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Lost week

Tail end of some issues, never got back about the murder things. Check out WP:TW I think you might like it SatuSuro 02:53, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

ASIN to OCLC

I noticed this edit on my watchlist. Thank you very much for your work, in almost all cases we probably never should have used an ASIN so I'm glad that someone is switching these out. --Gmaxwell 22:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

You are most welcome! Some editors will probably also be annoyed. I'm finding that I do need to leave ASINs for AV material, such as here. Keesiewonder 22:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Fact template

Hi, {{Fact}} needs a date= parameter. Was that what you meant? Rich Farmbrough, 23:04 30 March 2007 (GMT).

Sorted (for that article). Special behaviour of infobox. Rich Farmbrough, 10:57 1 April 2007 (GMT).

Doug Skinner

I've edited the entry but wanted you to have a look over it before I remove the various tags. (Emperor 20:42, 31 March 2007 (UTC))

OK cool. Tags have been removed. (Emperor 00:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC))

Science Collaboration of the Month

You voted for The current science collaboration of the month article is: Chemistry Please help improve this article to featured article quality standards. Last month's collaboration was European science in the Middle Ages. To propose future collaborations, please contribute here! v t e and this article is now the current Science Collaboration of the Month! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Misplaced Pages science article.

NCurse _work 19:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Open solicitation for input/advice

Hello! There's been some recent activity getting the ball rolling at WikiProject Journalism, and if you'd like to join us, I'm sure your input would be valued. In particular, User:Wiki Wistah has proposed a guideline for editing articles about newspapers, and although I've responded with comments of my own, WW rightly suggested that it should be more than just a two-way conversation. I've noticed some of your own edits on related matters and thought you might be interested. Any suggestions would certainly be appreciated. Otherwise, if this is not of interest to you, or if you've already got a plateful of editing, feel free to ignore this message! -Tobogganoggin 01:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I appologise.

I didn't notice. Thank you for showing me. MichaelJE2 22:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

RE:Right behind you...

Thanks, seeing this on my talk page probably gave me a jump start on you though. Stardust8212 23:34, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Archimedes Plutonium: COI issue

Hi Keesie. Do you have an idea of what to do with this article? Postings on the COI board sometimes linger because no-one can figure out what to do with them. I see that you tried to improve the sources of this article. The editor is misbehaving, but not outrageously. There may be a couple of options:

(a) Push back against the weak sourcing of the article. *Literal* application of WP:EL and other standards might cause the sources to be decimated, which would lead to removal of some of the content which could no longer be referenced. (Note that The Dartmouth's web site isn't working at the moment, and the newsgroup links don't open for me). I accept the verdict of the AfD that he is notable enough for Misplaced Pages. Trawling through Google might bring up some better material (but I imagine you've tried that already). Usenet postings not by AP himself probably can't be used as a factual reference about him.

(b) Ask for a user conduct RFC on AP himself.

(c) Any other ideas?

We could try to negotiate with AP to get him to abstain from editing the article, but the sourcing is so flimsy right now it's hard to argue that it's a good article. (Plus, except for you and one or two others, it doesn't seem that much energy is being put into improving it). If there's no simple remedy, the COI noticeboard may decide to close the issue and ask people to try dispute resolution. EdJohnston 04:09, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Lutheranism

The WikiProject Lutheranism Collaboration Project is under way. Please help improve this month's article, or make a suggestion for next month's article. To add the collaboration banner to your userpage or talk page, use {{Lutheran COTM}}. -- Pastordavid 19:29, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

New article: Reindeer hunting in Greenland

I have finally gone public with my new article:

• Reindeer hunting in Greenland

-- Fyslee/talk 07:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Iceland Newsletter

May 2007
Latest Announcements & Discussions Welcome to the first instalment of the WikiProject Iceland Newsletter! The main aim of this newsletter is to keep you informed of the goings-on in the Iceland WikiProject, so that you can help use improve our articles! Our New Look As you may or may not have noticed, our project page has recently had an overhaul, please give us feedback and suggestions as to how we can improve it and you can decide what content goes on the page! Icelandic language The Icelandic language article has been nominated for the Article Creation and Improvement Drive. Please vote for the article so that we can get it up to FA!	Needed Articles You can help us out by starting any of the following articles: Breiðamerkursandur Minister of Finance of Iceland Fimmtardómur Icelandic Language Council Icelandic Language Fund Skálholt Agreement Langaréttarbót Miklabæjarrán Píningsdómur Sveinsstaðafundur