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You helped choose Geography of New Jersey as this week's WP:ACID winner

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Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Geography of New Jersey was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

ZeWrestler Talk 04:39, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review Suggestion

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Hey AndyZ, awesome script, when the program does the auto-formatting per MoS, it replace can't to can not, and don't to do not. I'm not sure if it is possible but would it be possible to stop if from changing that when the words are inside "quotations". once again, i don't know if this is possible, just a thought.

Once again awesome script, DTGardner 15:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (Image:JS peer reviewer-preview.png)

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just wondering, can u do an automated PR on this article again? David Connolly seems to be fixed up pretty much already thanks --Xaiver0510 14:23, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XIX (September 2007)

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Misleading suggestions

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I complained to User:Piotrus about deceptive, misleading suggestions wrt date linking on Talk:Belarus and he pushed it off on you. My comment is at Talk:Belarus#Some bot suggestions. Gene Nygaard 21:21, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Reviewer Installation

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Hi there! For some reason, I'm unable to install the PR into my monobook.js file. I have inserted the line "{{subst:js|User:AndyZ/peerreviewer.js}}" and bypassed my cache over and over again, but the "peer review" button does not appear in an edit mode of an article. I'm very puzzled; there is no other script in my .js file, and I have repeatedly cleared my cache until I went insane. Could you help me? Thanks! --PostScript 15:44, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

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Hi Andy, there was a suggestion on Wikipedia_talk:Content_review/workshop, specifically here to modify the message left by the PR script from the current version to something like "A script has been used to generate a semi-automated review of the article for minor issues of grammar and house style. If you would find such a review helpful, please click here."

Also I was wondering if I should run the script on other PR pages (different Wikiprojects) or are these all transcluded on the regular WP:PR page? Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:16, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I just ran the script as AZPR and noted the change - I think "house style" was wikilinked to WP:MOS in the original suggestion. Also I did the October requests first, then made the November PR/A page, then tried the November requests, but the auto link was still to the October PR/A page. What I am doing wrong? As for the auto transcluded PR requests from other projects, I will ask at Talk PR. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:12, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In addition to wikilinking "house style", could you please remove the word "minor". See the conversation cited above if you want details ;-) Thanks, `Ruhrfisch ><>°° 15:07, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for November 2007

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The November 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the December 2007 issue. Dr. Cash 01:07, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XX (October 2007)

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James Strang article suggestions

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Thanks so much for your suggestions on the Strang article. I've taken care of the first five, and will be working on the others as I get the time. I deeply appreciate your help with this! - Ecjmartin 05:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Ayyavazhi article

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Sir, As suggested by you I clicked the link here. And I found Ayyavazi article listed here. Now what is to be done? Pls healp, as i don't know much and too weak in correct usage of english, Thanks. - PaulRaj 20:13, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am trying to follow your suggestions and I just added a infobox to U.B._Funkeys, but the rules for uploading photos confuses me. I am tring to add a picture of the USB Hub to the infobox, but the rules for images are so confussing, I don't know what I can or cannot add, much less what I have to do to referece, cite, or add what I need to to prove it's a free image. --MahaPanta 18:25, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ACID Atom

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The article Atom, which you voted for the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive on August 31, and was removed on September 11, because on one got around to choosing it as the winner, has been renominated and needs votes. Zginder 16:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hezbollah

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Hi, I've nominated this article for peer review[1] and we tried to improve it on the basis of the suggestions. But there's some disagreement about two points of it which I've put on hold tag in front of them. Please help us with participating in the discussion on Talk:Hezbollah#Disagreements. --Seyyed(t-c) 04:28, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review script

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I'm hoping you'll revisit this statement in the peer review script:

  • Consider adding more links to the article; per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links) and Wikipedia:Build the web, create links to relevant articles.[?]

I'm encountering a lot of WP:OVERLINKing, perhaps because editors believe they need to add links ... just for the sake of adding links. I just finished delinking a lot of WP:OVERLINKing at Rotavirus, and the author got a peer review script telling him to add more links :-) Overlinking lately is as big a problem as underlinking, so perhaps you can refer to WP:OVERLINK. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:18, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Classification of admins

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Hi AndyZ. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 23:00, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Recommendation regarding peer review script

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I would like to suggest that you remove this statement from the peer reviews: "There may be an applicable infobox for this article." Infoboxes are not mandatory and including this suggestion makes it seem like the article should have one. Editors should decide whether or not an infobox is justified. For a long time I thought infoboxes were required, although that isn't stated anywhere, simply because of scripts like this and templates that list whether articles have infoboxes or not. It seemed a natural conclusion to draw. I was surprised to discover that infoboxes were not required. Thanks. Awadewit | talk 11:07, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXI (November 2007)

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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for December 2007

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The December 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the January 2008 issue. Dr. Cash 00:30, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion of the automated peer reviewer

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Run this tool to see if there are any broken external links. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 06:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and sorry

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Thanks for your support of my RfA and sorry for the confusion, I meant I didn't think you had made any edits with the AZPR account since September. I'll tweak my comment there next, ;-) Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:10, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your user subpage at User:AZPR/c, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's user page policy. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here? I'd appreciate hearing your views, such as your reasons for wanting this particular page and any alternatives you might accept.

There are several options available for resolving this matter:

  • If you can relieve my concerns through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
  • If you decide to delete the page yourself, please add {{Db-userreq}} to the top of the page in question and an administrator will delete it.
  • If the two of us can't agree on what needs to be done, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's user pages for discussion, which may result in the page in question being deleted.

Thank you.--12 Noon  23:39, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Peer review/Gimme More

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Three reviews were done and the others were not yet. One is the lead and the copyediting. Please check the lead if its fine. Tell me if its not yet there. Thank you very much. --βritandβeyonce (talkcontribs) 08:31, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for supporting my RFA

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<font=3> Thanks for your support, my request for adminship passed 62/0/0 yesterday!

I want to thank Snowolf and Dincher for nominating me, those who updated the RfA tally, and everyone for their support and many kind words. I will do my best to use the new tools carefully and responsibly (and since you are reading this, I haven't yet deleted your talk page by accident!). Please let me know if there is anything I can do to be of assistance, and keep an eye out for a little green fish with a mop on the road to an even better encyclopedia.

Thanks again and take care, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Automated PR

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Thanks for the PR of Sid Barnes. The script picked up a number of contractions that are indeed outside of quotes, but each is in the title of a book and therefore italicised. You could consider telling the bot to ignore italicised contractions? Just a thought. Anyway, thanks. --Dweller (talk) 11:32, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Dear AndyZ, I wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year! Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:44, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peer reviewer

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I've added the script to my monobook.js but nothings happened, I've bypassed my cache and I can't think of anything alse to do? Can you help me please! if it helps I've tried it on firefox and safari. Harland1 (t/c) 14:04, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Disputed fair use rationale for Image:MikeNewell.jpg

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realizability of flexible polyhedra

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I attempted to add some info on the subject but was reverted in a few hours with: "rv (makes no sense to me)". On Dec 28 I provided my rationale on the Talk page and so far have not seen any reaction to it. Does it still make no sense? Being new to Wikipedia, I do not understand whether I am now engaged in some kind of an ongoing procedural process. Should I patiently wait? What are my options? Please help. Thank you. 128.174.192.194 (talk) 18:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 03:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXII (December 2007)

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AZPR tweak

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Hi Andy, Peer Review has changed somewhat in that the reviews are now bot generated. The WP:PR page no longer has the reviews - they are now transcluded from User:VeblenBot/C/Requests for peer review. Would it be possible to make the AZPR script run on the VeblenBot page? I have been adding the notice to PR requests one at a time for now, but the batch "add notices" would be nicer / easier. Hope you have a Happy New Year, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 18:37, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, just let me know if you are able to fix the script. If not, opening the reviews themselves one at a time still works fine. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 16:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This was left on my talk page by User:Binarymoron. "Does the bot count "vague terms of size" that are within quotes too? If this is the case I have a good logic that can solve this problem, I am not familiar with programing languages other than C++ or VB so I dont know the coding in Perl or Python. Basically make the bot count all the double quotes before the word is encountered, if the number of counts(of double quotes) is even then the word is outside the qoutes and should be considered but if the number of counts is odd then the word is within the quotes and should be ignored." Thought it might be useful, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:11, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Wormshill

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Hi, since Raul has rebooted the above's FAC, I'd be grateful if you'd take another look and see whether your previous concerns have been addressed. Many thanks Dick G (talk) 06:54, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Peerreviewer workaround

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Hi. I was wondering if there is any easy fix to allow your script to work for pages that are not in the mainspace. I know that this isn't often needed, but it came up when I was attempting to use the tool for an article I am writing in a sandbox and then saw the tool wasn't accessible. I assume the reason is that it is disabled for anything starting with "user" or "user talk". Thanks in advance.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 07:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PR semibot

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Wow, the peer reviewing script is amazing! That must have taken a ton of work. Thanks for doing all that! delldot talk 19:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! TomStar81 (Talk) 01:24, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The February 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 05:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I think I have addressed all the issues listed in Peer Review for this article and would like to renominate it for GA. Could you do that bot thing that you previously did before that generated those comments on the peer review page? I just want to see if I have missed anything. Thanks! NancyHeise (talk) 07:43, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Butting in - I run the PR script as AZPR too, so I saw this and reran it. I pasted it into the previous semi-automated peer review section (we put them in a separate section to cut down on size of the main peer review). Ruhrfisch ><>°° 12:33, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIII (January 2008)

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Andy, can you please run your review script on this article? I want to nominate for FA and think I have a decent article but would like some comments before I throw myself on my sword. Regards, Daysleeper47 (talk) 21:35, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Endashes

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Can you add an endash check on the script? When I see an article like Peyton Manning appear at FAC, I just feel bad for all the work the nominator has to do to fix all those dashes. And can you get the script to detect when cite templates have an empty or non-existent publisher field? Filling in all those publishers at Peyton Manning will take a huge effort. It would be great if the script could pick up some of these things. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AZPR new bug

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Hi Andy, the Peer Review requests are now all named with "/archiveN" at the end, so when the script runs it links to the wrong file in WP:PR/A. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 05:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi Andy, GeometryGuy has been updating the peer review process and has some ideas for the semi-automated peer review process that I would appreciate your feedback on here. I think it would fix the bug, Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC) PS I emailed you too.[reply]
Not sure if this is the same bug but the post to Wikipedia:Peer_review/Tax_protester_constitutional_arguments/archive2 for the automated peer-review links to nothing. I can't find it on the lined page anywhere. It doesn't look like the automation reviewed anything for this article. Morphh (talk) 23:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

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I am new. Poosebag (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 00:33, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PR error

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Hi Andy. I've tried to install your peer reviewer but am having trouble getting it working. I did clear the page cache and the other scripts I've tested seem to work find, but I don't see the "peer review" button or the "add to WP:PR" tag. Also, I just noticed that I'm getting a "Too much recursion" error in Firefox's Java Console whenever I load an edit page. Is this the sign of a bug or am I missing something stupid? Thanks! --jwandersTalk 07:19, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also want to chime in and say that Peer Review does not work for me, even after I empty out my monobook.js file, and I have the same problems as mentioned above. Gary King (talk) 23:43, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hacked around in the code; deduced that this is a memory error (taking enough of MOS_format() "fixed" it; didn't seem to matter which parts I removed). Not sure how to tell Firefox to allocate javascript more mem, or whether this is a problem unique to my system (Firefox 2.0.0.12, Mac 10.4.11, 1GB Ram) or a leak in the script. --jwandersTalk 07:14, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My system is Mac OS X 10.5.2 with Firefox 2.0.0.12 and 2 GB RAM. I have a feeling that OS X is where the problem lies; Windows users probably don't have issues with this script. Gary King (talk) 15:00, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Run script

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Could you run your script on PHP and Milton Friedman please? Thanks in advance Gary King (talk) 00:02, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could you also run it for Web 2.0 please? Gary King (talk) 02:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done - it is in its talk page since no PR request is up. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:00, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Just an FYI to whoever this should be addressed to: it would be nice if there was a web interface where users could type in the article name, then the bot could automatically generate a report on the Talk page of the article. Gary King (talk) 05:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The March 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 05:52, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIV (February 2008)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:JS peer reviewer-preview.png)

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Could I have another automated review of this page please. --Seahamlass (talk) 12:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Run PR bot on Channel Tunnel please

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Hey AndyZ, could you run AZPR bot on Channel Tunnel to check for grammar and house style? Cheers, --Commander Keane (talk) 02:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXV (March 2008)

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April GA Newsletter

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The April issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is now available. Dr. Cash (talk) 03:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To answer objections, I changed all the links to inline citations, because I think this deserves to be a featured article. Can you review and help advance it?--Parkwells (talk) 21:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apollo 9

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See if some of the edits I made are better in auto-review —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bender razz (talkcontribs) 20:48, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVI (April 2008)

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Automating semi-automated peer reviews

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Hi Andy, archiving at Peer Review is now done by a bot and there are plans to totally automate the process of peer review, including the SAPRs. Please see User_talk:CBM#Semi_Automated_Peer_Review. I see you have not made any contributions for a few months, so I will email you too. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVII (May 2008)

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Request

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Hi!, I saw your peer review bot thing. I was reading it but I have a short attention span. Would you mind using it on Lockdown (2008) for me? It would be a big help. It is currently under a peer review but I've been told there are alot of problems with with it. So I would like to get rid of a few of those. I just found out about the bot today. I would install the software but I have a bad Internet connection.--WillC 05:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVIII (June 2008)

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AZPR script change

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Hi Andy, the semi-automated peer review script says that "years with full dates should be linked", however the MoS has been altered to make this optional within any given article - perhaps the script should be changed to just remove the notice in question? Please see Wikipedia talk:Peer review too. Hope you are well. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:48, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Simple suggestion

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The script should check whether an article has a category and suggest adding one if it doesn't. I guess that doesn't come too often, but I've just run it on an article w/out categories and discovered to much surprise the script ignored this problem. I am not sure if the script checks whether the last two elements of the article are categories and interwikis? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIX (July 2008)

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Tom Sayle

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It seems to me someone has blanked your page. I've reverted it. Do not reply on my account page as not only is it blocked, but the talk page is protected and I am operating from my IP address. Also, who's compromised your account anyway, what does it mean and how has it affected you, and what is the Z standing for in AndyZ? (not Zajaczkowski, is it?)

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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

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Sorry about the delay. AWB has been having a few issues lately. Here is the august issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 20:24, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (August 2008)

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Nominations for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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Automated peer review problem

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I ran the peer review on Ardingly College and one of the issues was When writing standard abbreviations, the abbreviations should not have a 's' to demark plurality (for example, change kms to km and lbs to lb). I cannot find any examples within the article. However there is a 196 acre (0.79 km²). Is it possible that the ² is fooling the peer review, or is there a rogue measurement that I missed? Thanks. MortimerCat (talk) 23:00, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (September 2008)

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PR bot, Raphael

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Thanks for the review of Raphael at PR, which was mostly useful. However the first point made, on galleries, is just wrong, and the bot advice should be removed or heavily reworded for your future reviews. Small galleries within articles are acceptable in FAs - the test case for this was Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Robert Peake the Elder. In addition, WP:Galleries a) was never adopted (a point linking to a section completely obscures), and b) referred to the now-extinct Gallery-only pages, not internal galleries, which are often essential in visual arts subjects. You might caution against over-large or under-captioned galleries though. Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 12:12, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Madia Gond

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Thanks for the suggestions about the Madia Gond. I'll try to implement them. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 16:12, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please run the programme one more time. I have tried to comply with the suggestions. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 09:18, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Madia Gond again.

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There are 24 references, perhaps not a statement that does not have a reference. I have corrected the footnote position, I'll give it a once over. I'll made the other corrections. Thanks. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 17:00, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXVI (February 2009)

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Peer review ... more pictures?!

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Hi, the bot just ran an automated overview on Obi (sash). What surprised me was that it said "This article has no or few images" while the article is 35 KB long with no less than 17 images. Doesn't the script count [[File:imagename.end]] as images, or did it add the line for some section of the article, or is this only a borderline case? Pitke (talk) 19:40, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The peer reviewer only looks for images using the "Image:" keyword: [[Image:Imagename.jpg|...]] and not the "File:" keyword. [[File:Imagename.jpg|...]]. This is a bug that needs to be fixed. — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  16:11, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Automated peer reviewer and lists

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Is the automated peer reviewer recommended for lists as well? If, let's say, I wanted to bring a list up to WP:FL status, will the script differentiate between an article and a list? I'm thinking certain suggestions the script may give may not apply to lists as they would to an article. -- OlEnglish (Talk) 21:10, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Sweeps invitation

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Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.

We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 07:57, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review thing

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Just a note (I'm not sure if someone else has pointed this out) that in the points about Br/Am English, 'program[me]' is an imperfect example given that 'computer programs' are called that in Br Eng (unlike T.V. or theatre programmes), so it might be worth using a different example that doesn't have this caveat. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 12:23, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated History of Portugal (1777–1834) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. KensplanetTC 16:07, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestions, AndyZ. I've made some changes to the article and will do some more as time permits. Thanks Kesangh (talk) 09:07, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Implementing PR bot at WP:GAN/WP:FAC/WP:FLC

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People have expressed interest in having the automated reviews for the FA/FL candidates and the GA noms. The idea is that since it doesn't hurt to have them, we might as well have them. Could you implement the automated PRs for them too? Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:23, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a bot, but a semi-bot at best. I have to run it by hand (it is an automated script) every night for WP:PR as User:AZPR (which AndyZ gave me access to before he became inactive). Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, then could you also run it on GAN/FAC/FLC? Would there be a way to fully automate this, if you can't do it yourself, perhaps the bots group could?Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 16:19, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I should have made clear that the PR bot links the semi-automated peer reviews (SAPRs) once I paste them into the directory, this month at WP:PRA/JL09. I also use the number of SAPRs in each month's directory for the PR stat at WP:FAS. So if this is done, it would work best in a separate directory (so as not to confuse the bot or mess up the PR stats). If I were to do this, it would be much more work as I would presumably have not only put the SAPRs in the directory, but add some sort of link to them in the FAC / FLC / GAN. I did not see any disucssion of this at GAN. The discussions at FLC and FAC seemed lukewarm at best. I am limited in the amount of time I have and respectfully decline. I do note that anyone can add the script to their monobook and generate a SAPR for any article. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 18:27, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
K, I'll ask the bots people. Want me to request PR to be bot-handled as well? This would free some of your time. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 18:53, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that would be very nice of you. The script has a few bugs / quirks (see comments above - for one it does not recognize File and so thinks articles have no images). I would be glad to provide comment on the bot request. User:CBM does the Peer review bot and should know about this too (so the two bots can interact well together). I think FAC SAPRs could be on the FAC talk page. Same for FLC. Not sure about GAN. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:19, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bot request to further automate the SAPR process

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Hi Andy, not sure if you still watch things here, but a bot request has been made to automate the generation of the semi-automated peer reviews, here. I thought you should know and will try emailing you too. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 12:41, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NJ Portal Userbox

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Hi, I added the userbox {User Wikiproject New Jersey}* to my user page and only the "This user is part of the New Jersey WikiProject." part shows up. Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey (under participation) it shows "This user lives in the state of New Jersey." and "This user grew up in the state of New Jersey." I live in NJ and grew up in NJ so I would like those user boxes too. How can I get them?

  • correct code is used on userpage.

Christopher 02:38, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Peer review script suggestions

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I am using the script for various reviews. Things that it seems to ignore but I think could be fixed: 1) spotting and commenting on unreferenced paragraphs and sections 2) stub templates on long articles and no templates on short ones 3) on talk pages, missing or unassessed WikiProject tags --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:39, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This page's header indicates the user has not been active recently; not sure if anyone is updating the code. I have also noticed this script may not consider the Chemistry MOS, e.g. Palladium and Silver. 23:06, November 7, 2009 (UTC) + 23:31, 7 November 2009 (UTC) + MornMore (talk) 01:32, 8 November 2009 (UTC)08:16, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, the Chemistry MOS does not appear to contradict the primary. Though perhaps requested, was puzzling to find Silver article suggestions in both a monthly peer review summary and the Chemistry peer review.

(<- Un-indented) Piotrus has opened a centralized discussion here.--MornMore (talk) 08:16, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (January 2010)

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April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive

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peerreviewer problem

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Please see User_talk:AndyZ/peerreviewer.js#No_longer_working.3F. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:51, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Jones (Animal Farm) for deletion

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Military Historian of the Year

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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Military history coordinator election

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Good Article Nominations Request For Comment

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A 'Request For Comment' for Good Article Nominations is currently being held. We are asking that you please take five to ten minutes to review all seven proposals that will affect Good Article Nominations if approved. Full details of each proposal can be found here. Please comment on each proposal (or as many as you can) here.

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Template:User USCOTM has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Kumioko (talk) 02:02, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Template:User USCOTM

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WikiProject Good Articles Recruitment Centre

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DYK RfC

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Knights of Columbus FAC

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Hello! Seven years ago you took part reviewing the Knights of Columbus article when it was up for Featured Article. It passed then, but was later delisted. I've addressed the new concerns and have put it back up for consideration again. If you would be kind enough to review the article again and then offer either your support or suggestions on its new nomination page, I would very much appreciate it. Thanks! --Briancua (talk) 13:47, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:GALLERY listed at Redirects for discussion

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GAN December 2013 Backlog Drive

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Hello! A GAN Backlog Drive will begin in less than 4 days!

In past Backlog Drives, the goal was to reduce the backlog of Good article nominations. In the upcoming drive, another goal will be added - raising as much money as we can for the Wikimedia Foundation. How will this work? Well, its pretty simple. Any user interested in donating can submit a pledge at the Backlog Drive page (linked above). The pledge should mention the amount of money the user is willing to donate per review. For example, if a user pledges 5 cents per review and 100 nominations are reviewed, the total donation amount is $5.00.

At the time this message was sent out, two users have submitted pledges for a total of 8 cents per review. All pledges, no matter how much money, are greatly appreciated. Also, in no way is this saying you must make a pledge.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or leave a message on the Backlog Drive talk page. And remember, there are less than 4 days before the drive starts!--EdwardsBot (talk) 03:21, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GAN December 2013 Backlog Drive

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Hello! Just a friendly reminder that the GAN Backlog Drive has begun and will end on December 31, 2013!

If you know anyone outside of the WikiProject that may be interested, feel free to invite them to the drive!

If you have any questions or want to comment about something regarding the drive, post them here--EdwardsBot (talk) 00:13, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Template:USold has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Magioladitis (talk) 00:42, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of automated file description generation

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This notification is placed on your talk page because a bot has identified you either as the uploader of the file, or as a contributor to its metadata. It would be appreciated if you could carefully review the information the bot added. To opt out of these notifications, please follow the instructions here. Thanks! Message delivered by Theo's Little Bot (opt-out) 11:17, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive

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It's that time again! Starting on March 1, there will be another GAN Backlog Drive! There will be several changes compared to previous drives:

  • This drive will introduce a new component to it; a point system. In a nutshell, older nominations are worth more points than newer nominations. The top 3 participants who have the points will be awarded the Golden, Silver, or Bronze Wikipedia Puzzle Piece Trophy, respectively.
  • Unlike the December 2013 Backlog Drive, earning an additional barnstar if you reached your goal has been removed.
  • The allowance to have insufficient reviews has been lowered to 2 before being disqualified.
  • An exception to the rule that all reviews must be completed before the deadline has been created.

Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.

More info regarding the drive and full descriptions regarding the changes to this drive can be found on the the drive page. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on the drive talk page.

I look forward to your participation and hope that because of it, some day the backlog will be gone!

--Dom497

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:58, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GAN March 2014 Backlog Drive

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The March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive has begun and will end on April 1, 2014! Sent by Dom497 on behalf of MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:00, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good articles Future GAN Backlog Drive

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Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!

TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.

If you would be interested in participating in a Backlog Drive sometime before the end of this year, please notify TheQ Editor. Also, make sure to specify what month(s) work best for you.

At the time this message was sent out, the backlog was at 520 nominations. Since May, the backlog has been steadily increasing and we are currently near an all time high. Even though the backlog will not disappear over one drive, this drive can lead to several others which will (hopefully) lead to the day where there is no longer a backlog.

As always, the more participants, the better, and everyone is encouraged to participate!

Sent by Dom497--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GA Cup

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Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!

As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:

For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.

For more info on the proposal, click here. As a FYI, the proposal page is not what the final product will look like (if you do go ahead with this idea). It will look very similar to WikiCup's page(s).

The discussion for the proposal will take place here. Please let us know if you are interested, have any concerns, things to consider, etc.

--Dom497, Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:28, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles - GA Cup

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WikiProject Good articles is holding a new competition, the GA Cup, from October 1, 2014 - March 28, 2015. The Cup will be based on reviewing Good article nominations; for each review, points will be awarded with bonuses for older nominations, longer articles and comprehensive reviews. All participants will start off in one group and the highest scoring participants will go through to the second round. At the moment six rounds are planned, but this may change based on participant numbers.

Some of you may ask: what is the purpose for a competition of this type? Currently, there is a backlog of about 500 unreviewed Good article nominations, almost an all time high. It is our hope that we can decrease the backlog in a fun way, through friendly competition.

Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors! Sign-ups will be open until October 15, 2014 so sign-up now!

If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the four judges.

Cheers from NickGibson3900, Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:04, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Military history coordinator election

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Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:15, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy in data given at a Wiki article you edited

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1842


Please note the discrepancy between the total and the majority numbers given for the seats in the House of Representatives:

-All 223 seats to the United States House of Representatives -122 seats needed for a majority

If the total was 223, then the majority was 112; if the majority was 122, then the total number of seats was 243; or both numbers are wrong.

I don't have the correct numbers; I'm just calling this to your attention.

Steve Sullivan Stony Brook University — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.49.97.120 (talk) 18:03, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony Colve

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I am a historian from the Netherlands and I am researching Anthony Colve, and i am having trouble finding much of anything. I saw that you wrote that he was appointed to be governor of New Jersey after the end of his governorship of New Netherland in 1674, which I have not read elsewhere. What is your source for this? There seems to be a gap in the historical record regarding who was governor of West New Jersey between 1674 and 1680. Was this Colve? Any information you have on this mysterious character would be tremendously helpful for my research. Please contact me at artyom.anikin@gmail.com and let me know; I would be very grateful and happy to discuss colonial history further. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.57.54.68 (talk) 02:21, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Edison, New Jersey is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Edison, New Jersey until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jacona (talk) 13:45, 23 November 2014 (UTC) Hello Andy Z, I tried installing the Peer reviewer bit it says that there is an error in my Vector.js and I do not see the button next to Log Out. Please tell me what to do. SparrowHK (talk) 01:59, 28 November 2014 (UTC)SparrowHK[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:NJnom

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Template:NJnom has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:42, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Military history coordinator election

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Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 29 September. Yours, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:21, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/NJCOTW, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/NJCOTW and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/NJCOTW during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 05:38, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:NJCOTW-invite

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Template:NJCOTW-invite has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 16:23, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:NJCOTWcur

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Template:NJCOTWcur has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 16:23, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User group for Military Historians

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Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:30, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

cabras

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su origen y geografia

Kemin45 (talk) 20:45, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Reviewer is giving confusing results about last few sections.

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The gtl section of the peer reviewer semi-bot is confusing me. When presented with Willimantic, Connecticut, it says that the last few sections are misordered. But they're 'See also', 'Notes', 'External links', which looks like what's being asked for! Is the bot wrong? Am I missing something? grendel|khan 04:27, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Aha! There's a (not-top-level) heading 'City history' in the article, which matched the string == Cit. Whew; it was a false positive. Maybe the script should use regex searches--it's much easier to look for ^==\s?Cit(e|ation) than to expand something like that out. grendel|khan 18:07, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Functional clothing

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Hello Sir, Please suggest how can I improve the draft, with respect to format,tone and remove any objectionable contents. ThanksRajiv Sharma (talk) 15:16, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

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Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:03, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

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G'day everyone, voting for the 2020 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2020. Thanks from the outgoing coord team, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:17, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message

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Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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 2020 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open

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G'day all, the nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject newcomer and Historian of the Year are open, all editors are encouraged to nominate candidates for the awards before until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2020, after which voting will occur for 14 days. There is not much time left to nominate worthy recipients, so get to it! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Voting for "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" closing

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G'day all, voting for the WikiProject Military history "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" is about to close, so if you haven't already, click on the links and have your say before 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC) for the coord team[reply]

Good article drive notice

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This message has been sent to users signed up for the Good articles newsletter. Add or remove your name from the list to subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates. Alternatively, to opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.

-- For the drive co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:27, 21 February 2021 (UTC) [reply]

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive

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Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]