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Wikiproject Golf

Hi
Wikiproject Golf is up and running, so if you are still interested feel free to put your name here and start editing! Grover 06:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Minor Barnstar
		For all your work reverting vandalism, and making other small, but vital, improvements

Concordia

You are officially still a councilor. I am considering boosting the organization back up again, so could you please let me know if you would be active and prepared to assume this role. Thanks! Ian¹³/t 22:06, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Concordia Newsletter

NEWSLETTER

Concordia is currently trying to relaunch. I, and all the members of the ex-council, wish to welcome new members to the group. We are a group who aim to promote remaining civil, in an environment where messages can easily be interpretated wrongly.

Help out now!

• Try and help people remain civil! Talk to them, and help them in any way possible. Do not be afraid to use the talk page.
• Give people the Civility Barnstar.
• Make and spread some Wikitokens so people know there are people to help if they want assistance.
• Add banners or logos to your userpage to show your support.
• Suggest some ideas! Add 'em to the talk page.

We are a community, so can only work though community contributions and support. It's the helping that counts.

Decision Making

The council expired one month ago, but due to the current position of the group the current council will remain until the position of the group can be assessed, and whether it would be sensible to keep Concordia going. For most decisions, however, it will be decided by all who choose to partake in discussions. I am trying to relaunch because of the vast amounts of new members we have received, demonstrating that the aims are supported.

If you wish to opt of of further talk-page communications, just let us know here.

- Ian¹³/t 20:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC). Kindly delivered by MiszaBot.

WikiProject Golf

Wikiproject Golf

This is a "newsletter" of sorts. It's designed to let you know whats going on with the WikiProject. Contact me, Grovermj, if there is anything i could improve, or if you would like to write the newsletter yourself, because i'm certainly not skilled and experienced at this. Call it a test run. Well, it's been a month since the project has started, and 4 new articles have been made by editors in the project. They can be found here. The template {{Wikiproject Golf}} has been added to a total of 794 articles. We are most probably more than half way there. Badbilltucker has proposed "Wikipedia Week" starting on the 15th of January. Details can be found here. We have 14 participants at present. If you are in need of things to do, the To-Do list could be a good start. At present, there are no featured articles related to golf, and only one Good article. This is Tiger Woods. Discuss golf course notability and a possible featured article collaboration on the talk page. Thanks for your support with this project. Grover 08:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Golf Newsletter

The WikiProject Golf Newsletter Issue II - February 2007 If you would like to improve our future newsletters, go to our newsletter page.
News Well, this newsletter is new. I'm still mucking around with the layout, so if someone feels it could be better, go right ahead and change it. The newsletter page is right here. An article has been selected for a drive to featured status, Jack Nicklaus. The article is currently rated a B, and is currently a Good Article candidate (thanks to The Giant Puffin). A to-do list has been set up in the talk page, see what you can do, or add a new thing to do which you think you could write well. A shortcut WP:GOLF has been created. Thanks again The Giant Puffin! Please add to the new list of core articles: Core article list.	New Members We have had two new members join our project this month. They are: Kingutd (talk · contribs) Jiminy pop (talk · contribs) mil8 (talk · contribs) roysnj (talk · contribs)
Updates/New Articles Expansions: Royal Birkdale Golf Club New Articles: Robert Rock Click here for a full list. Featured/Good Articles No articles have been promoted to Good or Featured status this month.	The To-Do list Over 1100 golf articles have been tagged with our template {{Wikiproject Golf}}. There is still many more though. A userbox is requested for golf course articles including location, par etc. This may need to be discussed on the talk page. Continue expanding and making new golf-related articles. Click here for a full list.

Pledge of help toward achieving featured article status for Jack Nicklaus

I have written about 20% of the male golfer bio's in Wikipedia, and also have experience teaming with some guys to get Oceanic whitetip shark to featured status. I think the Golden Bear's article is the right one to select for this project. You can count on my help.--Hokeman 01:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

There's no doubt that this won't be an easy task--Hokeman 16:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject The Apprentice UK

Hello, fellow The Apprentice UK fan! WikiProject The Apprentice is up and running, so if you are interested feel free to put your name here and start editing! Dalejenkins 17:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Karamja.jpg)

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Jack Nicklaus on GA hold

I put a 1-week GA hold on Jack Nicklaus to fix a few referencing problems. I noticed you nominated it for GA status, so I figured you would want to take a look at it and try to fix it up. Good luck, and let me know when you get it fixed up! --Jayron32 03:11, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

The Apprentice UK

Hello, The Giant Puffin/Archive 4 and thank you for your contributions on articles related to The Apprentice UK. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject The Apprentice UK, a WikiProject aiming to improve coverage of The Apprentice UK and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to help out and participate, please come over and visit us here for more information. Thanks! Dalejenkins 11:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter

The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 22:09, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Golf Newsletter

The WikiProject Golf Newsletter Issue III - March 2007 If you would like to improve our future newsletters, go to our newsletter page.
News This newsletter is new. I'm still mucking around with the layout, so if someone feels it could be better, go right ahead and change it. The newsletter page is right here. Also, if you would like to change the way you recieve the newsletter i.e. a link, make a comment on the newsletter talk page. An article has been selected for a drive to featured status, Jack Nicklaus. The article is currently rated a Good article. A to-do list has been set up in the talk page, see what you can do, or add a new task to do which you think you could write well. Remember to check the talk page for more news on the project.	New Members We have had three new members join our project this month. They are: usnr53 (talk · contribs) Simkiott (talk · contribs) Peter Dennis (talk · contribs)
Featured/Good Articles Jack Nicklaus has been promoted to a good article! Congratulations and well done to everyone that helped.	The To-Do list Over 1200 golf articles have been tagged with our template {{Wikiproject Golf}}. There is still many more though. A userbox is requested for golf course articles including location, par etc. This may need to be discussed on the talk page. Continue expanding and making new golf-related articles. Click here for a full list.

Assessment from an article page

Thank you for helping out with the Biography assessment drive. Good news. Outriggr recently designed a script that will cut your biography assessment time down by about ten fold (what took ten hours now may only take one hour with Outriggr's script). For more information, please see the 'assessment from article page' discussion. -- Jreferee 20:21, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Karamja.jpg

I've lately been on a source and fairuse rationale overhaul of RuneScape images. I've added a fairuse rationale to the Karamja map, but I don't know where you got it from. Could you add the source information please? Cheers, CaptainVindaloo ^{t c e} 02:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Ahem

Ahem, this is my wife's nick-name. How dare you steal it! Oemb1905 04:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

question

I saw that you are a conservative Wikipedian. Would you like to join Conservapedia as a editor? Conservapedia is looking for good editors and Admins. Please send me your email if you want to join Conservapedia. If you feel reticient about giving out your email address you can simply create a new account at hotmail and yahoo so you don't risk getting a lot of junk mail. Regional123 01:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)Regional123

Assessment Drive

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to The Giant Puffin/Archive 4 for tirelessly assessing hundreds of Biography articles as part of the assessment drive. RHB Talk - Edits 20:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

monobook

Hi Giant Puffin,
I looked at your monobook.js and don't see any problems with the way it's set up. Have you done the "reload" since your monobook was updated? (The keystrokes are mentioned on the page when you edit/save it.) Are you using a browser other than Firefox or IE? –Outriggr § 02:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Last push for the Biography Assessment Drive

We've done great work so far on the WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive, reducing the 135,345 backlog by 38,626 to 96,719 as of March 20, 2007. We have only 6,720 more to go to get below 90,000. That would be outstanding and any extra effort that you can offer in these last few days of the drive (which ends March 24, 2007) would be much appreciated. If you haven't already, you may want to load Outriggr's assessment script in your monobook.js. If you have any questions, please feel free to post them on my talk page. -- Jreferee 23:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Trevor_Eve.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Trevor_Eve.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that any fair use images which are replaceable by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Iamunknown 05:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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World's Wildest Police Videos Article assessment

I've assessed World's Wildest Police Videos as you requested - my rationale is here.--Opark 77 22:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind note on my talk page.--Opark 77 00:49, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject MMO Newsletter - April 2007

WikiProject MMO Quarterly
April 2007		Issue I

About Us WikiProject MMO Quarterly is a quarterly newsletter posted on the first of January, April, July, and October. The newsletter is written by any and all interested members of WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games for members of the project and interested Wikipedians outside of the project. Questions, comments, and concerns For general questions, comments, and concerns, leave a message on our talk page here. For questions, comments, and concerns about our newsletter, leave a message on the talk page for the newsletter section of our Outreach Department here. New good articles and featured articles Good articles and featured articles are a great way to see what major acomplishments we have made over the last quarter. Good articles Final Fantasy XI Massively multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape World of Warcraft Featured articles None this quarter! Role call We ask that within a month, all members sign our role call to show that they are still active participants in the project. More information is available on the role call page.

Major news WikiProject RuneScape, our former child project, was moved to become a task force of this project in January as it had a small scope but the task force is still going strong to this very day. This past quarter marks the beginning of our new collaboration system MMOGCM. Past collaborations thus far have been World of Warcraft and MMORPG, both of which made it to GA status while it was the MMOGCM. As well, we now have an Outreach Department which works on this newsletter as well as spreads the word of our project. WikiProject MMO is also now a participant in the Work via WikiProjects division of Wikipedia 1.0 and as such, we will be helping decide which are the best (based on quality and importance) articles within our scope. Project members can discuss which articles are to be included here. News from the RuneScape Task Force We are currently trying to improve this task force so that we can edit all RuneScape-related articles in an organized manner. To do that we started a massive overhaul which we invite all task force members to participate in. We have also gotten our main article, RuneScape to good article status this quarter. All this, and the task force was only created in January. Signed... Greeves, Ed On behalf of WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games.

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