User talk:Sinisterstuf

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Sinisterstuf (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

My college has a proxy that all staff/students need to use to get internet access on site but it is not an open proxy. My IP address here has been blocked because of issues about Open Proxies but I am a registered and auto-approved user. I'm being blocked from fixing formatting on pages about international schools! Thanks for your time. Sinisterstuf (talk) 08:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

This IP was an open proxy at the time it was blocked, however it now seems to be configured properly, so it's been unblocked. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 11:53, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, without knowing what the IP address is, there is no way of unblocking the IP address. Please give the information about the IP address that is included in the notice you get when you try to edit. That information can then be passed to the Wikiproject on open proxies. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:17, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, here is the relevant information:

Start of block: 10:13, 14 October 2011
Expiry of block: 10:13, 14 December 2011
Intended blockee: 196.12.10.5

Sinisterstuf (talk) 10:24, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have checked, and it does look to me as though what you say is true: this is a closed proxy for a polytechnic college. However, I will refer it to the Wikiproject on open proxies to make sure. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:42, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi Sinisterstuf, if I'm not quite mistaken we know each other IRL. I'm sorry to have been the one submitting your article for deletion discussion. If you need help when recreating it, I'll be happy to assist. BTW, if you create an article as user space draft (e.g. in this case under the name User:Sinisterstuf/Penda Jonas Hashoongo) you will have all the time in the world to improve it without the danger of deletion. Cheers, Pgallert (talk) 07:19, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi you're right, we've met, and that's no problem, it wasn't my article, just that I was actively working on it. But honestly it was probably not notable enough, seeing as it did get deleted. I did the userspace thing you mentioned with an article I wrote myself: Windhoek International School which I have now moved to the main namespace because I felt it had more. I want to add a few more sections and then when that's done I'm wondering if you know about how to get an article assessed? Sinisterstuf (talk) 07:52, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article assessment is a very informal process, somebody, usually from one of the WikiProjects that tag the article as "theirs", comes along and makes a judgment. I had a look just now and think it is a "start-class" article---things that stand in the way of a higher rating are the unreferenced Campus section, and the situation that many of the interesting facts are only supported by references published by the school.

Up to B-class article assessment works this way, only the very best content (A-class, Good Articles, Featured Articles) has a more or less formal assessment procedure, and a checklist of what exactly to expect. You can also assess articles on Wikipedia, but assessment is always linked to Wikipedia projects. The entry on Talk:Windhoek International School I produced inserting this code:{{WikiProject Africa|Namibia=yes|class=start|Namibia-importance=low}}. Cheers, Pgallert (talk) 19:38, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for assessment and the pointers. I'm not sure what I could do about either of those things though. There don't seem to be many resources about the school on the internet, most of them say the exact same thing as the school's own site, or even less. I haven't seen a book about or mentioning it and most articles in newspapers are about sports or other things that wouldn't really be appropriate for an encyclopedia. I couldn't really find anything to reference for the campus section so I guess that part is kind of "original research" because I actually went to the campus to take the pictures I put in the article.

Well, it would be quite a piece of luck to have a peer-reviewed paper, or even a newspaper article, describe the campus of WIS. This situation just mirrors the fact that school articles in general are not overly "valuable" to the overall mission of an encyclopedia; they can only rarely convey historically significant information. An article like Education in Namibia, OTOH, has a lot of potential sources but usually no editor interested in developing it. The "original research", as long as it is just a description of the pictures, is okay. --Pgallert (talk) 12:40, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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