User talk:Noeticsage/Archive 2
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A new round of Collaboration of the Fortnight is about to begin!
| The current University Collaborations of the Month are Ohio State University & Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University |
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Every month two B-, C- or Start-Class higher education-related articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! | ||
Yes, it's that time again. New articles have been added. I finished this process early because I'll be running around packing and sorting out Friday's weather patterns so I can get back to Florida in time. Just in case things don't go well, at least I don't sabotage the COTF program. Anyways, the three new articles will start on Friday and you may edit the three technically still in COTF (although I've placed the collaboration-past tags already) or you may start editing early.
Here's something I want to try, start treating it as a peer review. Start by skimming through the article, making sure the article fits our article guidelines. Then review for content: any copyvio, notability issues, reference listings, following the Manual of Style.
And here's something even more radical. See if you can attract authors currently maintaining the different COTF articles to join our WikiProject and better yet, our COTF project. I found when I started this program, jumping ships and editing other universities' articles was a big leap, but it's been very fun so far. I'd like to see more people actively participating.
Let's start off the new year the right way. I want to see those articles in GAR and FAN soon. I was sad we didn't have enough people working on the Harvard article to push it to FA or GA. But no matter, let's start fresh and begin! Hope everyone had a good holiday vacation (and if you didn't get a vacation, I hope you got a lot of double time). - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 10:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
More AWB help
Hey, I was wondering how you send messages to everyone through AWB. I just started fixing typos and I want to move onto learning this message thing. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again! :-D - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 06:26, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Archiving WP:UNI's talk pages
Should the talk pages in WP:UNI be archived? - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 12:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- I archived them last week. As long as we don't archive any current discussions I think it's fine. —Noetic Sage 21:24, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
New WP:UNI/COTF!
| The current University Collaborations of the Fortnight are: | ||
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| Editor Nominated Topic | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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| B-Class Improvement Drive | California Institute of Technology | |
| Start/Stub Improvement Drive | Berklee College of Music | |
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Every fortnight three higher education-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! | ||
Round 4 has begun! - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 06:38, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
using subst
I thought I did that... please check your code. :-)
- Yeah, I did. Look, the date you have on the template is the old date when I sent it (I had a typo on there because I only switched the article names, not the COTF date. However the date is fixed on the actual template. :-)- Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 15:25, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Image:RHA.gif listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:RHA.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 23:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
signpost delivery
Hey, I think I might have asked you this before, but how do you do signpost deliveries through AWB? Thanks. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 05:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
- I first add everyone from the Participants page to the list in AWB, then eliminate everything except their user talk pages. Then I just add the template found on the WP:UNI/REACH page to the edit box and start the process. It's pretty easy but let me know if you have questions. —Noetic Sage 14:20, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free media (Image:RHA.gif)
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WP:UNI/COTF Round 5
| The current University Collaborations of the Fortnight are: | ||
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| Editor Nominated Topic | University of Kent |
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| B-Class Improvement Drive | University of Colorado at Boulder | |
| Start/Stub Improvement Drive | University of California, San Francisco | |
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Every fortnight three higher education-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! | ||
Sorry about the late notice. My 21st birthday was on Wednesday and I was pretty much sick all day Thursday, so I wasn't able to get a chance to do this. Anyways, three new articles.
Note: I didn't place the Portal on the ENT because I felt that the portal was more like a collection of articles rather than an actual article focused on the university. This semi-goes against our original goals of the COTF in which university articles would get attention first before handling the subarticles. (Portal is more like a collection of articles). Anyways, if you believe it should be back on the ENT, I'll make sure it'll be Round 6's ENT, so if you do feel it should, talk on the COTF talk page.
Oh yeah, I hope the coding works. I'm using WP:AWB to do signpost delivery by "Append Text"...hoping that it'll work. If this comes out horribly, please let me know if I haven't already fixed the error(s).
Any personal questions regarding the management and coding of this program should be directed to me talk page. Thank you for your understanding. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 09:00, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
The WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue V (January 2008)
The January 2008 issue of the WikiProject Universities newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you for your continued support of WikiProject Universities! —Noetic Sage 22:00, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks!
- Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 04:06, 6 February 2008 (UTC) has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!
Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
- Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 04:06, 6 February 2008 (UTC) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
- Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 04:06, 6 February 2008 (UTC) has hugged you! Hugs promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better (and hopefully wasn't meant as an invasion of personal space). Spread the WikiLove by hugging at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Hug others by adding {{subst:Hug}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
This is for your continued efforts in helping the set of article guidelines for WP:UNI get set in stone. That and I really haven't been able to use my {{subst:hug}} yet... hahahah - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 04:06, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
The school articles you identified were initially a part of the Savannah State University article. Since an editor tagged that article as {{toolong}}, the information on the various schools was split into separate articles for expansion. I'm not sure what short of information you are looking for to determine notability. Yes, they are not as notable History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883 as, but surely they are as notable as Yavin IV.
Round 6 of University Collaborations of the Fortnight has begun
| The current University Collaborations of the Fortnight are: | ||
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| Editor Nominated Topic | University of Phoenix |
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| B-Class Improvement Drive | United States Military Academy | |
| Start/Stub Improvement Drive | Rollins College | |
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Every fortnight three higher education-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! | ||
Enjoy! - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 05:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Rollback
You have been granted with rollback permission. For more information, please refer to this page. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 12:55, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Rockefeller bribery
A key element in the founding of CCNY / College of the City of New York was the authority given the trustees to notify the mayor how much money they would require for the following year and requiring the city (mayor) to provide it. Period. End of debate. Of course, Nelson Rockefeller opposed this, and wanted to impose tuition. He did this step by step, starting with the 1961 deal to grant university status.
When I added the very mild addition that university status had been paid for with the abrogation of the free tuition compact, uber editor decided to remove it as "not relevant." What could be more relevant to Townsend Harris’ dream? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.247.3.91 (talk) 05:45, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
- I may have made a mistake. Please feel free to add it back in with proper citations.—Noetic Sage 13:23, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
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WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue VI (February 2008)
The February 2008 issue of the WikiProject Universities newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you for your continued support of WikiProject Universities! —Delivered on 19:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)
It's not vandalism
You defined an edit of mine on the colleges and universities in Israel as vandalism.
Noeticsage (Talk | contribs) m (7,628 bytes) (Reverted 2 edits by BTB london identified as vandalism to last revision by Faigl.ladislav. (TW)) (undo)
You didn't leave me a message as Wikipedia protocol demands.
It was not vandalism, I was merely correcting the page so that institutions in the OPT were not shown as being in Israel. Thus making the entry conform to International law. You may disagree (you obviously do) but this does not make it vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BTB london (talk • contribs) 18:39, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey, what do you think about this list article? List of Fraternities and Sororities at George Mason University. Do you think it should be AfDed? - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 20:50, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Most definitely. It is certainly not notable and really serves no purpose. I'd support a delete. If you want to be the first person to list a deletion on our deletion page, that'd be cool. Otherwise I'll list it :)
- Also, are you finding that Firefox 3 Beta 5 works with most of your add-ons? I want to download it but am afraid none of my million add-ons will have support.—Noetic Sage 21:19, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well, I'll let you know if the XfD link on WP:TW works in a little bit. I've CSDed a lot of new pages already and I've tagged articles with Friendly as well. I'm not using much more wiki add-ons than that. But Minefield (FF3b5pre) seems to be working with my FF skin, even ForecastFox Enhanced. You can always remove it if you want. I'll send you the link to the AfD in a little bit. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 21:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Yup, AfD works - but it's really slow. Btw Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Fraternities and Sororities at George Mason University. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 21:54, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well, I'll let you know if the XfD link on WP:TW works in a little bit. I've CSDed a lot of new pages already and I've tagged articles with Friendly as well. I'm not using much more wiki add-ons than that. But Minefield (FF3b5pre) seems to be working with my FF skin, even ForecastFox Enhanced. You can always remove it if you want. I'll send you the link to the AfD in a little bit. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 21:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Round 7 of WP:UNI/COTF is finally here!
Hope everyone got a good two week rest in observance of Spring Break. Here are the new articles for the next fourteen days until 27 Mar 2008.
| The current University Collaborations of the Fortnight are: | ||
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| Editor Nominated Topic | King's College London |
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| B-Class Improvement Drive | Clemson University | |
| Start/Stub Improvement Drive | University of Hong Kong | |
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Every fortnight three higher education-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! | ||
I've taken advice to purposefully scramble the articles so they must be multi-nation (so we don't get complaints that it's too US-centric). This time we've got an article in UK, one in US, and one in HKG. Hope this will suffice. As always, please let me know if there are any questions. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 23:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
SatyrBot & Universities
Hi, Noeticsage! I've moved your request and replied to it at User talk:SatyrBot/WikiProject to do lists#WikiProject Universities. Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 20:32, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Tireless Contributor Barnstar
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| I, - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs, award Noetic Sage the Tireless Contributor Barnstar for the continuous improvement of WikiProject Universities guidelines, discussions, and new creative ways to just make other editors' work so much easier when dealing with university/higher education-related articles. Thanks and keep up your hard work! - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 05:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC) |
IIT Kanpur edit
Hi, I edited the IIT Kanpur page to clean up the horrible grammar and bad writing in the ELS and Book Club sections. What did you find wrong with my edits? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.213.244.14 (talk) 07:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
You also need to check the definition of vandalism given in the Wikipedia guidelines. If you disagree with my edits, fine, but marking it vandalism is unethical and in violation of Wikipedia guidelines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.213.244.14 (talk) 07:22, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
- This was my mistake. When reading your edit saying "dumb charades", I quickly assumed it was vandalism rather than a real event. Sorry about that. The edits still suffer from academic boosterism and perhaps peacock words, but it's definitely not vandalism. Sorry!—Noetic Sage 18:06, 23 March 2008 (UTC)