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Hello Susan118/Archive 1 and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.
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ukexpat (talk) 16:49, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Question

Hello Susan118, I noticed that you've been doing quite a bit of vandal-reverting using the undo feature. Would you like me to grant your account rollback rights to make vandal-fighting easier? Tell me what you think. Thanks. Acalamari 22:54, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Acalamari, Thank you, that would be very helpful! It didn't occur to me to ask, but I can see it will make things easier and also help identify what was done. I haven't been vandal-fighting very long, but I'm enjoying it and plan to do it for awhile, or at least until I find a job that pays! ha! Thanks. --Susan118 (talk) 23:44, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Rollback granted. For practice, you may wish to see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Good luck. Acalamari 23:48, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much!--Susan118 (talk) 23:49, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome! Acalamari 00:34, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

RE: Perfect Strangers

Hi, No problem about the edits you made, I think the more detailed table looks better so I probably would have changed it back anyway. I decided to add some more info, I may add Region 2 info as well?! Hopefully we can add more releases to the table sometime soon! HeMan5 (talk) 03:30, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

March 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page Blake barron has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Cmichael (talk) 06:06, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry. Blake Barron is now deleted, so I can't go back and see what I did. Probably, somebody had deleted your tag and I reverted the deletion, but at this point, I can't tell. In any event, I'm sorry for the aggravation. Cmichael (talk) 06:13, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Oops. Now I see. My mistake entirely. I am so very sorry. Cmichael (talk) 06:16, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
I probably just hit the "revert" key too quickly. Anyway, I appreciate what you are doing, and hope you will keep up the good work (as I will). Be well. Cmichael (talk) 06:20, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
No problem. I've never had a warning myself, and it would tick me off if I did. I have stricken this one out. If you want to delete it, please feel free. Cheers! Cmichael (talk) 06:23, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
No, thank YOU for being so understanding about my mistake. Cmichael (talk) 06:29, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Good edits

Thanks for this series of edits. I'm willing to be bolder and remove all the statements you tagged. Even those statements you tagged that could be sourced properly don't necessarily belong in the article, without the source relating the matter to sexism. Blackworm (talk) 22:04, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

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FYI

Deletion of Bilateral relation pages despite ongoing merging effort Ed Fitzgerald t / c 08:44, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice! --Susan118 (talk) 15:26, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

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Re:Thanks!

You're welcome! --Abce2|AccessDenied 01:32, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

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Lists of disparaging terms for people

"Gather info on WP guidelines in regard to Lists of disparaging terms for people, to see if they violate any policies." - Yes, I fully support you. By all means Wikipedia should refer to such terms when relevant, but is there any good reason for making lists of them without reference to anything? JamesBWatson (talk) 19:46, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Nope, I don't think so. But there are a lot of people who put a lot of work into them, which means there is potential for a lot of opposition. So I want to make sure I know what I'm talking about before I do anything, which is why it's taking so long for me to take action on it! I'm still learning the finer points of Wikipedia's policies and procedures. I've been hanging out at WP:AfD a little, and one thing I've noticed, is that people think a list is notable if the things on the list are notable. So they will point out that the items on the list are referenced and described in detail, and therefore the list is OK and gets saved. I can see that happening here. So I'm not in a huge rush (anymore) to get started on this, but I will eventually. :) --Susan118 talk 08:38, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

List of Latin American Jews

I agree with you, in a way, but its more because of the way these lists are used than for any moral reasons. It doesn't look like this AfD will be getting much attention, and I'm always cautious of the CANVASSing that starts to happen once obsessed users find out its up. Are you willing to submit a !vote? Bulldog123 19:55, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Sure, I just wanted to think it through a bit more, I knew I would need better reasoning than that to support an opinion. --Susan118 talk 09:02, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Comments within Talk:Balki Bartokomous

You left a comment within this Talk page asking for suggestions. I left a response for you or other editors who are similarly interested in developing the article. My interest is not in articles about fictitious characters. However, I did find the article on how to develop articles about fictitious characters fascination. Reading your User page makes me think you may be well motivated to become an expert or a specialist "fictitious character" editor. Another thank you for your interest in the article and I wish you pleasant editing sessions. Pknkly (talk) 17:07, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

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List of things that are green

(aka: Notability of an entire list)

What specific lists are you concerned about?

And while we're on the subject of lists, here's another type for you to look at: Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge.

Let me know what you think. (on my talk page)

The Transhumanist 23:05, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Re: your message to me about list notability (aka "list of things that are green" )

Hi, sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you, I had to take a little break as I was spending too much time on Wikipedia. I've decided to stay out of the list issue for the moment, as there is obviously something I'm missing. Plus I've let my personal opinions on what should be allowed on Wikipedia cloud my judgment somewhat.

As for Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge... wow! Had no idea that existed. But it really sort of pulls everything together and makes it much easier to find something if someone doesn't know precisely what they are looking for (or just wants to browse a topic without having to track down the 100 articles related to it). There should be a link to that on the main page. --Susan118 talk 16:36, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree. But where on the main page would we put it? The Transhumanist 21:14, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

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[... Outline Project Update ...]

Outline update - Full Steam Ahead! - 06/18/2009

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...

Welcome our new members! Stefan and MacMed

Stefan is building the Outline of sharks.

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".

WPOOK's advert banner has gone live!

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 ad for Wikipedia:Wikiproject Outlines
Wikipedia adsfile 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).

Watchers needed!

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.

Check the watchlist every time you log on!

I forgot to mention this step above.  :)

The OOK is in 5 other Wikipedias?

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

Resurrected from the grave yard...

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.

A diamond buried in project space

Recruiting

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

Advice from the mentors

  • 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.
  • 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
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.

More outline tasks

New outlines in article space

New outline drafts

Main discussion pages

Keep up the great work

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 22:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)


P.S.: Susan, thank you for the advice. I thought you might like to see what we're up to. If the above report triggers any ideas, please let me know!


Outline collaboration #2: Outline of Gibraltar

This outline is approaching completion.

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

(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).

Request: please redirect the redlinks! (bluelinking...)

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 01:04, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: on an unrelated matter, where should the Outline of chocolate be placed on the OOK? -TT

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I finally got to whack somebody with a trout!

That was fun.  :)

The Transhumanist 23:53, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Outline update - Push push push - 06/25/2009

Work is proceeding apace...

New members
Hatnotes

The current consensus is that we can't place a hatnote leading to an outline at the top of a subject articles unless the outline being presented is of at least the same quality-level as the article.

What's next...

Improve outline quality by completing them.

Place hatnotes for the outlines of high enough quality.

Guidelines pertaining to outlines need to be updated. Outlines emerged as a class of pages only a few months ago, and most of the relevant guidelines don't cover them specifically. For example, Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists is incredibly out of date.

Invite wikignomes, wikielves, and wikifairies (all 2500+ of them) to help on the outlines .

Identify 600 more subjects with coverage extensive enough to justify outlines, create rudimentary drafts for them, and post notices to the corresponding WikiProjects and subject talk pages to help build them.

Convert outlines titled "List of" to outline articles, and add them to the OOK. There are a few hundred of these. Conversion instructions are needed.

Add a description of outlines to About Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Basic navigation, and add tips about outlines to the WP:TOTD and Tips library.

Keep up the great work!

The Transhumanist 20:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Request for feedback

Minnecologies has done an incredible amount of work on Outline of forestry and posted a note to me on my talk page requesting feedback.

I've posted my observations at Talk:Outline of forestry#Finished outline review.

Please take a look at the outline and let Minnecologies know what you think of it on the outline's talk page.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 19:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 20:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC).

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Lists

"...it's pointless to try to get lists deleted on WP": all too true. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:43, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Outline Update - Exhausted - 07/10/2009

I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.

A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...

How to watch what's going on with outlines

If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:

  • WP:OOKWL - watchlist for copying and pasting into your raw watchlist.

Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):

  • WP:OOKRC - a version of the above watchlist for use with "Related changes".
  • WP:OOKDIR - a list of key pages related to the OOK, along with their shortcuts.
  • WP:OOKDISC - list of discussions pertaining to outlines.
Recently converted to outlines

These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:

Recently merged into outlines

There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:

The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Outline Update - Basking in the light of knowledge - 07/28/2009

Phase two of outline integration (de-orphanizing outlines by adding links leading to them into article see also sections) is nearly complete. The better that outlines are integrated into the encyclopedia, the more use they will be to readers.

Due to greater exposure through outline integration, and with most of the OOK team on school summer vacation, development activity on outlines has increased a lot...

New members
Be sure to welcome our newest members to the team:
News: Outline of Palestine survives AfD
The outline was nominated for deletion for being too general in scope. The consensus was overwhelmingly for keeping it.
The most memorable comment was posted by Mandsford: I like the poetic name, anyway. [Outline of Palestine]. "Master Plan of Pakistan" and "Rough Sketch of Bangladesh" would be good too.
Special thanks to Tiamut for greatly improving the outline, and helping to save it from AfD.
To keep track of outline AfDs and other outline-related discussions, see WP:OOKDISC.
Who's active on Wikipedia this summer?
Courtesy of Rich Farmbrough, here's a list of editors by their edit counts over the previous month (8th June to 8th July).
It would be nice to get the most prolific Wikipedians involved with WP:WPOOK. If you can, find a good reason to contact one or more of them, and invite them to work on a relevant outline - or all 500!
Who's been up to what?
  • Buaidh, Highfields, and Gimme danger have been working on the government sections of the country outlines. Being that there are about 240 of these, with critical information being filled in on each, this is by far the hardest and most important chore of this WikiProject right now.
  • Penubag is working on a redesign of the top OOK page.
  • Tiamut has done an incredible job developing the Outline of Palestine.
  • And kudos also go to Eu.stefan for his work on Outline of Buddhism.

Thank you.

Here's what else has been going on...

New outlines
Recently created outlines include:
Recently converted to outlines
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format and added to the OOK:
Recently merged into outlines
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following articles have been recently merged into OOK pages:
Outlines that have been tagged
Tags are requests to fix a problem or improve an article in a particular way. Unless we want the tags to sit there for an extended period of time cluttering up the outlines (we don't), it is up to us to fulfill those requests or attend to underlying misassumptions (if any).
I can't stress enough the importance of watching
With so many outlines (now over 500), and a growing number of support pages (guidelines, wikiproject pages, etc.), I can no longer keep up. I need your help watching over it all.
If you'd like to omnisciently view everything "from above", see this page:
  • WP:OOKWL - watchlist for copying and pasting into your raw watchlist.
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
  • WP:OOKRC - a version of the above watchlist for use with "Related changes".
  • WP:OOKDIR - a list of key pages related to the OOK, along with their shortcuts.
  • WP:OOKDISC - list of discussions pertaining to outlines.
What's next?

There are a lot of contradictions in guidelines related to outlines. I'll be turning my attention to fixing those.

The number of "Outline of" articles is rapidly catching up to portals, and will probably pass them by the end of the summer!

Keep up the excellent work.

The Transhumanist 01:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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