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Contents 1 Tuned mass damper 2 Thank You 3 national debt 4 RfA Coaching 5 Congratulations! 6 VG Newsletter 7 ACW task force 8 Removed speedy deletion notice from Ubuntu 9 School stubs

Tuned mass damper

Hi I see you are asking for an expert to look at it. What are the problems? There's a lot of fan-crud in there but that doesn't need an expert to delete it. Greg Locock (talk) 07:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

No, I just changed the tag... after all, I am a [Wikipedia:WikiGnome|WikiGnome]]... I was just specializing the tag... should I not do that? PwnerELITE (talk) 03:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for the barnstar, I am sorry for not getting to you sooner. I have been busy. Rgoodermote  02:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

national debt

• National debt: [1]
• As percentage of GDP: [2]
• Corrected for inflation: [3] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.171.56.13 (talk) 14:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

RfA Coaching

Greetings, I just noticed that you had a request for Admin Coaching on the Admin Coaching Page. I have removed the request because you are not ready to become an admin. Please see the general guidelines for what most people are looking for in an admin here or my guidelines. If you don't know what your edit history looks like, please check out Kate's Tool. I encourage you to come back to the coaching page when you get closer to being qualified for adminship.Balloonman (talk) 05:43, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations!

,		The super secret aliasd page.
		Thanks for seeking my hidden page. Grab a userbox here! ~ aliasd·U·T

You found my secret page, and I am supposed to "reward" you, so have a small waste of bandwidth! aliasd·U·T 00:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

VG Newsletter

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Video Games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter Volume I, No. 1 - April 9, 2008 Archive before Archive After To receive future editions of this newsletter, click here to sign up on the distribution list. Project at a Glance As of 2008-04-07, the project has: 82 Featured articles 10 Featured Lists 7 Featured Topics 1 article in Featured Article Review 184 Good Articles 15 articles for Peer review 3 articles for Assessment Featured Articles, Lists, and Topics Candidates and Reviews Featured Article Candidates Guitar Hero Featured List Candidates List of songs in Guitar Hero II Featured Topic Candidates None Featured Review Final Fantasy VII (FA) Changes to Featured and Good articles, lists, and topics in March Promoted FA: Final Fantasy XI, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Defense of the Ancients, List of Halo media, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Grim Fandango, Spyro: Year of the Dragon, List of songs in Guitar Hero Demoted FA: Metal Gear Solid Topic: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Promoted GA: Grim Fandango, Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Metroid series, SimCity series, Characters of Halo Demoted GA: Final Fantasy III, Star Fox 64, Star Fox Adventures News Current proposals and discussions Well, gee, thanks 1up! 1UP.com has recently changed their rating scale. A list of affected articles can be found here. See discussion for details. Inactive project cleanup Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here. Feature The Importance of the Lead The lead is one of the most important parts of any Wikipedia article; its job to summarize the article in 2 to 3 paragraphs in order to familiarize the reader with the structure of the content that you will providing them as well as to give a quick one-minute overview of the topic. Many articles that are processed through Good Article or Featured Article assessments will be heavily scrutinized for a poor lead section. For articles dealing with video games, a common practice has developed for leads, being a 3-paragraph discussion. First paragraph The first paragraph should state the name of the game (using both bold (to identify the article's name) and italics as per the manual of style), along with any other alternate names the game may go by. The genre of the game should be clearly identified as well as the developer and the publisher. If a notable person has been cited by the game as having worked on the game's development (such as Tim Schafer or David Jaffe), this should also be noted. Release dates should be given, along with the release of any ports, remakes, or sequels. Second paragraph The second paragraph should summarize the plot briefly in one or two sentences; a high level overview is only needed to set the stage for further discussion. One or two sentences should be included to discuss the gameplay, including any notable features of the game. Third paragraph The third paragraph should cover the reception of the game, citing its general critical reaction and any significantly notable successful or failing elements in the game. If the game has won awards, this aspect can be noted, but specific mention of any award is discouraged. This approach should help you to write a good lead for nearly any game, though this may need to be altered for other games. If there's not a lot of reception information for a game, it may be worthwhile to combine the listed first and third paragraphs into one paragraph. There may be need to talk more about an aspect not normally covered in video game articles (such as with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600)) which should be noted in the lead. Things you can help with: Peer review: Video game, Crash of the Titans, Xbox Live Arcade, List of Final Fantasy compilation albums, Metal Gear Solid, Shigeru Miyamoto, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess‎, Myst III: Exile, Blade Runner, Zanac Cleanup: List of characters from The King of Fighters, Hellgate: London, LeChuck Featured article candidates: List of songs in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (FLC), Crackdown, Halo (series), List of Sega 32X games (FLC), Alleyway Good article nominations: Ayu Tsukimiya, Music of the Final Fantasy Tactics series, Super Smash Bros., Music of Final Fantasy XI, Day of Defeat: Source Article status review: GA Review – None; FA Review – The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, 3D Monster Maze; FT Review – Final Fantasy titles Articles for Deletion: Participate in video game related deletion discussions. Images: Add box-art and screenshots to articles. Make sure to include a valid non-free use rationale. Monitor the following related changes pages: changes to WP:VG and changes to this to-do list. Announce your new articles Sign up for the new VG Newsletter. Project Navigation VG Project Main pages Main project – talk Project category – talk Portal – talk VG Project Departments Assessment – talk Cleanup – talk Peer review – talk   Magazines – talk Newsletter – talk Video Game Images – talk

ACW task force

You don't appear to have joined it, although they do cite you in the main page. If I were you, I would join it (unless you are the leader or something). —Preceding unsigned comment added by PwnerELITE (talk • contribs) 22:33, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not much of a joiner. I watch the project page, but I rarely see much action going on there. Hal Jespersen (talk) 23:00, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I respect that, but I still think that you should join... if it appears inactive, then maybe you could lead it? PwnerELITE (talk) 23:10, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I have little interest in the bureaucracy and administrivia of things like this. When I'm not spending time reverting vandalism, I'd prefer to devote my Wikipedia time to write or improve notable articles, not shuffle around categories or rate others' articles. Wikipedia is becoming way too complex for the average person to tackle. I'm a computer guy, so I can survive the coding and procedural jungle, but I see all this bureaucracy as a true barrier that many people will not choose to cross. Hal Jespersen (talk) 23:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the Tireless barnstar. I do get pretty tired sometimes, though. :-) Hal Jespersen (talk) 14:25, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Removed speedy deletion notice from Ubuntu

I've removed the speedy deletion notice that you put on Ubuntu, and replaced it with the redirect to Ubuntu (disambiguation) that was there before. I am confused as to why you thought it needed to be deleted; although there is discussion going on as to whether there is a primary topic for the disambiguation for "Ubuntu", we definitly need Ubuntu to direct users to the disambiguation page in one way or another. -- Natalya 03:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, with the requested move, I sort of get it now. Apologies for the confusion. We could do the move now, but I was holding off on fixing it until the discussion was resolved, just to that if more things get changed, we don't have to change it multiple times. But, if it is really felt as necessary, I can go head and do it now. -- Natalya 03:08, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Looks like someone got it taken care of. :) -- Natalya 11:22, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

School stubs

Yeah, I'll use that template next time!

BTW for the schools in Louisiana I cannot take photos of them since I'm in Texas. I am willing to take photos of schools in the Houston area, though :) WhisperToMe (talk) 06:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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