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Psychless


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[edit] Biography Assessment Drive

Sorry for not able to reply to you, I was (and still is) busy in real life. I handed out gold, silver, and bronze wiki to top 3 but not the biography barnstar. Then I awarded biography barnstar to 4th and 5th place. Do you want to split up the work (ie you award particular barnstar and I pick another one)? And would you mind if you award BrokenSphere barnstars? It's just against my idea that a person gets awarded more than once for doing the same work. OhanaUnitedTalk page 00:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence
Well done, Psychless. You successfully help reduce Biography Assessment backlog. OhanaUnitedTalk page 01:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I honestly lost track of the drive, sorry. Thank you for your efforts in making it the success it was, and for ensuring the awards were handed out. The Biography project can always use a lot of help, and your effort was one of the biggest helps I think it has seen in a long time. If I could think of another appropriate barnstar to give you for the idea and execution, I would. I might still anyway, if I find another one that fits. John Carter 12:53, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Newsletter

Looks good! The notice about the meeting is particularly useful. Unfortunately, it looks to me like the project's two old backbones, Kingboyk and Plange, are kinda AWOL right now and that hasn't helped the project much. I don't know whether there's a bot out there which delivers newsletters and the like, but I think I could try to find out if you want me to. John Carter 21:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of counties in Iowa

Hello Psychless! I noticed your work at List of counties in Iowa and I have just a few suggestions: 1. Please, remove the Established column because it really doesn't matter when a county was established because it couldn't work as a county until it was organized. Plus, there is overtemplating going on that page. There are too many templates in use on that page (well over 300). That's why the last few templates can't be shown. And since there is a {{dts}} template on every field in the "established" column, the "overtemplating" problem would disappear. 2. In the Area column, just leave the number showing how many miles the area is and the {{countyrow}} template will calculate the kilometer equivalent automatically. Plus, you have some glaring errors. For example, 381 squared miles for Dickinson County states that it's equivalent to 631 km² while the real equivalent is around 986 km². Hope that helps. --Crzycheetah 00:59, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I am really glad that you asked! I mixed up established and organized dates. Most, if not all, of the FLs use established dates. I mean it's good to have them both, but I made this suggestion because no other FL has both of those dates. Also, If you can find another way of decreasing the number of templates used, then you may keep both of these dates. As you could see here, all templates can be seen if there were just one "date" column.--Crzycheetah 03:02, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yasser Arafat peer review

Greetings Psychless, I dropped in to inform you that the current Yasser Arafat peer reviewer, User: Scartol, is almost finished up with her review (just another proof read perhaps). You can now start on yours anytime you are ready. Cheers. --Al Ameer son 19:08, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I moved your suggestions to the peer review discussion page. I completed the extreme majority of them. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Yasser Arafat#Quick peer review. --Al Ameer son 22:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I have nominated the Yasser Arafat article as an FAC. You should leave your comments here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yasser Arafat. --Al Ameer son 20:35, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

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[edit] Content review

Hello. While I'm not particularly involved in biographies, I noticed this from the bio newsletter while floating around: "A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project." See the just started: Wikipedia:Content review/workshop and it's talk page. I'm anti-IRC, incidentally; perhaps whatever's said on the 13th can be summarized on this related workshop. Cheers, Marskell 13:05, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Newsletter

No problem! I have an arrangement with User:R and User:Animum to deliver the newsletter on the 20th of each month (We delivered it to 400 users last week). By the way, I hope you saw the new signpost report; Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08/WikiProject report. It's amazing and I think it was inspired by the newsetter! I hope you can help me with the writing each month, cos it's a lot of work for one guy--Phoenix 15 13:02, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reassessment

There simply isn't that much information there. Maybe it's because that much is not available, but either way...B articles are usually long articles that cover the subject fully and in-depth, which means they tend to be longer. Also, the sources could be better. IMDB is not a reliable source and should never be used. Try and find information from books and/or news cites, as they are far more reliable. Moreover, you may have a conflict of interest here, if you are the main contributor to the article. Assessments should be done by third party users who are un-biased either way. Please, don't be offended that I re-assessed the article. Work on it some more. If you ever want me to reassess it again after you've continued to work on it, drop me a line. Nikki311 02:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The irc meeting

I couldn't attend the recent irc meeting on #wikipedia-en-bio due to my moniter being damaged. Could you give me a quick summary of what went on? thanks--Phoenix 15 (Talk) 12:35, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

hehe, a pity. Maybe a discussion on the talk page would work--Phoenix 15 (Talk) 18:13, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biography IRC meeting

Sorry for missing it, but I was having trouble with the computer. This is what I proposed to say if I had been able to log on. I'm curious as to what you might think of it. John Carter 01:12, 17 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Redirect of J. phoenix

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[edit] On Ted Bundy

Hello again Psychless,

Rest assured I have not forgotten your challenge for me to improve Ted Bundy. I've been thinking of it but honestly since I don't know as much about the U.S. crime world, I'm much more nervous about approaching this one. Secondly I have been busy with real life - I even moved Elyamani Khamis, an article I was planning to improve to FA-status, to my user space to give myself a timeout. So it might be a long time before I get to Bundy. :( Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 03:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mentoring Barnstar

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
message thanks for helping out my students! You made a lasting impression on them! Thelmadatter (talk) 17:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some old business

More than 2 months later what was said would be carried here regarding awards distribution for the summer assessment drive hasn't been carried out. You and I have both been working on other things, but I assumed that it would eventually get implemented, which hasn't happened yet. I was hoping that you would be able to carry this out over time given your connection circumstances and assuming that you didn't think that with time I would eventually give up and forget about it. I'd like to see the issue finally closed, as I still consider it open after an apparent solution was reached but never carried out which I held you to. Given the time of year, unless you're off somewhere enjoying the break, I think now might be a good time to finally carry it out so we can start the new year without this still outstanding. As all other interested parties seem to have forgotten about it or let it go, I guess that just leaves me. If it makes you feel better, I can comprise on this. In addition to the Bio barnstar, I'm settling on just the Barnstar of Diligence and Working Man's to help reduce administration on your end. Let me know what you think and if this works for you, so we can get some closure on this. Thanks. --BrokenSphereMsg me 17:59, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

OK. Didn't know you were computerless for that long. Like I mentioned, I think at this point in time out of the assessors that it's just me who still thinks it's open with everyone else either forgetting or moving on to other things. I'm just asking for the other 2 that I mentioned that round up the top 3 - Diligence and Working Man's, since I already have the Bio barnstar, and like I said, I'll consider this closed upon receipt Thanks. --BrokenSphereMsg me 02:18, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Image:WikiThanks.png Thanks for taking care of this. The issue is now closed. Have a good one. BrokenSphereMsg me 23:54, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Century Tower

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~


[edit] Mentor?

This semester I am teaching academic writing to a group of teachers at my school. This course starts on Monday Jan 28. I would like to know if you are still interesting in "mentoring". You can see the syllabus at Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/SyllabusIf so, please leave a message on my talk page and update the mentor's page Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Mentors, if . If not, please remove your name and information from that page. Thanks! Thelmadatter (talk) 00:18, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spring '08 drive, & suggestions

Long time no talk, Psychless.

I noticed that you're doing another Biography WP Drive. I've already signed up for it, and will attempt to edit as many articles as possible.

I do, however, have a couple of suggestions for the organization and logistics of future drives.

I noticed, during the previous drive (summer 2007)that overlap assessment tended to happen. In other words, I'd be in the middle of assessing, say, Politicians and Government, and return the next day to find the entire section finished, thus upsetting my assessment "mood". When the Military History Wikiproject began our 2008 B-Class Assessment Drive (BCAD), we divided the entire range into worklists of 200. Each editor then picked a worklist and completed the assessment of all 200 articles in that worklist. When the worklist was finished, we simply adopt another one and repeat the process. So far, it has worked exceedingly well. No overlap assessment has occurred in the two weeks that the drive has been going on.

You might want to consider using the same system for the 2008 summer drive. The worklists are located here.

If you need further information on the format, I suggest contacting Kirill.

Best Regards, Cam (Chat) 21:59, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, Ok. Would you happen to know who's organizing the spring '08 drive?Cam (Chat) 06:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Awards Center Newsletter

I'm pleased to announce that the Awards Center will be getting its own newsletter shortly. If you want to receive the WP:AWC newsletter, put your name here. --Sharkface217 20:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Christianity Newsletter

- Tinucherian (talk) 11:31, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jerry Garcia tie

I notice you have a link to Jerry Garcia tie on User:Psychless/Untagged/3. I just moved that article to J. Garcia to reflect the actual name of the neckware line. (Despite popular belief, there is no such brand as Jerry Garcia ties.) I assume you will want to adjust your pages accordingly.--ChasFink (talk) 19:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Christianity Newsletter

[edit] Giles Daubeny, 6th Baron Daubeny

Hi Psychless,

Concerning your recent edit of "The Complete Peerage. . . " in the reference section of Giles Daubeny. I do not understand why you changed it from the actual page view to the title view. I believe that most researchers would appreciate being able to see the exact page, when possible, without having to keep searching. Please review previous versions of the article, I hope you would agree with the convenience of the immediate availability of the reference page as it was provided and consider a change back. Thanks. Daytrivia (talk) 20:20, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
You do have a valid point about it looking a little messy and I will try a few things to, perhaps, make it look a little better. I do think the actual page needs to be available instantly but maybe I can incorporate your idea to make both work. Once I get a chance to experiment I will give you a heads-up to look it over. Thanks for your understanding and concern. Daytrivia (talk) 01:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. Let's leave it like this until we find out what exactly Wikipedia would like. Daytrivia (talk) 02:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Christianity Newsletter