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Commons Picture of the Year

I confirm that I just voted for the Commons Picture of the Year under my commons address, JP06035. _└^Jared_┘^┌_talk^┐  00:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

football.

Hey, I just saw your request for semi protection of the Super Bowl article. While you're at it, you might wanna protect the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears as well. I was thinking of doing it later today, but if the admins decide to grant your request, it would be a good idea to keep vandals from screwing with the two teams articles if they win/lose.

On a completely unrelated note, it's good to see another person from Connecticut here. ^_^ dposse 14:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Haha! Where in CT are you from? (And I'll look into the protection of the other two articles.) _└^Jared_┘^┌_talk^┐  14:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Done, they're protected, the three of them. _└^Jared_┘^┌_talk^┐  14:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm in Ansonia, Connecticut. Where are you? Oh, and thanks for getting those articles protected. To be honest, i wasn't sure that they were gonna do it since they haven't been vandalised yet. dposse 17:55, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I was actually surprised, too, especially given the protecting admin. I forget who it was off the top of my head, but I've seen him usually do the opposite of what should be done to just "follow the rules." Anyway, yeah. And by the way, I'm in Granby, CT. _└^Jared_┘^┌_talk^┐  22:33, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah. Just north of me, eh? Cool. dposse 22:53, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:French military victories.png)

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U.S. Roads Newsletter Issue #1

See the issue here. Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 20:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Signpost

Right now, there are two specific positions I'm looking to fill:

• Features and admins- Compiling all the promoted administrators, articles, pictures, sounds, topics, portals, etc. It sounds like a tough job, but once you get the hang of it, it'll only take 20-30 minutes. See this week's Features and admins for an example of what you'd have to do.

• In the news- This position will take a little more time. It basically means following news stories about Wikipedia, and reporting on them (not just articles that cite Wikipedia, because there are too many of those to get anything useful). See this week's In the news for an example (although I'd really prefer the article to be longer than that, I had to publish a short version this week due to time).

However, what I'd really like most is a couple reporters to just fill in the cracks, reporting on things that don't fit into one of our features (things like Michael Snow's report on Wikipedia traffic from Google, and Sam Blacketer's report on the furor over Wikipedia:Wikipedia is failing). If they're big enough for a full story, they get one; if you can only make a paragraph's worth of copy out of it, you can move it into the News and notes report, which covers all the small stories. Most of these stories can be easily taken by reading Foundation-l and WikiEN-l mailing lists. Also, if I see a story worth covering, I'll leave a note in the newsroom about it, under "special stories". If you do decide that you want to write about a story, just make a note that you'll take care of that particular story.

All stories are due around 17:00 UTC every Monday. If you'd like to take a stab at it, that'd be great; let me know if you have any further questions, or if you need help with your story. I'm not around much on the weekends, but I'll try to keep an eye on my talk page. Ral315 » 17:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. On the weeks you have time, just check in on the newsroom if you find something you'd like to do, or take one of the stories I put up for grabs there. Thanks a lot for volunteering. Ral315 » 00:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I removed {{cquote}} and added the quotes in plaintext; with the graphic on the right side of the screen, cquote often looks weird for multiple quotes. For long quotes, {{quote}} works fine, but plaintext is usually the best. Other than that, I'd say the article's great. If you want to make it easier on yourself, it's not necessary to poll administrators on the issue; if there's any on-wiki discussion that you can crib quotes from, that's perfectly fine with me. Ral315 » 19:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

FYI

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=+ynetnews+site%3Aen.wikipedia.org&btnG=Search

ynetnews is not a tabloid and is used as wp:rs source all over wikipedia. Zeq 18:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Pictograms on events per sport per year templates

Athletics	Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		...		...

Hey. I just saw your idea of inserting the pictograms on the header of these templates. I think it's a great idea and, as you said, it's a very good way to take advantage of these fine-looking (lol) FREE images ;)

I just wanted to show you my suggestion for the image position. Since the boxes are all (I'm guessing here, if they have both genders) 5 columns wide, we could reserve the first column, on the header, for the image, and the remaining four for the title. Like this ------------>

— How about it? Parutakupiu ^{talk || contribs} 22:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Fuzzy Zoeller edit controversy

Hi Jared. Thanks for contacting me for the survey. I'm sorry, but I will not be able to provide my input, I'm extremely busy (as you can see from my userpage). You will have to find another respondent. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 14:56, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

U.S. Roads Newsletter Issue #2

See the issue here.

Apologies for the late delivery. Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 05:15, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

All your articles

It says on your user page that "All your articles are belong to us." Is this a joke, or is the word "are" a typo? DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 20:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't see where that is on my userpage, so I'm not clear on what you're talking about; sorry. _└^Jared_┘^┌_talk^┐  02:51, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

It was the previous "Today's motto" :P It's not your fault. Parutakupiu ^{talk || contribs} 03:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Aha! Thanks. _└^Jared_┘^┌_talk^┐  13:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

It's a joke based on the infamous All your base are belong to us. PrimeHunter 14:54, 19 April 2007 (UTC)