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Qrazy sale at COTW! Act now! Total liquidation!

Greetings WikiProject Oregon folks, time for another edition of the Collaboration of the Week! Last week we saw some good improvements made to Westside Express Service, while we also worked on a Coordinates Drive. I don’t know how many articles had the coordinates added to, but thanks to those who helped out. This week we have two more requests: William Clark of Lewis & Clark fame and the famed Oregon Bottle Bill. Hopefully we can work both up to B class. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Adios. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:07, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

A question

You know a lot about chucks. Is there a breed that is more likely to produce double yolk eggs? I went through a phase of getting double yolkers in my Co-op free range eggs a while ago, but then they stopped. Shame, as they made ace poached eggs with extra yolky bits on toast. Yum. As I'm now thinking about keeping my own chickens, can you recommend a breed that might produce them? Thanks 86.138.46.163 (talk) 08:32, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

There's no specific breed I can think of that is most likely to produce double yolks, for one primary reason: double yolks are an evolutionary disadvantage, since fertilized eggs (meant for hatching) with double yolks die in the shell. Thus, any chicken is only rarely going to lay double yolks. But my advice is that you go with one of the more prolific egg laying, non-sitting breeds (i.e. non-broody) breeds. If you also need a docile bird, go with Rhode Island Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks, or Sex Link hybrids (also called Black or Red Stars). If you don't mind more flighty chickens, go with a Mediterranean layer like Leghorns, Anconas or Minorcas. Hope that helps, VanTucky 18:28, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU, Status, and you!

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Black Rock Hen

Hi, although not a breed I think the Black Rock is notable - certainly in the UK where it is a significant laying bird. My intention is to restore it: happy to seek wider views if you have a strong feeling that it should not have its own article. Regards Springnuts (talk) 14:52, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Allegations of apartheid deletion notification

Some time ago, you participated in a deletion discussion concerning Allegations of Chinese apartheid. I thought you might like to know that the parent article, Allegations of apartheid, was recently nominated for deletion. Given that many of the issues that have been raised are essentially the same as those on the article on which you commented earlier, you may have a view on whether Allegations of apartheid should be kept or deleted. If you wish to contribute to the discussion, please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of apartheid (fifth nomination). -- ChrisO (talk) 17:48, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Could you look at something in more detail for me?

Hi there. You are one of two admins who left a warning for User:RMDRDR. Could you both (I've posted to the other one) take a look at what happened here and what I said here (old page version in case of blanking)? I initially thought the partial reversion (which led to some vandalism being missed) was someone logging out to vandalise, back in to partially revert, and then back in to vandalise. But then I realised I should assume more good faith (see here). I don't have much experience dealing with vandalism, so if one of you two could follow this up, that would be great. Possibly enough has been done, but I'm not sure. Carcharoth (talk) 21:13, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Vorwerk (chicken)

On 12 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vorwerk (chicken), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 22:11, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Question

I realize you just changed your name, and as someone who still uses a pseudonym and will likely continue to do so, what was your motivation for changing to your "real" name? (I only ask because your edit summaries/username says it's okay to ask...Keeper | 76 | what's in a name? 01:25, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Also curious... –xenocidic (talk) 02:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Several things going on:

I published my real name on my user page, forgetting that this would show up in Google. So any anonymity is effectively blown anyway.
Everyone in RL already knows I wiki.
I do a lot of real world wiki activism and attend tech/wiki events under my real name. It's weird to introduce yourself and then have tell people your dorky pseudonym that you edit under on Wikipedia.
Including my work. I work for AboutUs.org, and have always used my real name on that wiki.
I think that trying to hide from trolls like Daniel Brandt through user name makes them hungrier to hunt you down. People like that enjoy the chase, so I get left alone by beating them to the punch.
I'm proud of my work here, and want others to know.

Make sense? Steven Walling (talk) ^{formerly VanTucky} 02:35, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Yep. =) –xenocidic (talk) 02:37, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Yep, and your real name is indeed much nicer than the pseudonym. user:Everyme 10:23, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Boreray (sheep)

On 15 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Boreray (sheep), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 17:23, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Summer Time in the COTW

Hello again to those of the WikiProject Oregon Clan. Time for another new edition of Collaboration of the Week. Last week there was some good improvements to William Clark and the legendary Oregon Bottle Bill, great job to those who helped out. This week, by request is the Owyhee Reservoir, which is short enough to easily conjure up a DYK. Then, also by request is a red link elimination drive on Oregon newspapers. Feel free to help out with either. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:42, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

RfA Thanks

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 90 support, 2 oppose, and 0 neutral.

Great work on Boreray sheep too!

All the best, Ben MacDui ^Talk/Walk 20:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Romeo and Juliet collaboration

Greetings! The current Shakespeare Project Collaboration is Romeo and Juliet. This project is currently going a thorough peer review and copyedit before moving on to FAC. The link to the peer review is Wikipedia:Peer review/Romeo and Juliet/archive1. Have a look! « Diligent Terrier Bot (talk) 20:52, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

List of Shuffle Albums

A discography is a list of albums, so calling it that instead of using the explicit word discography is not a way around WP:NFC. The use still clearly violates the policy against using NFC in discographies. Do not add them again. Steven Walling (talk) formerly VanTucky 23:19, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

It has already been discussed. They were removed because of fair use overuse and because of the claim that it was a discography. There were several editors, including me, that took the position that it wasn't fair use overuse because they were being used one per album. It wasn't a discography because if the albums had their own pages, then there would be no images there (the usual case). It was then argued that there should be no images because the albums lack notability. The answer to that was that there are 406,000 hits on google and the fact that something doesnt have a page does not necessarily mean that it is not notable and doesnt deserve one. Grk1011 (talk) 23:25, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Tai Chi Chuan / Taijiquan

Hi. I see you reverted my move (of Tai Chi Chuan to Taijiquan) without commenting on your reversion. Please go to Talk:Tai chi chuan to discuss. I proposed this move on that page several days ago. Thanks. Bertport (talk) 14:11, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

U.S. Sheep Experiment Station DYK

On 22 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article U.S. Sheep Experiment Station, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congratulations! --PeterSymonds (talk) 19:46, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Twitter

Hi Steven, I thought you would be interested to know (if you didn't already) that http://enwp.org/Article_name is an auto-shortener to Article name. This could be useful for posting TFA on Twitter. (BTW in the spirit of Freeness I think you should use identi.ca. :)) cheers --pfctdayelise (talk) 18:31, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Hey, Steven Walling/Archive 15. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!-- Kipoc (talk) 02:39, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Zebras are not allowed to participate at COTW, but penguins may

Howdy ya’ll, its WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week time! Thanks to those who helped improve Owyhee Reservoir and start some new Oregon newspaper article, we had four new ones. This week it is time for a Stub Improvement Drive. So select a Stub, any Stub, and try to improve it to at least a Start class. If you expand it by 5X, then think about nominating it at Did You Know so it can be featured on the main page. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:30, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Hi Steven, and thanks for the welcome on my Talk page. Will do my best to adhere to the standards as advised and will enquire here if I have any further queries. Appreciate the offer. Browndog72 (talk) 18:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC) Oh and coincidentally, it's your birthday, so Many Happy Returns of the Day! Browndog72 (talk) 18:29, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Happy birthday to you too!

Well happy belated birthday to you too! Thanks for the thought! Voyaging^(talk) 17:52, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

w00t

Congrats on the adminship. Very well deserved. Cheers, Cacophony (talk) 06:14, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind, that is old news. I'm an idiot and should go to bed allready. Cacophony (talk) 06:20, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

horns

moved to article talk. Steven Walling (talk) 21:19, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Knol external link

Hi Steven, Sorry for inserting external link not in the reference format. I am still learning Wikipedia. I just want to confirm if you put my link in your Spam list or blacklist. I am a nice WikiPedia user and want to follow all rules here. Sorry for that external link. Thanks Sunil Kumar Gupta (talk) 09:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Steven Sunil Kumar Gupta (talk) 01:36, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

COI at WWB and NMS Bill

Hello, Steven, I've just posted a reply to your comment on my talk page about editing on behalf of Disney and my employer. It's a bit long, so I won't post it here, but figured it was important enough to tip you that I'd replied. Look forward to hearing back from you. WWB (talk) 20:47, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you help?

You previously helped with some editing disputes at Patrick T. McHenry. I've tried the BLP noticeboard, requesting a third opinion--and so far no response. I know admins are busy though. Here are the links where I've tried to work out the dispute: Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Patrick_T._McHenry
Talk:Patrick_T._McHenry#Neutrality
User_talk:Ziegfest
User_talk:Ystava
Thanks!! Ystava (talk) 14:08, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

FA article you worked on reached the main page

Congrats! Parapsychology is today's featured article. --Nealparr ^{(talk to me)} 02:05, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

1 Year of the Collaboration of the Week

Hello again to those of WikiProject Oregon. It is time again for another Collaboration of the Week. The last two weeks were a Stub Improvement Drive, and thank you to those who improved any Stubs.

This week marks the one week anniversary of the COTW, so a brief highlight reel:

At least 10 DYKs
Three articles passed GA after being listed at COTW
Probably around 25 articles started
Almost all Top importance articles are now better than Stub class

And now on with our countdown. This week we have two requests, the Willamette Meteorite and Tom McCall. Hopefully we can get both to GA quality. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Thank you. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:50, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Paul_Erik#Support

I have indented your duplicate vote. Gary King (talk) 07:28, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey Steve, you and I made the same mistake!

Masterpiece2000 (talk) 08:02, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

I do like how eager you were to give me that extra bit of support. :) Thanks. If ever you have any concerns about my actions, adminly or otherwise, don't hesitate to let me know. Best wishes, Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 21:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Elonka

Re your endorsement of the recall of Elonka: at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Elonka#Comments by Coppertwig, I refuted the evidence, and I haven't noticed anyone refuting my refutations or attempting to. I'm curious as to what motivated your endorsement. I would appreciate it if you would supply me with one to three diffs of Elonka's editing showing what you consider to be inappropriate behaviour justifying recall. Thank you. (I'm not going around asking all the endorsers. I'm not sure but I think you're the first one I asked. It's because you said there was evidence of clearly improper behaviour, so I'd like to see what evidence you're talking about. Is there a second RfC I don't know about?) ☺ Coppertwig (talk) 02:21, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

The issue for me is that Elonka seems to have a pattern of hovering over controversial articles, trying to act as an editorial board cum mediator in a very heavy-handed fashion. As you can see in the RFC, there are multiple examples of this. Whether any individual editor disagreed with the outcome of her actions or her style is rather irrelevant to me. What is relevant is that she fundamentally misunderstands the role of sysops on a wiki. We are here to be janitors, to make it easy for other users to do good work, not to try and police things. Combine that distasteful manner with her frequent unresponsiveness to constructive criticism from the community, and she isn't fit to wield the mop, in my opinion. Plus, the whole flip-flopping on recall is disgusting. To open yourself up to recall and then decline to follow through when the shit hits the fan is low. Steven Walling (talk) 02:26, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Buckeye Chicken

Thanks, Steven. I wasn't sure what constituted a thread on Wiki Talk: if I should post at the bottom of the whole page, the bottom of the section, or the bottom of what seemed to be a discussion of the sentence in question. I will probably be an infrequent contributor, but I hope I'll learn the correct conventions so I don't manage to annoy the regulars! (In fact, I hope I've replied correctly, here.) I do appreciate your assistance. Llysse (talk) 19:58, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

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) 20:58, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

RfA thank you

Steven Walling/Archive 15, I wish to say thanks for your support in my successful request for adminship, which ended with 82 supports, 3 opposes, and 1 neutral. I will do my best to live up to your expectations. I would especially like to thank Rlevse for nominating me and Wizardman for co-nominating me.
— JGHowes ^talk - 19 August 2008

Little Miss Sunshine FAC

I have nominated Little Miss Sunshine at WP:FAC, and after looking at the talk page, I saw that you wanted me to contact you when I took the FAC plunge. I'm not searching for votes, but would appreciate if you could take a look at the article (its come a long way since February!) and let me know on the article's nomination page if there are any issues that should be corrected. Thanks again for reviewing it at its GA stage, and if you are able, I would appreciate another look as the article moves further up in classes. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 08:50, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

A sheepish note: I'm impressed!

A whole 3 minutes passed between me getting Taleshi (sheep) listed on List of sheep breeds and you coming in with real knowledge about the subject matter to fix the article. Most wonderful! (I picked the article up from Wikipedia:Dead-end pages and did some basic editing on it - wonderful to see such fast tag-team editing from people who don't even know about each other!) --Alvestrand (talk) 07:16, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Jim N E Cricket, its another Oregon Collaboration of the Week

Greetings WikiProject Oregon folks, it is time for another edition of the Collaboration of the Week! A big thanks to those who helped out in improving Tom McCall and the Willamette Meteorite last week. This week we have a request for Mr. Greg Oden who has been back in the news as of late, so hopefully we can get him up to B class before training camp starts. Then we have a Hospital red link drive with plenty of opportunity for DYKs! As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Bu bye. Aboutmovies (talk) 15:51, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Oppose rationale

Per your (general) request, I read your oppose. "But anyone who says they haven't been in any conflicts on Wikipedia is either lying or is simply not ready to be an administrator." Well, the first part (about lying) is harsh and not AGF reasoning. The second part doesn't convince me. Personally, I do tend deal w/many WP conflicts. But there are various valid admin duties that do not require an admin to immerse themselves that way. Take care, HG | Talk 01:50, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Obviously, I didn't actually accuse her of lying. Steven Walling (talk) 01:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. Well, no, but you're not modelling AGF either. How would your argument be any different, then, if you delete "says that.. is either lying or" and just leave: "But anyone who hasn't been in any conflicts on Wikipedia is simply not ready to be an administrator." I still would disagree, but it would be significantly better. HG | Talk 02:17, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Essex Pig

Not sure about your renaming of this article. In most cases I'd agree – the Wessex Saddleback, Large Black and Tamworth are certainly the names of the breeds (not "Tamworth Pig" etc). However, in the case of the Essex Pig it does seem to be used as part of the name – see for example the link from the article. Isn't it more like the Spanish Fighting Bull, Old English Game Fowl and American Quarter Horse? (I dare you to try changing the name of that to American Quarter (horse)...) What do you think? Richard New Forest (talk) 22:50, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I was unaware of that, since I first saw it just referred to as the Essex. Steven Walling (talk) 23:01, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure now, as a very authorative book I have (Hall and Clutton-Brock, Two Hundred Years of British Farm Livestock) calls it both the Essex and the Essex Saddleback, but not the Essex Pig. I now think the article title may be best left as you put it, with all three versions given in the def. Richard New Forest (talk) 15:38, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Ssssh, Be Very Very Quiet, its Oregon COTW time

Howdy folks, its time for this week’s edition of Oregon’s Collaboration of the Week. First off, great job the last two weeks with Greg Oden & the Hospital red link drive. We had close to ten new hospital articles and two DYKs () plus other improvements to the list itself. So thank you to those who helped out. This week, we have on a sad note Kevin Duckworth, and the Statesman Journal. Duckworth should have plenty of sources so hopefully in tribute we can get his article up to standards. With the SJ, hopefully we can get it above a stub so all three of the top three papers are no longer stubs, and maybe even a DYK and GA like we got from the Register-Guard? Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Hasta la bye bye. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:20, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome! --Textmatters (talk) 20:27, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Whoa!

Yikes! Everyone's changing their names, and I can't keep up! You guys are going to play games with my head. bibliomaniac 1 5 22:24, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Zinfandel GA review, finally

Regarding this comment you left on Talk:Zinfandel: The article has finally been improved enough to warrant a GA review. Another reviewer has already weighed in with comments, and someone else has been placing various tags in the article, resulting in a small flurry of fixes over the past couple days. Please add your comments as you see fit. The known big issue remaining, I think, is reorganizing the History section to flow more sensibly. Thanks. ~Amatulić (talk) 22:24, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Burundi

Not to be a PITA, but can you speed up the review process or suggest another reviewer due to limited time issues?

Thanks,

miranda 23:23, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Stonewall riots GAN

Hi, VanTucky. I noticed a while ago your name was attached to the GAN for Stonewall riots. Are you still planning to get to it? I think if I don't see a response here in 24 hours I'm going to remove your name to give someone an opportunity to do the GA review. Let me know, though. Thanks. --Moni3 (talk) 19:03, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Hey. I'm going to assume you're busy. If you have time and the article still hasn't been reviewed, please feel free to do it. Thanks. --Moni3 (talk) 00:57, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

WP:ORE COTW Version 2.2

Hello WikiProject Oregon contributors. It's time for another COTW. Thank you to those who helped improve Kevin Duckworth and the Statesman Journal last week, we received another DYK () for the SJ. This week, by request we have Mr. Ken Kesey and not by request Nike, Inc.. Nike is the only Start class article in the top 30 of those articles selected for the hard copy edition, and it could easily be improved to B class. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 23:58, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Your user page

Per "This page was designed for Firefox and may look broken in other browsers" your user page is actually broken in my Firefox. Specifically, the barnstars are stretching the page to the right instead of being a fixed width like I assume it was intended to be. Just FYI :) Gary King (talk) 06:40, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Heritage turkey DYK

On 21 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Heritage turkey, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Jamie^☆S93 22:51, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion without discussion?

Is there a reason to delete people's pages with NO response and NO discussion? Sounds more like a closed system than a wiki. How about providing "specific" feedback on what is wrong or needs correction instead of blowing away months of people's work. No respect.

You need to read about our speedy deletion process. Steven Walling (talk) 00:51, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

I have read the speedy deletion process. I followed the criteria required. I'd like specific feedback on the edits required to meet "editorial approval". Specifics, please, not generalities. A lot of time was spent on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onemorewikiusertoo (talk • contribs) 00:56, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

On what article? Your contribution history doesn't show any edits to any place but my talk page. Steven Walling (talk) 01:10, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

On the Animaland page you just deleted. Animaland competitor Build-A-Bear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build-A-Bear) has a page on Wikipedia and it has not been marked as spam or an advertisement. The copy for the Animaland page has been through three edit cycles and has been written in a neutral manner. Won't you please consider restoring the page and providing some editorial feedback on which sentences concern you? I've no problem entering a fourth edit cycle, but it is difficult to know what else to edit if there is no feedback provided. Thanks in advance.

I've marked the Build-a-Bear article for deletion as well. Both companies fail our notability standards for companies. Steven Walling (talk) 01:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

In the "real world", international companies with more than 850 locations worldwide are considered notable. Is there specific editorial feedback you can provide (e.g. sentences that should be removed) to insure meeting Wikipedia guidelines? Thanks in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onemorewikiusertoo (talk • contribs) 01:48, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

I've had a few deletions that I too considered a mistake. I've worked the process, and usually get the deletions reversed. In some cases, I come to agree with the deletion, because it comes with advice to move the info into an existing article. Thanks for your good work.Jtmilesmmr (talk) 17:11, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Steven, it seems to me this user's initial concern is that the article was deleted without notification, removing his work. I've restored the article to his user space. If he believes the company is notable, now he has his text at hand while making the case. -Pete (talk) 18:08, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Red red links make me feel so fine...

Greetings WikiProject Oregon editors. It's time for another edition of the COTW. Thank you to those who helped improve Ken Kesey and the Nike, Inc. last week. This week, by request we have the Northwest Forest Plan and then a Red Link Elimination Drive. For the red links, pick any one you want from any article, the list provided is just to help make it easier. And if you get a good article started, don’t forget to nominate it for a DYK. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:54, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Aqua Connect

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Aqua Connect. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- Suntag ☼ 16:06, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (154/3/2). I appreciate the community's trust in me, and I will do my best to be sure it won't regret handing me the mop. I am honored by your trust and your support. Again, thank you. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 19:31, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

My RfA/ your oppose...

Well, since you mentioned it...I didn't think it was quite sporting for you to oppose me "per Miranda"--otherwise known as "I didn't like her blog"--and on a mistake in sourcing which I'd corrected at least a day or two before you wrote your oppose. So we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Needless to say, I plan to be quite civil as an admin, but that doesn't mean I won't bring it up when someone's speaking without taking all the evidence into account, or when they're using specious reasoning. My apologies if you found my comment rude, however. Gladys J Cortez 03:22, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, Miranda was kinda a hot-button. Now, the "lack-of-experience" thing? I can TOTALLY see that. Honestly, if I were looking at my own RfA and not knowing what I know about me? I'd have probably opposed myself on similar grounds. And really, the Q7 stuff was just a one-off space-cadet moving-from-userspace-to-realspace OOPS factor. (They were, after all, my first 2 articles--I was mainly worried about them getting AfD'd by some overzealous RC patroller!))So--no worries. We're all good. (I get along with nearly everyone; it's just when I get my hackles up that I get a wee bit to the snarky side. I'm gonna have to work on that, now that I'm an admin!) And thanks for being real with it. Gladys J Cortez 03:34, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Zumeo logo.png)

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Universal edit button

Thanks so much! :) fish&karate 12:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Very Special COTW, act now!

Greetings WikiProject Oregon peoples. It is once again time for another edition of the COTW. Thank you to those who helped eliminate some red links the last few weeks (the NWFP received little attention). This week, we have the stub High Desert Museum and then in honor of losing airline service again, McNary Field. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:18, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Slayer

So, this is not vandalism? and this? Canniba loki 00:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

The mere presence of vandalism is not sufficient reason to protect an article. There must be excessive vandalism, according to the requirements of protection policy. Remember, as Jimbo said, "you can edit this page right now" must be a guiding check on everything we do. Steven Walling (talk) 01:34, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

=P Canniba loki 02:30, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Hello Steven Walling. Thank you very much for your support in my recent Request for Adminship, which was successful with 111 supports, 0 opposes, and 0 neutral. I have to say I am more than a little overwhelmed by this result and I greatly appreciate your trust in me. I will do my best to use the tools wisely. Thanks again. Regards. Thingg ^⊕^⊗ 01:05, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I, as well, want to thank you for the support. Best of luck and most kind regards, Lazulilasher (talk) 23:42, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Othello Infobox

Somebody over at Macbeth. I put one up there and it was taken down. ItsLassieTime (talk) 02:40, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! ItsLassieTime (talk) 03:30, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

- just so you know, a consensus of numerous Shakespeare article editors was achieved against the use of info boxes for Shakespeare plays. If you want to change that, could you please start a discussion on the Shakespeare project page? You might also check the various archives to bring yourself up on the previous (lengthy) discussion. Thanks. Smatprt (talk) 06:37, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Xymmax RfA

I'd like to take a minute to let you know that I appreciate your support in my recently-closed RfA, which passed with a count of 56 in support, 7 in opposition, and 2 neutrals. I'll certainly try to justify your faith by using the tools wisely. Happy editing, and thanks again! Xymmax ^{So let it be written} _{So let it be done} 23:39, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Steven is cool

i know steven and he is a dyed-in-the-wool promoter of memes and wikis. he exudes cool. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Donpdonp (talk • contribs) 02:58, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

lol. thanks Mr. Park :) Steven Walling (talk) 03:12, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Royce Pollard

On 18 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Royce Pollard, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! ^{(with the !) (talk)} 12:24, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

invitation

Hi there Steven Walling!
	Please accept this invite to join the Good Article Collaboration Center, a project aimed at improving articles to GA status while working with other users. We hope to see you there!

- -The Spooky One (talk to me) 06:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

XXX<-COTW->XXX

Howdy WikiProject Oregon humans. Time for another edition of the C to the O to the T to the W. Thanks to those who help out on McNary Field and Bend’s High Desert Museum. For this week, we shall tackle Bridges on US 101 and then with the last few days of decent weather, The Semi-Annual Picture Drive. Plenty of red links on the bridge list, or improve a stub! Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 10:05, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Re-inserted categories you mistakenly removed. The categories are not at all the same and contain different groupings of articles. While it is true that ducks are domesticated poultry, for example, not all domesticated poultry are ducks. Anyhow, nice work on domesticated animals. Thanks anyway,Stepp-Wulf (talk) 03:22, 1 November 2008 (UTC).

Note

As you have sysop privileges, I request that you add the templates that note Obama's winning. Thanks! Ellomate (talk) 04:07, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

You (or someone) needs to update Joe Biden as well. Thanks. Wasted Time R (talk) 04:08, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

!

Hell yeah!!! Everyme 04:16, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Obama article

Can you add the new infobox thats on the talk page please? Thanks. -CWY2190(talk • contributions) 04:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I'd been waiting for a while to mention that and then school swamped me. I'm glad I wasn't too late to post! Therequiembellishere (talk) 05:10, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which recently passed with 126 in support, 22 in opposition and 6 neutral votes.

Thanks for your oppose vote in my RFA. I hope I can gain your trust in time.
• If you want to reply to this message please use my talk page as watch listing about 150 pages is a bit messy •
·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 23:26, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Komondor

Hi Steven! The reason why I added so many references (as many as I could find...) was that somebody simply removed the entire part because there was no references there. I do not want that this should happen again.

Warrington (talk) 23:16, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

In the news

If you're able to do that, that would be great. If you can write it starting with Monday's issue (November 10), I'd appreciate it. Ral315 (talk) 07:09, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Enochlau has indicated he might be able to handle In the news starting on November 17, but I'd still like you to write on November 10, and beyond that, we'll see what happens. Ral315 (talk) 21:00, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

I'm not sure I'm a good representative, but I appreciate your support for 2008 ArbCom elections. In the last year it's become clear to me that Wikipedia is crucially a volunteer-powered organization. Our administrative efforts should be focused on attracting and retaining volunteers so that they can continue doing the work they love—writing and contributing to the encyclopedia. Cool Hand Luke 02:33, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Elect the Best Financed, Least Offensive Person For the Job (aka Oregon COTW)

Hello fellow WikiProject Oregon folks, it’s time for another COTW. But first, just remember that those other guys only want to raise your taxes, but I won’t. A big thank you to those who helped make improvements to Bridges on US 101 and participating in The Semi-Annual Picture Drive. And unlike the other guys, I won’t ship your jobs overseas! This week, we have Mr. Bipartisan Wayne Morse who went from being a Republican to an Independent and finally to a Democrat. Then, let’s see if we can finish up creating articles for members of the Oregon House before their January inauguration. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. I’m Aboutmovies, and I approve this message. Paid for the committee to elect Aboutmovies. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:51, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Shakespeare notice

There is currently a discussion going on regarding the project's policy on how information on characters should be represented in articles on Shakespeare's plays. Please take part by clicking Talk:Romeo and Juliet#Character Analysis. Further context, if needed, can be found by scanning the two previous talk sections on the page as well. Sent by §hepBot (Disable) at 04:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC) per request of Wrad (talk)

Why yes...

This name does sounds very familiar... Steven... Hmm...

It's very nice to see you here. Funny to see how familiar faces keep popping out of the woodwork here! Eric Wester (talk · contribs · email) 04:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

In the news for this week

Were you still planning to write "In the news" for this week? We're going to press sometime in the next few hours, so if you are, please let me know as soon as possible. Ral315 (talk) 05:22, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Catahoula Cur Discussion

You may want to consider Wikipedia:Etiquette, Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:Dispute resolution after the mess with User:Noles1984 in the Talk:Catahoula Cur area. In particular, you should consider your use of "Jesus Christ" as an expletive. --Geofferic (talk) 02:43, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Harvest Time @ COTW

Greetings WikiProject Oregon folks, it’s time for another edition of the fabled COTW. Thank you to all who helped make improvements to Wayne Morse and creating some members of the Oregon House. This week, we have by request Upper Klamath Lake which think made the news lately with a salmon plan. Then, in honor of the end of the harvest time, we will go farming with Fort Stevens. There is a beautiful link farm in the article that is ripe for harvesting into citations. It should provide for a bountiful feast, or alternatively you can take your hoe to it and weed some out. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. WARNING: COTW is not approved for children under 3 and may contain choking hazards for small children. DO NOT leave your child unattended with COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:47, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

List of chicken breeds

Wow! Nice job! I hve taken the old list and cleaned it up, removed wrong entries and those that made it to the new version. Have taken the rest and put it in the source code so that it does not show up. A few entries seem to be hoaxes still.

Anyway, there are a few pages not yet in the new version. These I have annotated accordingly. Another section analogous to Bantams for common hybrid strains could be made, and some ppl might want to translate a few articles from other language versions (I have annotated what already has articles on de: and some others). Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 07:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

You may note a few additional breeds. I nicked them from de:, because I found them interesting. My grand-uncle was a prize chicken breeder, I inherited this from him and therein might be the odd breed that is extinct or very rare by now. IONO whether the book is still around; I didn't take it with me when I moved out and it was already a bit coming apart... but I try and look for it when I'm back at my old folks for Xmas. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 23:47, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Re redlinks: That's why I made it an annotation rather than putting it up visibly ;-) The links are there, to be handled at leisure... the "Bergische" breeds and the Cemami certainly warrant inclusion, as they have unique color genetics. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 00:01, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Core contest

I know that it didn't work with the reward for the core contest and I'm willing to sponsor it by sending a package of quality lebkuchen. All I need is an adress. My email is kurt.scholz[at]gmx.de. In case you have reservations, sending me your adress User:Proteins has agreed to handle the distribution. Greetings Wandalstouring (talk) 20:17, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for putting my deleted section back!

(There's actually more than that section that is awaiting further work, but I'm kind of hampered lately, my best friend, AKA virtual sister, is hospitalized and being treated for leukemia. Ugh—but the odds are not too bad for her. — Martha (talk) 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Is it reasonable to suggest this baby-article for DYK? The article itself isn't "worth" it quality-wise, but there's a 5-day limit (per Template_talk:Did_you_know). I think the remarkably interesting thing is that this Jewish woman went personally to concentration camps and secured the release of 412 people...I find all sorts of places that praise non-Jews who did far less, but NO (so far) good place to commemorate people like her! If it's reasonable, should I do it myself? ??? (I'm asking Pete too.) — Martha (talk) 01:48, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Removal of PROD from TiddlyWiki

You cannot seriously say that TiddlyWiki currently matches the Notability guidelines? It currently has no citations or references. I'm assuming that you, by removing that tag, are going to take part in actively improving that article? Message from XENU^{complaints? leave me a message!} 20:07, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Assertion of notability for Corinne Enaudeau

Hi -- I placed the CSD A7 tag on Corinne Enaudeau. You removed it with the comment that the article asserts notability. I took another look and I don't see where the article asserts notability. She looks to be a teacher (WP:TEACHER), have a few publications of unclear import, and be the daughter of someone notable (WP:NOTINHERITED), but none of that added up to an assertion of notability in my mind. I've done a little extra checking and only find four google news references to her, one of which was her father's obituary and the other three (though they are in french) don't appear to be primarily about her. I'm tempted to put this up for an AfD, but thought I'd check and see if you knew something about her notability that I'm missing? Newsaholic (talk) 19:29, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Zero Down, Zero Interest at the Oregon COTW

Hello to all the WikiProject Oregon folks, time once again for yet another bone chilling edition of the Collaboration Of The Week. I thank yee who helped make improvements to Fort Stevens and Upper Klamath Lake. For this first week of December, we have by request Mike Bellotti and his archrival Mike Riley, both in honor of that great tradition we call the Civil War (AKA the battle for the platypus). As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. This message is intended for the addressee shown. It contains information that is confidential and protected from disclosure. Any review, dissemination or use of this transmission or its contents is strictly prohibited. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Review

You do know that NewYorkBrad often posts at Wikipedia Review (WR), don't you? Well, I do also. Please check my user page if you think that this means that I don't do anything meaningful for Wikipedia. WR is responsible for exposing many problems in Wikipedia and has thus greatly improved the project. Cla68 (talk) 01:08, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Are you aware that I was once threatened with a block for simply mentioning the name of a website during an RfA (mine)? That's the kind of stuff that used to go on here and for which WR was significantly responsible for ending by exposing that and other nonsense. As with any message board, there are some uninformed and silly opinions on WR, but there are some extremely insightful and informed opinions and observations. I included CoolHandLuke's posts to WR in that category. Anyway, perhaps I'm biased because of my own, unique personal experiences during my time participating in this project, and I respect your opinion. Cla68 (talk) 01:29, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Well this is awkward

I was going through User:VeblenBot/C/Good article nominees awaiting review and came across Laptop. Seeing that it was missing a lot of references, I failed it. When going to WP:GAN though, I saw that you were planning on reviewing it. Do you want me to undo my review and let you continue with it? Sorry for the inconvenience! This is one of the downfalls of the non-WP:GAN page :) Gary King (talk) 15:59, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

GA review of Fancy rat

Hi, i wanted to thank you for deciding to review the fancy rat article which i nominated for GA. Feel free to leave me a note on my talk page once you've completed your review. happy editing! -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 23:18, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

GA review of Maine Coon

Hi there! I wanted to thank you for your willingness to review the article. I didn't expect for it to get picked up so soon after I nominated it. I was just curious as to how long the review will take to complete? Whenever you're finished, just leave me a message on my talk page and I'll get right on addressing any concerns. Again, thank you and I look forward to working with you. – Ms. Sarita ^Confer 23:19, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello, again. While I am extremely grateful that you have decided to review the Maine Coon article, it has almost been two weeks and there has been no update on the review of the article. Maybe you have taken on too much? I would really appreciate it if you could leave me an update, letting me know where you are in the review. Or, maybe you could throw the nomination back into the ring so that someone else can review it? Thanks. – Ms. Sarita ^Confer 02:47, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

I just wanted to let you know that two other users have taken it upon themselves to review the article for GA status. In the future, it would be much appreciated if you would keep nominators updated on the status of the review and whether you intend to review the article in the first place. I appreciate the effort but I hope you can understand why I'm a little peeved. Thanks. – Ms. Sarita ^Confer 17:55, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

GA review of Northern Bald Ibis

Hi Steven. I notice that this GAN appears not to be under way yet after six days - perhaps you are overstretched? I don't mind if you feel that you want to throw this one back. jimfbleak (talk) 08:47, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

SpaceClaim

You added primarysources and self-published tags to the SpaceClaim article. Could you elaborate on the discussion pagee, so that I can improve the article accordingly. --Dwarfpower (talk) 09:51, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

GA North American River Otter

Greetings. I noticed that you have volunteered to review the article North American River Otter. This entry is part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008. The student that submitted the request clearly pulled the trigger on the review before addressing specific concerns I (teacher) had raised in class regarding citations and referencing. Would you consider placing the review on hold rather than failing the article on those grounds. Hopefully, they will address those issues. The citation and reference section is a bloody mess. No doubt other concerns will arise as well; however, any guidance you can provide would be deeply appreciated. --JimmyButler (talk) 19:49, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Evolutionary history of life

Thanks for being brave enough to review this monster! I quite understand that it may take take you a while to produce your comments. --Philcha (talk) 19:54, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi, following some comments I've revised section ""Evolution of sex". I hope this hasn't inconvenienced you. --Philcha (talk) 12:19, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Steven. Are you ready to start the GA review yet, or are you busy with background reading? --Philcha (talk) 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Steven. Looking at the rest of this Talk page I see that you signed up to review Fancy rat (now being reviewed by someone else), Maine Coon (ditto), North American River Otter (ditto) and Northern Bald Ibis (which I passed as GA on 30 Dec 2008). If you do not provide review comments on Evolutionary history of life within 2 days, I shall remove the "being reviewed" marker at WP:GAN so that someone else can review it. --Philcha (talk) 20:59, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

About Twitter

Hey Steven! Sorry I am talking to you from an IP address but for some reason, my school firewall is being weird and barracuda is blocking the Wikipedia log in page. I was wondering why you just removed my information from the Twitter Page. If I can get an explanation, it could help me to keep from doing this again. Thanks and sorry if I disrupted the format of your page. Anarchy_228 ( 70.191.169.102 (talk) 00:44, 21 December 2008 (UTC) )

Moved to the bottom of the page

Anarchy 228 ( 70.191.169.102 (talk) 00:46, 21 December 2008 (UTC) )

Would it be acceptable if I reposted with the citation command and needed information to be supplied with it. (heh heh, I guess that I may have forgotten to do that... sorry) in the first place, I did not want to click save, I had not even copied and pasted to notepad++ for going off my wi-fi. The main point is that I would like to keep the wiki from banning this IP for the school. 70.191.169.102 (talk) 00:58, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Very cold, must type about the Oregon COTW to stay warm

Hello again from WikiProject Oregon’s Collaboration of the Week HQ. Since there was no notice last time, thanks to those who helped improve Mike Riley and Mike Bellotti at the begging of the month and to those who helped create Oregon Department of Justice and Lindsay Applegate last week. Those last two were the red links with lots of links to them from other articles (DOJ was #1). For this week, in honor of Arctic Blast/Winter Storm/Damn its Freakin’ Cold Outside 2008/Storm of the Century/Is there ANYTHING else on going on in the world?/We Might Actually Have a White Christmas, we have Snow Bunny. Then as part of the Stub elimination drive, we have state senator Margaret Carter, which could easily be turned into a nice DYK entry once expanded 5X. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas/Hanukah/ Kwanzaa/Winter Solstice. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:17, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Pallid sturgeon

Thank you for reviewing the article I started.--MONGO 16:02, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

2009 time!

To a good 2008 and to an even better 2009. Happy New Year! Acalamari 23:39, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

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HELP!

I have made a HUGE mess out of my archives by making one little mistake with numbering and now I've actually deleted some of my archives. However, because I made the deletions I cannot undelete them. Can you please go to my contributions page and rollback the all the edits between 08:59, January 6, 2009 and 09:06, January 6, 2009 (including those two edits). If you are confused or need help, let me know. Thank you so much. I CANNOT believe I did that.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 14:14, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Flagged Revs

Hi,

I noticed you voted oppose in the flag revs straw pole and would like to ask if you would mind adding User:Promethean/No to your user or talk page to make your position clear to people who visit your page :) - Thanks to Neurolysis for the template «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l» (talk) 07:03, 8 January 2009 (UTC)