User talk:Mitchazenia/Archive28

The RfC on the Community de-Adminship proposal has begun

The RfC on the Community de-Adminship proposal was started on the 22nd Feb, and it runs for 28 days. Please note that the existing CDA proposal was (in the end) run as something of a working compromise, so CDA is still largely being floated as an idea.

Also note that, although the RfC is in 'poll format' (Support, Oppose, and Neutral, with Comments underneath), this RfC is still essentially a 'Request for Comment'. Currently, similar comments on CDA's value are being made under all three polls.

Whatever you vote, your vote is welcome!

Regards, Matt Lewis (talk) 11:17, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Reply about books

Bringing books for the next WikiNYC meeting. I am looking for maps as well. (Salmon1(talk) 15:15, 4 March 2010 (UTC))

Arbcom request

I would note that I specifically say, and did so before your statement, that I do not seek to have her banned from featured content. Shoemaker's Holiday ^talk 23:37, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Wondering if you could answer this-

I was hoping you would know why in NY laws (at least from the 1950s to 1970s the era I'm researching) the actual laws refer to roads and state highways by different numbers than the touring routes. Examples are that I-87/Northway is referred to as "interstate route 502" in the actual law describing proposed I-687. In the law setting up the Slingerlands Bypass and Delmar Bypass- NYS Route 85 is referred to as "state highway three hundred sixty six" (which the real NYS Route 366 is at least one hundred miles away) and NYS Route 32 is "state highway ninety-two".Camelbinky(talk) 05:38, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! It has been extremely interesting to see how different the final road is from the ideas of politicians when coming up with them. I've been reading the laws and the journals of the assembly and state senate seeing the discussions over where/how/why/if the different roads should be built for a personal project as a "what-if" scenario of if all the highways proposed in the 50s-70s era in NY's Capital District had actually been built to their full potential.Camelbinky(talk) 17:34, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

You're invited to Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia

You're invited to the
Wiki Takes Philadelphia
April 11, 2010
Time: 12 pm
Location: Drexel Quad (33rd and Market)
University City, Philadelphia

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Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia is a photo scavenger hunt and free content photography contest to be held all around Philadelphia aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles.

Scheduled for Sunday, April 11, 2010, the check-in location will be at the Drexel University quad (between Chestnut and Market, 33rd and 32nd) at noon, and the ending party and photo uploading (location to be announced) will be at 6 PM. To reach the Drexel quad, walk south from Market Street at 32nd Street into the campus.

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NYC Wikipedia Meetup Sunday, March 21

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday March 21st, Columbia University area Last: 11/15/2009

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikipedia Day NYC, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia at the Library and Lights Camera Wiki, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, for exampleUser:ScienceApologist will present on "climate change, alternative medicine, UFOs and Transcendental Meditation" (see the November meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back. And if the weather is good, we'll have a star party with the telescopes on the roof ofPupin Hall!

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list atWikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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Join the WP:USRDCUP 2010!

We're going to go ahead and try this again! The contest will begin April 1. It is a contest to encourage editors to improve teh quality of WP:USRD articles and participate in USRD. Precautions will be taken to make sure that people do not "game the system" and bring article quality down. Please sign up ASAP! Announcements regarding the contest will be made at WP:USRDCUP,Twitter, and/or IRC. --Rschen7754 06:51, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

BPRODs

Hey Mitchazenia, I've BPRODed a couple of your user books, since they looked like test books and it looks like you are done with them. Just undo my edits if you still want these books, or give 'em a quick death with {{db-u1}} if you feel like it.

The books in questions are User:Mitchazenia/Books/NJ 3, User:Mitchazenia/Books/PA434,User:Mitchazenia/Books/PA 646, and User:Mitchazenia/Books/PA652. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics /books} 05:37, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 March newsletter

We're half way through round two, and everything is running smoothly. Hunter Kahn (submissions) leads overall with 650 points this round, and heads pool B. TonyTheTiger (submissions) currently leads pool C, dubbed the "Group of Death", which has a only a single contestant yet to score this round (the fewest of any group), as well five contestants over 100 points (the most). With a month still to go, as well as 16 wildcard places, everything is still to play for. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome atWikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Although unrelated to the WikiCup, April sees a Good Article Nominations backlog elimination drive, formulated as a friendly competition with small awards, as the Cup is. Several WikiCup contestants and judges have already signed up, but regular reviewers and those who hope to do more reviewing are more than welcome to join at the drive page. If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox,iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) 22:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

USRD cup penalties

I see you penalized my nominations for the USRD cup. I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm just wondering what kind of "major problems" there are with these articles and how I can fix them.--Pzoxicuvybtnrm 21:12, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for the information. --Pzoxicuvybtnrm 21:23, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Wiki takes Philadelphia

I am now quite late for this event. Any way to participate? Leave a message here, or email me.--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:30, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Fairmount Avenue (NJT station)

The article Fairmount Avenue (NJT station) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Fairmount Avenue (NJT station) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a reassessment. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 05:13, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #29

The 29th issue of theWikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. JCbot (talk) 14:19, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Stations along Erie Railroad lines

I see that you found my category for Stations along Erie Railroad lines. I'm glad you're spreading it around. I can't decide whether I want to do CNJ or DL&W next. ----DanTD(talk) 14:26, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Aw, man! I was going to do the DL&W myself, but considering how few stations are listed there now, if you feel like making this category, go for it. ----DanTD (talk) 14:30, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Who planned the Montclair Connection connection before NJT built it? ----DanTD(talk) 16:07, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello

As the creator of Hurricane Henri (1979), I thought id let you know about an intresting error I may have found regarding it never having made landfall in the Gulf of Mexico. See this discussion for details; Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones#Hurricane Henri (1979) Error?. Thanks much-Marcusmax(speak) 22:52, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Finger Lakes

Portal:Finger Lakes, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated fordeletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Finger Lakes and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Finger Lakes during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- Alan Liefting(talk) - 06:47, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

WP:CUP

What's up with the cup? 10 points?????--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:53, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't recall hating your writing style. GL in school and with becoming a judge.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:39, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Maryland Route 413 and related routes

After reading the discussion on the shortening of the minor Maryland highways list, it was decided to add minor related routes to the main route as I did on the Maryland Route 413 article (see MD 363 for another example by active people in said discussion). If there is something I missed in that, please do enlighten me. —Onore Baka Sama (talk) 22:41, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree, the MDRD project has gone in the direction of placing minor routes with more major related routes. Dough487202:46, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

April 2010 USRD newsletter

Volume 3, Issue 1 • April 2010 • About the Newsletter
Departments Assessment roundup This month in USRD history	Features US Roads Portal celebrates April Fool's Day Portal selected article and photo	State and national updates Project reports
Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut:WP:USRD/NEWS

— JCbot (talk) 19:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 April newsletter

Round two is over, and we are down to our final 32. For anyone interested in the final standings (though not arranged by group) this page has been compiled. Congratulations to Hunter Kahn (submissions), our clear overall round winner, and to ThinkBlue (submissions) and Arsenikk (submissions), who were solidly second and third respectively. There were a good number of high scorers this round-competition was certainly tough! Round three begins tomorrow, but anything promoted after the end of round two is eligible for points. 16 contestants (eight pool leaders and eight wildcards) will progress to round four in two months- things are really starting to get competitive. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Judge iMatthew has retired from Wikipedia, and we wish him the best. The competition has been ticking over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. A special thank you goes to participants Stone (submissions) and White Shadows (submissions) for their help in preparing for round three. Good luck everyone! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 17:36, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

P:NYCD DYKs

Please consider adding some of your DYKs (or new ones) as suggestions for the DYK section of Portal:Capital District. We need a bunch. Thanks!upstateNYer 15:51, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Carlton Hill (Erie Railroad station)

Materialscientist (talk) 16:03, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

New York CR infoboxes are up for deletion

The Template:Infobox NY County Route is currently up for deletion. I just wanted to let you know about this, because I know that you have two of them in your sandbox, and I have many more.----DanTD (talk) 13:54, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Beth David

I finally added the picture I took to Beth David Synagogue (Amenia, New York) (are there articles on other ones yet with the same or similar name? I suppose the dabbing will eventually be necessary, since it's a common enough synagogue name, but for now it seems a little superfluous) and expanded and rewrote the article with stuff from the NRHP nom. Unfortunately it's not enough to qualify for DYK (for which, honestly, the only possible fact I could find is the one at the end of the intro, that it's the only synagogue on the Register in New York east of the Hudson and north of New York City (a fact which arouses a "hmm ..." when you realize that includes Westchester County, with a large Jewish population which, granted, wasn't historically so).Daniel Case (talk) 07:50, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

NYC Wikipedia Meetup Saturday, May 22

New York City Meetup Next: Saturday May 22nd, OpenPlans in Lower Manhattan Last: 03/21/2010

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikimedia Chapters Meeting 2010, plan for the next stages of projects like Wiki-Conference NYC and Wikipedia Cultural Embassy, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the March meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list atWikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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Two Ampere Station articles

I just realized there were two articles on Ampere (NJT station)/Ampere Station. Your article appears to have more than the other one, but maybe you should merge yours into it anyhow.----DanTD (talk) 13:20, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Re: The NJT train station NRHP boxes

My intention is to do the second of these choices. ----DanTD (talk) 17:33, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Montclair DL&W Station rename

Maybe you caught this, but I've recently suggested renaming the Montclair (NJT station) asMontclair Lackawanna Terminal. After our recent discussion I was actually thinking of requesting a separate article for the old DL&W station, when I found out that one was already written. ----DanTD (talk) 02:15, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Boulevard East

Hi, Adam; did you see the big storm over photos in Talk:Boulevard East including our friendUser:Nightscream? The solution doesn't look ideal to me, but seems a reasonable compromize. Jim.henderson (talk) 03:49, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 May newsletter

We are half way through round 3, with a little under a month to go. The current overall leader is Sasata (submissions), who has 570 points. He leads pool C. Pools A, B and D are led by Hunter Kahn (submissions), Sturmvogel_66 (submissions)and White Shadows (submissions) respectively. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Two of last year's final 8, Theleftorium (submissions) and Scorpion0422 (submissions), have dropped out of the competition, saying they would rather their place went to someone who will have more time on their hands than them next round. On a related note, a special thank you goes to White Shadows (submissions) for his help behind the scenes once again. There is currently a problem with the poster, perhaps caused by the new skin- take a look at this discussion and see if you can help. The competition has continued to tick over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. Good luck to all! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox andThe ed17 20:51, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Broadway junction list

Hi, Adam! Could you help me create a junction list for Broadway (New York City) so that article could be promoted? You would certainly do it better than I could. Tinlinkin(talk) 01:39, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter June 2010

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Hello, and welcome back to the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter. Sorry about the last two months, I have just been very busy with exams and the end of my studies. Now that summer is here, hopefully I'll do better.

Newsletter archives Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan WikiProject and Saskatchewan articles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue! Any and all contributions are welcome.

Saskatchewan Roughriders Canadian football helmet Photo taken by DoubleBlue Member news The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 45 members. The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 14 members. The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members. Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right. See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

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