User:Jtneill/Past Talk

Outdoor education

No problem. You're doing a great job on the articles.

Is the outward bound camp you worked at the same one that has been run by the Association for the Blind? I haven't been on one myself, but I've been on a camp with a similar concept for school. I just find the independence skills needed for staying away from home to be difficult, but I enjoy the challenge of outdoor activities, especially abseiling. I'm not generally afraid of heights. Graham/pianoman87 talk 10:12, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Canberra Geo-stub

The Canberra Geo-Stub when it was implemented was intended for use in both Canberra and the rest of the ACT to keep from needing two seperate categories/stub templates etc. At the same time we expanded the Canberra wikiproject to cover the whole ACT. You will notice the category the Canberra geo-stub adds thinsg to is Category:Australian Capital Territory geography stubs. --Martyman-(talk) 22:29, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, OK sorry, I miss-interpretted your question before. Generally if an article is long enough to cover the majority of the subject, generally more than a couple of parragraphs it can have the stub tag removed. I would think Tharwa has progressed far enough to have the stub tag removed. You will also want to add it to the appropriate Category which would be Category:Geography of the Australian Capital Territory. Actually I think it should have already been in that category even while still having the stub notice. I might go around and do a bit of a check that we have everything in the correct categories. --Martyman-(talk) 23:53, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I thought while I was going through sorting out a few missing category problems I would also do Tharwa. I removed the stub tag and added the cat. --Martyman-(talk) 00:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

re:Wilderness

I'd be gald to help...been working on lots of individual wildernesses as articles...maybe you'd like to join a Wikiproject too...Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas.--MONGO 02:59, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Happiness

Thank you for your note! I have added you as my contact also. Best wishes to you and your family from San Francisco Jbetak 19:06, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

APA style picture request

Hey, I didn't see what picture you were interested in for the APA style page on Wikipedia:Requested Images. Was it a picture of the style manual, or a sample of some APA text that you thought would help? --Limegreen 08:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Apparently low-res book covers fall under fair use. I guess we'll see if it gets deleted!!--Limegreen 21:55, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

revise 'Tent'

Hi Jtneill, I'm thinking about completely revising 'Tent', as detailed on the tent discussion page. Any comments/suggestions? Murray Langton 09:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

For your information

The AID-templates you were trying to stir up a mass hysteria about behind my back are not meant to be on talk pages. The main COTW does put them on talk pages. Violetriga has been fighting this war forever, it is just how she is, it is an old conflict. --Fenice 10:11, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I just realized you did not stir up Violetriga, she or he is obviously at it again on her/his own. Sorry.--Fenice 10:17, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

If you don't want it on the article you nominated Wilderness you can move it to the talk page. Just don't do any mass deletions.--Fenice 10:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Terminology

One aspect (of many) that the project is lacking that you might be able to provide some insight on is international termonology. Alternative education and its many aspects are known under slightly different terms in various geographic places. We would like these articles to be as inclusive as possible, at least for the "big three", AUS, UK, US. Do you have any insights or recommendations? There is one ongoing discussion at Talk:Homeschooling#U.S. bias. If you have specific remarks about homeschooling, leave them there. For more general input, go to WikiProject Alternative education. Thanks, Master Scott Hall | Talk 17:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Please visit our International terminology discussion at your earliest convenience. We are discussing the development of a generic system of terms to use in place of regional colloquial language of various English-speaking countries. Your input, as our sole Australian contributor (so far), would be of great benefit. Even though the discussion is taking place at the AltEd project, I believe that if it is done right, this can be implemented across all Education-related content. Thanks, Master Scott Hall | Talk 03:36, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Kalvero Oberg

Did you write this article? I noticed there is virtually identical text at [1]. --Fang Aili 16:18, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Psychology

Hi! I noticed you categorized yourself as interested in psychology. Maybe you would like to join the Psychology WikiProject? /skagedal^... 15:57, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Outdoor education links

Wow, thanks for cleaning up the links on Outdoor education. When I wrote that plea I didn't expect such a fast response. Cheers, -Will Beback 00:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Psychology wiki

Hi I see that you have been contributing to psychology articles on Wikipedia. Just to let you know that we are working on an academic psychology wiki for our professional community and their users. This can be found at: [2] We would really welcome your input and ask you to join us. We already have over 7000 pages up. Orientation, help and community portal pages are available off of this link. Please pass the good news onto anyone you feel would be interested.Lifeartist 15:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Genuine psychology wiki

Hi again. Always happy to reassure that we are the genuine article.You are not the first to raise the issue.

Wikia is a company set up by the founders of Wikipedia on the basis of an advertising finance model you can see some of our responses to these concerns on this FAQ page

Our aim has been to work towards a site for professional, academics and users of our services. So in addition to generating original material eg[3] Our strategy has been to structure the site with WP articles with a view to upgrading them from general reader focus to a professional academic standard.

We have links with three clinical psychology courses here in the UK and we are looking to link their curricula to the wiki material to provide the trainees with all the information for their training. In time we hope that this will be translated so that developing countries will have access to the latest educational materials. Seee the Birmingham course page here [4]

Just to be clear that we as contributors do not financially benefit from site and are not connected with Wikia in any way.Me I am just an idealist

We hope that sets your mind at ease and that we will see you helping us out. You would be most welcome. Do come back to me if you have any queries.Lifeartist 00:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi man, I just wanted to let you know that the Psychology Wiki is going well and we are starting to redesign things a bit, get discussion going in the community etc... have a look at our newly designed main page and see what you think... Mostly Zen 02:41, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

In fact, you might prefer having a look at the Psychology Wiki's new Community Portal :) Mostly Zen 03:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Getting a lot more organised now, have a look at our new designed community portal and our Tasks To Do portal :) Mostly Zen 14:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Some articles that may interest you

I saw your interests on your user page and thought that you may be interested in some articles that I've recently created:

• Evolutionary developmental psychology
• Evolutionary educational psychology
  • Hopefully these will be of some interest to you. Feel free to leave a message on my discussion page if you'd like. EPM 03:28, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:TharwaSchool.jpg

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References

Hi - just to complete your education, here are my templates for referencing :-)

• system at the new <ref> element

• For templates see Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations

<ref name="???">{{cite web
 | last = 
 | first = 
 | authorlink = 
 | coauthors = 
 | year = 
 | url = 
 | title = 
 | format = 
 | work = 
 | publisher = 
 | accessdate = 
}}</ref>

then to call on the same note later use in text:

<ref name="???"/> 

and then to call them put in References section

== References ==

{{subst:footnotes}}

Regards--A Y Arktos\^talk 06:56, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

multiple authors

I would probably just force it - eg made up example

• {{cite news | first= Jo, Mary Smith and Fred Nerk | last= Blow | author= | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1656763.htm | title=Budget's school closures shock parents | work=ABC News Online | publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] | date=2006-06-06 | accessdate=2006-06-09}} =>
• Blow, Jo, Mary Smith and Fred Nerk (2006-06-06). "Budget's school closures shock parents". ABC News Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2006-06-09.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Wouldn't be able to use the author link!--A Y Arktos\^talk 12:49, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Barr

Nice job getting an image of him - getting public domain politicians is such a pain. I wish my camera hadn't broken soon after I moved to Canberra - else I'd have been able to get pictures of most of the territory pollies at one time or another.

Any chance we might be able to get pictures of a couple more? Rebecca 12:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Networked learning

I'm finally getting my head into wikimedia gear. Have spent far too long in wikispaces. Have started a page for Networked Learning in Wikiversity, as well as Facilitating Online. Intend to make them topic pages of the grand daddy of them all Teaching and Learning Online :)

Hi again James. The Networked Learning received a significant edit recently. More a comment. I lifted it into the discussion area of the page. I think the NetLearning entry needs to make it more clear that the use of ICTs is meant in the broadest possible sense...

Thank you for guiding me so well

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback. I can see what you mean and I WAS advertising, and I'm sorry about that. The thing is that I am trying to promote experiential learning very strongly in schools in India, and was hoping for Indians to find the site.

What you said is absolutely correct, and it would be a misuse of editing previledges it I did so. I will try and create more relevant content and then link to it.

Thank you for your very balanced reply.

Sincerely,

FreeSpirit Nomad

Outdoor Education - the quiet zone

Hi James,

I see on your user page that 'outdoor education' is the very first topic in your list of Wikipedia interests. I also see that you are listed on the 'outdoor education' page along with Kurt Hahn and others. That is two good reasons why I would expect the 'outdoor education' page to be far better than it is.

For the last 38 days it looks as if I have been the ONLY person involved in editing or discussing the 'outdoor education' pages. You have kindly just sent me a message on my own user page, but I am still waiting and hoping that someone might contribute to the outdoor education discussion. 38 days of silence is a tad demotivating.

My first experiences of the way in which Wikipedia works has been very negative. Following your invitation to take part, I thought I'd suck it and see, but it feels as if the time I have spent on this project was wasted. Are you able to persuade me that my time has not been wasted?

Roger --RGreenaway 18:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Applied statistics

Hello, Jtneill!

I notice that you have a link to "applied statistics" on your user page. Some of us have been kicking it around, and the consensus is that the topic of "applied statistics" is adequately covered in other articles. If you don't agree, please say something soon – I'm aiming to get the merger completed later this week. Thanks! DavidCBryant 19:53, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Rating the ToK

Hi. I'm trying to get members of the Psychology Project to get together and rate the both the quality and importance of the Tree of Knowledge System. Hope you're interested. Have a great day! EPM 19:14, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for peer review

The article Clinical psychology has just been listed for peer review. You are invited to lend your editing eyes to see if it needs any modifications, great or small, before it is submitted to the Featured Article review. Then head on over to the peer review page and add your comments, if you are so inspired. Thank you!! Psykhosis 20:21, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Environmental Record Task Force

You are being recruited by the Environmental Record Task Force, a collaborative project committed to accurately and consistently representing the environmental impact of policymakers, corporations, and institutions throughout the encyclopedia. Join us!

Hi JT,
Several editors have organized a new task force to make sure the encyclopedia accurately represents the environmental impact of corporations and policymakers--I'm looking at your edit history and hoping you might be interested in joining us. We would value an Australian voice on the team especially!
Thanks,
Cyrusc 20:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

University of Saskatchewan

Noticed you were a member of Wikiproject Canada - Education.... Celebrate the Centennial University of Saskatchewan Anniversary in the year 2007. Would you please go to Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive and vote for this University of Saskatchewan article!!! Tell any and all other editors / U of S students you know who wiki to vote also please!!! Please help Celebrate the Anniversary of the U of S University of Saskatchewan Academics Talk Please help to bring the article to feature status !!!SriMesh | talk 03:01, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Your request

I have restored and move the article to User:Jtneill/James Thomas Neill, please read WP:USER as it has policies on what is acceptable in user space, also note that if you wish to have the article moved to James Thomas Neill you'll first need to discuss the matter at WP:DRV. In general a request there wont succeed unless the policy concerns raised in the AfD have been addressed. I've put links to both the afd and to drv at the top of the article for ease of use in the future. If I can be of any further assistance, or you would like the article to be reviewed prior to DRV please drop a note on my talk page. Gnangarra 12:29, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks - for my own info to note (from WP:USER):
  • WP:USER#What_may_I_not_have_on_my_user_page (Excessive personal information (more than a couple of pages) unrelated to Wikipedia)
  • WP:USER#Copies_of_other_pages (this space is not intended to indefinitely archive your preferred version of disputed or previously deleted content.) Jtneill - Talk 14:39, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

invite

Graeme Bartlett 02:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject homeschooling

Hi Jtneill!

I noticed you were a member of WikiProject Alternative Education, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Homeschooling. In this "WikiProject," we have been together working on the collaboration of Homeschooling-related articles. As a member, I really hope you can join, and let me know if you need any help signing up or with anything else. If you have any questions about the project you can ask at the project's talk page. Cheers! RC-0722 ^communicator/_kills 23:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alternative education

There has been a proposal brought forward [5] regarding a merger of WikiProject Alternative Education, and as you are member of that project, I am notifying you. Thanks. Twenty Years 13:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

social ecology

thanks for the link =) Lucychili (talk) 23:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion request

Hi. I looked at your deletion request. There's too much that still links to the old page. Go through the stuff in the "what links here" list, and when it's empty I'll happily delete it for you. --McCormack (talk) 15:53, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm. Suddenly I realised I was on WP and not Wikiversity any more. You somehow automatically diverted me here. Which talk page do you normally use? --McCormack (talk) 15:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Incidentally, I never look at my WP talk page ;-) --McCormack (talk) 15:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

thanks interesting i wonder if some of the usa talo folk might be interested in tackling that law. their libraries association has publically stated they would be supportive and some movement to address that kind of assumption that exclusion = safety would be lovely to see from the usa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.97.117 (talk) 12:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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