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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Nice catch on 10-BaseT - It's been a while since I studied the OSI model, and it's a little fuzzier in my mind now than it was during my exams... ;-) Anyway, welcome to wikipedia - have fun! :) Martin

Thanks. But what's up with the "welcome"? I've been here a year and a half. I guess I shouldn't complain about friendliness in any form :-) Thanks ! --AMillar

Ahh, details :)

Hey Amillar. Welcome to Wikipedia! (no! sorry! just kidding!) How'd you get the picture from 1911 encyclopedia? Do they exist on the web? Arthur 21:16 Mar 18, 2003 (UTC)

Heh! Thanks :-) No, I haven't found them on the web. I own a few beat-up volumes of the EB11 and scanned the aqueduct pictures myself. Black-and-white images are being processed through Distributed Proofreaders right now (and I'm working on that project) but unfortunately the photos are very poor in the scans we are working from. The line-drawn pictures are decent, and hopefully we'll find a way between DP and archive.org to make the entire image set available, but it isn't there yet. --Alan


Hi, thanks for adding dates to the biographical listing pages. I've transferred W3 to your WikiMoney account to encourage you to keep up the good work. Cheers, AxelBoldt 19:36 22 May 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm experimenting with some scripts to snarf the pages and cross-reference with the article page and other listings (list of inventors, list of Mexicans, etc.). We'll see how it comes out :-) Amillar 16:12 25 May 2003 (UTC)

Good work on all those biographical listings! However, are you sure it's a good idea to be creating all these new pages using the subpage naming scheme? We're trying to get rid of subpages :) If you're only experimenting, then nevermind... but perhaps we should work on un-subpaging them before creating new ones. -- Wapcaplet 14:21 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

This whole "subpage" issue is an interesting one. Since the new Wikipedia software doesn't implement subpages, pages with a slash in the name are just more pages. So by definition, I haven't created any new subpages-- only new pages consistent with an older naming scheme :-) If you'd like to rename them to something without a slash, I'm certainly fine with that and I'll go along with whatever people would rather call them. Until there is a consensus on a new name, I'm just keeping them consistent with each other. -- Amillar 16:15 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Aren't they? Subpages have automatically-generated links at the top back to their "parent" article. Wikipedia:Do not use subpages recommends moving them to a better name whenever possible. -- Wapcaplet 21:39 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Hmm, Interesting. The page Biographical Listing/BA does not have an automatic link to Biographical Listing. There is a link, but it is in the text body. However, user:Amillar/Contributions does have a link back to User:Amillar. I guess we are both wrong :-) :-) One of the procedure pages says they are implemented for Talk: and User: namespaces. I learn something new every day. In any case, it is time to rename them. -- Amillar 22:04 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Dear Amillar: I must apologize for what I did. I did it in thebest interest of Wikipedia. If youre nice, you get apologies from me , and you did because while you commented on the issue in my page you were nice about it and did not offend me with your expression, such as the other person did. I dont want to hear from that other contributor anymore.

Thank you and God bless you.

Sincerely yours, Antonio The Contropedia Martin


Just a note, why change the wording in List of assassinated persons? The old way you could link to the relevant country, the new way it is impossible. --Dante Alighieri 23:11 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Darn! I botched a mass edit. Thank you for catching that. -- Amillar 23:30 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

BTW, thanks for the hard work on adding so many overlooked bios to list of people. I was about to ask on the pump why so many bios were missing from what should be the canonical list, then I saw you were actually doing something about it! Stan 12:02 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. The reason so many were missing is because nobody added them :-) :-) -- Amillar 23:08 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hello Amillar, first good work for list of people. It is a labor-intensive task so it is really great you are spending time. I just want to ask you if you can mark your contributions for list of people as minor since I don't think there would be any controversy about your editing because it seems to me you just break up pages. -- Taku 05:27 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback. Based on your comment that it seems to you that I'm only breaking up pages, I'm wondering if you have not seen what has been happening with the list of people pages in the last two weeks. I'm not just breaking up pages, or just making minor changes. I've added new list entries, or updated dates or comments on existing entries, for a few thousand people. Feel free to look at my list of contributions. I wouldn't necessarily call it controversial, but there have been a number of things to discuss about it at Talk:list of people (not to mention this very user talk page), so I don't think I should downplay the changes. If I only change one or two things on a page, I usually do mark it as minor. -- Amillar 05:47 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi Alan, I'm sorry for interfering with your work. I, too, was first under the impression you were doing just a simple page split-up, so I decided to help to make it go faster. I didn't realise you were also adding things; sorry if I caused confusion or inconvenience. -- Timwi 23:01 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Please, by all means, do not consider this as "my work" or that you are interfering. This is definitely a collaborative effort!. In particular, I make some mass updates and I don't always catch duplicate names or other mistakes, so I defintely need your and everyone else's proofreading skills. Thanks! -- Amillar 23:23 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Please note, at List of people associated with World War II, the George H.W. Bush page (no space between initials) is just a redirect to the George H. W. Bush page (space between initials), so it's really quite useless to use a [[George H.W. Bush|George H. W. Bush]] piped link, since it shows up with the space that way, but links with the redirect. If your intent was for it to display without the space, that would be done as [[George H. W. Bush|George H.W. Bush]] instead, but I don't consider keeping the space out to be a good enough reason to bother with a piped link anyway. -- John Owens 20:51 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that. As I've mentioned in a few places, I'm using some script programming to try to get some consistency between the various list of people pages, including sorting through the numerous variations in people's names. Obviously I got that one wrong. I appreciate the extra eyes in catching these things. Thanks. -- Amillar 02:51 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Alan, Thanks again for your work in the biography name lists. As I've added entries, I have had one idea about headings, and thought I'd ask you opinion (because I'm undecided}. The page heading would be clener if we removed the unused links (e.g. there won't be any names in 'Rd'). OTOH, if we remove them all, and then need to add one (suppose that an 'Rc' name shows up), we'd need to go back and add that entry to all the 'R' subpages. Any thoughts? Lou I 19:43 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I agree that it looks better. My basic reaction, however, is that I don't want to do the work either now to remove them or later to re-add them :-) Wikipedia being what it is, though, I would encourage you to feel free to clean them up however you think looks best. When I do more page splits, I'll still create them like they are now (all letter combinations), but I won't object to anyone else cleaning them up. <Rant> Actually, I object to the list of people by name pages existing as wiki pages at all. They should be something like Special: pages automatically generated from metadata in people articles.</Rant> But, hey, I also object to war, pollution, and entropy for that matter, and just objecting doesn't fix it. So we can make do with what we have to work with for now. -- Amillar 22:09 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for your efforts adding entries from the 1911 encyclopedia. But please be aware that many of the articles have OCR mistakes which want weeding out.  :-)


About you being blocked: it's possible you're blocked from the web server config files. Have a look at this:

    Deny from 144.167.21.15
    Deny from 192.153.22.246
    Deny from 202.69.76.19
    # Deny from 4.38.68.176
    # Deny from 4.38.68.69
    Deny from 212.27.33.00/24
    Deny from 24.130.248.43
    # Inktomi
    Deny from 66.196.72.00/24
    Deny from 66.196.73.00/24
    # Not sure who this is:
    Deny from 194.209.152.200
    # Hitting from the UK, 2003-02-07
    Deny from 80.192.68.91
    # Another botter: 2003-02-09
    Deny from 80.2.170.93
    # Some sort of scripting bot? 2003-04-01
    Deny from 209.208.186.2
    # Taking 2.07% of the april traffic!
    Deny from 68.62.88.211
    Deny from 203.175.70.118

    # Longtime harasser DW
    Deny from 64.228.30.0/24
    # ^^ Elliot Lake, ON ppp center for Sympatico.ca

    Deny from 209.91.166.58
    #58.166.91.209.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer nisu-1.vianet.ca.
    Deny from 209.91.166.57
    #57.166.91.209.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer nisu-gw.vianet.ca.
    # ^^ The Northern Intake Screening Unit in Elliot Lake, ON
    # Presumed to be DW's workplace

Does any of that ring a bell? -- Tim Starling 11:26 19 Jul 2003 (UTC)

No, unfortunately, I don't see a match. The IP I'm having trouble connecting from is 216.99.203.72. Just to verify, I resolve www.wikipedia.org as 130.94.122.199, to which I can ping and traceroute but not open port 80. Thanks. -- Amillar 15:15 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I found it! You're blocked from the firewall. Wow, you must have done something really bad. I'll see if I can fix it up. -- Tim Starling 04:55, Jul 30, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your help. Yes, I did. I am completely reworking my script throttling; and I'll be a lot more paranoid about avoiding thrashing the server. Thanks! -- Amillar 17:08, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)
It might be another couple of days. The firewall configuration can only be written by someone with root access. I thought I'd wait until Brion comes back (1-2 days) before I post my request to wikitech-l, that way we're more likely to get a response. I posted a request for help back when I first found out about this, but it was just ignored. -- Tim Starling 22:58, Jul 30, 2003 (UTC)

Bede

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I must have accidentally deleted the interlanguage links. Sorry about that. john k 06:17, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Achille Baquet & Acacius of Constantinople

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Hi, Alan; thanks for all those entries (before i arrived at WP) on List of people by name. And you know that no good deed goes unpunished:

In [1]] you introduced

*Baquet, Achille, patriarch of Constantinople

Later, someone (i'll figure out who if this doesn't pan out) introduced

*Baquet, Achille, musician

They could both be right, but i suspect there's some kind of garble involved in the first one, which perhaps should simply be discarded.

It might be that Baquet was misfiled, by first name, at the time of the garble creating opportunity for them to interact, and later got moved from the As to the Bs. (I haven't checked List of people by name: Ac, since they probably were built and manipulated before being added to WP.)

(Curiously, but i assume irrelevantly, they got separated by a misplaced heading in [2], which has probably delayed suspicion about this.)

I'd welcome any insight you could offer.
--Jerzy(t) 06:14, 2004 Jun 25 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that. The entry on the "B" page is just plain wrong. The name "Baquet, Achille" should only be associated with the musician and should not point to the patriarch. Please feel free to fix it and anything else you come across. The way it happened is that "Achille" was next to "Acacius" in a list and they got mangled. I was actually using some automated scripting to gather and update the data, and obviously I didn't proofread close enough. I gave up after a while because I decided that manually maintaining it all is silly when the software could do it for us. I'm waiting for the new categorization stuff to settle; when it does then I'm sure the List of People pages will be unnecessary and will go away completely. --Amillar 17:32, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Sleep Apnoea

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Hi Alan,

First off, apologies for any breaches of protocol regarding my article on Sleep Apnoea; this was my first (albeit brief!) contribution, and I should have read the guidelines more carefully.

That said, my article on SA was original work (not "a cut-and-paste from a medical text"), lifted directly from my dissertation on the subject, as were the strange pink images. Rather than disregard it completely in favour of the older text, as you did in reverting to a previous article, perhaps you could marry the two into a better article?

I'm looking forward to reading it.

Kind Regards, Gary Bass MD

Thanks for your note. My apologies for making a rash assumption about your work; it is well written and Wikipedia will definitely benefit from it. I'm not going to volunteer to do the integration of the whole thing, but we can structure it so the Wikipedia collaborative effort can work on it. --Amillar 23:58, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

NP. I've made a go at integrating the articles, correcting some minor errors in both, so there is a structure there for future updates from other Wiki encyclopaedists.

Copyvio images

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Hi Amillar! I just saw your addition of Image:Aardvark.jpg to Wikipedia:Images for deletion. In general, potential copyvio images should be listed on Wikipedia:Copyright problems, not IfD. Best, Diberri | Talk 00:06, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)

OK, thanks for pointing that out --Amillar 17:08, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

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Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer.

At User:Amillar/Copyrights --Amillar 22:19, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Main namespace cleanup

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Heya, in a main-namespace cleanup I've moved Alan Millar/Contributions to User:Alan Millar/oldpage-Contributions. There's some edit history, so perhaps you want to keep it. Otherwise just delete it (or ask an admin to do so). --fvw* 18:58, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)

Ditto for User:Alan Millar/old-Test and User:Alan Millar/old-Picture contributions. --fvw* 19:07, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)
I've gone ahead and history merged all of them except User:Alan Millar/old-Test. The text of the edits may be junk but at least we have the dates and times of the edits. The text might be recoverable from the Nostalgia Wikipedia. Graham87 08:38, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

January 15 Seattle meetup

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Just wanted to let you know we are planning another Seattle meetup on January 15, 2005. We're trying to get a sense of who will attend, so please drop by that page & leave a note. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:46, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for recommendation

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Thanks for the book recommendation about public domain. I stopped by my library and checked it out, hopefully it will answer my question. Thanks again. --Mrmiscellanious 22:27, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User Categorization

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You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Oregon page as living in or being associated with Oregon. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Oregon for instructions. Rmky87 06:06, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I was starting to work on the Bishoy article, which is presently a hodge-podge of copyvio materials taken from various Coptic Church sites and highly UE. After a little research I noticed you are the main author of Macarius of Egypt, which is in much better shape and a closely related bio. Probably you are much better qualified to fix Bishoy than me, if you cared to take it on. Otherwise, I'll use Macarius as a template and do the best I can. TIA FRS 22:32, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Great idea!

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I just want to say that I think that User:Amillar/CCEL authors is a fantastic idea :-) Ta bu shi da yu 07:32, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. if anyone has concerns about adding CCEL links to pages, please tell them to have a chat with me. CCEL is pretty high quality, and I think adding links to relevant articles would probably be a good idea. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:37, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Argh!

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I've sent you an email, but also want to ask what we can do to coax you back? - Ta bu shi da yu 07:34, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings from the "No good deed goes unpunished" prize patrol!

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In preparation for its 2.5 yr anniversary [wink], i am removing

from List of people by name: She#Shea - Shei. Of course, it you remember your source ... [ROTFL]
Thanks as always --Jerzyt 16:58, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Changes Camp in Portland

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FYI RecentChangesCamp Tedernst | talk 22:03, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Mink-mustella-vison.jpg listed for deletion

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An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Mink-mustella-vison.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

The image is an orphan -Nv8200p talk 17:43, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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At Greek alphabet, you wrote [[number|numbers]]. I changed it to [[number]]s.

Writing [[hyphen]]ated, [[logic]]al, [[cat]]s, [[evolution]]ary, [[rabbi]]nical, [[Egypt]]ian, [[dogma]]tic, [[apocrypha]]l, [[fur trade]]r, [[antagonist]]ic, [[algebra]]ic, [[legend]]ary etc., makes the whole word, not just the part in the brackets, appear as a clickable link, which links to the article whose title is in the brackets. The more complicated form can be used for things like [[philosophy|philosophies]]. Michael Hardy 23:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I consider that to be highly subjective. I'm having a hard time seeing how [[number|numbers]] is complicated, whereas [[hav]]ing [[squa]]re [[bracket]]s at [[so]]me [[sem]]i-[[rand]]om [[poi]]nt in the [[mid]]dle of a [[wo]]rd is not, but that's just me. The brackets in the word certainly make it harder to search the source for a particular word. And when a slipshod link like "He spoke [[Egypt]]ian fluently" eventually gets properly disambiguated to "He spoke [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] fluently", then the scheme is out the window anyways. I'm sorry it seems complicated to you. This being Wikipedia, feel free to update them as you like. -Amillar 00:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History of silk

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Would you mind telling me how you found the article? -Oreo Priest 23:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I came across the History of silk article when doing disambiguation checks on Job. I simply started with the Job page and went to "what links here", and worked down the list. I don't really know anything about silk, but tried to figure out what the article was intending in the link, and decided on Job (Biblical figure). Feel free to fix it if I got it wrong. Thanks -Amillar 16:25, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Image:Aqueduct-aqua-claudia.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I8 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is available as a bit-for-bit identical copy on the Wikimedia Commons under the same name, or all references to the image on Wikipedia have been updated to point to the title used at Commons.

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Washington Irving

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Great job on finding a source for the whole flat earth myth on the Washington Irving article! Any chance you can pin down a page number for it? --Midnightdreary (talk) 22:05, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto, that was making me crazy as well. Kudos.--Federalistpapers (talk) 22:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have to go look it up --Amillar (talk) 00:32, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I got the page references for Irving as well as Russell --Amillar (talk) 18:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Tuba.png listed for deletion

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File:Cuttlefish.png missing description details

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Fixed and moved to Commons - Amillar (talk) 21:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are now a Reviewer

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Justin Martyr

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Hi, I'm not sure if you are still around, but I was fixing some issues in the Justin Martyr article you contributed to way back 2001. A lot your text came from "Old Ency", and I was hoping you remembered which encyclopedia you used so that I could properly cite it. Thank-you! --Zfish118 (talk) 18:43, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I found the encyclopedia name - got buried! Thank-you anyways --Zfish118 (talk) 23:46, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
And for anyone else wondering, it was the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. At one time, Wikipedia was paranoid about infringing on the Britannica trademark, so we didn't mention it by name. Thankfully that has come around to a practice of proper attribution. --Amillar (talk) 05:40, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, actually, that one was Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge --Amillar (talk) 05:44, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited! Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon at the University of Oregon

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Saturday, March 9 - Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon at the University of Oregon - You are invited!
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The event is March 9, from 1-4 PM, at the University of Oregon Library.

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Your user page

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Hello, I found your user page while doing some wikiarcheology. . I have restored all of its earliest surviving revisions from old copies of the Wikipedia database, so they are available to everyone now. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 11:02, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Pride

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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Portland Oregon (March 7, 2015)

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Wikipedia Women's Health Information Edit-a-thon: Tuesday, May 12 at OHSU

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Upcoming Art+Feminism events in Oregon

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Upcoming Wikipedia edit-a-thon dedicated to artists of color - Thursday, Oct. 26 at PNCA

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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (April 13, University of Oregon)

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start biographies

Thank you for quality articles, starting perdonalities such as Lucas Cranach the Elder, Antonio Vivaldi and Franz Schubert, for your work on User:Amillar/CCEL authors, for redirects, for "I'm not playing theologian any more", - Alan, tired of babysitting articles, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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A year ago, you were recipient no. 1967 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:15, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I I Removed English Name Parameter Because English Name is Deleted on English Wikipedia and Back the English name Please Because the Infobox Name of The Old Changes of this Page is Becomes Bad,The Infobox Name and the Page Name is Similar.For Sample, The Page Name is Pope Paul I and the Infobox Name is Pope Paul I Too but the Orginal is, The Page Name is Pope Paul I and The Infobox Name is Paul I Not Pope Paul I and You See that the Deletion of English Name is Making English Wikipedia Pages So Bad Simple Lang Ako (talk) 02:55, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I Removed English Name Parameter on Page Pope Paul I Because English Name is Deleted on English Wikipedia and Back the English name Please Because the Infobox Name of The Old Changes of this Page is Becomes Bad,The Infobox Name and the Page Name is Similar.For Sample, The Page Name is Pope Paul I and the Infobox Name is Pope Paul I Too but the Orginal is, The Page Name is Pope Paul I and The Infobox Name is Paul I Not Pope Paul I and You See that the Deletion of English Name is Making English Wikipedia Pages So Bad Simple Lang Ako (talk) 02:57, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia Editathon: The Visibility Project - Saturday, January 19

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Oregon State University Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Friday, February 8

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PNCA Art+Feminism Wikipedia Editathon, Saturday, March 9

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International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Oregon Jewish Museum, Thursday, March 7

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The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, in partnership with social practice artist Shoshana Gugenheim and as part of the Art+Feminism Project, will host the 2nd Annual International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to edit and/or create Wikipedia articles for Jewish women artists. The event will be held at the museum on Thursday, March 7 from 4 to 8 pm. Pre-registration is preferred but not required. Members of the public are invited to come to the museum to learn about the editing process, its history, its impact, and how to do it. We aim to collaboratively edit/enter 18 Jewish women artists into the canon. Support will be provided by an experienced local Wikipedian who will be on site to teach and guide the process. This edit-a-thon will serve as both a public art action and a public educational program. Participants will have an opportunity to select an artist/s ahead of time or on site.

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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

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I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

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Romans listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Romans. Since you had some involvement with the Romans redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. –MJLTalk 02:30, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Monday, December 23, 5:30pm PST

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Hello, Amillar

In the text:

"Bald in the English name is derived from the word piebald, and refers to the white head and tail feathers and their contrast with the darker body."

I'm wondering why not adding another version to describe the name origin:

https://www.eagles.org/americas-bird-the-bald-eagle/

Thanks!

Yyfroy (talk) 08:45, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

They're really saying the same thing, but yes it could stand some clarification. This is Wikipedia, so you don't need my permission; feel free to dive in and fix it however you think would help. Amillar (talk) 20:49, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]


No, I'm not allowed to.

Yyfroy (talk) 23:56, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Multilinear" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Information icon A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Multilinear. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 24#Multilinear until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:30, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

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Precious
Two years!

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Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia - Editathon 2021

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Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia - Editathon 2021
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Precious anniversary

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Precious
Three years!

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You're Invited! Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia

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Portland Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon: March 12, 2022

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You are invited! An Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon will be held in Portland, Oregon, on March 12, 2022. Learn more here!

Wikipedia is one of the most-visited sites on the internet—and it’s created by people who volunteer their time to write and edit pages. Learn how to edit Wikipedia and be a part of shaping our understanding of our world. In this workshop, volunteer Wikipedia editors will be on hand to train participants on how to get started editing pages and offer ideas for which pages you can pitch in to help improve. Show up at any point during the four hours to get started!

Also: Free burritos!! We will be providing vegan, vegetarian, and meat burritos from food cart Loncheria Las Mayos. Alder Commons has a large, fenced playground. Children are welcome! Some computers will be available to borrow, but if you have a laptop, please bring it to use. We will also be leading an online training for new editors at 11am-12pm PST. Please feel free to join that training if you are not able to show up IRL.

This event is part of the international month of events organized by Art+Feminism, which is building a community of activists committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:36, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Discussion at Talk:CP/M § PDP

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 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:CP/M § PDP. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:58, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I know its a little late, but I wanted to let you know I have posted reply there a few days back. I hope you are still around, and see this someday. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:58, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

International Women’s Day Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, Sunday, March 10

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Entrance to the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
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The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE), in partnership with social practice artist Shoshana Gugenheim and as part of the Art+Feminism Project, will host an International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to edit and/or create Wikipedia articles for Jewish women artists. The event will be held at the museum on Sunday, March 10 from 11am-3pm PDT. Pre-registration is preferred but not required. Members of the public are invited to come to the museum to learn about the editing process, its history, its impact, and how to do it. We aim to collaboratively edit/enter Jewish women artists into the canon. An experienced regional Wikipedian will provided will be on site to teach, support, and guide the process. Participants can select artists ahead of time or on site.
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