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Contents 1 The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 December 2009 2 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XIV (November 2009) 3 The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 December 2009 4 Barnstar 5 Tourism 6 Hi 7 The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 December 2009 8 re: changing out categories at Illinois High School Association 9 January 2010 10 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVI (December 2009)

[edit] The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 December 2009

[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XIV (November 2009)

The November 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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[edit] The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 December 2009

[edit] Barnstar

		The Categorisation Barnstar
		I couldn't help noticing your recent categorizing spree on DuPage County-related articles, so I now award you the Categorization Barnstar. Keep up the good work! Benny the mascot (talk) 00:58, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much and Merry Christmas! --Funandtrvl (talk) 01:00, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Tourism

I noticed you changed the pictures on the Tourism page to partially match the lists however, in doing so, you also eliminated some of the diversity of the images (which already was not much). Since the page is an all-encompasing page of "Tourism", I think it is better to have at least a couple interesting sites from each continent/region of the world. I had added two African images and the Samarkand image to the page in order to diversify it, but your edits had eliminated them from the sidebar. You did place them in the bottom "Gallery", but it still doesn't seem like too much to allow 2 African destinations in that large line of images. Otherwise, the "Tourism" page becomes a European attraction showcase with a smattering of Asia. It seems rather boring and makes the page appear Eurocentric, when the article is in fact not about Europe.

I see the reasoning behind trying to use destinations from the lists, but since the article is about tourism worldwide, I think it's nice to let the pictures also show this. If you disagree or think you have a better way of showcasing diversity, feel free to message me. Puchiwonga (talk) 00:08, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

I see so few other eds ever considering to even tag a category talk page - pleased to meet you - I noticed that the South east asia cats that you removed the NA part of the SEA cats - does that mean you know of some good bots to help the task - or are simply tidying up to make sure all cat talk pages have the default? I am currently tagging the death project with a default tag - would be interested to hear your line on the issue. (some projects insist for the purpose of their bots to have what you have removed) - cheers SatuSuro 23:32, 28 December 2009 (UTC) Just what I thought - I think the project that I am thinking of has an idiosyncratic bot set up - so that would explain it - hey there are so few cat taggers - well done - and keep up the good work! Have a safe new year - and thanks for your response - and hey arent there so many cat pages untagged out there!!!! SatuSuro 23:42, 28 December 2009 (UTC) Cripes - what a slip - Oh hell - sorry I just noticed I re-inserted SEA at srijivaya without talking first - I did not mean to have a diff with you over that - but one of the probs we have in the sea project at times is the overlap issue between various states - srivijaya's supposed/alleged territory goes well beyond the boundaries of current Indonesia - into parts of other current nations - hope you dont mind my reinserstion without talking first - oops - that was plain odd as I had done the edit first and then saw in the hist that you had removed it. I hope you understand :( SatuSuro 23:56, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

No problem, my intentions were to clean out SE Asia and re-tag articles w/ their specific countries, but when there is overlap and I didn't realize it, thanks for informing me! --Funandtrvl (talk) 00:00, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Also thanks for identifying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Southeast_Asian_mountains - I am in a quandary about that one - the Indonesian project gets some amazingly odd lists - but that is one I will have to ponder - prod, expand or forget :( SatuSuro 00:05, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, and I've actually seen worse, if you can believe it! --Funandtrvl (talk) 00:07, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I bet we could write a good article for signpost about the oddities we have seen ;) - SatuSuro 00:12, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Also I cannot get over how many milhist tags I have had to add - interesting they havent got a bot or something together at some stage SatuSuro 00:13, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 December 2009

[edit] re: changing out categories at Illinois High School Association

Hiya Funandtrvl!

I was wondering if you could explain why you are adding this category, and removing the other category. From where I am sitting this does not appear to make sense. The IHSA is not a conference or league, and only has relations with them in one sport they they oversee (football). On the other hand, the IHSA in many ways, is the central organization to high school sports in the state of Illinois. Am I missing something here? Could you set me straight? Happy new year! LonelyBeacon (talk) 00:59, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, I created a category for it. --Funandtrvl (talk) 01:14, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] January 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from alk:List of universities in Zimbabwe/version 2. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Babakathy (talk) 21:15, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, my mistake, and it was not my intention to "vandalize" the page. I was confused about the talk page because it is assessed as a stub, and actually it is a redirect page, so I thought it was a leftover (i.e. not needing a tag) WikiProject tagged page, since many projects don't tag their redirect pages. What is story behind the page being assessed as a stub when it's a redirect? --Funandtrvl (talk) 04:18, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification and for pointing out the error on the assessment, which I have fixed. Sorry for mistaking you for what you're not!!! Babakathy (talk) 10:28, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVI (December 2009)

The December 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 03:13, 3 January 2010 (UTC)