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In need of your mentorship

Hi,

I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.

I need your advice concerning WP:WPOOK, which I've been coordinating. The set of pages the project concerns is listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#Projected outline, and has grown to about 500 articles in the encyclopedia.

The goals of the WikiProject are:

1. Increase awareness of readers of the existence of the outlines on Misplaced Pages
2. Complete the existing outlines
3. Create an outline for every subject that is exensive enough to benefit from having an outline (core subjects and major or extensive fields). There are thousands of these.
4. Recruit as many editors to work on these as possible (we need thousands of editors working on these)
5. Surpass portals in number by the end of the summer, and leave them in the dust by the end of the year
6. Get the major outline subject areas displayed on the Main Page (in place of or in addition to the portal links at the top of the page)
7. Increase the OOK to higher quality than Britannica's Outline of Knowledge (published in its Propaedia volume).

I was hoping you could comment on how to achieve the goals above.

Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Misplaced Pages. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Misplaced Pages's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Misplaced Pages, and I want to contact all of them. So how do I do it? Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your help.

I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).

Can you recommend anyone in particular who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this? Or ways to reach groups of editors? Or ways to reach all editors? I welcome any and all advice you might have.

I look forward to your reply on my talk page.

The Transhumanist    03:20, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

DB icon

Hello, I coverted the Db icon File:DBZ_UBX2.png to vector graphics. --> , giving advantages such as clearness; tell me what you think on my talk page before I convert the other ones and possibly make a big mistake :) Bugboy52.4 | =-= 03:39, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter Issue XLIV - June 7, 2009 Issue XLIII | Issue XLV Project in Review As of June 2009: Professional wrestling articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 8 3 11 FL 17 20 37 GA 6 44 86 136 B 1 22 80 226 329 C 5 33 147 185 Start 2 54 260 1958 2274 Stub 21 467 488 List 4 31 642 1 678 Future 2 10 12 Assessed 3 91 496 3559 1 4150 Unassessed 1 1 Total 3 91 496 3559 2 4151 Changes to Featured and Good Content Promoted Featured articles: None Promoted Featured lists: List of PWG World Champions (review page) Promoted Featured topics: None Reassessed Featured content: None Promoted Good articles: None Promoted Good topics: None Reassessed Good content: None Other Project News —Articles List of CZW World Heavyweight Champions (review page), List of Mexican National Trios Champions (review page), and List of PWG World Tag Team Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates. Adam Birch, Armageddon (2008), Beth Phoenix, Bruno Lauer, Debra Miceli, The Fabulous Moolah, Jillian Hall, Keiko Nakano, Leilani Kai, MNM, TNA World Heavyweight Championship, TNA World Tag Team Championship, and TNA X Division Championship are current Good article nominees. Paul London and Brian Kendrick (review page) is a current Good topic candiate. The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page: May 28: List of PWG World Champions May 29: PWG World Tag Team Championship May 30: List of PWG World Tag Team Champions June 5: List of CZW World Heavyweight Champions Deletion Discussions: Articles for Deletion Current: III (professional wrestling), Just Close Your Eyes, Melanie Cruise, and Pro Wrestling Entertainment. Deleted: All Out Mayhem, Edgar Meyer (Wrestler), Kimberley Kash, and Ryu Lee. Merged: May 2009 Pepsi Center double-booking controversy —Project As part of the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of June 7, we are at 11.76%, with 488 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve. Based on the members list, there are currently 222 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. Events Calendar This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of June. 7 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Extreme Rules 12 - Ring of Honor (ROH) presents Take No Prisoners 21 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Slammiversary 28 - WWE presents The Bash Recent Professional Wrestling News At Sacrifice on May 24, Sting defeated Mick Foley, Jeff Jarrett, and Kurt Angle in an Ultimate Sacrifice match by pinning Angle, which meant that he took over Angle's position as the leader of The Main Event Mafia. Mr. Kennedy made his return to WWE television on the May 25 episode of Raw, but was released four days later on May 29. On May 26, Ephesto defeated Rey Bucanero to win the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship, after Bucanero suffered a legitimate knee injury. On May 28: John Tolos died in Los Angeles aged 78. Lisa Marie Varon made her TNA debut, and Shane Douglas and Raven returned to TNA. On June 1: WWE, THQ, and Yuke's announced that the development of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 had started. On WWE Raw: Kofi Kingston won the WWE United States Championship by defeating defending champion Montel Vontavious Porter. On June 2, Samoa Joe was diagnosed with a torn triceps and broken fingers. On May 5, it was announced that WWE had released developmental talents Dakota Darsow, Jon Cutler, and Lupe Santiago. On May 6: It was announced that WWE had also released developmental wrestler Kafu. Combat Zone Wrestling wrestler Nick Gage was injured in a match after taking a bump onto a light tube, suffering a severed artery and being airflifted to hospital. Editing Tips This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips. Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view. All Misplaced Pages articles should be written from a neutral point-of-view. Contributors to this Issue NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) TJ Spyke (talk · contribs) Truco (talk · contribs) Wrestlinglover (talk · contribs) Project Navigation PW Project main pages Main project – talk Project category – talk Portal – talk Style guide – talk PW Project Departments Assessment – talk Cleanup listing – talk Pay-Per-View Expansion – talk Stub article expansion – talk

Re: DB Icon

I used Inkscape, mostly because its free though. I'm glad that ya like it :), if you want me to do more, just give me the word. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 14:24, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

do you want to give me a list of any specific ones, or every one on wikipedia. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 20:55, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I did the all of the other ones ones there (if you mean the ones in the userboxes). Bugboy52.4 | =-= 00:02, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

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Dear Mentor,

Thank you for your advice. We're putting it to good use.

I've run into a situation, and need your valuable insight.

One thing I've tried to do with respect to the outlines is place a hatnote on subject articles leading to that subject's corresponding outline.

Two people complained, and form the basis of consensus not to do it.

The main concern was quality: a hatnote shouldn't be placed unless the outline is of at least the same or higher quality than the article the hatnote is being placed on. That sets up a catch-22, since we need the best linking we can to attract readers and editors in the first place. The more traffic, the more feedback and changes.

So quality is the focus.

Please have a look at the outlines.

What are the biggest quality issues? What do the outlines need done to them in order to improve their quality?

I look forward to your reply on my talk page.

The Transhumanist    22:40, 12 June 2009 (UTC)