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February 1 to March 1, 2014. Depending on the typo you correct, you gain a certain number of points. The user with the highest number of points at the end wins the contest!
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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2014)
 This staircase is an impossible object
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Life sciences • Low Countries Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Evad37 (talk) 01:33, 10 February 2014 (UTC) • |
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Your sensibility is persuasive!
Wouldn't you know that my unambiguous invitation to "take the bait" would instead be met by the kind of reason I can not pretend to disagree with. I removed the collapsed section which includes your very good reply. Doing so is arguably a violation of wp:tpg, though I think wp:iar trumps this example. I won't revert anyone, or you, if it is reverted back in, though I hope it is not. Thank you for demonstrating such a good editing example in answering my bad one. I was not expecting that at all which really made it that much more effective. Sincerely—John Cline (talk) 12:42, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
- John, I don't mind both the replies being gone from the conversation, so I think we're both in the good for now. Thanks for the removal, and enjoy your day :) TheOriginalSoni (talk) 14:59, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
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i need to send proof of pic on kenpolitical how do i do
i need to send proof of pic on kenpolitical how do i do. I can take a pic with no one there. I took the pic myself and listed it after the Chairman said he may use it as a press photo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenpolitical (talk • contribs) 19:08, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
- Kenpolitical, if you took the picture yourself, then upload it and select "Own work" when you upload the file using Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard. Otherwise, the photographer needs to send us a mail at permissions@wikimedia.org releasing the image under a free license. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 07:59, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2014)
 Model of a German SAR-Lupe reconnaissance satellite inside a Cosmos-3M rocket
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Impossible object • Life sciences Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Evad37 (talk) 16:22, 17 February 2014 (UTC) • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2014)
 An example of the human skeleton
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Reconnaissance satellite • Impossible object Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:41, 25 February 2014 (UTC) • |
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Las Cruces, New Mexico article
Thank you Soni for adding in some of the references that were accidentally removed from the Las Cruces, New Mexico article. They add significant credibility to the writing. I appreciate it! --Lizb07 (talk) 04:25, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Carnegie Library Edits
Hi user:Soni, Thank you for your edits to the Carnegie Library (Roswell, New Mexico) article. As a student, I appreciate you for properly naming the article. Your guidance about placing citations outside punctuation marks helped me a lot.--Maidmarian55 (talk) 04:40, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Feedback for Skate Parks Section on El Paso, Tx
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Tyop Contest Conclusion!
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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2014)
 Because it is so vast, there are a large number of different cultures involved in Prehistoric Asia
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Human skeleton • Reconnaissance satellite Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 03:48, 3 March 2014 (UTC) • |
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Curious re: an article marked for deletion
Good evening,
It has been awhile since I have been here. School and family life has been a killer this year. However, I am trying to get some editors involved in a discussion regarding an article marked for deletion. As I was the creator of the article I would like the recruits to be people other than those that I have actually had contact with and not really sure how do do this but thought that if I could tell a few editors and then they could tell other editors that way it wouldn't be a biased set of people getting involved. Anyhow if you might want to take part the discussion is located at Patrick article marked for deletion It has been relisted twice due to lack of participation and any input would be appreciated. Please place "talkback" on my talk page as it should notify so i know to come back should you have any advice or questions. Thanks Tattoodwaitress (talk) 01:58, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, about those reverts...
I tend to use the desktop version of Wikipedia on my touchscreen mobile device every once in a while. Let's just say that "rollback" button is my worst foe; it happens to get "clicked" accidentally all too often. I'm almost to a point where I'm thinking of asking for that right to be revoked, given the fact that I know the "other" way to perform "rollbacks" that doesn't require the rollback function. Steel1943 (talk) 02:05, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
- Steel1943 I can understand how that happens. Given there are other work-arounds to deal with it, maybe you could ask someone's help to turn off the rollback when you use the watchlist. Soni (talk) (Previously TheOriginalSoni) 13:06, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Mentorship GDrive
Hi, I am having some trouble forwarding the email to get it to work. What do you think about having an IRC chat sometime? Thanks, Matty.007 11:17, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
- Hey Matty,
- I will be online tonight (22nd March, say about 5 pm UTC) in #wikipedia-en-help (nick=tos) as well as on gmail, and there will be a meeting with I-jethrobot in another 3 hours. Will that time be fine for you? If not, you can mail me, or we can fix some other time when we can be online. Soni (talk) (Previously TheOriginalSoni) 13:22, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
- 5 UTC is 5 PM GMT isn't it? Anyway, if it is 5 or 6 PM GMT that should be fine, but I can never be 100% sure, so sorry if I'm not there straight away. Thanks, Matty.007 13:35, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
March 31 is the deadline for finishing your Individual Engagement Grant proposal!
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How to get a random copyediting page
Hey Soni. Sorry for the wait. As promised, here's an easy way to continue to get a random article to recommend as needing copyediting: Special:RandomInCategory/All articles needing copy edit. That link should give you a different article every time you click it, and it can work in templates etc. as well. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 20:48, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
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Invite
Hi Soni, I saw you had written an invite, I had given this note to Huon who ignored it and The Worm That Turned who removed it (just so yuo can remove them from people to message, unless you are significantly in their good books). Thanks, Matty.007 15:58, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
- Matty, Soni, I removed the request because I'm afraid I just don't like the idea. I'm certainly not going to stand in its way, because if the end product is what you're hoping for, then that is a positive. I just don't believe that money is needed for the project. I think it's a very sad state of affairs if we have to pay for people to be nice to newbies, to pay to encourage new editors. It might be that we do, but at that point the community in Wikipedia is no more. It's mostly me grumbling philosophically, but I thought you might want to know why I'm keeping out of it. WormTT(talk) 12:26, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for the explanation, I can see where you are coming from. I think the official stance is that we are re-imbursing people for their time-5 hours each week is a fair bit if you're working, but I can see the issue. I am personally not sure if we should do that or not, but I think we should pay the project leader and designer, positions which are jobs. Thanks again for the rationale, Matty.007 13:33, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Looking for a suggestion to clear the issue "proposed that this article be deleted"
Hi Soni, I try to create an article in wikipedia but, I able to get the notification "proposed that this article be deleted" in my article page. I am not able to understand how could I fix that issue. So, please guide me how can I fix it and request you to inform me what are the mistakes I have committed in that article.--Sinaamasa (talk) 13:24, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Neighborhoods and feeder schools of Lamar High School are necessary sections
Hi Soni! I noticed you removed the neighborhoods and feeder schools of Lamar High School saying they were unnecessary.
In America neighborhoods are assigned to high schools. This is important because being assigned to a better high school can increase property values, and neighborhoods have identities based on their schools.
Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 12:37, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Adoption
Hi Soni, with regards to sending messages to Teahouse hosts, have we gotten going yet, or should we get going soon? Thanks, Matty.007 19:08, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ken Nolan
Hello Soni. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Ken Nolan".
The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Rankersbo (talk) 17:13, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Test question
Test — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.205.50.19 (talk) 23:30, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Survey for editors who mentor newcomer
Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,
I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.
https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V2SSrhU2NFOVAV
Also, if you are able to, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send the following survey to the mentee you worked with:
https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V1quUdMZ1By3Ah
Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you
Hellow Soni! It was very kind of you to drop a welcome note! And it seems that I'll be your frequent visitor as you will be constantly needed to help me through the enormous world of Wikipedia. It feels great to be a part of Wikimedia family. Thank you TheNanavatiGirl (talk) 10:22, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
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- The next time you need to sign any comments made by you, make sure to end it with
~~~~so it autamatically adds your signature at the end, instead of writing your name there. - P.S The file File:HP Cake.jpg does not exist yet and that's why your message did not work. Any links that direct to empty pages are called "Redlinks"
- Soni (talk) (Previously TheOriginalSoni) 13:53, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The edit counter link on your user page
While following links from my talk page archives, I happened to look at your user page and notice that the link to X!'s edit counter there is currently broken. You're linking to the count for TheOriginalSoni, which the counter doesn't seem to recognize is actually you; therefore, it claims that you have an edit count of 0. Just wanted to bring this to your attention. APerson (talk!) 19:42, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you APerson. I had forgotten to update my userpage. I now made the change :)
Hellow Soni!!
Thank you for introducing me to The Wikipedia Adventure. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was a very knowledgeable experience. I leanrned many vital skills and earned fun badges. I look forward to contribute to Wikipedia and help the world. TheNanavatiGirl (talk) 12:48, 19 July 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheNanavatiGirl (talk • contribs) 12:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
Need your help!
So you might be aware of how I wished to edit the page on population but because it is protected I guess you have thre right to edit it. Following is the link to the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers?veaction=edit
And these are my sources: http://www.toptenstip.com/top-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world/
http://listverse.com/2008/06/26/top-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world/
Hope they help you!:) Happy Editting!! TheNanavatiGirl (talk) 16:37, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
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WP:PERM Request
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Was just skimming through WikiProject Cooperation and saw a familiar name. I was wondering if you had a few minutes to take a look at my Request Edit at Talk:Beneful#Draft. Most of my work there is cleaning up poorly-sourced promotion (such as an indiscriminate products list and a section on information available on their website). The one thing where my COI is probably more relevant is the second paragraph of the History section in my proposed draft, regarding allegations the food is causing illness or death in pets. CorporateM (Talk) 13:58, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews
Hello Soni. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.
Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).
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Nok Nok Labs Followup
Can you direct me to a pointer on how to edit a proposal for deleting the Nok Nok Labs entry? I am not understanding the concerns being raised and would prefer editing the page to address those concerns rather than deleting the page. Thanks!
Hi Soni, What is the process in closing out an Article for Deletion (AfD) proposal? Someone suggested deleting an article I created (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nok_Nok_Labs ). I revised the article to address the concerns, but am uncertain of how to resolve the issue (and I hope maintain the new Nok Nok Labs article that I believe has merit. Thank you for any suggestions! --Cryptodd (talk) 18:46, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @Cryptodd: To answer your question about the AfD process: The discussion will remain open for a week. During that time you are welcome to comment, as you have been doing. After a week the discussion will be evaluated by an uninvolved administrator, who will consider what has been said (giving more weight to the strength of the arguments rather than the number of "votes") and will close the discussion accordingly. --MelanieN (talk) 15:55, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the answer & enlightenment! --Cryptodd (talk) 22:07, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Would you have any suggestions?
A few months ago during the eventually unsuccessful Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Piotrus_3 you voted "oppose". I wonder if you'd like to discuss any concerns of yours, or if you would have any suggestions in the event I'd decide to run again (which I am not planning to do anytime soon, but might consider in the future). I understand your concerns about canvassing, and I hope I understand that policy better now - I would be more than happy to chat about it if you'd like to query me on it now. For a better sense of my work and activities around the project, I invite you to consider reviewing my userpage, my talk page archives (which are not redacted), to watchlist my talk page, or use edit analysis tools like Wikichecker, content.paragr, dewkin, xtools-pages or xtools-ec (which in theory should work as of late 2014...). Thank you for your time, (PS. If you reply here, I'd appreciate a WP:ECHO or {{talkback}} ping).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:59, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Seasons Greetings
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Hey Soni. It's up! Sorry it took me a little longer to get this together than I discussed with you earlier this week. Thanks, I, JethroBT drop me a line 22:41, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Happy Holidays!
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!! |
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Still want your name on Teahouse invites?
Hi Soni! A while back, you agreed to have your name attached to some of the daily Teahouse invites sent by HostBot. Are you still interested in having your name included in some of these invites? If not, I'm happy to remove your name from the list. Cheers, - J-Mo Talk to Me Email Me 00:17, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Happy New Year Soni!
Soni,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. NorthAmerica1000 13:21, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Adjusting pilot start date - WP:Co-op
Hello Soni,
I'll be putting out a formal update sometime soon, but I wanted to inform you that I've decided to push our start date back to mid-February rather than in January. There are number of reasons for this, but the biggest factor is that we are now facing the hard work of implementing our designs on the Mediawiki interface. It's a limiting environment to work with from a web-building perspective, and the team that worked on the Teahouse can offer similar testimonials to these challenges. We also want to make sure there is time for us and for you to test the environment out, ask questions at our project's talk page, and give us a little time to make any last changes before we start inviting editors to the space. If some of you know you will be unavailable during this time, it's totally fine if you need to bow out for the pilot. But we do need all the mentors we can get, so even if you can take the time to mentor just one or two editors, that would be fantastic.
Thanks a bunch,
I, JethroBT drop me a line on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.
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RfC: AfC Helper Script access
An RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to comment. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:13, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
WP:Co-op news for December 2014 – Feburary 2015
Hey Soni, it's been a while. The Co-op team has been hard at work during over the winter, so let's get right into what's been happening:
- Graphic design work is nearing completion and development work is coming along slowly but surely. The main components of the space, profiles, the landing page, and the mentor landing page have all been built, and we're basically just putting the pieces together. We have close-to-final draft of the landing page, which is currently at User:Slalani/Landing_page, and in the thumbnail to the right. You can check out other components over at User:Slalani if you're curious. Soni, Slalani, and I are working together on some of the front page elements. We've also been doing some testing on test.wikipedia.org for profile building and matching. If you're curious about checking that out, let me know.
- We've finished up a survey for newer editors to assess their experiences of using existing help spaces (e.g. Reference Desk, Teahouse, IRC, The Wikipedia Adventure) on en.wikipedia. Gabrielm199 is putting together a summary of that survey, and in the meantime, some findings from that survey of 45 newer editors include:
- On average, editors found contributing to Wikipedia to be easier after using the help space compared to before.
- However, after using one or more help spaces, only half of editors reported that editing, addressing social challenges, and resolving technical issues were easy or very easy. The other half of editors were either neutral, or reported that these matters were difficult or very difficult.
- Just under 30% (11 of 38 editors) of newer editors said they probably would have stopped editing entirely had they not received support from the help space they used.
- Editors frequently reported either 1) that they would not have been learn what they needed without the help space, or 2) That they could have found it, but admitted that it would have been difficult or taken much longer.
- On average, editors found contributing to Wikipedia to be easier after using the help space compared to before.
- We will be making one final move of the pilot start date to March 4th, 2015. This is the last move (I promise), because we can't afford to run the pilot any later than that. So there it is: March 4th or bust! But we won't bust, because there are just a few things left on our plate before we can run our pilot successfully. I'll be alerting you about when you will be able to make mentor profiles soon, so when you get a message about that, please take a minute or two to create your profile here (otherwise, you won't get matched to any editors!).
Thanks to all of the new mentors who have joined over the past few months. Big thanks to Missvain to posting about our little project here to the gendergap-l mailing list. I, JethroBT drop me a line 00:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC) on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.
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Draft:NNG (company) concern
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Today's articles for improvement
- Hello Soni:
- Please consider participating in this week's vote for TAFI's upcoming Week 17 collaboration. Last week's voting did not receive many participants. Thanks for your consideration. North America1000 16:22, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Tijuana Terminal
Hello, I tried to submit information on the Tijuana Cross-border terminal. Started the project in 1990 and was the project manager in Mexico. I started with a Rnieders sandbox and now I have noticed that all the images I had submitted have been deleted by Stefan2 as he claimed they were not fair use. 3 of the images belong to me, the others came from public organizations, such as the City of San Diego, The San Diego Association of Governments and the Mexican government and the images were central to telling the history and development of the project, as visual images are less subject to interpretation than written explanations of an image. How can I correct the issues so that I can reintroduce the pictures as mots of this information I obtained while a project manager and negotiator on the project. thank you Rnieders (talk) 04:19, 25 August 2014 (UTC)