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Wishing you well

I definitely remember when you were active. I appreciate the contributions you made here, wish that you would return, but respect your decision. I wish you well. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 05:21, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Creating a Article listed at Redirects for discussion

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Missing Wikipedians

I've added you to the page above because of how much you've done for us and because you've retired. It's intended to memorialize your service to this project, and I agree: This place is getting more hostile by the day, and it's unfortunate because we even had one hell of a hard worker just walk out on us for the exact same reason. Can't we all just get along?

Anyway, if you don't want to be on this list, just remove yourself and use an edit summary e.g. "I do not wish to be on this list; please keep me off". That way if other editors come looking to put you on the list after you've been taken off, they'll see that edit summary and decide not to add you. Of course, if you do decide to come back, then you'll still have to take yourself off the list anyway. ;)

God bless, LazyBastardGuy 02:26, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

LazyBastardGuy: Alpha was already two times on that list and he wanted to be removed, see [1]. Maybe simply commenting him out with an HTML notice? mabdul 14:51, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

ATTENTION: Alpha Quadrant has already been added to the list and has kindly asked to be removed before. If you came here looking to add this user, please refrain as they have requested not to be added in the past. Thank you.

Notification of a June AfC BackLog Drive

Hello Alpha Quadrant:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 1400 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

The AfC helper script can assist you in tallying your edits automatically. To view a full list of changes, visit the changelog. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks. Sent on behalf of (t) Josve05a (c) by {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} using the MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:45, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Survey for editors who mentor newcomer

Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,

I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V2SSrhU2NFOVAV

Also, if you are able to, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send the following survey to the mentee you worked with:

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V1quUdMZ1By3Ah

Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi, can you make a comment about my new project Encyclopine.org

hi, Hi, can you make a comment about my new project Encyclopine.org?

Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello Alpha Quadrant. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.

Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.

I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).

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Precious again

reviewing eyes
Thank you for reviewing in the Contributor copyright investigations/PumpkinSky! Paraphrasing (I hope not too closely): If everybody who reads this looked at one more article it could be over today. - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (19 September 2010)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:17, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were the 30th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style. We miss you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:28, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for coming over and chat --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Four years ago, you were recipient no. 30 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:09, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

You are missed

I just wanted to drop by and say you are very much missed. I hope you return to regular editing. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:28, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Hammersoft, I do miss it here. Looking back, I learned much while here on the project both from you and others. Learning copyright law from you for instance. Heh, I didn't take that too well at the time, but more and more I've grown to appreciate how helpful it has been both while I was on the project and even in life outside of the project. In many ways, the positive aspects did outweigh the negative. Unfortunately, I don't have as much time to devote work on the project as I once did. Though, as you can see, I'm not completely gone...receiving a CSD notice certainly will draw me out haha. Someday I will be back to regular editing, this I promise. Thanks for stopping by with the note. Best wishes, Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 05:13, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

• Yeah we didn't hit it off well at the start. But, one of the things I always appreciated about you is that you kept an open mind and were willing to consider other alternatives, even if you initially radically disagreed with them. That is a rare thing around these parts. I look forward to your return and hope all is well in your life. --Hammersoft (talk) 11:25, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Toyloa listed at Redirects for discussion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Dirt track racing in Canada

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GOVCOM listed at Redirects for discussion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Conan the Conqueror (film)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Angela O'Connell

Hello Alpha Quadrant,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Angela O'Connell for deletion, because it seems to be vandalism or a hoax.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Onel5969 ^{TT me} 16:39, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker) @Onel5969: I've denied the speedy deletion nomination. What was on the article was, agreed, vandalism/hoax. But, Alpha Quadrant didn't create that. What Alpha created was a legitimate redirect for a real character in the Fair City television show. Onel5969, I know you meant well but in the future check the article's history before tagging for speedy deletion. All the best, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:30, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry to take up space on your wall, but I hate to continue conversations in different locations. Hammersoft - I did check out the history, thank you for the agf. However, did you check out the target of the redirect? There is no Angela O'Connell listed on the target, therefore I felt deletion was the more appropriate course of action. Perhaps I missed it. And the notification announcement above is computer generated. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 19:39, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

• I did check out the target of the redirect. Thanks for your agf :) I know she's not listed there. However, I did confirm this character is part of the show. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:18, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

That's cool Hammersoft, although regarding agf, I was referring to you reverting my edit and labeling it vandalism. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 20:31, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

• I was referring to the IP, not you. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:34, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

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Request on 20:25:31, 7 November 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by Gm2016

• Gm2016 (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hey Alpha Quadrant, I noticed you rejected my "Citizens For Responsible Energy Solutions" submission because it read as an advertisement and did not have third party sources. First, thank you for your advice, but I'm wondering if you can give me more tips for how to revise this submission. I don't reference the Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions website more than once and reference sources such as McClatchy, Associated Press, Yale, Morning Consult, WMUR and Politico which are reputable. How can this draft be improved? Thank you in advance for your help.

Gm2016 (talk) 20:25, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

This article primarily has two issues that need to be addressed:

1. The article needs to establish that this organization warrants a standalone article. Specifically, is this organization covered sufficiently in reputable third party sources (books, newspaper articles, academic journals, online news articles, etc. I think this subject very much does have that potential. At the very least, the topic warrants a section in an existing article. A big problem is existing references; for instance E&E/Greenwire. Any online source with "wire" in the name is almost always paid news (first party sources). The fact that these sources are also behind a paywall also reduces our ability to verify information stated in the article. Your best reference is very much the Huffington Post news article, we are looking for more coverage like THAT (see Wikipedia:In Depth Coverage). The news article exists because the organization exists. They are giving us detailed information on the organization, the news source wasn't paid to make the news article, and the organization isn't just a passing mention. In contrast, the Associated Press news article doesn't contribute to establishing this organization's notability. The biggest reason being the fact that this article is a passing reference (the primary focus of the news article is Kelly Ayotte and Clean Energy). If we can get 4-5 more news articles like the Huffington Post article, then we will have a very solid base for establishing this organization's notability.
2. The article also needs to be written in a [WP:NPOV|neutral point of view]]. This is perhaps one of the most difficult skills to learn about writing Wikipedia articles because of the fact that it is so different from writing anywhere else. To write in neutral point of view you want to present the facts, do so in a manner that is neither positive nor negative, and avoid any language that would promote the subject. Take the perspective of a historian writing about this organization 1,000 years from now. What you're doing is documenting the subject so that others may learn about the subject. For example, right now in the "About" section of the article you have:

Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) was founded in 2013 to promote clean energy solutions. As an organization, CRES does not favor one form of clean energy over another, but aims to engage lawmakers across the United states in a discussion about clean energy policies that address America’s 21st century economic, environmental and national security needs.

Consider possibly rewording it to something along these lines:

Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) is an American non-profit advocacy group that that lobbies for the expansion of the clean energy industry in the United States. CRES was founded in 2013 and has lobbied for legislation such as <Expansion here>.

Both sentences say about the same thing, but the latter strips out the verbiage that would make it read like an advertisement (Example: "promotes solutions", "aims to engage", and "address needs"). I hope this has been helpful for you. If you have any further questions, then I would be happy to assist. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 23:18, 7 November 2017 (UTC)