User talk:Jrgilb

Welcome![edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Jrgilb! I am American Eagle and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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American Eagle (talk) 17:53, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Featured articles[edit]

Featured articles are chosen by their quality, not their relevance or importance. Thus, even articles about six-mile-long roads and obscure hurricanes can make FA. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:55, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I find your views most interesting. I think you are mixing up the featured articles that are featured on the main page (TFAs) with featured articles in general (FAs). Any article can be promoted to featured status through the FAC process if they meet the FA standards for writing, comprehensiveness, accuracy, neutrality and style (as well as being compliant with Wikipedia's general policies and guidelines). Not all FAs, though, will make it on to the Main Page. For example, Raul654 (talk · contribs), who is responsible for deciding what today's featured article is (every day), said that he will never put Jenna Jameson on the front page. You can understand why especially after Gropecunt Lane was featured on the front page a few weeks ago, causing an uproar. We do have a more FAs on certain subjects, such as video games, military history and hurricanes, due to systemic bias—we just have a large number of editors interested in those topics. Given the circumstances, I think Raul does a good job mixing it up. Take a look at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 2009—only one video game article was featured on the main page. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:45, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to talk to Raul about it. I'm sure he won't mind discussing the issue. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:21, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

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Biographies of living people[edit]

Please take a look at our policy, Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. It's not necessary to read the whole thing. The introduction should be enough.--Chaser (talk) 03:36, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Summaries[edit]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Nodar Kumaritashvili. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. --220.101.28.25 (talk) 08:25, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:52, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]

Hello, Jrgilb. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]