User talk:Juliancolton/Archive 1

Hey!

Remember me, from SEWQ? Just thought I'd drop in and say hello, after seeing your name in recent changes. Nice to see you around here. tempodivalse 03:28, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Of course, good to see you. I stop by here once in a while, though I'd like to get more active in the future. Do you have any suggestions on where a newbie like myself could start? Thanks. :) Juliancolton (talk) 03:30, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I'd recommend checking out Wikinews:Introduction to get started out. The single most important thing you could do here is probably to write some articles -- we currently are lucky to get much more than 6-7 stories a day, so any help you can give us there would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions or need help, just ask me at my talk.

P.S. I know you've been welcomed before, but since then we've developed a much nicer welcome template, which I think is more informative, so I'll send it out to you now:

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Cheers. tempodivalse 03:40, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:41, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Tropical depression dissipates, impacts Mexico

Sorry, I wasn't online at the moment so I didn't have a chance to review the article (looks like someone else did). You did an great job, though - you've learned the "news style" of writing very quickly. One minor point, the sources should generally be in chronological order of publishing date, newest at the top and oldest at the bottom. Otherwise, excellent. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 14:04, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Contractions ... you mean words like "didn't", "couldn't"? Yes, they are acceptable. Tempodivalse [talk] 17:40, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:45, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

ESA launches largest commercial telecom satellite

ESA launches largest commercial telecom satellite has been fixed, as per your comments on the talk page.SriMesh | talk 00:25, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Cool, thanks! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:24, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Listing contributions

I recommend the {{wikinews}} template to list your articles. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 22:53, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Done. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:35, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Editor

You have been granted editor status. Use your new powers wisely! :) Cheers, --Jcart1534 (talk) 23:10, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Will do, thanks. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:42, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations. Some helpful links and pointers at {{Editor message}}. Cirt (talk) 21:54, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Useful advice there, thanks for the link –Juliancolton | ^Talk 05:11, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

An interview with the chairman of America's fastest growing centrist political party: Mike Lebowitz discusses the Modern Whigs' past, present and future

Juliancolton, would you mind doing a peer review for the article above? Thanks. --WNewsReporter (talk) 08:11, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

 Doing... –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:56, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikinews interviews Mike Lebowitz, chairman of the U.S. Modern Whig Party

Juliancolton,

I made several edits to the above article. Would you mind doing a peer review for it? Thanks. --WNewsReporter (talk) 18:56, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, looks like it was already done by Cirt (talk · contribs). –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I made the changes Cirt recommended. Would you mind doing a review of them? --WNewsReporter (talk) 06:43, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

NC Terror sting article

Thanks for catching that. I thought I had gotten all of the direct quotes, but I missed that one. It now cites the sources directly. Is there anything else I need to fix? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 03:12, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Looks good other than that. Now published. Good work! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:29, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

{{Editprotected}} requests

No problem. Thanks for the thanks:). Gopher65_talk 01:47, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

re: Thanks

You are welcome. :) Cirt (talk) 03:55, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

WN:RFA

Hi Julian, I've nominated you for adminship. If you accept, please say so at WN:RFA. Good luck! Tempodivalse [talk] 00:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the nomination! I'll think about it for a while, and get back to you as soon as possible. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:27, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Alright, accepted. Cheers, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 05:41, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

User "Juliancolton" is now an administrator

Congratulations! You've been op'd. May I proudly present to you the admin Segway. Sorry we don't have anything cooler, but both the admin-mobile and admin-cycle were stolen off with. You'll just have to settle with the Segway, and don't break it, because it's damn expensive. Anyways, enjoy your power, abuse the peons, so on and so forth - you know the drill. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 18:40, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations. Tempodivalse [talk] 18:44, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Oooh, shiny. :) Thanks both! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:45, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Congrats! Good luck with the tools. There is a bit of a backlog of protected edit requests at WN:AAA... :P Cirt (talk) 18:58, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

What? You mean I have to do work? :( –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:01, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I know, thats what I said when they gave me 'crat. I actually have to _do_ shit?! bah! --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 22:44, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Request for CU

I notice you closed the request, but it hasn't yet been open for seven days. (I don't think it is a race to 25 votes). Also, it might be good to let a steward close it as they will need to make the change in user permissions (as far as I understand it). Cheers, --SVTCobra 21:43, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Ah, nevermind. Cirt seems to have been granted the powers per this. Weird though, it didn't show up in the user rights log. Cheers, --SVTCobra 21:49, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

It isn't displayed in the local user rights log because the stewards changed Cirt's user rights from Meta, not locally. Tempodivalse [talk] 22:19, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

That cause you gotta look here SVT. The steward actions are done "Cross wiki" from meta, so the logs on meta. Only things we do (promote admins/crats/editors) will be kept here (Even de-ops will be on meta). --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 22:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Protected edit requests

Please, when you review a request submitted with the template {{editprotected}} edit the request when you are done to change to using {{tl|editprotected}}. This takes the talk page out of the appropriate category and stops it being listed on WN:AAA. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 11:58, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I've been doing that, haven't I? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 12:00, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I found a couple on WN:AAA that had Pakistan-related cats added, the request marked as done, but the template still there. Then I got distracted with {{source}}. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:21, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, I must have forgotten a few. I'll be more careful in the future, thanks for the note. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 12:23, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Request

• can you send me the http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Human_soccer_balls to my email so i can post it on my wiki?

Done –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:08, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

RE: Welcome

Thanks Julian :P. Although really, I don't need a welcome template :P Mifter (talk) 23:05, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Bah, you're still a n00b! :D –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:23, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Of course he's a noob! His WP talk page has elements with the blink attribute. I know, they're in red, but I know enough about typsetting to know that they're displayed at significantly less than 48 point. :-P --Brian McNeil / ^talk 23:32, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

It isn't blinking anymore :P (It only blinks for my offline status indicator ;) ). Best, Mifter (talk) 23:50, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Reviewing

When reviewing an article, please look to make sure no one is copy editing or the likes. Just a friendly heads up :) Keep up the good work! DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 17:07, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Will keep that in mind, thanks. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:09, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Nice!

Have replied on my talk page to your comment, but just thought I'd pop by to say I like the new User page a lot!    Tris   17:18, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Hehe, thanks! :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:21, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

UN offices in Pakistan hit by suicide bomber

Hi, any chance you could review the above article? I noticed you're online today. I generally don't like pestering people to review my articles, however this one has been in the queue for over a day and risks getting stale soon if not published. It should be easy to review, it's a VOA-based article. Thanks, Tempodivalse [talk] 14:18, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Done I saw your note.    Tris   14:56, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I went offline shortly after your post. Thanks for the help Tris! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:09, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for your review, Dotty. Tempodivalse [talk] 16:38, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

• Do be careful with VOA articles! Tempo is wrong, "it should be easy to review" neglects the fact that you must be particularly aware of certain assumptions and language which reflect the point of view that the United States government wishes to project to the rest of the world. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 23:51, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

  I meant "easy to review" in the sense that verifiability and copyvio checks are usually less difficult to do in VOA articles. One should of course be very careful about POV issues. Tempodivalse [talk] 23:03, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Promoting people to editor status

Hi, Julian! I noticed your promotion of MBisanz (talk · contribs) to Editor status in the RC today. I thought i'd just point out that all requests for the Editor flag generally should go through WN:FRRFP first (it's a policy). Imho, being "trusted" isn't quite enough for obtaining the Editor flag, one should also have demonstrated some understanding the style guide. I'd suggest that in the future, you nominate a user through WN:FRRFP first and get at least a few users' approval before promoting (instead of immediately granting the flag). Cheers. Tempodivalse [talk] 23:01, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, well, I was under the impression that the aforementioned page was more for self-nominations, and other users could be promoted by admins' discretion. I'll keep your note in mind, however. Thanks! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:35, 29 October 2009 (UTC)