User talk:Lwalt/Archive 1

DC Meetup on May 17th

Your help is needed in planning Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4! Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated. The Placebo Effect (talk) 19:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia meetup

As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4.

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Discussion about the next DC Meetup

Greetings! You are receiving this message because you said you wanted to be reminded about future DC meetups on Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_4. We are planning the next DC meetup in late August/early September at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_5, and would love to have your input. Staeiou (talk) 15:22, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

You're invited...

...to the 5th Washington DC Meetup! Please visit the linked page to RSVP or for more information. All are welcome!
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County templates

Please don't delink community names from county navigational templates, like with Charles County today; because articles may well be created for those communities, it's reasonable to have the redlinks remain until they turn blue. Nyttend (talk) 15:28, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Commas for Obama's

Thanks for correcting all those commas that someone moved on Obama's Inaug. I've been enjoying following all your edits today, especially fixing my mishaps. Thanks. Aaron charles (talk) 03:19, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

DC Meetup Events: You're invited!

Wikipedia Loves Art! (February 27) The Smithsonian American Art Museum will be holding a Wikipedia Loves Art! meetup on Friday, February 27 from 5-7 pm in the Kogod Courtyard. This is a photography event involving Wikipedians, along with Flickr users and others, to generate content for Wikipedia. Come share your experiences, meet the other teams, and take some photos! While RSVPing isn't necessary drop Jeff Gates an email if you're planning on attending so he can get a head count: gatesj (at) si.edu. There also is a signup list here, along with detailed information. The museum is conveniently located across from the Gallery Place-Chinatown metro station. DC 6th Meetup (March 7) The DC 6th meetup will take place on March 7th at Pizzeria Uno's at Union Station, one level up from the main floor. The meetup will start at 5pm, and people usually stick around there for several hours. You can RSVP at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 6.

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Inauguration of Barack Obama

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		This barnstar shows my appreciation for your dedication to the pursuit of excellence in improving Inauguration of Barack Obama TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:29, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

This user helped promote Inauguration of Barack Obama to good article status.

Thank you for the editorial assistance that you gave to help improve this article. You may want to post the attached contribution notice on your user page. Keep up the good work as we try to take this article to WP:FA.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:29, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I am intending nominate this at WP:FAC in the very near future. How do you feel about this article as a FA?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:43, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Are you interested in being a co-nominator?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 08:57, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

When my Saxbe fix FAC nom concludes, this will be my next one. How much time do you need.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:03, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Saxbe fix just got promoted. I am going to nominate Inauguration of Barack Obama at the end of the day today unless you have a problem with that.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:45, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Please come visit Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Inauguration of Barack Obama and help me address concerns as they arise.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:31, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Are you guys giving up on this one?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I have started Wikipedia:Peer review/Inauguration of Barack Obama/archive1‎. I will be continuing to work on the article. Hopefully, over the course of the month while this is at PR we can get it cleaned up enough for FAC.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 00:28, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Your 3RR edit suggestion

Just a note that I edited this page and section. I'm a little new here and therefore curious as to why you didn't just make the change yourself?  ^{.`</sup>^) Paine<sup>diss`cuss} (^^`.  04:07, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

You left the following message at my talk page:

• I have no idea of what you're talking about or referring to, since that I have not had a discussion with anyone or edit articles in several days (have other important things to attend to besides Wikipedia these days). Could you enlighten me here as to what your message is about or whether you have even contacted the right person? →Lwalt ^♦ talk 04:30, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes of course; I'd be glad to. And I can see why this isn't fresh in your memory. You made a suggestion to clarify the "Three-revert rule" on the "Help:Reverting" page back in August, 2007. Your suggestion is on this talk page. You felt that just the word "day" was insufficient, and that "a 24-hour period" ought to be specified. I agreed with you and made the clarification as you suggested and was a little curious as to why you didn't just edit it yourself.  ^{.`</sup>^) Paine<sup>diss`cuss} (^^`.  05:11, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Inauguration of Barack Obama

I see you have edited the article today. Welcome back. Notice the comments from the WP:FAC. Also, see the article is at WP:PR. We hope to take it back to FAC when the PR ends. We have to clean up our sources and be mindful of other commentary. Jump right in and help out if you have time.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 08:24, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Apologize

I sincerely apologize for the action. The site smartken.com hosts information on a variety of topics, including interior decoration. The link was added in the external links as a means to route someone interested in some more information on interior decoration.

Nonetheless, I promise that if I add a link back to smartken.com in the external links, it will be preceded by rich and relevant content in the Wiki pages. I dont intend to spam, and I apologize for the action. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.8.136.254 (talk) 10:34, July 26, 2007 (UTC)

Link Removal

message attributed to Kandisky123 moved from preceding section

How can you say that we are spamming when we are linking to the most educating tutorials on the Internet related to faux painting techniques? Do you realize that the majority of external links are part of Websites that sell a product or service? Please explain why I can't link to this: http://fauxlikeapro.com/learn.asp

It has free tutorials for all to see ... I await your reply. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kandisky123 (talk • contribs) 22:04, August 13, 2007.

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second message posted by Kandisky123 at 22:09, August 13, 2007

Dear Lwalt,

Why would you remove a link to fauxlikeapro.com and permit the link to HGTV which is the most commercial organization I know of? I would like to speak with a WIKI representative about this one ... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kandisky123 (talk • contribs) 22:09, August 13, 2007.

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Inauguration of Barack Obama/archive2‎

I have renominated at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Inauguration of Barack Obama/archive2‎.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:55, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Images

Are you really going to chop all of those images or are you in the middle of something?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:49, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes I saw that. I think you removed at least a half dozen images. Are any of them going to be replaced in the article. In particular, although the shot is low quality, I like the shot of the closed captioning of the error.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:06, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I trust you have made a proper and respectful request and hope for the best.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 01:48, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Is an edit war going on with the Inauguration of Barack Obama article?

Hi Lwalt. Please see my response User_talk:TonyTheTiger#Is_an_edit_war_going_on_with_the_Inauguration_of_Barack_Obama_article.3F. Thanks. Aaron charles (talk) 15:09, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

International attention

Did you decide not to split out International attention into a new article from the Inauguration? Aaron charles (talk) 00:47, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Status of Deletion Request for President_Obama_Re-Takes_Oath.ogg file on Commons

There has never been any authoritative confirmation that this file is in the public domain or released under any license compatible with Wikipedia use. Some people have been saying that it's okay under fair use, but I'm not sure about that either. I even went so far as to contact the journalist whom I thought was most likely responsible for the recording, and they didn't seem too fussed about it at least. I think it would be misrepresenting the case to say that it's public domain, under any sort of Wikipedia compatible license, or even fair use; but fair use may be the closest to the de facto situation, which is that nobody seems to care particularly. I stopped contributing to the discussion when I found that nobody really seemed interested in finding out the true situation regarding the file, and just seemed to want to wave hands and say "it's okay, it's okay". Sure it is okay, but not according to Wikipedia policy, unless someone can prove the fair use requirements are met. --Sbp (talk) 11:41, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Inauguration of Barack Obama

Thanks for the effort and the update. I don't think this qualifies as a BIO article. We will just wait another week.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:50, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

O - Inaug

Lwalt - you did wonders to the international attention split article! It looks far better. I try edit as much time as I can carve out. You are making so many editorial contributions and improvements. I need your assistance, if you can. The sentence in the ceremony part ::: Despite the performance described as the "classical‑music equivalent of lip‑syncing," National Public Radio described it as "a transporting moment that moved many with its beauty and calm." ::: could be phrased better. Any ideas? Thanks. Aaron charles (talk) 11:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

PR notification

You may want to keep an eye on Wikipedia:Peer review/Inauguration of Barack Obama/archive2.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:50, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009

The 7th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, June 6th, starting at 5 p.m. The event will be at Bertucci's, near George Washington University and the Foggy Bottom metro station. It will follow the Apps for Democracy open source event at GWU. For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 7. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.)
Delivered by The Helpful Bot at 19:54, 2 June 2009 (UTC) to report errors, please leave a note here.

PR FYI

We finally have a discussant at Wikipedia:Peer review/Inauguration of Barack Obama/archive2.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:11, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16

The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting an all-day Academy at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, July 16. The team that will be teaching at the Academy, a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is looking for four more volunteers to be teaching assistants, providing one-to-one assistance in workshops whenever a workshop participant has a problem following the instructional directions. (We currently have two editors signed up as teaching assistants, and are looking for a total of six.)

The NIH editing workshops are only for two hours, but volunteers are asked to meet the Wikimedia Foundation team at the hotel in Bethesda at about 7:15 a.m. (time to be finalized shortly) and to stay for the entire day, which ends at 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. (The full schedule can be found here.)

The team is not necessarily looking for expert editors (though they are welcome), just people who can help novices who might get stuck when trying to do some basic things. If you've been an editor for at least 3 months, and have done at least 500 edits, you probably qualify.

If you're interested, please send John Broughton an email. If you might be interested, but would like further information, please post a note on his user talk page, so that he can respond there, and others can see what was asked.

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Inauguration of Barack Obama FAC3

Follow along at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Inauguration of Barack Obama/archive3.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:50, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

From the feedback at WP:FAC my WP:ALT text could use some copyeditting.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

James Brown

As you are one of the top five contributors, I'm letting you know that James Brown has been nominated for GA Review, and I have started the review. SilkTork *^YES! 10:52, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

There is a lot of work to do. I have put it on hold for seven days; but given the low level of activity so far, I anticipate that the work will not be completed by that time, and the nomination will fail. SilkTork *^YES! 17:45, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, September 26

The 8th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, September 26, starting at 6 p.m. The event will be at Burma Restaurant (740 6th St, NW near the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station). For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 8. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.) --EdwardsBot (talk) 06:59, 23 September 2009 (UTC)