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Today's Featured Article Date Problem

For some reason, ever since May 5th, the featured article system seems to think it is still May 5, 11:29. This is quite annoying to me, as I subscribe to the xml feed, and have not gotten anything new since the May 5 article. I can still get new stuff by clicking on the May 5 article, then changing the URL to reflect the current date, but it would be good to have the problem fixed.

this is going to be a problem

The latest is he's changed to be "Eric Moller"supposedly a wikimedia director. I think this discussion if better off public pages. KoolerStill (talk) 00:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

FA question

Raul654, sorry to bother you but I have question concerning this FAC . If FAC reviewers ask for the article to include material not covered by modern scholarship and oppose the article because it is not included - do you still fail the article for FA? This happened also on Roman Catholic Church when a reviewer wanted the article to include mention of a theory that she said some scholars supported - that the Catholic Church did not exist before the 4th or 5th Century. Zero scholars say this and all scholars (even the ones to which she referred) made mention of the Church of Rome as an entity in existence in the 1st century. If I could have found wording to support her assertions (and even she could not find wording), then I would have included that POV. The same situation exists now on Ten Commandments in Roman Catholicism where reviewers are asking me to include a history of the Ten Commandments that is not covered in any books of modern scholarship on the subject of developement of Catholic Doctrine or the subject of Ten Commandments in RCC other than what I have already included in the article. Sandy once told me she is just a "bean counter" I think making the point that she just counts supports and opposes. Is this how FAC works? Can I just go to any FAC and place the most unreasonable demand upon it (or else it gets failed)? That does not seem like a very good way to improve Misplaced Pages or encourage people to write FA's. NancyHeise 13:00, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

That isn't exactly what I meant, Nancy :) I don't just count Supports and Opposes, I meant that I interpret consensus. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Sandy, my FAC has now been archived because I did not create original research based upon primary documents the one opposer asked me to create. I think FAC is a waste of time. I guess it took me a long time to realize this but I was hoping that some objectivity existed in the FAC process - stupid me. NancyHeise 23:41, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Raul, if you are interested, I have made a suggestion for the FA process here . NancyHeise 01:25, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

RedRose333

RedRose333 (talk · contribs) - lots of contribs, some good, some v bad; has been warned, blocked, etc...is also a useful contributor. Has never responded to any message, ever. Also no edit summary.

I mentioned this to an admin here, and they told me of a similar case; they did a CU to work out the users native lingo, and then pasted a message in Spanish, or whatever it was. Viola, prob solved, another useful addition to the proj.

So...would that be a constructive idea in this case? See, I'm unsure if it's a suitable CU request; it did work before; I wondered if you might consider it, and just give an indication of the country - or speak to the user, or whatever.

tb me or someth, I don't watch. Kthxbai,  Chzz  ►  02:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

The 7th DC Meetup

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Another one for the files

User:Arrogant Radial? Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 07:21, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

is a bit crap; Scibaby used to be able to do better William M. Connolley (talk) 11:45, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, he (they) is losing his mojo. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 11:53, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Iridium logo

Hi Raul654. I was looking at File:Iridium logo.jpg, which you added conditions to based on talking with Iridium's corporate communications director. I just wanted to know why that is included with the file, as the conditions listed are even more restrictive than the usual fair use rationale. In addition, strictly speaking, the file does not abide by one of those conditions--the logo lacks the registered trademark symbol. I will probably upload a new version of the logo, and I don't think there's any sense in keeping the conditions stated by the Iridium employee for the new version; a fair use rationale would be exactly the same, if not less restrictive. Or is there something I'm missing? - Gump Stump (talk) 15:55, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi again. As far as I can tell you didn't respond; FYI, I've uploaded a new file at File:Iridium Satellite LLC logo.svg and listed the old one for deletion. - Gump Stump (talk) 05:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Please unspace the en dash

This edit wouldn't be worth mentioning, except that I have needed to make a similar edit to Tomorrow's Featured Article Main Page summary about 30 times. So when you (or whoever does this task) condenses "(William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837)" to "(1765 – 1837)", please remove the spaces to make it "(1765–1837)". Rightly or wrongly, Misplaced Pages's WP:ENDASH guideline says:

• "Spacing: All disjunctive en dashes are unspaced, except when there is a space within either one or both of the items (the New York – Sydney flight; the New Zealand – South Africa grand final; June 3, 1888 – August 18, 1940, but June–August 1940)." Art LaPella (talk) 17:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

All right, I'll bear that in mind. Raul654 (talk) 17:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Protecting TFA blurbs

Raul,

A little known (and even less used) feature of the title blacklist allows us to create protected pseudo namespaces based on matching a specified stem. Specifically, one could prohibit non-admins from editing all pages starting "Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/"... Such protection would apply to all current and not yet created pages, would not appear in the log, and could not be revoked on a case-by-case basis.

Nonetheless, if the intention is for each of these to be permanently protected forever, we could do that automatically. Would that be a good thing? Dragons flight (talk) 09:25, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Other than dealing with TFA pictures that later turn out to by copyvios and are deleted (which is a fairly rare occurrence), I can't think of any reason for people to be editing the old blurbs. So yes, this sounds like a good idea to me. Raul654 (talk) 19:19, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

I have found one occasion to edit a TFA blurb... a random </div> (ex. here) had interfered with attempts at transcluding several TFA blurbs consecutively at WP:HOCKEY. Not that something like that would be hard for an admin to fix. Resolute 23:25, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and done this. All pages of the form "Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/<word> <number>, <number>" are now automatically restricted so only admins can edit them. So you don't need to add protection anymore. Dragons flight (talk) 02:00, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured_article_review#Solar_System

I seemed to get two different versions of the review for this. Using {{subst:FARMessage|Solar System}}. I was confused by the "/ArchiveN" the instructions say to add to the end of the article_name. Are there cleared instructions available which describe what this archive number is, and where to obtain it for a specific article?. Hope you can tidy up? Please? Cheers HarryAlffa (talk) 13:36, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

This is already set up correctly: Misplaced Pages:Featured article review/Solar System/archive1. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:26, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Okay, dokay. Cheers. HarryAlffa (talk) 18:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

John Tavares (ice hockey)

Hi Raul, here I go forum shopping again!  ;) I've initiated some discussion about nominating this hockey player's article as a FA despite knowing there will be several major status changes to Tavares' career within the next six months. The goal of this little project was to make an attempt at having Tavares' article serve as TFA on June 26, when he is expected to be the first player selected at the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. Because of these expected changes to his status, I've been seeking opinions on whether it is worthwhile to nominate this article at FAC now. Mike Christie makes a very good point at WT:FAC about wasting reviewers time, but otherwise opinion on the validity of a nomination seems divided.

Ultimately, I think the question of whether Nurmsook and I should attempt FA status comes down to whether you are willing to consider this article as being TFA on that date. I am not asking you to let me jump the request queue here, but if you aren't willing to entertain the notion of putting this article on the front page, knowing that Tavares' will reach a significant point in his hockey career and life on the very day it appears, then I think Mike Christie's point is spot on and we should hold off on a nomination. Otherwise, if you are open to the idea, then I think we may look for a couple good copyeditors to help ensure quality, then make the attempt, as I would love to see a topical hockey article featured in the middle of the summer! Thanks, Resolute 23:37, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

American Liberals

Raul, i spent hours working on a page and it was instantly deleted... I posted references, links, etc. this other guy noted it as 'attack' only, which is false. It points out facts with direct references. In contrast, how come the 'Intelligent Design' page, with 90% criticism of the ID as a 'movement', debunked by 'almost all' scientists, etc. ,etc., etc. how come THAT page isn't instantly deleted?

Thanks for looking into this... Rob —Preceding unsigned comment added by ImaPatriot (talk • contribs) 00:59, 26 April 2009 (UTC) ImaPatriot (talk) 01:03, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

(A) Your 'American liberals' article was created on Simple english. I'm not sure how things work over there. But it's pretty clearly a POV fork - an attempt to create a biased subarticle on a larger topic (liberalism).

(B) The ID article is far from the "90%" criticism number that you throw around as if it were true. If anything, I think it's rather tame -- nowhere does it make the obvious comparison (to the trojan horse) that numerous reliable sources do. In another case, the article presents Behe's claims for irreducible complexity (Behe argued that irreducibly complex biological mechanisms include the bacterial flagellum of E. coli, the blood clotting cascade, cilia, and the adaptive immune system.) but it doesn't mention the fairly-significant fact that all of these, as well as at least one other (the eye) example, have been definitively debunked. On the other hand, one big problem with representing the pro-ID arguments is that their arguments are basically incoherent -- their descriptions change substantially depending who is describing it and to whom they are describing it, and their arguments are mutually inconsistent, and (in the case of Debinksi's pseudo-mathematics) intentionally incomplete. The pro-side is accurately represented, and if it makes their case seem weak, that's because they don't have much intellectual firepower. Raul654 (talk) 06:08, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Hanna and Barbera

How about these two as a DUAL TFA? They're both FAs and are world wide known. — Rlevse • Talk • 16:46, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Have you read the discussion surrounding the dual Obama/McCain TFA last Election Day? Check the WT:TFA/R archives if not.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Big deal. That was based on politics. Hanna and Barbera are popular the world over. And how often have cartoonists been on TFA? And if we pick just one, I'd pick Hanna. — Rlevse • Talk • 15:48, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Images

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#Images_2

that comment in the link provided above this line is specifically for you

WhatisFeelings? (talk) 23:25, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration#Statement_by_Ikip

Ikip (talk) 04:59, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Replied there. Raul654 (talk) 05:46, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

thanks, one more question. Ikip (talk) 06:32, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Featured article on May 8

On May 8, 2009, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement celebrates the internationally recognized World Red Cross Red Crescent Day. This year is quite special as well as it marks 150 years since the Battle of Solferino – a battle that made Henry Dunant found the Red Cross. I would like to see the article about the Movement as a "featured article" in the English as well as French version of Misplaced Pages on May 8. Can you please point me in the right direction to make this happen? Thanks a million! Isaac Griberg (Isaac Griberg) 11:41, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

To appear on the main page, an article must have reached Featured Article status. This means it must meet the Featured Article criteria and go through the featured article nomination process. It appears that Red Cross still needs a significant amount of work to meet the FA criteria. After that, a nomination usually lasts one to four weeks. Given that May 8 is less than 2 weeks away, I think it unlikely that the article would be ready to be promoted to FA by then. I encourage you to improve the article, and perhaps it can be featured at a later date. Karanacs (talk) 13:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your swift reply Karanacs. What you say makes perfectly sense. Can you please point me in the right direction in finding administrators for the German and/or Russian Misplaced Pages? As the article about the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a featured article in these languages, it might be possible to see them as highlighted in the "featured articles" section on May 8. Thank you very much. Isaac Griberg (Isaac Griberg) 17:25, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I do not see this as an option right now. First, other language Wikipedias may not have the same criteria for Featured Articles as English Misplaced Pages. A straight translation of German, Russian, or Romanian Misplaced Pages articles may not suffice for English Misplaced Pages. Other editors have tried to translate articles without understanding sources, and editors who are involved in featured articles on the English Misplaced Pages have protested this since the translator was unable to read the sources to verify accuracy. Furthermore, the nomination process for featured articles takes at least a week for an article that may have no problems at all. For an article with multiple problems, it could take a month for it to be promoted if all the problems in the article are fixed. If you were to take on this article yourself, it might take a few weeks or months to verify all the facts to reliable sources in English. Writing an FA of this size is a very large and complex task. This is a worthy article that should be an FA by all means, and I do not wish to dash your enthusiasm for the topic. There is always time to improve articles, however. It does not have to on the main page on May 8, 2009. Remember our names; if you improve the article with full citations, come back and ask us to assist you with copy editing and peer reviews. --Moni3 (talk) 15:42, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your reply Moni3. Yes, I understand and do agree that focus should be on developing the English version of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement article. However, as I noticed that the German and Russian version of the article are already marked wit a star – featured article status – I wonder if there is any chance I can suggest the article, in one of these two languages, to be highlighted on the German / Russian Misplaced Pages on May 8. Please let me know if you A) think this is feasible and B) if there is any chance you might be able to point me in the right direction to find Raul654's counterpart in the German / Russian Misplaced Pages. Thanks a million. Isaac Griberg (Isaac Griberg) 11:05, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Happy Raul654's Day!

Raul654 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Raul654's day! For being one of our BOLDest users ever, enjoy being the Star of the day, Raul654! Cheers, bibliomaniac15 05:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC) If you'd like to show off your awesomeness, you can use this userbox.

Converting FLV to OGG

I was attempting to learn how to convert video formats to OGG, but I'm afraid that I've run into a bit of a wall. I don't use the command line function on my Linux system (I know, I know), so I'm having problems with the recommended processes. Do you know of a program that can convert FLV to OGG for Fedora Linux? Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 20:30, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

You have to do it with ffmpeg on the command line - basically, nothing except command line programs can output an ogg theora video. Because ffmpeg's command line options are, shall we say, numerous and confusing, what I do is I use a python wrapper program to do flv->mpg conversions. It shouldn't be difficult to tweak it to do flv->ogg conversions. Give me a week-or-so and I'll see what I can do. (I'm on a quasi-vacation until Sunday). Raul654 (talk) 04:50, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I've managed to get a clip of the FLV file in MPEG now, but when I try to encode it in theora using ffmpeg, the video and audio no longer match up and all sorts of weird things. Awadewit (talk) 16:21, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Let me know when you have time to work on this (there's no rush). Thanks again! Awadewit (talk) 03:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

May 7, 8 TFA

O wise and benevolent TFA fixer-guy, I notice there are no TFA's set so far for May 7 or 8. Star Trek is to be released in limited locations on the 7th and for a full release on the 8th... d'ya think that one of the Star Trek film FAs might be a good fit on either of those dates? (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the most thematically linked, but hey, we'd take anything...) Humbly, your faithful FA servants. --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs 16:14, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Talyllyn Railway

I hope you don't mind, but I'm coming here directly to ask you to consider Talyllyn Railway as TFA for 14 May, as it's the anniversary of the first train in preservation. I've been looking at this date for the article for some time, and tried running it through the TFA requests page. Unfortunately, due to SkyTrain (Vancouver) being featured last month, it didn't have enough points to sustain it. I see you were sympathetic to a similar request to place Alleyway on the front page recently, so I'm hoping you could consider this request. Many thanks, and keep up the good work :-)  —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 20:20, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Feature model

Hi, the article, Feature model, has been edited by experts in the field and cites research conducted by themselves. As such it has been reported to the conflict of interest noticeboard: Misplaced Pages:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Feature_model. Could you take a look at and make suggestions to whether it is notable to the COI discussion as I (and others) have absolutely no idea what the article is about? Thanks a lot. Smartse (talk) 15:34, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Lake Karachay

"The lake is the subject of the concept album One Hour by the Concrete Lake, by Pain of Salvation. "

Hey, I removed this because it was a bit misplaced in the article and didn't have a reference from a reliable source. Has this been mentioned in any of the relevant literature about the lake? Regards, - Francis Tyers · 21:11, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

You're invited...

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FAC extension?

Is there any way that the FAC for Ralph Bakshi could be extended? I felt that the last FAC ended too quickly, and the current FAC is being opposed by an editor whose main concern seems to be that I am not focusing on individual episodes of a television series, which is hardly a major issue considering how extensively the article has been researched. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 01:11, 9 May 2009 (UTC))

Eakins

List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger would be a good model to follow. Nice work though. Ceoil (talk) 11:55, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Birthday of David Weber

Please visit Misplaced Pages:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#David_Weber. Debresser (talk) 19:36, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Stanford Archive answers

Just a question: Are those lists that you have for prunning? I noticed a lot of blue links there (page 23 in particular) so was not sure if you were keeping the blue links intact or actually letting people remove them? Otherwise if it is cool to remove them, at the end of me removing the blue links I would be willing to add up the values and give some sort of total (via copy/pasting the lists and placing them on excell, I wont count them individually haha!) just to give a bit of incentive perhaps? Cheers!Calaka (talk) 04:23, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, please prune them. Also, many of them are links to things we already have, with slightly different capitalization. Raul654 (talk) 04:31, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Great, will get on it, although I think it would take a while to get through all the pages. Cheers!Calaka (talk) 06:13, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

File:Marconi.jpg missing description details

User asking for unblock

A user you have blocked is now asking to be unbocked, wait here a second and I will find the page as he requested you take a look at his statement. 'The Ninjalemming'' 15:12, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Here it is 'The Ninjalemming'' 15:13, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Replied there. Raul654 (talk) 04:43, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

FARs need closing

• Misplaced Pages:Featured article review/Defense of Sihang Warehouse/archive1
• Misplaced Pages:Featured article review/Sydney Roosters
• Misplaced Pages:Featured article review/Aramaic language

hi Raul. All these FAs need closing. I initiated 1/3 and rewrote 2 so I can't obviously. Joelito appears to have gone on an unannounced Wikibreak for the alst 10 days. The first is 22 days old in FARC, no work done, unanimous. The others are both over a month old and unanimous so far YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) 00:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Zoomify

As promised...

		The Original Barnstar
		For finding a way to automatically composite images from zoom interfaces, I award Raul654 this barnstar.ragesoss (talk) 17:24, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Rageross. The people who work on painting and other visual arts should be made aware so that they can use that tool. Raul654 (talk) 21:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Audio Barnstar

		The Audio Barnstar
		For the many, many music files you've been adding to the wiki. Thanks! Yintaɳ  10:56, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

As above, thank you. Raul654 (talk) 21:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

You think you would have learned

I fixed a quote that was at the very beginning of the Intelligent Design article. You said my edit "was harmful". Yet all I did was correct a quote. I thought Misplaced Pages was all about accuracy. Apparently not. Your change is in violation of policy (No Original Research (WP:NOR) and given that you claim to have a phd, it must have been intentional censorship.

Given that the article is locked down, it appears that you are not interested in the truth.

I will give you 3 days for you to unlock the article and fix the quote. If not, I will be contacting the media and who ever else I feel is necessary.

And don't bother censoring this comment either. I have a screen shot.

AnalystsAreUs (talk) 09:21, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Your edit changed a verbatim quotation to something it didn't say. Several others on the talk page have already told you that your edit was harmful. And I don't take well to ultimatums and threats. If you continue to disrupt Misplaced Pages, I'm going to block you. Raul654 (talk) 21:36, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Action Potential

Hi Raul, The previous specification 'In neurophysiology' in the very introduction of the 'action potential' article was logically necessary, because electrical excitation takes place in non-neuronal cells as well, e.g. in heart and plant cells. Simple deletion of this specification from the existing text promotes messy ideas, such as 'nerve pulses' in nerve-free organisms such as protists. Well, from a historical point of view, action potential research does focus on neuronal action potentials. However from an evolutioanary point of view, electrical excitation existed way before neurons. Please notice and revise. Solfiz (talk) 10:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:A negress.png, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 06:25, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting these out! I'm sure un-zoomified works will work out very well for us. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 06:25, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Shoemaker :) Raul654 (talk) 08:06, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of It Happened to Alexa Foundation

I have nominated It Happened to Alexa Foundation, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/It Happened to Alexa Foundation. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Showtime2009 (talk) 22:37, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

User:USEDfan

Hello, Raul, I hope you are doing well. Do you remember dealing with user a few months back? If so, and if you have the time, could you help out again? They have returned once again. This time using the account User:Felix 12 22. You uncovered several sleeper-socks last time, and was able to block the account he was using as well. By all rights he should be blocked per wp duck, but one has to be pretty familiar with this user to see the connection. Seicer used to deal with this guy, but has since retired. Anyways, I hate to bother you with this, I know you are busy. Thank you, and have a good day. Landon1980 (talk) 06:24, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello again, Raul. I see you haven't been online the past few days. I wanted to let you know that this matter has already been taken care of. User:FisherQueen has blocked indefinitely as a sock of USEDfan. Thank you anyways though, and I wish you the best. Cheers. Landon1980 (talk) 03:58, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Red links

You might be interested in eliminating a few of the red links here. And somebody recently said there were few articles left to create? There is about 2 years work here. Ceoil (talk) 15:33, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Where's the essay

WHere is that essay that lists the pros and cons of protecting/not protecting the main page? I thought it was part of WP:PEREN but it's not. We should add it there. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:10, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Ah Misplaced Pages:Main Page featured article protection — Rlevse • Talk • 01:49, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

No response?

Hi Raul, I noticed that I never received a response to my e-mail to you and wondered if it was lost. It contained instructions for your request about those two images. Dcoetzee 06:12, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry Dcoetzee (and everyoner else who has been waiting for a response from me) - I spent last weekend road-tripping to my summer job. This is the first time in over a week that I've had internet access. Hopefully I'll be getting regular access over the weekend. Raul654 (talk) 16:42, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Poke

Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Gamma-ray burst/archive1. Jehochman 20:25, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I see Karanacs got it while I was away. Raul654 (talk) 04:14, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Music files request

Hello Raul. I've seen the huge numbers of music files you've added – tremendous work. Do you know of any way of getting Smetana's signature piece, the Bartered Bride Overture, as a public domaim music file? This would be a great addition. Brianboulton (talk) 21:37, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

It was surprisingly easy to find -- File:Smetana - Bartered Bride overture.ogg Raul654 (talk) 03:34, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks indeed! This will be a great addition to Bedrich Smetana which I am working on at the moment, and will also encourage me to develop the Bartered Bride article. Brianboulton (talk) 14:15, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Gropecunt Lane

This article has just been promoted. Please keep it in mind for 1 April 2010. (In other words, please don't schedule a main page appearance before then.) —David Levy 15:46, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

For the record, are you willing to allow the Gropecunt Lane article on the main page (not necessarily on April Fools' Day, but on some future date), or does it fall into the same category as the Jenna Jameson article? —David Levy 16:45, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

See also: Misplaced Pages talk:April Fool's Main Page#Gropecunt Lane. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Thoughts? —David Levy 16:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Raul has indicated on his userpage that he's been busy, and this is not something urgent, as it's ten months out. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:35, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I understand that Mark is busy, but I'm not referring to the 1 April idea; I'm referring to the question of whether the article falls into the same category as the Jenna Jameson article. I completely understand if it takes Mark some time to respond, and I just wanted to make sure that he noticed the thread (and per his above note, I waited until after the weekend). —David Levy 18:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I just read the article in its entirety. Very interesting and amusing. I'm sure there are going to be some people offended, but I don't think it's in the same league as Jenna. I'm OK with putting it on the main page. Raul654 (talk) 05:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Mark! —David Levy 05:11, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

You're invited...

You're invited to the
Philadelphia-area Misplaced Pages Meetup
June 14, 2009
Time: 3pm
Location: Drexel University

In the afternoon, we will hold a session at Drexel dedicated to discussing Wikimedia Pennsylvania activity and cooperation with the regional Wikimedia New York City chapter.

Are events like a Misplaced Pages Takes Philadelphia in our future?

In the evening, we'll share dinner and friendly wiki-chat at a local sports bar.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 01:00, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Any recommendations?

I might be attending the Kennedy Galleries tomorrow and taking the requested pictures. Have any other information for me to go on, besides for taking pictures of Thomas Eakin's works (and the art descriptions)? _peace ☮ 01:44, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

The Kennedy Gallery website is devoid of content, and the Smithsonian list is unmanageably long. If you see any artists whose name you recognize, snap a picture. You might also want to keep your eyes peeled for works by John Singleton Copley and Winslow Homer, and maybe some early works by Edward Hopper (which would be in the public domain by now). Raul654 (talk) 04:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/June 2, 2009

En dash in the opening year range should be unspaced. Thanks. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:02, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Raul654 (talk) 20:02, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

June 1

Hi Raul. Just wanted to let you know that I changed the image for Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/June 1, 2009; hope you don't mind. Cheers, –Juliancolton |  00:11, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

A study on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies

Hi. I have emailed you to ask whether you would agree to participate in a short survey on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies in articles pertaining to global warming and climate change. If interested, please email me Encyclopaedia21 (talk) 18:34, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Reply

_peace ☮ 19:30, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Block on IP range 24.205.64.0/18

Hi, I've noticed lately that the IP range 24.205.64.0/18 is blocked, due to sockpuppetry by someone named Scibaby. This is the range of my usual institutional ISP, and the block is actually useful for me, as it reminds me to log in when I forget (or to re-login when I don't notice I've timed-out).

However, I am working through a network at IPAC (the NASA/Caltech Infrared Processing and Analysis Center) which has a lot of extremely competent astronomers and technical support people (as well as a certain famously mischievous and/or opinionated element...). I know Misplaced Pages is generally reluctant to block IP's, and based on the duration ("...set to expire: 05:43, 4 December 2013") I suppose the case of Scibaby et al must have been fairly serious.

Anyhow, I wonder if WP really wants to block this IP range for so long, from such a generally eminent institution.

Cheers, Wwheaton (talk) 02:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Scibaby is a prolific vandal and sockpuppeteer who targets our global warming articles. He has continued vandalizing Misplaced Pages despite 6 month and later full year blocks on his IPs. (He continued vandalizing using other IPs, waited for the blocks to expire, and resumed vandalizing from the previously-blocked IPs) Looking at the block log, it looks like that range was blocked after it was used by his User:Iksel sockpuppet. But after two years of playing whack-a-sock, I'm not about to unblock any of the ranges he's used unless there was a guarantee of some kind that he wouldn't resume using it. Raul654 (talk) 03:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/June 11, 2009

Hi Raul, thanks very much for scheduling this. Is there any chance of using this image of the Milky Way galaxy taken from the park as the Main Page image instead? The Milky Way photo is the lead image in the article. People go to the park to see the stars there, so the rationale is to show a view from the park (which the lead image is). When we asked the photographer to license his astrophotos we said we hoped the article would become FA and that one of his astrophotos would be used on the Main Page some day. If not, that's OK too, it is nice to have it as TFA. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch _><>° 02:14, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Delisting a nomination

Hello, regretfully an editor for unkown reasons has decided to try and sabotage the benzodiazepine article review. Unfortunately as wikipedia policies for dealing with WP:DISRUPT and trolling behaviour are inadequate and because it is difficult to prove it is not good faith and ecause the standard advice is enter into dispute resolution (when it is not a dispute but an attack) there is nothing that can be done but to request that the article be delisted. I can only speculate that perhaps I disagreed with an edit or something and they took it personally and tried to ruin the nomination? I don't know but I feel I have no choice but to request that the article is delisted and let them win their games. I make this post to you as someone who has had experience in these situations with disruptive editors. I am currently involved in an arbcom regarding similar behaviour of another editor and know the situation that I am in and how difficult it is to prove their intentions and prove bad faith etc etc.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 04:07, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Flatulence

...is back. See User:Tedeshi. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 14:18, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Resolved – by Nishkid64 --Stephan Schulz (talk) 17:24, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Checkers speech

Thank you. Totally unexpected. You do me too much honor.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:14, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

66.215.64.0/18

I've unblocked this range due to collateral damage. You may wish to monitor it and re-block if necessary. - Rjd0060 (talk) 16:46, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Ok. Note that this was used by Scibaby (user:Lettson) in March. If he comes back, I'm going to reblock. Raul654 (talk) 16:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Nice to see you again!

Looking forward to getting all those listed red links with you! Those lists must be from the mid-90's, since I know way too many of the pop-culture references! I'd be in big trouble today... I'll be back to do a few each day. See ya! Jokestress (talk) 16:53, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

The Stanford Archive goes back to the mid/late 90s. If memory serves, the lists were generated from the order they are listed in the archive, which is roughly chronological -- so the lists should likewise be roughly chronological, with newer pop culture references in the later lists.

Lists #1, #2, and #23 are pretty well close to done. The others, not so much :)Raul654 (talk) 16:57, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

GW

m:DFTT. Unless you're just having fun with him... ;-) cheers - Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 04:27, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

No, you're right -- I should be using my time here more productively. Raul654 (talk) 04:29, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/June 6, 2009

I've just locally uploaded and protected the image used in the blurb- have I done that correctly? I saw that it wasn't protected and just did what seemed obvious... J Milburn (talk) 08:54, 6 June 2009 (UTC)