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User	Barnstar	Date & link
Demiurge1000 (talk · contribs)	Helping Hand Barnstar	February 4, 2013
Go Phightins! (talk · contribs)	Helping Hand Barnstar	February 19, 2013
RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs)	Socratic Barnstar	February 20, 2013
Gwickwire (talk · contribs)	Purple Barnstar	March 9, 2013
Jenova20 (talk · contribs)	Helping Hand Barnstar	March 9, 2013
Lineagegeek (talk · contribs)	WikiChevrons	October 14, 2013
Benlisquare (talk · contribs)	Rosetta Barnstar	March 22, 2014

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WP:NOSHARE and WP:CORPNAME - noticeboard: Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention (WP:UAA)

CJIATF 435 Public Affairs (talk · contribs)
31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs (talk · contribs)
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MARSOC CSO (talk · contribs)
Usmtm-webmaster (talk · contribs)
Usasacuser (talk · contribs) basically wrote 99% of the content for USASAC

Signature history edit

Current signature(s):

— dainomite and — dainomite 8 June 2014 - Present (every 24 hours "dain" changes from Yellow to Turquoise and vice versa)

— dain omite and — dain omite 10 October 2013 — 8 June 2014

Former signatures:
— -dainomite 19 February 2013 — 10 October 2013

— dain- talk 9 January 2013 — 19 February 2013

daintalk 7 August 2012 — 9 January 2013

Dain talk 9 June 2012 — 7 August 2012

Dainomite talk 29 May 2012 — 9 June 2012

Dainomite (talk) 23 August 2011 — 29 May 2012

Notepad of helpful links, reminders, etc for myself edit

AFD stuff edit

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Military

Some commonly used supporting reasons for AfDs

WP:42 = Articles require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.
The article lacks [[WP:V|verifiability]] from [[WP:IS|independent]] and [[WP:RS|reliable]] sources to be considered notable per [[WP:GNG]].

The article lacks verifiability due to little to no significant coverage from independent and reliable sources to be considered notable per WP:GNG.

Wikipedia is not a memorial: [[WP:NOTMEMORIAL]] WP:NOTMEMORIAL
Notability guidelines for military personnel: [[WP:SOLDIER]] WP:SOLDIER
Notability guidelines for military units: [[WP:MILUNIT]] WP:MILUNIT
If the person wrote their own article... [[WP:42]], [[WP:COI]] and/or [[WP:RESUME]] WP:42, WP:COI, WP:RESUME
One person in one event does not make them inherently notable: [[WP:ONEEVENT]] WP:ONEEVENT
Commissioned vessels of a national military force are notable and a precendent was set: [[WP:SHIPS/AFD]] WP:SHIPS/AFD

Closed XFD with "delete" result... edit

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taking you up on your offer edit

Hi Maunus, I'll take you up on your offer. I was wondering if you could kind of help guide me in the right direction on where to start and how to go about getting an existing article to GA status. The article I was looking to improve is El Cid. Any advice on how to get started would be much appreciated. daintalk 17:16, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dainomite, sure of course, happy to help. If you want to start working El Cid towards GA status first you should review the guide for nominating good articles, and particularly the Wikipedia:Good article criteria. In relation to the article on El Cid, it seems to me that its great weakness at the moment is the lack of inline sources. For GA every paragraph should have at least one source cited inline. It will probably take some research to find the major academic works on El Cid and make sure to use the best available literature. Also the article seems to me like it may not be comprehensive - it seems quite short for a major historical personality. If I were you I would start by doing the basic research, and then go on to source and expand the article. Then once I was sure that the article is well sourced and comprehensive then I might nominate it for a Peer Review, and then when that is done take it to WP:GAC for nomination. Please don't hesitate to contact me for specific guidance through the process. best regards, ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 17:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks for the quick reply. Looks like I have some homework to do. How do I distinguish lackluster books written by authors that are unusable sources from good books written by authors that are usable sources. Dumb question I know >.< Also, I stumbled across something called an "A-class article" what's that? I've never seen one before. I saw it was between GA and FA on the quality scale but I couldn't find anything about how it's supposed to be better than a GA or any process about how that's done. daintalk 15:38, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Distinguishing good sources from bad ones is of course not easy - it requires familiarizing oneself with the body of literature in general and see whcih sources are widely used and which are ignored. I'd encourage looking at a few recent sources from reputable presses and see what they cite. A-class articles are used by some wikiprojects (notably the Military history project) to designate articles that have gone through a project internal review in preparation for the FA review - they are supposed to be articles that have been confirmed to be closer to the FA requirements than to the GA requirtements through a rigorous peer review process. Most projects don't have a process for making A class reviews and so don't use them - they just go from B class to GA to FA.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 16:09, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Hrmm, this might be difficult with El Cid since I'm presuming a lot of sources will be in spanish. Oh well, I'm sure there will be plenty of books etc on him, it will be just a matter of sifting through them. Is there a good way to search for recent books about him? Or am I literally googling his name and seeing what books were written about him then going from there? Thanks for the info about the A class articles as well, very handy.— dain- talk 17:57, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Google Books and Google scholar are very good ways of starting to find one's way around the scholarship - also WorldCat and other library searches. I don't recommend a stanard google search, you'll probably just get wikipedia and wikipedia mirrors. Also beware of books based on wikipedia on google books though, they should be easy to spot.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 18:40, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks much for all your help Maunus.

— dain- talk 16:33, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Files edit

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No.	Aim	Examples (old name)	Examples (new name)	Shortcut
1	Uploader requested			WP:FNC#1
2	Change from completely meaningless names into suitable names, according to what the image displays	File:22785u9ob807b3c4f4.jpg File:DSC_1342.jpg	File:Tower_Bridge_2009.jpg File:Pretoria_Venningpark.jpg	WP:FNC#2
3	Correct misleading names into accurate ones	File:!My_cuTe!!_MOUSSE.JPG File:1BIGGest_nOSE_everS33n.JPG	File:Dutch_pet_rabbit.jpg File:John_Doe_at_concert.jpg	WP:FNC#3
4	Change generic bio-names into binomial scientific names	File:Unknown_insect_02.jpg File:Unidentified_flowers_HFJ.jpg File:Bird??.jpg	File:Hogna_radiata_02.jpg File:Echinops_setifer_Japan.jpg File:Copsychus_saularis.jpg	WP:FNC#4
5	Correct errors in file names (e.g. wrong proper nouns or false historical dates)	File:Ayres_Rock_3.png File:Van_Gogh_portrait_1787.jpg	File:Ayers_Rock_3.png File:Van_Gogh_portrait_1887.jpg	WP:FNC#5
6	Harmonize file names of a set of images (so that only one part of all names differs) to ease their usage in templates (e.g. diagram symbols, scans of pages of a book, maps)	File:Bhf-BS-Icon.svg File:Icon_HST_bs_1.svg File:Dst_symbol.svg etc.	File:BSicon_BHF.svg File:BSicon_HST.svg File:BSicon_DST.svg etc.	WP:FNC#6
7	Disambiguate files with overly similar names. The software allows for multiple different files to have the same name, but with different capitalization (see ninja example) or different expressions of the same filetype extension (see bunny example). However, these are not ideal situations.	File:Ninja.jpg File:NINJA.jpg Also File:Bunny.jpg File:Bunny.jpeg File:Bunny.JPEG	File:Ninja_1.jpg File:Ninja_2.jpg Also File:Bunny_1.jpg File:Bunny_2.jpeg File:Bunny_3.jpeg	WP:FNC#7
8	Remove pejorative, offensive or crude language that would not be appropriate in the file description	File:Stupid fat bitch.jpg File:Worstpersonever.png File:Kill that nazi leader.JPG	File:<Name of the person>.jpg File:<Name of the person>.png File:<Name of the person>.jpg	WP:FNC#8
9	Rename files that shadow a Commons file or redirect^[1]	File:Dog.jpg Commons:File:Dog.jpg	File:Golden Retriever.jpg Commons:File:Dog.jpg	WP:FNC#9

After moving the file, please replace all uses of the old file link with the new one.

If a file name on English Wikipedia conflicts with a file name at Commons, please check the File usage on other wikis before deciding which should be renamed. Renaming a file at Commons might affect a lot of projects instead of just one.

If the file was moved per WP:FNC#9, after all of the links have been updated, please place {{db-redircom}} on the leftover redirect (file movers), or delete the leftover redirect using the summary generated by {{db-redircom}} (administrators). Please see speedy deletion criterion R4 for more information.

Additional naming conventions and exceptions from the above list might be discussed for specific projects.

What files should not be renamed? edit

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As a matter of principle, it is best to leave all files with generally valid names at their locations, even if slightly better names may exist. So, for example:

File:TowerBridge'09.jpg should not be renamed to File:Tower_Bridge_2009.jpg only because the latter looks a bit better.
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However, situations that could cause confusion are to be avoided.

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