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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 06:10, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I've nominated Ernest Brooks (photographer), an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Smallman12q (talk) 19:10, 5 August 2009 (UTC) Thanks, Smallman12q (talk) 19:10, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article Alex Devine has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable. Fails WP:PORNBIO.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Morbidthoughts (talk) 22:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. I fixed the {{prod}} tag you intended to leave on Mark Formosa. I then removed it because the article has already been deleted via the WP:PROD process. The recreation is effectively a contested prod. To nominate the article for deletion, follow the steps at WP:AFD. —C.Fred (talk) 18:38, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are quite right that being a prospective political candidate does not warrant a page and that they are deleted. I fully support you if you choose to use W:AFD deletion steps.--Milk76 (talk) 23:07, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 05:33, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On August 14, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ernest Brooks (photographer), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Wikiproject: Did you know? 02:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

THANKS! That's brilliant. I played round for ages trying to figure out how to do it, but I'm a bit inept when it comes to computers. Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I just need to finish the article now... Gwinva (talk) 22:11, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 04:09, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Delivered by Mike Peel (talk) 08:29, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of John Heriot (journalist) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! NW (Talk) 00:12, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What do we do with that? As I remember it only needed a little more work. Sooner or later I'll be pushed to decide. Materialscientist (talk) 05:27, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking about putting it up for FA, because it does seem to exhaust the sources on the subject. I'll take another look through it, and if there's too much work still to do for FA, perhaps you could consider GA? SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 01:48, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I might live to regret it, but see here. Thanks for reminding me. I had been meaning to do this for some time, but I'd completely forgotten it. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 02:43, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That would be great, thank you. :) SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 11:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On August 25, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Heriot (journalist), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Wikiproject: Did you know? 03:14, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

On August 26, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Empty Dwelling Management Orders, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Wikiproject: Did you know? 17:08, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Greetings Shimgray. Don't know where we may have crossed swords our paths may have crossed, but I've just seen a weird movement on my watchlist which has your signature on it. Although I'm not quite sure what it entails, I shall try to bear it with dignity - as long as it doesn't mean wearing one of those daft barnstars... Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 17:59, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for explanation. Great! So this means I can now start articles on each and every single Pókemon character? Oh no, they've all been done... No sweat, I'll think of summat. Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 19:42, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've added it to the data list. Hut 8.5 08:51, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Mercury-Atlas 8 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! NW (Talk) 02:43, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 06:15, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On September 1, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mercury-Atlas 8, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

— Jake Wartenberg 11:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:LST-314 loading.jpg is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Commons:File:LST-314 loading.jpg. This is a repository of free media that can be used on all Wikimedia wikis. The image will be deleted from Wikipedia, but this doesn't mean it can't be used anymore. You can embed an image uploaded to Commons like you would an image uploaded to Wikipedia, in this case: [[File:LST-314 loading.jpg]]. Note that this is an automated message to inform you about the move. This bot did not copy the image itself. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:59, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello my name is Steve Stange, aka Zt692 who posted on the site for the 18th Volksgrenadier Division. I am new to this so my understanding of Wikipedia editing is rudimentary. All Volksgrendier Divisions in WWII were tactically attached and detached to Heer units, and directly subordinated to the Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler. I am in the process of writing the unit history of the 18th and included in that work will be quite a lot of general material on the Volksgrenadier divisions. I appreciate any feedback you may feel free to give me.
This is exactly one of the very subjects I will tackle in my book, the desire to create a 'Heer' divisional unit based upon much of the selection criteria and leadership subordination used for the SS, and the actual reality on the ground and why this effort fell short in the final months of the war.

 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zt692 (talk • contribs) 22:06, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply] 

Hi there. I noticed that you had proposed this article for deletion recently. I agree that he's non-notable, but I have already proposed it for deletion in the past, and been rejected (see [1]), and an article cannot be proposed for deletion more than once. I have instead taken it to Articles for deletion; your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Eyre. Robofish (talk) 22:30, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a good plan to me; we've got too many of these articles, and I've been meaning to address the problem for a long time. In fact, I've just found another one I think is non-notable, and have nominated it for deletion; your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jody Dunn (2nd nomination). Robofish (talk) 22:57, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings Shimgray - sorry to hassle you but you mentioned that if I had any doubts re. marking as patrolled you'd be happy to respond, so here goes: I recently created a new article (Edward Malefakis) and while over at New pages saw that it was marked as unpatrolled. Out of curiosity I clicked it and saw that it got marked as patrolled. That is when a doubt set in and I headed off to read through the guidelines again. And yes, there it clearly states that an editor cannot mark etc., etc. What's my next step? Will I get struck off for trying to game the system? Is there a bot that will revert my marking? On tenterhooks. Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 14:54, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - sigh of relief! --Technopat (talk) 18:17, 8 September 2009 (UTC) PS. I understand now why you winked in your original message - I was already spending a worrying amount of time editing Wikipedia, and while it hasn't quite yet doubled...[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Battle of San Marino at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! doncram (talk) 09:38, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just reverted your recent change to the STS-8 article, and I figured that I should actually come here to your talk page and mention something about doing so, rather then simply leaving an edit summary about it. The primary reason that I've reverted is simply based on the fact that all (well, all that I've really looked at) of the STS pages include the wake up calls (actually, I just looked and STS-7 doesn't have a section, but STS-41-B does). The songs that are used, as well as the fact that NASA has this tradition, is widely reported by third party sources, and has been going back to the Gemini program. Those are the policy/fact reasons I can give for the revert, but on a more er... personal level(?) I wouldn't have even looked at the edit because I recognize your user name, and I know that you know all of the above. The edit summary: "this section is really quite trivial - I don't think it adds anything at all to the article or provides any information for the reader" just grabbed at my attention though, and made me say "huh? what's going on here?". I'll give you this much, the wake up calls section on that page needs (at least formatting) work. Most of the others I've seen are fairly well developed, but this one is decidedly underdeveloped. I don't see that as a good reason to simply remove the whole section though. Anyway... I'm willing to be talked into this being a good idea, I think that some explaination is warranted though.
— V = I * R (talk to Ω) 00:43, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting... now that I'm really looking it seems as though about 1/3 of them have a wake up calls section, and the rest don't. All of the really recent flights seem to have it, but it's really hit or miss beyond that. The ones that do all have that reference to the history.nasa.gov pdf document though... and I don't think that we should loose that, even if it is decided to somehow refactor the section.
— V = I * R (talk to Ω) 00:52, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On September 12, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Battle of San Marino, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Wikiproject: Did you know? 00:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

"remove [sic] spuriously accurate [an oxymoron?] inflation-adjusted figure, make [sic] round number". (Shimgray's edit comment)

Why did you think this will help, and why did you not discuss it on the talk page?--andreasegde (talk) 00:54, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is this no longer needed now? No hits since August 22. Prodego ^talk 01:01, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

interesting page you created in your userspace. As the gnome who's been tending to WP:Citation needed for the last few weeks, I was initially skeptical, but this is actually some nice content.

I have long wanted to move WP:Citation needed to Help:Citation needed. Maybe we could move the current page to Help: , and put your content into WP:. Then you could get your content into the WP: space without it conflicting with the purpose of the Citation needed page, which is to be brief and direct. (Of course the ^{[citation needed]} template would be redirected to point to Help:.)

Thoughts? Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 05:18, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]