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2010: Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec

Why a red user name font?

I am somewhat new to Misplaced Pages and wonder why my user name is red in the history menu, when other names are blue. Can you help?Goldenwinds (talk) 00:13, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Where? Have you refreshed the page? ǝɥʇM0N0 01:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

If refreshing doesn't work, try purging the page or bypassing your cache. ~NerdyScienceDude 03:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

GOCE elections

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

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November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated. Stats 58 people signed up for this drive. Of these, 48 people participated in the drive. Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%. 49 awards will go out to 33 of 48 participants. Check out the complete list of barnstar winners here. Barnstars If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Our next drive is scheduled for January 2011. In the meantime, please consider helping out at the Wikification drive or any of the other places where help with backlogs is needed. Thank you for participating in the last 2010 backlog elimination drive! We look forward to seeing you in January! Your drive coordinators –The Utahraptor/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa

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Sean Young

Wasn't sure on the language. Wasn't trying to be a vandal. It is referenced that she is crazy, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IKanHazMonkeyz (talk • contribs) 20:59, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Jason Ratcliff

Could you possibly find something for DYK in this new article? --Nascar1996 03:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

I've nominated it at T:TDYK#Jason Ratcliff. ~NerdyScienceDude 20:20, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, one day I plan to post my own nominations; I've been trying to fingure one out. The red looks nice in your new signature. Also, because of it, I see you are ready for the holidays. :) Nascar1996 20:25, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that is my holiday signature. :) It will return to normal in January. ~NerdyScienceDude 20:38, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm not going to change my signature. I like it how it is. The red will turn into pink one month later. Also, what do you think I should add to the background section of 2011 Daytona 500 when the time comes? (Maybe quotes from media day, some preseason testing results, etc) Nascar1996 20:42, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Quotes from the media could be a good thing to add. I'm not sure what else to include. I'm sure we'll find something when the day of the race gets closer. ~NerdyScienceDude 20:48, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

We should be able to find others. I'm Happy that I have a break from expanding race articles until Daytona. However, there are some that I would like to complete. Nascar1996 20:53, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

New script

I'm just suggesting a new script that can make different kinds of tables. Thanks! Perseus (t • c) 15:53, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Are you referring to a tool that can add tables to articles? If that's what you were suggesting, then the edit toobar can do that. Click on the insert table button () and the table wizard will appear. You can specify the number of rows, number of columns, add a header row, add borders, and even make the new table sortable. An example:

The contents of the table will need to be manually added in. ~NerdyScienceDude 20:50, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

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Need hidden comment tool

Please help. Lack of hidden comment tool drives me crazy. Also, am computer stupid, so please hold my hand if you point me off to download something.TCO (talk) 00:12, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

You have come to the right place. I created a script that adds additional buttons to the toolbar, including a hidden comment one. See this page for more information. ~NerdyScienceDude 20:22, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Jason Ratcliff

On 14 December 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jason Ratcliff, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Jason Ratcliff was the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion crew chief? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Advice on how & where to open a can of worms

I have a proposal that I would like to make public in the next day or so. I am unsure of where I could place this notice, and to what degree you might expect a large enough group of people to review it. See this page: User:Uruiamme/Main Page proposal

Your opinion may be helpful, however, my main goal is to let a large group consider it or laugh at it or whatever they feel like doing. The Main Page is getting rather blah these days.

Thanks, I like to saw logs! (talk) 22:23, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Sig title

hello,

on your main page your title is a sig. Is it {{DISPLAYTITLE:blabla}}? If yes, why it doesn't go in my page? If not, please explain me how you did that. Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 13:37, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

DISPLAYTITLE can only display your username. You can customize the appearance of the tile with colors, fonts, etc. with DISPLAYTITLE. You can't alter the text. ~NerdyScienceDude 14:14, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't go! Please do it for me! Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 14:33, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

 Done. It wouldn't work before because you placed a timestamp and a talk page link in the DISPLAYTITLE. It can only display your username. ~NerdyScienceDude 14:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

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User:Previously banned user

What is the big deal with removing that stupid tag from that user page? That user contributed some valuable content to Misplaced Pages. 109.155.96.148 (talk) 14:29, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

That account is a sock puppet of a banned user. Oh, and according to this edit summary, you appear to be that banned user. ~NerdyScienceDude 14:32, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

What about when a banned user makes useful contributions? I just don't like the way you tag these pages as though I were some kind of leper. Won't you be reasonable? YOu know, ignore all rules or whatever. Which would you rather do, help bring the sum of all human knowledge to everyone in the world, or insult the people who try to do this. That 'banned user' wrote this article and many others. I don't see why your job description is to insult him. 109.155.96.148 (talk) 14:37, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't matter if they made useful contributions. A banned user is banned. ~NerdyScienceDude 14:38, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm not talking about being banned. I'm talking about putting these insulting messages on such users' pages. Don't you follow that? Do you have any human feelings? I'm a banned user, but I'm a person too. What rule actually requires you to put these nasty tags on useful contributors' pages? 109.155.96.148 (talk) 14:40, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Sumsum2010·T·C 04:20, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! ~NerdyScienceDude 14:57, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

No problem! Sumsum2010·T·C 23:40, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

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Thank you! ~NerdyScienceDude 16:41, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

possible vandalism (village pump)

I probably shouldn't have written it - getting a bit bitey with the annoying editor (User talk:Sunflowergal34) , I'll take a quick break to cool down a bit anyway, so I don't say anything more that wont help. You gave me a useful prompt. Thanks.83.100.225.242 (talk) 17:49, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

User talk:205.222.248.149

I know this person looks like a problem, but I wonder if editors went too far, too fast.

For December, the first message was Level 2, you did a 3 and now he's at 4. What happened to 1? Just asking; thanks — Safety Cap (talk) 18:16, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure why there's no level one warning, but that shouldn't matter since the IP is now blocked. ~NerdyScienceDude 18:20, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Christmas mottos and a note to self to spell determined correctly next time when acting like a bot

The motto idea for those between 25th December and mid January needs consensus dtermined badly on which version should be used for which day or even whether the whole idea should be scrapped or postponed. Please help by discussion and determining consensus at WT:Motto of the day/Nominations#Christmas series and Misplaced Pages:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials. The deadline is Friday at 9pm UTC. Simply south (talk) and their tree 23:46, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Will do. ~NerdyScienceDude 00:46, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Dear NerdyScienceDude, Best wishes to you and your family this holiday season, whether you are celebrating Christmas or a different holiday. It's a special time of the year for almost everyone, and there's always a reason to spread the holiday spirit! ;) Love, --Meaghan ≈ 15:33, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! ~NerdyScienceDude 15:53, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-Protection...

Do you want me to semi-protect your user page and/or talk page? --Nlu (talk) 17:22, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

My user page is already indef semi'd, and my talk page doesn't need to be semi'd at this time. I'll consider it if it gets constantly vandalized. ~NerdyScienceDude 17:25, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

And now my talk page has been semi-protected for a week. ~NerdyScienceDude

Thanks!

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		I, Flightx52, award you this barnstar for keeping that vandalism off of my user page, and for working alongside me to keep vandalism off of mine and Logan's user page. Pleasure to watch you work! I'm Flightx52 and I approve this message 04:55, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar. Those proxy vandals can be pesky sometimes. ~NerdyScienceDude 15:12, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

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Spread the WikiLove by adding {{subst:User:The Utahraptor/Christmas tree}} to any editor's talk page with a friendly message.

--The Utahraptor/_Contribs 02:50, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, The Utahraptor, and hope you have a nice Christmas as well. ~NerdyScienceDude 13:43, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

That status bar at the top of your page...

Hey ScienceDude, how would I get that status shower at the top of your user page? I scowered your user page code and couldn't find any clues as to how to put it into my user space. Help would be appreciated! Thanks! I'm Flightx52 and I approve this message 16:48, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

The code is {{statustop|offset=195}}. Replace the offset number with the offset position you want. ~NerdyScienceDude 16:51, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Ahh okay. Thanks! I'm Flightx52 and I approve this message 16:58, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

And, since I have no clue how to change it, which part of the code should I change and how should I change it in order to make the different statuses appear? Thanks again. I'm Flightx52 and I approve this message 17:05, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Create User:Flightx52/Status and add online, offline, around, busy, or sleep depending on your status. See mine for an example. ~NerdyScienceDude 17:33, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

AWB

I thank you for your guidance. please see messages between me and Courcelles I was out of the room for 5min.and my niece thought she was helping once I came back and saw my message I took steps to to insure that thee will be no more mistakes.TucsonDavidGOD BLESS THE U.S.A. 21:52, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

OK. Just be careful. ~NerdyScienceDude 21:59, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you, The Thing, and I hope you have a nice holiday season. NORAD is estimating about four more hours until Santa arrives in my city. ~NerdyScienceDude 02:54, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

WP:NASCAR Newsletter (December 2010)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 1 · No. 6 · November 26, 2010 – December 25, 2010 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Project Award • Popular Articles
Featured Announcement I am proud to announce that a file relating to NASCAR has been promoted to featured status, the first for our project. The nomination, which ened December 15, 2010, was nominated by Nascar1996 and received nine supports. This couldn't have been accomplished without our projects participants, so thank you and I hope you continue to improve the project. -- Nascar1996 21:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Happy Holidays Everyone! Current contributors Nascar1996 (talk · contribs) Airplaneman (talk · contribs) Wayne Slam (talk · contribs) New members Impala99 (talk · contribs) - 26 November How to help WikiProject NASCAR Please keep up with the discussions at our main talk page. Your input is needed! Expand the articles in Category:NASCAR stubs. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Mary Hendrick, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Jack White (NASCAR), Wayne Anderson (NASCAR Modified driver) Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500 Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway Stubs : See all here Update : 2025 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2025 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2025 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations Other : More Add content to the portal Portal:NASCAR is a place where we can exhibit our best articles and most interesting free images. Any article which is FA, GA, High or Top importance can be added for display as a Selected article or as a Selected biography, free images can be added to be displayed asSelected pictures. All of these are chosen randomly for display on each page view to avoid both bias and having to manually update the page monthly. If you've created or seen an article or image that you feel would be a good addition to the portal, follow the instructions on the pages linked above. Please nominate it on the talk pages. Images Below is the NASCAR Picture of the month (found here). The picture has to be one uploaded in the last month. It is exclusive to the Newsletter. REMEMBER, YOU CAN VOTE.	Article developments See also: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Total GA 4 3 9 2 18 B 30 57 50 8 145 C 21 35 31 12 99 Start 21 110 292 191 614 Stub 18 52 262 516 848 List 9 45 2 56 Category 1 2 4 11 18 Disambig 4 1 1 13 19 Portal 1 4 5 Project 10 10 Redirect 2 4 6 Template 2 14 5 4 19 44 NA 1 1 Assessed 98 287 701 747 50 1,883 Total 98 287 701 747 50 1,883 New Good Articles: 2010 Sylvania 300 2010 AAA 400 Current Good Article Nominees: 2010 Price Chopper 400 Phoenix International Raceway Indianapolis Motor Speedway Charlotte Motor Speedway Completed Peer Reviews: 2010 Sylvania 300 - Archived Review New articles: Johanna Long 1971 Myers Brothers 250 1966 Columbia 200 1961 Buddy Shuman 250 1971 West Virginia 500 1977 Talladega 500 1976 American 500 1964 Wilkes 400 1965 Gwyn Staley 400
Article of the month – 2010 Sylvania 300, a recent Good Article The 2010 Sylvania 300 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 19, 2010, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. The 300 lap race was the twenty-seventh in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Clint Bowyer, of the Richard Childress Racing team, won the race, with Denny Hamlin finishing second, and Jamie McMurray third. Pole position driver Brad Keselowski maintained his lead in the first lap, but in the second lap Tony Stewart pulled ahead. Chase for the Sprint Cup participants Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, and Hamlin were in the top ten for most of the race, but in the closing laps all of them suffered spins or other problems. Hamlin was the only one to recover and finish in the top five. With two laps remaining, Tony Stewart was leading the race when he ran out of fuel, giving the lead to Bowyer, who also led the most laps in the race with 176. There were eight cautions and twenty-three lead changes among eight different drivers during the race. The race was Clint Bowyer's first win in the 2010 season, and the third of his career. The result advanced Bowyer to second in the Drivers' Championship, thirty-five points behind Hamlin and ten ahead of Kevin Harvick, but because of a penalty three days after the race, he fell to twelfth in the standings. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-two points ahead of Toyota and seventy-four ahead of Ford, with nine races remaining in the season. A total of 95,000 people attended the race, while 3.68 million watched it on television. (More...)
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C'Mon Man!

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.

Use some common sense in Twinkle next time then tagging stuff for speedy deletion, especially on blatant talk page vandalism creations to the tone of "Talk:Admins...". –MuZemike 07:03, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

I was using common sense. Could you please explain? ~NerdyScienceDude 14:40, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

I was meaning that you shouldn't inform a blatant vandal that a page he created has been tagged for speedy deletion. You know, WP:DENY and all that. –MuZemike 17:31, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh, OK. ~NerdyScienceDude 17:34, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

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GOCE Year-end Report

Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 503 editors 2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives Our encounter with Jimbo Wales Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned Report on our inaugural elections Guild Plans for 2011 New barnstars introduced Requests page improved Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011! – Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

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