The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date:
"Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated."
The Stress alertsprogram aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them.
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Hi Anirudh. Thank you very much for the barnstar! It feels extremely good to know that the work that I am doing is appreciated. - Aksi_great (talk) 04:33, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I mainly work on Sikhiwiki and have transferred articles from there to Wikipedia as there seems to be very little on Sikhism here and very few people are adding to the articles on this fifth most important and the youngest religions of the world - I do not have the time to "cleanup" these articles and I will leave it to good people like you to do the honours.
To get verbatim quotations, a link is required to the original SGGS text and this template was designed by me for that purpose. I cannot see why it violates any guidelines because all it does is provide a easy link to check the quotes as authentic - which I would have thought was critical to make an article relevant in this field.
I do not follow your logic – Is it more important to make sure people are quoting correctly from the text or the style. The layout & colours can be changed but the concept is very important.
I will leave it to you guys to decide as I do not feel that there is anyone with an dedication to Sikhism working on Wikipedia and I do not believe that you appear to understand the relevance and the reason for this template.
You do not give any details of why this template is not suitable apart from violation of guidelines - which part of the guidelines and what are the exact reasons - I would have thought that's what really matters. --Hari Singh11:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The web-based version is no longer working. I got this,
[12:52] *** Welcome to CGI:IRC 0.5.4 (2004/01/29)
[12:52] *** Looking up irc.freenode.net
[12:52] *** Connecting to irc.freenode.net [213.92.8.4] port 6667
[12:52] -irc.freenode.net- *** Looking up your hostname...
[12:52] -irc.freenode.net- *** Found your hostname, welcome back
[12:52] -irc.freenode.net- *** Checking ident
[12:52] -irc.freenode.net- *** No identd (auth) response
[12:52] -calvino.freenode.net- *** Banned: Spam is prohibited on freenode. Email staff@freenode.net with questions. (2006/04/07 06.45)
[12:52] *** Closing Link 127.0.0.1 (Banned)
[12:52] *** Disconnected from IRC
Hi! As you pointed out, we've mentioned Sonagachi under the "Demographics" section. Considering the burgeoning size of Kolkata, just one line was added. Please check it out. Thanks! --Dwaipayanc09:33, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to the project. We are very informal and work on what interests us. If you see anything that you feel needs attention, take bold action yourself or let us know. If you need any help or advice, feel free to ask. David9112:32, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"I will try to work as diligently as I can." This is the last place you should feel any pressure to work diligently. We just do what we want when we have the time and energy. Have fun. David9117:27, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry in advance, as I'm a fairly new user, but how was the edit I made to the Green Day page "nonsense?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jordan27 (talk • contribs)
Thank you! Hello Anirudhsbh/April 2006. Thank you for your support in my RfA! It passed with a final tally of 91/3/5. I am quite humbled and pleased by the community's show of confidence in me. If you need help or just want to talk, let me know. Cheers! -- Fang Aili說嗎?
Also please note that I had nothing to do with the Narendra Modi page - I had not heard of that page before you mentioned it. That's someone else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deepakshenoy (talk • contribs)
Images published by the government of India are copyrighted for sixty years so we can't upload them as free images unfortunately. Regards, =Nichalp«Talk»=16:47, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I will look at the article. I have already downloaded mIRC, will come on irc soon. But I will generally not be very active as I have exams coming up. I am actually thinking of getting myself blocked till May 7 so that I can sit and study :). That would be a first for Wiki. - Aksi_great (talk) 07:02, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Happy Easter to all of you, and I hope that this version may fix your current problems and perhaps provide you with a few useful new tools. You can download version 1.1 at User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof. Let me warn you, however, to please be extremely careful when using the new Rollback All Contributions feature, as, aside from the excessive server lag it would cause if everyone began using it at once, it could seriously aggitate several editors to have their contributions reverted. If you would like to experiment with it, though, I'd be more than happy to use my many sockpuppets to create some "vandalism" for you to revert. If you have any problems downloading, installing, or otherwise, please tell me about them at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs and I will do my best to help you. Thanks. AmiDaniel (Talk) 06:41, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
True inotes do have disadvantages, but they also have the advantage of making the text a smoother read. A mixture of footnotes and inotes makes a better article. Ultimately it boils down to a situation wherethe author has to decide on what needs to be added as footnotes and what needs to inotes. My thumb rule is to footnote key figures, new matter and contentious phrases. For an example of excessive use of footnotes see Mark W Felt. =Nichalp«Talk»=07:30, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed that you requested for Hindi wikipedia. Just to let you know that hi: is already existing. Many of your edits are very nice. Keep it up! Regards, ImpuMozhi00:50, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I see. That makes matters clearer. Please restitute the request, if you wish, and sorry for the disruption. Ciao around. ImpuMozhi14:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Peculiar problem! Very unfortunate, and I see from the notice pasted on that page itself that "you will still be unable to edit Wikipedia while the IP you are using is blocked" so there is no help to it. Also, there must be many potential good-contributors in your college (I know one!) and blocking this IP range cannot be a solution. As of now, the problem is not major (<50 edits, many made by you, I think?)--lets hope it stays that way. Bright side: you must be very popular in college, with people feeling they need to do masti with you online, apart from face-to-face every day! Regards, ImpuMozhi15:17, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your encouragement. I really am not at all sure what I'm doing, but I do know that I'm doing an lot of work on Jaisalmer at the moment so hopefully have been able to contribute to the article.
Lynnee19:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi - I'm sorry for missing my Tuesday commitment. I promise that I'll be able to do the needful tomorrow. Besides, its perfectly acceptable if you did/do chose to remove my edits - they were just general statements to begin with. Rama's Arrow19:49, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
When someone calls a CM who has won elections on a clean sweep as a "hate figure" that is obviously a POV
I can give examples of atleast 10 prominent muslims who dont hate Modi, so does that make modi a muslim hate figure
Because you have a lot of time and robots to keep reverting , that doesnt mean you can lie
A lie told 1000 times may convince , but is a lie nevertheless Kartik.nanjund14:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi - I'm sorry but I can't join IRC for a while. Thanks for the invite, and I'll join it as soon as I have some time for it. I see you are encountering some criticism on Narendra Modi - my congratulations to you for standing up for quality on the most-attacked page on Wikipedia. Rama's Arrow15:09, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Narendra Modi is a "hate figure" simply becoz millions of Muslims and others hate him. It doesn't make him evil or responsible for killing 2,000 Muslims, which is a separate issue. I think Karthik is trying to make sure that Modi gets a better introduction, but there's no use to deny that Modi provokes intense feelings all over India. Rama's Arrow15:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Anirudh I have a small query. Could you please check out my edit count & tell me as I can't. I've tried the new tool-2 but inspite of following all the instructions, I can't seem to get anything except a page of code. I hope you can help me out.
Hi - Writing an FA just depends on how passionate you are about the topic, and how much one likes to write. For example, user:Dwaipayanc just fixed up the article on his hometown, Kolkata real nice. I personally travelled to Lothal as a kid, and I was mesmerized by the life of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and his role in the Political integration of India. So just think which topic is close to your heart - except your love-life (can't write a bio on your girlfriend either...).
I'm inlined to allow Johnleemk's protection last for a day so that Shez does cannot edit the article. The good news is that he is talking to Zora, so we have made some progress. Try and convince him that we write in a neutral point of view and that our policy is that: 'If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it." =Nichalp«Talk»=06:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I haven't been putting the Singapore flag in my signature two weeks ago after another user told me to remove it as he cited same reason as you did. Thanks. --Terence Ong14:38, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi
I only changed that Freddie Mercury was the first Indian/Iranian rocker. I would think that's legitimate since it makes peace with both sides of the debate about his ethnicity. To say that he was just an Indian would be not be too specific since he also was apparently proud of his Iranian ancestry. It is true that Parsis are more genetically close to Indians and to Iranians. However, his Iranian background cannot be denied. So I dont see why that should have been changed.
Hi its me again. I signed in. Please go see the legacy section in the Freddie Mercury page. Let me know if that is okay with the NPOV standards. I would think so because it does not take account of hearsay rather gives both valid conclusions.
Hello, Now I am all right. I am pasting a message below explaining my absence. Best regards.
"My dear friends, I regret that I could not notify you about my absence. Actually, I fell sick suddenly on the morning of 3rd April 2006, and was confined to bed and was not allowed Internet access. Now, I am more or less in "shape". The problem was very serious infection. I missed wikipedia and wikipedians for three long weeks, and I feel really sad… for first few days, I even dreamt of wikipedia! I think that in next few days, my wiki-life shall become normal. I thank you for the concern and care, I know wikipedians are the most active virtual community, and Wikipedia is Better than the Best." --Bhadani10:13, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
im sorry about the edit on the current events thing, i was telling about a current event and was trying to make people laugh like it says at the top of your page. im sorry and i just wanted to tell you that. thank you for listening to me, anriudhbsh. sorry if i spelled that wrong, too. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by PWWWWWT (talk • contribs)
kindly refrain from reverting my discuss page without investigating the matter. user taw accused me of being rude, because i reverted with explaining of the vandalizing of user moshe, which is a wellknown vandalizer, thus she just like you without investigating the matter sheaccused me of being rude with a warning message. i sincerely hope you will cooperate in this matter. Thank you. --Darkred00:49, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Ani, I appreciate your vote and your kind words in my RFA. It has passed with an unexpected 114/2/2 and I feel honored by this show of confidence in me. Cheers! ←Humus sapiensну?03:32, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A lovely rose with petals soft
A scent so sweet and light
So beautiful a flower
With colors shining bright.
But something not so savory
About the fragrant rose -
The thorns, so sharp upon the stem,
That sharpen as it grows.
Yet still lovely is the flower
Despite the thorns that prick
Just as life and love are sweet
They too have thorns that stick.
But do not fear to live or love,
Life's not exempt from pain -
So pick a rose, you may get hurt,
But you will also gain!
Regarding the Spy Fox 2 page, your popup deleted a positive edit, it was NOT vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.87.43.26 (talk • contribs)
Thank you for your note, I do have a user account and that is User:Iuio. Therefore, I created the Spy Fox 2 page as well as the Spy Fox 1 page. I will create a page based on the third Spy Fox game soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.87.43.26 (talk • contribs)
Thank you for voting at my RFA. Even though you did not vote for me, your counsel was appreciated. In the next few months, I intend to work on expanding my involvement in other namespaces and try a few different subjects than in the past. - CTSWynekenTalk
Thanks so much for voting on my request for adminship. I have decided to withdraw my nomination as it seems that consensus will not be reached. If you voted in support, thanks for putting your trust in me to be a good admin. If you voted in opposition, thank you as well for your criticism as it will only help me be a better Wikipedian and perhaps help if/when I apply for adminship again sometime in the future.
Just want you to know- thanks for your reversion on Gaius Cassius Longinus, pointing out he was educated in Rhodes rather than "Cow Nugget". I realize you're a vandal warrior, and it's all in a day's work for you, but sometimes your minor edits make a big differece. Keep up the good work! Kiaparowits17:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I was about to request you to participate in the event named Band Baja Do. You dropped in without invitation - thanks for the kind visit to my page. --Bhadani07:15, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm now trying to implement them now. As for the sound files, when I recorded them, they seemed loud enough as I have these huge 2000 watt speakers. Later i discovered the input volume of my microphone was very low. I raised it later so many articles in the cities list have enough volume. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Srikeit (talk • contribs) 11:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Your picture is very nice, but I'd prefer to use my current one...tell you what, I'll get written permission from the site. --Osbus14:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Is it my mental stress - it can not be, as I was/ am the host? And, we shall not chat today as I have to keep appointments with wikipedia. In case, you want to have a good nap, have it - I will ask the boy not to beat the dholak. And, I shall "face" Narendra Modi jee very soon. --Bhadani10:10, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the support on my RFA. Unfortunately, it did not achieve consensus. I look forward to your support in a couple months when I apply again. Holler at me if you need anything. ⇒SWATJesterReadyAimFire!19:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
For his work on Gujarat-related topics, and for having the patience and determination to clean-up Narendra Modi, I award Anirudh Singh Bhati this barnstar of national merit. Please keep up the wonderful work! Rama's Arrow22:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I'll remove it from my user page. But honestly, I think you are exaggerating this. I mean, come on, it's not like I was using it for profit or something! --Doppelgangland10:17, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Anirudhsbh/April 2006, thank you so much for your vote and comments in my RfA, which passed with an overwhelming consensus of 95/2/2. I was very surprised and flattered that the community has entrusted me with these lovely new toys. I ripped open the box and started playing with them as soon as I got them, and I've already had the pleasure of deleting random nonsense/attacks/copyvios tonight. If I ever do anything wrong, or can help in some way, please feel free to drop me a line on my talk page, and I will do my best to correct my mistake, or whatever... Now, to that bottle of wine waiting for me...
Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 15:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
