The Week. I thank yee who helped make improvements to Fort Stevens and Upper Klamath Lake. For this first week of December, we have by request Mike Bellotti and his archrival Mike Riley, both in honor of that great tradition we call the Civil War (AKA the battle for the platypus). As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. This message is intended for the addressee shown. It contains information that is confidential and protected from disclosure. Any review, dissemination or use of this transmission or its contents is strictly prohibited. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:33, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!!

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Very cold, must type about the Oregon COTW to stay warm

Hello again from WikiProject Oregon’s Collaboration of the Week HQ. Since there was no notice last time, thanks to those who helped improve Mike Riley and Mike Bellotti at the begging of the month and to those who helped create Oregon Department of Justice and Lindsay Applegate last week. Those last two were the red links with lots of links to them from other articles (DOJ was #1). For this week, in honor of Arctic Blast/Winter Storm/Damn its Freakin’ Cold Outside 2008/Storm of the Century/Is there ANYTHING else going on in the world?/We Might Actually Have a White Christmas, we have Snow Bunny. Then as part of the Stub elimination drive, we have state senator Margaret Carter, which could easily be turned into a nice DYK entry once expanded 5X. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas/Hanukah/ Kwanzaa/Winter Solstice. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:23, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New COTW

Greetings from WikiProject Oregon’s Collaboration of the Week. First off, thank you to everyone who has done work the last few weeks on the last two COTWs. This week we have by request Oregon and California Railroad, part of the lands involved in the Oregon Land Fraud Scandal. Then as part of the Stub elimination drive, we have longtime politician Grattan Kerans, which hopefully can be turned into a nice DYK entry. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 10:21, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

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Museums & Prisons COTW

Howdy to all those in WikiProject Oregon land! To start, thanks to those who helped improve Grattan Kerans and Oregon and California Railroad as part of the Collaboration of the Week. This week we’ll try and start some new articles with a red link elimination drive on a couple of Oregon lists. So, you have your pick of prisons, or museums. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:51, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

B-day for Oregon

Hello to WikiProject Oregon peoples! Thank you to those who helped start some new articles on prisons and museums. This week, in honor of Oregon’s 150th b-day, we have the slightly older Oregon Constitution and the first state governor John Whiteaker. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 01:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Xenophopia does not involve a Xylophone: Another WPORE COTW

Greetings to WikiProject Oregon members. A big thank you to everyone who helped last week with the Oregon Constitution and John Whiteaker. This week, we have by request Clyde Drexler and a newer article in Religion in Oregon (I thought surveys said we didn’t have religion in Oregon). Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 10:04, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

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Labor / Worker's Rights project

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Killer Oregon COTW, its Totally Rad

Greetings WikiProject Oregon peoples. It is once again time for another edition of the World Famous Collaboration Of The Week. Thank you to those who worked on Clyde and [the lack of] Religion in Oregon. This week (as many have noticed), we have the “it was a red link” and by request Eugene Station and Heceta Head in honor of the work that’s been going on at Oregon Coast. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. On a side note, does the recent news of Portland being the unhappiest place in all the land make people there more unhappy? Aboutmovies (talk) 06:49, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey, I just wanted your input

I posted a comment on Talk:Hegemony, but nobody seemed to care (could be because it's not up to par with any kind of sociological argument); but I was just wondering if you could take a look at it and put in your input. If you don't feel qualified maybe you can recommend somebody who is. But anyway, my section is titled Cultural hegemony (I think with a question mark at the end.) Anyway, let me know; thanks. Lighthead ^þ 02:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

V is for Victory at the COTW: Brought to you by the Letter W (naming rights still available)

Hear ye, hear ye WikiProject Oregon villagers. Tis time for another edition of ye ol’ Collaboration Of Thine Week. Thank you to those who worked on Eugene Station and Heceta Head the last few weeks, may the Black Death spare ye family. This time we have a we little stub in the John Ross Tower and by request Bill Walton in honor of a pretty good chance at making the playoffs for the Blazers (sorry can’t think of a good Old English type language for that one, but if we go with Olde English 800, then the Jail Blazers could come into play). Anyway, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:06, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Zeus is a really cool dude and he thinks these WP:ORE articles are cool too

Greetings WikiProject Oregon guys and gals. Once again it is time for another edition of the our niche market Collaboration Of The Week. As always, thank you to those who worked on the Ross Tower and Walton. For this week we have the Calapooya Mountains and by request (and in honor of the opening) the venerable Portland Saturday Market. Just remember, if you are feeling blue, try breathing (rimshot please). Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 21:40, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

U too can help Oregon

Howdy WikiProject Oregon folks. It is time again it is time for another round of the Collaboration Of The Week. A big thank you to those who worked on Calapooya Mountains and Portland Saturday Market, both saw some great improvements. For this week we have two great opportunities for DYKs with Brian McMenamin and Algoma, Oregon. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:33, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

New image project

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Bring on the COTW

Good afternoon WikiProject Oregon peoples. It is time again it is time for another round of the Collaboration Of The Week, Volume 82. Thank you to those who worked on Algoma, Oregon‎ and Brian McMenamin, both saw some great improvements and are up for DYks. This week we have Mary Alice Ford and by request Waterfront Blues Festival. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Live long and phosphorous. Aboutmovies (talk) 23:23, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

XOXOXO - Oregon loves you, now love Oregon back!

Greetings to WikiProject Oregon folks. It is time again it is time for another round of the Collaboration Of The Week. A big thank you to those who worked on Mary Alice Ford ‎ and the Waterfront Blues Festival, both saw some great improvements. In honor of the great weather, we have our Semi-annual Great Oregon Picture Drive for this week’s collaboration. You can go out and take a picture, or search for a free one on the Internet, or in some cases remove an old request. See the bottom of this page for some links to a variety of free sources. Again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:53, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Blah blah blah, Oregon COTW

Hello to members of the WikiProject o' Oregon. Once again it is time for the Collaboration Of The Week. A thank you to everyone who participated in the Semi-annual Great Oregon Picture Drive, we added a lot of pictures. For this edition we have by request Mr. Maurice Lucas of the Blazers, and a maintenance type project with the Dab Patrol. For the later, pick any Oregon disambiguation page (mainly common city names) and use the "What links here" feature to find any stray incoming links and direct them to the correct article. Again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Peace out! Aboutmovies (talk) 07:21, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Kite Man Says beware of powerlines

Hello to those who participate in WikiProject Oregon. Once again it is time for the Collaboration Of The Week. A thank you to everyone who participated in the Dab Patrol and improvements to Maurice Lucas. For this week we have Oregon company FLIR Systems, and a maintenance type project with the FA Update Drive. For the later, pick any Oregon FA class article and read through it to make sure it is still up-to-date. Again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. I like frogs. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:36, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Boz rates the day a Perfect Ten

Greetings and salutations to members of WikiProject Oregon. We hear bye announce another Collaboration Of The Week. Thanks to anyone who participated in updating any FA articles and for the improvements on FLIR Systems. This week we have two requests: former Blazer Sidney Wicks, and a key historical event with Oregon land fraud scandal. Again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

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Hot outside, so stay inside working on the Oregon COTW!

Hello to WikiProject Oregon folks, and get ready for another Collaboration Of The Week. Thank you to those who worked on the land fraud scandal and Mr. Wicks. This week we have one by request, Central Oregon, and a gnomish task, the Great Infobox Drive of '09. For the infobox drive, just find some articles without infoboxes and add one. People and companies are two prime areas as many do not have infoboxes, yet infoboxes exist for those areas. Again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:44, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, Mr. COTW

Howdy after a long message absence to those of WikiProject Oregon. To answer a common question, no you did not get removed from the COTW notification list, I was just too busy to send out the notification for the last change. So, thank you to all those who helped improve Central Oregon and Mount Jefferson, as well as those who added infoboxes and adopted a governor. For this edition of the COTW, we have partly by request and in honor of the return of college football, Duck football and Beaver football. If you are a fan of neither, maybe go back and work on a governor or add infoboxes this time around. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:24, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Insert profound knowledge and wisdom here with wacky side effects

Greetings from WikiProject Oregon. First, thank you to all those who helped improve the Ducks and Beavers football teams. Second, now on with the countdown. For this edition of the COTW, we have by request Portland Hempstalk Festival and Munson Valley Historic District. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:08, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

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Goodbye summer, hello Dolly!

Hello WikiProject Oregon member, it is time for another Collaboration of the Week. First, thanks to those who helped out the last few weeks improving the Portland Hempstalk Festival and the Munson Valley Historic District articles. This week we have by request Rasheed Wallace and the Oregon Zoo. The later should have lots of recent news with the new/old exhibit opening. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:14, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Merry Columbus Day 2 all and 2 all a goodnite, beware of large windstorms bearing gifts

Greetings fellow WikiProject Oregon member, time to uncork a fine wine as it is once again time for the Collaboration of the Week. As always, thank you to those who helped out the last few weeks improving the Oregon Zoo, the Rasheed Wallace, Willamette Bridges, and the Vanport articles. This week we have by request Jim Paxson and Films shot in Oregon. The later can easily be improved just by adding some sources. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. And with Halloween fast approaching, remember that pennies really suck as a “treat” and you can expect toilet paper and or eggs on your residence for your “trick”. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:18, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Tax revolt in critical care at a hospital near you

Hello fellow WikiProject Oregon member, once again time for the Collaboration of the Week in the land of Oregon. As always, thank you to those who helped out the last few weeks improving Films shot in Oregon and Jim Paxson. This week we have by request Oregon tax revolt and not by request, the annual Hospital creation drive. For the later, I have laid out some sources here, and the remaining red links are all over the state, so you can find one near you! As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. May the wind always be beneath your wings. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:18, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

It's sunny out, quick take a picture!

Greetings to WikiProject Oregon folks. It is time again for another installment of as the Collaboration Of The Week Turns. A big thank you to last time’s guest stars who worked on Oregon tax revolt‎ and creating hospital articles, we had 3 DYKs off the hospital articles createdd. This week is the star-studded affair of the Semi-annual Great Oregon Picture Drive, starring Owen. You can go out and take a picture, browse through Commons for an existing one, or search for a free one on the Internet, and in some cases remove an old request (or even add a request to an article that has no images). See the bottom of this page for some links to a variety of free sources. Again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 23:17, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

PayLess at Sprouse-Reitz for your G.I. Joe's, brought to you by Troutman's Emporium and Frederick & Nelson

Hello WikiProject Oregon member, and seasons greetings. Here at Collaboration Of The Week we thank you for your efforts making Oregon better, at least on Wikipedia, and hope you are doing better than Joe's. Or, in the eloquent words of some marketing manager for another now defunct Oregon chain, Merry Christmas from PayLess... Merry Chriiiistmaaaasssss!!!

Now that pleasantries have been exchanged, thank you to those who worked on the last two collaborations, the Semi-annual Great Oregon Picture Drive, and Oregon Country Fair and Geoff Petrie. For this edition of the COTW we have Gambling in Oregon and NRHP in Washington County. The hope for the later is to fill in the last few images (5) and then see if we can make it the first NRHP list in Oregon with an article for every entry (need 27). As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:58, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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One last time for 2009

Happy New Year to you, you WikiProject Oregon member! Tis the season for one last Collaboration Of The Week to get started this year. Thank you to those who worked on Gambling in Oregon and NRHP in Washington County the last few weeks. For the final COTW of 2009, we have Archiving Article Talk Pages and Mr. Standard TV & Appliance, Bill Schonely. For the archiving, we have a lot of old, stale comments on article talk pages from before 2009 that should be archived away, so that new comments are not added to things that either were addressed or not worth addressing. Personally, I archive anything older than a year. Anyway, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Adios. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:28, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Western philosophers

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Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Owen! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 12 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 5 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

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Oregon COTW v 3.0.2010ish

Greetings WikiProject Oregon team member. Time for the first new Collaboration Of The Week in 2010. Thank you to those who worked on Bill Schonely and archiving talk pages. For this week, we have Concordia University and the Berry Botanic Garden. Hopefully we can mine the garden’s website before it closes down. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Cheers and stuff. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:45, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Aspect ratio of Doom screenshots

Hi, my name is James Haley, and I am the programmer of the Eternity Engine source port for Doom, and an administrator of the Doom Wiki. I wanted to let you know that you have misinterpreted the content of the Doom Wiki article on aspect ratios, due to its exceptionally vague wording, which I have attempted to correct in a recent commit. When viewing a screenshot of Doom in a square-pixel resolution such as 1024x768 or 1680x1050, to name a couple of random examples, the screenshots will appear inappropriately flattened relative to their appearance on the original VGA hardware. The tweaked Mode 13h which DOOM used in DOS had rectangular pixels, and while it was a 16:10 resolution by normal math, it actually appeared as 4:3, since the VGA hardware stretched the 200 vertical lines over the same raster space normally used by 240 lines. This means that to display such screenshots correctly in modern resolutions, they must be stretched vertically to the nearest 4:3 resolution. For 320x200, this means 320x240. Similarly, playing the game in 320x200 windowed mode with a modern source port will result in the same flattened appearance. --QuasarTE (talk) 23:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Hey Quas. I know who you are. (This is Sarge Baldy). I don't really know about all the technical stuff. All I know is that A) the 320x200 looks right to me, where the 320x240 resolution does not and B) screenshots taken with doom.exe are produced at 320x200. (Although the screenshot I took for the Doom II page was taken in Eternity at 320x200 resolution.) But I trust you know what you're talking about, so do what you will with them. Owen (talk) 18:22, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Just Out, COTW does well in new decade

Howdy WikiProject Oregon folks, time again for the latest installment of As the Collaboration Of The Week Turns. Last week was one of the more successful COTWs in recent memory as we really worked hard as a community to improve Concordia University and Berry Botanic Garden. Both are now at least C class articles and nicely illustrated (thanks to Tedder, Finetooth, and Ipoellet). Plus it really was a group effort as we had five different WPORE editors work on the garden and ditto with the school, with some overlap between the two.

Anyway, this week, we have by request the completely unrelated Just Out and Terrell Brandon. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. This message paid for by Fooians against COTW killing taxes. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:25, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Oregon COTW and randomness

Greetings fellow WikiProject Oregon member, it is once again time for the Collaboration of the Week (yes, I know they are not actually every week anymore). Thank you to those who helped out the last few weeks improving Terrell Brandon, Just Out, 75th Oregon Legislative Assembly, and all the unreferenced BLPs. This week we have by request Oregon Coast Aquarium and Arvydas Sabonis (maybe the Blazers can sign him as I think he's healthy). Both need more sourcing. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. And remember folks, the only thing we have to fear is death and taxes, unless of course the dingo ate your baby, at which point you may feel the need, the for speed to get away from said dingos, which in turn can lead to a failure to communicate due to the dynamics of sound waves, though at some point hopefully we can all just get along. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:06, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Visual edition of the Oregon COTW featuring the Glass Palace

Hello WikiProject Oregon member, time for a new edition of the Collaboration of the Week. Thank you to those who helped out the last few weeks improving Oregon Coast Aquarium and Arvydas Sabonis. Also thank you to those few of you helped with the attempt to celebrate Women's History Month with Barbara Roberts and Ursula K. Le Guin.

This week we have by request the Memorial Coliseum that has been in the news a lot lately, and then one of the more important political figures in our state's history, Douglas McKay. The MC needs some ref work and EL work, and McKay really needs a lot more sourcing. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: II (April 2010)

Sociology Project • News • April 2010
The Sociology WikiProject is conducting a roll call (or min-census, if you prefer). More then five years down the road, we have over 50 members, but we don't know how many of them are still active in the sociology area. If you are or want to become once again an active contributor to the sociology content on Wikipedia, please move your name from the inactive to the active list on our roll call. In other news, we have reactivated the newsletter :) At least, for this announcement. We also have a new, automated to do listing, an active tag and assess project (which has identified about 1,800 sociology articles on Wikipedia, and assessed about 1,3000 of them), and three new userboxes for your self-identification pleasure :) On a final note, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.
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Sociology Project • News • April 2010

The Sociology WikiProject is conducting a roll call (or min-census, if you prefer). More then five years down the road, we have over 50 members, but we don't know how many of them are still active in the sociology area. If you are or want to become once again an active contributor to the sociology content on Wikipedia, please move your name from the inactive to the active list on our roll call.

In other news, we have reactivated the newsletter :) At least, for this announcement. We also have a new, automated to do listing, an active tag and assess project (which has identified about 1,800 sociology articles on Wikipedia, and assessed about 1,3000 of them), and three new userboxes for your self-identification pleasure :) On a final note, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.

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It Takes a Rim Village - Oregon COTW

Greetings WikiProject Oregon member, time for the next edition of the Collaboration of the Week. Thanks to those who assisted in improving a few articles over the last month. For May Day edition of the COTW (in Wikipedia time its May already), we have by request Rim Village Historic District and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (AKA OMSI). Rim Village just needs some refinement to get to GA, while OMSI needs a lot of work in general. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Adios (on May 5th that is). Aboutmovies (talk) 04:43, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Please, do not delete this - this would help many souls from hellish condition and spiritual suicide. So let it be here please, at least in history of this page. Hare Krishna. A person who calls one Vaishnava a `big Vaishnava' and another Vaishnava a `little Vaishnava' may be peaceful and happy for now, but for how long will he remain peaceful and happy? On the preText of rebuking His mother, Lord Chaitanya, the supreme teacher (siksha-guru), taught everyone to carefully avoid offending a Vaishnava. Anyone who jumps over lionlike Lord Chaitanya's order and foolishly offends a Vaishnava will be punished for his offense. Please give me your attention and hear why Lord Chaitanya spoke as He did. Lord Chaitanya knows everything that happens in all three phases (past, present, and future, of time. He knows that in the future some demoni people will serve Lord Advaita. They will refer to Lord Advaita by the name "Shri Krishna". In this way they will reject the words of the true Vaishnavas. These sinners will thus disobey the devotees who affirm that Advaita is "the greatest Vaishnava". Many persons will consider themselves the followers of Lord Advaita, but they will not have the power to see how in the future they will be punished. Lord Chaitanya, the crest jewel of they who know everything, knew all this. Therefore He did something to try to stop this from happening. By punishing His mother, Lord Chaitanya showed the result that comes from offending Lord Advaita or any other Vaishnava. No one can protect a person who has offended a Vaishnava. Therefore one should avoid persons who offend Vaishnava. One should avoid an offender, even if the offender is otherwise very qualified. A little association with an offender will make one fall down. Who has the power to understand why the Lord gives punishment? By punishing His mother, He taught everyone. Anyone who blasphemes they who use the word `Vaishnava" to address Lord Advaita will be punished. He will perish. Lord Chaitanya is theSupreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all. To be called His follower is very great praise. Without any intention to deceive, Lord Chaitanya openly said that Lord Nityananda is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. By Lord Nityananda's mercy I know Lord Chaitanya. By Lord Nityananda's mercy I know the Vaishnavas. By Lord Nityananda's mercy offenses are destroyed. By Lord Nityananda's mercy one attains devotion to Lord Vishnu. Blasphemy directed to Lord Nityananda's servants never enters my mouth. Day and night I happily sing Lord Chaitanya's glories. I carefully serve Lord Nityananda's devotees. Lord Chaitanya is the life and wealth of Lord Nityananda's servants. A person who has only a little good fortune will not become Lord Nityananda's servant, for Lord Nityananda's servant is able to see Lord Chaitanya. Anyone who hears this story of Lord Visvarupa becomes a servant of the limitless Supreme Personality of Godhead. He feels that Lord Nityananda is his very life. Lord Nityananda and Lord Visvarupa do not have different bodies. This Mother Saci knew. Some other great souls also knew. Glory to Lord Nityananda, who takes shelter of Lord Chaitanya! Glory, glory to Lord Nityananda, who is thousand-faced Ananta Sesha! O Lord Nityananda, O king of Gauda-desa, glory to You! Who can attain Lord Chaitanya without first attaining Your mercy? Anyone who loses Lord Nityananda will not be happy in this life. Will I some day see Lord Chaitanya, Lord Nityananda, and their associates all thogether in one place? Lord Chaitanya is my master. With great faith and hope I meditate on Him within my heart. I bow down before Lord Advaita's feet. I pray that he will always be dear to me and that He will always stay in my thoughts. The two moons Shri Krishna Chaitanya and Shri Nityananda are my life and soul. I, Vrindavana dasa, sing the glories of Their feet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.132.82.156 (talk) 11:12, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 24 Hour Church of Elvis

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Melville Jacobs

FYI: Melville Jacobs is one of the current collaborations for WikiProject Oregon. Just letting you know, since it was your suggestion! --Another Believer _(Talk) 21:48, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Portland Parks Photo Blitz!

	<font=3> Want something to do this weekend? I propose a WikiProject Oregon weekend photo blitz! Let's try to fill up the List of parks in Portland, Oregon as much as possible by getting out and taking our own pictures or finding ones online that can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. The pictures uploaded will not only benefit the aforementioned list, but they will be used for future articles about specific parks and will fill up the Parks in Portland category over at Commons. Get your cameras ready! --Another Believer _(Talk) 20:50, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Tuxedomoon

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Fair use rationale for File:Evey.jpg

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Fair use rationale for File:Fascistpigbank.jpg

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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Pataphysicians

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Novel

No idea why that got delinked as I was only linking British? Thanks for putting it back. --Step hen 03:23, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Nazia Iqbal for deletion

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Happy Birthday

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

--Monterey Bay (talk) 05:41, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: III (December 2010)

Sociology Project • News • December 2010
Spreading the meme since August 2006
The Sociology WikiProject third newsletter is out! According to our April mini-census, we have 15 active members, 6 semi-active ones and 45 inactive. Out of those, 4 active, 3 semi-active and 1 inactive members have added themselves to corresponding categories since the mini-census. The next one is planned, roughly, for sometime next year. The membership list has been kept since 2004. On that note, nobody has ever studied WikiProjects from the sociological perspective... if you are interesting in researching Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Research and wiki-research-l listerv. Moving from research to teaching, did you know that many teachers and instructors are teaching classes with Wikipedia? This idea is getting support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and some really useful tools have been created recently. I have experience with that, having taught several undergad classes, so feel free to ask me questions on that! And as long as I am talking about professional issues, if any of you is going to any sociological conferences, do post that to our project - perhaps other members are going there too? In other news: the a automated to do listing reported in the April issue went down shortly afterwards, but seems to be on the path to reactivation. We still have an active tag and assess project, and comparing the numbers to the April report, we have identified about 350 more sociology-related articles (from 1,800 to 2,150) and assessed about 100 (from 1,300 to 1,400). We now have a listing of most popular sociology-related pages. It is updated on the 1st of every month, starting with August, and reports which of our sociology-tagged articles are most frequently read. Of course, GIGO holds true, so after looking at it right now and trying to determine what is our most popular article, my first action was to shake my head and remove Criminal Minds (which, perhaps not too surprisingly, outranks all sociology articles in period tested). Second item I noticed it this month's Industrial Revolution, beating Criminal Minds, that moved from close to 30th position in August/September, to 9th in October and 2nd in November. If you'd like to discuss this or any other trends, please visit WT:SOCIOLOGY! Finally, with the reactivation of Article Alerts, we are getting our own here. Bookmark that page so you can keep track of sociology related deletion debates, move debates, good and feature article discussions, and more. Our first task force (Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force) was created (1 June 2010). If you have basic or better graphic skills, our projects needs a dedicated barnstar (award) (currently the closest we can get is the Society Barnstar. As always, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.
Authored by _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus\| talk} 04:07, 26 December 2010 (UTC) You have received this newsletter because you are listed as a recipient of WikiProject Sociology Newsletter (Opt-out).

Sociology Project • News • December 2010

Spreading the meme since August 2006

The Sociology WikiProject third newsletter is out!

According to our April mini-census, we have 15 active members, 6 semi-active ones and 45 inactive. Out of those, 4 active, 3 semi-active and 1 inactive members have added themselves to corresponding categories since the mini-census. The next one is planned, roughly, for sometime next year. The membership list has been kept since 2004.

On that note, nobody has ever studied WikiProjects from the sociological perspective... if you are interesting in researching Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Research and wiki-research-l listerv.

Moving from research to teaching, did you know that many teachers and instructors are teaching classes with Wikipedia? This idea is getting support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and some really useful tools have been created recently. I have experience with that, having taught several undergad classes, so feel free to ask me questions on that!

And as long as I am talking about professional issues, if any of you is going to any sociological conferences, do post that to our project - perhaps other members are going there too?

In other news: the a automated to do listing reported in the April issue went down shortly afterwards, but seems to be on the path to reactivation. We still have an active tag and assess project, and comparing the numbers to the April report, we have identified about 350 more sociology-related articles (from 1,800 to 2,150) and assessed about 100 (from 1,300 to 1,400).

We now have a listing of most popular sociology-related pages. It is updated on the 1st of every month, starting with August, and reports which of our sociology-tagged articles are most frequently read. Of course, GIGO holds true, so after looking at it right now and trying to determine what is our most popular article, my first action was to shake my head and remove Criminal Minds (which, perhaps not too surprisingly, outranks all sociology articles in period tested). Second item I noticed it this month's Industrial Revolution, beating Criminal Minds, that moved from close to 30th position in August/September, to 9th in October and 2nd in November. If you'd like to discuss this or any other trends, please visit WT:SOCIOLOGY!

Finally, with the reactivation of Article Alerts, we are getting our own here. Bookmark that page so you can keep track of sociology related deletion debates, move debates, good and feature article discussions, and more.

Our first task force (Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force) was created (1 June 2010).

If you have basic or better graphic skills, our projects needs a dedicated barnstar (award) (currently the closest we can get is the Society Barnstar.

As always, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.

Authored by _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 04:07, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Owen/archive! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 20:13, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

You're Invited! Come Celebrate Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary!

<font=3> You're invited to help celebrate Wikipedia's 10th anniversary! Visit this link for details. An informal celebration will take place at the AboutUs office located at 107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520 in Portland on Saturday, January 15, 2011. An Open Space Technology meeting is scheduled from 5pm to 7pm, with a party to follow. Admission is free!

--Another Believer _(Talk) 16:56, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Jim Wright

I noticed you've been editing the section on Jim Wright about the aide controversy, so I thought I'd ask you if you think the wording about "putting her body in the car" might unnecessarily imply the victim didn't survive the attack. I'm trying to figure out the most natural way to reword it. Kansan (talk) 02:18, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

I agree, the wording could be clearer. Just saying "he put her in his car" wouldn't necessarily be a good alternative, since that wording seems to imply that her injuries were not that severe. But according to Small, Mack thought she was dead, which is how she ended up escaping. When he went to the movies he left the keys in his car, and she drove herself to a hospital. Maybe the best thing to do would be to add some of these details? Owen (talk) 03:34, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

WPORE COTW 2.0 - the picture eddition

Greetings one and all. For some of you, this will be your first time receiving one of these messages, as it has been a year since the WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week (COTW) was a regular thing. My hope is it gets back to being a regular thing.

Usually I would go over the past COTW, but we are basically starting out anew. So, without further adieu, this edition is our semi-annual picture drive. We usually try to do it when there is decent weather in the state, and today seems to fit the bill. Now although you are encouraged to go out and take pictures, you can also just search the internet for images that have the proper licensing and upload those. Flickr is one site that has a fair amount of content with the proper licensing (most images on Flickr are not compatible). See WP:COPYRIGHT in general. For some “free” sources, check out the our dormant subproject that has some links to sources.

Lastly, if you need to know what images we need, here are the requests. Please remove the request from the talk page if you add an image.

Finally (this is not image related), as the years have passed, we have lost many good editors, and others, like myself, are no longer in school or are working full-time or both, and thus are less active in the project. The project lives on, but it has created a bit of a power vacuum without a de facto cabal still around all the time. With that in mind, I encourage newer project members to step-up and fill some leadership type roles. Granted, we have no formal ruling junta or anything and no real defined roles, but there are many maintenance type tasks that some of us just took on to keep the project going. For instance, I ran the COTW, was pretty much the only one doing assessments, updating the portal, and even handing out the awards. I am sure others in the project can name what things they have done. The point being, that while I enjoyed those and still do some of those, I simply no longer have the free time to do all of it at a level that the project deserves. That said, I hope to start a discussion at WT:ORE where we can see if some newer editors would like to step-up and take on some of these tasks, which will hopefully make for a more inclusive project, and maybe get us back to the heyday of say 2008 when things were really rocking for WikiProject Oregon.

As always, please click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 18:48, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

News page balance

Hello, I'm not quite sure I understand why you reverted my recent change to the news page. There is more to a balance in the news feed than a simple geographic balance. Currently more than half of the articles in the feed are sports-related, and that is a poor balance of topics. I removed the other football story in particular because it hardly feels well balanced having two of them in the news feed at the same time. Owen (talk) 15:25, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Once again, you seem to be demonstrating how out of touch you are with the section. I guarantee you that at least 95% -- at the risk of saying 100% --of the references to "balance" in the edit summaries in the recent history of ITN refer to balancing the left and right halves of the Main Page. By removing that item, you are introducing a large gap at the bottom of the right column (in OTD, obviously). I personally object to removing stories just because there are too many similar ones next to it, but even if I were in the same boat as you, there's nothing we can do here because the last story removed (presumably the one that'd replace the football item) was also a sports-related story (a Spanish sports-related story, no less). --tariqabjotu 15:41, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 31Knots

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WP:ROALD

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Become a member of the task force and encourage others to do so.
Tag articles for the task force.
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Work on all Roald Dahl related articles mainly focusing on stubs.
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Happy Birthday

Here's to you on your birthday, Owen! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! --SMS ^Talk 11:38, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

An alternative approach to splitting vs merging

Rather than a splitting vs merging mentality, how about an approach that has benefits of both styles: referencing. This would require the framework to be different, however, and some slightly fundamental changes may need to be made to Wikipedia.

Using this approach, the article "1997 Atlantic hurricane season" can include the contents of the article "Hurricane Bill" as a section within it. If changes are made to the "Hurricane Bill" section while editing the "1997 Atlantic hurricane season" article, this would in effect be making changes to the separate "Hurricane Bill" article. Changes made separately to the "Hurricane Bill" article would immediately be reflected in the "1997 Atlantic hurricane season" article by reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thermalite (talk • contribs) 13:16, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, Lionel. Thank you for your kind concern. My problem isn't so much that I received a newsletter (which doesn't particularly bother me), so much as that I did so for a seemingly random reason. I am not involved in the Christianity WikiProject, and have not opted-in to receive these communications, so why am I receiving them? MCMcBridge pointed out to me that I am signed up for the Quaker WikiProject (I had signed up nearly five years ago), so that gives me the comfort that this wasn't, in any case, a random messaging. But I don't believe that I should be receiving Christianity WikiProject materials without request by being a member of a particular subproject, any more than I would want to receive WikiProject U.S. states emails without request simply because I am a member of the Oregon WikiProject. If I joined the Quaker WikiProject, and not the Christianity WikiProject, the assumption should be that I wasn't interested in the Christianity WikiProject, but in this case it was assumed that I am. Owen (talk) 23:01, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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Request for translation

In connection with our article on the May 25 Houla massacre, what in my estimation appears to be an important new source has emerged in the June 23 article "In Syrien gibt es mehr als nur eine Wahrheit" in the Berliner Morgenpost. Given that in the past there has been much controversy over introducing sources which contradict the main narrative of the massacre, i.e. that it was perpetrated by the Syrian government, or groups loyal to it, I believe a high-quality translation of this article is necessary to facilitate a fully informed discussion about its use.

Based on past experience I have requested a translation from you as well as four other translators listed at Wikipedia:Translators available#German-to-English. Therefore, should you decide to take on this task, I would ask that you either give notice to the other four that you are doing the assignment, or to me and I will let the four other know. (I suppose, as a matter of quality assurance, two translations could be presented for comparison, but I don't see that as required at present, but if a second translator would like to duplicate, all the better.) I'm listing the other four below:

Your user sandbox could be used as target for the translation (i.e. a permanent link to it would ensure its availability in case it becomes overwritten). __meco (talk) 08:26, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Marcika has provided a partial translation as presented at Talk:Houla massacre#German articles. This is significant and will be very helpful in the assessment of the Berliner Morgenpost article as a source for our article. However, a full translation would be preferrable, so I will let the request stand in case any of the translators (including Marcika) will see it possible to produce this. __meco (talk) 08:49, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

You're Invited! Wikipedia Takes Portland 2012

<font=3> You're invited to participate in Wikipedia Takes Portland 2012, an annual event which occurs each September in Portland, Oregon as part of Wikipedia Takes America and Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States. Photographing sites in Portland listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the main focus of Wikipedia Takes Portland. This year the event will kick off at Saturday, September 22nd at noon at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Currently, there are no formal plans--this is simply an opportunity to meet fellow Wikipedians before trekking around PDX to photograph sites on the Register. Not interested in coming downtown? You can still upload your images as part of the international photo competition. Be sure to RSVP and share the results of your work HERE (number of images uploaded, links to galleries, successes, feedback, etc. Click here for more information about meetups in Portland! --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:07, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

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Click here for more information about meetups in Portland! --Another Believer _(Talk) 21:06, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Interview for masters thesis about wikipedia

Dear Owen, I am a graduate student of Information Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and I am working on my master's thesis which is about wikipedia, more specifically the Wikipedia community and how the knowledge in Wikipedia is constructed. In my research I am - among other things - going to focus on the construction of academic knowledge in Wikipedia. Since you are the founder of the, Sociology WikiProject I would like to ask you if you would be willing to do an interview about the way you work with Wikipedia, how it integrates with your daily life, and what motivates you to contribute, how you view the knowledge in Wikipedia etc. Since I live in Denmark the interview will be held through skype or a similar service.

If you are interested or if you would like to know more about me/my thesis, feel free to contact me at anders@thorb.org or through my talk page.

I am looking forward to hearing from you!

Anders Thorborg

Andersthorborg (talk) 20:20, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia edit-thon: Saturday, February 9, 2013

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Hope to see you there! --Another Believer _(Talk) 16:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

You're invited! Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon at the University of Oregon

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Saturday, March 9 - Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon at the University of Oregon - You are invited!

Come celebrate Women's History Month at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, on March 9! This event, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, is hosted by the Fembot, in collaboration with ASOU Women's Center, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the School of Journalism and Communication, and the UO Libraries.

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Category:No Wave

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Portland "Wiknic" 2013!

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If you don't mind me asking, how long has the influence category been around for directors? Has it been there for years? thanks Markyg0089 (talk) 12:51, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Georgia Henshaw

In this edit you added a birthdate to a BLP that was not supported by the inline citation already included in the article. If you are going to restore the full date, could you please include the reliable source you are using for verification? Thanks, --Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 14:47, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Edit-athon!

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Sportfan5000 block

You may wish to be aware of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology, and the fact that he was already warned for issues in the Chelsea Manning case - discretionary sanctions may be an option here. --Rs chen 7754 21:24, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your note. I was not familiar with Sportfan's history on the Chelsea Manning article but these issues seem to mirror his editing behavior on the Pat Califia page. What would I need to do to initiate a request for discretionary sanctions? Owen (talk) 21:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

The sanctions are already authorized for anything dealing with transgender issues, so you can just determine the sanction and apply it. --Rs chen 7754 21:52, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Looking into the sanctions more, my understanding is that I am not authorized to apply them to Sportfan5000 as I am actively involved with him in the dispute on the Pat Califia page. Owen (talk) 22:08, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Well... then you shouldn't have been the one doing the block either, per WP:INVOLVED. --Rs chen 7754 22:13, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Whoops, thank you for that reminder. I've reversed the block. Owen (talk) 22:26, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Worm! I've received your email and am preparing a response. Owen (talk) 17:35, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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In Portland, there are two ways to contribute. One is a photography campaign called "Pride PDX", for pictures related to LGBT culture and history. The Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, June 21 from noon–4pm at Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 236 at Portland State University. Prior Wikipedia editing is not required; assistance will be available the day of the event. Attendees should bring their own laptops and cords.

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Nomination of Lauren Dinh for deletion

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Requesting edit on my behalf

Hi, Owen, I am a user that has been blocked from editing the Robert Kagan page by some sort of automatic bot by a bugger user know as evergreen. I saw your intervention the other day on the issue regarding Kagan's jewish description on his info box. I was wondering whether you can edit the Kagan info box on my behalf and add in the jewish description as follows:

ethnicity = Ashkenazi Jew^[1]

Some people used the pretext that the Jewish parameter in the info box lacked a citation as an excuse to get rid of the Jewish description, So I have added in a citation.

Thank You, your help would be greatly appreciated.182.55.88.216 (talk) 03:12, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello. It's great you've found a source but I've recused myself from that discussion. When I brought it up on the Administrator's Noticeboard the consensus seemed to be that citation or not, a user is not required to have their ethnicity listed (although I see no actual policy stating this), and I know from previous discussion that User:Wixifixer is Robert Kagan. Owen (talk) 03:19, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

It's okay if that's the case. How come you are sure that Wikifixer is the neo con Kagan?182.55.88.216 (talk) 03:54, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

He has said so before on the talk page. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Robert_Kagan&diff=250463114&oldid=250462764 And his actions surely don't belie that he is who he says he is. Owen (talk) 05:01, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Any Tom, Dick or Harry can claim that he is Robert Kagan on wikipedia. I have not seen evidence that shows that Wikifixer is Kagan. I don't consider Wikifixer to be the neo con Kagan unless there is hard evidence to prove it.182.55.88.216 (talk) 05:19, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

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

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

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Upcoming Art+Feminism events in Oregon

You are invited to participate in Oregon's upcoming Art+Feminism events, which will be held in Portland and Eugene on Saturday, March 5, 2016. Please see the following links for additional information, or to sign up:

Portland: Yale Union (800 SE 10th Avenue), 12:00–5:00pm
Eugene: Architecture and Allied Arts (A&AA) Library (200 Lawrence Hall, University of Oregon), 12:00–5:00pm

About Art+Feminism: Art+Feminism is pleased to announce its third annual Wikipedia edit-a-thon, an all-day event designed to generate coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and encourage female editorship. Last year, over 1,500 participants at more than 75 events around the world participated in the second annual campaign, resulting in the creation of nearly 400 new pages and significant improvements to 500 articles on Wikipedia. For more information, see Art+Feminism.

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Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Owen. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Owen.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Owen. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Art+Feminism @ Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (March 18, 2017)

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

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

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ PNCA Library (April 29, 2017)

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

Hope to see you there! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi! I'm trying to connect with Wikipedians that are in Eugene or have attended the University of Oregon

Hi! I'm trying to connect with Wikipedinas in Eugene or have attended the University of Oregon. Would you be interested in joining a wikipedia community based in Eugene or know of anyone interested? 80atUO (talk) 18:14, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Meetup Invitation

You are invited to the upcoming Asian Pacific American Heritage month edit-athon.

This will be held on the first floor of the Knight library at the University of Oregon.

For more information please see: Wikipedia:Meetup/Eugene/WikiAPA, a Facebook event link is also available on the Meetup page.

Date: Friday, May 26, 2017
Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Edminston Classroom, Knight Library, Room 144
Address:1501 Kincaid Street, Eugene, Oregon, 97403-1299

Hope to see you there!

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Can you help verify translations of articles from German

Hello Owen,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from German to English Wikipedia?

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This would involve evaluating a translated article on the English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original German article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including German , using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from German. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great. Here's a sample of the articles that need checking:

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the German article, and assess them "Pass" or "Fail" (the {{Pass}} and {{Fail}} templates may be useful here). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then assessing it, that's even better, but it isn't required.) Also please note that we are assessing accuracy not completeness, so if the English article is much shorter that is okay, as long as whatever has been translated so far is factually accurate.

If you can help, please {{ping}} me here to let me know. You can add your pass/fails above, right next to each link, or you may indicate your results below. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 06:44, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride at PNCA: Tuesday, June 27

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

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

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Speedy deletion nomination of Cascadia Wildlands

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A tag has been placed on Cascadia Wildlands, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Orphaned non-free image File:Cascwild.png

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Upcoming Wikipedia edit-a-thon dedicated to artists of color - Thursday, Oct. 26 at PNCA

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

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