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Welcome to Afaprof01's Talk Page User Page · Contributions · Wiki Policies · Wiki Guidelines Good Article Nominations Request For Comment A 'Request For Comment' for Good Article Nominations is currently being held. We are asking that you please take five to ten minutes to review all seven proposals that will affect Good Article Nominations if approved. Full details of each proposal can be found here. Please comment on each proposal (or as many as you can) here. At this time, Proposal 1, 3, and 5 have received full (or close to) support. If you have questions of anything general (not related to one specif proposal), please leave a message under the General discussion thread. Please note that Proposal 2 has been withdrawn and no further comments are needed. Also, please disregard Proposal 9 as it was never an actual proposal. Peer review newsletter #1 Introduction Hello to all! I do not intend to write a regular peer review newsletter but there does occasionally come a time when those interested in contributing to peer review should be contacted, and now is one. I've mailed this out to everyone on the peer review volunteers list, and some editors that have contributed to past discussions. Apologies if I've left you off or contacted you and you didn't want it. Next time there is a newsletter / mass message it will be opt in (here), I'll talk about this below - but first: THANK YOU! I want to thank you for your contributions and for volunteering on the list to help out at peer review. Thank you! Peer review is useful! It's good to have an active peer review process. This is often the way that we help new or developing editors understand our ways, and improve the quality of their editing - so it fills an important and necessary gap between the teahouse (kindly introduction to our Wikiways) and GA and FA reviews (specific standards uphelp according to a set of quality criteria). And we should try and improve this process where possible (automate, simplify) so it can be used and maintained easily. Updates It can get quite lonely tinkering with peer review... With a bit of effort we can renovate the place to look like this! Update #1: the peer review volunteers list is changing The list is here in case you've forgotten: WP:PRV. Kadane has kindly offered to create a bot that will ping editors on the volunteers list with unanswered reviews in their chosen subject areas every so often. You can choose the time interval by changing the "contact" parameter. Options are "never", "monthly", "quarterly", "halfyearly", and "annually". For example: {{PRV|JohnSmith|History of engineering|contact=monthly}} - if placed in the "History" section, JohnSmith will receive an automatic update every month about unanswered peer reviews relating to history. {{PRV|JaneSmith|Mesopotamian geography, Norwegian fjords|contact=annually}} - if placed in the "Geography" section, JaneSmith will receive an automatic update every yearly about unanswered peer reviews in the geography area. We can at this stage only use the broad peer review section titles to guide what reviews you'd like, but that's better than nothing! You can also set an interest in multiple separate subject areas that will be updated at different times. Update #2: a (lean) WikiProject Peer review I don't think we need a WikiProject with a giant bureaucracy nor all sorts of whiz-bang features. However over the last few years I've found there are times when it would have been useful to have a list of editors that would like to contribute to discussions about the peer review process (e.g. instructions, layout, automation, simplification etc.). Also, it can get kind of lonely on the talk page as I am (correct me if I'm wrong) the only regular contributor, with most editors moving on after 6 - 12 months. So, I've decided to create "WikiProject Peer review". If you'd like to contribute to the WikiProject, or make yourself available for future newsletters or contact, please add yourself to the list of members. Update #3: advertising We plan to do some advertising of peer review, to let editors know about it and how to volunteer to help, at a couple of different venues (Signpost, Village pump, Teahouse etc.) - but have been waiting until we get this bot + WikiProject set up so we have a way to help interested editors make more enduring contributions. So consider yourself forewarned! And... that's it! I wish you all well on your Wikivoyages, Tom (LT) (talk) 00:31, 11 August 2018 (UTC) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Merry Christmas and Happy New year Hello! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2021 on the behalf of Christmas task force of WikiProject Holidays. Happy holidays! Wishing you a joyful Christmas and a happy New year. We would like to use this occasion for giving thanks for editors like you for your works on editing, maintaining and expanding this encyclopedia. May the glorious message of peace and love fill you with joy during this wonderful season. You can do! Improve and assess the articles listed in Category:Christmas and its subpages. (list of categories) Feel free to add christmas=yes to the Wikiproject banners {{WikiProject Holidays}} or {{WikiProject Christianity}} in the articles related to Christmas. This will help to automatically place it into Category:Christmas task force articles. Tag articles under the scope of our project. Recruit interested editors to the project. Collect categories, resource links, and templates. Feel free to develop missing articles related to this topic - some of them can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force/Reference sources articles list. Bring former featured articles and good articles back to their status. Visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force/Article alerts page for recent changes on project. Feel free to participate in the process of revival of task force. Recent... Featured article Trading Places- a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. Featured article candidate Die Hard-a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. Good Article Home Alone-a 1990 American Christmas family comedy film directed by Chris Columbus. DYK One Voice at Christmas-a 2016 Christmas album by the Welsh singer Aled Jones and produced by Classic FM. "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas!" -Calvin Coolidge Quotations related to Calvin Coolidge at Wikiquote Discuss this newsletter Questions Unsubscribe (WikiProject Holidays) Unsubscribe (WikiProject Christianity) Sent by Path slopu (talk) on behalf of WikiProject Holidays, WikiProject Christianity and their related projects. © Copyleft 2020 Wikiproject Holidays WikiProject Christianity Christmas task force --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:18, 24 December 2020 (UTC) Inactive peer review volunteer Hi Afaprof01, you're receiving this message because you were previously listed at the list of volunteers for Wikipedia's peer review process, but you haven't made any edits to the English Wikipedia in over 1 year. Because of your inactivity, you have been removed from the volunteers list, so that the list is kept up to date and editors who do need help can better find active editors. If you become active again and would like to add yourself to the volunteers list again, you can do so at any time by visiting the volunteers list. Thank you for volunteering to be on the list previously, and all the best on your WikiVoyages! Message delivered to you with love by Yapperbot :) | Is this wrong? Contact my bot operator. | Sent at 18:01, 12 April 2021 (UTC) Requesting some article expansion help Greetings, Requesting your visit to Draft:Intellectual discourse over re-mosqueing of Hagia Sophia and article expansion help if you find your interest in the topic. Thanks and warm regards Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 13:17, 1 December 2021 (UTC)