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language and country too in Template:Infobox drama? --Tito Dutta (talk) 22:24, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

 Done :) —Theopolisme (talk) 12:04, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

Don't forget to sign your posts at the Village Pump! :D Cheers, Michaelzeng7 (talk) 01:18, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

I deserved that! —Theopolisme (talk) 11:52, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal: Add The Signpost to the main menu

The Transhumanist 13:27, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Hey all; another newsletter.

• If you're not already aware, a Request for Comment on the future of the Article Feedback Tool on the English-language Wikipedia is open; any and all comments, regardless of opinion and perspective, are welcome.
• Our final round of hand-coding is complete, and the results can be found here; thanks to everyone who took part!
• We've made test deployments to the German and French-language projects; if you are aware of any other projects that might like to test out or use the tool, please let me know :).
• Developers continue to work on the upgraded version of the feedback page that was discussed during our last office hours session, with a prototype ready for you to play around with in a few weeks.

That's all for now! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:22, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

I've been making some progress on Snuggle development recently and I could use your feedback. Specifically, I've created a work log that I plan to update every time I get a chance to work on Snuggle. My intention is that you'll be able to watch that page to track my progress so I can get your feedback on features when they are early in development. The most recent entry (also the only entry) discusses new functionality for interacting with newcomers via Snuggle. I posted some mockups in the work log that show how I imagine the new features to work and I could use some feedback before I start writing the code. Thanks! --EpochFail^{(talk • work)} 20:30, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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Re this edit - most things stated about Wikipedia in essays about itself are automatically based on fact and if there is serious reason to challenge them it would be best to start a discussion on the essay's talk page. {{cn}} tags are reserved for mainspace in order to achieve accuracy in articles; remember, we are writing the encyclopedia for our readers, not as a 'club' project for ourselves ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:53, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Kudpung, for the clarification. Also, just an aside: while I understand that you don't hold me in very high regard (and after the muddle that was the CVU/A during my earlier days here, I don't truly expect you to), subtle digs like not as a 'club' project for ourselves/etc., while perhaps in your eyes humorous, are not really appreciated much on my end (remember, sarcasm/humor have a hard time getting through the wires ). Regardless, thanks for the further clarification. —Theopolisme (talk) 12:15, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

You are quite wrong in thinking that I don't hold you in very high regard! Quite to the contrary, I have always been impressed by your enthusiasm even if at times it was misplaced. In fact I'm actually quite confident that you are helping other new and perhaps young editors to avoid the mistakes you have made in the past. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:48, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

my name is Temidayo L Kafaru, I`m relatively new in editing and almost lost all my content by mistake during the update of World Miss University Nigeria, which i am the current president in Nigeria , thanks for helping me, i truly appreciate your kindness — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ktemidayo (talk • contribs) 22:26, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Cool; glad everything worked out! Let me know if I can ever help you out again. —Theopolisme (talk) 22:32, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Theopolisme, just wanted to let you know that I have added the course online volunteer right to your account, as you have demonstrated a need for it through the Wikipedia Education Program. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and will just allow you to be able to access the course extension as well as add yourself to courses. Before you forget, please make sure to create a profile page for yourself here, so that other other users can learn more about you. For more information on the course online volunteer right, see this page. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:22, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Theo, thanks for letting me know you will serve as our online ambassador. The class has started and four students will be working on pages for Wikipedia. All of them should be linked to the course page. They have been doing the tutorials and learning about Wikipedia. They will start to make some minor edits soon for practice and start researching contributions they might make. Lori Comm Prof LLB 00:49, 3 February 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Llbritt (talk • contribs)

Fantastic, thanks for keeping me in the loop! I've added all of their talk pages to my watchlist, and will be looking out for them during their Wikipedia experience: feel free to tell them to contact me if they need immediate help, either onwiki or by email (theopolismewikigmail.com). —Theopolisme (talk) 03:11, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello

Just to let you know, this page has now been deleted and re-instated as requested. Hopefully that will resolve whatever issue your bot was having with it :)--5 albert square (talk) 01:09, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks much! —Theopolisme² (talk) 00:06, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey, Theo, I've replied to your request on my talk page. The short story is: not yet, but hopefully in a few days or so; more details are in my response to you. Just dropping a note here in case you missed it, seeing as how I was so abominably late in replying. :) Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 22:33, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

That should be fixed now. In the past I've had issues with the wiki caching scripts, so it should update in a bit if it hasn't already. Thanks! It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 00:51, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Theo, Thanks for serving as our online ambassador. We have already begun working on our class project, and I am happy to email you our syllabus, specific details etc. Please contact me at [email protected] for more info. We are also having a Skype meeting with our Regional Ambassador, Dan Simanek on 12 Feb, Tues - and would love to have you 'join' us if possible. Mgantony (talk) 16:52, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Replied via email. —Theopolisme (talk) 21:32, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey! It looks like you encountered a bug playing with course undeletion. If you're comfortable with Bugzilla, you can report your bug, or just leave me a message about what happened and I'll look into it and report it.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Just attempted to replicate the issue and everything worked fine: I assume it was just a bit of confused data center migration troubles. ;) —Theopolisme (talk) 21:29, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Hmm. What happened the first time, just so I can know what to look out for if it's an intermittent bug? (We've had a few others like that in the extension.)--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Since you've redirected this page in the past perhaps you'd be interested in doing it again? (It's since been moved to Jonathan Stimac.) I have burned up so many edits to the band page and related sockpuppet investigations that it smacks of a vendetta... when I hope in fact I am just reverting a bunch of annoying sock edits that no one else noticed.... always better to involve more editors in this sort of thing. Cheers to you. Hairhorn (talk) 19:17, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know; I've re-redirected. Let me know if the issue comes up again! —Theopolisme (talk) 03:09, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Hairhorn (talk) 03:25, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks again! Ocaasi 01:58, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Theo. If you're going to do NACs, please fully complete the task by doing the merge and redirect, remembering also to include the {{R from school}}. Cheers, --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:06, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me! Somehow it got lost in a sea of tabs...you know how that goes, I'm sure. —Theopolisme (talk) 21:15, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

It only goes like that when non admins try to take on too much ;) --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:55, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much for contacting us. We really appreciate it. Though we are off to a slow start, we are finally beginning to familiarize ourselves with how exactly Wikipedia works! We will definitely contact you when we dive deeper into creating and editing pages. Konecnik (talk) 16:46, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Great, looking forward to helping out. —Theopolisme (talk) 21:23, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey. Thanks for the offering. In the case he needs me and I'm not available, feel free to give him a hand :) — ΛΧΣ²¹ 22:09, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Pratyya ^(Hello!) 10:55, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey Theo, I got your message. I'm glad we have another person to help us out with all of this because it is a little more complicated than we had anticipated. We have been getting accustomed to how things are done on wikipedia, but I'm sure we'll have plenty of questions as we start working on editing articles. Thanks for your help, we'll be in touch! Meyersjl (talk) 16:43, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Fabulous! Can't wait! :) —Theopolisme (talk) 21:23, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Ditto to what Jonathan said! Thanks Theo!

Coffmacm (talk) 16:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello fellow TAFI member. Just a friendly note, when adding new nominations to the TAFI holding area, please post new entries at the end of the lists, so that older entries are scheduled first, and newer entries are scheduled after the older ones. I've added instructions on the page for further information. Thanks! Northamerica1000^(talk) 09:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

What? —Theopolisme (talk) 12:01, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I noticed your name at the revision history for the page. Please disregard if you don't plan on contributing there. Cheers, Northamerica1000^(talk) 12:05, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Ah, okay. I don't really think it's necessary to send out these messages; just update the header, maybe note something on the project talk page...then let people know on a case-by-case message if they disregard the new notice. Just my . ;) —Theopolisme (talk) 12:07, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

People have been placing newer entries atop, further delaying initial entries. Hopefully the instructions I already added atop the page and on the talk page will clarify this. Sorry to have inadvertently messaged you with this notice. Northamerica1000^(talk) 12:10, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Not a problem at all! I really appreciate all you do for TAFI—Main Page, here we come! —Theopolisme (talk) 12:12, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for introducing yourself and offering your help and guidance! I will be sure to let you know if I need anything!

Aheberling (talk) 16:26, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Fabulous! Looking forward to talking to you. —Theopolisme (talk) 23:14, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

— ΛΧΣ²¹ 02:26, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Would it be possible to create a chart like Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/States for WP:METEO and it's sub-projects WP:SEVERE, WP:TROP, and WP:NTROP? I would also possibly like to include the other Meteorology subprojects that have not been split off from WP:METEO, some of which have their own WikiProject templates but not categories ({{Extremes}}, {{Flood}}, {{Drought}}, and {{Weather-data}}). Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 19:31, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Ks0stm! It's definitely possible, but I'm currently slightly busy with some other matters: I'll look into it as soon as possible—probably near the end of this week. Thanks for your patience! —Theopolisme (talk) 21:43, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

I've got some time and I'll be happy to work on the project. Could you give me a list of the specifics that you would like included in the table? —Theopolisme (talk) 14:46, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you...at this point I just want a table basically exactly like Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/States but with the subprojects of WP:METEO, including WP:SEVERE and WP:NTROP and the templates I mentioned above. Is this something that's even workable? Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:50, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

It can definitely be done. The way it works for Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/States is that articles are subdivided into state-based categories using a custom |state= parameter in Template:U.S. Roads WikiProject. In your case, though, you'd just like to have it subdivided into a separate row for each of the individual sub-WikiProject-ish-things? I.e., a table that has rows for WP:SEVERE, WP:TROP, etc. Correct? Just trying to make sure I know what you want. —Theopolisme (talk) 00:57, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Pretty much. They're listed here. The problem is many of those don't have an associated category, just their talk page templates. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 01:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

We can always fix that...pretty simple to add a category to a template. I'll take a look this weekend. Cheers, —Theopolisme (talk) 01:58, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer! What kind of video work do you do? The actual recording of videos will most likely be done by the professor and/or a Wikipedian with strong acting skills, but for all the steps between raw footage and final video, professional expertise would be really helpful. (And recommendations for an amateur-friendly recording setup could come in handy as well.)--ragesoss (talk) 19:20, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

I do a variety of narrative and documentary work—this kind of project is actually remarkably similar to something I did about a year ago (also a lecture series that required composition/embedding of various elements/etc). If you need someone to help "direct from afar", or if you just want me to work on cutting stuff together, I'll be happy to help however I can. Send me an email if you'd like; sounds like an exciting project! —Theopolisme (talk) 20:24, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello, In the past few days, Today's Articles for Improvement has gone through many changes. We have modified the process for adding Nominations, which now uses a template/table format and requires only 3 supports for an article to be selected. There is now a Holding Area, where articles are kept for discussion before being selected for a particular date. The TAFI schedule now involves adding 10 articles weekly, chosen from a variety of topics. We now have an Accomplishments page where we will be highlighting our older TAFI articles which have now become quality articles on the Wikipedia. The Project is almost ready to hit the Main Page, where it will be occupying a section just below "Did you Know" section. Three article from the weekly batch of 7 will be displayed randomly at the main page, the format of which can be seen at the Main Page sandbox. There is also an ongoing discussion at the Main page talk over the final details before we can go forward with the Main Page. If you have any ideas to discuss with everyone else, please visit the TAFI Talk Page and join in on the ongoing discussions there. You are also invited to add new nominations, and comment and suport on the current ones at the Nominations page. You can also help by helping in the discussions at the Holding Area. Above all, please do not forget to improve our current Today's Articles for Improvement Thank you and hoping to have some productive work from you at the Project, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 10:41, 18 February 2013 (UTC) (From the TAFI team)

Hello. I was wondering if you would like to be my trainer for the CVUA. I'm already a rollbacker in the Spanish, Simple English and English versions of Wikipedia, and I want to improve my work as a recent changes patroller in those projects. Thanks in advance. --LlamaAl (talk) 22:01, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi LlamaAl; thanks for asking me! I've actually got quite a lot on my plate at the moment, so it would probably be most beneficial for you to contact a different instructor. Sorry for the inconvenience, and let me know if you have trouble finding one. Cheers, —Theopolisme (talk) 02:18, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

So far I have contacted three different instructors. You are the only one who answered. --LlamaAl (talk) 19:47, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

That's quite annoying; sorry about your trouble. I'll look into finding you a suitable trainer now. —Theopolisme (talk) 23:14, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. --LlamaAl (talk) 01:56, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey all.

As promised, we've built a set of improvements to the Article Feedback Tool, which can be tested through the links here. Please do take the opportunity to play around with it, let me know of any bugs, and see what you think :).

A final reminder that the Request for Comment on whether AFT5 should be turned on on Wikipedia (and how) is soon to close; for those of you who have not submitted an opinion or !voted, it can be found here.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:25, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Theopolisme,

I notice you closed the UN article as keep. I would like to understand the reasoning behind it, as you gave no reason in the close. From my POV, MrX and I had policy-based reasons why the article should be deleted and the others had reasons like WP:IAR and WP:COMMONSENSE, which are, in the current AfD climate, considered weak policy arguments. AJHingston made the argument that we should avoid systemic bias, which I can respect, but doesn't seem to automatically override the other policies. I guess it is not clear to me that there was consensus, nor that the consensus was keep.

Thanks, --Mark viking (talk) 03:50, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mark, thanks for getting in touch. I closed the article as keep mainly due to the fact that the two !delete votes simply cited obscurity and lack of secondary sources [the latter of which is a perfectly valid concern] as reason for deleting. Some quotes: "Obscurity has never been a reason to delete; only notability matters." (Bearian) By being an office of the UN [even though, as you pointed out, not all UN offices have Wikipedia article--but perhaps they should], "departments of the UN are inherently notable due to their wide-ranging remit." (Necrothesp) I believe that these rationales and others make the consensus clear. I am happy to reopen and relist the discussion if that is what you would prefer, given the fact that I can see the validity in your point about WP:COMMONSENSE/etc. However, I [and the community, it appears] don't think that is needed, given the arguments and consensus established in the AfD. Cheers, —Theopolisme (talk) 11:59, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining your reasoning behind your close. During the discussion, I could find no policy on Wikipedia that stated "departments of the UN are inherently notable due to their wide-ranging remit.", so I discounted Necrothesp's statement as wishful thinking. I believed that no exceptions had been made for the UN. But if the consensus is that UN offices are inherently notable, we should add this to WP:COMMON or perhaps WP:GOV to guide future AfD discussions. I'm not really interested in relisting at this point; I have no personal stake in this article. I'm just trying to figure out how AfD works. I have been participating in AfD discussions for months, and there are outcomes like this still surprise me. Regards, --Mark viking (talk) 12:41, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Uploading pictures from mobile devices to Wikimedia Commons must be simple for everybody! We have fresh software and you can help testing it.

WHEN

• Kick-off on Monday February 25 at 17:30 UTC (9:30 PST - 23:00 IST).
• The testing focus will continue during the rest of the week until Sunday March 3.

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See you there? If you have any questions let me know.--Qgil (talk) 21:45, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

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Any updates? :)
Off topic: I noticed that you relisted many AfD's before the seven days period passed. I suggest you to read this thread. Regards, --LlamaAl (talk) 17:21, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for linking me to that; yep, I've been relisting based on the time zone where I am currently, not UTC; will keep that in mind and install the UTC time clock gadget as well. ;) No progress as of yet...so I'll be happy to take you on myself, if you're okay with it! —Theopolisme (talk) 22:09, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

That's great! We can start whenever you want. --LlamaAl (talk) 22:41, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Fabulous; see User:Theopolisme/CVUA/LlamaAl. —Theopolisme (talk) 22:52, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

FrigidNinja 04:18, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Theopolisme. You are invited to join WikiProject Cleanup, a WikiProject and resource for Wikipedia cleanup listings, information and discussion. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 23:19, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

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It's been a full year since the Teahouse opened, and as we're reflecting on what's been accomplished, we wanted to celebrate with you.

Teahouse guests and hosts are sharing their stories in a new blog post about the project.

1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:

Metric	Control group	Teahouse group	Contrast
Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit)	5.02 weeks	8.57 weeks	1.7x retention
Average number of articles edited	58.7 articles	116.9 edits	2.0x articles edited
Average talk page edits	36.5 edits	85.6 edits	2.4x talk page edits
Average article space edits	129.6 edits	360.4 edits	2.8x article edits
Average total edits (all namespaces)	182.1 edits	532.4 edits	2.9x total edits

Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper

Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.

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Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

1. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
2. Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
3. Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

• Sven Manguard (submissions), whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
• Sasata (submissions), whose Mycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
• Muboshgu (submissions) and Wizardman (submissions), who both claimed points for articles in the Major League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
• Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions), who claimed for the first full good topic with the Casting Crowns studio albums topic.

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 01:14, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Yo, Theo, I was glancing at your RfA (always fun times, I know) and I noticed question 9 and your answer. I don't want to post this on your RfA directly, since I'm no copyright expert myself, but have you seen Wikipedia:Licensing_update? I believe it means that GFDL (and presumably the ohter ones as well) is not compatible with Wikipedia's, unless it's also licensed under CC-BY-SA. See also the chart on this page. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:54, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Looks like this wasn't aptly clarified in my answer; thanks for pointing it out. Updated with the caveat. —Theopolisme (talk) 22:01, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry to see that you didn't pass. This was just slightly under Secret's, which passed the other day. Once you are in the middle 70s, there is no "wrong" or "right", it is purely up to the closing Crat, and in this case, he viewed it as not having consensus even though 75% of the people supported you. I think the lesson to take is that the overwhelming majority supported you, and the majority that didn't just felt like you needed to wait another 6 months and polish up on some of the CSD and AFD errors. Your ratios are fine, they just think you rush a bit sometimes. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to be more convincing, and while I respect the opposing votes (and appreciate the fact that almost all were heart felt and sincere), I was very comfortable with you having the admin bit and still think you would have done fine. I think if you wait 6 months, take the advice to heart, work on a few weak points, then you will surely pass next time. I will be happy to nominate or co-nominate you at that time if you like, and of course, if you prefer someone else, I completely understand as well. Just be sure to take the good from this: 3 out of 4 people wanted you to be an admin, so you do have broad support here. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 16:30, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Theopolisme. I closed your RfA as no consensus; I've left a statement explaining my conclusion. The main concern is inexperience at this point; as Dennis says above, wait another six months, and I think too that you will have enough experience by then. Maybe try to get a GA? When I became an admin (this was June 2007, so years ago), I had little-to-no quality-article writing experience, and I found that when I actually started with FLs, than continued to GAs and FAs, I was able to appreciate and understand the ins-and-outs of Wikipedia so much better, which reflected in my usual edits and my admin actions. Maxim_(talk) 16:49, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Ouch. That's one of the closest RfAs I've seen for a long time. I was undecided in the end, but as I said there, I think you have the makings of a very good admin. Maxim and Dennis both offer some excellent advice and I hope you'll take it on board once the disappointment subsides. If there was one little piece of advice I was gong to offer, even though you're probably sick of hearing it, it would be to spend some time in the mainspace. It won't just bolster your wiki-CV or impress potential voters at your next RfA, it'll give you a much broader, well-rounded understanding of how Wikipedia works, and that will make you a much more effective admin. Anyway, try not to take it too personally, and remember that almost everyone (including most of the opposers) thinks you're doing good work. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:43, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) That was about as close as they come. Even with the opposes, which did make some good points, I still think you'd have made a good admin right now - but give it a few more months and it should be a breeze. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:52, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry to see where your RfA went. It was close at it could get. I can be for certain, though, that you will pass if you reapply in a few months. Command and Conquer Expert! ^{speak to me...}_{review me...} 18:37, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks (to everyone!) for your thoughts and feedback during the past week. While I am obviously disappointed, it's nothing that a bit of R&R can't cure; I'm planning on a marathon Seinfeld run tonight (and possibly tomorrow, depending on how long my contact lenses stay moist). I really appreciate the excellent advice; some of the recent stubs I've been working on have the potential to blossom into much fuller articles, so I'll put on my 'writer hat' and take a closer look at them over the next few weeks. Until then, as they say, happy editing, and may the force be with you, —Theopolisme (talk) 20:01, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Its great to hear that you are taking some R&R, we all need some. I'm also in the writing mood so feel free to give me a shout if you want to do some content work together! -- Cheers, Riley 01:10, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Everything that I would say here, is already at that RfA. You have won the support and trust of 3/4 of the community. At heart, you are an admin. — ΛΧΣ21 00:49, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. Newbie mistake. Revolution1221 (talk) 22:39, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

No worries! It's always refreshing to have fresh blood, and I'll be happy to help you with whatever you need. —Theopolisme (talk) 22:44, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello there!

Just wondering if I could get some feedback on the work I have done within my sandbox regarding my stub. Would like to to know what the Wiki community thinks. Please :) Thank you for your time.13:15, 5 March 2013 (UTC)BMRoberts (talk)

 Done Replied on talk. —Theopolisme (talk) 21:55, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I am relatively new to Wikipedia and am amazed at the the complexity of the Wikipedia community. As a result, I want to be a permanent part of this community and help Wikipedia stay a safe and accurate place for learning. I would like for you to help me accomplish that by being my Counter Vandalism instructor. Please let me know how we are going to do this. Here are some things you should know about me and keep in mind as my instructor:

• I am not the most familiar on how to use Wikipedia (but don't worry I learn fast and currently I can get by)

• I Type at 15 words per minute

• I am a high schooler.

• I live in Austin Texas.

• I am not always available but try to go on Wikipedia 1 hour and 30 min every day.

• I use Twinkle and lupin.

--Liberalufp (talk) 00:33, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Great; I'll be happy to help! I'm rather preoccupied at the moment but will set up a special CVUA page for you as soon as I get a chance. Is there anything specific you're interested in learning about, or are you interested in more general lessons about a wider range of Wikipedia-related topics? Cheers, —Theopolisme (talk) 00:54, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I am interested in ways to easily find vandalism and general topics. Thank you so much for helping me. Please let me know when you are ready.

You are an editor whose edit has been mentioned there. If you post or vote, please post your own opinion (no problem, if it goes against my proposal)! Tito Dutta (contact) 09:35, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi there, any reason why you have re-listed this AfD - even though it already appears on today's log, as it was only created 4 hours ago? GiantSnowman 16:27, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

{{trout}}. Don't ask; I should have been in bed, which is where I'm heading now. ;p —Theopolisme (talk) 22:08, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Haha, no worries, no harm done! GiantSnowman 22:10, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

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For fixing my formatting error at Elvey's talk page. That episode was not my finest hour, in fact pretty embarrassing - I hate getting confused like that. But I've learned from the flak. Dougweller (talk) 17:12, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

We all have those days -- in real life or on-wiki -- they're to be expected as part of "living" together on one small wiki. ;) —Theopolisme (talk) 14:07, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry but I'm tired of thanking you guys!!! They said you guys would be cocky and wouldn't help newbies, but that is sooo wrong!! Your doing all of this when your on Vacation!!! Now that's commitment! I'll be stalking your page, aski questions and looking into all your articles, if you don't mind!!! :-) The Wikimon (talk) 04:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Theopolisme(mighty tough to type), You are awaiting a request from a someone who stalks your page, beware... This is The Wikimon once again, with a request of course: Teach me the Art and Science of Counter Vandalism!!! I sneaked a peek at the page and found you...Let me know if you think of me as a worthy student...The Wikimon (talk) 08:51, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Sounds awesome; I get home this evening, and I'll create your special 'student page' then. N.b., you can call me Theo if you'd like. :) —Theopolisme (talk) 15:54, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Theo...Uh oh, I think I forgot to mention that I have to face exams 2morrow and so I'm asking you if it's possible to do it some other time..??? Is that ok with you... I'll be kinda irregular for the next 2 weeks... The Wikimon (talk) 16:07, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. You can work on it at your leisure. —Theopolisme (talk) 17:42, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Theo, I requested that my students in Writing for the Web re-enroll through the class page and yet it seems a bunch of them are doing edits but aren't showing up as students in the page, so I cannot see their work. Any ideas?Professorclee (talk) 18:48, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Sadly, I'm not really involved in the backend stuff -- the only thing I can do is refer you to User talk:Sage Ross (WMF), who's officially in charge of the project development (he'll be able to talk to the developers and such). Sorry for the rather unhelpful response! —Theopolisme (talk) 19:17, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Greetings, I've noticed your interest in articles relating to C/C++ and would like to invite you to join the WikiProject C/C++, a group of Wikipedians devoted to improving articles related to C and C++. If you're interested, please consider adding yourself to the list of participants and joining the discussion on the talkpage. --—Sowlos

18:18, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Per this discussion, I wonder if you could help? I'd like to see it implemented for two projects where I am "unofficial" coordinator: WP:POLAND and WP:SOCIO. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:23, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Sure, I'll be happy to. Currently I'm off frolicking on the beach and don't have access to my development machine, but I'll be able to hack something together when I get back home. The way it works is that one needs to create sub-categories for the different subdivisions (for example, states for the roads WikiProject) and then do a bit of template magic (see Template:U.S._Roads_WikiProject#Parameters). If you can give me a list of the subcategories that you need, I'll be able to greatly automate the process. Cheers, —Theopolisme (talk) 13:21, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Can you explain a little more what you mean by subcategories? I think at at WT:POLAND we just use class, importance, and B-class status; at SOCIO, just class and importance. WikiWork is just a function of class, added up for all articles of a WikiProject. What am I missing? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:55, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah, okay! Initially I thought you were referring to the tables that the Roads WikiProject has (WP:USRD/A/S or WP:USRD/A/L). Do you just want a composite WikiWork score for the entire project? This tool does it, and it's a cinch for me to create another bot function to push that score to an onwiki page (we could do some graph-y or table-y history stuff, too). Is that all you need? —Theopolisme (talk) 15:52, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

I had some time earlier today to work a bit of magic and have created User:WP 1.0 bot/WikiWork. The instructions are all there -- for every WikiProject -- and it works something like this:

• {{User:WP 1.0 bot/WikiWork|project=Poland-related|export=omega}} produces...
• ... or
• {{User:WP 1.0 bot/WikiWork|project=Poland-related|export=wikiwork}} produces...

WP 1.0 bot will update the statistics every 24 hours. Let me know your thoughts! —Theopolisme (talk) 04:58, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Nice... but how and where exactly do you use it? Do I edit User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Australia? Or will the WP 1.0 bot just overwrite it when it updates? Do I modify the transclusion of that table onto Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia, but how do I make it look like part of the table? It might be easier to just get the WP 1.0 table bot to include it (opt in if you have quality classes, or opt out?) in the standard table generation code. The-Pope (talk) 09:40, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Right now, WP 1.0 bot will include it using the style you initially suggested on the Signpost talk page the next time the project tables are updated. You don't need to do anything, unless you want to somehow incorporate it into other project areas. —Theopolisme (talk) 13:51, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

I am afraid my code-fu is not good enough to understand the instructions. What would I need to do to get some wikiwork reported for WikiProject Poland or Sociology, for example? I am guessing it involves copying and adding some code somewhere, but I am not clear on what code, adjusted how, and pasted where. Sorry about that :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:51, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

It's not your fault; my documentation writing skills have been compared to that of a relatively untrained monkey. :) Anyhow, in the next few days, you'll see your project's assessment table (Wikipedia:WikiProject_Poland#Our_articles) gain a new row, "WikiWork factors," that looks something like this: User:The-Pope/WikiWork, with all of the WikiWork data. If there is *somewhere else* you'd like the WikiWork data to be displayed (for example, in some sort of log), I can make that happen too...I just need to know what you'd like. —Theopolisme (talk) 15:28, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

That should be good enough! Thanks! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:51, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Like the new stats on the project tables! I noticed however that the one for U.S. road transport (Wikipedia:USRD/A/QS) was off though as compared to what's on our WP:USRD/A/S leaderboard - is there some sort of bug? --Rschen7754 05:19, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Gah, silly me using outdated Toolserver database dumps. Forget that; I've implemented a new API hungry version which should get rid of these "bugs" you speak of. Feng shui may be difficult, little butterfly, but you shall learn yet. ;) —Theopolisme (talk) 05:27, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay, not a problem. :) --Rschen7754 05:29, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Hm. Right now I'm using the formula...

${\displaystyle ww=(fa)+(a)+(2*ga)+(3*b)+(4*c)+(5*start)+(6*stub)}$

${\displaystyle om=round(float(ww)/float(total),2)}$

...in standard Python. Am I missing something? (apologies for the sleep deprivation) —Theopolisme (talk) 05:41, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

FA should not be included (since the weight for that is 0), and the total should be (FA+A+GA+B+C+Start+Stub). --Rschen7754 05:47, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

FA wasn't originally included, but I added it in when you said our totals were different. Yep, yep, and yep... Hm. Nothing to do but run the script again with even *more* logging functionality. Thanks for pointing this out, though. —Theopolisme (talk) 05:50, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Weird...just re-ran, still getting same totals as before. —Theopolisme (talk) 06:06, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Seems that ww is 5,000 too low. Not sure why that is though. --Rschen7754 06:09, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Please hold.. —Theopolisme (talk) 06:11, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

 Done. Table should update w/in 30 min. —Theopolisme (talk) 06:33, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! --Rschen7754 06:58, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello. I've been on a very long wikibreak for quite a while, and haven't been really doing much after getting rollback (don't worry, I haven't abandoned the CVUA ;)). The current assignment at User:Theopolisme/CVUA/Thekillerpenguin requires me to rollback a few edits. I am kind of stuck there for a few reasons.

First, it seems like whenever I find some vandalism in Special:RecentChanges, by the time I reach it, often Cluebot NG has already reverted it, making actually finding correctable vandalism somewhat hard (good job for Cluebot though!). When I do find a piece of vandalism that I can revert, most of the time it is a single edit to a page, by an editor with no prior edits to the page, so rollback is overkill in that case. This means that finding vandalism suitable for rollback is becoming quite difficult. Do you have any advice for this? Regards, Thekillerpenguin (talk) 04:31, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Welcome back; I'm glad to hear from you again! In response to your comment, "most of the time it is a single edit to a page, by an editor with no prior edits to the page, so rollback is overkill in that case," that is actually incorrect..situations like that are exactly what rollback is made for -- it's simply "a faster and easier undo." Take another look at WP:ROLLBACK. Cheers, —Theopolisme (talk) 15:31, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

I'll start working on reverting when I have time, perhaps tomorrow.

On an unrelated note, I was wondering about somethin g. Think about a hypothetical situation: A vandal vandalizes a page with things that Cluebot NG would normally detect. Then, they put the {{nobots}} template on the page, so Cluebot will not revert it. This hypothetical vandal does this sneakily, so the vandalism sneaks by.

If this hypothetical situation every arises commonly, would there be enough editors doing Recent Changes Patrol to take care of this? Thekillerpenguin (talk) 05:54, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, good question. Let me ping the ClueBot creators. Even if this is that case, it looks like another antivandalism program would detect it, regardless (STiki, for example)—an edit filter could also be created to help prevent it (i.e., only autoconfirmed can place {{bots}} in the main namespace. Good question! —Theopolisme (talk) 10:57, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

You nominated the article Planview for A7 Speedy Deletion, but isn't there an exemption for software in the criteria? Revolution1221 (talk) 00:14, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

You're 100% right; I goofed and read it initially as a company. About a minute later, though, I realized my mistake and undid my warning of the user. Thanks for keeping an eye out, regardless! See ya round, and happy editing, —Theopolisme (talk) 01:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello there,

I appreciate your previous feedback, I have made corrections and done another major edit. I have also moved text from my sandbox to Children's culture stub. I hope that I have done everything correctly. I am so pleased with this project! I am so glad I got to participate. Thank you for all your help. BMRoberts (talk) 16:31, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 02:03, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

You never replied. :)—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 23:00, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Me again,

As per the request of our class professor, I went to this tool to use it to check my stub submission. When I used the Copyvio Detector to check my contributions it returned a bunch of stuff, but I am not sure how to decipher what it means. It told me I was copying from a Wiki page and returned the Children's Culture page, which is the page I wrote.

Anyhow, I am sure I am just missing something. Could you please point me in the correct direction? I feel (I hope!) that I have cited everything correctly so to alleviate me from any copyright infringements. We shall see. Thanks

BMRoberts (talk) 16:48, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry; you're fine! I ran the tool on your article and everything looks good—"No violations detected in Children's culture." :) —Theopolisme (talk) 21:03, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi! I'm having a look at Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting today, and have just fixed up your edits at Qinghai Huading Industrial Company Limited and QNB Group. Are you using a tool or script for these edits? Something doesn't seem to be working right. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:55, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, that's weird. I'm in the process of developing a custom Google Chrome extension to semi-automatically fill in references and unify their naming structures. It looks like that because the ref tag was enclosed inside the {{reflist}} template, the tool parsed it in a strange way...thanks for pointing that out, and I'll look into it! Cheers, —Theopolisme (talk) 16:31, 24 March 2013 (UTC)