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Image Policy
[edit]TO THE COPYRIGHT POLICE - I understand (not really but will put up with it) when fair use images are being deleted.
- HOWEVER - DO NOT DELETE MY IMAGES BECAUSE I MAY HAVE MISSED SOME LITTLE DETAIL ON THE UPLOAD PAGE.
- I DO NOT CHECK WIKI AS OFTEN AS I USED TO AND AM GETTING PRETTY FED UP OF GOOD COPYRIGHT FREE IMAGES GETTING DELETED
- THANKYOU SeanMack (talk) 02:07, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Carry on..
[edit]Commons talk page.
[edit]I've left a comment on your Commons talk page. Bidgee (talk) 12:59, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
- Just a message to let you know that the image has been restored [:File:Goldfields Pipeline SMC.JPG]. Bidgee (talk) 13:46, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
- Wow, that was fast nitification service from Bidgee ;) For the future, if you enaible e-mail you could tick "e-mail me when my talk page is changed" in your preferences at Commons. Images are often tagged and uploaders notified automagically, and in such cases the would-be notifier will not see your message at the Commons user page. Regards, Finn Rindahl (talk) 13:50, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey Sean, long time no speak. Image is now in the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme article, FYI. –Moondyne 09:31, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
GA Sweeps invitation
[edit]Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.
We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 08:42, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Please contact me
[edit]Hi Sean
I just want personal permission to use an image please contact via email from User:TonyYoung —Preceding undated comment added 06:21, 25 October 2009 (UTC).
Reflist
[edit]There is a good reason for tagging articles without references. but please do not create empty reference sections, because they look ugly. And use {{Unreferenced}}, to which {{Unsourced}} is a redirect anyway. And please take into account to write names of months in full, to avoid error messages. Sorry for telling you so many "what to do's", but I am sure that you want to do it right. Sincerely, Debresser (talk) 18:12, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
- There were some 7-8 articles like this I fixed yesterday. See e.g.Wang Xiaobo. Debresser (talk) 05:45, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
- A few points here. No problem using full month names although I'm not sure what errors you refer to? The normal 3 letter short form of months are all unique, no biggie though. I had a look for MOS advice on empty sections and didn't see anything to the contrary. There is a little bit on section expansion templates that seems to suggest that an expansion template is fine inside an empty section. My logic was always to include the section with the reflist template for those who don't know about this. There used to be common practise of including a comment to a page describing how to use the ref tags but that doesn't seem to happen any more. I also tended to include the cleanup tag inside empty reference section as I thought that was slightly less "ugly" than putting it at the top and was to me consistent with a section tag, although I'm happy enough to change the way I do this - can you point me to any MOS info or discussions with consensus on this type of edit? Lastly - good point about the template redirect I'll bear that in mind. Cheers. SeanMack (talk) 04:24, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Unreferenced BLPs
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Hello SeanMack! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 7 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:
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April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive
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James McClean
[edit]Hello, could you please take a look at Talk:James McLean (Irish footballer)#Name? It is a page that you created and there is a discussion about the correct title. Your input would be much appreciated. Snowolf How can I help? 20:50, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
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Comment on photographs
[edit]Hello Sean, I was looking into Dasyurids and came across one of your pics of a Spotted Quoll (or Chuditch) at Caversham Wildlife Park. Just wandered on from there and looked at your other pics. Good work, nice pics, good of you to share them to assist others. Have a great day. MarieM —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.207.16.150 (talk) 04:08, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
March 2011 GAN backlog elimination drive a week away
[edit]WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 23:59, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Wall Street has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for May 2011
[edit]Wall Street, a page you edited has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for May 2011. We encourage you to participate in improving this article. You can also vote for next months article of the Month here. --Kumioko (talk) 01:12, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Liveable et cetera
[edit]Hiya. Some time ago, you commented here, so I now invite your views here. Regards, Trafford09 (talk) 10:04, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Photo usage
[edit]Hi, I've been working on a small game built around animal quizzes and I wanted to let you know I've used some of your pictures.
I found your pictures here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rottnest_Quokka_2004_SeanMcClean.jpg I attributed this picture as described on that website: SeanMack with this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SeanMack and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stone_Fish_at_AQWA_SMC2006.jpg I attributed this picture as described on that website: SeanMack and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
I hope you're happy with it, please let me know if this is not the case. You can find the game here: http://apps.facebook.com/animalalbum Or through here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AnimalAlbum/156339584490672
Kind regards, Garfunkel Jansen (talk) 20:42, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
P.S. Thanks for taking the pictures and making them available.
WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)
[edit]Hello, you are receiving this message because you are currently a participant of WikiProject Good articles. Since the creation of the WikiProject, over 200 user's have joined to help review good article nominations and contribute to other sections of the WikiProject. Over the years, several of these users have stopped reviewing articles and/or have become inactive with the project but are still listed as participates. In order to improve communications with other participants and get newsletters sent out faster (newsletters will begin to be sent out monthly starting in October) all participants that are no longer active with the WikiProject will be removed from the participants list.
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Update for: WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)
[edit]Sorry for having to send out a second message but a user has brought to my attention that a point mentioned in the first message should be clarified. If user's don't sign on this page, they will be moved to an "Inactive Participants" list rather then be being removed from the entire WikiProject. Sorry for any confusion.--Dom497 (talk)15:23, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter - October 2012
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WikiProject Good Articles - Participant Clean-up (Second Call)
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The article Darren McCauley has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Fails WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTBALL.
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WikiProject Good Articles - Participant Clean-up (Final Call)
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Darren McCauley
[edit]Hi SeanMack - I am the admin who deleted this article. I've seen your comments at Mattythewhite's userpage, and so I have restored the article in your user space at User:SeanMack/Darren McCauley so that you can work on improving it to bring it up to our notability standards. If you need any help, let me know. Regards, GiantSnowman 23:13, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
The GAN Newsletter (November 2012)
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Exploded piechart of Hepatitis C infection by source based on CDC data.
[edit]Hi Sean,
I am trying to create a Polish version of the article about Hepatitis C. The English version uses your file but of course it's with headings in English. I would like to use the file but need to change the headings into Polish ones. Would you be so kind and advise me how to do it? I saw there are already Italian and Arabic versions so I assume it's possible to work on the file, isn't it? I would be grateful for your help.
Best regards, Katarzyna — Preceding unsigned comment added by KatSorWit (talk • contribs) 16:04, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
- Many thanks for your help. I did create my own piechart, however, it does not look very professional... Main problem is with the size and centralising. I used Inkspace for it but I'm not sure how to format the picture. I will need to work on it still. Hopefully, I will be more succesfull next time. Best regards, Katarzyna
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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter - February 2013
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Good Article Nominations Request For Comment
[edit]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. |
WikiProject Good Articles Recruitment Centre
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If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to seeing this program bring new reviewers to the Good article community and all the positive things it will bring along. A message will be sent out to all recruiters regarding the date when the Recruitment Centre will open when it is determined. The message will also contain some further details to clarify things that may be a bit confusing.--Dom497 (talk) This message was sent out by --EdwardsBot (talk) 01:23, 4 June 2013 (UTC) |
DYK RfC
[edit]- As a listed GA participant, you are invited to contribute to a formal Request for Comment on the question of whether Good Articles should be eligible to appear in the Did You Know? slot in future. Please see the proposal on its subpage here, or on the main DYK talk page. To add the discussion to your watchlist, click this link. Thank you in advance. Gilderien Chat|Contributions03:12, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
GAN December 2013 Backlog Drive
[edit]In past Backlog Drives, the goal was to reduce the backlog of Good article nominations. In the upcoming drive, another goal will be added - raising as much money as we can for the Wikimedia Foundation. How will this work? Well, its pretty simple. Any user interested in donating can submit a pledge at the Backlog Drive page (linked above). The pledge should mention the amount of money the user is willing to donate per review. For example, if a user pledges 5 cents per review and 100 nominations are reviewed, the total donation amount is $5.00. At the time this message was sent out, two users have submitted pledges for a total of 8 cents per review. All pledges, no matter how much money, are greatly appreciated. Also, in no way is this saying you must make a pledge. |
GAN December 2013 Backlog Drive
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March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive
[edit]It's that time again! Starting on March 1, there will be another GAN Backlog Drive! There will be several changes compared to previous drives:
- This drive will introduce a new component to it; a point system. In a nutshell, older nominations are worth more points than newer nominations. The top 3 participants who have the points will be awarded the Golden, Silver, or Bronze Wikipedia Puzzle Piece Trophy, respectively.
- Unlike the December 2013 Backlog Drive, earning an additional barnstar if you reached your goal has been removed.
- The allowance to have insufficient reviews has been lowered to 2 before being disqualified.
- An exception to the rule that all reviews must be completed before the deadline has been created.
Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.
More info regarding the drive and full descriptions regarding the changes to this drive can be found on the the drive page. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on the drive talk page.
I look forward to your participation and hope that because of it, some day the backlog will be gone!
--Dom497
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GAN March 2014 Backlog Drive
[edit]The March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive has begun and will end on April 1, 2014! Sent by Dom497 on behalf of MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles Future GAN Backlog Drive
[edit]Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!
TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.
If you would be interested in participating in a Backlog Drive sometime before the end of this year, please notify TheQ Editor. Also, make sure to specify what month(s) work best for you.
At the time this message was sent out, the backlog was at 520 nominations. Since May, the backlog has been steadily increasing and we are currently near an all time high. Even though the backlog will not disappear over one drive, this drive can lead to several others which will (hopefully) lead to the day where there is no longer a backlog.
As always, the more participants, the better, and everyone is encouraged to participate!
Sent by Dom497--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
GA Cup
[edit]Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!
As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:
For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.
For more info on the proposal, click here. As a FYI, the proposal page is not what the final product will look like (if you do go ahead with this idea). It will look very similar to WikiCup's page(s).
The discussion for the proposal will take place here. Please let us know if you are interested, have any concerns, things to consider, etc.
--Dom497, Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor
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WikiProject Good Articles - GA Cup
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 WikiProject Good articles is holding a new competition, the GA Cup, from October 1, 2014 - March 28, 2015. The Cup will be based on reviewing Good article nominations; for each review, points will be awarded with bonuses for older nominations, longer articles and comprehensive reviews. All participants will start off in one group and the highest scoring participants will go through to the second round. At the moment six rounds are planned, but this may change based on participant numbers. Some of you may ask: what is the purpose for a competition of this type? Currently, there is a backlog of about 500 unreviewed Good article nominations, almost an all time high. It is our hope that we can decrease the backlog in a fun way, through friendly competition. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors! Sign-ups will be open until October 15, 2014 so sign-up now! If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the four judges. Cheers from NickGibson3900, Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:04, 15 September 2014 (UTC) To receive future GA Cup newsletter, please add your name to our mailing list.
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Deletion discussion on Commons: File:FremantlePrisonArt Outside 2005 SMC.jpg
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Notifying you here as well per your request on your Commons userpage - Evad37 [talk] 04:52, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
File:TopFueller506kph Kwinana2005 SeanMcClean.jpg listed for deletion
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File:AustralianRoadIcon.png listed for deletion
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