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WikiProject Homeschooling newsletter for June 2008

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Issue Five • June 2008 • About the Newsletter
News Recent Project News User:Diligent Terrier has retired. Project member count reaches 37 members! Invite others using our invitation templates. You can help the project by tagging the talk pages of articles with `{{WikiProject Homeschooling}}` We are working on getting the homeschooling article to GA status.
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Guideline discussion spam in baseball newsletter?

Hi. I assume you are the keeper of the baseball newsletter you've sent me a few times? Do you think it would be possible to include a link about a discussion which is underway at WT:MLB regarding the notability guideline for baseball players? It's my contention not only that the current guideline is flawed, but that the main cause for the flaws is that too few people were involved in its construction to form a quorum. So I'd like as many people as possible to weigh in. Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:12, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure when the next newsletter will be delivered, but I added something about it here. It hopefully is enough, but feel free to change it around if you want. jj137 (talk) 20:06, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Check your email. « Diligent Terrier (talk) 20:14, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ding. jj137 (talk) 19:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

August 2008

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Mike Mussina worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. Thank you. TestEditBot (talk) 04:05, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't vandalism... -- RyRy (talk) 04:07, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LMAO. jj137 (talk) 04:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note in the paragraph which is being diffed, <ref>Insert footnote text here</ref> is present, and is still there as of this posting. You're welcome :) tj9991 (talk | contribs) 05:28, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, OK? I didn't put that there. jj137 (talk) 23:23, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Userpage

Yep, glad to help. (That's what you meant, I hope) I replied to your email as well. See you in a couple of months! « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie » 18:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting AfDs

Just a reminder, but when you relist AfDs don't forget to remove them from the log page they were on as well as adding them to the current log page. Cheers, and happy editing! lifebaka++ 19:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, forgot to remove them from the old log pages. It's been a while since I've worked with AFDs... jj137 (talk) 23:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey!

I'm finally back from my wikibreak! While I was on it, I moved to New Orleans. How are you doing? Burner0718 ^JibbaJabba! 02:22, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow :) Pretty good I guess, haven't edited nearly as much as I used to but occasionally I will (and I was on a wikibreak myself for a while). But, wow, where were you moving from? jj137 (talk) 02:38, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Philly. BTW, I like your sig. Burner0718 ^JibbaJabba! 02:40, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, let's not get into things too myspacey now. ;) -- RyRy (talk) 02:51, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aw man... can we finish our story kind sir? jj137 (talk) 02:54, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In areas. Some of the Lower 9th Ward almost looks like Katrina hit yesterday, without the water of course, while other parts of that area are coming along nicely. Downtown and the French Quarter and the "well known" areas look like nothing ever happened. Burner0718 ^JibbaJabba! 02:56, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's ok, my friends and family asked that alot when I moved in July. Burner0718 ^JibbaJabba! 03:06, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Now that I'm back from my wikibreak, I'll be alot more active. Burner0718 ^JibbaJabba! 03:13, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just did, cool. Burner0718 ^JibbaJabba! 03:37, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Hey

Yeah, it's been a while. I can still remember my amazement when I first saw you using Huggle. I was like, "How the hell is he faster than ClueBot????!!"

So, what have you been up to? I sometimes see that you had reverted vandalism a few days earlier on a page that I am reverting, and once in a while I see your comments on some random talk page, but that's about it. I miss our furious Huggle battles back in March when there were like 10 people total who had it, and you were lucky if more than one was on at the same time. A lot has changed since those days. A lot.... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:16, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, to actually answer your question, I'm fine. ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:17, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No it's not just you. Vandalism has slowed down somewhat (for now... summer = no bored kids in homeroom. Wait till school goes back in session....) but the big thing is that there are so many people using Huggle it is absolutely insane. While I can still beat most of them (a-hem), there is simply no getting around the fact that there is no way that all the others are reverting nothing. Although I do have to admit that it is good that practically 100% of blatant vandalism and greater than 90% of more subtle vandalism is caught within a few seconds, I did like it better when there weren't so many Hugglers. I don't know why either. Maybe I just liked the knowledge that I was singlehandedly decimating the Forces of Evil™.

And yeah, I'm an admin. It's cool, but I haven't been yelled at for deleting someone's page yet, and I've had +sysop for more that a week. I feel like such a failure. :P Well, maybe not. I blocked someone without any warnings on their talk page, I softblocked an open proxy that someone else had hardblocked, I deleted this page as CSD G11 (No I'm not that dumb - look at the deleted revisions and the deleted contribs of the guy who made the edits that I "neglected" to restore...), and I've protected either three or four pages that someone else had already protected. So, yeah, looking at it closer, I guess I've got this admin-ing stuff down pat. :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:42, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, god, you don't want to tempt me with the "delete" button. I made this edit when there were still three days left in my RFA :-) And yes, I have clicked the "delete" button on the Main Page, the Sandbox, and ANI. (It won't let me, although I've heard rumors that there is a way around the 5000 revisions thingy. I also heard that you could irreparably destroy Wikipedia with the same action, so I don't think this is a good topic to continue.....)

I know what you mean. There are so many things we can't do that it's just as well we can't do. Then there are the things we can do... For example, [1].

From Wikipedia:Administrators: "[An administrator is someone who is] familiar with and respects Wikipedia policy, and who has gained the trust of the community. [...] Users seeking help will often turn to an administrator for advice and information.". Hah! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:29, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hell, yeah! I personally like "nuke this page" sooo much better than "delete". And "protect" should be "erect forcefield". Hmm, what should "block" be? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:38, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

← Ha, definitely. "Crush by elephant". That's actually pretty creative. What I really like is that it stayed there for more than 10 hours. It stinks that "Pwn user" didn't last for longer than one minute, 'cause that was pretty good too. I guess some people have no sense of humor... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:46, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My thing is, it would be one thing if we were messing around with things that everyone can see, (like changing the "history" tab to "past crappy versions" or something) but all the ANI threads you see involve parts of the interface that nobody other than admins can see, so what difference does it make? Why would you block someone when they're just having a little harmless fun on April Fools Day? It's not like they're running around on a mass delete/block/protect spree. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:54, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AWB

You gave AWB rights to a user, DougsTech, who I think is being careless with it. His stated concern is anti-vandalism, but his actual concern seems to be to rack up as many edits as he can. No Miss Hoover, I'm Ralph! He's amassed a staggering number in his 4 months and 9 days as a Wikipedian. He seems to be charging at everything like a bull at a gate. Would it be possible to review his use of AWB, please? Mr Barndoor (talk) 16:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to his talk page, it looks like it was a mistake, and now he is typo fixing, so everything is OK. jj137 (talk) 17:44, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Replied. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie » 18:01, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You've got mail! « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie » 14:08, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Ohai, Jj. You should have email. Thanks, RyRy Public (talk) 02:10, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

deletion of page

i noticed you deleted Chuck Acoustic EP (Tour Edition Promo). Could you send me the deleted article so i can merge it into Chuck (album)? - -[The Spooky One] | ^{[t c r]} 06:50, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I added it here. jj137 (talk) 17:16, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 == AWB ==
-You gave AWB rights to a user, DougsTech, who I think is being careless with it. His stated concern is anti-vandalism, but his actual concern seems to be to rack up as many edits as he can. He's amassed a staggering number in his 4 months and 9 days as a Wikipedian. He seems to be charging at everything like a bull at a gate. Would it be possible to review his use of AWB, please? [[User:Mr Barndoor|Mr Barndoor]] ([[User talk:Mr Barndoor|talk]]) 16:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
+You gave AWB rights to a user, DougsTech, who I think is being careless with it. His stated concern is anti-vandalism, but his actual concern seems to be to rack up as many edits as he can. No Miss Hoover, I'm Ralph! He's amassed a staggering number in his 4 months and 9 days as a Wikipedian. He seems to be charging at everything like a bull at a gate. Would it be possible to review his use of AWB, please? [[User:Mr Barndoor|Mr Barndoor]] ([[User talk:Mr Barndoor|talk]]) 16:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 :According to his talk page, it looks like it was a mistake, and now he is typo fixing, so everything is OK. &nbsp; '''[[User:Jj137|<font color="#008040">jj137</font>]] [[User talk:Jj137|<font color="#008040">(</font><font color="black">talk</font><font color="#008040">)</font>]]''' 17:44, 7 August 2008 (UTC)