Please read the Project Guide a bit more thoroughly for information on how to set up a project and it's various templates. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Badbilltucker 02:27, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
This is just to let you know that there is a merge proposal being considered at Independent evidence for Apollo Moon landings. Given that you participated in the AfD debate about this article, you might be interested in leaving your opinion concerning this merge on the talk page. Lunokhod 16:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
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Hi there, just to let you know that WP:ROCO has been given an overhaul. As you are listed as a participant, I just thought I'd let you know that there's a new to-do section and much clearer guidelines for roller coaster articles. Hope to see you over there! 85Talk 09:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Albigensian Crusade
I'm contacting you out of courtesy as you have contributed to the page and may wish to supply your own citations. If you feel this doesn't matter to you, please ignore it. This page was rated as a Good Article, but has been downgraded because nobody did the donkeywork of listing the attributions to the various statements provided, which is after all a fairly serious dereliction of duty in what's suppoed to be a historical record. Having discussed the withdrawal of GA with LuciferMorgan, I give notice that I am sitting down with the three classic original source texts (Puylaurens, Vaux-de-Cernay and de Tudèle - the last in the Livre de Poche edition as the Martin-Chabot is long out of print) to add the missing inline citations to this page. I do not intend at this point to make any textual alterations, but if comments are made which are NOT justified, be prepared to state your sources now.
Welcome to the new WikiProject Roller Coasters Newsletter! Until now, in spite of a decent number of members signed up to the WikiProject, we have had no regular progress updates or information as to how much of a difference our contributions are making. This monthly newsletter aims to provide an overview of all the work that is being done behind the scenes and to celebrate the successes that would otherwise pass by unseen. Any suggestions for future additions and general help with the newsletter will be greatly appreciated.
Articles and Assessment
As can be seen on the assessment page, we are so close to finishing off assessment. If all current members of the WikiProject assessed just 2 articles, the backlog of unassessed-quality articles would be eliminated.
The vast majority of articles are currently assessed as stubs, which is probably to be expected as many contain an infobox and nothing else. Getting these up to start-class is incredibly easy, many simply need references and tidying up. Even if you have very little knowledge on the article subject, this task should be fairly straightforward and is the first step in raising overall article quality.
The following articles reached B-class quality during November:
The Amusement Park Portal is now automatically linked to from the roller coaster infoboxes. It's important to remember that we need to integrate our articles with those covered by the Amusement Park WikiProject. When working on a roller coaster article, it's always a good idea to ensure that there is a wikilink from the relevant amusement park article, otherwise no-one will even know the article exists!
Membership News
During November the WikiProject was joined by 3 new members, bringing the total number up to 49. The to do list continues to serve as a place for flagging up articles in need of attention, review or comments.
B-class Drive
Just to get the idea out there, I'd like to propose a monthly article drive. With the poor state of most of the articles, it's unreasonable to suggest even a GA-drive, so a B-class drive would be more realistic. Any suggestions for January's article can be brought up on the WikiProject Talk Page. Suggested articles should be presently at start or stub class and have sufficient reliable sources available to work from.
...and finally...
Thanks for reading, any feedback would be hugely appreciated! Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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WikiProject Roller Coasters Newsletter, January 2008
Welcome to the second WikiProject Roller Coasters Newsletter! December has seen some real progress in terms of bringing up the quality of roller coaster related articles on Wikipedia. Assessment and tagging of articles is almost completely done and efforts are now being focussed on quality and improving articles. This month also sees the start of the new B-class drive, a brilliant way to get involved with the WikiProject and achieve something together.
Articles and Assessment
As far as assessment goes, the backlog from last month was cleared almost immediately after the last newsletter went out, almost single-handedly by Alton! A progress chart can be seen on the assessment page that shows we are slowly dragging up the quality of the articles covered by the WikiProject.
The Amusement Parks Portal has been significantly expanded over the past month and is currently a candidate for featured portal. Any suggestions for featured articles and pictures can be put forward on their respective sections.
Membership News
During December the WikiProject was joined by 2 new members, bringing the total number up to 49 after 2 inactive users were removed from the member list. The to do list continues to serve as a place for flagging up articles in need of attention, review or comments.
So here is the first article improvement drive for the WikiProject, Arrow Dynamics. There isn't a huge amount that needs doing apart from the addition of references, formatting and a copyedit. For any outstanding contributions there are barnstars available which can be given to and by anyone!
Any suggestions for February's B-class Drive can be brought up on the talk page, so if there's a particular article you feel could benefit from more input then feel free to suggest it.
...and finally...
Once again, thanks for reading! As always suggestions and offers of help are much appreciated.
Welcome to the WikiProject Roller Coasters Newsletter! January has seen a number of milestones being passed in the WikiProject. We've achieved our first good article, brought a portal up to featured portal status and successfully collaborated together on the first Article Improvement Drive, amongst other achievements. Let's carry on with the good work and continue bringing up the standard of all articles covered by the WikiProject!
Articles and Assessment
We hit a milestone in January with our first GA-class article, Speed Monster! This shows just how easy it is improve articles by including references and increasing readability. Collaboration has got off to a good start, with the first chosen article, Arrow Dynamics, improving enough to reach B-class.
The Amusement Parks Portal reached featured portal status during January! You can still nominate articles for the selected content sections on the portal.
Membership News
During January the WikiProject was joined by 6 new members, bringing the total number up to 55. A very warm welcome to Etf, CPGACoast, RickMarkestein, Emackert, Onewayroad2home and Suttna08. The to do list continues to serve as a place for flagging up articles in need of attention, review or comments.
A discussion is taking place regarding the best way to organise information about roller coaster records and the history of roller coasters. All members' opinions are welcomed; the discussion can be found here.
Why not start at the top?! The main article is already at B class and, with a little help, isn't too far away from GA class. Please see the collaboration page for further information.
Any suggestions for March's Article Improvement Drive can be brought up on the talk page, so if there's a particular article you feel could benefit from more input then feel free to suggest it.
...and finally...
Once again, thanks for reading! As always suggestions and offers of help are much appreciated.
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I went and restored/put it on AfD. I still say it's very obviously non-notable (the minor-league bakersfield team does not satisfy the notability guidelines). Wizardman 19:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
2008 minor league team articles
I noticed your work on a few 2008 season articles for some minor league teams. Nice initiative. As far as I know, those are the first season articles for minor league teams. Anyway, I noticed that the MLB yearly template needed more parameters to work for MiLB teams. So, I created a new template: Template:MiLB yearly infobox. It has a spot for class-level, MLB affiliation, GM, and also provides for a link to stats at the Baseball cube (of course, stats aren't available for 2008 teams yet). I thought I'd point out the new temp so you could use it in those articles if you like. -NatureBoyMD (talk) 01:55, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Was just going to say the same thing about 2008 season articles. Thanks a bunch, I didn't even think of doing something like that. Thanks a bunch! :) WhammiesWereHere 10:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey, came over to give you proper dues for your article on the Rock Cats. You provided the inspiration for me to create a similar page for the Cats' older siblings at 2008 Rochester Red Wings season. Someone on my talk page thought that I was the first to create such a page so I just wanted to give you the credit you deserve. Hope you keep it up and maybe we can be the founding fathers of MiLB season articles. Oh, and got any good players you guys could send up to Rochester? We could really use them, the damn Twins keep taking ours! -Philatio (talk) 04:39, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I just realized you're doing this for a whole bunch of teams! Good work! -Philatio (talk) 04:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
When a game gets rescheduled, should the rescheduled game be lised as the game number it would of been (For the Harrisburg example, Game #2), or would it, and everything else below it would be renumbered?
Im pretty sure to just list it as is (game #2) when they do reschedule it, but I want to get conformation for future reference. Thanks :) WhammiesWereHere 21:35, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok, that makes more sense, thanks. :) WhammiesWereHere 21:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
A discussion
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The 2008 Home Run Derby took place yesterday. Justin Morneau defeated Josh Hamilton in the final round, 5 home runs to 3, although Hamilton broke a record with 28 home runs hit in the first round.
From the Editors
Baseball has a history unlike any other sport. It has been played in countless countries throughout the decades, and it will undoubtedly continue play for many more. On this eve, some the finest players the sport has to offer will take the field at the Yankee Stadium. Four popes spoke there, Pelé scored goals there, "The Greatest [football] Game Ever Played" was battled out there, John Philip Sousa lead a band there, George Costanza worked there; but what do all these events have in common? They fail to reach the level of greatness that the baseball that was played there did.
In 1923, a man named Babe Ruth decided to build a new house, and over the years, that house was a home to some of the greatest baseball ever played. If I were to list out all of these great moments, it would be longer than the bill for the New Yankee Stadium. So I'll sum it up by saying that we can remember these great moments by adding them to this place we've gathered at for future generations to read about, to learn about, to dream about; but more importantly we can watch tonight and we can remember how baseball is unlike anything else that we will encounter in our lives. —
-- 02:55, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
A new task force - ESA
Hello,
I've noticed that you are active in the area of space exploration. I just wanted to let you know that a European Space Agency task force has been set up to improve the presently very poor condition of articles about ESA and related topics. If you are interested, please join the task force here. We sure could use your help. Thanks.U5K0 (talk) 11:21, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
October Baseball WikiProject Newsletter
Newsletter
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving a baby's life...
she'll save the baby without even considering how many men are on base!"
This month's newsletter was designed and written by Wizardman, , and . If you would like to contribute to future newsletters, please contact the Baseball WP outreach dept.
We apologize for not sending out our August newsletter, we have tried to cover some events of the month in this issue.
The playoffs have started! The Dodgers and Phillies have won their respective Division Series and will face off in the NL Championship Series. Both series in the American League have yet to be finished. Show your support for your favorite teams by keeping up with their season pages!