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[edit] Priorities

OK. I said I might have to start setting priorities. I hereby do so. This is not to say that I'll necessarily spend all my time on the identified priorities; and priorities can change. But it should help me feel more organized. General priorities: (a) RL (b) answering messages; (c) responsibilities; (d) other.

[edit] Usual priorities

  1. RL: In a natural rebalancing of priorities, I need to put RL first for a while.
  2. Answer messages
  3. SEWQ_rc
  4. Re-order to-do list (order to-do's in priority order; list page move guidelines)
  5. Water supply and sanitation in Colombia for Kerres
  6. done CSD templates general, articles, images and other
  7. read policies
  8. Che Guevara
  9. Safavid art
  10. Items on to-do list
  11. Other

[edit] At other times

  1. Easy items on to-do list
  2. recent changes
  3. 1000 new pages
  4. XfD: AfD, tx MfD
  5. helpdesk – helpme's

[edit] Easy to-do

  • Done Vitamin C sentence re kidney stones (Feb. 22) and claim re racemic mixture (Feb. 26).
  • Done Edit sentence re insulin index in Carbohydrate as per my message on Talk:Carbohydrate after waiting from Feb. 17.
  • Codex alimentarius: re-instate Bridging the Great Divide article as per talk, after waiting from Feb. 15
  • Healthy diet: edit as per Zeroin147's comments on talk page
  • Find out how to do redirects on French Wikipedia; Acides gras essentiels --> Acide gras essentiel

[edit] To do

to make sure nothing is left out. Compare also with Pauling and other references. Add references. Find out amounts ...

[edit] Items set aside (probably won't do or don't have time for)

  • Translation page: Look at translated articles; put links to the french version (in bibliography and language tag.) If it says completed, move it to completed.
  • Add links among English nutrient articles
  • More redirects: interlinguistic* to Interlanguage links. Also: put disambiguation on latter page re Babel.
  • post at WT:NOR
  • Complete someone's proposed merge at Linear elasticity
  • User:Acps110's template (already gave help anyway, Acps110 seems satisfied)
  • lengthen lead of Circumcision and law

[edit] Mainspace editing

[edit] Formatting refs

[edit] Editing

[edit] Creating

[edit] Policies

Wikipedia policies are marvelous. In organization and style they are logical, readable and concise. In content they are designed to prevent problems in the maximum number of situations. A few contain rough spots: the exception that proves the rule, an invitation to participate in wiki editing and in the further evolution of the policies. Wikipedia policies are probably among the most thoroughly edited documents in human history.

(Dates shown are simply dates on which I read or re-read the policies.)

  • Global
  • Behavioural
  • Content and style
  • "In particular, the current title of a page does not imply either a preference for that name, or that any alternative name is discouraged in the text of articles." etc.
  • May want to read Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)
  • Deletion
  • Can speedy during AfD etc.
  • Any admin can restore a prod-ed article on request
  • Enforcing policies
  • "Wikipedia's decisions ... are based on a system of good reasons."
  • "... you actually need to carefully consider the strength and quality of the arguments themselves ..."
  • Legal and copyright
  • Other issues
  • (etc.)

[edit] Wikimedia

[edit] Selected guidelines etc.

[edit] MOS

[edit] Ũber den Wolken

[edit] Documentation subpage

{{Documentation subpage}}
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==Usage==

==See also==

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[edit] Useful links

[edit] Useful bits of code

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From help desk near end of 2008-03-11 (equation numbering): <math>\begin{array}{rclr}a&=&b+c&(1)\\d&=&e-f&(2)\end{array}</math>

From help desk "Tables", cells that span more than one row or column 13:06, 14 March 2008 (UTC) {|class="wikitable" |- |rowspan="2"|This cell covers two rows |normal cell |- |normal cell |- |colspan="2"|This cell covers two columns |}

colour of visited links: a:visited { color: #280;}. in monobook.css

[edit] Newpages

limit=100:

5000 -- 6000 -- 7000 -- 8000 -- 9000 -- 10000 -- 11000 -- 12000 -- 13000 -- 41000 -- 42000

[edit] Changes needed

  • expand complementary medicine infobox
  • rewrite paragraph in condom article as per Lyrl's comment
  • Done Consider posting licensing templates such as User:Bawolff's
  • Arachidonic acid: I put a message on its talk page re essential nutrient or not
  • discuss vitamin C and anemia on contraindications section of Talk:Vitamin C
  • Earth's energy budget I indicated I wanted to delete stuff
  • XXXX AIDS: soon after Jan. 8, create heading re treatment page and announce on HIV
  • Done AIDS: edit alternative therapy paragraph
  • DONE: AIDS article: reduce references to GRID (repetitive). Is mentioned in CDC disease classification; HIV and AIDS misconceptions; and Origin of HIV.
  • DONE Birth control: carry out edits I announced
  • DONE Ill-posed problem: fix definition cf scientific dictionary. Contrast ill-posed and ill-conditioned.
  • Norm of matrix, condition number: mention determinant as an example of a norm
  • DONE Amino acid: check why content was lost between June and Dec 6 2006 (Table was moved to another page)
  • T-test: add section with simple t-test
  • Translate statistics pages into Simple English
  • Ask questions on French and English Congo pages
  • Create disambiguation page for Wikipedia:Language tags (interlanguage links and user banners)
  • DONE Move my suggested instructions (2 sections?) from discussion of translation page to project page. (both French translation and main translation page.)
  • DONE Get rid of "french translation of the month" but retain links or merge pages
  • reformat "recently translated" (but archive the info?)
  • read French translation instructions as suggested by EdJohnston
  • Merge/organize nutrient pages e.g. existing pages on each vitamin (put in more links!)
  • Work on statistics article in Simple English Wikipedia
  • Bugzilla:
    • Have submitted bug re custom sidebars
    • Need to submit bug re common interwikis (discuss on Meta or someplace)
    • Need to submit bug re displaying number of bytes on history page
  • SE Wiktionary:
    • Continue definitions
    • Word lists
  • SE Wikiquote:
    • Continue adding Simple versions of quotes
    • put interwikis
    • Category system or connect to Main Page
  • Delete stuff from family planning as I said I would (DONE); maybe put merge tags
  • I proposed an edit on Economic equilibrium around Jan 4 2007
  • I've announced intention to change "failure rate" to "pregnancy rate" on Birth control, Natural family planning, Template:BirthControl infobox.

[edit] Archiving

  • Iantresman section to Archive 7
  • Re: re your post at ANI to Archive 7
  • Chiropractic to archive 7
  • Moonriddengirl "Back" to Archive 8
  • RfA thanks section to Archive 8

[edit] Possible projects

[edit] Delayed edits

At female genital cutting: possibly say something like "The terms "clitorectomy" or "clitoridectomy" are also used for some forms of the procedure."

Re Reproductive rights: Here's a quote from the Times article, which is already a footnote in the men's issues paragraph, which provides a balancing point of view on that issue and could perhaps be used in the article: "Franz says that she is, of course, in favor of both parents' taking responsibility for a child, an impulse that she says legal abortion has undermined. One obvious problem, if men can sever their financial ties to unwanted children, is what becomes of that child, particularly as states cut back on health care and social services." (Wanda Franz, president of National Right to Life, quoted here.)

RR: P. 22 "the 'right-to-life' movement had expanded internationally" (from JSTOR Studies in family planning article)

[edit] Pages for deletion etc.

[edit] Speedy

Genevieve Bryant (Dangereux) -- Pashia -- Susedia -- Striped blister beetles (copyvio) -- Snowbunny -- Wave Systems (db-spam; page created twice; user deleted speedy-delete tag) -- Event spectacle -- Yolci (db-bio) -- Craig Norman Rossell (db-bio) -- Donview MS (db-blank) -- Globalpeaceexchange (copyvio) -- Techtalk (blank) -- Austin Taylor (db-nonsense) -- Kate Ballin (db-nonsense) Evan Cebula (db-bio) DJ A.D. (db-bio)(twice!) Bling H2O (db-advert)Johai Zblinski War (Vampire War) (db-nonsense) Alaa Hassouna (3rd King of Canada) Caroline and elena (3rd time or so) -- Christopher Nuttall -- Erick oduor -- Nathan D Miller -- Frees Hall(db-copyvio, but rescued by Moonriddengirl?) -- Smith Hall (db-copyvio) Mr. Lankin (db-bio) -- [[Image:Manakin.gif]] Audit test of control -- HarryKoh (Remember to notify the creator.)

[edit] OK now

Admiral Seymour Elementary School (copyvio, and was re-created; now has been rewritten and is OK) -- Superman x(empty) -- Hope for the Flowers -- Won't Let You Down (Texas Takeover Remix) (blank) --WCEF-FM(blanked) --

[edit] Prod

NikeSB.org (Dec. 1 2007) Gt xpress (Dec 1 2007) -- Evil Yamato Man (Shadow Yamato X) (Dec. 2) -- Hemamotus Yamato (Shadow Yamato X) and Hemamotos Yamato (Shadow Yamato X) (Dec. 2) Growth accelerator (Dec. 2)(Dec. 2) Popular music artists from Atlanta (Dec. 2) (Dec. 2; Liolani Clan, and see also Kambari (Dec. 2) Private hybrid incubator (Dec. 2) (See also Collegiate entrepreneur AfD) -- I Stand Here Ironing (non-notable) -- Plc.4 Mie Haed(song, non-notable) -- Intuitive Games -- Brohl model -- Moparscape.org --Utatane (disambiguation) -- Primes / rules / patterns / location -- Axe bombing -- Runhardt Sander (Remember to notify the creator)

[edit] Prod by others, patrolled

Godzilla: Unleashed fractions

[edit] Prod, OK now

The Cry and the Covenant -- The Land Leviathan -- see also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Cornelius Quartet) The Steel Tsar (Dec. 2) A Nomad of the Time Streams (Dec. 2) Morlock Night (Dec. 2) To Visit the Queen (Dec. 2) Les Sales Majestés (Dec. 2)

[edit] AfD

NikeSB.org (was speedied at AfD) -- Manakin (DSpace) -- List of oxymora (not AfD-ing yet.)

[edit] Misc.

Uniform electric field(merge, not speedy) -- Inner family archetypes (talk page re copyvio) -- Harriet Farley (copypaste) -- Ben chenery(talk page comment re context etc.) -- IPVS (suggested db-ad on talk) Princeton Media Group (notability tag; put speedy and took it off, oops) Myfinpro (I was going to db-bio, but someone db-spammed it first) Uno (game) (just need to delete certain material contributed by Mrpatriot9369)

[edit] Copyvio

Richard Quiller Couch(but was really OK) -- Backbeat Beatles(db) -- Sunnyvale Public Library (I only warned the user, didn't tag it; need to follow up) -- Nikolay Solovtsov(db) -- James hergott -- Relief From Joint and Several Liability on Joint Returns (I only warned the user, didn't tag it; may be in public domain; need to follow up) Frees Hall (db, 2nd time) [11] -- Smith Hall (db, 2nd time) [12] see User talk:Nancy.weyers Porter Memorial Bridge (db) [13] Brandt Memorial Bridge (db) [14] -- Cassel Open Air Theatre (db) [15] -- Dean Memorial Pergola (db) [16] -- Fiske Lodge (db) [17] -- Todd siler (db) [18] Margi (db) [19] -- Nathan Stoltzfus is Florida State Historian (db) [20] -- Lighthouse Furniture: too many quotes, did not tag yet. Just warned user. [21] and associated image Image:Lighthouse Furniture Logo.jpg Coppertwig (talk) 23:51, 26 December 2007 (UTC) The Camping And Caravanning Club (db-copyvio) Global Mediacom [22]

[edit] Merge proposals

Silvana (Last Exile) (I set up links for the merge proposed by someone else) The Code of Claw with The Underland Chronicles, I proposed --Coppertwig (talk) 03:29, 9 January 2008 (UTC) Electromagnetic waves or something?

[edit] Advert

Telemedical ECGs -- Tenant acquisition -- WordTravels

[edit] I contested speedy-deletion

Nanjing No.1 Middle School (is it a high school?)

[edit] For improvement

The Steel Tsar (see Talk:The Steel Tsar

[edit] Pages I've helped improve, from newpages

Sunnyvale Public Library -- Lighthouse Furniture -- Cold FX -- Chase McEachern --

[edit] Look for refs

Roses, Kings, Castles 03:15, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Page mergers/deletions:

[edit] Have put formal notice:

(Note that Non-violent child discipline also contains overlapping material)

  • DONE put mergeto tag on Domestic violence against men 2006 nov 11 (someone else put the tag on Domestic violence; I completed the pair of tags). Andrew c carried out the merge on Nov. 16, 2006.
  • Nov 24 2006 put expert template on Fatty acid metabolism re someone changed chemical equations without explanation.

[edit] Have put informal notes:

  • Have put informal note on Domestic discipline (lifestyle) suggesting deletion of page
  • Have put informal note? re merging the for/against arguments sections of Spanking and Corporal Punishment
  • Have put informal note on Corporal Punishment page re merging a number of other pages (Child Discipline, Spanking, Paddle (Spanking)). Maybe put formal merge proposals and/or put informal notes on the other pages?
  • Have put informal note in "Domestic violence" talk page in Neutrality section asking if it's OK to remove the neutrality banner. Nov. 13 2006; check back later.
  • On "Vitamin" talk page: "Mind control" re a sentence

[edit] Thinking about:

[edit] Message to new (non-IP?) editors; link to overcategorization

Hi. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia and editing [[Circumcision]]. That page is controversial and is edited a lot, so when you want to make a change (unless it's obviously good, like fixing a spelling mistake) then please first describe your change on the talk page [[Talk:Circumcision]] and give the reasons for it, and wait to see what other people say about it. I suggest you take the changes you made already, describe them on the talk page and give the reasons, and then people will discuss them. If you make a change and someone reverts it, then you need to talk about it on the talk page -- not make the change again without talking first.

[[Wikipedia:Overcategorization#Non-notable intersections by ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference|non-notable intersection]] non-notable intersection

[edit] Editing

  • Remove weasel words from "nonviolence" page
  • Somewhere, explain about the 5 landmark studies (Straus etc.)

[edit] Citation formats

  • (Cite news:) last, first; coauthors. "title" (format), work, location: publisher, date, pp. pages. id. Retrieved on 2008-04-18. (language) Archived from the original on 2008-04-01. "quote" 
  • (Cite web:) last, first; coauthors (2008-02-28). [archiveurl title] (format) (language). work pages. publisher. Archived from the original on 2008-03-15. DOI:doi. Retrieved on 2008-04-18, 2008. Retrieved on April 2008, 2008. Retrieved on 1 January 2008. “quote”

[edit] Books I have

The Collins English Dictionary. 1979, 1986, 1988. ISBN 0 00 433134-6. William Collins & Co. Ltd. Great Britain.

[edit] RfA votes

(some of)

  • ...
  • Salix alba. Support.
  • ...
  • Dihydrogen Monoxide: I supported. Did not succeed.
  • HisSpaceResearch I opposed. did not succeed.
  • Soxred93 I opposed neutral (moral support). did not succeed.
  • Jeepday, I didn't vote. successful.
  • Rudget 2, I opposed neutraled supported. successful.
  • Alexf, I opposed. succeeded.
  • Gwen Gale, I opposed. Did not succeed.
  • smalljim. Neutral re not enough info, but positive.
  • Pb30. Support. Succeeded (I think).
  • Ultraexactzz. Support. Succeeded.
  • Melesse. Support.
  • RMHED. Oppose.
  • TheDJ. Oppose. 14:27, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Triona. Weak oppose.
  • Seresin. Support. Succeeded.
  • EdJohnston. Support.

[edit] Wikipedians with complaints pages

[edit] My Wikipedia contact list

[edit] test template

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[edit] Reproductive rights

CEDAW paper Insert non-formatted text here

[edit] Huggle

[23] Huggle glitch? --Coppertwig (talk) 00:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gesichtete Versionen experiment

Parameters: The plan is that I'll find 20 articles (or 50, if it doesn't take too much of my time) with the random-article link ("Zufälliger Artikel") on the German Wikipedia. I'll examine their status at and just before 00:00 31 May 2008 and 00:00 5 May 2008: gesichtet or not? Apparently vandalised or not? How long had they been in that state? What state were they in in the previous edit, and for how long?

For comparison, also the same number of articles on English Wikipedia, where I'll only look at the state at and just before 00:00 31 May 2008, seeing whether they're apparently vandalised at that time or in the previous edit, and for how long.

I may not necessarily be able to easily recognize vandalism on the German Wikipedia. I may have to go with things like whether the person reverting mentioned that they were reverting vandalism. We'll see. (I'll assume all gesichtete articles are free of vandalism. For the May 31 part of the experiment on the German Wikipedia, I'm more interested in the amount of time they've been gesichtet or not, than recognizing vandalism. I'll also do a sub-calculation counting only the gesichtet articles.)

NV means apparently no vandalism. V means apparently vandalism. G means gesichtet (sighted). U means ungesichtet. K means keine Version gesichtet(no sighted version). G-S means selbst-gesichtet, i.e. gesichtet by the same person as the one editing, therefore presumably at the same time as the edit. Going back to the last 2 edits before the beginning of the date shown. If the state of the article didn't apparently change at the time of the last edit, I don't bother counting up the amount of time.

  1. de:Christoph Lehmann (Musiker)
    May 31: K, NV
    May 5: K, NV
  2. de:Kriegssense
    May 31: G-S, NV
    May 5: K, NV
  3. de:Ecclesia de Eucharistia
    Last edit January. Gesichtet. NV.
  4. de:Damien Broderick
    14:42 25 May 2008 edited, NV, K
    20:35 25 May 2008 edited
    23:19 25 May 2008 G
    8 hours, 37 minutes K, then 5 days 41 minutes G.
  5. de:Wernerwald
    K NV
  6. de:Max Neubert
    K NV
  7. Schlacht bei Kunersdorf
    G 22 may. NV.
  8. de:P6
    K NV
  9. de:Big Loop
    G-S 26 May. NV
  10. de:Hilfe! Hochzeit! – Die schlimmste Woche meines Lebens
    K NV
  11. de:Zuidlaardermeer
    G 27 May. NV.
  12. de:Shaw Communications
    K NV
  13. de:Dar
    K NV
  14. de:St. Ansgar
    K NV
  15. de:Derfflinger-Klasse
    G-S. NV.
  16. de:Some Great Reward
    NV. G 8 May.
  17. de:Emisch und etisch
    K NV
  18. de:Angelo Colagrossi
    K NV
  19. de:Alaska Interior
    G-S NV
  20. de:Sommières (Kanton)
    NV. G 8 May.

OK, I've done 20 articles. Now, new procedure: I'll keep clicking "random link" until I find an article that's been gesichtet at least twice, or that has been edited after it's been gesichtet. I'll collect a number of such articles in that way.

  1. de:George Froeschel
    This is the first time I've found a "ungesichte version" article (i.e. previously gesichtet but not now) other than via recent changes?? Except I don't understand: it said "Ungesichtete Version [letzte gesichtete Version]" but apparently that was a bug or something -- the history and logs only show the last edit 22 April, and G 17 May. So this doesn't fit the criteria.
    de:Ambrose Gaines
    "ungesichtete version" wrongly displayed? G 11 May. Again, doesn't count.
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