Zoohouse

Tagging stubs unreferenced

Hey there. I just noticed you tagged a few stubs with {{unreferenced}} .. Most stubs don't need to be tagged with anything, because they've already got the stub tag, which implies that the article is incomplete. But if you really must tag stubs as unreferenced, then here's a little trick you should do: add the |auto=yes parameter, as I have done in this example. What this does is make the tag invisible to readers but still categorizes it in Category:Articles lacking sources. This way we don't have a big ugly tag on the page that's bigger than the article itself! Thanks, œ^™ 06:17, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Gotcha, thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware of that parameter. -- Joel M. Chat ✐ 06:34, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Your request for rollback

Hi Zoohouse. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! FASTILY ^(TALK) 16:25, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. -- Joel M. Chat ✐ 16:28, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Keep it up!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For giving me the runaround at AIV all evening! Keep up the good work. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:14, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer permission

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

For the guideline on reviewing, see Wikipedia:Reviewing. Being granted reviewer rights doesn't change how you can edit articles even with pending changes. The general help page on pending changes can be found here, and the general policy for the trial can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:16, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you HJ Mitchell -- Joel M. Chat ✐ 21:19, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Administrator intervention against vandalism

Thank you for your reports at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Unfortunately vandalism by anonymous IP editors can only really be dealt with if it is actively continuing at a high rate. Since many IP addresses are used by many different users, it would not be helpful to block IP addresses used by constructive editors because occasionally incidents of vandalism are made by other users on the same IP address. I don't know if you have checked back to AIV to see any responses to your reports, but you may like to do so. In case by the time you read this the responses have disappeared from the page, here is a link to a version containing several such responses. Please don't take this as trying to discourage you from making further reports, as that is the last thing I would wish to do. However, I hope that this explanation will help you to learn better what kinds of reports are useful. JamesBWatson (talk) 18:52, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

I see, the reason I reported those IPs is because in the past, when there has been recent vandalism of the nature I reported, the IP address were blocked from editing and the user were encouraged to get a user name. I believed that when there were IP address that were constantly involved in vandalism, that the general consensus was to keep the IP from making further edits, and encourage the users to create accounts. -- Joel M. Chat ✐ 19:14, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello

hello can i ask something? are you an editor here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.87.182.186 (talk • contribs)

Yes, he is an editor; he may be able to talk to you shortly. みんな空の下 (トーク) 23:45, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

You can just go ahead and ask me. -- Joel M. Chat ✐ 00:01, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Pay close attention

First, read WP:SOAP. Second, you started a discussion blasting other volunteers for doing their job on a talkpage that you have no business doing. Third, the person was already unblocked, so your WP:POINTy actions were un-necessary. Finally, when you left a message on my talkpage, it says not to use the TB template, as I will always watch conversations I'm involved in - as I was merely a block-decliner, there's nothing on that talkpage for me to be involved in. According to WP:AGF, we all did what we're supposed to do, and acting like a WP:DICK won't help. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:05, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

* What were your reasons for declining the unblock?

* Are you assuming bad faith from my part? -- Joel M.Chat ✐ 17:35, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

My reasons for declining were clearly stated. I can only assume good faith to the point where you prove people wrong: WP:SOAP and WP:POINT are pretty serious. If you don't understand Wikipedia, or the community nature, or the idea that volunteers make decisions based on the information available to them at the time, then re-think your involvement. Getting snarky in defence of someone who is no longer blocked is a significant waste of editing time. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 19:47, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Article/Revision/Undo/Revision/Undo......

Hi Zoohouse,

I'm having a difficult time getting controversial information added to an article. In this case, it appears some do not want a balanced article, only allowing penning with a flattering instrument. I think it could degenerate into a Drug Company vs Homeopathic Remedies sort of thing.

Would you be willing to assist? You know your way around Wiki much better than me - so I believe you would would be much more effective and I could learn a lot.

The quote is 'on par' with notables such as Pat Robertson's and "Haiti deserved the earthquake due to a pact with the devil".

Jeffrey Walton 18:31, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Forgot to mention.... I'm familiar with WP:DR.

Jeffrey Walton 19:14, 22 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Noloader (talk • contribs)

New version of STiki software available

Hello there. I've noticed you are a frequent user of my software tool, STiki. First, I wanted to thank you for your use of my tool. Second, I wanted to inform you that a new version just became available (see this post on STiki's talk page for a brief summary of changes). I encourage you to download it! Further, keep your bug reports and feature requests flowing in. STiki has now reverted over 25,000 instances of vandalism, and I hope together we can help this number continue to grow. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 05:07, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Reviving collaboration on WikiProject Cuba?

See this discussion on WikiProject Cuba, I'm trying to drum up some teamwork and collaboration to create an article on the Cuban Liberation Army. Despite the fact they won Cuban independence in the 1890s, they don't have their own article! If you, or anyone you know would be interested, reply on WikiProject Cuba. –NickDupree (talk) 04:05, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

About Unibrows

Hello! Thank you for your work on the Unibrow page (the Davis photo might still need some work, and maybe the headline one too [but less so]).

I am writing to inform you that I changed the Unibrow article. The old picture was weak, and the one you proposed was much better, but someone wanted a more "epic" one. I believe I provided that, but I also added your photo (and the old one)just further down the page for further illustration of the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibrow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyebrows

I would also like to ask you if you had any thoughts on replacing or adding pictures on the eyebrow page to sync up with the unibrow one more. As in, add the now headliner or use the headliner to replace the blue eyed one.

Thank you for your time, --Z11o22 (talk) 02:53, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:54, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:57, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:41, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Zoohouse. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your username or portal was listed as a participant of a WikiProject that is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Country Winners
• Diversity winner
• High quality contributors
• Gender-gap fillers
• Page improvers
• Wikidata Translators

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Linpedia.png

The file File:Linpedia.png has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unused logo with no article used, it's also can't move to commons because of an unused logo will be deleted as of out of project scope.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated files}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the file's talk page.

Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated files}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Willy1018 (talk) 06:18, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Diversity winner
• Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Uncategorized

Template:Uncategorized has been nominated for merging with Template:Uncategorized stub. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Izno (talk) 14:36, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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