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[edit] MegalodonHello Stefan! I have dedicated my considerable time to massively improve the "Megalodon article" with latest and reliable information and I have recently noticed that some people who are not members of the wikipedia have tried to vandalise this article and the "registered members" have to use the "undo" command to prevent this. So if possible, kindly place some "editing restrictions" on this article, according to which only the "registered members" of the Wikipedia are allowed to edit this article and those who are not members of the wiki community are prevented from editing it. This article has been nominated for GA Class and I want this process to go smoothly and without any problems. --LeGenD 12:48, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Belated creditIn case you are interested in such things, you now appear on WP:WBFAN. Yomanganitalk 10:03, 19 February 2008 (UTC) [edit] WP:WINE newsletter
[edit] Bot activityI was going over the list of bots and noticed that StefanBot (talk · contribs) has not edited in a very long time. Is this bot still active and if not, would you object to it being de-flagged? Please post your comments to Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Dead_bots since this is a rather widely-posted message. MBisanz talk 02:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC) [edit] Shiraz countHello, this is how I did my count of Syrah wines at Systembolaget:
This search, while a little clumsy, includes both regular products and special order products. You probably went for a detailed search by country. Then don't remember that you have to go another form for special order products, per country. My intention was originally to see "from what countries are there Syrah wines at all". I found more Syrah-labelled New World wines than I had thought, so that's why I counted them. Tomas e (talk) 18:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC) [edit] MegalodonI've done a quick bit of copy-editing on it, but mostly I've just reworded what was there, when it could actually do with some rearrangement. I don't think it is FA material yet - it lacks precision and is overcited in places. The pop culture list wouldn't survive FAC either. Yomanganitalk 23:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Sharks ;)Hi Stefan you don't know me, but I'm need help with something i think you'll love. i recently made a Shark wikia, (granted it's very small and I'm not good with some of the templates, and of making thousands of articles) but I'm hoping you will be interested in this, an entire Wikia dedicated to sharks. you can do what you want to the wikia, make new articles i made a updated list of the List of sharks, not much introduction, but big list of sharks. the address is [2] feel free to come and conquer, you can even use the project here to add more details to the sharks. anyway i'll be up and if your interested, visit and write me thanks --LeafGreen Ranger (talk) 21:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] SULHey Stefan! Concerning Unified login, I would like to ask if you would be so kind to rename your account? That would allow me to add it to the global one. I guess you’ll hesitate, but nevertheless I did not want to miss my chance to ask you. Thank you. Best wishes, Stefan on German Wikipedia (and almost all other wikimedia wikis) --84.174.28.214 (talk) 20:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Let me add that you wouldn't have had the chance to get the global account Stefan even if you had been the first to try to create one. To the software, it doesn't matter how long you've been contributing, and it doesn't even matter how many contributions you have if there is a local account with sysop privileges. And since the only account with sysop privileges is Stefan@dewiki, dewiki is the homewiki of Stefan. And that's why the global account belongs to St-fl. —Pill (talk) 18:19, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Sure thing...happy editing! Kukini háblame aquí 03:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC) [edit] Edit to your monobook.jsJust to note that I blanked your monobook.js in response to this request. Happy‑melon 09:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC) [edit] Cork taintsHello, when it comes to your recent edits of Alternative wine closures, I must say that I have never before encountered a claim above 10%, with rates from statistically significant samples (rather than peoples' estimates from memory) being something like 2-5%. "Anecdotal evidence from wine professionals suggests that the rate may be substantially higher" without a reference does in my opinion not fulfil WP:RS requirements. It seems that the cork industry and the alternative closure industry quite frequently "plant" various numbers that work in their favour, so I think we need to be very strict with sourcing on this subject. Also, since I'm not a Wine Spectator subscriber, could you confirm that the 7% figure refers specifically to cork taint rather than wine faults in general? Tomas e (talk) 14:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] a few problemswhen i was doing the list of shark species on my shark wiki, i did more research and found most have problems,
here are the sites i like to use, you can visit my site to see the list but here is the sources i have been using (i've been using others to, but not as much) this will come in handy for your list here, but the help users and people know more about sharks, good luck (i have been doing a lot of work on the list i didn't do much on the pages for the sharks so if your still interested, you can come and invited more people to come, i'll make sure i make you a editor, plus i won't do the pages because i'm busy with the list and also i don't like to copy and paste) --LeafGreen Ranger (talk) 14:19, 7 June 2008 (UTC) [edit] ATEX directiveWhatever you decide is fine with me. The article looks better everytime I look at it. I see you even have an image on there now. Sorry. This is the first time I've nominated an article and I thought I could close it. --Npnunda (talk) 02:25, 8 June 2008 (UTC) [edit] WP:ROLLNo problems, all is well now anyway, an ANI report would only hurt the encyclopedia, everyone was acting in good faith so no worries. Thanks for helping sort things out. :) Aujourd'hui, maman est morte (talk) 02:26, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] SharksHi Stefan, I saw that you were the last one to edit the Caribbean reef shark article. The reason I point this out is that I am a highschool student trying to raise an article of my choice to GA status. And as you can probably guess I am interested in doing my article on the Caribbean reef shark. I was wondering by any chance if you would be interested in assisting me? If you have any questions refer my school project page Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008. --Duckhunter92 (talk) 20:10, 12 September 2008 (UTC) [edit] SharksStefan, Unfortunitely I found no helpful studies on the caribbean reef shark so i shifted my focus to Shortfin mako shark. I don't know if you are still interested in assisting me, but if you are please let me know. Oh and by the way thanks for all the shark links. They were VERY helpful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Duckhunter92 (talk • contribs) 14:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC) [edit] Shortfin MakoI noticed earlier you said you may be busy at the present time. NO RUSH. Whenever you can get around to helping me would be perfectly fine. I have the whole semester to finish the article, but i would much rather finish it before then by all means. The article itself is pretty well layed out but lacks much information. I plan on adding information but would love your help to make it look nice and organized, such as a good or featured article would. Feel free to look in my sandbox to see what I am working on at the present time. I plan on working on one section at a time and then introducing it into the actual article. --Duckhunter92 (talk) 19:25, 16 September 2008 (UTC) [edit] questionOk Im really not quite sure how to do all that. So is there a Citation maker you want me to use to make this step easier or is the one I am using ok?? I dont care if I have to put more information into the citation maker, this is perfectly fine. I just want to make sure I am citing correctly. Oh and after I get this part figured out I would like to know how to use the two of the same refernce tags in different parts of the article.--Duckhunter92 (talk) 21:37, 2 October 2008 (UTC) [edit] Category intersectsThanks for the link. Yes, it was slow but it gave me what I needed. Cheers, --Richardrj talk email 15:08, 6 October 2008 (UTC) [edit] RushedI have been extremely busy lately and have not had to work on the page. I have to have the article ready for peer review by Nov. 19. This means I would like to add a lot of information and let you or others proof it. Now I am focusing on amount of creditable content instead of seeing if it is already stated a different way. If you would please proof everything I add to make sure I dont make anyone mad.--Duckhunter92 (talk) 01:32, 6 November 2008 (UTC) Ok so from now on i will try to use better grammer. I think my teacher is cutting our mentors off from us but im not completely sure. I really hope he doesnt do this. Even if he does thank you for helping me. I will be making major changes sometime this weekend.--Duckhunter92 (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2008 (UTC) [edit] Thanks!
[edit] Template:FootballSeasonHey there, I noticed your message at Template:FootballSeason about needing StringFunctions for your template to work. I'm not sure what this template is supposed to do, but the issue of turning "9" into "09" is trivial: {{padleft:9|2|0}} = 09 {{padleft:10|2|0}} = 10 Does that solve your problem? —Remember the dot (talk) 23:27, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Your picture is being used....by Metro International, a huge newspaper. You can see it here. /Ainali (talk) 21:59, 23 March 2009 (UTC) [edit] Types and uses of radarHi, I've proposed the merger of Types and uses of radar article into Radar. Could you give your input on that as one of the author at Talk:Radar#Types and uses of radar. Pierre cb (talk) 13:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC) [edit] Req photoSorry, couldn't help noticing your post on Mr.Z-Man's talk. If you're interested in a little WikiGnoming, one of my tools, Image Checker, will grab you a list of articles tagged as needing a photo but actually including one. [edit] Tiger sharkHi, I reviewed the Tiger shark article as part of the GA sweep, and have a number of concerns that need to be addressed for the article to maintain its GA-status. I saw you were the most prolific contributor to the article, so am leaving this note here to notify you. Feel free to contact me with any concerns or questions you might have. Cheers, Sasata (talk) 06:22, 9 May 2009 (UTC) [edit] the man from beikinghere it is: [5] a worse title i think but there we are
[edit] Welcome to the Outline of knowledge WikiProject!Hi. Thank you for the tweak to the outline generator template, and for the watchlist (though I've redirected it to the more comprehensive list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Watchlist using Related changes). I love the Outline of sharks you're building. Nice. Keep up the good work. I've added a link to it to OOK and WP:PROL. If you have any questions about outlines, or about lists, or about Wikipedia, feel free to ask me on my talk page anytime. The Transhumanist 21:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] You have a reply at Wikipedia talk:Outlines#Naming outlines (eom)[edit] Re: WP:SHARKSThanks for the welcome! I'm probably not going to be the most active but I will try to expand the odd article or so, again thanks for the welcome!--Giants27 (t|c) 00:37, 15 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] Outline update - Full Steam Ahead! - 06/18/2009Several members of the WikiProject have been hard at work. Buaidh has been building and refining the outlines on the U.S. States, the states' historical outlines, and the Historical outline of the United States. Lately, his edits have dominated the project's watchlist readout. (I think he's overdue for a barnstar or two. hint hint) Penubag has been working on medals for all the main branches of the OOK, and has completed the OOK WikiProject's animated advert banner (see below). Highfields has been filling in the currencies for each country on their respective outlines. NuclearWarfare and Thehelpfulone have been busy with WP:AWB, posting banners and notices, and helping our sister project, the Index WikiProject, get established. Indexes work hand-in-hand with the outlines and are prominently linked to from the top of most of them. And the outlines, which serve as tables of contents, are only as good as the pages they link to. Since we started integrating (linking) the OOK and its support pages into the encyclopedia and into the Wikipedia community, activity on outlines has been increasing. Though there's still much left to do. But I digress. There are a couple more... [edit] Welcome to our new members: Stefan and MacMedStefan is building the Outline of sharks. MacMed has joined our advanced wiki-tools team, and is currently adding links to outlines in the corresponding subject articles' see also sections. Welcome to the team! [edit] WPOOK's advert banner has gone live!Penubag has finished this WikiProject's animated advert banner, and it is now being displayed on the Wikipedia ads template which in turn is displayed on about 2000 user pages. Each time someone access one of those pages, there is a 1 in 184 chance of them viewing this:
If you'd like to display the banner on your userpage locked-on to the ad as above, use the following code: {{Wikipedia ads|ad=184}} (By the way, it's been awhile since we've barnstarred Penubag). [edit] Watchers needed!If you haven't already, please add the entire project's watchlist to your watchlist. Here's how:
[edit] Check the watchlist every time you log on!I forgot to mention this step above. :) [edit] The OOK is in 5 other Wikipedias?I can't make heads or tails of 'em, but these links were on Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge:
[edit] Resurrected from the grave yard...I discovered an AfD discussion on possibly the first article named "Outline of", which was called Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics, and which was created 4 years ago. Of course they deleted it. But now it has many friends, and so it has risen from the dead. :) See the DRV discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 7#Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics. [edit] A diamond buried in project space
[edit] RecruitingRecruiters needed. Drop me a note if you are interested. [edit] Advice from the mentors
[edit] More outline tasks
[edit] New outlines in article space
[edit] New outline drafts[edit] Main discussion pages
[edit] Keep up the great workI'm impressed with the level of enthusiasm and work going into the outlines. I'm proud to be working with each of you. The Transhumanist 21:54, 18 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] Outline collaboration #2: Outline of GibraltarThis outline is approaching completion. I added a bunch more links, finding them with the following Google site-specific searches of Wikipedia: (You can use the wikicode for the links above as the basis for new searches - just replace "Gibraltar" with any other country or region name). [edit] Request: please redirect the redlinks! (bluelinking...)The redlinks need to be bluelinked where possible. The most useful way is to create redirects leading to the material (which is usually included in a section of an article - see Wikipedia:Redirect#Redirects to page sections. That way, when the redirect pages are replaced by the actual articles, the links will already point to the right places. Please take a crack at it, and bluelink a few. Thank you. Good luck. Have fun. The Transhumanist 00:44, 23 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] I finally got to whack somebody with a trout!That was fun. :) The Transhumanist 23:32, 23 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] Guess who edited the outline you created?I noticed that your creation has caught the attention of Rich Farmbrough. He's like way up at the top of the Wikipedia editor list (he used to be at the very top for years, and still is if you include all the bots he runs). Nice job! The Transhumanist 23:42, 23 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] Outline update - Push push push - 06/25/2009Work is proceeding apace...
The current consensus is that we can't place a hatnote leading to an outline at the top of a subject articles unless the outline being presented is of at least the same quality-level as the article.
Improve outline quality by completing them. Place hatnotes for the outlines of high enough quality. Guidelines pertaining to outlines need to be updated. Outlines emerged as a class of pages only a few months ago, and most of the relevant guidelines don't cover them specifically. For example, Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists is incredibly out of date. Invite wikignomes, wikielves, and wikifairies (all 2500+ of them) to help on the outlines . Identify 600 more subjects with coverage extensive enough to justify outlines, create rudimentary drafts for them, and post notices to the corresponding WikiProjects and subject talk pages to help build them. Convert outlines titled "List of" to outline articles, and add them to the OOK. There are a few hundred of these. Conversion instructions are needed. Add a description of outlines to About Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Basic navigation, and add tips about outlines to the WP:TOTD and Tips library.
The Transhumanist 20:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] Question about outline quality and eligibility for hatnote placementIs there any outline currently that meets good article criteria? If not, my suggestion is that we should make that a priority. If we do then I think we should start a collaboration to get it up to featured status. We really need a featured outline. It would benefit our project tremendously. Burningview (talk) 21:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] "incomplete" hatnotesBecause outlines are a type of summary, their "completeness" is highly subjective. What is included in a summary is discretionary and not subject to a definite criterion. Therefore, statements of completeness are inappropriate. Please don't post them on the outlines. Thank you. The Transhumanist 21:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
It's unnecessary clutter. And it implies that someday we'll be able to say with authority when the list is complete. But we never will be able to, because it is a summary, and summaries are by definition incomplete: summaries don't include everything, which is why they're called "summaries". "Complete summary" is an oxymoron. And by extension, so is "incomplete summary". A summary can be as long or as short as desired. You can summarize something in a single word. The Transhumanist 18:40, 29 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] Request for feedbackMinnecologies has done an incredible amount of work on Outline of forestry and posted a note to me on my talk page requesting feedback. I've posted my observations at Talk:Outline of forestry#Finished outline review. Please take a look at the outline and let Minnecologies know what you think of it on the outline's talk page. Thank you. The Transhumanist 19:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 20:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC). [edit] StatsSee [6], the 26:th I put it as see also link on main shark page!!! I want a hat-note :-) --Stefan talk 01:55, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] OOK's highest priority task - here's a piece of it for youStefan, I'm splitting this task up for everyone on the team to work on... The government branches sections are in error on many of the country outlines. Since those are in article space, we need to fix those ASAP! This is our most important task right now. Here's a list of links that goes right to that section: User:The Transhumanist/List of country outline government sections. I'm working on U-Z. Your task is to complete and correct these:
WP:LINKY is especially useful for this. Let me know when you are done, so I can check them over. Thank you. Good luck. Have fun. The Transhumanist 22:08, 29 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] Outline Update - Exhausted - 07/10/2009I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good. A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged: The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] Stefan...I was just wondering what interesting subject you'd be adding to the WP:OOK next. :) If you can't think of anything, I just converted this: Outline of ancient Rome. Maybe you can touch it up. The Transhumanist 02:01, 17 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] Wine stylesWhy did you add Category:Wine styles to Syrah with this edit? First, there is very little homogeneity of style to all Syrah wines and surely we don't want to list all grape varieties as "wine styles" as well??? To me, "Barossa Shiraz" could possibly be called wine style, but so far I haven't seen any articles of this type. Regards, Tomas e (talk) 15:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] Outline Update - Basking in the light of knowledge - 07/28/2009Phase two of outline integration (de-orphanizing outlines by adding links leading to them into article see also sections) is nearly complete. The better that outlines are integrated into the encyclopedia, the more use they will be to readers. Due to greater exposure through outline integration, and with most of the OOK team on school summer vacation, development activity on outlines has increased a lot...
Thank you. Here's what else has been going on...
There are a lot of contradictions in guidelines related to outlines. I'll be turning my attention to fixing those. The number of "Outline of" articles is rapidly catching up to portals, and will probably pass them by the end of the summer! Keep up the excellent work. The Transhumanist 00:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC) P.S.: Stephan, have you chosen your next subject? The last two you chose turned out great! I can hardly wait to see what you will come up with next. :) [edit] We're working on something special......to award Buaidh for all his hard work. It's at User:Penubag/Sandbox3. But it's not done yet. Feel free to help improve it. I'm hoping that everyone involved with the WP:WPOOK will sign it (please sign without a timestamp). Thank you. The Transhumanist 22:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] OOK collaboration: Outline of knowledge (eom)Delivered by –Juliancolton | Talk at 21:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] Shark GAR noticeShark has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:51, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] GA Reassessment of Whale sharkAs you are one of the principal contributors to this article I wanted to be sure you were aware that Whale shark has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Malleus Fatuorum 12:55, 8 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] Outline Update - expanding the Outline of Knowledge - 2009-10-05Time for some catching up...
Congratulations and kudos to Buaidh, the first recipient of the Wikipedia World Developer Award, and the first inductee into the Outline of Knowledge WikiProject's Hall of Fame. The award was announced about 2 months agos on the WikiProject's talk page, and on Wikipedia's Community Bulletin Board. Buaidh created the historical outlines for all of the U.S. States, the U.S. capital, and most of the U.S. insular areas. He has also worked indefatigably day after day, improving all of the outlines of the U.S. States, and the outlines of all of the countries of the world!
Discussions can sure be frustrating - try getting a proposal through on a guideline's talk page sometime. Most of the time, it seems like the opposition is mindlessly following each other, like... Zombies. (You've got to see this).
Yes, it's a proper noun. It's only proper, since we also have an article called Outline of knowledge which is about knowledge generically.
After a couple month vacation, I'm ready to slam the gas pedal to the floor. Are you? Things are speeding up! Take a look...
The following outlines have been added to the OOK within the past couple of months or so. Some of them were renames, some of them brand new, and some of them recently discovered after sitting in article space for awhile as orphans.
Here's some more pages that have been renamed to outlines even more recently, but that need to be converted to OOK format:
The following pairs of pages are content forks and need to be merged:
Only a few hundred more to go. :) The Transhumanist 04:46, 5 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] AFFWSorry Stefan thanks for the heads up, will be more cautious. SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 08:33, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Ok, i would like to learn to see how you do it. Is most editing in large part deleting content, I notice a lot of articles are very small? SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 09:50, 11 October 2009 (UTC) Some other links that may help:
You definately did a lot better job and cleaned up it nicely. I could try and find the article from Simon Evans, The Australian Financial Review as if i remember correctly it had a large A3 page on the topic so it should be online somewhere with a little searching. SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 10:04, 11 October 2009 (UTC) I was just going to ask you if there was a rule weither or not to remove the tone icon or if it needed to be kept there. Have reverted the text and added feedback. SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 11:35, 11 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] Counting editorsI used AWB to make a list of members of the category, sorted and removed everything beginning with "List of.." etc.. I then took a perly script I wrote for downloading and analysing history and changed it to read the user names and put them in a hash. I reported the size of the hash at the end of each history page. In theory it's a minor tweak to give a frequency of edits too. Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 11 October 2009 (UTC). [edit] CivilityPlease remain WP:CIVIL. this edit is far beyond any reasonably civility limits. Next time you feel yourself entering "rant mode," instead step away from the computer untill you can comment with a level head. Thanks. Hipocrite (talk) 13:45, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks!Really appreciate your help with improving the table at List of Portuguese grape varieties. Thank you! AgneCheese/Wine 17:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Wine cat CfDI really don't care if the categories get deleted or not, their existence doesn't cause the encyclopedia any harm. However, having articles inappropriate categorizes does cause some harm. On the surface I agree with your common sense call for reason over the drama. If we are allowed to take care of these simple house keeping chores and clean up the horrendous mess of wine article categorization, that would be great and the encyclopedia benefits. But my fear is that the editors who objected to the clean up efforts previously as "out of process emptying" will continue to object to the clean up efforts if we remove inappropriate categories from wine articles. Your own clean up efforts, Stefan, have been reverted with the inappropriate cat re-added. I'm not sure how we will be able to make any progress in cleaning up the cat mess if these obviously wrong and unneeded cats are still around. AgneCheese/Wine 18:04, 24 November 2009 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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