User talk:OhanaUnited/Archive 4

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Talk page after mainspace page got moved

Hello, thanks for your help on AWB. I have yet to try that as I'm quite busy both in real life (aka sleeping lol) and Wikipedia. Anyways, I came upon an article that its mainspace page got merged into another article but the talk page remains (take a look at Talk:African Wild Dog name controversy). What can I do to assess it? It looks stupid to assess it when it is now merged into another article. OhanaUnited ^{Talk page} —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 11:02, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

Don't assess talk pages of redirected articles. Redirect them to the appropriate talk page (the talk page of the main article):

African Wild Dog name controversy --> African Wild Dog

Talk:African Wild Dog name controversy --> Talk:African Wild Dog

Firsfron of Ronchester 03:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Toronto Meetup

Yes, I've seen and commented. I don't see what needs to be done, apart from someone taking the bull by the horns and making it happen. Wily D 13:45, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Victoria Cross (Canada)

May i ask why did you delist this as a GA. Surely the correct procedure would have been to put it up at Wikipedia:Good article review? or at least contact the nominator with your concerns. With regards to the references, the $3000 is cited very adequately from the Government statuate within the article itself. From my experience at WP:FAC there is no need to cite things in the lead that are in the article unless they are highly contentious or if they ar BLPs. Given that this is part of a FT candidate would it not have been courteous to alert me? What specifically do you think it needs to meet GA again. Thanks Woodym555 16:00, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

With regards to the FT, those articles that can meet GA or FA (i.e. not lists etc) must be a GA or FA. It is currently stuck because there are not enough FAs in it let alone GAs. Beyond that i don't see any reviewers concerns. Flubecas concerns were acted upon, the images Giggy was worried about were removed altogether. The main concern that i can see is the furore that this articles promotion created inside the Good article project. I can't see how i can act upon concerns over its promotion, that aspect was out of my hands. Do i have to list it at WP:GA/R to understand what is needed for it to be promoted? Thanks Woodym555 17:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I understand that editor review is for general comments and is not an RFA. In that vein i have slightly refactored my comments but only slightly. The general problem still stands. I have now listed Victoria Cross (Canada) for GA review. Let me finish by saying i do understand your actions and i am thankful for your efforts at maintaining quality throughout the GA drive, i just think that the correct processes should have been followed when delisting it. Just because it was not promoted in the best possible manner does not mean it should be delisted in a poor manner as well. Thanks Woodym555 10:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Red Auerbach

I just saw that you took down Red Auerbach for GA flimsy pretext.

OK, you put your concerns on the talk page, OK, but that is the LEAST visible part. You
neither went through the Wikipedia:Good article review. It NEVER listed on the WP:GA/R page
neither contacted WP:NBA, the main WikiProject
neither contacted me, User:Onomatopoeia, as the main author

This is just bad faith editing, sorry. I just saw you are on Wikipedia:Editor_review/OhanaUnited, and I full concur with Chensiyuan. I may be personally invested, OK, but this is just pulling a fast one. Unilateral, absolutely INSUFFICIENT enforcement of WP:GA/R, point 4 (allow other editors to respond -- how should we know if you only drop 2 lines and contact NO ONE?), very flimsy pretext. On a constructive note, I will address your concerns on the Auerbach page. —Onomatopoeia 11:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Red Auerbach, part 2

On a constructive note, I just addressed you concerns on Red Auerbach. BTW, User:T Rex (who you may know) had this say on the WP:GAC talk page: "No he (i.e. you, OhanaUnited) was completely wrong in trying to remove it without consensus as well as according to you, trying to hide the fact that he did that. It should probably be restored to GA and taken to WP:GA/R immediately. T Rex | talk 12:30, 22 August 2007 (UTC)" —Onomatopoeia 12:54, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

The opinion of one editor who participates in the candidacy reviews side of the project is not something to be throwing in his face on his talk page regarding action taken as part of the Good article backlog elimination drive for which he is the coordinator, also considering everyone is spitting bad faith assumptions before getting the full story, which is that his delistment was on my recommendation. Lara ♥Love 15:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Sweeps

I was hoping to get your participation, no matter how little or much you are able, in the GA sweeps (reviewing all listed articles to ensure quality). I'd also like your opinion on how best to achieve the goal. Personally, I prefer participation in this particular task be by invitation only. As was made evident by the backlog elimination drive, not all reviewers can be trusted to give a thorough review. For that reason, I would like only experienced, trusted reviewers to participate in this. What do you think?

In unrelated news, you need to archive your talk page! Just say the word, and I'll do it. Copy-editor, task force creator, and archivist Lara ♥Love 05:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Archimedes

Thank you for your comments on Archimedes. The article has undergone a good deal of work recently and may be nominated as a FAC soon. --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 18:11, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Don't do it!

No! Stay! You're a great editor, we need more people like you. Please! G iggy\^Talk 06:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I would also ask that you don't leave. I think the quality of articles has to be maintained and you are doing a fantastic job at maintaining that quality. The recent problems over the Red Auerbach article and the VC (Canada) article were caused over lack of coimmunication with the main conrtibutors. I cannot speak for onamatoepia but i was disheartened by the lack of communication with the main contributors. As you said, they were peoples favourite articles that they have spent time building up and maintaining. They only want what is best for the articles. I really hope that you don't leave and that you build on this rather tumultuous experience. In the end the Victoria Cross (Canada) article has improved a lot beacuse of this whole incident, something that wouldn't have happened for a while yet, if you had not have got involved. I apologise if it seemed i was getting on your back, that was not my intention at all. Woodym555 12:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

another GA drive?

Since you were one of the main people behind the July 2007 backlog elimination drive, I thought I'd let you know that I've started a new proposal for a longer, three-month GA review drive, that would run from September 1 through November 30. The aim here would be to draw new reviewers to the GA project and to keep the backlog down. I've made a couple of minor modifications to the rules and awards structure from the July drive. The proposal can be viewed here. Any help you'd like to offer would be appreciated! Dr. Cash 00:50, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Thornlea Secondary School

An article that you have been involved in editing, Thornlea Secondary School, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thornlea Secondary School. Thank you. GreenJoe 18:42, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Toronto Meetup

TORONTO MEETUP NOTICE
	Hello OhanaUnited/Archive 4, Toronto Meetup is good to go! Location: Ferret & Firkin Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007 Time: 1 PM. If you have any question or comments, please leave them here Regards, nat^tang 00:32, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Study

Hey OhanaUnited,

Thanks for your message! I'd love to have you participate, but as I'm getting close to my thesis deadline now (October) we'd need to move quickly :-)

I'm interview people via email on their thoughts regarding the WikiP community and related issues. The interviews are via email and in 3 parts.

If you still want to jump on in, please send me an email (tamsin.lloyd@gmail.com) and we can get started!

cheers, tamsin 11:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Bio Assessment Drive

Just a friendly note, but someone DID make it to 10k. :) It's all good. Wizardman and I just wanted to prove you wrong, but it did drive us to get more done, so it's all good. ludahai 魯大海 04:36, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Rollback request

Hey, I think I come upon 2 sockpuppets trying to advertise/promote Eastman Chemical Company (see history for details). I tried to revert all the edits but unnecessary due to conflict edits. I ask if you could rollback the page, thanks. OhanaUnited ^{Talk page} 02:05, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey Ohana,

Rollback is just a fast way of undoing what one editor has done. It doesn't allow you to rollback more than one editor's work, so rollback isn't possible in this instance. The best way to clean up this article is to go into the history of the article, find the last good version, edit that version, and hit 'save page'. Firsfron of Ronchester 14:19, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Gerry McNamara

Hi there. I was hoping you could take a look at Gerry McNamara and let me know what you think needs to be improved. I've noticed you've participated in a lot of articles that have been bumped up to "Good Article" status (though I am by no means nominating the article for GA), so I wanted an outside opinion. Thanks. Chengwes 20:43, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for looking at the article. I made all of the suggested changes, with the exception of moving up the 'personal' section. Where do you suggest I move it to? Chengwes 23:54, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

That's great to hear. I hope to work with you more in the future. Chengwes 05:06, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Don't bite newcomers

I noticed the message you recently left to Runescape. Please remember to try not to bite the newcomers. If you see someone make a common mistake, try to politely point out what they did wrong and how to correct it. Thank you. OhanaUnited ^{Talk page} 17:21, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Also please read WP:SOCK, as I'm not sure that a new user would have a sole contribution in the talk page and automatically know how to sign a page, with a similar "different" user having the same goal on the main article. Thank you. Tarikochi 17:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Hakim Warrick

I've beefed up a lot of Hakim Warrick article in the past couple of days as well. It's missing an image, so I know it's not up to GA status, yet, but what else can be improved in the meantime? Thanks again for your help. Chengwes 01:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I added a personal section and beefed up the lead. Someone else suggested I add more to the professional section, although that's kind of hard, since in his two years, it's not like he's lead his team to the NBA finals, or even been a full-time starter. What do you think? Thanks for taking a look at it. Chengwes 15:07, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Awards

I was about ten seconds away from leaving my comments strangely. Thanks for notifying me anyways. Psych less 01:12, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Yan Yan Tang

An article that you have been involved in editing, Yan Yan Tang, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yan Yan Tang. Thank you. Dihydrogen Monoxide 01:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay

I apologize for the long delay: I've been quite busy with work. I'll review your request. Richiar 16:51, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Here is your new message!!!!

Here Is The Message You Requested!!!!:Hi, I am Liddy.Please Write back.(I am new, so I was wondering if you could give me a few tips!!!???)--Liddydivalrio 18:43, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Hilbert space references

You say references at Hilbert space are not specific and not enough. Can you be specific about that? Michael Hardy 01:39, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Archimedes

Archimedes is currently a Featured Article Candidate at [1]. --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 21:08, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Backlog Elimination Drive

So I'm planning to complete the last of the quality reviews tonight. When are you going to hand out the wiki awards? And to whom? Lara Love 20:18, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the award, mate :) Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 01:09, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Make sure you aren't double-awarding the barnstars. I got a second one today, after I was awarded the first one back in august for the same thing... --Jayron32|talk|contribs 01:43, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the medal of merit. As regards the new GA sweep, I'll participate but since I am in hospital for some long term medical treatment, my work may be little, sporadic and over a period of time. AshLin 16:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Yang Yang Tang

A tag has been placed on Yang Yang Tang, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to a nonexistent page. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SQL^{(Query Me!)} 06:04, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Assessment Drive awards

Do you remember which users you gave awards to? I'd like to finish the job. Thanks, Psych less 23:35, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

If it's all right with you, I wouldn't mind handing out the rest of them. You seem to be busy anyways. Also, I will give BrokenSphere the full array of awards he qualifies for. I agree with you though, it is like awarding the winner of an Olympic event the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal. Psych less 00:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the barnstar! Hopefully we can get that bad boy up and running once the sweeps are done. Drewcifer 02:27, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Award

		The Original Barnstar
		I hereby award The Original Barnstar to OhanaUnited in recognition of assessing over 1005 articles for WikiProject Biography's Summer 2007 Assessment Drive. Psych less 01:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

On a side note, make sure to award me my barnstar. Psych less 00:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Runescape

Cant people have more than one account in Runescape. Why dont you write about the account thing to Runescape. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maplefan (talk • contribs) 00:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Reference for UTSC numbers

Hello fellow UofTer. The reference is already on there, submitted by someone else. =) It's the second footnote on the page. Basically the link to UTSC's "Facts and Figures" page. http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~advancement/about/facts.html - Do you know? 00:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Vandalizing?

How am i vandalizing wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maplefan (talk • contribs) 23:51, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Nehrams2020 RfA Thanks

Thank you for your participation in my RfA, which closed successfully with unanimous support. I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and vote and I can't wait to learn the new tools and further immerse myself into Wikipedia! Please don't hesitate to point out any errors I make so I can prevent them from occurring again. I'm always here to help, so if you ever need anything, just let me know. Also, thanks to Wizardman for nominating me and for guiding many other editors to become admins. Again, thank you and happy editing! --Nehrams2020 07:16, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Music of Australia

I've tried to do what you asked for there, see my comments at the FPOC. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 05:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Participation in GA Sweep

Hi Ohana,

Thank you for your vote of support and confidence in me to participate in the GA Sweep review. I just wanted to tell you that Im undergoing some medical treatment for which I am hospitalised and which is sapping my energy and I cant seem to find the strength in me to do intensive tasks, which is the way I like to do reviews, as you already know. Earlier I was feeling much better so I had agreed to participate but now I find myself unable to do more than indulge in sporadic edits about things I love which require less thinking for me. I do however, promise to help out later when I feel better again. So if you feel that you need to exclude me from the Sweep, please feel free to delete my name, else I'll start contributing in GA Sweep only once I start feeling better. Sorry for being unable to give you and LaraLove all the help you so richly deserve, but I hope you will understand my situation. Regards, AshLin 13:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Question for member of GA article sweeps

If you've got a moment, I was wondering if you could answer some questions I'm curious about? They are:

What GA articles have you worked on and submitted to GA review?
Have you ever worked at getting an article to FA status?

Hopefully won't take more than a moment of your time. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Cheers... I'm just interested. I've asked all the participants the same questions. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:57, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

That's pretty much it. I'm actually suprised by the depth of quality editors on the sweep, my assumption (yes, violation of AGF) was that GA sweepers weren't really editors. Happily my assumption is totally wrong!

As you've probably seen on the sweep talk page, I was pretty disheartened in the way that USA PATRIOT Act, Title III was "swept", as I literally worked days on the article. I was disappointed that I wasn't notified directly. Hence my talk page response. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:00, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Africa

Hi. The "Selected country" box of Portal:Africa is no longer under construction. Since that seems to have been the main reason for your objection at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Africa, would you please take another look? Thank you, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 03:09, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

eco-village project

Hi,

You replied to a post a made in March. I have found communications on Wikipedia a bit difficult to understand. I didn't see you last reply until today. I basically have been participating in forums that use email for notifications of responses. Therefore I'm not sure if I will know if you respond to this message. You can email me at my regular email huckrorick@groundwork.org. I don't know if one can set these widipedia communications so that you get email notification.

My institute is working on an eco-village project in China. From your interests and your connections with China I thought it might be interesting to make contact. Let me know if you are interested. You can see a little about us on our website www.groundwork.org. A general description of the project is at http://www.groundwork.org/English/ChinaGrant01.htm . We have done a lot of work since this description but it gives the overall idea.

We are currently working with 3 universities in Tianjin and 1 university in California.

Best wishes,

Huck Rorick —Preceding unsigned comment added by Huckrorick (talk • contribs) 18:55, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

re: Request for help

Okay, I'll take a look. At first glance, it looks like someone who works for the company. CaptainVindaloo ^{t c e} 19:38, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm very concerned about this. The additions by Heather.necole (talk · contribs) turned out to be direct copy-and-pastes of some of Eastman's recruitment/advertising fluff available on the web, as did this edit by Jennilyn (talk · contribs), although that was back in February, so I may be going back too far. Literally as I was checking this out, Mlamb1 (talk · contribs) appeared and added a load of the same. I know sometimes people add material copied from elsewhere because they don't know about our copyrights policy, but two at once? This and this don't look good, either. The edits of Mbmcmillan (talk · contribs), Moltencat (talk · contribs) and Webguruintn (talk · contribs) aren't copyvios, but some seem suspect. I'm not too sure about actual sockpuppetry, unless we're dealing with someone who can't remember a password. This could be some of this corporate PR funnybusiness we keep hearing about. I'm going to bring this up on ANI. I'm sorry I took so long, by the way. I had a long day yesterday. CaptainVindaloo ^{t c e} 18:04, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I asked for help at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive834#Suspicious edits at Eastman Chemical Company, was directed to WP:COIN. What do you want to do? CaptainVindaloo ^{t c e} 21:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, no problem. I'll keep the page watchlisted, just in case. Thanks for the barnstar! :-D CaptainVindaloo ^{t c e} 17:08, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup is such a wide topic that it really doesn't belong in any of the nation/province/state/city WikiProjects. If it belongs in the US WP because American cities have won it, then why shouldn't it also be a part of the Quebec WP, since Montreal has won it many times? Or the Russian WikiProject because many Russians have won it? It's part of the hockey WP, so that should be enough. Now, if there was an American sports WikiProject, then I think it would belong there. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 16:28, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Long time no see

Hello! Would you like to join zh:Wikipedia talk:聚會/香港維基人定期聚會/第五次巡迴定聚 in Saturday in Eastern Distract?--Burning Flame 01:10, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

FPOC

Hey Ohana...any verdict on this? Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 05:58, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:Official Invitation to GA Sweeps

Thank you for the invitation! I am honored to receive it, however, I feel like I am too inexperienced to be doing GA Sweeps. You state that only trusted members of the project should participate, and I do not feel that I am at this level. For this reason, unless I hear otherwise from you, I will not participate in the sweeps at this time. Cheers, Corvus coronoides _talk 22:07, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

In that case, I gladly accept the invitation. I have tagged the Organisms section to review. Thank you! Cheers, Corvus coronoides _talk 23:46, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

GA sweeps

Hi OhanaUnited, and thanks for the invitation. I'll go and sign up and find a category to get stuck into ;) Regards, EyeSerene^TALK 17:03, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Maintenance Tags

In the future refrain from removing maintenance tags from articles without actually addressing them. They're placed there because one or more editors have an issue with an article and until that's addressed they're intended to remain in the article to alert users to possible issues both for improvement and warnings.--Crossmr 01:39, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Click there to open your card! → → →

My dear Wikipedian OhanaUnited,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 36 supports, 3 opposed, and 1 neutral. No matter if you !voted support, oppose, neutral, or even if you just stopped by to make a comment, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. Since I am a new admin, if you have any suggestions or concerns, feel free to inform me of them. Thank you and good day.

The Placebo Effect

Credits

This RFA thanks was inspired by The Random Editor, who in turn was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks. So unfortunately this is not entirely my own design.

This end the usual RFA thanks spam. You may return to your regular editing now.

The "Weapons" section in the article "Soldier Front"

Please tell me what part of [[WP:NOT} the weapons section goes against. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yctaabpjic (talk • contribs) 23:54, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

GA Sweeps Question

I tagged the category "Organisms," since that's the area that I'm most interested in. However, the article Wood Thrush is one that I have been a substantial contributor to, so I do not think I am able to do the review of this article. Could I ask you to review this article when you have the time? If not, I'm sure I could ask someone else to do the review. Corvus coronoides _talk 15:03, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Soldier Front -Weapons section

Is it considered against the Wikipedia regulations if instead of listing weapons, I just list the types of weapons? And I'm also guessing that you play Soldier Front, so I'm curious, what's your main account's codename? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yctaabpjic (talk • contribs) 23:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Soldier Front

I'm guessing that you play Soldier Front, so what's your character name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yctaabpjic (talk • contribs) 01:59, 19 October 2007 (UTC)