User talk:Gwib

User page        Talk page        Awards        Milestones        Wikiproject       ——————————————— JOIN A WIKIPROJECT ——————————————— CLICK HERE Welcome back! Hey Gwib, it's nice to see you editing again! :-) Welcome back, mate! — RyanCross (talk) 22:54, 13 May 2009 (UTC) Indeed, welcome back! We could use the help around here... –Juliancolton | Talk 23:01, 13 May 2009 (UTC) Hooray! It's great to see you back! American Eagle (talk) 23:17, 13 May 2009 (UTC) GWIBBYKINS! —MC8 (b · t) 23:41, Wednesday May 13 2009 (UTC) (I Protest!) :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!! Oh, how I've missed you so :) Welcome back! Razorflame 02:18, 14 May 2009 (UTC) GWIB!!! Welcome back :D. We really need more experienced users! Goblin 08:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC) Then welcome back fully! Nice to see you. Barras (talk) 15:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC) Shall we get plucking with our twangers and do some flojobs, Gwib? =P-- Tdxiang 14:40, 16 May 2009 (UTC) Your RFA Please note, I've requested your reconfirmation RFA is reopened now you have returned. Thanks Soup Dish (talk) 16:19, 14 May 2009 (UTC) Hello, Gwib. You have new messages at My name is the master of all of the 6's's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Simple News Issue 7 GoblinBot3 (talk) 12:04, 8 June 2009 (UTC) Simple News Edition 9 Issue 9 - 4th December 2022 1,252,715 editors, 223,516 articles, 725,900 pages. Announcements ♥ Administrators Wernher von Braun, London Underground 1967 Stock, Ludwig van Beethoven and Earth are at Proposed Good Articles Hurricane Ismael and Germany are at Proposed Very Good Articles Wikipedia now has 53,746 articles owing to the deletion of over 6,000 articles. User Articles Yotcmdr - Article 9 For his ninth Simple News article, Yotcmdr talks about BG7, a new Wikiproject and some new sections on Simple News including a story. Pmlinediter - Article 2 For his second article, Pmlinediter talks about stubs, mass deletion and Gobby. Swine Flu update As of Friday 3rd July 2009 89,922 cases of Swine Flu have been confirmed. 383 People have now died from it. [Subscribe] [Archives] [Discussion] [The Team] Congratulations, Philosopher for passing a request for adminship! Commiserations go to Comppro whose request for adminiship was closed per WP:SNOW. Bluegoblin7 stepped down from adminship. QandA The QandA. Every month, a user will be interviewed by a member of the Simple News team. This idea was started by Kennedy and interviews have since been made by Bluegoblin7, Yotcmdr and Shappy This weeks interview is with Pmlinediter. Click here for Pmlinediter's interview! The Commander's Choice The Commanders's Choice. For every edition, Yotcmdr will be chosing articles that need creating, expanding or being attended to. Here is this edition's list: Aluminum Telephone Carrot Opera France The News in Brief Main Stories: Pop star Michael Jackson died due to a cardiac arrest. A Yemenia airliner crashed in the Indian Ocean on 30 June. There was only one survivor. The Organization of American States has suspended Honduras in protest after it ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Heavy rain in China and Vietnam has forced more than 300,000 people to leave their homes. The African Union's decision not to help arrest Sudan's president will not stop the International Criminal Court. Click here to see the sport stories Click here to see the Entertainement stories Yotcmdr =talk to the commander= 08:21, 6 July 2009 (UTC) Simple News Issue 10 GoblinBot3 (talk) 12:07, 21 July 2009 (UTC) Simple News: Issue Eleven ← Previous issue Issue Eleven 3rd August 2009 Announcements Adolf Hitler has been promoted to Good Article status. Earth is currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. Victoria line is currently at Proposed Very Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. Pope John Paul II has been demoted to normal article status. User Articles Pmlinediter - Article 4 In his fourth article, Pmlinediter talks about Oversight, DYK and more Administrator News Commiserations to... Purplebackpack89 whose request for adminship was closed per WP:SNOW. Parker1297 whose request for adminship was closed per WP:SNOW. Bluegoblin7 whose request for adminship was unsuccessful. Congratulations to... Fr33kman whose request for bureaucratship was successful. Djsasso whose request for bureaucratship was successful. Good luck to... Fr33kman who is having a request for checkusership! NonvocalScream who is having a request for checkusership! Swine Flu update As of Sunday 3th August 2009 188,139 cases of Swine Flu have been confirmed. 1265 people have now died from it. QandA The QandA. Every month, a user will be interviewed by a member of the Simple News team. This idea was started by Kennedy. Interviews are generally taking by a member of the Simple News Team - to date this has included Bluegoblin7, Kennedy, Pmlinediter, Shappy and Yotcmdr. This weeks interview is with Barras. Click here for Barras' interview! The Commander's Choice The Commanders's Choice. For every edition, Yotcmdr will be chosing articles that need creating, expanding or being attended to. This time Pmlinediter is selecting the articles. Here is this edition's list: Oxygen Michael Jackson Sport Confucius Food The News in Brief Main Stories: The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century was seen on 22nd July 2009. Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska on 26th July. The new governor is Sean Parnell. Click here for the Sports stories! Feedback About Subscribe Archives Newsroom Pmlineditor 10:44, 4 August 2009 (UTC) Simple News Issue 12 GoblinBot3 (talk) 08:46, 26 October 2009 (UTC) GoblinBot3 (talk) 00:10, 9 November 2009 (UTC) Simple News Issue 14 --Barras (de) (talk) 23:12, 24 November 2009 (UTC) Simple News Issue 15 Yottie =talk= 20:21, 7 December 2009 (UTC) Custom Siggy Hello Gwib. I linked to your talk page from http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Making_a_signature and followed each of its steps. The last step however is a tad unclear (or perhaps I am not reading it properly) as to what, in the My Settings field for 'new signature,' I put after the forward slash. Either, "/sig2" or, "Skychildandsonofthesun/sig2" "User:Skychildandsonofthesun/sig2" or other? I think this is where my problem lies. Either way, my customized signature is not working. It works on my subpage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Skychildandsonofthesun/sig2) but is not showing up when I put the four tildes and sign my posts. There seems to be two areas that I need to update after making a subpage (My preferences: where I have intentionally left the user field empty) and (My settings: where I have input the tag -> {{subst:User:(Skychildandsonofthesun)/(User:Skychildandsonofthesun/sig2)}} ) but it does not seem to work. As mentioned, I think it is to do with what I put after the forward slash. Do you know what I am doing wrong or where I can get someone to help me sort this out. Furthermore, the difference between My Settings (on simple.wikipedia) and My Preferences (on en.wikipedia) seems to have something to do with my problem. THANKS --Skychildandsonofthesun (talk) 03:14, 22 December 2009 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Skychildandsonofthesun For a signature on this Wikipedia, you will need to create a signature page here, on simplewiki. Copy the code from your sig page on enwiki, and create a page here with it. Then put User:Skychildandsonofthesun/sig2 into the Nickname box in My Settings. Make sure the wikitext box is checked (just below the text box). This should then work. Any luck? - tholly --Talk-- 12:44, 22 December 2009 (UTC) Simple News Issue 16 ← Previous issue Issue Sixteen 4th January 2010 Announcements The Simple English Wikipedia now has 57,000 articles with the creation of Temerin by ‎BokicaK London Underground 1967 Stock has been promoted to Good Article status. Typhoon Tip has been promoted to Good Article status. Richard Nixon, Barack Obama and Green Day are currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. 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Monarch (butterfly) is currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. Royal Rumble (2009), New York State Route 308 and Joe Biden are currently at Proposed Very Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. The Simple English Wikipedia now has over 58,000 articles. QandA The QandA. Every month, a user will be interviewed by a member of the Simple News team. This idea was started by Kennedy. Interviews are generally taking by a member of the Simple News Team - to date this has included Bluegoblin7, Kennedy, Pmlineditor, Shappy and Yotcmdr. This weeks interview is with Nifky?. Click here for Nifky?'s interview! Administrator News Commiserations to... TheMan whose request for adminship was closed per WP:SNOW. Razorflame whose request for adminship was unsuccessful. Meganmccarty whose request for adminship was unsuccessful. Congratulations to... Bluegoblin7 whose request for adminship was successful. Griffinofwales whose request for adminship was successful. Gordonrox24 whose request for adminship was successful. Christianrocker90 whose request for importer was successful. Razorflame whose request for importer was successful. Fr33kman whose request for oversightship was successful. The Rambling Man whose request for oversightship was successful. Bsadowski1 whose request for checkusership was successful. Good luck to... Ottava Rima who is having a request for importer. Slipknot1 who is having a request for importer. Feedback About Subscribe Archives Newsroom Pmlineditor ∞ 12:52, 28 February 2010 (UTC) Simple News: Issue Eighteen ← Previous issue Issue Eighteen 13th March 2010 Announcements Monarch (butterfly) is now a Good Article Chess is currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. Royal Rumble (2009) is currently at Proposed Very Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. The Simple English Wikipedia now has over 59,000 articles. QandA The QandA. Every month, a user will be interviewed by a member of the Simple News team. This idea was started by Kennedy. Interviews are generally taken by a member of the Simple News Team - to date this has included Bluegoblin7, Kennedy, Pmlineditor, Shappy and Yotcmdr. This week, there are two interviews, with Bsadowski1 and CR90. Click here for Bsadowski1's interview! Click here for CR90's interview! Administrator News Commiserations to... Slipknot1 whose request for importer was unsuccessful. Congratulations to... Ottava Rima whose request for importer was successful. User Articles Pmlineditor - Article 5 Pmlineditor talks about P(V)GA and WikiProjects in his fifth Simple News article. The Commander's Choice The Commanders's Choice. For every edition, Yottie or Pmlineditor will be chosing articles that need creating, expanding or being attended to. Here is this edition's list: Air Chemistry Biology Charles Dickens History Feedback About Subscribe Archives Newsroom Simple News: Issue Nineteen ← Previous issue Issue Nineteen 20th March 2010 Announcements Chess, Mercury (planet), Ronald Reagan, Pichilemu, 1910 Cuba hurricane are currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. Royal Rumble (2009) is currently at Proposed Very Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. Violin is currently at Proposed article demotion - your comments are welcomed. QandA The QandA. Every week, one or more users will be interviewed by a member of the Simple News team. This idea was started by Kennedy. Interviews are generally taken by a member of the Simple News Team - to date this has included Bluegoblin7, Kennedy, Pmlineditor, Shappy and Yotcmdr. This week, there are two interviews, with Classical Esther and Peterdownunder. Click here for Classical Esther's interview! Click here for Peterdownunder's interview! Administrator News Congratulations to... Nifky? whose request for adminship was successful. NonvocalScream whose request for bureaucratship was successful. User Articles Pmlineditor - Article 6 Pmlineditor talks about This Week in History and Simple News itself in his sixth Simple News article. The Commander's Choice The Commanders's Choice. For every edition, Yottie or Pmlineditor will be chosing articles that need creating, expanding or being attended to. Here is this edition's list: Mercury (planet) Flowering plant William Shakespeare Nose Alfred Hitchcock Trigonometry Feedback About Subscribe Archives Newsroom PmlineditorBot (report errors) 11:24, 20 March 2010 (UTC) Simple News Issue 20 GoblinBot3 (talk) 15:45, 30 March 2010 (UTC) Simple News Issue 21 GoblinBot3 (talk) 19:10, 5 April 2010 (UTC) Welcome back! Welcome back! Griffinofwales (talk) 23:33, 6 April 2010 (UTC) I'm not staying, just checking. Gwib -(talk)- 23:37, 6 April 2010 (UTC) Award For Gwib, for three years service to the Simple English Wikipedia, and more than 11,000 edits, his own copy of the "Book of Knowledge". Peterdownunder (talk) 12:15, 11 April 2010 (UTC) This editor is a Senior Editor III and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn. Simple News: Issue 21 ← Previous issue Issue Twenty-one 29th March 2010 Announcements The Simple English Wikipedia now has over 60,000 articles. Bald Eagle, Albatross and Bridge to Terabithia (2007 film) are currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. City of Manchester Stadium is currently at Proposed Very Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. Epping Ongar Railway and Hurricane Vince (2005) have been promoted to Very Good Article status. User Articles Pmlineditor - Article 7 Pmlineditor talks of the new Stub Cup and much more in his seventh article. Administrator News Congratulations to... Kansan whose request for adminship was successful. Commiserations to... I-on whose request for adminship was unsuccessful. Immunize whose request for adminship was unsuccessful. Diego Grez whose request for importer was unsuccessful. The Commander's Choice The Commanders' Choice. For every edition, Yottie or Pmlineditor will be chosing articles that need creating, expanding or being attended to. Here is this edition's list: Ibn Battuta Marie Curie Epistemology Republic Literature Feedback About Subscribe Archives Newsroom Pmlineditor ∞ 10:37, 16 May 2010 (UTC) Simple News Issue 24 GoblinBot3 (talk) 16:01, 13 July 2010 (UTC) Back? Is this a short installment only, or will you be staying with us for a longer time? WB --Eptalon (talk) 13:19, 18 July 2010 (UTC) Short, just here to rewrite Opeth and maybe a couple other articles. Gwib -(talk)- 20:21, 23 July 2010 (UTC) No, really? I want you to join Wikiproject Warriors. Loudclaw (talk) 06:34, 14 January 2011 (UTC) Simple News: Issue 25 Grunny (talk) 11:37, 17 November 2010 (UTC) Your time box Hey Gwib, I hope you don't mind but I moved your time box UBX to en.wp and put it in my userspace. I wanted to use it on en.wp and I couldnt find it under a subpage of yours. you can see it here if you would like to move it to your user space i would be perfectly okay with that I just wanted to let you know. Thanks for all you work (and UBXs), A d \/\/ | | |Talk 02:18, 5 April 2011 (UTC) Quick deletion of Template:Livingdead The page you wrote, Template:Livingdead, has been selected for quick deletion. This is because the page was deprecated or replaced by a newer template and are completely unused and not linked to. If you think this page should be kept, please add {{wait}} below the line {{QD}} and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. Auntof6 (talk) 00:39, 16 October 2011 (UTC) New timebox userbox Hi, all. This notice is being placed at WP:Simple talk and on user talk pages of people transcluding {{User:Gwib/timebox}}. I have built an updated timebox userbox. It is built from {{User:Gwib/timebox}}, but has some expanded functionality. You can find this userbox at {{User timebox2}}. StevenJ81 (talk) 21:55, 2 August 2013 (UTC) Quick deletion of Ashoka The page you wrote, Ashoka, has been selected for quick deletion. If you think this page should be kept, please add {{wait}} below the line {{QD}} and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. You can find more information about the reason here. Minorax (talk) 14:28, 5 January 2020 (UTC) Helping with a research project in Simplification Hello Gwib, I'm reaching out to you because I am working on a research project on simplification and am looking to collaborate with domain experts. A quick introduction: I am a researcher interested in text simplification and am working towards publishing a resource in text simplification based on Simple Wikipedia (quite a rich encyclopedia). We believe this resource, which we will make public, could be valuable to educate and increasing awareness of text simplification. Some colleagues and I are looking to collaborate with domain experts in the creation of the resource. We've secured some budget for our research project, so there's the possibility to remunerate a few experts that would work with us. I do not mean to spam you, so feel free to disregard/delete if you feel this is inappropriate (and I apologize). On the other hand, if you are interested, please feel free to reach out, either directly on Wikipedia or by email (phillab@berkeley.edu) and I would be happy to tell you more. Thank you, and sorry again if you feel this is inappropriate, Philippe Laban You can check my previous academic publications (one of which is on Simplification) on this website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fR5t200AAAAJ ~~~~ Philippelaban (talk) 23:38, 22 November 2022 (UTC)