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I have a life outside Wikipedia and may not always respond swiftly to queries. Questions left on weekends especially will probably not be answered until the following week. Thank you for your patience.

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[edit] Owned

Hi, I'm the one who made changes prior to your recent change. I made some suggestions in the discussion, please take a look and let us know what you think. Thank you :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.212.21.99 (talk) 21:59, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elonka 3

Thank you for your support in my RfA. It was definitely a dramatic debate! I paid close attention to everything that was said, and, where possible, I will try to incorporate the (constructive) criticism towards being a better administrator. I'm taking things slowly for now, partially because it's the holiday season and there are plenty of off-wiki distractions. :) I'm also working my way through the Wikipedia:New admin school and double-checking the relevant policies, and will gradually phase into the use of the new tools. My main goals are to help out with various backlogs, but I also fully intend to keep on writing articles, as there are several more that I definitely want to get to WP:FA status! Thanks again, --Elonka 10:14, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citations

If one article (Karate in this case) draws on material from another article (Japan, which is well cited), is it possible to cite the article on Japan, to get rid of criticism about having uncited material?

Thanks! RogueNinjatalk 17:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I do not think so. I tried to find the relevant bit on a policy page, but could not. But because Wikipedia is ever-changing, it's not a good idea to cite one page to support another. This is why schoolchildren are not supposed to cite Wikipedia. If Japan article has solid sources, why not pick them up at the library and use them to source karate? Cheers, Fang Aili talk 22:30, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] deleted page

hi-

bit curious why one of my pages was deleted - we were about to really expand it but realised it was gone!

19:14, 31 January 2007 Fang Aili (Talk | contribs) deleted "Imperial College School of Medicine Students' Union" ‎ (WP:CSD A7 - does not assert notability)

any chance of getting it back?

cheers

Mschamberlain (talk) 12:00, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello, it was deleted because it did not assert notability. Thank you, Fang Aili talk 05:14, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Volapük again...

Hi Fang Ali. Perhaps you've already noticed a new proposal against the Volapük Wikipedia: m:Proposals for closing projects/Radical cleanup of Volapük Wikipedia. In case you agree that this proposal is not a good idea, perhaps you could help us fight against it with your vote? Thanks! --Smeira (talk) 23:31, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MIPRO

Hi Fang Ali. MIPRO is a Taiwan-based wireless microphone company; recently lanuches industry first digital wireless microphone system. Thus, I'd like to edit MIPRO in Wikipedia; however, this title has been protected. Can you help to edit it? (If you need detailed information, I am willing to contribute it). thanks and I am looking forward to hearing from you soon. Ccdavid (talk) 05:57, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Admin coaching

So I'm a recent graduate of the admin coaching process. I found it very useful, and would like to help out more with it. I was wondering what you would think of sending a message to those on the Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Volunteers page asking them to reconfirm their membership. At the same time, that page could be merged with Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status. And on the status page, it might make sense to add a variable "Capacity", so an coach who can handle 5 students, but has three, would have a capacity of 3/5. MBisanz talk 10:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin Coaching Re-confirmation

Hello, previously you expressed interest in participating in the Wikipedia:Admin coaching project. We are currently conducting a reconfirmation drive to give coaches the opportunity to update their information and capacity to participate in the project. Please visit Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Status to update your status. Also, please remember to update your capacity (5th table variable) in the form of a fraction (eg. 2/3 means you are currently coaching 2 students, and could accept 1 more student). Thank you. MBisanz talk 09:02, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citing Wikipedia

Hi, Erica. It certainly has been a long time since we've been in touch, hasn't it? Well, I'm relatively free now, so I can contribute again. Enough talk; I'd like to ask a quesiton. Is it allowed if an article cites Wikipedia as a source? --Zacharycrimsonwolf 14:14, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

She's on a long wiki-break, so I'll jump in here. Generally if an article cites Wikipedia as a source, its not that great of a source, since its a circular reference. Now if your using it to prove the article cited wikipedia "And Timec ited Wikipedia s the 5th most influential journal" thats a good cite. But something like "And according to Wikipedia, all cats have 5 legs" is a bad one. If there is any doubt, the people over at reliable sources have probably seen it before and have a good answer. MBisanz talk 21:22, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Adminship

Wishing Fang Aili a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Idontknow610TM 19:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Happy Adminship from the Birthday Committee

Wishing Fang Aili a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

-- SMS Talk 20:46, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Backlog at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user

Caution There is currently a backlog of 57 users at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user. Please consider offering adoption to one or more of these users. Don't forget to change their {{adoptme}} template to {{adoptoffer|Fang Aili}}. Thank you for your continued participating in Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User. xenocidic (talk) 19:41, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] deleted David Brumley

Hi, you deleted the page David Brumley. This wiki page contains an information about David Brumley, a computer security researcher (and new faculty) at CMU. David should be included because he meets the Wikipedia:Notability (academics) guidelines.

In particular:

Could you please restore the article?

Dorkatronix (talk) 20:08, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi!

Love the cat pic —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.80.180.219 (talk) 01:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)