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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

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The March 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 05:55, 3 March 2008 (UTC)Reply


Jeremiah Wright

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It's highly hypocritical of you to cite WP:AGF followed by, "That's an idiotic interpretation of policy, just an excuse." And POV pushing? Check your history. In case you hadn't noticed, I've been the one protecting the article against most of the negative POV it's receiving from various users. So for you to attack me like that shows nothing but bad faith on your part. The part of the article you can see makes no reference to Wright. I was working to make this article more acceptable to both sides. I'll look for it later, and when I find it that information needs to come out unless you can find something else to cite it with. Grsz 11 18:32, 29 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Cyber, why don't you go to the talk page of the article instead of leaving your comments in edit summary like this:

(cur) (last) 18:27, 29 March 2008 CyberAnth (Talk | contribs) (35,085 bytes) (→Trip to Libya: Some people are really doing some major POV pushing here by removing excellent, relavent material to the article that elucidates the controversy) (undo) Die4Dixie (talk) 18:50, 29 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

: Please go to talk page at Wright . We are trying to avoid ham fisted edits and build a consensus.--Die4Dixie (talk) 17:23, 30 March 2008 (UTC)Reply
Agreed. No consensus will ever be achieved through edit warring. Please help us hash things out on the talk page. --DachannienTalkContrib 17:36, 30 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Jeremiah Wright (continued)

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I noticed that your comment in the edit summary, re-adding the Steven Weber and other comments to the page, stated, "plenty notable, explain why on talk otherwise". I did explain why on talk, I started a new section while the page was fully protected to discuss criteria for determining what opinions are notable in the context of this article, and I came up with two narrowly-defined classes of opinion-givers who seemed notable enough to me to be included there. You were nowhere to be found in this discussion, and you still reverted my changes without bothering to check the talk page.

My explanation for why those articles aren't notable is in part because there's nothing connecting Steven Weber, Tim Wise, etc., to this situation aside from the fact that they, like roughly six billion other people on the planet, have an opinion. First, we don't need every opinion ever written on this controversy to be included on the page (nor is it encyclopedic to do so). Second, once we do restrict the list of opinions to be short, we must be careful not to cherry-pick opinions, since this can lead to improper synthesis of a point of view. Therefore, I indicated that the list of opinions should be restricted (a) to people who are notable in their own right and are affiliated with TUCC, and (b) the current Presidential candidates and their campaigns.

If you disagree with this viewpoint, please discuss it on the article talk page. The discussion was woefully short on other opinions, so I decided to be bold and assume that everyone's silence on the matter meant they had no disagreements. --DachannienTalkContrib 20:07, 4 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

April GA Newsletter

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The April issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is now available. Dr. Cash (talk) 03:47, 7 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

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WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter

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The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Blocked for edit warring and 3RR violation.

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You have been blocked from editing for a period of 18 hours in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for violating the three-revert rule . Please be more careful to discuss controversial changes or seek dispute resolution rather than engaging in an edit war. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. Josiah Rowe (talkcontribs) 08:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Although your motives appear to have been good, and other editors were edit warring more seriously, you did violate the three-revert rule, and so I'm afraid I have to block you for fairness' sake. I am, however, blocking for less than 24 hours — consider this a short shock from the proverbial "electric fence". —Josiah Rowe (talkcontribs) 08:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Working together on Wright

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Since we've recently had some problems with edit warring on Jeremiah Wright controversy, I've made a post about working together constructively at Talk:Jeremiah Wright controversy#Working together. I'd appreciate it if you could add any thoughts you have there. —Josiah Rowe (talkcontribs) 08:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yeah?

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Your edit summary at Jeremiah Wright controversy was uncalled for, namely --"Man, people have been up to malicious mischief, changing DEcreased to INcreased. Its those same people that removed a section that brings BALANCE to the article". I changed DEcreased to INcreased because it is accurate, as the reference shows, and I don't particularly appreciate being lumped in with what you call malicious mischiefmakers. I also did not remove a section that brings balance to the article. Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 08:57, 10 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Your comment on Talk:Barack Obama

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Please do not make unproductive comments about other editors on article discussion pages like you did here. If you have a problem with Happyme22's editing, I suggest you take it up with Happy on his talk page or start an WP:RFC/U. --Bobblehead (rants) 16:52, 10 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Wikiquette alert

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Hello, I would like to inform you that I have begun a Wikiquette alert discussion regarding you at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts#CyberAnth. Thanks, Happyme22 (talk) 19:31, 10 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Image:James_B._Jordan.jpg listed for deletion

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You have been blocked for abusing multiple accounts, for evidence please see this RFCU. Tiptoety talk 04:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

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WikiProject Good articles newsletter

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Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

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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) 20:28, 19 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.

We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 08:03, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

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