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Hello, Im reviewing the italian translation of Amazing Stories article on it.wiki, so Im checking the sources referecence. There is a reference listed in the Notes section as 'Tuck, "Amazing Stories", p. 535', but I cannot find any reference to this book in the References section, can you help me ?--Moroboshi (talk) 08:45, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Have a nice holiday, Mike. Kind regards, --Lecen (talk) 14:03, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Season's greetings and best wishes for 2012! | |
Thanks for all you do here, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 22:01, 24 December 2011 (UTC) |
Mike,
I've expanded the stats that WP:MED collected on a large psychology student assignment HERE and used them to write an essay: User:Colin/A large scale student assignment – what could possibly go wrong?. I'd value your opinion. You can use the essay talk page if you like. Colin°Talk 22:16, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Thought you'd want to know. --199.233.142.10 (talk) 17:49, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
eeek, seeing the above post, I need to get in there and help, but I had a rough IRL December. Anyway, since you've always been the best at managing RFCs if one was ever needed (ie, let discussions run long enough to detemine if there are any issues to be put forward in an RFC), I wanted to point you to Wikipedia talk:FAC#FAC 2012. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
I have to apologize again for asking you to sign on to what became quite a task-- had I known, I would have hesitated to ask you to commit so much time. Thank you again for all your work, all the best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:09, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Given how badly train-wrecked this discussion has become, I'll add my voice to Sandy's in wishing you the best of luck keeping the next RFC from blowing up too. In the meantime, I'm soliciting input (privately, by email) from the current delegates (Sandy and Karanacs included) on how we should proceed from here. Raul654 (talk) 21:16, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
OK, here's a concise job description for the position of FA director:
The featured article director is the person whose job it is to:
To that end, the featured article director is responsible for refereeing FAC and FAR discussions, for interpreting Wikipedia and FA policies as they apply to such nominations, and for deciding which objections are valid/invalid and actionable/inactionable. The featured article director is responsible for, in conjunction with the community, defining FA policies and processes. (By "in conjunction with" I'm being deliberately vague here because there's no single model for how that works. Most of it is done by discussion, but some of it by my own initiative) The featured article director may choose to share some or all of these jobs with people whose judgement he trusts - the delegates.
Now given all the recent discussion about changing how the position operates, it's worth pointing out that the above description is normative, not prescriptive. That is to say, it is not a description of what I or anyone else thinks the job should entail; it's a description of what it actually entails on a day-to-day basis. Raul654 (talk) 22:32, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
I think it is pretty evident that some people voting against having an RFC at all, were voting that way, because the planned to vot in opposition of change. IOW, to attempt to stifle the discussion at its source. I'm not sure how you manage that...but I think you should think about it.TCO (Reviews needed) 19:49, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
I know you worked hard to put all that together, Mike. Feel free to murder me. [1] --Moni3 (talk) 02:01, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey mike - the discussion on WT:FAC was out of control, with literally dozens of fractured discussions, and rampant incivility that has spawned an ANI thread about TCO's behavior (and in turn an acrimonious discussion between Wehwalt and Sandy). I've archived the page in its entirety. I think it might be best for all concerned now if either you (a) take the lead in managing the discussion on WT:FAC (I'd do it myself but since it's a discussion about me, that would be weird), or (b) moving all the discussion to a well-structured, managed RFC page. Raul654 (talk) 19:01, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I've just posted your draft from the sandbox to WF:FAC. The protection should expire momentarily. Raul654 (talk) 19:13, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Mike, what you're trying to do is thankless and few will appreciate what you're trying doing, but I do. You know what I've said on the pages related to this. While commendable on your part, I am sure nothing concrete will change; just like the seemingly endless talk of RFA reform, nothing significant ever changes. But thanks for trying. It'll be interesting to see if those in supporting reform ever get an FA passed again. PumpkinSky talk 01:21, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Are you interested in becoming an admin? (This may be a FAQ) --Dweller (talk) 12:05, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Mike, I did not sign you up for any classes - so feel to remove yourself from any that you do not wish to help with. That being said, if you would like to help with a few classes you are as always more than welcome to sign up for some (in particular if you want to cover one of mine again ;-) Epistemophiliac (talk) 04:53, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank You. :)
(Tb0412 (talk) 07:16, 15 January 2012 (UTC))
I saw your excellent post. That's a lot of very chunky discussions. Can I suggest you subpage each group of them, to avoid discussions running into one another, edit conflicts and some of the inevitable excess of heat? --Dweller (talk) 12:03, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Was looking at the notifications, and this is not a post to the centralised discussion template. The correct place to notify, I think, is Template:Centralized discussion. Also, I noticed the RfC bot added an ID number to the RfC. I'm not entirely sure how that happened. The RfC bot added it here, but that is currently unsorted. I think it all flows from the RfC tag you added to the top of the page. If you want to specify where the RfC should be listed, there is a list of parameters at Template:Rfc. policy, proj and prop are the three closest. Whether an RfC on leadership of the FA process is about policy, a project, or a proposal, I'm not sure. Maybe you were unsure as well and left it in unsorted? Carcharoth (talk) 01:14, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
I picked up Science Fiction Culture by Camille Bacon-Smith (2000, University of Pennsylvania Press) yesterday, quite cheap - would you be interested in it? If so, I can drop it in the mail if you drop me an email with address, etc. Ealdgyth - Talk 21:15, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
When I looked at your reference library listing, it dawned on me that this could solve part of an important problem. If many people put up a reference list like yours, and they were all searchable, and the owners were willing to answer related questions, we would have a rather efficient way of checking references. I would be willing to check at least a question a day on average, for reasonably high priority articles, say FAC, GAC with more than 5000 page views per month. Do you know if this is happening? about to happen in some way? --Ettrig (talk) 15:31, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the helpful note, Mike. I will use it next time this happens. I can't imagine why people do this sort of thing, when there is so much else they could be doing her at Wikipedia. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:33, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of Nebula Science Fiction know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on January 27, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 27, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Nebula Science Fiction was the first Scottish science fiction magazine. It was published from 1952 to 1959, and was edited by Peter Hamilton, a young Scot who was able to take advantage of spare capacity at his parents' printing company, Crownpoint, to launch the magazine. Nebula's circulation was international, with only a quarter of the sales in the United Kingdom: this led to disaster when both South Africa and Australia imposed import controls on foreign periodicals at the end of the 1950s. Excise duties imposed in the UK added to Hamilton's financial burdens, and he was rapidly forced to close the magazine down. The last issue was dated June 1959. The magazine was popular with writers, partly because Hamilton went to great lengths to encourage new writers, and partly because he paid better rates per word than much of his competition. Initially he could not compete with the American market, but he offered a bonus for the most popular story in the issue, and eventually was able to match the leading American magazines. He published the first stories of several well-known writers, including Robert Silverberg, Brian Aldiss, and Bob Shaw. Nebula was also a fan favourite: author Ken Bulmer recalls that it became "what many fans regard as the best-loved British SF magazine". (more...)
UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
The comments on the RFC have now slowed to almost nothing. I think it might be time to close it. Raul654 (talk) 04:41, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Just FYI for any talk page stalkers: I've blanked out almost my entire watchlist; I thought it was time to start over. I'm still watching the current FA RfC, and some USEP related pages, and the FAs/GAs that I nominated, but nothing else. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:04, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Science Fiction for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign each answer. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 05:45, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Mike, thanks for your support of this article as an FA. I'm pleased to hear the article was at least in part accessible to the general reader—the description of pseudopedate leaves for the lay reader is a Herculean task. I hope to be able to add some improved visuals later on that may make that less of a nightmare. Your time and effort in reviewing the article is much appreciated. Yours, Choess (talk) 03:20, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Thanks for your help and support at the FAC for Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–1962 last month. I thought I'd let you know that I'm having another go at getting that magic shiny star. The new FAC is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–1962/archive2 and I would really appreciate any comments. cya! Coolug (talk) 13:07, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey Mike, look what I found in my mailbox today. Drmies (talk) 02:35, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear All, [so says Stuart Lee at Merton College]
I have uploaded a file to Woruldhord that can be loaded into Google Earthto show you the geographical distribution of objects contributed to thesite. It should be taken very much as draft though, as I've had no time tocheck things therein, and there are some clear errors there. Also, Isuspect, some inconsistencies about geographical origin (place it wasprobably originally made, or place it now resides) but such are thenuances of a small project like this. Not all objects have a map location,of course, so these will not show; but feel free to try it out with allthose caveats in mind. I particularly like the pin dropped in WestVirginia :-)
You can download the file (*.kml) by going to Project Woruldhord(http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/index.html) and searching for'google'. You will need to download Google Earth(http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/explore/products/desktop.html)and then open the file in the application. You should then see a series oflocation pins (mainly in Britain) and as you zoom in you can click on thepin and follow the link to the object itself in Woruldhord. Or you couldwander around the terrain (e.g. the Sutton Hoo mounds).
It needs tidying up but I've been sitting on this for some time now sofelt it was better to get it out with all its faults.
Of course, this is yet another opportunity for me to ask if you have anymaterial you would like to submit to Woruldhord (photos, audio recordings,teaching handouts, presentations, etc) then feel free. Just go to:http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/contributor and register and upload!
This is a note to let the main editors of Offa of Mercia know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on April 6, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 6, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Offa was the King of Mercia from 757 until his death in July 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war. In the early years of Offa's reign it is likely that he consolidated his control of midland peoples such as the Hwicce and the Magonsæte. Taking advantage of instability in the kingdom of Kent to establish himself as overlord, Offa was also in control of Sussex by 771, though his authority did not remain unchallenged in either territory. He extended Mercian supremacy over most of southern England and regained complete control of the southeast. Offa was a Christian king but came into conflict with the Church, and had long-running disputes with both the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Worcester. Many historians regard Offa as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. His reign was once seen by historians as part of a process leading to a unified England, but this is no longer the majority view. Offa died in 796 and was succeeded by his son, Ecgfrith, who reigned for less than five months before Coenwulf of Mercia took the throne. (more...)
UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mike. I noticed on the Online Ambassador Census that you might be able to help a bit more, so I was wondering if you could try out one or two Category:Educational peer review requests (would be a paragraph or so on just a general review of the state of the course as a whole). This is a bit of a new direction for the ambassador program, and I'd be glad to see you help blaze the trail!--Pharos (talk) 15:18, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Mike,My name is Mandy, and my classmate and I have been working on an addition to the babbling page. We have noticed that the original wikipedia page lacks references and citing in its article. We were thinking that it might be a good idea for us to redo the entire article but were not sure if it is acceptable to replace what they already have. My teacher suggested asking you for your opinion since you are an online ambassador and we would greatly appreciate your feedback if you get the chance!
Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amf14 (talk • contribs) 15:33, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt response. I apologize for not being very specific. We do plan to keep quite a bit of the material on the page. Specifically, we are considering deleting the information underneath the human babbling section because they do not cite references. The information seems very interesting but we were unsure of whether it was adequate due to the lack of citations. If you believe that it is important and relevant, we will definitely consider leaving the babbling in humans section as it is. I would love to hear your opinion!
We are planning to integrate the material onto the actual page as our next step.
Amf14 (talk) 02:19, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I am a student in the Psychology of Language class that you are an ambassador for. I am currently working on the existing "Apraxia of Speech" page. So far, I have put together my own information and integrated almost all of the material from the existing page into my article (which is still all in my sandbox). What process would you suggest for moving my new information into the main space? It would be easiest to delete what is already there and just replace it with my work which includes most of the original material, however I'm not sure if it would be technically correct wikipedia etiquette to delete what is there. Any suggestions would be very helpful. Thanks! Smassaro24 (talk) 23:53, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your helpful suggestions. I finally moved my work into the main space and have made a few changes to the formatting and content. My article can be found at Apraxia of speech. Please feel free to make any further suggestions or changes that you feel may still need to be completed. I will plan to continue updating and editing the article myself as well. I really appreciate the assistance you have provided for our class! Thank you. Smassaro24 (talk) 00:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mike
I keep finding more of these
The real problem is that very few of the participants seem to understand how to find peer reviewed primary and secondary research to support the contents they add to an article.Could you have a look at Associative agnosia and may be Agnosia as well which does not have the logo but appears to be part of the same pattern. dolfrog (talk) 19:45, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mike
There is an article which is in desperate need of content, Visual processing, could be a project for one of your researchers. dolfrog (talk) 20:41, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Sure, I am happy to help. When is the deadline for the new set of assessments? Please, reply on my talk page (if you can). All the best. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:04, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
You are welcome, there is no need to thank me. Do you want some explanatory notes for each of the ratings (the article needs this or that; section x is unreferenced; the article needs illustrations; sections' titles are not conform to MoS guidelines; and etcetera), or a pure and simple rating system? –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:27, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Fanny Imlay is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fanny Imlay until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 14:47, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, I couldn't find it :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:47, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:
It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.
At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).
Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.
If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasi t | c 17:24, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Drmies (talk) 21:18, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
diff - I've already removed the unsourced additions of dates once... Ealdgyth - Talk 14:52, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Mike!
I'm not sure if you're still planning to support students as an OA this term, what with your Working Group responsibilities, but if you are, please add your name to this census. Once the new class list is available, I will notify you guys so you can sign up for a class (or two) that interests you. I hope you're still interested in supporting these students for the coming term. Thanks! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 20:26, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Not a glitch -- it was a mistake by me and thank you for reverting it. -- PBS (talk) 08:54, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm an instructor for Brain and Behavior at Roosevelt University, and my students will be editing existing Wikipedia articles as part of a class project this Fall. I and my students are newbies. I've completed the trainig at [[4]]. I'm wondering if you might be one of our class's online ambassadors? I've constructed most of my course page at [[5]]. I anticipate that we'll need your help with questions about editing and making sure that we're all complying with Wikipedia guidelines. It would also be great if you could read some of the students' articles and provide feedback. Please let me know if you're able to help out. Thanks! Neuropsychprof (talk) 19:19, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
A couple of years ago, you did a very nice copyedit on Bert T. Combs when it was at WP:FAC. After two successive FACs crashed and burned, largely due to lack of reviews and a spat over a fair-use image, I lost interest in the article and was content to leave it as GA. Now that I am within six or so FAs of achieving a Governors of Kentucky featured topic, I've returned to this article, as it should be easier than most to bring to FA status. You mentioned in your copyedit a resource from Credo Reference. Since there weren't enough free Credo accounts for me to get one, would you mind trying to find that again and sending it to me? (Just use the "Email this user" feature, and I'll reply with my email.) Also, you mentioned a good NYT article about the primary between Combs and Wendell H. Ford during the copyedit. If you still have access to that, I'd like to have it as well. One of my local libraries has the oral history, so I will be consulting that as well. Thanks. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 17:22, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Coming soon, a good time to polish article and blurb, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:44, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mike Christie!
Dthomsen8 and I are trying to get WikiProject Guyana going again. I noticed you'd made some really helpful contributions to the History of Guyana page - and were offering help with sources... Any chance you might be up for joining the project? All best, Lorelei (talk) 22:58, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, as you participated in a previous FAC for this article, I wondered if you would take a look at the article again. I have gone through the article, and the comments from the previous FACs and made a number of changes to the article. As always, any input you might have would be appreciated. Regards, Harrias talk 15:40, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
What I suspect happened in the 8 July 2012 edit of File:Britain peoples circa 600.svg is that the grey area is not all sea. Indeed, the key has the newly added text 'Sea, swamp or alluvium'. In this case, alluvium likely means river flood plains and deltas. Personally, I'd revert to the 17 June 2012 version until Hel-hama provides a sources for those additional changes. Carcharoth (talk) 08:36, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
I have made a review of New Worlds, the magazine you nominated for FAC. May I request you a review of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/May Revolution/archive6 in exchange? Cambalachero (talk) 21:54, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Super Science Stories | |
Thank you for quality articles such as Authentic Science Fiction, and for your good advice on How I survive Wikipedia, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (3 October 2010)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:02, 3 September 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for that! I've sorted the signature out now. Sarastro1 (talk) 14:39, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Mike, I went through the RFC and made some edits to bring it more inline with the Phase II objectives language and make some statements more concise. I have also created the primary link to the Strategic Plan/Proposal page (just a dummy page now) but it will allow be to make the moves better behind the scenes when we go live. Additionally, I struck out some of the wording, because I didn't think it appropriate to delete them out of hand, but it is wording that I believe should NOT be in the RfC. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks --Mike Cline (talk) 20:47, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
"... the last of the late 1970s issues"
. To me, 1970s is a plural, whereas as what's meant here is a possessive, i.e. the issues from the 1970s, and should therefore be "1970's". I think that people are so frightened of grocer's apostrophe's </joke> that they're often frightened of using apostrophes at all. Discuss. Malleus Fatuorum 23:25, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mike, thanks for the link to this. I've added it to my watchlist (currently tiny) and will take a look when I have some time. From a cursory glance, it looks interesting. I'm not around much these days, but this is something that interests me. Congrats btw on the promotion for New Worlds. Truthkeeper (talk) 20:16, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Got a question for you. I saw that you calculated the course score but the "burden questionnaire score" column is all blank. Also, maybe you should make it clear that the aim of the course score is high value, not low (because you're switching back and forth between burden score and course score, which will easily lose the focus of those that aren't reading it carefully and re-reading it. It took me a few times to understand the overall objective and how the scoring works) OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:16, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
This may interest you. Not sure if it's under your purview. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 18:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I had contacted you earlier to ask you to be an online ambassador for my class. I understand you're very busy and can't add this to your responsibilities now. However, students have posted their first edits of articles for this course. You can take a look at the topics here. If you have time to look over any that interests you, your feedback regarding content, breadth, depth, style, etc. would be sincerely appreciated. Students have until 11/13 to improve their article and address reviewer feedback. Thanks! Neuropsychprof (talk) 13:49, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I just realized you were the one who posted the final draft on the quality report, not Cline as I mentioned. Churn and change (talk) 00:38, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mike,
While comparing Category:Wikipedia featured articles vs Category:Featured articles, I discovered that Æthelbald of Mercia was missing its star. Looks like an editor removed it while editing in August, you reverted, and then you didn't catch it when he did it again a few days later. I have restored the star, but you might want to take a closer look at the other changes he made. Maralia (talk) 19:14, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
A page has recently been created for one of the manuscripts (Vespasian VI) that preserves copies of the Anglian collection. I have serious doubts whether each of the four manuscripts merits its own page, but I have been struggling for days with the creator and do not necessarily trust my judgement. The creating editor is proponent of a couple of fringe genealogy authors, and has been creating POINTy and COATRACK pages in order to make a place on Wikipedia to promote their ideas (e.g. apparently the kings of Wessex descend from Jesus via Woden). Since you created the parent Anglian collection article, I would appreciate your input on whether the new page should remain (and if so how much detail it should give, to avoid repetition or content forking), be merged into Anglian collection, or simply redirected to that page. Agricolae (talk) 16:56, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mike. I was directed to Common misconceptions about the Wikipedia Education Program and responded to some of the points on the talk page. This raised the issue of the analysis that produced the "64% improvement" statistic. I'm afraid I've never been in-the-loop wrt the education program and only seem bump into it from time to time. I don't know whether your analysis has been discussed somewhere already. I appreciate such analysis is not an easy thing to do but am concerned that there was pressure perhaps to produce a nice round statistic that could be quoted as a "look - students are good for WP" simplistic argument. My recent experience of student edits remains disappointingly negative at the "waste of time for everyone involved, and made Wikipedia worse" level. While I do see improvements in places, the defensive attitude of the WMF (as illustrated by that FAC/misconceptions page) just seem to enforce the idea that they and Wikipedians are talking past each other rather than understanding each other. I would be interested if you feel the analysis work would have caught the problems I raised with two medical articles on the above talk page, and whether the kinds of problems those article developed are being dealt with as part of improvements to the programme. Colin°Talk 16:48, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Happy Holidays | ||
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:25, 21 December 2011 (UTC) |
I think his flippant and obscure comments are worth mentioning, as well the bits about 'truth'. Dougweller (talk) 14:31, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of Ace Books know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on December 6, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 6, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books and issued many of the best known science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns. It soon branched out into other genres, publishing its first science fiction title in 1953; this was a successful innovation, and within a few years, such titles outnumbered both mysteries and westerns. Ace became known for the tête-bêche binding format used for many of its early books, although it did not originate the format. Most of the early titles were published in this "Ace Double" format, and Ace continued to issue books in varied genres, bound tête-bêche, until 1973. These have proved attractive to book collectors, and some rare titles in mint condition command prices up to $1,000. It was one of the leading science fiction publishers for its first ten years, but its fortunes began to decline after the death of owner A. A. Wyn in 1967. Two prominent editors, Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, left in 1971, and in 1972 Ace was sold to Grosset & Dunlap. It is now an imprint of Penguin Group (USA). (Full article...)
UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Have you looked at the guidance? Have you got a 2nd person involved in the same dispute? See[6] and associated pages. Dougweller (talk) 13:42, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I took a quick look at your draft and my feeling is that the same fringe energies will just get focused elsewhere. I said on WP:FTN (11 November 2012 ) regarding the Montgomery notice that:
That seems to have happened now, as stated here regarding the reign of the King. So if the Ancestory road is blocked, more fringe items will appear elsewhere, often via Coatracks.
You can see that phenomenon already: Pseudo science gets banned, then ancestory comes in. Once ancestory is banned, articles on Martian caves inhabited by cyborgs will begin to appear. So the desired solution needs to be broader. History2007 (talk) 21:51, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
NOt sure if you've got Talk:Middle Ages watchlisted. Input welcomed. Ealdgyth - Talk 00:34, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Done but given recent article creations the remedy suggested looks too narrow. Dougweller (talk) 13:15, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey Mike. I've read over the draft RfC and a few of the associated links. I know all this stuff seems like a waste of time when you could be editing peaceably otherwise, but at this juncture I'd recommend moving forward with the RfC. As you note, ArbCom is intended to be the last and (ideally) final step of dispute resolution, and if at all possible it's best to address them via broader community methods. You've put together a pretty clear body of evidence. If it does come to a RfAr, a well-drafted RfC is an excellent reference for arbs to read up on the history of the dispute and as an area for gathering evidence for a case. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 16:15, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. FYI I edited my section heading here to be more expansive and descriptive. Biosthmors (talk) 20:48, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Could you fill me in as to why I was notified? pbp 23:07, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
(piggybacking off related thread) I'd say if there's a consensus to restrict or ban that you can ask an admin to evaluate the RFC, close and implement. In the interests of giving everyone a chance to respond and give feedback and input I don't think that time period could be any less than a week; they usually seem to run for 14 days. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 17:32, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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Six years after its promotion, Ace Books is on the front page--congrats, and thanks for maintaining its quality all those years. Drmies (talk) 15:49, 6 December 2012 (UTC) |
PS: See the talk page--I moved a recent comment on some recent edits, which was placed in a 2006 thread, down the page. Drmies (talk) 15:53, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Mike, for your assessment page, the first source ("Machismo in Chile") can be seen here. Best, SlimVirgin (talk) 16:33, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Maybe tomorrow if there isn't anything on the main page tonight. I assume you know about the list at the top of WP:AN? Good work here, I'm really pleased. Dougweller (talk) 18:59, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Dougweller (talk) 21:44, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Eek, sorry Mike, I just got around to reviewing a very old post you made to my talk page, while I was mostly off-Wiki, and found plagiarism in that course. I started a section at the ENB. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:48, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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Marvelous work, I can't thank you enough. Dougweller (talk) 09:26, 21 December 2012 (UTC) |
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Hope you and your family are enjoying the holiday season, Mike! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:10, 25 December 2012 (UTC) |
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas 2012! Happy New Year and all the best in 2013! Thanks for all you do here, and best wishes for the year to come. | |
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Seasons greetings to you and yours
Dougweller (talk) 14:12, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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Wishing you and yours a joyous, healthful, and productive 2013! Please accept a belated thank you for the well wishes upon my retirement as FAC delegate this year, and apologies for the false alarm of my first—and hopefully last—retirement; the well wishes extended me were most kind, but I decided to return, re-committed, when another blocked sock was revealed as one of the factors aggravating the FA pages this year. Maintaining standards in featured content requires vigilance, dedication and knowledge of people like you, who are needed; reviews are always welcome at FAC, FAR and TFA requests. Somehow, somehow we never ever seem to do nothin' completely nice and easy, but here's hoping that 2013 will see a peaceful road ahead and a return to the quality and comaraderie that defines the FA process, with the help of many dedicated Wikipedians! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:41, 3 January 2013 (UTC) |
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The article Synod of Baccanceld is a copy of a Catholic Encyclopedia article and is based on a charter now considered a forgery. I think it should be deleted. Do you agree? Dudley Miles (talk) 23:39, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Just a message to let you know that I've scheduled Aldfrith of Northumbria as the TFA on 27th January 2013. Hope this is OK. I checked for deadlinks first and one was reporting dead but was very much alive, so I don't know what the problem there was... Regards, BencherliteTalk 00:18, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
Came across this more or less by chance (I'm teaching HEL and this came up), and it's a very decent article--thanks in part to you, since it was produced under the aegis of Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology/APS-Wikipedia Initiative. I wish those editors had stuck around! So, thanks again for being such a model ambassador, which has helped improve our project. Ma ma ma da da da! Drmies (talk) 16:58, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
In a dispute regarding an alleged case of closed paraphrasing here. Please not the most recent version of the article, which is in the table at the very bottom of that discussion. Thank you. Nightscream (talk) 03:44, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
You might be interested in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Paul Bedson and [7]. Dougweller (talk) 21:25, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
I have looked around. Who is your oldest king. I think my oldest subjects are Wolf Point, Chicago and Block 37 (which now redirects). These two subjects are both as old as the City of Chicago itself. I can't get much older in my region, unless I get into Native American history. When was the United Kingdom London founded. My articles are the equivalent of articles from whenever that was.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:18, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
See my question on my talk page. Colin°Talk 17:52, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mike Christie, i'll try and note the actions step by step - let me note, that i'm also just an end-user here, by no means an expert in those copyright archives.
Hope that helps, please let me know, if some of those steps are not working and we can trace the problem from there. GermanJoe (talk) 12:37, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip! I added the code to my vector.js file. Hopefully that will solve the issue. Best, GabrielF (talk) 16:25, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
hi! i got an email from my professors informing me that you vetted the gender disparities in health page and that you highlighted that some sentences that are too close to the source text to be acceptable. On that, I actually put up some of the material first but i have yet to properly adjust the sentences. I actually plan to review the entire article soon to make sure that everything is well-paraphrased in a way it is a new statement. However, on that note, I am afraid that I might miss some statements out I was wondering if you would be willing to help me double check over the article over to make sure that everything is in order and that there is no more source text issues? Hope to hear from you soon. cheers! Benongyx (talk) 01:07, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Mike! Please see your comments at the FAC, to which I have replied since long. Sainsf <^>Talk all words 01:16, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your response. I can understand the limits of incorporating in the United States, but I do not understand the need to incorporate in the United States, and how both WM-DC and WM-NYC both can apparently be member organizations but WEF cannot. I would hold the principle that if the legal requirements are such that the United States legal organizational rules are such that they mean that for WEF to operate, it needs to be completely removed from the community with the community unable to be stakeholders in the organization, than it is flawed. I would very much like to see a more detailed response on the WEF page as to why I cannot join the organization as a member? Why I cannot be a member and with other members call extraordinary general meetings to change the bylaws should the board be acting irresponsibility? Why the board MUST be constituted in the United States given the international nature of the movement and the scope? Why no one from WEF was participating in the Etherpad meeting for Milan yesterday? Why there is no process for members of the Wikimedia community to call for the removal of board members? Maybe I missed that in the bylaws? Can you highlight in the bylaws where the Wikimedia community (since we cannot JOIN) can have a say in the organization beyond possibly being on the board? --LauraHale (talk) 01:19, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, long time no speak hope your doing fine . Are you busy at the moment? Best, jonatalk to me 03:03, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hey Mike—I was reading the minutes recently and saw that hosting was discussed in May. Did y'all find a solution? I'm not sure of WEF's affiliation with Stanford, but if you're still looking for a home, I could do any potential footwork at UW–Madison School of Education if it'll help. Take care czar · · 04:41, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
in the section on fractionation, there are two formulae which are similar but have different values. So it is not true that one can be rewritten as the other. Which of these is the usual definition of this expression (delta 13 C)? ---Ehrenkater (talk) 15:39, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
The Methods section mentions a vacuum of -25 psi. But 25 psi is more than 1 atmosphere, so how is that possible? ----Ehrenkater (talk) 14:09, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
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Keep an eye on Augustine of Canterbury? I think the debate on whether the cross is correctly located best belongs on the article of the cross ... Ealdgyth - Talk 21:24, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
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Super Science Stories
Thank you for quality articles such as Authentic Science Fiction, and for your good advice on How I survive Wikipedia, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (3 October 2010)!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:02, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
A year ago, you were the 233rd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:41, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Mike, if you don't mind, whenever the new version of the minutes come out, could you take less than a minute to update WP:WEF as I've done there? Best! Biosthmors (talk) 10:55, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Mike. Can you please review and fix "Fluorine". If it's too long, just hit lead and one body section.-TCO — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.127.137.171 (talk) 14:13, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
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Ine was King of Wessex from 688 to 726. He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his predecessor, Cædwalla, who had brought much of southern England under his control and expanded West Saxon territory substantially. By the end of Ine's reign the kingdoms of Kent, Sussex and Essex were no longer under West Saxon domination; however, Ine maintained control of what is now Hampshire, and consolidated and extended Wessex's territory in the western peninsula. Ine is noted for his code of laws (Ine’s laws or laws of Ine), which he issued in about 694 (12th-century copy pictured). These laws were the first issued by an Anglo-Saxon king outside Kent. They shed much light on the history of Anglo-Saxon society, and reveal Ine's Christian convictions. Trade increased significantly during Ine's reign, with the town of Hamwic (now Southampton) becoming prominent. It was probably during Ine's reign that the West Saxons began to mint coins, though none have been found that bear his name. Ine abdicated in 726 to go to Rome, leaving the kingdom to "younger men", in the words of the contemporary chronicler Bede. He was succeeded by Æthelheard. (Full article...)
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