User talk:Sooner Dave

Welcome!

Hello, Sooner Dave, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Fan-1967 03:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help on creating articles[edit]

I want to create an article about 1893 Land Run, but I don't know the difference between what sources I can use and what source I can't use. I tried reading the copyright stuff on Wikipedia, but I'm now just confused because It gives years and laws etc. It does not give you a few examples of signs of a copyrighted object. How can I tell if a source is useable or not?

You can use pretty much any source for an article. The thing is, you will need reliable sources, especially if you are asserting something that people would be skeptical of. Reliable sources are usually things like: national/regional newspapers, magazines, books (not self-published, usually), peer-reviewed essays/journals (like a scientific journal), etc. Generally, promotional material (a product's advertisements, for example) and the like are not consider reliable. Use your best judgement...other people will let you know if they feel that it's not reliable. —K e akealani 05:16, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adopt-a-User Program[edit]

Good evening (GMT); I noticed you are listed under Category:Adopt Me and I was wondering if you would like me to adopt you? I would be more than happy to give you a helping hand on Wikipedia.
I have already adopted User:Db1944 and I believe the time is right to pass on my knowledge to yet more new users. However, this is not a decision to be taken lightly and I ask that you review my user page to ensure that we are sure to get along civilly.

Cheers

Anthøny 20:23, Tuesday December 26 2006 (UTC)

Adopt-a-User Classroom created[edit]

Good afternoon (GMT); further to your acceptance of me as your adopter under the adopt-a-user program, I have created a virtual classroom at my user page in order to manage the workload I have helping both you and my other adoptee, David (User:Db1944). I hope this method of assistance will be suitable to you.

Cheers,
Anthøny 14:26, Wednesday December 27 2006 (UTC)

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Disputes Essay[edit]

Good afternoon (GMT time); I hope your Wikipedia activities are flourishing. Just dropping by to draw your attention to the essay that I've written at the Classroom Talk Page (User talk:Anthony cfc/aau-classroom) entitled "Disputes and how to avoid them".

The essay covers my golden rule which I think would be useful for you to bear in mind if you ever get into hot soup on the encyclopedia. If you aren't going to go by it, at least read it and ponder over it for a second or two.

Remember, I'm never more than a talk comment away, so please feel free to post a message at the classroom talk page and I'll get back to you. Also, if it's important, bin the classroom and post right on my talk page.

Cheers and regards,
Anthony cfc ^{[T • C]} 15:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributions drought[edit]

Everything okay? You seem to be on wiki almost never :) hope things are fine.

Kind regards,
Anthonycfc ^{[T • C]} 02:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about me, I'm a busy guy. Sooner Dave 13:28, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cool; hope to see you soon ;) ~ Anthøny 20:05, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Oklahoma Newsletter[edit]

Greetings! This is a random delivery of the WikiProject Oklahoma newsletter, the "WikiOkie Reporter". You will not recieve this again unless you sign up.

The WikiOkie Reporter

WikiProject Oklahoma's Newsletter
Issue 1 - September 2007

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Your second or third stop for WikiProject Oklahoma News

WikiProject Oklahoma releases new newsletter

September 2007 brings a new face to WikiProject Oklahoma: a newsletter. As in all of Wikipedia, the new WikiOkie Reporter (tenative name) is intended to be a collaborative effort among editors. Anyone can edit it: this month's newsletter is placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/aug07, but next month's will be placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/oct07, with the following month at /newsletter/nov07, and so on. While this month's article's were initially written by User:Okiefromokla, it is hoped other editors will be excited to contribute to articles, content, layout, and ideas. This is a completely new child of WikiProject Oklahoma, and it should reflect the collaborative work of everyone who's bored and has nothing to do for a few minutes. As such, anything can be discussed here: anything - layout, color scheme, pictures, content, etc.

The behind-the-scenes workings for the WikiOkie Reporter will be simple: anyone wishing to receive the newsletter in their talk page may place their name at sign-up list, but they are more than free to remove their name from the same list at any time. Anyone wishing to discuss ideas or anything at all related to the newsletter may look no further than here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/talk.

Several WikiProjects already have ongoing newsletters, including Wikipedia: WikiProject North Dakota, from which WikiProject Oklahoma's newsletter has been based. For the time being, Okiefromokla will assume distribution responsibilities for the newsletter, maintaining the template, and writing articles from scratch if other editors have not done so by the 1st of the month.

Promotions on the rise

For many Wikipedians, summer is a time to kick back, relax, and make an occasional minor edit to their favorite few pages. Not so in WikiProject Oklahoma. Between May 12 and September, editors have been busily working on Oklahoma, Tulsa, and Woody Guthrie, and all three have been promoted. Prior to May, there were only seven Featured or Good articles in WikiProject Oklahoma.

On May 12, Tulsa was promoted from B-class to FA class after a few months of extensive editing. Its primary editors were User:Nmajdan, User:SandyGeorgia, User:Okiefromokla, and a handful of others. On August 25, Oklahoma was promoted from B-class to FA class after a month-long blitz. User:Okiefromokla, User: SandyGeorgia, and several anonymous IPs contributed heavily to the article. On June 13, 2007, Woody Guthrie was promoted from B-Class to GA class after two failed attempts at promotion. User:Dannygutters, User:Gaff, User:Maenpong, and a handful of others contributed most to the article.

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New Page Patrol survey[edit]

New page patrol – Survey Invitation

Hello Sooner Dave! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you.

If this invitation also appears on other accounts you may have, please complete the survey once only.
If this has been sent to you in error and you have never patrolled new pages, please ignore it.

Please click HERE to take part.
Many thanks in advance for providing this essential feedback.

You are receiving this invitation because you have patrolled new pages. For more information, please see NPP Survey. Global message delivery 13:22, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:31, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

New deal for page patrollers[edit]

Hi Sooner Dave,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey[edit]

Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

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Women in Red World Contest[edit]

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!