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User:Riana/Archive 42 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Riana/Archive 42's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Riana/Archive 42!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:45, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
User:Andries/Sathya Sai Baba Arbcom has partially retracted topic ban since the MFD: I am now free to edit the talk page. Arbcom still thinks that I have a conflict of Interest, so recommend not to edit the article. This user space helps me to help other users by providing sources etc. Btw, I do not remember being informed of the MFD. Andries (talk) 10:20, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I placed a PROD on the Rick Boyce article. The article contains two paragraphs, one of which is direct from the cited reference, without proper attribution. Secondly the individual is non-notable. I observed that you overrode Jechoman's PROD. Jettparmer (talk) 20:01, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, i uploaded this image of myself..and until now I had no idea that its still [1]..I just want to know if there is any chance in deleting this picture from wikipedia.. thank-you --Ruthless-paki (talk) 21:39, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Riana, I saw this, and you don't seem to be here, so I've deleted it for him. seresin ( ¡? ) 22:20, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
saraiki wikipedia bhi ban gia hai. saraiki font mein likh kar wp/skr topic paste karen thanks Parvez QAdIR khan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.27.130.45 (talk) 05:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You semi-protected History of Armenia nearly two years ago. I suggest you consider unprotecting it on a trial basis. If you are not interested in dealing with this issue, please leave a message on my talk page, and I'll post to WP:RPPDfeuer (talk) 08:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Unprotected ~ Riana ⁂ 23:27, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Riana I would like to draw your attention to what has been happening at the Anna Anderson discussion page. Trusilver has been valiantly trying to deal with Trolls there. You will note persistent vandals are ChatNoir24 and his sock puppets and now there is the return of the banned RevAntonio. Would you please assist Trusilver in dealing with them as it is getting out of hand? Thanks in advance. Finneganw 23:53, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I meant to say that I believe the Anna Anderson page needs protected status. Please note Trusilver has previously placed a ban on editing for a month as the above mentioned vandals were persisting in an edit war. Please also note one of their tactics has been to use discredited inaccurate sources in their vandalism as well as altering sourced references. Finneganw 23:53, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009[edit]
Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85thgood article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.
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Hi, I see you deleted an article on this band as a prod deletion. I have started creating a new article on this band and would like to see if there is anything in the old version worth saving. (they charted in ARIA Alternative chart). Thanks. Duffbeerforme (talk) 13:56, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Riana's not around much these days, but if it helps pretty much the exact words which formed the deleted article are here. – B.hotep •talk• 15:18, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
12:04, 3 April 2008 Caulde changed protection level for "List of Doctor Who serials" (re-instating undefined period of semi-protection, per the pre-full-protection discussion [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed])
12:51, 2 April 2008 Caulde changed protection level for "List of Doctor Who serials" (unsourced speculation and negative BLP coming from registered accounts [edit=sysop:move=sysop] (expires 12:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)))
17:18, 20 March 2008 Caulde changed protection level for "List of Doctor Who serials" (extending expiry date to undefined per comments on various pages. Seems like vandalism is coming back a lot since unprotection on the 18th. [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed])
17:05, 20 March 2008 Caulde protected List of Doctor Who serials (rumours will be on the increase over the next few days [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed] (expires 17:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)))
20:45, 18 March 2008 Edokter unprotected List of Doctor Who serials (Rm protection after hree months)
13:17, 16 January 2008 Riana protected List of Doctor Who serials (Heavy IP vandalism [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed])
As you can see that article has a long and intricate history of protection. The reason I'm notifying you is that Caulde, the most recent protecting admin, has left Wikipedia. I've decided to review the semiprotection to see if it's still necessary 18 months on. See talk:List of Doctor Who serials. --TS 17:04, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Riana,
you protected this template more than a year ago. since than the whole Wikiproject Architecture went sleeping...
I am trying to revive the project, since there is soo much to be done to improve architecture articles on Wikipedia.
Could you unprotect the template or just replace for now Johannes Itten with Comming soon. As it stands I think it deters many people from joining the project, since the portal looks abandoned.
thanks Elekhh (talk) 06:25, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Elekhh, I've changed it as per requested - is this all you wanted? Probably not a good idea to unprotect such a widely-used template. Good luck with reviving the project! ~ Riana ⁂ 13:07, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's been a while, ma'am. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:08, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What say you, sir! I've been here all along ;) ~ Riana ⁂ 18:16, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome back!!! -- Avi (talk) 18:27, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, thanks for the welcome back! Not really *back* back - I tend to edit around a bit on my IP once or twice a week anyway. But yes, back under one identifiable account, I suppose :P And woefully out of touch with the abundance of new user rights, subcommittees, and other strange entities that seem to have popped up over the last year and a half or so since I've actively edited! ~ Riana ⁂ 18:31, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Lol. You should have seen the fight on the Aus-India pages. Another round in Mohali tonight eh? YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:34, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad I missed it :) Yes, very awkward timing though. Thank goodness for Foxtel IQ. ~ Riana ⁂ 07:37, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hah, just looked at the history of that article. All sorts of fun! Hopefully my references aren't too controversial ~ Riana ⁂ 07:40, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Other things that happened: Giggy left, Nichalp used a sock to write spam articles for clients, Casliber resigned as arb. Dineshkannambadi left after his FACs kept on getting scuppered. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:54, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nice to see that you're actually "around" again. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 09:14, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Happy to see you around here again. Seeing a familiar face return is always nice. Best, AGK 23:54, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
DZASTAAA :D Parteh time! —Dark 09:30, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
puts on a silly hat and embarrasses herself thoroughly* ~ Riana ⁂ 12:53, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Whoa!! I just noticed you on RPP just now!! :o Welcome back, Riana ^_^ - Alison❤ 05:36, 5 November 2009 (UTC) (you are crazy, y'know! :) )[reply]
Crazy like a fox - gotta say, you coming back kinda helped convince me that there was still stuff worth doing around here ;) More article work though! Less WikiDrahmaz. ~ Riana ⁂ 05:39, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
So it was my fault? lol :) You should never pay attention to my wacky notions! - Alison❤ 05:54, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Bah Allie, I can't hold anything against you after the good times we've shared. ~ Riana ⁂ 05:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
lol - Johnny's back again, I see. Must have missed you - Alison❤ 06:01, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm so flattered! ~ Riana ⁂ 06:04, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Pretty unimpressive so far. ~ Riana ⁂ 05:55, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Saw your name at WT:RFA and thought I'd pop in and say hi and welcome back. Hi and welcome back! - Dank (push to talk) 17:25, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Ayup, revisiting the old haunts ;) ~ Riana ⁂ 05:49, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Rianna,
I'm just trying to figure out what I have to do to NOT have this article deleted. I found you spontaneously, but hopefully you are able to help. This band is very significant to the worldwide hip hop scene right now, and you'll be able to see that people are requesting to view a wiki page for them if you begin to type "OCD Moosh & Twist" into the google search bar. I'm not a very big wiki contributor, and I've had articles deleted before, but I promise you that this article is necessary to keep. When I press, 'click here to contest speedy deletion,' I get an error message. If you're not the right person to ask, please refer me to another administrator. Thank you so much.
Could you please help with removing this page's extra wiki-messages, if possible: Armin Shams—Preceding unsigned comment added by Olivemountain (talk • contribs) 02:34, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations, Riana! It's my pleasure to award you November 4, 2009's Red Star for being hard working, kind to others, and for being an excellent user in general. A record of this award will always be kept at User:Meaghan/Shining Stars. Enjoy! Meaghanguess who :) 00:00, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You could also receive the next higher up award, the Orange Star!
That's very kind of you, thanks! :) ~ Riana ⁂ 02:44, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yo, just about to decline that speedy based on this piece citing a circulation of 80k+. Thoughts? Skomorokh, barbarian 13:03, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Fair call. It'll need work to avoid someone whacking it with A1 though :) ~ Riana ⁂ 13:05, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, I could really use an editor opinion on how to deal with the Afd of Heather Harmon and the resulting conflict with the editor User:Epbr123. Please take a look at the Harmon section on his talk page, if he doesn't delete it again. If it's not there I have an archive of it at User:Stillwaterising/Epbr123 -Stillwaterising (talk) 04:28, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You need to understand what that situation looked like for Fvas. A troll adds vandalism to the userpage, and a few minutes later, you add a comment which may be interpreted as inflammatory? Fvas did nothing wrong with the revert. You were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. —Dark 10:39, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You restored this article based on a contested deletion. Can you point me to the discussion please (and the contested deletion). I can't locate any discussion at the Deletion Review. Thank you. --HighKing (talk) 12:51, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi HighKing, a user e-mailed me requesting the restoration. I may be mistaken as to current policy, but when I was last active (admittedly a fair while back), generally a request via any process was valid to overturn a prod / restore a deleted article. If I'm mistaken in this I'm very sorry! ~ Riana ⁂ 12:56, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's pretty unusual to undelete an article because you've received an email. The policy to review a deletion has been around for 5 years. Can you please re-delete the article and follow established procedure please - that way everything is above board. Chances are, if the subject is deemed notable, the article will be undeleted in any case. --HighKing (talk) 19:36, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just spotted that the policy (at WP:DEL) states that Any editor who disagrees with a proposed deletion can simply remove the tag. Even after the page is deleted, any editor can have the page restored by any administrator simply by asking. In both cases the editor is encouraged to fix the perceived problem with the page, but in the interests of transparency, could you please ensure there is a record somewhere of the fact that you received a request to undelete the page and you complied. Thank you. --HighKing (talk) 19:40, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
17:32, 6 November 2009 Riana (talk | contribs | block) restored "Sean Wolfington" (232 revisions restored: request to undelete; WP:CONTESTED) - I believe this consitutes a "record of the fact that [I] received a request to undelete" - if you wish to take the article to AfD, you may make note of this conversation as well as the deletion log. Any more than this seems a bit like hoop-jumping to me. ~ Riana ⁂ 00:14, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nah, you're right. Actually had I read the policy properly myself and seen the quote above, I wouldn't have bothered you at all. Thanks. --HighKing (talk) 18:03, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No trouble :) I've left a note on the talkpage nevertheless. Cheers, ~ Riana ⁂ 01:24, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations, Riana! Within the past three days, you received the Red Star for being hard working, kind to others, and for being an excellent user in general. You've now been chosen to receive the next higher up award, the Orange Star A record of this award will always be kept at User:Meaghan/Shining Stars. Enjoy! Meaghanguess who :) 13:43, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You could also receive the next higher up award, the Yellow Star!
I made changes to WP:USER by creating a shortcut called WP:DELTALK and using seealso so that this and BLANKING are cross-reference. This may avoid the confusion I had when I tried to find the policy on Talk removal.
How can I get the revision history removed on my main user page? I may have included some personal information that I don't want accessible. -Stillwaterising (talk) 15:02, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's backed up. Go ahead. Please remember to restore semi-protection. Stillwaterising (talk) 18:21, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Restore current page is fine. I have the code backed up in just in case. --Stillwaterising (talk) 00:28, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Do you use one of the chat clients like yahoo? I would like to talk to you about the Afd nonsense. -Stillwaterising (talk) 00:38, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Your honest is VERY refreshing, compared to my nemesis and his "sockpupet". You can you check out their comments on the Harmon Afd page <here>. I also posted a request on the WP:RS noticeboard but they skipped my request and took care of everything else. I asked about it on their talk page; do you have any insight as to why it was ignored? Was it because it regarded pornography, or because it's dealing with an article that is in the Afd process?
Are there generally boneheads in every Afd conversation that just say "doesn't mees GNG, and BLP, delete while the ones who say keep actually take the time to explain themselves? All this BS regarding porn Afd is driving me nuts. -Stillwaterising (talk) 01:45, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Still, I will say this only once and I will make it very clear. This is a collaborative project, and I will not tolerate attacks being made on other editors, regardless of their views. Calling Epbr123, however you may differ with his views, a "bonehead" and accusing him of abusive sockpuppetry without proof (the former a personal attack, the latter a very serious accusation) is an unwise course of action. I suggest that you keep these personal thoughts to yourself, unless you have a substantial amount of evidence; in which case, you should submit it to arbcom. I will not tolerate these unfounded accusations and attacks on a respected administrator so please stop, or a temporary block from the project might become an option. —Dark 10:02, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Re your message: Hmmm, dunno if me on coffee would be such a good idea. I already seem to be a little too overactive... -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:17, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Did someone say something about Coffee? --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 12:28, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
yes. Coffee is best served diluted with cordial :D —Dark 08:43, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Riana. You have new messages at JohnCD's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Dear Riana, many thanks for your little note and the smiley star. It has cheered me up a bit. I have been getting a bit annoyed with wikipedia lately as almost everything I do seems to get attacked and I keep having to 'battle' to avoid things I have done being deleted. I must be doing something wrong. My latest problem being an article on Matthew Watson being deleted. The deleter kindly gave it back for me to work on but it is still annoying (User:Msrasnw/Matthew Watson) Anyway your act of deception was 'funny' - and made me smile . best wishes (Msrasnw (talk) 12:26, 12 November 2009 (UTC))[reply]
Hi Msrasnw, you're welcome, it was well-deserved. I haven't the time now but I'll look at your article within the next 24 hours, promise! Cheers, ~ Riana ⁂ 13:30, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Riana, hope all is well - I guess you haven't had time - or you thought there was no problem to be addressed. But I am still bothered that the article User:Msrasnw/Matthew Watson that I have spent a bit of time (too much time) on is still not deemed OK. I do feel it was wrongly deleted. I have communicated with the deleting admin (User talk:Skomorokh#User:Msrasnw/Matthew Watson) but had no joy yet. It might be I should wait a bit more fore response from Skomorokh but in the mean time I would welcome another "view". I don't know if I should just go down the official deletion review angle. It is funny how one gets sucked into these things - I think I should just keep trying to make new things instead of this sort of thing anyway - best wishes, (Msrasnw (talk) 16:21, 18 November 2009 (UTC))[reply]
"...but "there's only so much unpleasant stuff you can ask them to do" (Q21)? Er - welcome to Arbcom :)" referred to administrators generally, not arbitrators. Appreciate your kind words, one way or another. Cheers, Steve Smith (talk) 17:00, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Riana. My name is Sean Wolfington and i was wondering what happened to the article about me that was deleted. I am not familiar with Wikipedia's rules and guidelines and wanted to know if i did something wrong. If you can help advise me i would appreciate it. Also, i read the discussion page requesting a speedy deletion and it said that there was not alot of information beyond the sale of the 2 companies i founded and the film i produced. As a business person and film producer i have done alot more than what the page describes but the information was not there.
Since i don't know alot about Wikipedia i asked a freind and they suggested i provide information to the people on the business page of Wikipedia to get their oppinion of wheter the article is noteworthy and i wanted to give you additional information that was not on the article you deleted to see if that may change whether the article is noteworthy.
Here is a summary of my background so you can evaluate whether it is noteworthy. All of this information is available through major news outlets, which i thought was the criteria for determining if something was noteworthy... but again i don't know alot about how this site works. Below is my background information, please tell me if any of this is noteworthy. Some of the information was not in the original article and the additional information may effect whether the article is noteworthy.
Here is my background: I am an Entreprenuer and a film maker. I founded and sold 2 technology companies by the age of 34. The first company, HAC Group which operated as Cyber Car and Automark, sold for $200 million (article with info can be viewed at: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/18/business/company-news-reynolds-reynolds-to-buy-hac-group-for-200-million.html) and the second for $125 million dollars of enterprise value (BZ Results article- http://www.dealerrefresh.com/adp-buys-bz-results/ - there are many articles about these companies but these are links i just found). My company was recognized as the "Innovative company of the year" from Auto Success Magazine along with SAP (http://www.autosuccessonline.com/leadership.aspx) and I was a finalist for the Ernst & Young "Entreprenuer of the Year" when i was 34 years old and a few months ago was recognized by Haute Living Magazine as one of the top 100 most influential leaders in the Haute 100 (view at:http://www.hauteliving.com/?s=sean+wolfington). After selling the second company, I started a film production company where i financed, produced and distributed the first film myself (Bella)and it was the #1 top grossing film in its category. (here is an article i wrote for the Huffington Post about it- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-wolfington/what-i-learned-about-maki_b_102704.html and LA Times wrote an article about it - articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/04/entertainment/et-bella4) It also was the #1 rated movie on Yahoo, NY Times, Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes while in theaters and it is currently one of the top 50 Rated Films of All Time on Yahoo and it was the #1 Rated movie of 2007 by the users of the largest film review site in the world, RottenTomatoes.com. After that i produced 2 other films including a new motion picture called Mighty Macks (you can view at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034324/ and you can view my film history at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2055676/). In addition to the film production company i currently own 6 companies in the technology, real estate and entertainment industries. I know most people on Wikipedia are more interesting and i am not writing this to boast, i just want to give you an overview of who i am so you can determine if the article is noteworthy. I would really appreciate your help with this because i don't know how any of this works. Also, i left a message on the talk page of the other people who suggested the article be deleted. One of them said the new information was important to know and they suggested i create a new article but i don't know how to do that. Is it possible to undelete the old article and update that with the additional information and independent source references?
I hope you can advise me on this. Thank you.Seanwolfington (talk) 05:29, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Riana, if you're ever tired of the admin routine, I am seeking someone with a nice turn of phrase to look at some of the paragraphs in the article Vancouver. My intentions:
How many edits do u need in order to request adminship, as I would like to become an admin. Paul2387 (talk) 18:09, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) There is no specific number, but many frequent contributors to RfA will automatically oppose someone with less than a couple of thousand edits. As you can see from the graph, the average number of edits for the successful candidates are much higher. I personally think that the substance of the edits are more important than their number (quality over quantity), but again, the graph indicates that suitability for adminship as perceived by the RfA participants is correlated to a high edit count. Regards, decltype (talk) 11:34, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I'm new to Wikipedia, and I've created an article about Mobiosis. I guess I didn't put enough explicitly there that it's a neologism, and it was taken as a Blatant Hoax and deleted in next few hours before I realized what's happening. Could you possibly help me resolve that? I can refine the description and add necessary information to make it stay on Wikipedia. Thanks! Kriksu (talk) 19:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Kriksu asked me as well - I deleted it - and I have pointed her/him to WP:NFT, WP:NEO and WP:V. JohnCD (talk) 09:25, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
May this season bring you joy and cheer Riana! --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 18:41, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What a gorgeous Christmas card! I'm going to copy-paste it. I'll change all the wording and pictures, but how do people learn how to do this!? This is beautiful. RaidenRules! (talk) 18:53, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Riana,
Wishing you, your family, and friends a very merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate at this time of year), and I hope that the new year will be a good one, in real life, and on the wiki. There is always a reason to spread the holiday spirit; it's a special time of year of almost everyone. ;)
Love and best wishes, Meaghan - MerryChristmas! - 00:11, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
December21st2012FreakHappy Holidays! is wishing you a MerryChristmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Once again it is festive season, a time where festive decorations are displayed and gifts are swapped; but what about the true meaning of christmas? The true meaning of christmas is about the fight for freedom and how in times of hardship and misery, one person leads their people to freedom as a great warrior; for those who fight for a cause are warriors and those who fight for a worthy cause are great warriors. Such an act earns respect and honour; but most importantly, brings happiness to their people. So to achieve this as happiness lies in other people's happiness and greatness lies in how you deal with little people, we selflessly think of others in the hope that they will be happy this christmas.
I have sent you an e-mail. --Tenmei (talk) 16:41, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your time and consideration. As a gesture of appreciation, may I share a rhetorical question from the Analects of Confucius: "Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?" --Tenmei (talk) 00:14, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Riana,
I am writing to you on behalf of the University of Alberta. We are investigating the boredom topic you are administrator of. We were wondering if you could help us out on a couple questions? 1) Can you tell us who is contributing the most/more often to the boredom topic? 2) Who entered some of the original material; 3) Who is contributing most recently; 3a) Are they academics on the topic or people from the general public? Contextualizing these question: By "entered" we are looking for those entries of original material, not grammar, or spelling editing. By "most recently" we mean those who have entered significant content most recently. If you could help us out on these questions it would be greatly appreciated. If we need to contact other administrators, just let us know. Feel free to contact me on my talk page.
Thank you for your time--Redcdr (talk) 17:10, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Christopher —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redcdr (talk • contribs) 23:13, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Riana, On your userpage, you have a quote, "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul" which you attribute to the Qur'an. While I find a number of google hits for this phrase, there is no such verse in the Qur'an. You can verify this for yourself by searching these three renowned English translations for "flower" and "flowers."'[2] While I understand this is your userpage, I still feel that we risk misinforming Wikipedia's readers about this very serious and important subject. Might you consider removing this fake verse?24.22.141.61 (talk) 07:13, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This isn't mainspace. Riana could even put a picture of a dog, and label it a kitten if she so wishes :) —Dark 11:29, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
An excellent argument for deleting userspace. Still, my guess is that Riana didn't bother to check whether this actually was in the Qur'an, and probably wouldn't knowingly post a fake quote.24.22.141.61 (talk) 10:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
[3] But this discussion is frivolous. If Riana decides to remove the quote, it's her choice. —Dark 11:05, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Unprotection Hi, you indef protected this article in 2007 as a BLP precautionary measure. Indefinite protection in this way breaches m:Founding principles #2. Could you please unprotect it? Ash (talk) 14:01, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A tag has been placed on Template:Cc-by-3.0-Kollywood requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).
Riana! Do you remember... years and years ago! A sudden wave of nostalgia, out of seeming nowhere, inspired me to go and reconnect with my long-lost Wikipedia pals. How are you doing, dear friend? ♥Fredil 18:57, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improving article quality. A number of the project's featured articles underwent featured article reviews over the past year. Of these, Darjeeling and Flag of India survived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period, Gangtok, Harbhajan Singh, Darjeeling and Mysore were featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse as Political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760), Marwari horse and Iravan were promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number of good articles, however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number of featured lists saw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.
Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferenced Biographies of Living People (BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to 565 currently. During February-April 2010, There was a large scale disruption of Kerala related articles by a Thrissur based IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IP BSNL connection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number of Malayalam and Tamil film actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people like Arvind Swamy as dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.
This picture, shot in India, won the Commons:Picture of the Year contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising periodic meetups over the past year, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society. The next meetup is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.
A discussion is underway here to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh, crore etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.
Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the sole active editor. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to help resolve the issue.
A discussion is in progress here in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of art music instead of classical music. Please participate and add your comments.
Watchlist the Articles for Deletions page for India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Looking forward toward more contributions from you!
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This newsletter is automatically delivered by -- TinuCherian BOT - 02:45, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Riana. I saw on the history of the WikiProject Georgia page you froze/locked editing of the template page for the WikiProject banner. I added the code that I would like to be added to the WikiProject banner code here on the Talk Page. Please let me know if you can add this or discuss this with me. If not I could ask another administrator. Thanks for your help! Tamer_of_Hopetalk 17:10, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please review the OTRS ticket 1178257. It has come under scrutiny recently, please review the following related discussions (here, here, here and here). The e-mail address apparently was a yahoo e-mail address which is very atypical for a public library to be using, that compounded with another photograph by Kay Tobin Lahusen (File:BarbaraGittings_in_Phaldelphia_1969.jpg) has another dubious OTRS ticket from another library claiming copyright. It's very likely that these pictures are all owned by Kay Tobin Lahusen, and not any of these libraries or papers. Unless the OTRS ticket is from a verifiable official e-mail of the library (likely on their domain) and it includes clear indication they have the explicit copyright release from the photographer, then it should be deleted as a copyright violation. — raekyT 02:46, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010[edit]
English WikiProject News
After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.
Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.
What's New?
Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.
The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.
In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.
The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by Tamil Virtual University to the Tamil Wiktionary was completed in October. The words were donated by the Government of Tamil Nadu due to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 (WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list of largest wiktionaries and has earned it a place in the Wiktionary front page logo. In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.
The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.
Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.
Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.
Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.
The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.
The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.
This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.
Looking forward to more contributions from you!
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Dear Riana, Best wishes to you and your family this holiday season, whether you are celebrating Christmas or a different holiday. It's a special time of the year for almost everyone, and there's always a reason to spread the holiday spirit! ;) Love, --Meaghan[talk] ≈ 15:17, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
New South Wales has been nominated for a featured portal review. During this review, editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the portal from featured status. Please leave your comments and help us to return the portal to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, portals may lose its status as featured portals. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Elekhh (talk) 02:16, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have created a new website called The Spongebob Fake Wiki. please comment if you joined and are happy about it Gabriel Easteron 08:06, January 31, 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that Liam Wyatt is in town, so we were thinking of doing a quick meetup at Brunelli's cafe in Rundle Street (at the Rundle Mall end, near the car park) at 6pm on Sunday, with a possibility of drinks afterwards. So if you're interested we hope to see you there. :) - Bilby (talk) 12:58, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hello,
I created a page with the title "Dispositio Achillea", but for some reason it was deleted. You seem to be capable to add a copy of this page to my user space. Could you do that for me, please?
Thanks, HansM (talk) 21:41, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity[edit]
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Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity[edit]
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next several days. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e., as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised and that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions). This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts.
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised and that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions). This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. –xenotalk 00:12, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide.
Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.
You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
Hi, I am aware that you had helped on a number of occasions with your knowledge of developing computer-related items. I would like to seek some more help from you for developing an infobox for the articles on Lok Sabha constituencies. However, I am not sure if you are still active at Wikipedia. I hope you will kindly help. Please get back to me with a positive response and I shall provide you more details. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 07:31, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
There already is a Lok Sabha template and so you need not bother. Thanks all the same. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 10:55, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm not a user yet, but I had the intention of creating the article for this company. May I please know why it was deleted.
Thanks
41.218.27.30 (talk) 00:30, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, for some reason you deleted the World Wines Competition Wiki page, it is the largest of it's type in the world, yet there are much smaller competitions with pages on Wiki. Please return it to active status.
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Hello. You are receiving this message because of a recent change to the administrator policy that alters what you were told at the time of your desysopping. The effect of the change is that if you are inactive for a continuous three year period, you will be unable to request return of the administrative user right. This includes inactive time prior to your desysopping if you were desysopped for inactivity and inactive time prior to the change in policy. Inactivity is defined as the absence of edits or logged actions. Until such time as you have been inactive for three years, you may request return of the tools at the bureaucrats' noticeboard. After you have been inactive for three years, you may seek return of the tools only through WP:RFA. Thank you. MBisanztalk 00:20, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Riana. Long time no see. I was admiring your userpage and hoping to use its layout for my own, with my own changes of course. Mkdwtalk 02:13, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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