User talk:Andrew Spinner

Welcome!

Hello Andrew Spinner, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Alai 03:51, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

75px|left Hi Andrew Spinner. I, SoothingR would like to commend you on your edits pertaining to the article The Stumble. Edits like that give Wikipedia the christmas spirit which we need so much. Especially today.

Thanks for your peaceful and useful contributions, and I wish you a merry christmas - and ofcourse - a happy new year.

Best wishes, SoothingR^(pour) 17:33, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject query

Hi, just wanted to run something by you as I noticed you are a somewhat frequent editor of the Mark Knopfler article. Do you think there would be any interest or need for creating a WikiProject Guitarists? I imagine something focused on cataloging all notable guitarists with their own articles, including things like:

Equipment used
Techniques and innovations noted
Tunings used
Roles in various musical groups
Endorsements

What do you think? Aguerriero (talk) 14:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would you mind signing your name to the project's proposal listing here? Thanks! Aguerriero (talk) 15:06, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Guitarists

Hello, just dropping you a note to invite you to check out the new WikiProject Guitarists page. It is in its first iteration, and has not yet been listed as an official project. Looking for feedback on anything you care to comment on. I hope you will become one of the first participants! --Aguerriero (talk) 20:56, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Guitarists Newsletter - Issue I - August 2006

The August 2006 issue of the WikiProject Guitarists newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Aguerriero (talk) 18:12, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Guitarists Newsletter - Issue II - October 2006

The October 2006 issue of the WikiProject Guitarists newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Aguerriero (talk) 20:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 22:38, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Summaries

Hi, please consider using Edit Summaries when you edit - it helps other editors see what changes you're making to articles. Thanks. exolon 17:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Guitarists newsletter

The WikiProject Guitarists Newsletter
Issue III - July 2007

Project news

Hey everyone! It's been quite a while since the last newsletter went out but it's time to tune up those guitars, set the amps to 11, and rock out a bit. Or for us old guys, put on the fingerpicks and set the amp to 3. A lot of people have been laboring away at guitar articles and their efforts are to be applauded. If you haven't edited in a while, why not pick an article from Category:Stub-Class guitarist articles and expand it? Or better yet, pick one from the article requests and create it. More tasks can be found on the main project page in the WikiProject Guitarists open tasks box.

I went through the member list and moved anyone who hasn't edited a guitar article in two months to the inactive section. If you're getting this newsletter, it means you are still in the active list. See you around --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 21:47, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Volunteers needed

The Guitar equipment task force needs editors to work on guitar equipment articles. Many articles for guitar manufacturers, guitar models, amps, and effects are basically one-sentence stubs or written like advertisements. If you're interested in this type of article, visit the task force page to sign up and browse Category:Guitar equipment task force articles for things to work on.
If you are interested in assessing guitarist articles, please see the assessment department. At one time, we had it cleared out, but there are now a lot of articles in Category:Unassessed guitarist articles.

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WikiProject Guitarists newsletter

The WikiProject Guitarists Newsletter
Issue IV - December 2007

Project news

Hello all! Time for the next installment of the WikiProject Guitarists newsletter. I recently went through and trimmed the member list again to remove inactive participants. I haven't been too active recently because I'm finishing a Master's degree but I'll have some more free time coming up. I will probably spend some time cleaning up equipment articles since many of them read like adverts or contain no useful information.

We have a lot of great people working on the project, including professional guitarists and even luthiers. We have the potential to write a lot of great articles. If you are looking for something to do, see the open tasks on the main project page or see the column to the right for specific suggestions. --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 23:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Volunteers needed

I'd like to have an assessment drive to clear out Category:Unassessed guitarist articles. If you are interested in assessing guitarist articles, please see the assessment department.
Why not pick an article in Category:B-Class guitarist articles and try to bring it to good article status? See the good article criteria for more information.
Leave a note for Anger22 (talk · contribs) asking him politely to come back (har har).

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Hi Andrew

I noticed the post (belatedly) on the Mark Knopfler page. I wanted to work on his page, but thought his popularity would bring more editors, and instead I've been slowly working on the Derek Trucks and Cat Stevens articles, and adding info boxes and photos to pages that lack them. My userpage has a list of musicians' biographies that I'd like to see expanded. This would be one, but I'm afraid it would be massive. Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam (and his controversies) have worn me out because of his lengthy career. What are you currently editing? Perhaps I can help. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 10:45, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Andrew Spinner! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. 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 this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 177 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Alan Clark (keyboardist) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 13:12, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for November 8

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Glass (John Illsley album)

Hello, and thanks for creating this article. It's been tagged for notability for 5 years now. Could you please look it over and see if you think it can be shown to meet WP:NALBUMS? Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 21:36, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 01:42, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Proposed deletion of Glass (John Illsley album)

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Nomination of Telegraph Road (song) for deletion

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