User talk:Jersey Devil/Archive 8

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This archive page covers approximately the dates between January 12, 2008 and February 2, 2010.

As someone who heavily edited Shining Path, you may be interested to know that the article's status as a Good Article has been put on hold as a result of a review of it. The review was part of the "sweeps" of all Good Articles. Talk:Shining_Path#GA Sweeps Review: On Hold contains more information about the whole affair. --Descendall (talk) 10:11, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As an admin, you should know very well not to throw your weight around until you've determined what is going on: see [1]. Blocking is not to be taken lightly. Please check Wikipedia:Blocking policy:

Blocks are used to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, not to punish users.

Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 00:48, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Moving things to the discussion page did solve the problem. I probably deserved to go to time out! Thanks for your help.--Random Replicator (talk) 14:08, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Jersey Devil, You eliminated sourced information on this page that was placed there by me in an effort to balance the POV problem on the page. I reverted one of your edits and in condescension to your elimination of my work, I eliminated the sentences that were referenced to NOCASTRO.com. Right now there is one sentence that is left in the controversy section that is referenced to the USCG (United States Coast Guard). That is a valid third party reference that offsets the POV of the preceeding sentence. That sentence should not be eliminated or you make the entire section a POV problem. Please come to the discussion page of the article before you revert my work again and lets discuss. Thanks! NancyHeise (talk) 04:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, a good-hearted admin has undone your block with the result that this user is now spamming talk pages lobbying to get his link installed; my comments on his efforts at Talk:Palliative care#Link suggestion. I'm also posted a cease-and-desist request on his talk page. Please block this character again, if you are able to do so. Thanks, CliffC (talk) 15:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Surnames starting with "Mc" should be indexed as "Mac" to assist category sorting; this has been the case for a long time now. Surnames starting with O'M or O'H (for example) are indexed as Om and Oh. The latter reindexing (O's) has already been completed by other editors, so I stuck with the "Mc" names. I am holding off from doing any more reindexing until I get an admin OK. Yellow-bellied sapsucker (talk) 19:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

:I first became aware of the Mc/Mac situation back in 2006 on Martin McGuinness' article. See [2] from 22:45, 15 April 2006, where the note first appeared about the category sorting (Mac, not Mc). Yellow-bellied sapsucker (talk) 20:14, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I first became aware of the Mc/Mac situation on Martin McGuinness' article. I did the research back and found the entry (see [3]) from 22:45, 15 April 2006, where the note first appeared about the category sorting (Mac, not Mc). Yellow-bellied sapsucker (talk) 20:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re:[4]

Perhaps you should notify the user in question on their talk page as well? Since your warning is applicable to more than just the Barack Obama page, it might be a good idea to make it obvious to the person you're aiming the warning at in case they try to appeal a future block. But thanks for the info. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 21:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Controversial_block_needs_review. I opened the thread completely without prejudice (in other words, I'm not saying you did anything wrong or that I disagree with the block) - I just think that, out of respect for a long-time user, this block needs to be reviewed by more than just a couple of people. --B (talk) 04:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There wasn't consensus. So based on 3 others opposition (I am not one of the three), I tried to craft a compromise. The compromise was to have the user show how good he or she could be by editing well for 7 days. Instead, you have denied the chance. You are potentially creating a sock problem because the user will have no recourse (other than the unwieldy ArbCom, who is too busy to effectively take on these cases).

I am now becoming more oppose to the indefinite blocking of this user because the process has not been completed. My opposition is not based on the user's behavior but the not following process. Essentially, you are refusing to address the compromise and substituting it for your own punishment. If you didn't want to discuss it, you could have offered a compromise solution, such as 7 day block. Archtransit (talk) 23:55, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I wish to thank you for being supportive of my effort to regain my adminship. Though it was unsuccessful, I'm deeply appreciative that you took some time to once again be supportive of me. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you.--MONGO 17:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, it's me again. I just wanted to say one last thing before I left. I think you might be interested in joining this listserv. While it's technically open only to members of the Peru section of the Latin American Studies Association, I'm almost positive that no one really checks to see if you paid your $8 dues. If anyone questions you, just tell them that you are an interested student. The listserv is extremely low traffic; only a couple of emails a month. Nevertheless, some of the most important Peruanista economists, sociologists, political scientists, and human rights workers (including members of the CVR) subscribe to the listserv. They often send interesting information about upcoming books, conferences, articles, etc. though the list. I've actually made some professional contacts through it. Join up, you have nothing to lose. As always, you have my email, so feel free to contact me. --Descendall (talk) 06:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I see on your page that you recently read Weavers of Revolution. Is that a great book, or what? The last time I was in Chile I talked to an old Communist taxi driver who mentioned that the Yarur family is still as powerful as ever. They got out of textiles and moved into banking a while ago. --Descendall (talk) 06:31, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, I recently wrote an article, Ikhtiyar al-Din Ai-Taq. A central part of the article concerns the individual's governorship of the city of Ray. This fact is also mentioned in several other related articles that I wrote. The source for this fact normally has a good reputation for factual accuracy. However, after viewing several other sources, including the chronicles that the author of my original source used, I now have serious doubts that this individual was ever actually governor of Ray. I believe that the author of my original source was wrong here, but unfortunately I don't know for certain either way. Since a substantial part of the article, as well as several other articles, revolves around his governorship of Ray I can't just edit it out. Would it be inappropriate to put a factual accuracy tag on my own article? I don't just want to leave the article as is and give readers the impression that it is factual. If you could give some advice on an appropriate course of action for this article and the other articles affected by this I'd appreciate it.

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You seem to have made quite a few overly eager deletions recently, such as deleting Rupert Murdoch from the CFR article... I suggest you be a little more cautious and deliberate. I have my eye on you. I'll be watching your contributions quite closely from now on, as I don't believe you are a fit administrator, and should this recent trend continue, I shall work toward deadminning you. It only seems proper that I mention it to you first, as assuming good faith requires that I ascribe no motive to you other than those in line with Wikipedia goals, which I suspect you are at odds with. I'd like to be shown otherwise. User:Pedant (talk) 21:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your quite simple, informative and respectful reply. Reading your policies regarding recall is reassuring. In future it might be more suitable for me to merely point out what seems to be questionable activity, rather than warn you... overall, I feel that you have deleted bits that shouldn't have been, in your laudable efforts to remove what doesn't belong. Deleting can have worse consequences than including, mainly because wrongly deleted material may not ever be noticed, and replaced... contrarily: Wrongly included material will still be there, asking to be deleted. Please just bear this in mind. Nice to meet you. User:Pedant (talk) 15:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Sometimes I am afraid I am over-sensitive. The Race and Intelligence article is obviously controversial and I have been highly critical of user:Jagz who I believe has been pushing for inclusion of a fringe, racialist (if not racist) POV in the article - this is just context, not the issue. The issue is, today he made this edit, creating a new section and providing no explanation or context: [5]. If it is directed at me, I wonder if it is anti-Semitic.

I may be overreacting - it may just be one of several disruptive edits he has made, which I should not take personally, and I have left a note at AN/I concerning disruptive edits. But the possible anti-Semitism nags at me. I know that in general you take these matters seriously and that in this particular case you have objectivity I lack and if you think I am overreacting, well, I would respect and value your judgement. Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 13:07, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you made mass deletions of around 30 lists that are part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Philately without any apparent deletion notification of such a large number of articles. Such a large number of deletions should have at least been notified to the project that deals with such articles or at least to the assessment team to which those articles belong. Lists of fish on stamps are a very important and popular topic of topical stamp collecting as are other topical subjects which have list too, such as birds on stamps or even people on stamps. What's next, another 99 lists without any discussion or notification? You have decimated the category by your mass deletions. (I post in one place to keep a discussion together, so am watching this page). ww2censor (talk) 14:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I deleted those articles quite a while ago as they were all lists made in 2005 with almost no content aside from tables. Since there were so many of them I felt that an AFD would be overly burdensome and so decided to delete them myself. Since you have objected to these deletions I will take this to WP:DRV in order for the community to decide on a suitable outcome.--Jersey Devil (talk) 23:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Let me consult someone else, a philatelic admin editor, before you do anything. 23rd March, but I only happened to notice when looking through the assessment log. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 23:38, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, these deletions were definitely not legitimate. Lists are a longstanding part of WP, and it is simply incorrect to say that they have no content. The multiple edits by a number of different editors should have been a hint that there was general consensus that they were valid articles. As an admin, you should know better than to delete this kind of material unilaterally. Stan (talk) 12:31, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I reviewed policy, and restored all the deleted pages. Feel free to nominate for AFD, although I note that Stanley Gibbons publishes a book on the subject, so I think they're likely to survive. As a note for the future, the fact that you had to separately delete talk pages, because they had assessments on them(!), should have been a hint that out-of-process deletions were going to be noticed and challenged. Stan (talk) 13:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can see you've been squatting on the Estate Tax article for a while. I'm going to appeal to your reason and ask you to stop relabeling it as a "pejorative term" created by "Republicans" when a huge nuber of people try to remove your wording. The term was used before republicans existed, OK? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.216.130.107 (talk) 03:27, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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On this, you stated, incorrectly, ". Just went through the user's blocklog. It appears that he has been blocked in the recent past (last month) for making legal threats against users and the Wikimedia Foundation". That is incorrect, and that is obvious from even the block log. Of you read, it says: "22:09, 21 March 2008 Shell Kinney (Talk | contribs) unblocked Ottava Rima (Talk | contribs) ‎ (wait, sorry, he threated to take legal action against me with the WM Foundation, changing back to original length)". Notice "unblock". She improperly blocked me for what she claimed was a legal threat, and it was not. Furthermore, it has nothing to do with the ANI. Adding such information, especially inaccurately, is rather rude. Please remove your comment now that you know it is incorrect. Ottava Rima (talk) 03:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky

Hola soy un contribuidor mexicano y estoy trabajando en los articulos referentes a los fabulosos cadillacs, note que las imagenes de los albumes que hay las habias subido tu, asi que utilize el mismo metodo, todo hiba bien hasta que me indicaron que la imagen de El Leon sera borrada, pero no hice nada diferente a ti o a las otras imagenes que ya habia subido, podrias por favor aconsejarme al respecto que puedo hacer para que no sea borrada. Por adelantado gracias hermano latino Zidane tribal (talk) 23:19, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Te agradesco tu respuesta, y sobre el retraso no te preocupes. Si se que la imagenes requiereun una justificacion para ser usadas pero me declaro neofito al respecto, nunca he podido subir una imagen sin que me llamen la atencion por ella, asi que lo que puedas hacer para que las imagenes no sea borradas te lo agradecere. Zidane tribal (talk) 17:42, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Working on Libertarianism page. The entire thing is factually incorrect ignoring the majority of history on the topic. I've always found you particularly reasonable when it comes to arguments. If you have any knowledge on the topic, or would otherwise monitor the events, I would appreciate it. Thank you. q (talk) 18:08, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I was talking more about the edit warring. I had every edit reverted in a weekend (over 30) by one person. Finally she agreed to stop reverting me after a lot of discussion and reverting of her reverts on my part. You don't really need to be familiar with the topic, I am adding cited and sourced information, citing sometimes twice within one sentence. The majority of the article is uncited and factually incorrect.

I had never seen an article more POV on wikipedia. A group has taken it over, and refused to allow the real history and context to be displayed. This is evident from the talk page and archives as many people have complained about this issue. I started finally taking it on in a very historical way, and have been reverted. Right now, Some of the more important edits have existed for a couple days, so that's promising. I want to add more, but am trying to give some time in between expecting that someone is going to revert the whole thing once more. It takes a lot of time to research and fine meticulous sources on an issue like that, and I don't want all this work to be removed by people who are not concerned by the accuracy of the information, but in that it detracts from their intention of spreading their message of "libertarianism."

The very quick of it is, Libertarianism meant one thing for 200 years. in 1955 a guy with an ideology opposite of it took the word. Now an opposite ideology spreads that no one else can be libertarian except them. It meant anti-capitalist (and still does everywhere in the world but the u.s.), and pro-capitalists took the word in 1955, and the media has been quite open to them because they prefer radical capitalists to anti-capitalists. q (talk) 18:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Charlatanism applies to the See Also section because he's been associated with the word since the Hugo Chavez incident. --Ragemanchoo (talk) 07:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Jersey Devil, As you being an administrator and reverted this user edits, I wanted to ask your help in reference to this particular user who is adding a controversial study on every argentine article refering to demographics even though it was a consensus, eventually creating severe edit warring nearly every day (look at her contributions)[6]. I have requested the block of the user if the vandalism continues but until now no one has answered my request. Could you do something if the edt war continues? Regards, --Fercho85 (talk) 06:23, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, I have been involved in many articles having to do with Argentina's population and Amerindian ancestry (Argentina, Argentine American, White Argentine, Demographics of Argentina, White People, etc.)

User:Fercho85 reverts my many edits every time, even though they are backed by sources. Our problem, I suspect, is that he doesn't want to acknowledge the Amerindian ancestry of many Argentines and insists that the just about the whole population of Argentina is only White/European. I agree that Argentina has one of the largest pure-European/part European descended population (After Brazil, and before Mexico) in Latin America (Or all the Americas, for that matter), but there are many studies that show a large population have Amerindian ancestry.

My source, in Spanish, http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/01/16/sociedad/s-03415.htm states that 56% of Argentines have Amerindian ancestry. This, to me, should be added in all articles having to do with the Argentine descended population as the European population is always referenced.

Thank You in advance. Cali567 (talk) 07:08, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do not wish to put that 56% of Argentines are Mestizos, and of course its not widely accepted. I want to put that 56% of Argentines have Amerindian ancestors... that is not sayiong they are all Mestizos. Argentine/Chilean users are not letting anyone put any information on these subjects that debate the "Whiteness" of Argentines, etc... User:Fercho85, your friend, has been reverting everything I put in... and he is allowed to keep it that way... If that is what you stand for, we may need to get help elsewhere. Cali567 (talk) 08:39, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for allowing me the freedom of doing as I wish with my talk page (?), hopefully, next time, it won't have to turn into a revert/edit war, which you warned us from engaging in. You may paste it on any of your pages you wish... Have an excellent night Wiki User! Cali567 (talk) 09:06, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Response to User:Cali567 (removed from user's talk page)

I have reviewed the situation and read the statements made by yourself and the other users. In order to remain a neutral third party in this discussion I will refrain from commenting on the content other than that the claim (that is the claim that "56% of Argentinians are meztizo or amerindian") is not widely accepted and hence requires general consensus in order to be placed into an article. From what I have seen, rather than seeking this consensus you have participated in and incited revert wars across a span of several Argentina-related articles. There are venues for dispute resolution which include seeking consensus on talk pages of related articles, taking straw polls to seek consensus or using requests for comment to seek input from the wider Wikipedia community. Instead from your statement on User:Fercho85's talk page you have said that "This will be added in this article. It may reverted by you, but it will be added, despite your fake "consensus", as long as I am a Wikipedia User." [7] This indicates to me that you intend on continuing to revert war on those aforementioned articles. I will say that if you do not seek consensus via dispute resolution policy and continue to revert war despite my warnings I will use my powers as an administrator to temporarily revoke you editing privileges on Wikipedia.

Furthermore I will make a comment on your edit summaries some of which are in violation of WP:NPA policy. For instance, in one edit summary you state "Excuse you, Please learn Reading Comprehension. That is not What it Says." [8] and on the edit immediately following this one you state "Simplified Wording for Users...."[9]. Reviewing your block log I see that in the past you have be blocked for "incivility, racial puns/trolling" after which you apparently apologized and were unblocked. You should have learned then to avoid making personal attacks but it seems the behavior still continues. If I see a similar personal attack in the future on edit summaries, comments, etc... I again will use my role as an administrator to temporarily revoke your editing privileges. Thank you.--Jersey Devil (talk) 08:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove or alter my comments. This is meant as a warning for fellow administrators and all parties involved to view. With regards to your comments on my talk page, please to not refer to User:Fercho85 as "my friend". It is incivil and I have never known this user before I was made aware of this dispute today.--Jersey Devil (talk) 09:00, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The WikiProject New Jersey Reboot

Help Wanted! Articles are languishing, categories are stagnating, assessments are missing, the portal is static, and you can help.

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The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume I - Issue 1 26 August 2008
Project News	Article Alerts
The Reboot of Wikiproject New Jersey has certainly stirred up some new activity at the project. Discussion on several improvements and new initiatives have been going on at the talk page. There has been an involved discussion regarding our 90 unassessed articles, especially those on municipalities. The current goal is to review and assess all 566 New Jersey muncipality articles by September 30. A suggestion has been made to intiate Wikipedia Takes New Jersey to begin clearing the large backlog of articles needing photos. Let's all grab our cameras and head out into the vast wilds of the Garden State. Town Halls, High Schools, Historic Places - every article deserves a picture.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article candidates: none at this time Good Article nominees: Jon Corzine The Sopranos
New Jersey Collaboration news	New WPNJ members
WPNJ member Mm40 has volunteered to coordinate a new WPNJ Collaboration project. It's been a while since we used the NJCOTW and new volunteers are needed. Join the discussion to volunteer. Battle of Trenton was recently proposed as a Featured Article candidate. It was not promoted, but has now been nominated for A-Class review through the Military History WikiProject. Take a look at their A-Class FAQ. As we need to set up our own process for reviewing A-Class articles, it may be worth watching the process.	Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey: User:WTGDMan1986 joined on August 20
Reboot progress report	Help Wanted
The redesign has been well received. There are still some things left to do. This newsletter was one big check mark off the list. Hopefully this can be continued on a regular basis. There are literally thousands of articles in Category:New Jersey that have not been tagged as part of the project, and stub sorting hasn't been run in 10 months. We will need to identify some friendly bot operators to help with these projects. An outreach department (which includes the newsletter) needs to be formalized. Creating an invitation template for easy placement on userpages will also be part of that effort. There are lots of best practices described at the WikiProject Council with ideas of how to make our project more responsive, welcoming, active, and effective. Task forces? Peer review? Other ideas welcome!	New member recruiters Style guideline writers Newletter writers A-class article reviewers Portal crew members Many more Ask a question, make an offer
Editor's Notes
I just wanted to say that the response to my bold makeover of WPNJ has been gratifying, but nothing will improve the project as much as more activity, and that means more members. There are lots of things to do in this new setup, and everyone with an interest should be able to find a way to contribute to the collaboration. I want to thank you all for the patience, the appreciation, and the effort. - Jim Miller
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The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume 1 - Issue 2 26 September 2008
Project News	Article Alerts
The Maryland WikiProject has put together a great chart comparing the growth of several state WikiProjects, including WPNJ. Take a look at the chart to see how the growth of WPNJ compares to some of our peer projects. Please remember to place the {{WikiProject New Jersey}} tag on the talk pages of any New Jersey related articles you create or come across. You can also add the new articles page to your watchlist. Some updates have been made to the NJ Portal, but much more needs to be done. If a few volunteers can put together Featured Article summmaries, we can automate rotating the portal content. The same can be done for DYK items. Please take a look and see if you can assist.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article candidates: None at this time Good Article nominees: None at this time
Wikipedia Release version 0.7	New WPNJ members
The Wikipedia 0.7 project team has chosen the New Jersey related articles that will be included in the next downloadable version of Wikipedia. You can review the list of selected WPNJ articles, check the articles tagged for cleanup, or nominate additional articles for inclusion. Selection is an automated process based on article assessments. To help avoid vandalism and POV concerns, specific versions of articles can be tagged for inclusion in the downloadable release. See the New Jersey section of the bot results to recommend a production version. The process ends on October 20, and then a bot will select an appropriate version if none has been recommended.	Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey: Shirulashem (talk) 4 September 2008 Spartacusprime (talk) 8 September 2008
Article News	Help Wanted
Both Jon Corzine and The Sopranos were promoted to Good Article status in the past month. No WikiProject New Jersey articles were promoted to Featured article status. Battle of Trenton was not listed as a Featured Article, and may need more editors to complete the remaining work to be promoted. Also, in an item that was missed last month, Thomas Edison was delisted as a Good Article in July. The WPNJ Assessment Drive is ongoing. Please help assess all of the articles about places in New Jersey. There are currently 90 articles that have not been assessed.	Portal Crew Collaboration project Photographers in NYC Ask a question, make an offer
Editor's Notes
Fall has arrived, and with it will come a rush of new Wikipedians. Inviting new editors to join WPNJ is easy to do, and can help us improve our New Jersey articles. Keep an eye out for editors who work on NJ articles who can help the project. The Wikipedia Release version project is in its final stages for the next version. Take a look at the article lists, cleanup where you can, and nominate articles that should be included on the DVD version of WP. Lets make sure that those who end up with a downloaded copy of WP get solid articles about New Jersey. - Jim Miller
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The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume I - Issue 3 29 October 2008
Project News	Article Alerts
A new bot is patrolling Wikipedia workflows to let WPNJ members know when any of our articles may be in need of attention. Any article tagged with the WPNJ banner that has been added to one of the major workflows (AfD, FAC, GAN, etc.) will be added to a new project page. The bot runs daily, so add the new Article Alerts page to your watchlist, or just check the main project page to see the updates. See the Article Alerts project page for details on how the bot works and which processes it covers.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article/List candidates: List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with Princeton University Good Article nominees: none at this time
Cross-Project Collaboration Request	New WPNJ members
WPNJ received the following request for assistance with New Jersey Devils articles: "The WikiProject Ice Hockey is currently looking for editors to help update team articles about the 2008-09 NHL season. If you are interested in the NHL, please consider helping us keep these article current. To sign up, go to this page and add your name beside the team or teams you wish to particpate in." See the WPNJ talk page for more information.	Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey: Rhvanwinkle (talk) 9 October 2008
New Jersey on the Main Page	Help Wanted
No, not the state - the battleship! On October 15, USS New Jersey (BB-62) was the Featured Article on the Wikipedia main page. Featured articles receive heavier traffic when they are on the main page. Improving WPNJ articles to featured status can help drive more editors to our project.	Recruit new members Article Assessments Ask a question, make an offer
Editor's Notes
Seems like a pretty light month in terms of activity at WPNJ. Personally, your editor was doing a lot of travelling and went on a wiki-free vacation for nine days. Time to dive back in and create some new NJ articles. - Jim Miller See me | Touch me
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The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume II - Issue 1 12 November 2009
Project News	Article Alerts
Education Task Force - The conversion of the former WikiProject Education is New Jersey has been completed. New Jersey education-related articles are now supported by the Education task force. The project banner has been updated to fully support the task force with independent importance ratings. No More Comments - A proposal at the Village Pump has resulted in the deprecation of comments subpages. These were usually found at Talk:Article title/Comments and contained little more than assessment notes. These pages were not widely watched, and are often a hidden location for vandalism and BLP violations. WPNJ has 104 articles that used these pages. A complete list of them, along with their contents, can be viewed at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Deprecation of comments. It is up to the members of WPNJ to decide what to do with this information.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article candidates: none currently Good Article nominees: U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey Hudson County Courthouse
Municipality template compromise; School Districts (almost) complete	New WPNJ members
Legislative templates in municipal articles - A rather lengthy discussion ran from the end of August until the end of October regarding the use of our legislative district templates in articles about local municipalities. Many WPNJ members commented on the concept, and a proposed compromise seems to have been reached. The templates will require some adjustments to fit the new wording, but should result in more directly relevant sections about County, State, and Federal representation in our articles on cities, towns, villages, townships, and boroughs. Hopefully, more dicussions like this can result is some kind of Manual of Style to bring greater standardization to all of these articles. School District articles now comprehensive - WPNJ Founder Alansohn recently reported that almost all of New Jersey's school districts now have articles - "I have created the article for the last missing (non-vocational) school district in the state." Congrats to Alansohn, who I am sure would love more members at the Education task force to help maintain these articles!	Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey: A Stop at Willoughby 10 November 2008 Andrewmin 17 November 2008 cryptod 10 January 2009 marksdaly 15 March 2009 Aki Mononoke 23 May 2009 N2icv 14 June 2009 mannybrown1 24 June 2009 Madr1000 14 July 2009 Mr. Matté 15 July 2009 Christopher 17 August 2009 Rttam 11 October 2009
Watch These Pages	Help Wanted
Want to do more to help WikiProject New Jersey? Here are some suggested pages to add to your watchlist: Article Alerts New Articles WPNJ Talk	Newsletter writers and editor Photographers Ask a question, make an offer
Editor's Notes
Editor's news. OK, so I am going to try this again. It's been a little over a year since our last edition, and activity at the project was a bit slow during that time. Things have picked up again over the last few months, so once more into the breech I go. I will try to produce this newsletter on a regular basis (bi-monthly?) to see if we can get some more activity going at WPNJ. Help is always appreciated, and there is plenty to do. - Jim Miller See me | Touch me
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The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume II - Issue 2 25 January 2010
Project News	Article Alerts
New Statistics Table There has been an upgrade to the WP 1.0 bot that updates our project's summary table. The new table lists all page classes including Portal-class, Redirect-class, and Disambig-class. We now have a better picture of the scope of the WikiProject and the pages that we cover. New York Times to charge for access The New York Times is an invaluable resource for properly referencing articles, but especially due to its extensive archives and coverage of New Jersey issues. The announcement that metered content will be started in 2011 has the potential to make article sourcing much more difficult. It also causes a need to update linked sources in articles before all of the NYT links go dead. Any link can be archived on demand by using WebCite. We can help avoid dead links by archiving any article sources from the NYT.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article/List candidates: List of Governors of New Jersey (FLC) Good Article nominees: U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey
All BLP, All the Time	New WPNJ members
BLP Issue Boils Over There are discussions all over the 'pedia about deleting close to 50,000 unreferenced Biographies of Living People. We won't get into a rehash here, but let's just look at what we can do. There is a new item on the project task list for sourcing BLPs. All articles that are in both Category:People from New Jersey and Category:All unreferenced BLPs are now available on this work list. These articles need to be sourced, PRODded, or sent to AfD. An ounce of prevention Unreferenced BLPs are one of the catgories regularly listed in the WPNJ Cleanup listing. New articles are also a prime location to find articles that do not yet have references. You can keep an eye on the New Articles list to help prevent the workload from getting any larger. Can we do more? There are bots that will automatically add the WPNJ Project Banner to all articles in our designated categories if we have consensus to request it. Join the discussion here.	Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey: No new WPNJ members since the last issue!
In NJ, politics means article updates	Help Wanted
New Leaders in NJ Government Over the past 2 weeks, new legislators have been sworn in, the legislature has new leadership, the 55th Governor of New Jersey has been inaugurated, and we have our first Lt. Governor. All new members of the Legislature have at least stub articles, and many of the templates have been updated. Updating templates Many New Jersey articles utilize stadardized templates to convey information. With elections happening as often as they do in this state, January is always a good time to review these templates and update them with new information. Does your town or county have new elected officials? It's maintainance time on many of our articles on municipalities and counties as well.	Outreach Run across any new editors on New Jersey-related articles? Invite them to join WPNJ! Ask a question, make an offer
Editor's Notes
Editor's news Must have been some winter holiday season in New Jersey, because the project talk page has been unusually quiet. I thought with all that snow, many of us would be inside and doing things here at WP. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying a healthy and happy 2010!! - Jim Miller See me | Touch me
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