User talk:Jeff G./Archives/2010/December

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Why aren't you a Sysop here, I'm sure you'd be great? Tofutwitch11-Chat -How'd I do? 20:58, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment!   — Jeff G.  ツ 02:08, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

NYC Meetup: Saturday, December 4

We meet outside by the trees at 5:00 PM.

Our next Wikipedia NYC Meetup is this weekend on Saturday Dec 4 at Brooklyn Museum during their awesome First Saturdays program, starting at 5 PM.

A particular highlight for the wiki crowd will be 'Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968', and the accompanying "WikiPop" project, with specially-created Wikipedia articles on the artists displayed on iPads in the gallery.

This will be a museum touring and partying meetup, so no excuses about being a shy newbie this time. Bring a friend too!

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 22:22, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

New Test Wiki account

I have a new Test Wiki account here.   — Jeff G.  ツ 05:16, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey.

I know the 'anonymous user has reverted a vandal bot' tag looks tempting, but you recently reverted a constructive edit to a disambiguation page that happened to involve the removal of a redlink, which shouldn't be on disambig pages. Try to pay that extra little bit more attention in the future, thanks.

Oh, and I'd appreciate it if you'd revert your edit yourself later, I don't feel like being issued a level-3 by another trigger-happy vandal-fighter.

Happy editing. 130.15.203.135 (talk) 02:12, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I reverted myself. It would have been nice if you had mentioned the redlink in your Edit Summary.   — Jeff G.  ツ 02:19, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh, right. I mentioned the redlink in the edit that ClueBot reverted. I was just more occupied with pointing out the fact that I was reverting a false positive. I'll keep that in mind while making random small anonymous edits. 130.15.203.135 (talk) 02:25, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello Jeff,

I just did again what I just found out that you told me not to do, that is blank out Betaclamp! As a 'work in progress' it needs about a 5% review of other material just to fin a couple of things before I manually restore it to it's original state, I disagree with the merge,,, part of the 'material review'. AICD. "Anything I Can Do?" ~ Betaclamp (talk) 04:20, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Why do you have the same name as that article?   — Jeff G.  ツ 04:21, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

An Ask

Please make my userpage (User:فرامرز دانا) to a semi-protected Article. Thanks (Faramarz the WIKIpedian^[[Talk/|]] 01:57, 16 December 2010 (UTC))

I've requested such protection for you at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection#User:.D9.81.D8.B1.D8.A7.D9.85.D8.B1.D8.B2_.D8.AF.D8.A7.D9.86.D8.A7_.28edit.7Ctalk.7Chistory.7Clinks.7Cwatch.7Clogs.29.   — Jeff G.  ツ 03:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

... and it's done.   — Jeff G.  ツ 03:13, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much. (Faramarz the WIKIpedian^[[Talk/|]] 13:43, 16 December 2010 (UTC))

You're welcome.   — Jeff G.  ツ 15:18, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, thank you for your comments. I added that the ppcreate thing in there when i was still very confused about something. i jumped on the live chat and had a few people clear some things up for me. thank you for asking though and for providing that russian link. its very short but verifies the same things im saying. i will link it through.--Newyork48 (talk) 17:28, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program

Hi! Thanks for signing the Online Ambassador interest list. We're gearing up for the next term right now, and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program will be supporting considerably more courses, with considerably more student activity... possibly upwards of 500 students who will need mentors.

If you're still interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors in the coming term. If that's something you want to do, please apply!

You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).

I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:20, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

en.labs speedy deletions

Could you give a look at http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion ? Thank you, Nemo 17:49, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. I gave a look and addressed about a quarter of them, but I've got to run, I'll address more later or tomorrow.   — Jeff G.  ツ 19:25, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Update: all  Done. Season's Greetings.   — Jeff G.  ツ 03:16, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

WAYNESLAM has given you a Christmas tree! Christmas trees promote WikiLove and are a great way to spread holiday cheer. Merry Christmas!

Spread the WikiLove by adding {{subst:User:The Utahraptor/Christmas tree}} to any editor's talk page with a friendly message.

WAYNESLAM 23:44, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

External links

I notice that you edited out a number of external link references to articles on Buddhism recently on the basis that the links were in violation of Wikipedia policy. However, when I examined the links, and examined the policy, I was unable to identify a specific conflict. Could you clarify? I'm referring to the edits mentioned in User_talk:94.226.8.15. You mention that links should not be added for advertising, but the page linked to seems to be a scholarly translation of a work by a famous Tibetan monk from the sixteenth century, and contains no advertising. Abhayakara (talk) 20:21, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

The addition of the links had some of the hallmarks of a link spammer:

• first ever edits
• by an IP Address
• adding the same two links over and over again to four different articles
• in rapid-fire succession (five in five minutes)
• link descriptions that did not appear to relate to the article titles, nor did they appear to relate to a sixteenth century Tibetan monk (but are somewhat better than raw links with no descriptions)
• lack of Edit Summaries
• nonresponsiveness to user talk page posts

If the user of that IP Address had explained what the links were like you did and how they were relevant to the articles, we could have come to an understanding. If you can offer such information in the link descriptions and Edit Summaries, I would not object to reinsertion of those links. I'm sorry that I overreacted. I wouldn't want to wipe the slate clean on that IP Address's talk page (including deletion of your comment there) without consulting with you first. You have my permission to wipe my comments from there.   — Jeff G.  ツ 02:15, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

crowdsourcing

Hi Jeff,

I'm a graduate student in Design Management at Pratt, currently doing research on crowdsourcing. Wikipedia is a prime example of how people come together to create something as a collective. I'm therefore very interested in learning about the motivation behind your involvement. I've read books and article, but would love to find out firsthand from contributors about their experiences. Please let me know if I can email you some questions! many thanks, rimahsinno@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.108.163.67 (talk) 19:42, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, you may email me for that purpose via Special:EmailUser/Jeff G.   — Jeff G.  ツ 04:58, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Odd script

Thanks. I just saw it when I was going through my hard drive and wondered what it was. I thought Wikipedia had the highest concentration of techies so.... Anyways, thanks a lot. I had actually already talked to some of the guys in #colloquy-mobile about it and they had said something similar. Cheers, Mr R00t ^{Talk 'tribs} 18:56, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome.   — Jeff G.  ツ 18:58, 29 December 2010 (UTC)