User talk:Codemartin

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Community Justice Newsletter[edit]

Community Justice Newsletter

Welcome
Previously, various notices regarding Community Justice have gone out to our members; though this is the first actual newsletter. This issue will contain information regarding decisions made on the first meeting, our new council, and more...! If you wish to unsubscribe to future newsletters, please add your name to Wikipedia:Community Justice/Do Not Spam.
New Council
Following our first elections, a new council has been elected.Computerjoe and Ian13 remain as chairman and chief executive (respectively); while Eddieh, Wiki alf and Xchrisblackx are replaced as councillors by Ilyanep, Osbus and Covington. The Giant Puffin and Pureblade remain as councillors.
Member Conduct
In the last meeting, the conduct of 4 members were discussed. Ethnopunk will be put on probation, supervised by Ian13, if he/she is uncivil during this probation, he/she will be expelled from WP:CJ; the same was decided for Misza13 (voluntarily), and his probation will be supervised by Computerjoe. No action will be taken against Computerjoe.
Barnstar
The Civility Barnstar which our member's have designed has been sent to Barnstar and award proposals. We'd appreciate your feedback! Also, we are planning to make a Community Justice barnstar to give to hard-working CJ members. If you're a budding designer, consider trying to make it, then post your proposal to WT:CJ!
Name and logo change
There has been no consensus reached regarding changing our name and/or logo neither at WT:CJ nor at WT:CJ/M/1. While suggestions are still welcome, no action will be taken at this time.
Programs
We are going to try to create programs to more actively involve our members. If you have any ideas, please drop a line at WT:CJ. We will try to work with WP:ESP on one of these programs, at some point in the future.
Thanks!
Thank you for your time. If you need anything, feel free to comment at WT:CJ or come into our IRC channel [1]. Computerjoe wishes to extend his thanks to User:Robchurch, a non-member who assisted in making {{tracker}} redundant, as well as Misza13 for his continued support and to the whole of this and the previous council. This newsletter was delivered by CJBot, written by Computerjoe, with technical help from Misza13. Computerjoe 's talk 19:30, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing[edit]

To quote you: "Wikipedia isn't here to put down anyone's particular "truth". If FSM makes you happy, great for you. But in creating FSM, Bobby Henderson intended it as a parody. The fact that you have chosen to take it seriously, or that some people you have known have chosen to take it seriously, is irrelevant to what FSM was intended for. If enough people took FSM seriously as a religion - and if we had a reliable, outside source on that number - then those who take FSM seriously could indeed be noted, though of course the parody's original purpose would still be notable and included. Kasreyn 04:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC) "

I chose not to bring this in the discussion board as it is leaving the area of the FSM and going someplace else. Anyway, what would you consider an reliable outside source? A list of signutures mailed to you? Perhaps people puting down FSM on the religion part of a survey. The national surveys are every how many years? Anyway I just wnated to know what you would consider a reliable outside source. I am just curious not attacking, you just curious. --Codemartin 13:52, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd say if a reputable source, examples of which might include but certainlt not be limited to a paper like the NYT or Washington Post, or a magazine like Time, or a reputable news program like CNN or NPR, reported on people taking FSM seriously as a true religion, that would definitely be a good source. Lists of signatures collected by Wikipedia editors are generally not considered reliable, since it's too easy for them to be faked up.

I believe in America, the census is taken once per decade, and if I remember correctly from the last time a census taker interviewed me, I think religion is a question that is asked. However, I think they simply have four or five boxes for the major religions and they lump everything else under "other". Most surveys do this, rather than tracking numbers for every unexpected answer. So in general surveys are pretty bad at tracking the popularity of minority religions, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and so on, because they all get lumped together under "other".

As an aside, I found it very amusing that a few years back down under, some good citizens organized and got "Jedi" officially added to the Australian census as a religious persuasion. This requires simply a minimum percentage of people choosing the same answer, and the Australian government is forced to add to religion to the other official categories. A splendid example of beating the system! Kasreyn 21:03, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To the paper comment, you can pay the paper to put an article in it shouldnt cost more than 300 dollars, and I am sure FSMism followers could raise the money for it.Lists I understand it was just an example. The census thing, thats true but there is a couple of censuses(censi?) out there that have a line instead of a bubble sheet or check mark, where you can right out the other religion. And I heard that example before, but I am not sure the americain govermatal system, would be a open minded for it, as you may have noticed they seemingly dont like to change. --Codemartin 21:53, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Concordia newsletter[edit]

Concordia Newsletter

Community Justice is no more. It has been reformed to Concordia. Membership has been transferred.

Concordia is an organization of editors on Wikipedia that strive to encourage civility and fair treatment among all editors in the Wikipedian community, from the Wikignome to the Wikiholic. The project was designed to have a friendly and helpful environment to support any unfortunate Wikipedians that have become victims of incivility, hostility, or continual disrespect.

We currently need help in getting going, and making the community understand our aims. We work for civility. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you have ideas, let us know at our talk page, or on the IRC channel. We aim to spread civility in every way we can.

Should you wish to unsubscribe to future newsletters, please add your name to Wikipedia:Concordia/Do Not Spam.

Thank you for your time. If you need anything, feel free to comment at WT:CCD or come into our IRC channel [2].

- The Concordia council. Delivered by Ian13 13:28, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Your edits to User:Simetrical/Infobox[edit]

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with the User:Simetrical/Infobox page on Wikipedia! Your test worked, and thank you for reverting or removing it yourself. The best way to do tests in the future would be to use the sandbox. You can look at these pages as well: how to edit a page, the tutorial, and how to write a great article. All of these pages are good places to start. Again, thanks, and we hope that you will like Wikipedia. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 08:12, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Concordia Newsletter[edit]

NEWSLETTER

Concordia is currently trying to relaunch. I, and all the members of the ex-council, wish to welcome new members to the group. We are a group who aim to promote remaining civil, in an environment where messages can easily be interpretated wrongly.

Help out now![edit]

Try and help people remain civil! Talk to them, and help them in any way possible. Do not be afraid to use the talk page.
Give people the Civility Barnstar.
Make and spread some Wikitokens so people know there are people to help if they want assistance.
Add banners or logos to your userpage to show your support.
Suggest some ideas! Add 'em to the talk page.

We are a community, so can only work though community contributions and support. It's the helping that counts.

Decision Making[edit]

The council expired one month ago, but due to the current position of the group the current council will remain until the position of the group can be assessed, and whether it would be sensible to keep Concordia going. For most decisions, however, it will be decided by all who choose to partake in discussions. I am trying to relaunch because of the vast amounts of new members we have received, demonstrating that the aims are supported.

If you wish to opt of of further talk-page communications, just let us know here.

- Ian¹³ /t 20:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC). Kindly delivered by MiszaBot.[reply]