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Wikibreak

Hello Peter. How was your wikibreak? I missed you! :) DJDunsie ^{(talk · changes)} 11:57, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

I had a great week helping my father and doing some exploring along the Murray River. Look forward to catching up on what has been happening. --Peterdownunder (talk) 12:10, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Peter! I hope you had a good time. The Murray River? That must have been really fun! Wish I'd been there. :) I'm trying to catch up on recent things, too, but I'm still lagging a lot. Hope I can find myself on new changes more often! ♥ingly, Bella ^{tête-à-tête} 09:55, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

AWB access

Can you add my name in Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage, as i have to do some general fixes on some articles. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^{Talk Email} 10:37, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

For...

your work in helping with DYKs and fixing the articles. I know this work makes people hungry.

Barras has given you some cookies! Now enjoy them!

-Barras (talk) 12:04, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

WP:PGOOD

Just left some comments for your nominated article. Best, AJona1992 (talk) 03:46, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Forced wikibreak

Regular editors will notice I have been a bit quiet over the last few weeks. I will be taking an unplanned wikibreak because of an brain injury (and look, there is another page we need to write!). I hope to back editing after a bit of brain surgery and some rest. Keep up the good work, and I will write to all soon. As a "get well present" you could make John McDouall Stuart a GA for me! --Peterdownunder (talk) 06:25, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Wow that's a shock, and probably the first wikibreak I've seen where the person actually has a good reason for it! ;) Hope things go well. Relax, take some time to recover and we'll all see you here when you're better. Regards, Normandy ^(talk) 11:44, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Good luck with the operation! As Normandy said, take time to recover - and I really hope that you are ok afterwards. DJDunsie ^(talk) 17:11, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

USS Enterprise (CV-6)

Thank you for your contribution to my page. I am not 100% comfortable with WikiText or whatever you call it, so I don't know how to implement a photograph yet. Thank you anyway! Orashmatash (talk) 16:06, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

peterdownunder, friend of grunny

hello peterdownunder

i sent application of apology to grunny

k bye — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.44.1.81 (talk • contribs)

Recovering

Brain getting back to work, can now walk and talk, and nearly type (slowly), hope to start editing again fairly soon.Peterdownunder (talk) 03:32, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I just noticed this, and your earlier Forced Wikibreak. I assume you're doing much better since you posed a challenge for this weekend. Sorry I missed this and I do hope you make a full recovery quickly. Gotanda (talk) 04:27, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Odd reaction from an editor

Hi,

I have been trying to fix the Spider article, which is a bit of a mess. As part of the project I created a "Wolf spider" page to bridge between "Spider" and "Carolina wolf spider" i.e., "Hogna carolinensis." Somebody deleted the "Wolf spider" article, accusing me of plagiarism because I quoted a half sentence from John Crompton's wonderful old book, Life of the Spiders. I wrote to him, and he said he thought that I had copied the entire article, and that he would check on whether I had done so. I'm rather astonished by his attitude: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Djsasso#A_little_extreme He said he would restore the article, pending his investigation. But the article is still gone.

Would you take a look at this situation and refer it to higher authority if necessary? Thanks.Patrick0Moran (talk) 01:18, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

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Service award

Your encouragement was very welcome and appreciated. --Tenmei (talk) 13:57, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate your follow-up. I have created a display sub-page here. --Tenmei (talk) 22:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

How to balance criteria for QD|A3

Hi Peter,

Thanks for going through my recent nominations for quick deletion. I see that you've deleted some but not others. That's fine. We already have 5,000 football stubs from NamelessUser, I was just trying to head off a mass influx of similar hockey stubs.

Rather than nominate more articles and create more process, can I ask you in advance? Patrolling new articles I saw all of these. I put a short message on Katarighe's Talk page. Every article is a direct copy-paste without a single change. The only thing is that they are shorter. Do you think I should let these go and mark them patrolled? Or, nominate for QD? (Yes, I realize I should probably go in and simplify them all, but it is so much faster to copy-paste than to rewrite that if I encourage that, I'll never catch up.)

Maybe I was being too strict, looking at any word-for-word copy paste of a paragraph as a problem. Been thinking about this a lot lately as I try to clean up after Racepacket's abandoned chemistry pages as well.

Thanks, Gotanda (talk) 01:45, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

I think your approach was fine, so keep doing it. My decisions were simply based on was the page useful, easily fixed, and did I have the time to fix it. So the articles on defunct teams fitted in with and completed a number of articles, and did not take long to fix as they were stubs. As we have a few ice hockey fans regularly editing I hope they will expand the articles. One of the articles was a copy and paste of a hockey season from the 1920's, not especially notable, not much chance of it being simplified so a QD was good. Another was a stub on a player, I could not see there was anything to simply, but it did no harm, so leave it in the hope that it will be expanded. I usually like to leave copy-pastes by named editors for a while as I am hoping they will return to fix them. But - be strict with the criteria, the QD notice draws attention to the problem for others to look at, and if they have the time/or patience they fix them. --Peterdownunder (talk) 02:10, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

I was staring at those articles for awhile trying to decide if I should save them myself. Being one of the ice hockey editors my urge was to fix them. But I wanted to see how he would react to having his articles deleted and see if it would smarten him up but I didn't want to delete them myself since I figured he would just take it as me being hard on him. It was fine to QD them. Don't worry about a flood of ice hockey players there aren't nearly as many players to flood the wiki with and the user that created the footballers was incredibly dedicated. I don't think that will happen here. And if it starts to don't worry I will notice. But do be aware going through peoples articles, that if they are copy pastes but the wording is already simple the articles are fine as long as they are attributed to en. The en article might already be simple. -DJSasso (talk) 02:35, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Peter and DJ. I figure sometimes it is better to ask for some input rather than just going ahead. I'll try to keep watching for the QD|A3s. Speaking of just going ahead, maybe I'm pushing it, but I nominated two of Racepacket's dormant chem pages for deletion rather than moving them to userspace. I expect he will object. His "simplifications" consist mainly of: changing a comma to a period to shorten sentences (often creating poor sentences or fragments), linking to wiktionary (sometimes wrongly or unclearly), adding links to other complex pages, or adding linebreaks. I notified him on his Talk page, so I'll wait and see what happens. As mentioned in the initial round of RfD and block discussion, "he just doesn't listen", but is also very good at citing rules and asking the same questions over and over again to try to stall things. Thanks, Gotanda (talk) 02:47, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

I undid those two qd's only because Barras has been reviewing his work before allowing him to move it to mainspace and Barras already told him those two were ok. I have no problem with you taking it to rfd if you still think they should be deleted. But since another admin had said they were ok I didn't think it a good idea that they be speedied. -DJSasso (talk) 02:49, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Understood. Thank you. And, sorry for the other message on your Talk. Gotanda (talk) 02:56, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

No worries. Wasn't because you did wrong or anything. I am just erring on the side of caution by thinking discussion is the way to go. -DJSasso (talk) 02:58, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

If User:Gotanda wants to see what changes I have made, he must compare the article to En Wikipedia instead of comparing it to an earlier draft on Simple Wikipedia. To my knowledge, I do not make "incorrect" links to wikitionary. I have been told to find the closer concept on Wiktionary if the article with that name on Simple Wikipedia does not fit the meaning used. For example wikt:toxic is more appropriate than toxic. I have not "tried to stall things." Barras told Gotanda that if he had a problem with an articles that we had already revised, he should move it to my user space and that I should process his review. I find working from the reviews (or critiques) of others has been very helpful in learning how to write simple articles. Gotanda keeps redirecting me to article talk pages, and I keep reporting that I can't find his reviews. I really can't. And he keeps saying that I am repeating myself. I wish to thank you (Peterdownunder) for your changes to Giant Magellan Telescope. I have studied them carefully and have learned from them. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 21:01, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Senkaku Islands

This subject is very controversial.

If you please, I hope you will review my sentences here.

Please note that inline notes contain hidden text excerpts which make the citation support more specific. --Tenmei (talk) 18:08, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

It looks good at the moment. An area for expansion would be some reasons these islands are in dispute: fishing? gas? oil? strategic position? Also the ways this dispute is being played out: treaties, agreements, the fishing boat ramming incident[1]. You have shown a careful approach to an issue which could become very POV. Keep up this approach and there should be no arguments. --Peterdownunder (talk) 22:08, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Cookies!

Orashmatash has given you some cookies! Now enjoy them!

For being, well... You! Orashmatash (talk) 11:47, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Shingles

Hello Peterdownunder. Could you kindly move Shingles to Herpes zoster leaving a redirect? As a new user I can no move the page myself but I feel strongly that it should be a similar naming structure to the English Wikipedia. Thank you in advance. Sgt. Detritus and the Piecemaker (talk) 06:35, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

 Done We do try to keep article titles the same.--Peterdownunder (talk) 06:40, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! It is to be expected that a project that caters to those with a more limited understanding of English would call things by their common name, but I feel with sciences in general and life-sciences in particular the article should be under the technical name with redirects from common names. Once again thanks, and thanks also for the welcome. :) Sgt. Detritus and the Piecemaker (talk) 07:11, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello Peterdownunder! I don't think I have ever talked to you before, so I just dropped by to say hello. Respectfully, Orashmatash 23:05, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi too, thanks for the cookies above. I have not been around much lately because of reasons mentioned above. At the moment I am just quietly reviewing new editors changes and picking up a few things that seem to have snuck through.--Peterdownunder (talk) 23:09, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

No problem. I wish you a happy recovery! Warmly, Orashmatash 23:11, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Biography

If you want to assign one or two biographies to me, I can email the source of the articles to you over the weekend. Racepacket (talk) 04:09, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

I sent you Cliff Robertson in an email. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 04:31, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Received, minor tweaks, and now in mainspace--Peterdownunder (talk) 04:37, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Sending Grete Waitz. Racepacket (talk) 05:51, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

She's in there too :) --Peterdownunder (talk) 06:22, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Sending you William N. Lipscomb, Jr., an important chemist. Racepacket (talk) 02:00, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Someone started a stub so I saved Lipscomb on top of it. Racepacket (talk) 04:56, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Sending you Robert Pierpoint. Racepacket (talk) 03:45, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Sending you Herbert A. Hauptman. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 04:40, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Which makes bio number 50!!! --Peterdownunder (talk) 06:23, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

If you have the time, I am sending you Henry Cooper here based on en. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 14:50, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

I am sending you Bill Clements based on en. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 09:12, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

I am sending you Willard Boyle based on en. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 02:38, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

The lesson from Bill Clements was that we did not need to get into his feud with Kay Bailey Hutcheson or his differences with Rick Perry. You kept it at the 5,000 ft level of detail, not 10,000 feet or 'in the weeds.' A fundamental problem I have is that I assume that En Wikipedia has made the correct decision as to level of detail and am reluctant to cut back. (I did drop about 5-6 sentences from En Bill Clements when I simplified it.) Thanks. Racepacket (talk) 10:01, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I am sending you a very simple one, Dennis Ritchie from en. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 18:26, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I am sending you Tom McNeeley Jr from scratch. Racepacket (talk) 14:16, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Sending you Andy Rooney from en Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 01:28, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

My mentor, User:Barras has been very busy. I would be honored if you could please review User:Racepacket/George Andrew Olah and let me know if you think it is ready for article space. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 01:35, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

The bio section is OK. Could you explain the work section - for example I do not have a clue about protonated methane. I undestnd that protons are the middle of the atom, and methane is a gas....??? --Peterdownunder (talk) 01:44, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I have taken your advice, changed the article and referred it back to Barras. Would you be so kind as to look at another (non-science) biography: User:Racepacket/DWS? Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 07:26, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Still a long, long way to go. Think about each sentence, what is it saying, and how would you explain that to a child. Then write it.Peterdownunder (talk) 08:42, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Sending you Hal Bruno with no corresponding bio on En Wikipedia. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 15:08, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Sending you John Bryson. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 04:29, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

John Bryson added with no changes by me! I also updated the Secretaries of Commerce list. Peterdownunder (talk) 02:39, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Sending you Steven Chu - knock off both a cabinet member and Nobel winner. Racepacket (talk) 06:15, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar for you!

		The Biography Barnstar
		For your work in organizing the biography creation drive, I hereby award you the Biography Barnstar. Keep up the awesome work! Only (talk) 20:23, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, it was good fun.--Peterdownunder (talk) 22:22, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		For Peterdownunder, who took part in the big biography weekend in October 21-26, 2011. With help from 15 other editors, 48 new biography articles were created. Thanks for being part of the team. Yottie =talk= 20:08, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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Block summaries

Hey Peterdownunder...any clue what's going on with the edit summaries on these blocks: [3], [4], [5]? Why is PiRSquared17 mentioned as fixing TW in each? Only (talk) 10:04, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Ah, PiR had fixed a TW problem yesterday and left a test message on the template. I changed the message on the template (PiR fixed it) when I was trying it out last night and forgot to remove it, so it has come up on the blocking message. Sorry, I shall remove it immediately. --Peterdownunder (talk) 10:30, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Similar event to Big biography Weekend

Hi Peter. I thought the idea was great, and it seemed to work to a certain extent (48 articles is not that bad, especially for SEWP). Could we organise such an event again soon, and better that total? :) Yottie ^=talk= 12:21, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

I'd like to help next time, though bio's are not my favourite type. Someone (can't remember who, maybe it was Racepacket?) brought up that we lack depth in some major cities and places. Maybe we could do that? Either way I'll help though whatever the subject is. Normandy ^(talk) 12:28, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

How about a Christmas article drive that takes place during the en:Twelve Days of Christmas? DJDunsie (talk) 19:22, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Still waiting for the big rollout.... Racepacket (talk) 18:19, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Rollout of what? DJDunsie (talk) 20:40, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

The article rollout challenge? When is the next one? DJDunsie (talk) 09:40, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

thanks!

I did a lazy save of Gaslighting; thanks for making it look much more like an article! sonia♫ 23:16, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

That's what teamwork is all about :) --Peterdownunder (talk) 23:22, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Category-related issue

Please help me figure out how to resolve a problem here. --Tenmei (talk) 21:25, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

This seems to be a problem without a solution. --Tenmei (talk) 17:44, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

CCW progress

Peter, please review User:Racepacket/Kaskaskia, Illinois, User:Racepacket/Windsor, Vermont, User:Racepacket/Corydon, Indiana, User:Racepacket/Saint Charles, Missouri, User:Racepacket/New Bern, North Carolina, User:Racepacket/Lancaster, Pennsylvania, User:Racepacket/Washington Metro, User:Racepacket/Road Town, and User:Racepacket/Avarua. If they are simple, please move it to article space. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 18:40, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Before you returned, someone did a one line article on Lancaster. I asked him/her to review my version, and I then pasted over my version from my userspace. Since I was the only author, I don't think there will be an issue. But you can decide. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 00:18, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for your changes to Windsor and Road Town. I took another look at the rest and hope they are better. Racepacket (talk) 10:44, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Warning: New Bern, North Carolina was created on November 29, so a merger is needed. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 12:36, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Peter please help. As you know, we both made substantial changes from the English Wikipedia version of Windsor, Vermont. However, Gotanda has cut this article back significantly. I find it troubling. I also note that most of his December 3 edits were "following me around" Simple English Wikipedia changing articles that I have edited. Please look into this. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 12:57, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Please also look into Road Town. Racepacket (talk) 13:09, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Welcome back. 1) New Bern NC needs a merge between the two versions. 2) I would like your judgment as to whether Road Town and Windsor Vt should remain cut back or should be restored to a longer form. 3) Please give a quick review to the remaining cities listed above. I have been waiting for your OK before going to Article Space. Many thanks for all of your input over the past two months. Racepacket (talk) 02:08, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

I like your edits to New Bern. It is up to you to do the merge. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 06:45, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Any thoughts on #2 or #3? Many thanks, Racepacket (talk) 10:29, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

I have looked briefly, I think I can restore most of what was cut and keep it simple. Will probably do it tomorrow.--Peterdownunder (talk) 10:33, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate your time. The sooner we can verify and recalibrate my Simplitude Quotent, the sooner I can move on and be a productive city article editor. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 17:37, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

What was the reason you did not want to retain the "Further reading" section of Windsor, Vermont? I can see the reasoning behind your other changes there. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 11:35, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

No reason at all, and I have added it. I also used the cite web template on the other web sites section. The section on famous people - I will put them onto the talk page, and people can add them to the article if when their pages get written. I think the American Precision Museum could make an interesting section or even a basis for an article.--Peterdownunder (talk) 03:55, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Now that Avarua has an {{Inuse}} it will take an admin to combine it with my user space draft. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 06:44, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I am still awaiting your review of these cities. Many thanks! Racepacket (talk) 04:18, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Merry Christmas! Thank you for all that you do for Wikipedia. Could we please wrap up the CCW articles? Many thanks, Racepacket (talk) 21:45, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Slowly getting through them, Kaskaskia, Illinois now completed.--Peterdownunder (talk) 11:31, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Just a friendly reminder that we have two left. I have learned a lot from your simplifying changes. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 17:02, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Dan Kelly's helmet

Peter, something odd has happened to Dan Kelly's helmet. It is sideways. Not sure how, but it appears that the file on Commons was changed. Temporary bug? Just thought you'd want to know. Thanks, Gotanda (talk) 21:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Big Airport Weekend

Peter, the best part of the CCW was that it touched something that was local to every place in the world. I note that airports are distributed all over the world and that Simple Wikipedia's coverage of airports are very thin. Most articles in the airport category do not have a {{Infobox airport}}. Many are one or two sentence stubs. Please consider whether it would be fun to have a "Big Airport Weekend" collaboration that asks each editor to create or improve an article about an airport. (The airport could be civilian or military; foreign or in his own country.) Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 18:58, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I like this idea - and the whole 'Big Weekend' idea in general - the last few haven't been convenient for me, unfortunately. It's nice that we've finally found a community initiative that is working really well, so kudos to you Peter for pioneering it. Although any effort to 'formalise' these sorts of things tends to result in their downfall, I was thinking that perhaps it might be nice to create a Wikipedia page highlighting the previous 'Big Weekends', the articles that benefitted and giving an opportunity to others to suggest their ideas for future topics? I also think it might be good to look to hold these semi-regularly, say every couple of months, for example. What do you think? Goblin 19:22, 31 December 2011 (UTC) I ♥ Fr33kman!

I really like that Idea, actually. So it's basically a Big Weekend WikiProject? As well as what you suggested, all editors that want to participate in a particular weekend can sign up and we can have archives of weekends and achievement reports. Sounds great! I love that idea! :) DJDunsie (talk) 20:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

No, certainly not. As I said, "any effort to 'formalise' these sorts of things tends to result in their downfall". I meant exactly what I said - we create a singular page listing previous weekends, and we use the talk page to suggest future ones. Anything more than that will serve only to corrupt the idea and make people spend less time doing that they need to do. What you have proposed sounds exactly like a WikiCup/WikiProject, neither of which work/are allowed on this wiki respectively. Goblin 20:37, 31 December 2011 (UTC) I ♥ Dendodge!

I shall trust in your judgement of previous events, then. DJDunsie (talk) 17:31, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

By all means you're more than welcome to give it a go; at the end of the day, it's a wiki and if people want to do something then they should do it. However, I wouldn't recommend it based on past experience, and think that this effort is and will work so much better without any over-the-top formalisation. Perhaps the best way to move forwards is to start the page (Wikipedia:Big Weekend?), add the previous two weekends, get some ideas for further ones and take it from there - it could work built into something more, I don't know as this is somewhat different to previous efforts. Goblin 17:57, 1 January 2012 (UTC) I ♥ Pmlineditor!

I think the idea is good, and Goblin is right that it works because it is informal. I have created the page as suggested, and added my ideas, have a look and see what else is needed. I think the secret is keep it simple, and keep the focus on editing in main space.--Peterdownunder (talk) 05:14, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Discussion moved to: Wikipedia talk:Big Weekend. Would Peter and other respected elders please comment on the airport proposal? Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 20:49, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice. May I move it to the "Project page" from the talk page? Racepacket (talk) 21:28, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Not Peter, but that would not be appropriate. As I keep saying - we need to keep this informal, with bear minimums appearing on the project page and, instead, Peter's comments being written up into an announcement. This announcement goes on WP:ST with records kept on the Project page when the Weekend finishes. Goblin 21:32, 2 January 2012 (UTC) I ♥ Chenzw!

Bluegoblin7, I appreciate your points about informality and the ST announcement, but I am still just a 6 month editor here. Who decides that there is consensus for having Airports as our next project? Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 21:55, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

To be honest, I'd expect a little more clue from someone who has been here for six months, but nonetheless: those interested in the Big Weekend are those who decide if Airports are suitable as the next project, and the responses so far suggest that it is. So, be bold and get on with it. If you wish to respond further, though, take it to my talk as we shouldn't be disturbing Peter. Goblin 22:01, 2 January 2012 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots!

At this stage when we are not flooded with suggestions, lets go with Airports. The expectation would be that you (Racepacket) would keep track of the weekend. It would be reasonable to think that we do not want to have a Big Weekend every week, but one a month, or every second month would be fine. It would be good to have variety as well so that a number of different editors would want to take part. In future, I am hoping people would add their suggestions to the project talk page, and those interested could decide. Peterdownunder (talk) 22:04, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Agreed - Airports is a good "next topic" and there's no disagreements. I expect it will become clear over time how best weekends are structured and proposed etc - it's a learning curve for all of us. I'd also completely agree that we don't want a Weekend every week as the point of it would get diminished. I'd suggest optimally once a month would work well, though perhaps initially we should look at once every other month just to get things rolling and not to "die out", so to speak. Goblin 02:37, 3 January 2012 (UTC) I ♥ Juliancolton!

I agree that one per month makes sense. (We skipped December.) So, let's shoot for January. Racepacket (talk) 04:35, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

My RfA

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Blackout, what blackout?

Hi, thanks for the welcome! Has this been a good recruiting day for Simple Wikipedia so far? Fayenatic london (talk) 21:15, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

It will be if we could encourage experienced editors to stay, as you can probably see there is plenty of tasks to do. --Peterdownunder (talk) 21:17, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Right, there's not even an article on Faye Wong! Been meaning to get round to that for a long time... Fayenatic london (talk) 21:20, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Looking forward to reading it. Incredible as it may seem to you, I have never heard of Faye Wong. --Peterdownunder (talk) 21:23, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome. I crossed over here from EN.WP a short time ago, but figured today would be a good day to come on for a while. So what needs to be done? Calabe1992 22:01, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Not sure what your interests are, but have a look at the list of short pages, and I am sure you could find plenty of things that need help.--Peterdownunder (talk) 22:22, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm mostly a vandal-reverter/reporter and speedy/quick tagger, and obviously don't have near as much of that to do here. I'll take a look at the list and see what's up. Calabe1992 22:25, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

This link might work: short pages, --Peterdownunder (talk) 22:27, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I was wondering what was going on w/ the other one. Thanks. Calabe1992 22:29, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Thank you for the welcome, Peterdownunder! Would I have been able to reply to you via my own talk page or do I need to do so on yours to make sure you are notified? I am nervous about messing up talk pages; I have never been an editor except anonymously before. I am confident in making minor changes to pages and formatting but I don't fully know how the "people" things work in the Wikipedia communities :) Aediapony (talk) 22:54, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Aediapony, you can't mess up a talk page, so do not worry about it. And anything that gets messed up can be fixed. It is easiest to reply under the original message, as that help keeps the conversation altogether in one place. But a check of any user page will show that it doesn't always happen. And that does that mean that sometimes messages do get missed. One way to make sure is to use a message template like this one: {{Talkback|Peterdownunder}}. I will paste this on to your talk page so you will see how it works. It will say you have a message on my talk page. This will also give you a quick link to get back here. You can then delete the template from your page. Hope that helps. Don't be worried about asking any questions no matter how unimportant they may seem. All the editors here have probably asked them too :). --Peterdownunder (talk) 22:59, 20 January 2012 (UTC)