This is an archive of past discussions with User:Gaia Octavia Agrippa. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.
I'm extremely sorry for all of the trouble I have caused by simply copying-and-pasting these Adoption pages. I realize now that I should have asked for permission to use them and to have given credit to the original creators. However, the reason why I did not, was that I had orginally thought that these pages (the ones that I copied and pasted) were a portion of a teaching method which many adopters both shared and used in order to instruct their adoptees. To put it simply, I thought that they could be used by any adopter, which was incorrect. They were the results of large amounts of your time, hard work, and energy. You have every right to be angry and disgusted with me, and I realize that. I apologize for my actions, and will either delete the pages and create my own teaching method and pages, or paste a template to the tops of each of these pages thanking you for allowing me to use your pages, if you allow me to do so. Once again, I apologize for my actions and I hope that we can put this whole experience behind us, and start anew. My regards, Laurinavicius (talk) 15:56, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I've implemented a similar program with my adoptess. Check out User:Drew R. Smith/Adoption and you can see my adoptee's and their respective tasks. Could you take a look and tell me what you think? I've been erasing the actual test part as it clutters up the page.DrewSmith What I've done23:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
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namaskar, hello gaia, je suis rajvaddhan from the land of wisdom / india,
i have have read u have a keen interest in war history , so i appeal u to compose a narration on mauryan emperor ashoka 's war on kalinga. ok.
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I attempted to do the task but it was just too many letters making it hard for me. could you please put less letters because personally, I want this adoption to go well MeteorMan722816:06, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Awww I sad...:( Just Kidding! I'll see if I can find more on my Generals and their commands. I am glad that I am becoming a good editor. I hope to become and Admin in December after some more anti vandal efforts. I will make you proud! Thanks, Riotrocket8676You gotta problem with that?20:50, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Adoption
Sorry I'm relatively new to this (and a I haven't been on in quite a long time...) But you offered to adopt me and I would like to accept if you would still like to. Thanks- Marx01 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marx01 (talk • contribs) 23:24, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Graham Binns
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Why I'm not cooperating
The task is just too much, I just cant understand then I didnt log out while i was on vacation was because i forgot. then I have to find more sources for my article draft. Can you give me an easier task and we can come back to my current one because its just too hard and stressful oh and I'm sorry that im not cooperating MeteorMan722820:37, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've noticed that you and some other wiki users have colored signatures. How did you do yours? I tried using HTML but it didn't work. Evangeline (talk) 11:34, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XXXIX (May 2009)
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6113 last month to 6344 on May 30th). We have recently overtaken WP:LONDON which has 6283 articles. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 38 out of a total number of 1850 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 42 is just behind WP:GM with 44.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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According to the article Usage share of web browsers the percentage of people using the Mozilla Firefox browser has increased steadily since 2004 and it now stands at 22.56%. The percentage of Wikipedia editors using Firefox is probably considerably higher because the Firefox browser has a number of advantages for editors. Not least of these is the add-on that lets you right click on a web page to get a Cite Web pop up on the menu. WPCITE allows you easily to create a citation template. This makes the laborious task of filling in web citation templates (almost) a thing of the past.
Another advantage of Firefox is the ability to use wikiEd which is a full-featured Wikipedia-integrated text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to edit pages. And there is a spell checker Currently, wikEd works under Firefox, SeaMonkey, Safari, and Google Chrome, but not under Internet Explorer and Opera.
Mention of these other browsers reminds me that not all browsers render pages in the same way. What appears to be a beautiful layout in one browser can be rendered as a tangled mess of text and images by another. As most browsers can be downloaded for free, it is worth having several on your computer just to check the appearance of articles. Bear in mind that many people who use Wikipedia just for reference will have only Internet Explorer, and possibly quite an old version, so some of the latest "bells and whistles" may not work for them.
My apologies to old hands who already know all this, but to new users it really is worthwhile looking into the possibilities of different browsers on Wikipedia.
September 2011, web browser usage share. Source: Median values from summary table.
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Adoption Tasks
Hi Gaia! I would just like to let you know that VinylCerebellum has completed the Basics Task of your Adoption Program on his first attempt. And, seeing as Bejinhan has already completed the Links Task, would you mind clearing out the Links Task so that VinylCerebellum can give it a go? There's no rush, but the sooner the better, please. Thank you, and happy editing! Laurinavicius (talk) 22:40, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
DYK for George Chesworth
On June 12, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George Chesworth, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Hello, thank you for your message. I linked to the page, but I just cannot figure out how to work the hook. I think the line about Helena Palaiologina having ordered the nose of her husband's mistress to be cut off would make an interesting Did You Know, but alas, I just cannot figure out how to nominate the article.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 05:48, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
I followed your advice and have made an infobox for Helena Palaiologina.I hope it looks OK, as it was my first ever infobox. Which types of articles need infoboxes? I was always curious about them. Obviously monarchs and their consorts, but what about the nobility?--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 16:13, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
I did an infobox for Charlotte de Sauve, but I had a problem with her first husband as their wedding date was unknown. I had to put in an approximate year, otherwise his name would not have shown. What should I do, seeing as the year I gave-1572 may not be the correct one?--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 16:57, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Actually, I have just discovered the exact year Charlotte married her first husband, it was 1569 not 1572. I have now corrected the infobox. I agree, infoboxes give the articles a more polished appearance.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 06:28, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6344 last month to 6538 on June 28th). We have recently overtaken WP:LONDON which has 6318 articles. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 39 out of a total number of 1862 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 45 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 44.
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
Article Activity
Siward Barn was promoted to GA on May 10th Oslac of York was promoted to GA on May 18th Thomas Ferens was promoted to GA on June 6th Wilfred was promoted to FA on June 9th Ilkley was nominated for GA on June 11th Sheffield was nominated for a FAR on June 18th Peak District was nominated for GA on June 18th York was submitted for a peer review on June 21st
Member News
There are now 64 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
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Citing sources for your text
In recent months some really promising Yorkshire articles from new editors have been appearing on Wikipedia. These editors have worked hard to produce interesting and informative texts with some exquisite images. However, some of these articles have lacked any verifiable sources, an absolute must for Wikipedia articles. Additional research is usually necessary to write a good article. An article has to be verifiable and citereliable sources which ideally should include books or peer reviewed journal articles. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, or the material may be removed. The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.
Fortunately, Wikipedia provides a number of easily used tools to help with this task. Beside the Firefox add on that was mentioned last month there are a couple of toolbar options to help editors.
The first is on the default toolbar. It's the <ref>...</ref> button. This places any text that is placed between the markers in the References section on the article page.
The second handy tool is obtained by going to the my preferences section on the menu tabs at the top of the page, click GADGETS, go to Editing gadgets and check refTools. Save your options and a new CITE button is added to your editing toolbar. This little wonder, when clicked, produces options for citation templates beneath the existing toolbar. It is a fairly simple task then to copy and paste the information into the template and when you've completed as much as you can, click the Add citation button. This produces an inline citation. Of course this all depends on there being a References section on the page with either the <references/> markup or {{Reflist}} template added.
If you are in doubt about an unsourced statement, try copying the phrase or sentence and pasting it into the search box of your favourite search engine. Often this turns up a source which you can then add to the article yourself by filling in one of the citation templates on your editing toolbar. If you want to request a source for an unsourced statement, consider tagging a sentence by adding the {{fact}} template, a section with {{unreferencedsection}}, or the article with {{refimprove}} or {{unreferenced}}. Alternatively, you may leave a note on the talk page requesting a source, or you may move the material to the talk page.
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New Article
Hey Gaia,
I just created a baby article and I was wondering if you could look over it and make sure I didn't miss anything very important? I'm still working on it, but for right now it's just a stub. Here it is
Thanks, Marx01Tell me about it04:02, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Re this, I'm puzzled why you've removed it. The lack of an explanatory edit summary doesn't help! Can you enlighten? Cheers, --Dweller (talk) 14:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XL (June 2009)
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Proposed deletion of Abida Parveen
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I adore the way you have your adoption program set up. I am attempting to set up something similar, and would love any pointers you could give me. Thanks, Onopearls(t/c)07:50, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Mainly my edits are going to be typo fixing and contributing to WikiProject Television Stations. and I'm going to start practicing tables and infoboxes.--Meteorman7228 (talk) 04:28, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
I was informing users, but apparently you disagree. It shouldn't surprise me though considering that you're a Brit -- which tells me that you're probably an atheist. i still don't understand why you reverted my edits man. anyway, later hon. Anniebobanna (talk) 00:38, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I suppose i could do a userpage...but I'm not sure how to begin. anyway, I don't mean to evangelize, but I suggest you read Leviticus 18:22 if you consider yourself a Christian. xx Anniebobanna (talk) 00:46, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,538 last month to 6,651 on July 27th). WP:LONDON have had a major tagging spree by a bot and now have 12,595 articles which is twice as may as this project. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 39 out of a total number of 1,946 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 46 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 45.
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
Article Activity
Peak District passed a GA review on July 2nd Ilkley failed a GA review on July 19th Arctic Monkeys kept following GAR reassessment on July 21st York nominated for GA review on July 21st Geoffrey Boycott nominated for GA review on July 25th
Member News
There are now 65 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the July newsletter:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Images
This month we focus on a recent requirement for images in articles—that of supplying alternative text for each of the images. This has been raised in FAC debates and is now a requirement for FA articles and as a result there is a general push to get all images marked-up. For example the {{Infobox UK place}} is currently undergoing changes in preparation for the use of alternative text on its images.
Alternative text is text added to the image mark-up to describe the image to someone who cannot see the image. The alternative text is in addition to the caption and should not duplicate information in the caption. It should be added, without any wikimark-up or line-breaks in it, using the alt= parameter of the image mark-up. For more information on this see WP:ALT.
Example
The exterior of York Castle, including a large portion of the motte.
[[Image:York castle exterior.jpg|thumb|100px|alt=A tall, circular, roofless building of honey coloured stone positioned on top of a high mound of grass.|The exterior of York Castle, including a large portion of the motte.]]
(If you are using a standard graphical browser and want to read this image's alt text, ask the browser to display the image's properties. Usually right click, properties.)
The same requirement is to be applied to Math-mode formulas but is probably less important to this project as very few of our articles contain such mark-up.
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WikiProject Films July 2009 Newsletter
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Congratulations, Gaia Octavia Agrippa! For your kindness to others, your hard work around the wiki, and for being a great user, you have been awarded the "Wikipedian of the Day" award for today, August 4, 2009! Keep up the great work! Note: You could also receive the "Wikipedian of the Week award for this week!
I've been reading through the tasks by myself. Right now I'm going through the list of British actors and actresses and inserting links into some of the pages. How do I bring up a stub-class articles to B-class articles? BejinhanTalk05:19, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Edits
Hi! In my edit count here, why is my number of edits 339 when I have 422 edits. Plus, the information there is wrong. Is there a way I can correct that? BejinhanTalk12:57, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
No, they aren't. Can I correct the wrong information? I need it to be correct because I requested for an editor review and I don't want my info to be wrong. BejinhanTalk13:15, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Kevin O'Donoghue at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! NW (Talk) 00:16, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
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