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Hello, and thank you for your review at WP:Peer review/Egyptian temple/archive1. I responded to your comments, if you're interested. But I also wanted to suggest a source for the "weighing of the heart" article you're working on: Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt (2005) by Jan Assmann. Assmann's prose is dense at best, but the book is the most thorough treatment of Egyptian afterlife beliefs in existence. I believe Assmann has suggested that the Negative Confession derives ultimately from priestly vows of purity. A. Parrot (talk) 01:13, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Pursuing the task force idea ... would you be interested in participating, and if so, would it be possible for you to round up some people who share your views and keep in touch with them as the task force makes recommendations? - Dank (push to talk) 21:08, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

:while it sounds like a good idea, I don't want to commit myself - I have plenty of commitments already! If it gets going I'll keep an eye on things though. The Land (talk) 21:45, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

::Thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 21:55, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

I'd like to ask some questions about the endorsements idea without distracting from the "Eureka" thread on this temporary talk page. Thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 00:19, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind, but I have made citations in the article on the Ironclad Warship more specific. The problem with citing Sondhaus p55 or Beeler p55 is that both authors have written several relevant books. Whilst I appreciate that at the moment it is clear which book is being cited, it is foreseeable that their other books may get cited. Indeed I think they should be.--Toddy1 (talk) 15:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

::I'd noticed that, actually, and definitely approve - thank you! The Land (talk) 16:07, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello The Land! I am presently rationalising various links and re-directs that go to one of our articles Propeller or Propeller (aircraft). There is a re-direct, Screw propellor, which leads to Propeller#Marine. Wikipedia has standardised on the spelling propeller rather than the minority spelling propellor so I have changed Screw propellor to Screw propeller wherever it has been used.

There is now only one link to Screw propellor remaining on Wikipedia and that is in your draft article User:The Land/Wooden steam warship. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Screw_propellor HERE.] I have noticed that throughout this draft article you have used the minority spelling propellor rather than propeller. I am happy to change this but I don't tinker with a User's personal sandbox without the User's agreement.

I will watch this Talk page for a week or so. If you are happy for me to make the changes just let me know. Regards. Dolphin (t) 02:52, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

:Have I not responded to this? Yes, go ahead and change away :-) The Land (talk) 09:32, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

::Thanks. I have made the changes. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:The_Land/Wooden_steam_warship&diff=prev&oldid=424511636 diff]. Dolphin (t) 11:51, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

I want to thank you for your peer review of Egyptian temple, as well as your support for its FA status. I also want to thank you for FAC reviewing in general—I did it out of a sense of obligation while Egyptian temple was at FAC, and I hated it. Kudos to everybody who keeps the system working. A. Parrot (talk) 05:59, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

I've certainly heard about the British Museum project; somebody posted a note about last year's prize contest on the Ancient Egypt project page. I considered attempting to bring Papyrus of Ani up to FA standard, but before I could really do anything about it, the prizes were all taken. Rosetta Stone turned out to be a really good read, though.

For the past few years, improving the coverage of ancient Egyptian religion has been my primary goal on Wikipedia. That includes the funerary texts—in fact, I wanted the prize specifically so I could buy one of the museum's giant books on funerary texts—so I was glad to see that you made Book of the Dead a GA. Someday I hope to get around to the other texts, so if the museum starts working on those, I would like to help. I've never written collaboratively before, though, and don't know how good at it I would be.

Incidentally, I'll be in the museum in August, marching around looking for the statue of Bastet with the four kittens. A. Parrot (talk) 18:34, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi, The Land. The SMS Friedrich der Grosse (1911) A-class review is due to be closed shortly (in the next 36 hours or so) and I am trying to gauge if all concerns have been addressed so I can look to close it. Would you mind taking another look at the ACR and stating if you support or oppose it's promotion? Cheers. AustralianRupert (talk) 13:41, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

::Actually my concerns about the terseness of the construction section hadn't been addressed at all, and I was away for Easter and not checking Wikipedia... oh well... The Land (talk) 20:16, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Given what I've read about some similar problems you've had in the not too distant past with a certain power-hungry, egotistical, know-it-all, hypocritical, dishonest, [[douche bag] admini, I strongly suspect you would enjoy watching me hand him his shriveled, severed testicles in the current debate,to be completed here in the next few days. Feel free to jump in this lynching any time you damn well please, if you want to :-)

"The show" has already started, and its at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine&oldid=425090952#.22Non-small-cell_lung_carcinoma.22_vs_.22Non_small_cell_lung_carcinoma.22|here]. Hope to see you around.

Best regards:

Cliff L. Knickerbocker, MS (talk) 04:17, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

I have created redirects for the vessels of the Aetna class ironclad floating battery, to the class page as this contains stub histories of each. At some future date people may choose to turn some or all of the redirects into articles. --Toddy1 (talk) 10:17, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

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DYK that there is [http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Kipling/the_land.htm this poem called The Land] by Kipling. Here it is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ml3bD_XPAk lustily sung at Sidmouth]. — RHaworth {{toolbar|separator=dot|talk | contribs }} 00:03, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

:I didn't. I'm named after The Land (song)... The Land (talk) 12:14, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

I've nominated Gondal to appear as a Did You Know item. I'm not sure if anyone else was going to do this. It is the fourth day after creation so I thought I should go ahead. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 18:03, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

:Thanks! I was meaning to but would never have got round to it, tbh... :-) The Land (talk) 18:19, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

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Hi,

I added the cc-by-sa template to the photo of Arthur which you uploaded to meta. I assumed that would be ok with you since that's the license you used for :File:The photographer team.jpg and :File:Till Mletzko at the Fundraising Summit 2011.jpg. If you prefer another license, please update the file (or just let me know and I'll do it), because I'd like to move the file to Commons and put it in the appropriate category together with those two, and a proper license is required for that.

Cheers, Waldir ^talk 10:05, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

:that's all fine - thanks - have you got home ok yet? The Land (talk) 10:13, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

:: Great! I'll transfer the image then.

:: I am almost home. There was a delay of over an hour in the flights, and the subway from the airport in Porto arrived to the train station roughly 5 minutes after a train left to my city, so now I'm here waiting an extra hour for the next one :) But hey, each step gets me closer to home, so at least it's progress :) --Waldir ^talk 21:18, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

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There's a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(ships)#Punctuation_and_ship_classes that I think you should know about. Yours, Shem (talk) 20:18, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Somehow, I never even thought to look.... :( TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 22:05, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

I don't know if you've had a chance to take a look at my [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history&diff=442502322&oldid=442495255 two suggestions] for how we could set up infrastructure for GLAM/NMM work within MILHIST; in any case, please let me know what you think the most useful approach would be, and we can get started on setting it up. Thanks! Kirill ^{[talk] [prof]} 01:59, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

:I hadn't spotted it - so thanks for pointing it out! I think a MILHIST tag and the resulting statistics would definitely be useful. I wouldn't rule out making it a fully-fledged MILHIST taskforce but am not sure that's needed at the moment - if that makes sense. Also, if it would be possible to announce it in the Bugle that would be really useful as well.

:The intention is very definitely to enhance the NMM's information as well as simply integrating it. Obviously articles will be improved once they're created - that's what wikipedia is all about - but it's actually quite interesting and fun to do a bit of cross-refencing and research at the same time as updating it.

:This project will be a bit different to most MILHIST projects in that the outcome will be thousands of stubs and starts, rather than dozens of featured articles.

:Hope that all makes sense and sorry I didn't get back to you more quickly. I am trying to avoid saying "this is how it's going to work, this is what I need" - because I'm still getting to grips with how it might work myself! Happy to discuss furhter - regards, The Land (talk) 10:41, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

::Fair enough. It shouldn't be difficult to add a tag to {{tl|WPMILHIST}} to track the GLAM/NMM articles; that will at least give you the assessment statistics. Beyond that, I suppose we can play it by ear. If the NMM project wants more infrastructure, we can absorb it into MILHIST as a special project; if the additional infrastructure isn't needed, we can simply work with you as a partner GLAM project and just share the assessment tags.

::I'll see what I can do about getting it mentioned in the Bugle as well. Kirill ^{[talk] [prof]} 13:58, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

:::Thanks. Yes, "play it by ear" is right at this stage. The Land (talk) 19:45, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi The Land, I have inferred that you are close to the NMM people. Is there any way we can contact them to figure out their sources, at least on an occasional basis? For instance, on Eagle (1812), ID#365985, I can verify/second source Yankee{{'}}s capture of Eagle (and have included the info under HMS Poictiers (1809), but I have not been able to figure out what her name was when she was recaptured, who recaptured her, or anything else about her subsequent career. Clearly, NMM didn't make up the info, so where did they get it? If I could find that out, I could do some more Google-sleuthing. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 00:48, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

:I'll ask. I strongly suspect the answer is: primary sources. The Land (talk) 10:44, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

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I mentioned your name here, hope that's okay (easier to ask forgiveness than permission!). - Dank (push to talk) 13:00, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi! Ref outreach and the discussion on the coord pages, do you fancy dropping me an email? Hchc2009 (talk) 11:47, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

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Dear The Land,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

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I'm leaving this message as you're listed as a current participant of WikiProject Business. I was informed yesterday that the current World Factoring Yearbook (circa £150) is now free for download as an ebook. It's a matter of filling out [http://www.bcrpub.co.uk/registration this form]. I'm not sure if you'll find this useful as a reliable source, but I thought I should let you know that it's freely available online. I apologise in advance if this doesn't interest you! All the best, The Cavalry (Message me) 15:15, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Dear The Land,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

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Jonathan Obar --Jaobar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.9.115.210 (talk) 20:12, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Yes indeed, very good to talk to you today. I hope I didn't go on at too much length about what just happened to be at the forefront of my editing mind! Jheald (talk) 23:28, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

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Hello I'm a fifth year history student at UC Berkeley and I'm writing my thesis on the civilian effects on the development of the ironclad warship. I'm starting with wooden and iron steam warships and would be very interested in your existing bibliography for this page, as well as any other souces you may have. I have plenty of my own, but its always better to get more. I'd love to share any of my findings with you for use in your own research.

Thanks,

Pete Adams

PeteAdams89 (talk) 18:26, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure if this belongs here, my apologies if it does not...

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Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:53, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorry babe, I'm unemployed so travel is out of the question. Interesting subjects though - I have a section on medical services at 3rd Ypres simmering and I've nearly finished Tactical Developments on the WF. PS what we need most are translations of French and German sources.Keith-264 (talk) 19:32, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

:Where are you based, if you don't mind me asking? If it's in the UK, we can cover travel costs. The Land (talk) 19:46, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

:I live in Hull.Keith-264 (talk) 20:14, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

::I thought you were probably a Brit! We could definitely pay your train fare, if the event's of interest to you. (It's an open offer to any UK Wikimedians who're interested, in case any of them are watching your talk page.) Very interesting work on the tactical developments in 1917, btw - it's great to see someone covering subjects that I always meant to work on! The Land (talk) 21:01, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

:Actually, I'm not as pessimistic as I was yesterday so what are the details (of the money, that is ;O))?Keith-264 (talk) 07:03, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

::Can you drop me a line via email - either via email user or on chris dot keating @wikimedia.org.uk - we can talk privately! The Land (talk) 17:34, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

::: Hello Chris,

::: Thanks for your response to my suggestions about WWI and art. I am hoping to participate virtually to help your excellent people and use your excellent resources to improve some of the articles about these artists. Happy to take up an offer of a train fare but I don't think it would help. :) More discussion is happening on my talk page so ... Whiteghost.ink (talk) 02:06, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on my work so far on this article. Left responses on the Talk page there; look forward to more from you and hopefully others as well. Jonyungk (talk) 14:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

It's been suggested at WT:MILHIST#Possible FAC that I ask you to try to find an image of SS Alster / {{SS|Empire Endurance||2}} via the National Maritime Museums archive if they have one. Would you mind asking please? Mjroots (talk) 09:03, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Just a quick poke regarding this. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 03:17, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

:Another poke. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 09:09, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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You wrote: "I see there are several refs to someone called "Mallet" - who isn't listed in the bibliograph. Who, or what, is this work? And how much credence can we put on his casualty figures?" in 2009 and as I tidied the references earlier, I had a look through Amazon and Archives org with several permutations of the name, the great war, Messines etc and got nothing.Keith-264 (talk) 23:44, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

The Wikipaedian reflected on the day out as his third pint of Guinness settled. Jeff "Son of Hendrix" Parsons of Reaction reached for his second guitar, at his joint sixtieth birthday party and band's twentieth anniversary gig. An early start had seen the purlieus of Hull disappear into the gloom. The journey to The Smoke was uneventful and his research for the day, (Dangerous Liaisons) left him feeling primed. He enjoyed the walk from King's Cross to the British Library. When a Hillman jumped the kerb and two men with kipper ties and questionable hair leapt out and wrestled a man to the ground shouting "We're The Sweeney, son and we haven't had our dinner yet!", The Wikipaedian refected that things were still a little different down here.

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Lunch had been served and after that there were talks by the Commonwealth War Grave and some of the Wikipaedia officials and then more editing. The other crowd (at The Railway, Cottingham) a mixture of grey panthers, proving that age hadn't diminished their ability to get their money's worth on a Saturday night and some younger souls, who had learned their instruments from Jeff at his day job, were moving to the beat. A tongue-in-cheek rendition of "Crocodile Rock" was followed by three original songs, as the lead singer got his breath back. Reaction's flashy crowd-pleasing steps made journeys from the bar an obstacle course, which The Wikipaedian negotiated skillfully; he had some flashy steps too. As Reaction shouted "Go!" The Wikipaedian enjoyed the memory of catching the train home and as Jeff climbed a table to blast the crowd with "You Give Love a Bad Name", he thought that these days Wikipaedia was giving history a rather good one.

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:Hope you found it useful! (And there were some spare laptops for just this purpose)> Thanks very much for coming. :-) The Land (talk) 19:20, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

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Hey The Land, I was wondering if you had any other comments on the protected cruisers FLC? Thanks. Parsecboy (talk) 12:18, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

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You've done some good work on this article in the past and I'm looking to improve it enough to pass GA by adding sourcing and filling in gaps. But we're having our usual spat over what should be covered regarding the Deutschlands, Scharnhorsts and Dunkerques. Your opinions would be welcome, especially as the longer-term goal is to get this ready for FAC sometime this year.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:28, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Chris! This is just a note to let you know that I have nominated Dreadnought for a main page appearance. I hope you don't mind! Best, -- Dianna (talk) 03:02, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

:I've scheduled it for 29th January (you should get a bot notice in due course) but I'd like you, or someone else who knows about these things, to look at the "fact" tag in footnote b. Thanks, Bencherlite^Talk 00:15, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

I just noticed that you removed a number of items in the List_of_fictional_elements,_materials,_isotopes_and_atomic_particles article, in September 2012, for "unreferenced or non-notable" reasons.

Please tell me what counts as non-notable in works of fiction, especially such famous works as "Doc" Smith's Lensman series...thanx.

Silverhill (talk) 11:08, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

:Sure. If there are third-party, out-of-universe sources that discuss the fictional element or material, it's notable. If there aren't, it isn't. Being present in a well-known fictional work isn't sufficient, in my view. The Land (talk) 11:26, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

::Ah, I am now among the enlightened ones ...thanx for the clarification!

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Hey Land, I [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dreadnought&diff=535203857&oldid=535147848 made] your scatter graph much larger so it is readable. Feel free to revert me if you don't like it! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:23, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

:Thanks. Don't mind much, but I thought policy was not to define image widths, as people read on all sorts of different resolution screens? Though that may have changed, my knowledge of the MOS is several years old now! The Land (talk) 18:43, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

::It's WP:IMGSIZE, which says not to define it "unless there is a good reason to do so", and WP:IMGSYN, which says "Images containing important detail (for example, a map, diagram, or chart) may need larger sizes than usual to make them readable." :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:48, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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Two years ago, you were the 380th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:31, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were recipient no. 380 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Excellent session today. As discussed, I've moved my embryonic revision of the Ashton biog to the main space. I've tried not to muck up anyone else's changes from today. Edit my version ad lib, natch. Tim riley (talk) 20:28, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, The Land. I'm also a member of WikiProject Ships. Over the last couple of months I we have been researching and rewriting the USS Monitor page and would like to nominate it for FA but before I do I would like to get feed back from someone who is also interested in early war ships. If and when you have the time could you check it out? 'Best. -- Gwillhickers 21:31, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

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How do you want to do this? I haven't seen anyone else come forth (admin or not) but I've got some provisional statements written down offline. Let me know if you want to work out how to do this over email or via talk page messages. Protonk (talk) 20:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

:You have mail ... The Land (talk) 21:19, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

First, thank you to you and Protonk for your services. Thanks also to Fluffernutter for their behind-the-scenes efforts. I think this close will go far to ease a difficult situation.

As far as I can tell, Kumioko's Reguyla account is protected, however the close mentions that the talk page will be unprotected. Is this correct?

Regards, —Neotarf (talk) 21:23, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

:I hope it does! Re the talk page - I literally fixed that a minute ago. Two bits were set, one in the blocking dialogue to prevent talk-page editing, one in the protect dialogue on the talk page to make the page admin-only. I didn't notice the second a couple of hours ago when updating the block, but did a minute or two ago, so it's fine to edit the talk page now. The Land (talk) 21:30, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

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I am well chuffed that the "Sandwich of Exceptional Excellence" retains a place in your awards section! I have just returned to WP after a period of time with out access to a computer of my own. I am also pleased to see that you have taken on real responsibility within the project. Well done, you! If there's any particular work that you think I could do to help improve the project space, please feel free to let me know. Since I let my admin. button lapse, I will be limited in action, until such time as I feel is appropriate to stand for elections again. Thanks again for keeping the sandwich, it means a lot to me! Hamster Sandwich (talk) 02:57, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

: :-) - I had actually just moved it there when I was updating my userpage and thinking aback over the Pedophilia Userbox Wheelwar of 10 years ago! But yes, it's more fun than a barnstar. Thanks for getting in touch and glad you are still around The Land (talk) 12:47, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

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Hi The Land, I have been contributing to this list, adding vessels to it as I create or work on articles. I have noticed that no one else seems to be doing so though, and I am beginning to wonder if there is much point. Do you know if the NMM cares, and if so, what use they are making of this? If they do care, is there anyone I can contact from time to time and ask them to upload some of the pictures, drawing, plans, etc that they have but have not yet put up? That would be a nice quid pro quo and would enhance some articles. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 01:03, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

:Hi Acad! Yes, thanks for continuing to update it. My contact at the NMM left there a while ago and I suspect that no-one is actively monitoring things. However, I know Wikimedia UK are still in touch with that person in their new job, and probably with the NMM, so I'll see drop them a line and see if the relationship can be renewed. It's probably helpful to still update it, but the main thing is that the data is being useful for us. (I'm meaning to see if there is a way to upload the data direct into Wikidata, as well...). Thanks, The Land (talk) 12:45, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

:::Hi The Land, thanks for getting back to me and for following up. I will continue to operate as normal then. (If nothing else, the link keeps articles about obscure vessels from having no inbound links.) Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 13:10, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

:::By-the-way, I would caution against automating anything. The NMM database has enough errors of both omission and commission (typos in vessels' names, conflation of vessels, etc.) that the work is best done manually. When I do add a vessel I often include a comment that points out where the NMM Database is in error. Would that they would use that info to improve it. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 13:24, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

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Hi Chris, the InternetArchiveBot is starting to tag all the refs to the NMM database as dead links. Have you run into this? Do your contacts at the NMM have any info? Thanks, and regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 15:25, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

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:*A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.

:*Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.

:*Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

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:*When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)

:*Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)

:* The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

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:*The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

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:* JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.

For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

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:* A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.

:* AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.

:* Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.

:* The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

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:* A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.

:* Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.

:* A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

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:* Following a discussion on the backlog of [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewFiles&offset=&limit=100&hidepatrolled=1 unpatrolled files], consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.

:* The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.

:*An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.

:*After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

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:* After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.

:* Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

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Hi, Chris! Thank you again for supporting the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 200 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.

What's new?

We are writing you this message because there is great news: The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has finally passed a [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Environmental_Impact resolution] stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Also, we have created a cool logo and found a nice name for the project which you can see on the right :-)

What's next?

Currently, we are working with Wikimedia Foundation staff to make sustainability a key priority for the selection of a new location for Wikimedia servers in Singapore. Also, we have presented the Wikimedia Foundation with a green energy roadmap to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019.

Please help!

Let's keep this project moving forward – and there are several ways in which you can help:

• Ask other Wikipedians to sign the project page as well – this way we can show the Wikimedia Foundation that this is an issue that the community really cares about.
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• Improve and translate the project page on Meta.

If you have any questions, you can contact us on on Meta. Again, thank you very much for your support! --Aubrey and Gnom (talk) 22:15, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).

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:*An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.

:*Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

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:*You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.

:*There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict [https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=metausers other user's] ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.

:*Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

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:*Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

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