User talk:Strdst grl

Please place new messages at the bottom of the page, with a new heading. Please remember to specify which article you are talking about, preferably with a link.

If you are posting to complain that I have reverted an edit of yours that wasn't vandalism, then it was probably a mistake and I was not trying to be unproductive. You have my apologies.

If you have a concern about a user I have welcomed to the project, please first read the information at User talk:Strdst grl/welcome and leave your message there.

Guadeloupe Bonifieur

thanks. I'll do my best to find the most relevant and acceptable sources. Thanks for the edits Stardust! Amelie_jolie

Dralexiades

{please help me} Dear Stardust,

Thank you for your offer to help with my user page Dralexiades. How do biographies and pages on items of interest, such as groundbreaking research or patented products, get posted on wiki. I was ill informed that indeed one could generate a wiki page on their own work (which apparently is not true as it is a conflict of interest) and I noticed physicians who have wiki pages as biographies, which undoubtedly was initiated by them. How is this possible? In the meantime, what do I do with my test page?

Thank you again for any advice you can provide! Dr A

Adopt-a-user reminder

Hello, I have completed a general cleanup of the adopter information page for the adopt-a-user project, located here. During my cleanup, I have removed several inactive and retired users. In order to provide interested adoptees with an easy location to find adopters, it is essential that the page be up-to-date with the latest information possible. Thus:

• If you are no longer interested in being an adopter, please remove yourself from the list.
• If you are still interested, please check the list to see if any information needs to be updated or added - especially your availability. Thank you.

• You are receiving this message because you are listed as an adopter here.

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm (talk) at 03:49, 23 September 2010 (UTC).

WikiProject Children and Young Adult's literature Newsletter - October 2010

Newsletter October 2010
Project news As our banner proclaims, we now have an IRC channel at ##wpchildrensliterature on Freenode. In the future, the project may hold live discussions there. To access the channel from your browser, click here. Abcassionchan has become a member of the project. Thanks for joining Abcassionchan! Slowly but surely, more Unnassessed articles are reappearing. Please help the project by joining in and assessing some of them.	Unreferenced BLPs There's only a few Unreferenced BLPs (Biographies of living people) left. Why not head over to the page and help by adding sources to the articles? It's an important job, that requires assistance. From the Editor Hello and welcome to this, the second edition of the newsletter. This month, I need to ask a favour of you. You may have seen that this month I had to write the newsletter by my self. I really need your help with writing and giving suggestions. If you have a suggestion for a future edition, please list it at the tips desk. You may also notice the links underneath this piece. Please use them to share this newsletter on your favourite social networks. Until next time, happy editing! Rock drum: Editor MessageDeliveryBot: Distributor Share:  Twitter · Identica · Facebook · Delicious · Reddit · Digg · Buzz · StumbleUpon
Ways to promote the project If you're interested in promoting the project, why not visit the Outreach department for more ideas? There are many ways to promote the project. One of them is to add the project's ad to your userpage. To do this, simply add the code {{Template:Wikipedia ads|ad=212}} to your talk or user page. Another thing you can do is to invite other users to join the project. To find prospective members search the history pages of Children's literature-related articles and invite people who seem to be deoing good things for these articles. The code for the invitation template is {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Invite}}. Todo List: Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks. Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles. Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}} Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project. Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject. References: Add references to Unreferenced BLPs. Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

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An update from adopt a user

Hi there Strdst grl! You may be wondering, what have I done to sound the alarm this time? Nothing. I'm messaging you in regards to the adopt-a-user program, which currently has a backlog of users wishing to be adopted. This doesn't make much sense, as we have a considerable list of users offer adoption, so there shouldn't be any backlog. I've begun to eliminate this backlog myself through a matching program, but I need your help to make it work. Of course, adoptees and adopters don't have to go through there, but I believe it helps eliminate the backlog because someone is actively matching pairs.

On the list of adopters, I have modified the middle column to say "Interests." It's easier working with other users that have similar interests, so if it's not too much to ask, could you add your interests in the middle column? For example, if I was interested in hurricanes, computers, business, and ... reptiles? I would place those in the middle column. Counter-vandalism and the like can also be included (maintenance should be used as the general term). The more interests, the better, since adoptees can learn more about you and choose the one they feel most comfortable working with. The information about when you're most active and other stuff can go into the "Notes" section to the right.

Finally, I've gone around and asked adoptees (and will in the future) to fill in a short survey so adopters can take the initiative and contact users they feel comfortable working with. We all know that most adoptees just place the adopt me template on their user page and leave it - so it's up to us to approach them and offer adoption. So, please take a look at the survey, adopt those that fit your interests, and maybe watchlist it so you can see the interests of adoptees and adopt one that fits your interests in the future.

Once again, thank you for participating in the adopt-a-user program! If you wish to respond to this post, please message me on my talk page.

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm (talk) at 05:27, 11 October 2010 (UTC).