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September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself! The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it! TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly! Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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validation

Hi,

I submitted an entry on the 10th of September, entitled "RDKLeague", that was never accepted or declined, would you mind checking it for me? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.80.230.241 (talk • contribs)

Very sorry, I've had to decline it. --Alex ^(talk) 21:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

ok

soz wont happen again —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.30.227.71 (talk • contribs)

whats with

what's with the warnings? I don't try to change or vandalize anything.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.12.116.138 (talk • contribs)

I haven't given you any... :S --Alex (talk) 17:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

The Halo's RfA

Bad luck - I'm sure you'll do better if you request again with a few more mainspace edits. I personally couldn't see much wrong with it, but the concensus sadly said otherwise. Thanks. --Alex (talk) 18:50, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Date links

Duplicate dates do need to be links because of formatting preferences. Not years, just month/day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.86 (talk • contribs)

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I am sorry, i will leave my messages here. actually i have never tried logging into wikipedia before. i edited without logging in. i hope that's not a problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Telephone Company (talk • contribs)

It's OK! Good for you for registering. By the way, remember to sign your talk page comments with four tildes (~~~~) - this will give your user name and the date. Thanks. --Alex | talk / review me | 13:04, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

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faggot —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.89.46 (talk • contribs)

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deleting articles

Please consider using {{prod}} or {{db}} instead of nominating an article for deletion, when there doesn't seem to be any controversy. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:51, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I thought the creator may have had more to add to it. Sorry about that. --Alex | talk / review me | 13:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dixie Heights High School

The article Dixie Heights High School has been updated. Could you please take another look at it? --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 22:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Done, it's keep now. Thanks. --Alex | talk / review me | 22:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Mr. Lefty's RfA thanks

Hi, Alex, and thanks for supporting me in my recent request for adminship, which succeeded with a final tally of 70/4/4. I hope I can live up to your expectations, and if there's ever anything you need, you know where to find me! --Mr. Lefty Talk to me! 00:04, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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Nishkid64's RfA thanks

Thank you very much for participating in my RfA, which closed successfully earlier today with a result of (60/9/4). Although, I encountered a few problems in my RfA, I have peacefully resolved my conflicts and made amends with the people involved. If you have any further questions or suggestions, feel free talk to me. I hope I will live up to your expectations. --Nishkid64 22:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Expansion

I expanded on my answers somewhat. However, that aside, was there something specific you were interested in, or wanted to ask about? - jc37 16:56, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject:South Park

It's really great you've joined up to the project. Sorry I'm late to reply but I've been rather busy. Below is a template for the project. Here's a link to another user who has joined. User:Buchanan-Hermit Here's the template: {{User WP South Park}} Mr. Garrison 17:45, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I replaced the template with a link to it so that the above comment still made sense. Tra (Talk) 18:35, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

User tag

I'm in the process of changing to manual template as we speak. Thanks for telling me anyway though. Hello32020 22:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry

You are right and I admit to sockpuppetry. I meant no harm by this. I am still not getting Wikipedia that much and don't know how to use it all that well. I will delete my barnstar from the non-edited user and malformed RfA request. However, I do not know how to change the RfA and delete it. I need help with that. I will not use the Wikiuser456 and then therefore I request to have some admin please delete the user and talk pages. Ify you could please help me unconvict this message, I would be most greatful.
Tennis gallery - UBXes Wikipediaman123 00:55, 1 October 2006 (UTC)TALK

Thanks for that. The RfA will have to be deleted by an admin, and Wikiuser456 will have to be blocked by an admin permanently. I'll add on to your evidence that you have admitted it, but I think the case must still go through. --Alex (Talk) 01:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks like I got here too late. It doesn't look like any action has to be taken, though. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 17:25, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I need your help...

I was trying to put my name on the nominations for adminship section, but i was seeing "Wikipedia:Nominations for adminship/John Montagnino. How do you do this thing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by John Montagnino (talk • contribs)

Don't try and request. You have no contributions. Make at least 1000 then try again. Thanks. --Alex (Talk) 19:43, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: My review

Glad of being able to help. Trying to make Big Brother (UK series 7) featured will be pretty hard, as it is an extremely long article, so I suggest first making it a good article, and then work with others until the article is ready, as otherwise it may just be impossible, or at least, take a lot of time. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 03:58, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Spamming?

I am not spamming. I provided those links as references because Omicronpersei8 disagreed with an edit I made. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ScienoSitter (talk • contribs)

Right. Please sign your comments in future. Thank you. --Alex (Talk) 22:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I will sign my comments in the future. I learned how to do that now. ScienoSitter

RfA nomination

Hello, and thank you very much for your message on my talk page. I was really surprised to be offered a nomination for next month, but I'm going to have to decline - or, more accurately - postpone it, for reasons that I've explained here. Thank you for your kind offer, but I don't think it'd be worthwhile to nominate myself as early as next month (which is why I've postponed admin coaching for the same period of time). :) Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 22:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

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i am sorry my little bro was on —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.92.201.3 (talk • contribs)

WikiProject Big Brother

Hi, Alex9891. According to this page, you are a member of the Big Brother WikiProject. It would appear, perhaps because Big Brother isn't airing in Australia, the United Kingdom, or the United States at the moment, that activity on Big Brother-related articles has died down quite a bit. Between seasons is a good time to be editing Big Brother-related articles as this is probably the only time where Wikipedians can focus on the articles that seem to have been forgotten about without too many Big Brother-related distractions. There are a few articles just waiting to be worked on, and proposed article changes on the Project talk page that have received little feedback. Nobody is forced to do anything as a Project member, but please try to edit whatever Big Brother articles you can and help with the WikiProject's aim - to make the Big Brother articles the best that they can be! Thanks. jd || talk || 20:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Reply to message

Your message:Thank you for experimenting with the page Psychological trauma on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Alex (Talk) 16:20, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Answer: The link I added to the page Psychological trauma on Wikipedia was done with good intentions. The site I added a link to (www.akuttjournalen.com]) should fit well on Psychological trauma on Wikipedia. The site has many interesting articles related to the subject available for free downloading. Please inform what I did wrong with posting the link. Thank you.

Regards (a brand new) Wikipedia poster: Mr.TCB —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.TCB (talk • contribs)

Sorry about that - a mistake on my part, please forgive me! :) Feel free to add it back. --Alex (Talk) 20:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I've added the link once more. Mr.TCB 08:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Soviet Republic of Naissaar

Dear Alex,

at 16:16, 4 October 2006, you wrote:

It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed content from Soviet Republic of Naissaar. Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Alex (Talk) 16:16, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, it seems that your bot is a bit quick tempered, ain't it? Any human can see the obvious gain in quality for this arcticle comparing it before and after my recent edits:

• I replaced a map where the island is barely visible with a much clear one
• I removed links (et, nl, no, fi and sv) to Naissaar, and left only the one legitimate link to the German version of this article.

P.S.: I see in your user page you are polite; that's good: maybe you could make polite bots too, huh?

62.48.171.17 20:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC) (user Tuvalkin in Portuguese and Esperanto Wikipedias)

Thank you for your message. I admit that I was wrong to revert the map you added, but unfortunately when I reverted it reverts all your edits. I reverted because I saw you removed links to other languages, which you say weren't legitimate, but on checking them I have found they are. In order to prevent problems like this, it would help very much if you left an edit summary so I would know exactly why you had done such a thing. Thanks. --Alex (Talk) 20:31, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I reiterate the language links I removed were illegitimate: There are only two articles about the Soviet Republic of Naissaar in Wikipedia: In English and in German; the links I removed (et, nl, no, fi and sv) were pointing to Naissaar, a general article about the island (not about a particular event of its history), and are correctly linking to one another and to its German and English versions.

I'm sure there is no need to warn you against the problems that may arise when such imperfect loop links are created to an from Wikipedias in different languages.

I wasted enough time already with this stuff anyway. Good riddance! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.48.171.17 (talk • contribs)

Please remember to assume good faith my friend. --Alex (Talk) 19:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

RE: Another user...

You seem to have sorted that one out fine. -- Steel 21:19, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Don't want to be a pest

I have a dilemma. I really do appreciate all of the comments made, both positive and negative. But if I respond to them, it seems like I am a hot head, and I'm not. I also don't want to bother commenters on their talk pages. But I do disagree with the basis for some of the comments and would like to clarify some concerns. In all, I really want to be an admin and to be told close and on the path, but not yet, especially when you have no guidelines to specifically point to ... I'm sure you can understand my situation.

The reason I'm bothering you. The edit summary issue is not sufficiently brought up when users first enter Wiki. In 2004, when I joined I got a message telling me about using the four tildes but nothing about summaries. The how to edit page, in no way mandates using summaries on talk pages or for every edit. It implies to do it for major edits only. Unfortunately bad habits develop over time. That's why I didn't know about the edit summary issue. It's unlikely if your responding to something, someone will remind to add an edit summary, or if the edit is something as minor as removing a double period.

Ramsquire 19:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I suggest you do address the concerns, in the discussion session, if not you should withdraw and try again in a couple of months. My personal guidelines are 1000 mainspace edits, 500 Wikipedia space edits, 200 talk edits and around three months, or thereabouts of solid editing. You pass the time, but unfortunately not the edits, which show experience. To be honest 1000 edits over two years is not a lot. What I suggest you do is either let this RfA go through to the end, and reply to any comments you like, or withdraw, and explain you will request again in a couple of months. If you do request again, please remember to include information from your past RfAs as well. Perhaps in order to improve further you could get an editor review?. Thanks. --Alex (Talk) 19:34, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

You're requirements are fair and I understand I don't meet them. I don't want to withdraw just yet because as I understand it, it is not a straight voting situation, and it seems that the editors like me somewhat. It's just that, as in your case, i haven't met baseline requirements. Unfortunately for me, I lost about a year in 2005, doing sporadic edits and doing a lot of work as an anon. If I had known then that I would want to be an admin at some point, I would have been more careful.Ramsquire 19:42, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

You are obviously a dedicated editor, and a great help to this project. Please don't be put off by this RfA - if you request again, say in December you'll probably get a lot more support with three months solid editing plus the two year experience - there should be little reason to oppose then. Thanks. --Alex (Talk) 19:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the link problem to the previous RfA. I am having mouse issues. The ball is extremely sensitive today so whenever I hit show preview, it is saving the page instead. Sorry for the extra work. Ramsquire 20:12, 5 October 2006 (UTC)