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I was testing out another sandbox template, and did the main link in the see also sections for the countries up through Estonia. Please pick up where I left off. The same sandbox you were using will be fine.

The Transhumanist    20:40, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did some more. NW (Talk) 00:36, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I was wondering if you could comment on my two DYK entries currently on the nominations page, for Orly's Draw-A-Story and Bluebirds Flying High. There seems to be quite a backlog at the moment. Thanks. 03md 19:47, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have replied to one, and asked a friend to help the other, as I had some concerns with it. NW (Talk) 00:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On June 18, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article DemiDec, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 14:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In sandbox46, I've implemented the changes from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#How do you use a variable to insert a page's name uncapitalized?

That should eliminate the need for a second pass.

The Transhumanist    18:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: You should copy the code somewhere convenient so that you can modify it to use the trick on similar tasks in the future.

Wow, this looks really great; thanks. NW (Talk) 18:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just got a little regex lesson from the guys over at WP:VPT, and I've copied it to User:The Transhumanist/Regexes.

Enjoy.

The Transhumanist    19:11, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Several members of the WikiProject have been hard at work.

Buaidh has been building and refining the outlines on the U.S. States, the states' historical outlines, and the Historical outline of the United States. Lately, his edits have dominated the project's watchlist readout. (I think he's overdue for a barnstar or two. hint hint)

Penubag has been working on medals for all the main branches of the OOK, and has completed the OOK WikiProject's animated advert banner (see below).

Highfields has been filling in the currencies for each country on their respective outlines.

NuclearWarfare and Thehelpfulone have been busy with WP:AWB, posting banners and notices, and helping our sister project, the Index WikiProject, get established. Indexes work hand-in-hand with the outlines and are prominently linked to from the top of most of them. And the outlines, which serve as tables of contents, are only as good as the pages they link to.

Since we started integrating (linking) the OOK and its support pages into the encyclopedia and into the Wikipedia community, activity on outlines has been increasing. Though there's still much left to do.

But I digress. There are a couple more...

User talk:Stefan is building the Outline of sharks.

User talk:MacMed has joined our advanced wiki-tools team, and is currently adding links to outlines in the corresponding subject articles' see also sections.

Be sure to stop by their talk pages and say "hi".

Penubag has finished this WikiProject's animated advert banner, and it is now being displayed on the Wikipedia ads template which in turn is displayed on about 2000 user pages. Each time someone access one of those pages, there is a 1 in 184 chance of them viewing this:

Wikipedia ads	file info – #184

If you'd like to display the banner on your userpage locked-on to the ad as above, use the following code:

{{Wikipedia ads|ad=184}}

(By the way, it's been awhile since we've barnstarred Penubag).

If you haven't already, please add the entire project's watchlist to your watchlist. Here's how:

From the edit window, copy and paste Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Watchlist into your raw watchlist.

Or go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Watchlist using Related changes and click on "Related changes" in the toolbox menu in Wikipedia's sidebar on the left hand side of the screen.

I forgot to mention this step above.  :)

I can't make heads or tails of 'em, but these links were on Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge:

• ar:ويكيبيديا:مواضيع أساسية
• fa:پورتال:فهرست موضوعات پایه
• pl:Przegląd dziedzin wiedzy
• pt:Portal:Conteúdo/Esboço do conhecimento
• zh-yue:基礎課題表清單

I discovered an AfD discussion on possibly the first article named "Outline of", which was called Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics, and which was created 4 years ago. Of course they deleted it. But now it has many friends, and so it has risen from the dead.  :)

See the DRV discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 7#Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics.

• When G716 found the page "Learn" tucked away as a subpage of the Probability WikiProject, he thought "This deserves to be in the article space", and moved it to the encyclopedia. See Outline of probability.

Recruiters needed. Drop me a note if you are interested.

• Astatine-210, Strdst grl, and Willscrlt - link to the outlines from the corresponding subject articles' see also sections - this is underway by MacMed (non-country outlines) and User talk:NuclearWarfare (counry outlines).
• Astatine-210 - add a link to the outlines to the disambiguation pages of the corresponding subjects - good idea. Since "Outline" is just the type of page, not the subject, I think these might qualify for inclusion on disambiguation pages. We need someone to look into the relevant guidelines on this.
• User talk:SimonTrew - provide a badge (userbox) for WPOOK members to add to their user pages - Penubag will have one for us soon.
• Zachary crimsonwolf - create a card explaining outlines, and send it to everyone you know, and make it viral (by including a request for the recipients to send the card to everyone they know) - this task has been split in three:

1. Creation of a "thank you for your interest" card which introduces (explains) outlines, to send to queriers, new participants to discussions, those who seem to be confused about outlines, etc.
2. Creation of a thank you card / invitation to the WPOOK, to send to users we see working on outlines, including a request for them to invite others whom they think might be interested

• weebiloobil - contact Wikignomes - OK...

3. Creation of an invitation to Wikignomes, with a brief rundown on the types of tasks there are for them to do on the outlines. The invitation will include a request for them to invite anyone they think would enjoy working on outlines.

• weebiloobil - add examples to Wikipedia:Outlines - more examples will be added as suitable outlines are completed
• weebiloobil - add a picture to Wikipedia:Outlines (it doesn't have to be relevant), to provide atmosphere and to break it up visually and add a splash of color - will do, and we'll add a caption to make it relevant, with a link to the outline on that subject. Thank you for the idea.
• Zachary crimsonwolf - ask Jimbo Wales to bestow the award(s) for the country outlines contest, once you get it going first - we'll give that a try
• Zachary crimsonwolf - ask everyone in the project to inform their acquaintances around Wikipedia about the OOK - will do, as soon as the cards
• UzEE - collaborate with all the WikiProjects you share scope with - we've placed a banner on their talk pages, and have placed task notices on some. We'll be posting more tasks, and plan to create a section on contents system development and maintenance for each WikiProject page itself.
• SriMesh - if you can't get outlines added to next year's WikiCup, then create your own WikiCup-like contest - there's 6 months left to this year to address reservations and work out the details at WikiCup. In the meantime, there's the 200-WikiProject contest, which needs input.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Drafts/Outline of chocolate draft - our current outline collaboration!
• Outline of psychology - someone moved a big chunk of this article to the talk page, leaving a big gap in the outline. Editors are needed to add subheadings and links.
• See also links - add {{main|Outline of x}} (where "x" is the subject) to the see also section of the corresponding subject article of each outline

• Outline of sharks - under construction in article space
• Outline of Hinduism (converted from "List of Hinduism-related topics")

• Outline of chocolate
• Outline of Christianity

• Wikipedia talk:Outlines
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outline of knowledge
• Portal talk:Contents/Outline of knowledge

I'm impressed with the level of enthusiasm and work going into the outlines. I'm proud to be working with each of you.

The Transhumanist    21:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NW! As it turns out, I made a small error in my version of csdhelper.js, that caused my signature to be applied to the remove notifications instead of yours. I have fixed the bug now. However, as you may or may not know, Alex has now updated his original script with many new features, including better support for non-admin use. If I were you, I would simply switch to his version. Regards, decltype (talk) 23:49, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thank you for alerting me. Also, I must thank you for your help in adapting it for us non-administrators while the original was sysop-only. My regards, NW (Talk) 23:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, thank Alex instead. Making things work is a far greater achievement than complaining about that which doesn't. I usually just do the latter. Regards, decltype (talk) 00:25, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You denied my request to delete these two pages because a lot of edits have been made to them both. First I'll tell you the Jason Pierce page does get a lot of edits but they are always considered vandalism. Most people will put small things in calling Jason names or creating unknown and/or unneeded info. Jason shows no notability other than being on The Ultimate Fighter where he was pulled from competing because of an illness. TreyGeek and myself both agree that the page be deleted.

Jeremy May's article should be deleted because he also shows no notability other than being on The Ultimate Fighter. The other thing about May is, he doesn't even compete in mixed martial arts any more. He has not fought for any big promotions and holds no titles. There is no reason for him to have an article. Thank you for reading. Justastud15 (talk) 10:08, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There were many edits to both articles though; per the G7 criteria, you may only use the speedy deletion tag if you are the sole contributor of content. However, if you send the article to WP:AFD, I am sure the fact that you are the large contributor to both the articles will be listened to. Thanks, NW (Talk) 15:17, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fairly new and currently learning the ropes. One major problem I have is deletions. I do not understand how it works or how to nominate. I asked advise from TreyGeek and he told me to add the Author deletion tag. I would appreciate it if you would help me out and add these to the deletion log thing? Justastud15 (talk) 04:26, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you write me individual reasons for deleting both the articles, I would be happy to file an AfD for you to start the discussion process.

Also, Ron Ritzman has recommended to me that I withdraw the AfD nomination for Roger Bowling. I shall attend to his request, but if you still feel like the article should be deleted, you could write me a rationale for deleting that one as well, and I would be happy to renominate it for you. NW (Talk) 15:21, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The reasons are in the first post I did. If you want something else I could do that but if not they are all up there. Justastud15 (talk) 23:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AfDs filed; links to them are on your talk page. NW (Talk) 00:06, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If CSD G7 is the only issue involved with this AFD, it should be closed for this reason. IMHO CSD G7 should be completely "non controversial" like PROD and the fact that someone has placed a "rescue" tag on the article shows that its deletion would be "controversial". I won't close it myself because at this time this remains just "my opinion" (though there has been some support for this position) but I recommend that you withdraw with leave to speedy renominate if someone has a reason for deletion besides G7.

Of course if, by the time you see this message, someone !votes "delete" with a sound rationale unrelated to G7, it could be left open. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 13:49, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your notice. The rescue tag was probably added after I went to bed, or I would have withdrawn it then. I have asked the original author to write up deletion arguments (see above thread), which I offered to post at AfD for him. That would be all right, correct? NW (Talk) 15:26, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This outline is approaching completion.

I added a bunch more links, finding them with the following Google site-specific searches of Wikipedia:

• "of" and "Gibraltar"

• "in" and "Gibraltar"

• "for" and "Gibraltar"

• with "Gibraltar" not at the end

(You can use the wikicode for the links above as the basis for new searches - just replace "Gibraltar" with any other country or region name).

The redlinks need to be bluelinked where possible. The most useful way is to create redirects leading to the material (which is usually included in a section of an article - see Wikipedia:Redirect#Redirects to page sections. That way, when the redirect pages are replaced by the actual articles, the links will already point to the right places.

Please take a crack at it, and bluelink a few.

Thank you.

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    00:38, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:09, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That was fun.  :)

The Transhumanist    23:27, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]