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The Original Barnstar
Too often great editors like you are overlooked and not given the credit deserved for all their great contributions. So I am awarding you this barnstar to let you know I greatly appreciate all you do for Wikipedia, and please keep up the outstanding work!! CTJF83 chat 03:21, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Aww... Thanks! I'm putting it on my userpage to show it off!  ;) --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:29, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
WOOHOO!! :) CTJF83 chat 03:31, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Did I see an edit-war, or something else?

Hi Philosopher - I see you are an admin., and I have a technical question about something that I've never faced before. I thought I saw was an edit war and stalking going on between two users: MFIreland and 124.179.251.155, as shown here, here, and here. 'Both' in turn responded back stating that they have no idea what I'm talking about and described that here. MFIreland has seen fit to leave a curt tag message with me, rather than communicating at all with 124.179.251.155.

Are they/were they slaking/edit warring, sock-puppetry each other, something else - or am I having a 60's flash back? :) Take care... Dinkytown talk 01:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Resolved
 – Apparently this issue has been resolved (author struck out his question). --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:53, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

1st Governor of Iowa

I know you are on a school Wiki break so when you get a chance. I have left a lengthy question request on Talk:Ansel Briggs about the article Ansel Briggs. If you would please give me your input it would be appreciated. I also cc this message to Ctjf83. On another subject somehow in the past I stumbled upon a special page called Changes related to "User:Philosopher/Iowa legislators watchlist" which I just bookmarked, now I want to know how can I make one of these for the List of cities in Iowa ? Also do you have any objections if I start up the division WikiIowa Project/Communities ? One more thing has the {{ Compact election box}} finalized with the removal of the ± column ?
Thanks RifeIdeas Talk 19:29, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Special:RecentChangesLinked/User:RifeIdeas/List_of_Cities_in_Iowa feel free to rename or whatever. CTJF83 chat 20:07, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
If you want to start up the Communities workgroup, go for it! I probably won't be participating there much, though. Just be sure to leave a note on the main talk page at WT:IOWA when you create it so that other project members can participate if they want to. I'll take a look at the compact election box again tomorrow or the day after - too many exams to do it atm. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 09:25, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Members of the Iowa Territorial Legislature category

Hi-I started a category for the members of the Iowa Territorial Legislature. I noticed some of the biographies mentioned of being involved in the Iowa Territorial Legislature. I also started similiar categories in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Idaho, and Hawaii. The categories were badly needed. Thanks-RFD (talk) 17:21, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know - sounds like a good idea! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 09:22, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Plot summaries versus a whole synopsis.

I'm just curious, I've been thinking a little about this and have always been kind of put off that some articles that have to do with stories or movies or games can have a whole plot synopsis included in the article. Personally I think that a summary of the plot in an article is tasteful, but having the entire plot there can be inconvenient for people who just want to learn about whatever it is they are looking for and aren't looking to have anything either spoiled for them or such. I just wanted to know what you thought and if there was some kind of general reasoning behind this on Wikipedia. If anything I was thinking that as an encyclopedia people are thinking that there should be a comprehensive synopsis but thats all I can come up with. (NuHalo (talk) 04:01, 9 December 2010 (UTC))

Well, we do have Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)#Plot summaries. Generally, consensus has settled that spoilers are allowed on Wikipedia (because Wikipedia is not censored and because information about plot elements that may "spoil" the story are often important for complete encyclopedic coverage of the work), but I'm not aware of widespread agreement on how much plot summary is too much. If you want to bring this up for discussion, a good "policy page" place to do so might be at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (writing about fiction). Other pages of interest are Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works (proposed policy - though judging from the age of the comments, it isn't an active proposal any longer) and Wikipedia talk:How to write a plot summary (just an essay, not a guideline or policy). Sorry I can't help more, Philosopher Let us reason together. 14:01, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Iowa/Communities

I know you are on a school wiki break, but if you have time can you either send this notice out to all Project Iowa members by bot or tell me how to. If it has to be sent out manually let me know that also.

If you register to use WP:AWB (register at the check page), you can use it to make multiple similar edits. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 13:49, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
For that matter, just let me know if you want to use AWB and I'll approve you myself, since you meet the 500 mainspace edit criterion for approval. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 11:54, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
For future use you can approve me for AWB. In fact if there is any other approvals that you think would be helpful or that you think I am qualified for, approve me, I thank you in advance for expanding the tools available to me. I skimmed the information at AWB and decided to just use the Project Iowa members list and manually placed the new division message on their talk pages yesterday and the day before. If you think of any other groups that should or could be notified, please let me know. The Communities division site is a lot closer to completion, although it is functional. It's scope (unless expanded in the future) as far as a tag, is limited to geographical areas, so far what is included is the state of Iowa, incorporated cities, unincorporated cities, defunct cities (known as ghost towns) townships, and counties. A person joining can declare level of involvement from "1. I am interested in Iowa communities but don't ask me I will help when I want" to "5. I will be active on the project almost every day". I do hope you will join even if it is at a level 1 participation. I know you are busy in school but I do hope you have the time to check out the Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities division in detail, expanding the various "hide" boxes to see the details. And check out Wikipedia :WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities also, and again if you have time, give me your feedback.
--RifeIdeas Talk 12:54, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Okay, I've approved you for AWB. If you want to know some of the other permissions, you can see WP:RfR, but none of them seem to relate too much to what you've been doing (though I could be wrong). Permissions on Wikipedia tend to work on a "apply as/if you need it" basis, so I'm not going to volunteer you for any, but if you feel like they would be useful, just ask.
I'll take a look at the communities stuff today or tomorrow, and set up the communities parameter and apply it to the cities, etc. sometime in the next week - I've done this before with AWB, so it should be a pretty simple thing to set up again. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 13:17, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
This is the first time I looked at WP:RfR, and the only permission that is applicable to me is as a Rollbacker. In Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities#Patrol schedule you can see the two watch links, the one Ctjif83 set up for me, and the more expanded version I set up. I use the all inclusive one all the time. If you look at my Contributions you can see I have a fair amount of "undid" entries. If it is vandalism I have been just using the default message, if it is for some other reason I add that behind the default message. I think this is the correct procedure but I will be reading more about rollback if you grant me permission. The Rollbacker feature would save me time and help with multiple vandalism edits.
On other subjects, I looked again at Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Government and seen the Category:Iowa (government) articles by quality and the Category:Iowa (government) articles by importance. 1) Do you think I should make the same categories for Communities? In the area of Class and Importance I see a difference between Project Iowa and Project Cities. I understand the importance could and should be different, 2) but what about Class? At this time I think they should be the same. Some of our cities have for Project Cities a B-Class while Project Iowa has only a C-Class. 3) Is there a guideline? 4) If not should we make a standard? 5) I know that there are procedures for FA and GA articles where outside projects evaluate them but what are the procedures for A and B-Class? I have also thought about making a subpage just for the Communities tables as the volume of those continues to increase as more tables are made and will also increase with more data entered. 6) Do you think I should?. Again thanks for your input. --RifeIdeas Talk 15:51, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

1) Before you use rollback, please have a look at the instruction page at WP:ROLLBACK. The basic rule is to only use rollback when all edits to be rolled back are blatant vandalism (if the edit could have been good faith, use "undo" instead of "rollback"), note if the several most recent edits are by the same author, the tool will roll all of them back. If you end up doing a lot of vandalism patrols, you may want to check out the warning templates at WP:WARN. ...and... you have rollback now. 2) You don't have to create the categories - they will be created automatically by a bot after I create the template parameter and add it to the pages. The class will generally be the same regardless of project - we do have a checklist for articles before they become B-Class and some other projects don't, but that's the only difference, and a fairly minor one - for the criteria for grading the classes of articles, see Template:WikiProject Iowa#Quality scale. 3) Your project is looking interesting - especially the charts of Iowa's cities. Putting the table data on a subpage could be a good idea, simply because that'll make the page load faster for those with slow browsers or internet access. But I'm afraid I don't have any opinion on whether to just link to it or transclude it onto the original page. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 17:14, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the Iowa Barnstar, I proudly placed it on my userpage as the first image that will show up in a quick view hover. Thanks also for the permissions you have granted me, I have read the links you provided and will use them judiciously. Whenever someone uses the word "interesting" in reference to someone's work I immediately wonder about what their true opinion is as the term is ambiguous enough to cover a wide range of viewpoints. I also have been known to use the descriptive term "interesting". Let me assure you, I will never take offense to constructive criticism. As far as the tables are concerned I can see now that the Class and Importance columns may now be obsolete with the advent of the multiple categories you installed covering this subject. I was unaware of the category possibilities when I started this project, however it will be easy to blank those out and make them a "future" category. I will also take the tables off the main page and just link to them letting the main page load faster.
Now to my questions. Can a bot be used to insert the communities tag into the Project Iowa template using the various established lists like List of cities in Iowa ? (Which I noticed needs some repair which I hope to do today. If the red-links are gone I will of repaired the list). Or by using User:RifeIdeas/List of Cities in Iowa or maybe better yet the total inclusive User:RifeIdeas/All Iowa Communities? Can a bot disregard the red-inks? Otherwise can I use AWB and the list to accomplish the task? With 937 incorporated cities and an unknown number in the unincorporated cities, townships and 99 counties, if a bot could do this it would be a time saver. I have almost no knowledge on what a bot can or can not do. Just a reminder, although I am a quick study (started October 22, 2010) all of this editing, HTML markup, etc. is all new to me. Again thanks for all your help
--RifeIdeas Talk 17:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
The Helping Hand Barnstar
Your help explaining the various parts and the how to of Wikipedia has been invaluable.
RifeIdeas Talk 17:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
No problem, glad to help when/where I can (and thanks for the barnstar!). As for my use of "interesting," I did not mean it in a pejorative sense, more of in a "that's kinda cool" sense, sorry for the confusion. The tags should be able to be added by AWB - it isn't that hard to do an AWB run over the lists (that's how I put the majority of the banners there in the first place), though it can be quite time-consuming. Speaking of which, your idea for a bot sounds like a good idea, I can ask BAG if they'll approve my bot for that task (it's just an AWB-bot, but being approved means it can run in a fully-automated mode instead of the more time-consuming semi-automated mode that AWB normally runs in). --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:34, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
I've put in the request for bot approval. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:13, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Great news about the bot. I have repaired all of the bad entries in List of cities in Iowa It took a few hours as I started from day one and went through each edit. But maybe my all inclusive watch list Patrolling All Iowa Communities that covers incorporated unincorporated townships and counties. Although some are red linked and it does have a few other links at the top of the page. Check it out User:RifeIdeas/All_Iowa_Communities. Whatever works the best. BTW Ctjf joined up and has given me some critical feedback for improvement.
--RifeIdeas Talk 21:11, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
I do not know if it would affect the bot but just to let you know I did add the communities parameter to one and only one community Hiawatha, Iowa. --RifeIdeas Talk 02:06, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

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I just happened onto the Wikipedia:Portal/Directory and noticed that Portal:Iowa was not listed. When I entered the information into the directory I assumed that portal Iowa is maintained by Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa. If this is wrong please correct it.

And has the political {{Compact election box}} template (for vote counts) been adjusted (or new one made) to eliminate the ± column? I personally now have a good working knowledge of how to collapse tables or any other information now, so I just need the fixed template. Being that the newly elected officials will be taking office in a few days, places like Portal Iowa, current senators, current representatives, succession boxes, and any other related political articles will have to be updated. I will take time off my communities edits to help with this. I just do not know how to (yet) update or make new templates. I have been watching with interest the Bot discussion about the addition of the communities parameter, so I am aware of that progress. I made one attempt (in my sandbox) a while back to make a Class/Importance table like is made for Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Government#Assessment by just replacing government with communities in the code I found at . . . I just seen you must have (or it is automatically created) the page User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Iowa (communities) so do I just transclude that page onto Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities#Assessment or does it need to be stepped like it is for the Government division?

Check out WP:IA/C as we are up to 4 members and there has been many improvements.
Until next time.--RifeIdeas Talk 16:18, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

I don't know if the portal is currently being maintained or not, sorry. If you are going to update it, though, I doubt anyone would object. Thanks for reminding me about the political stuff, I'll be taking a look at the pages for the new members of the Iowa cabinet tonight (I think the cabinet is inaugurated before the legislature - that may have happened already, even) and resume fixing the template, etc. tomorrow.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Philosopher (talkcontribs) January 5, 2011Whoops, forgot to sign! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:11, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Here I said I'd look at it and I didn't - the internet at my apartment went down for a while. Back now, I should get a good start tonight or tomorrow morning. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:11, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

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Can you fix your footnotes on Mathew Staver?

Greetings, I ran across your 2008 article Mathew Staver, and the footnotes are done manually vice the usual Wiki way. Any chance you can go back and fix the footnotes? MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:55, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Those footnotes were actually added by User:Libertyforall76. But I'll go over the article again in a bit, sure. (Otherwise, you can be bold and do it yourself.) Thanks for letting me know. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 17:16, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

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We've crossed paths before, but I can't remember where. Eh, I'm lucky enough to remember to wake up.
Your new Iowa President articles came up on a list of articles without the living parameter. I noticed some of the articles, Duane C. Spriestersbach and Christian W. Slagle for example, are articles to acting presidents. Is that notable enough??? According to notability guidelines, specifically section #6, I don't think they are notable. Bgwhite (talk) 05:39, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't know much about them besides what I found on the University's history page. Just wanted to create the stubs to encourage people who do know more to fill them out as has already been done with Boyd, etc.'s pages. I've filled out the later ones some, but to get information before the '40s is difficult. I'd guess that they would be independently notable (though I would argue that acting president is notable enough in itself - it may be "acting" but the person is still the president of the University), as all of the more recent acting/interim presidents were. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 07:53, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
I've seen a couple acting mayors deleted awhile back. Hmm, bring one to AfD and let them decide? Bgwhite (talk) 08:04, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
For your first point, mayors aren't automatically notable. For your second, I wouldn't - if someone wants to challenge any of them, I suppose that's their decision, though. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:57, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

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Hello Philosopher, how are you. I have seen you were categorizing Adrianni Zanatta Alarcón, but i beg to inform you that the references asserted in the article do not match the given statements. I have reported the situation at es:wiki, but im not too versed over here, so i'd like to ask you if you could check it if possible. Excuse my English. Thank you. Rafax (talk) 04:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I'll try to check them out - though my Spanish isn't that great. If all else fails, I'll at least leave a note referring people to es:Discusión:Adrianni Zanatta Alarcon. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:19, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
I put {{cite check}} on the article and left a note on its talk page. Unfortunately, Google Translate wasn't able to help me decipher things enough to actually check out the problem. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:29, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for taking care of it. Rafax (talk) 09:46, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Iowa vote counts

Glad to see you back in action! I assumed that school became more time consuming. I see you are adding pictures to our elected officials - great - can you find one for Deborah Berry ? As far as your standardizing the header (which is fine by me) at Talk:Swati Dandekar that was a newbie error on my part.
Reviving an old discussion we had at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Government#Vote count formats in articles, I contacted the original template author for {{Compact election box}} about making a template that removes the ± column a while back with no results. See User talk:BrownHairedGirl/Archive/Archive 023# Compact election box. I took a look at trying to create a new {{Compact election box without ±}} from the {{Compact election box}} but the programming language is still above my understanding (at this time). In the previous discussions about this subject you indicated that the programming would not be complicated (for you). If you have the time can you look into creating the new template? I diverted my attention and editing to the Iowa communities in the last few months, but will return to help with vote counts and politicians when/if this issue is resolved.
--RifeIdeas Talk 15:47, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome back! Sorry for not getting the template taken care of, as you guessed, life got busy for me (again). It still is rather busy for the next few weeks, so I'm going to try to limit myself to the mini-project of the photos of current Iowa legislators until it's done (1/6 done already!). If I get a big chunk of time free, I'll do the template (it's not hard, but will take a fair chunk of time), but the reason I'm focusing on the photos for now is that I can do them in little bits of time here and there. As for Deborah Berry, I'll get to her sometime this week - I'm doing all the members of the Senate and House in district-number order, starting with the Senate. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 17:24, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Heh, took me a little longer than I thought, but Deborah Berry now has an image on her page (File:Deborah L. Berry - Official Portrait - 84th GA.jpg). --Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:44, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Josiah Little Pickard

Hi-I expanded the Josiah Little Pickard article. He was Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin also. Thank you-RFD (talk) 19:45, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi-I change the lead sentence to include his elective office which is just important as being president of an university. Any comments would be appreciated. Thank you-RFD (talk) 11:54, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Looks good to me, thanks for expanding it! I agree that the elective office belongs in the lead. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:33, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

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Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
  • Republic of Venice Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
  • Scotland ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
  • Rwanda Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
  • Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
  • Botswana The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
  • Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
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  • United States Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
  • England Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

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