User talk:Eric Shalov

User page deleted!

Okay, t'his is stange, but, as reported here, My User Page disappeared on 6 March 2006, without any mention in the History or anything- and I cannot seem to save a reverted version. - Eric 20:29, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

English

Hi. Please disambiguate English on your user page. For example, English. Thanks. RedWolf 02:53, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)

• Thanks for the tip. Eric 17:19, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Copyrighted text

In the future, please do not copy text directly from other websites and use it here on Wikipedia. In your recent article about suicide locations, sections were copied from pages like [1] and [2] .

• I believe the text I took from online sources to all be fair-use compatible, but this might be a Copyright Paranoia question. Eric 17:19, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

On another note, I find the subject of that article completely improper for Wikipedia, and have blanked it out (replacing with a redirect). Please do not re-create it. -- Netoholic @ 02:10, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• In the future it might be more appropriate to start a discourse on the Wikipedian's Talk page before wiping out a researched article. I find this particular subject rather interesting, but I'd be willing to consider other Wikipedians' opinions on how it should be presented tastefully. Censorship is not the answer. Eric 17:19, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

9/11 attacks article

VeryVerily just reverted out changes on the 9/11 attacks article. Rather than doing a revert myself, I just removed the word terrorist, and changed islamic back to islamist. I don't know why VV had to change it again. It seemed pretty much ok this time. Now it's a huge sentence again! --Rebroad 12:35, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

delete tags (nonsense campaign)

Eric, I had to remove the db tags from the articles that you tagged as part of the nonsense campaign. I'm afraid this does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. You are welcome to list these articels on WP:VFD and add vfd tags to the articles instead. Cheers. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 13:27, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

John Randolph Club

No problem. Thanks for writing the initial article. - Nat Krause 14:38, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

John Hay Whitney/family

I answered your question on John Hay Whitney on my talk page. Was wondering if perhaps this John Hay Whitney/family couldn't be used to do a bio on Payne Whitney etc. and then deleted or redirected to the Whitney family. What do you think? Ted Wilkes 15:18, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My interest in the Whitneys lies mainly with thoroughbred horse racing. If you want to do the Payne Whitney bio, then I'll do Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. Ted Wilkes 16:38, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, but I'm not in L.A. any more

Hi Eric:

Thanks for the invite, but I recently moved out of L.A. I'm in Silicon Valley now.

--Coolcaesar 22:23, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation

But I don't even live in US, I live in Brazil. — Kieff | Talk June 29, 2005 01:33 (UTC)

Thanks as well, but I live on the East Coast, and couldn't even make it to the Boston meetup when I lived there. I'm sort of wondering what got me the invite; I suppose I must have contributed to an LA themed article, but I can't for the life of me think of what it was. I've only been to LA once, and I spent basically the entire time lost in traffic. Good luck though. -R. fiend 29 June 2005 02:02 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite. But I don't reside in Los Angeles. I just know a bit about it. I live about 3,000 miles away in New York City. The closest I've been to LA was playing True Crime: Streets of L.A.. Maybe if theres a New York meetup, I could make it. Just need to convince my parents that a 14 year old can go out alone.

Good Luck though! Pacific Coast Highway June 29, 2005 02:22 (UTC)

-Thanks for the invitation. I live in NYC though, but have a great time!--Jleon 29 June 2005 12:39 (UTC)

I am curious why you thought I was in or near Los Angeles. —Michael Shields 29 June 2005 23:57 (UTC)

I will help with ideas and publicity, and will try to make the meetup, but since I don't know if I'll be able to make it, I will decline the offer to help host. Thanks for the offer.BlankVerse ∅ 30 June 2005 10:29 (UTC)

LA meetup

I'd love to come, but unfortunately I'm leaving LA very soon (starting grad school in DC). Thanks for the invitation anyway. Hope you have a great time! --David Iberri | Talk June 30, 2005 16:22 (UTC)

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Thanks for organizing this. I can handle the hosting duties if you are hit by a bus or abducted by aliens. However I'll assume that you've got it under control until I don't hear from you. We can also split up some tasks. Cheers, -Willmcw June 30, 2005 21:02 (UTC)

i don't live anywhere near LA - sorry :) —kate

For my part, LV could be considered "near", but kind of a long drive! Stan 3 July 2005 12:26 (UTC)

Eric are we any closer to haveing a firm venue for this meetup? Wjbean 8 July 2005 16:04 (UTC)

thank you very much for inviting me. I was not aware of it. I very well may attend, if at all possible. I live in Ventura County, which is about an hour away from LA, so driving isn't much of an issue. Deus Homoni

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Thanks for hosting the meetup. I feel terrible that I couldn't come. More precisely, I couldn't come because I felt terrible. ("Stomach flu" is the polite term). Cheers, -Willmcw 19:20, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

How did you decide whom to invite to your L.A. meetup?

I am nowhere near L.A. Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 17:38, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

"User talk" bot

At the current moment, I'm undergoing to fix my other bots. I have no current time to meet your request. --AllyUnion (talk) 04:22, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I have some time to accomodate your request. I was thinking to create a subpage of, something like: User:NotificationBot/Los Angeles Meetup where it would use maybe a redirect to a page like Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Notification List and have a list of users for notification for the LA Meetup, and the message for the notification would be located at User:NotificationBot/Msg/Los Angeles Meetup. --AllyUnion (talk) 00:00, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Amiri Baraka

Hi Eric, thanks for your comments. I've posted a reply on the talk page. --Albrecht Conz 22:49, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Anon user on Sayyed page

Salut Eric.

Thanx for the message.

Me and User:SouthernComfort suspect that this anon user is the re-incarnation (if you will) of User:Mansour, who has been attacking not only me, but User:SouthernComfort, User:Zora, and User:SlimVirgin as well, under multiple anon covers (i.e. IP addresses). He has (and continues) to post under various names on the Afghanistan page, on Grand Ayatollah al-Shirazi and Bayazid Bastami among the other pages I recall. He sometimes uses names like Paul Chiu, and at other times, posts anonymously. I cant prove it though, But I have reason to believe that he is one editor, doing so. He is a pain in the rear, and he doesnt give up despite being warned by two admins. As they say: C'EST LA FIN DES HARICOTS.

Regards, --Zereshk 23:00, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Admin

Are you an admin? If so, I put up on WP:RM a while ago for a move of The Olympic Club to Olympic Club (as per WP:MOS). If not, can you forward this to relevant person(s)? Thank you. --fpo 01:20, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego Meetup on October 18 2005

Hello, Jimbo Wales will be in San Diego to attend OOPSLA and has agreed to come by and visit with the San Diego wikipedians. If you are interested, you will find more info on my talk page. Johntex\^talk 00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philippine-American_War&curid=184779&diff=31219220&oldid=31201917

Priests was plural...Travb 18:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for Wikification

Appreciate the help. Also clarified one of your clarifications. Mjformica 17:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Images from the World Factbook

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Arabic script

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Image copyright problem with Image:Neil Bush.jpg

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Participant alert regarding Wikiproject on Advertising

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Thanks!

You and many others (including me) tried for the millionth. Better luck on 2m! Liking your hair, I used to have hair that long until last month :) Nach0king 09:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:EricShalov1.jpg

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How can I be violating the Fair use policy if I never claimed that this was a fair-use image? This is a picture of myself that I took, I uploaded, and that I only use on my own user page. Why do I have to make it GFDL if it's in the User space?

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"non-transferrable" is not acceptable. "until the author chooses to delete this image" (i.e. Revocability) neither. --Abu Badali 17:55, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

RE: minor edits

Hmm... well usually I mark rearranging of birth info as minor, but for future edits I'll mark them as regular.--Fallout boy 02:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

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Stanley Random Chess

Eric, it seems that you want to delete this article more than most people, which puzzles me why you'd remove the {{afd1}} tag. I know you mean well, but there's a discussion about the article's deletion deletion here. Please do not remove the AfD heading in the future. Thanks! Isopropyl 14:34, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Nihilism

I think the expression in the Nietzsche section of Nihilism refers to an anecdote about Nietzsche actually hugging a horse, but you're right - it made no sense how it was written. -Seth Mahoney 01:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Meetup

Hi Eric,

We're having a meetup in Santa Barbara on Saturday at noon. I realize it's short notice, but hey, I'd love to see you there! Angela is in town for a conference. Come up if you can!  :-) Antandrus (talk) 00:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Another LA-area Wikipedia meetup?

There is a proposal for a 3rd LA-area meetup at Philippe's on Saturday, 24 June 2006. If you are interested in another meetup, please visit the proposal and comment on the date and location. ^BlankVerse 08:46, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Jullian Nava

Thanks for starting Julian Nava!--Rockero 19:46, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

West Essex Zapatistas

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Siege of Tenochtitlan

I've responded on Talk:List of wars and disasters by death toll. Good catch. —Viriditas | Talk 08:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Vishnu sahasranama/Full prayer

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Vishnu sahasranama/Full prayer, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Vishnu sahasranama/Full prayer. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. --Benn Newman 04:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Mexican copyrights

I did some research on the matter a few months ago because the copyright term in Mexico got extended from 75 to 100 years. I posted my finds in the talk page of the Copyrights page. The link to the archived post is here. In the specific case of the Presidencia pages, the photographs located at [3] have been released to the public domain. There's some other Presidencia page which releases podcasts under some Creative Commons license.

Unless a specific license is stated, all content should be licensed according to current Mexican copyright law regulations (quite similar to those in the US). As far as I know there is no fair use provision, but I'd need to go over the actual law to refresh my mind. Hope this helps! Regards, -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 23:43, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and yes. The Mexican copyright law article has been in the pipeline for a while. I should get around to write it already! -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 23:45, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Notability of Rakuto Kasei

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Hola de Mexique!

Merci pour un buen juego de ahedrez. Espero que podemos platicar otra vez. Mi correo electronico es eric at ericshalov.com. -Eric 09:33, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

hola che. volviendo de un wiki-break. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 17:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

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Eric Shalov

I knew it would only be a matter of time before Wikipedia admins found out that sock puppets had been editing Wikipedia articles- particularly those relating to socks, puppets, and sock puppets. Alas, I have been discovered, but I warn you that many other puppets are among us here, secretly promoting equal rights for cotton-based lifeforms through biased Wikipedia editing.

Sock puppets of the world, unite! - Eric 17:22, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Novopetrovsk et al.

Eric, please do not use random Internet sources as your primary reference and do read policies applicable to Russian place names (WP:RUS and WP:NC:CITY#Russia being the most important) before you continue editing in this area. I realize that your edits were in good faith, but, frankly, they are doing more harm than good as they are in complete disregard of existing naming scheme and thus require extensive cleanup. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, I'll be more than happy to help. I have access to an extensive database of all things related to Russian administrative, territorial, and municipal divisions, which is directly based on relevant Russian legislative documents, so it is far superior to and much more accurate than anything you can freely find on the Internet. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:27, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I make an effort to use the best sources available, but in originally writing the Novopetrovsk article, my web research revealed little information on the subject. I am curious, though, why, of the four places I found named Novopetrovsk (2 current, 2 that have since changed their names), why, when my article was turned into a disambiguation page, the two towns STILL called Novopetrovsk were ERASED from mention, while the two that no longer hold that name were preserved. Also, several details about their locations (longitude/latitude coordinates, altitudes, relative positions) and informative External Links that I found were erased. Strange, no? Perhaps you can help to augment the [now] four short Novopetrovsk articles, using that extensive database of yours? They are mostly just stubs, and desperately require the attention of an expert in the subject. - Eric 17:34, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Eric, with all due respect, the sources you used are hardly the "best ones available". Even Russian official websites, although often sloppy, inaccurate, and based on obsolete sources are a better choice than the collections of randomly romanized Russian placenames compiled by unknown people for unknown purposes based on unknown sources, such as fallingrain or airport-images.

Now, to address your concerns from above (even though I explained my reasons at least twice in the edit summaries of my reverts).

1. ...why, of the four places I found named Novopetrovsk (2 current, 2 that have since changed their names), why, when my article was turned into a disambiguation page, the two towns STILL called Novopetrovsk were ERASED from mention, while the two that no longer hold that name were preserved. Two of the four places you found are not called "Novopetrovsk" (Новопетровск) and never have been. The one in Amur Oblast is called "Novopetrovka" (Новопетровка), and the one in Bashkortostan is called "Novopetrovskoye" (Новопетровское). Granted, these names all root from "New Peter", but they are not identical and are not romanized the same. Hence, I renamed the articles accordingly, and moved the mentions from Novopetrovsk disambiguation page to Novopetrovsky and Novopetrovka disambiguation pages. The two places that used to be named "Novopetrovsk" were left on the Novopetrovsk disambiguation page. Also, note that all three disambiguation pages are still interlinked via a "see also" link, so readers unsure of exact spelling could check them out if they need to. Finally, I should mention that creating an article that describes completely unrelated places sharing similar names (as you did here) is completely unacceptable; this is what disambiguation pages are for. Information on individual places should go to individual articles.
2. several details about their locations (longitude/latitude coordinates, altitudes, relative positions) and informative External Links that I found were erased. They were not erased; I formatted them to follow the Manual of Style guidelines. Coordinates were converted to {{coord}} template (and now show in the top right corner of the article); altitudes and relative positions were simply formatted to follow the style used in articles on other Russian geo-locations. I did add the {{fact}} tags to them, because the sources you used can hardly be called reliable, but I did not delete the information because I do not have anything readily available to replace it. As for the external links, those were just links to maps, which are redundant once the coordinates are properly formatted. If you click on the coordinates, you'll land on a page that offers a great variety of links to maps of that location.
3. Perhaps you can help to augment the [now] four short Novopetrovsk articles, using that extensive database of yours? They are mostly just stubs, and desperately require the attention of an expert in the subject. Just because they are stubs does not mean we have to put them in one heap because they have similar names. Like I said above, individual entities should have individual articles. As geographical locations are not subject to notability criteria, it does not matter how short the stub is; it will be kept as long as the existence of that location is verifiable. As for my database, it does not contain information about Russian inhabited localities, it contains a list of them, as well as metadata about the relations between them (e.g., to which district a village belongs or into which rural and urban settlements a district is divided, or to which municipal district an administrative district corresponds, etc.) It is an indispensable tool for verification of existence of a place, for pinpointing its location relative to higher administrative and municipal units, for finding out its status and designation, for determining its official name and its romanization, but it is not really of much use for actual content creation. For that, I'd have to do a web or a library search just as you would, although I would not hurry to add every piece of information I find on a random web site without first verifying that site's credentials.

I hope this answers your questions. If not, please let me know, I'll clarify further. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:14, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

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Category:Original images made by Eric Shalov

Hi,

I'm wondering, would you object to moving Category:Original images made by Eric Shalov out of Category:Wikipedia images? I think Category:Wikipedia images is useful as a central category for finding other broad categories, and though your images are nice ones, I don't it's helpful navigation-wise to put them in the top-level category ... a bit like having local skepticism in Wikipedia:Contents (as an extreme example).

Your call, really -- if you'd like to keep it as is, that's okay by me, but if you don't care one way or the other I'd suggest moving it out of the main category.

Happy editing (or photographing)!

— xDanielx ^T/_C\^R 07:58, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I could care less, either way. I had no intention of having that category appear in other categories. Apparently some user named BrownHairedGirl put my "private" category in Category:Wikipedia images for some reason. I only created Category:Original images made by Eric Shalov so I could have a little gallery for tracking my own images amidst the current ongoing deletionist war on Wikipedia images that has destroyed almost all the work I've done over the years, uploading others' fair-use images. What a shame. Why can't they just host Wikipedia in a jurisdiction that doesn't honor international intellectual property laws? - Eric (talk) 09:37, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying — I didn't realize it was someone else who placed the category. I see where you're coming from — as someone with an interest (though by no means expertise) in law I'm sure we could relax WP:NFCC quite substantially before having serious reason for concern, but I guess I can understand the Foundation's stringency given that they don't have any money. (Not that it's all the Foundation's fault, but it seems like they inspired a lot of image deletionism.) Maybe they should just move to Russia... or better yet, international seas. Too bad Antarctica was eaten! — xDanielx ^T/_C\^R 11:39, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

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Regarding your recent edits at Mexico City

Idon't know if you inserted the sentence, or if you simply opposed its deletion. Starting a sentence with Perhaps, and making an unsubtantiated claim, it unencyclopedic. You claim that there is a source, and the claims are true, but there is no source/reference following the statement. (Please review: WP:CITE and WP:Verifiability, threshold for inclusion is not "truth" but verifiability). Moreover, while second-hand smoke is undoubtedly unhealthy, the paragraph is talking about air pollution in a metropolitan area through car and factory emissions. I have never heard a phrase that claimed that smoking is a significant environmental pollutant(as implied by the hypothesis [it is, at most, a hypothesis, not a fact if the sentence starts with a "perhaps"]). It reminds me of the "funny tax" in New Zealand to cattle raisers because the flatulences of the cows were "polluting" the environment. But at least, the "tax" was verifiable, even if the levels of pollutants caused by flatulences are hard to measure.

I added the {{cn}} template that can stay for a while. If no reliable and verifiable source is given, I believe the statement should be deleted.

Cheers, --the Dúnadan 17:21, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Someone else had writen that on high-smog days, the city takes measures, such as double hoy no circulo, and they cited it. This is true, I live in Mexico City, I know. Someone else deleted that statement, along with a statement that cigarettes contribute to pollution. I may have been in error in restoring the entire section (which I considered wrongly deleted), and not just the thing about hoy no circulo. The cigarettes thing should go (unless cited), but the rest was good stuff. - Eric (talk) 01:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh, OK. Thanks for clarifying. Yes, indeed the double day without a car is a measure taken on high pollution days. I thought you were defending the thesis regarding cigarettes. I'll delete the sentence regarding the cigarretes then.--the Dúnadan 13:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

It's an amusing idea, though- could 10 million people's cigarette smoke really have an effect? I suspect that cigarette smoke could only have low-altitude particulate matter (PM) effects on air quality- I dont think a ton of hydrocarbons are released from the smoke. Who knows, though- it's illegal to operate fireplaces in the city.. - Eric (talk) 17:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

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LA-area Meetup: Saturday, November 19

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	Great American Wikinic at Pan-Pacific Park
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P.S.: see also Outline of energy

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You're invited! FemTech Edit-a-Thon at Claremont Graduate University

October 26 - FemTech Edit-a-Thon & Roundtable - You are invited!

Everyone is invited to the first FemTech Edit-a-Thon & Roundtable at Claremont Graduate University on October 26 from 3-6 pm. The event will open with a roundtable discussion about feminism and anti-racist technology projects, followed by an edit-a-thon focusing on feminists & women in science. Experienced Wikipedians will be on hand to support new editors. We hope you can join us! Sign up here - see you there! 01:06, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

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Edit-a-thons at UC Riverside

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March 9 edit-a-thon at MOCA in downtown LA

LA Meetup: March 9 edit-a-thon at MOCA

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May 10 Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon in LA

LA Meetup: May 10 Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon

Dear fellow Wikipedian, You have been invited to a meetup and edit-a-thon at the Junipero Serra Branch of the LA Public Library (4607 S. Main St., 90037) on Saturday, May 10, 2014 from 10 am to 4 pm! This event is sponsored by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association and aims to improve coverage of Asian Pacific American topics, particularly as they relate to southern California. Please RSVP here if you're interested. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:11, 30 April 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

LA edit-a-thons on May 23 and 31

LA meetups: Adrianne Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thons on May 23 and May 31

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L.A. events on June 21 and July 6

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File:356 S Mission.jpg Gallery at 356 S. Mission Rd. Get hungry for the Wiknic! Dear fellow Wikipedian, The L.A. Wikipedia community has two exciting events coming up in the next few weeks: an edit-a-thon sponsored by the online magazine East of Borneo, and the fourth annual Los Angeles Wiknic! The East of Borneo event is an edit-a-thon that aims to build a better history of art in Southern California. This next chapter of their Unforgetting L.A. series will take place on Saturday, June 21, 2014 from 12pm to 5pm at 356 S. Mission Rd. (map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. For more info, see eastofborneo.org/unforgetting. The Wiknic is a part of the nationwide Great American Wiknic. We'll be grilling, getting to know each other better, and building the L.A. Wikipedia community! The event is tentatively planned for Pan-Pacific Park (map) and will be held on Sunday, July 6, 2014 from 9:30am to 4pm or so. Please RSVP and volunteer to bring food or drinks if possible! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:59, 11 June 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon on September 6

Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon: Saturday, September 6 from 11am to 4pm

Dear fellow Wikipedian, You are invited to meet up with online magazine East of Borneo for an edit-a-thon to build a better history of art in Southern California. This next event in their Unforgetting L.A. series will take place on Saturday, September 6, 2014 from 11am - 4pm at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena (map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. For more info, see eastofborneo.org/unforgetting. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

L.A. Meetup on September 21

The 20th Los Angeles meetup: Sunday, September 21 from 11am to 4pm

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L.A. events on October 7 and 16

Upcoming L.A. events: Wik-Ed Women edit-a-thon (10/7, 6-10pm) and UCR edit-a-thon (10/16, 10am-4pm)

Dear fellow Wikipedian, The Southern California Wikipedia community has two exciting events coming up in the next few weeks: a Wik-Ed Women editing session downtown designed to combat systemic bias, and a Wikipedia Loves Libraries event at UC Riverside! Wik-Ed Women is a new monthly series of informal Wikipedia editing sessions for Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. This second session will take place on Tuesday, October 7 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. The UC Riverside Wikipedia Loves Libraries event is an edit-a-thon targeting articles related to UC Riverside, SoCal, and beyond. Join students and faculty learning how to edit! This event will take place on Thursday, October 16 from 10am to 4pm at UCR's Tomás Rivera Library. Again, RSVPs are requested here. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:47, 29 September 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

SoCal edit-a-thons on October 21 and 25

Upcoming SoCal edit-a-thons: UC Riverside (10/21, 10am-3pm) and Unforgetting L.A. (10/25, 9am-5pm)

Dear fellow Wikipedian, The Southern California Wikipedia community has two more events scheduled for the month of October: a water-related edit-a-thon at UC Riverside, and an Unforgetting L.A. event at the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar in conjunction with L.A. as Subject! As part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries and to celebrate Open Access Week, UC Riverside is participating alongside other Western Waters Digital Library members in an edit-a-thon focusing on water issues. Join students and faculty learning how to edit! This event will take place on Tuesday, October 21 from 10am to 3pm at UCR's Orbach Science Library (map). RSVPs are requested here. The Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon and training workshop will take place at the 9th annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, and is hosted by online magazine East of Borneo in partnership with L.A. as Subject. Join us on Saturday, October 25 from 9am to 5pm at the USC Doheny Memorial Library (map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:06, 17 October 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation

Hi Eric. It seems as though Rabbi Shlomo Riskin's The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) wiki article has been nominated for deletion. There is also a long and heated discussion in progress these days in regards to the German article as well. I am wondering what can be done to fight this. Your help would be much appreciated. Thank you. --Omer Toledano (talk) 19:20, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

L.A. event on November 11, and a new Facebook group

Wik-Ed Women editing session (11/11, 6-10pm), and join our new Facebook group!

Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has a new Facebook group! Become a member to keep up to date with all of our upcoming events and to connect with local Wikipedians! In addition, we have one upcoming event: the third Wik-Ed Women editing session will take place on Tuesday, November 11 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:20, 4 November 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

L.A. event on November 11 CANCELED

Wik-Ed Women editing session CANCELED

Due to health issues affecting one of the organizers, the third Wik-Ed Women editing session (originally scheduled for Tuesday, November 11) has been canceled. We expect the series to pick up again sometime in December. Sorry for the inconvenience, and hope to see you in the near future! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:08, 7 November 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

L.A. edit-a-thon this Sunday, December 14

L.A. meetup: December 14 edit-a-thon at the California African American Museum

Dear fellow Wikipedian, East of Borneo's "Unforgetting L.A." edit-a-thon series continues this weekend at the California African American Museum! Please join us this Sunday, December 14 from 11am to 4pm. Beginners welcome! You'll learn to create new articles that improve Wikipedia's coverage of African American art in Los Angeles, past and present. Please click here for full event details and to RSVP if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:25, 10 December 2014 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

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L.A. event on Tuesday, January 20

Wik-Ed Women editing session (1/20, 6-10pm)

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LA edit-a-thons on February 14, 17, and 21

Redondo Loves Wikipedia (2/14), Wik-Ed Women (2/17), and Unforgetting LA at the Getty (2/21)!

Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has three events in mid-February -- please consider attending! First, we have a Valentine's Day edit-a-thon appropriately named Redondo Loves Wikipedia, which will take place at the Redondo Beach Public Library from 10am to 1pm on Saturday, February 14. Join library staff, the Redondo Beach Historical Society, and others to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of Redondo Beach! Second, we have a Wik-Ed Women editing session on Tuesday, February 17 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. Third, we have an Unforgetting LA event put on by East of Borneo in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute. Come help improve Wikipedia's coverage of LA design and architecture, and have an awesome free day at the museum -- parking will be validated for edit-a-thon participants! If you'd like to use particular books from GRI's great collection, be sure to email before 2/13 (instructions at event page). And be sure to check out our main meetup page, because we already have three SoCal events scheduled for early March! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:58, 5 February 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

LA edit-a-thons on March 18 (tomorrow!) and 28

Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thon (3/18), Redondo Loves Wikipedia (3/28)

Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has two events in this second half of March -- please consider attending! First, there is a memorial edit-a-thon in honor of the prolific LA Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz, which is being held downtown on March 18 (tomorrow!) from noon to 8pm as a part of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' annual conference. Please drop by to contribute your own work or teach other users how to write for Wikipedia. Second, there will be an event at the Redondo Beach Public Library (following up on last month's session), in collaboration with the Redondo Beach Historical Society. Please join us from 10am to noon on Saturday, March 28 at the main branch of the Redondo Beach Public Library! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:40, 17 March 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

5th Annual Wiknic

5th Annual Wiknic (Saturday, July 11, 2015, ~9:30am-4pm)

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Wikinic rescheduled

5th Annual Wiknic rescheduled to Saturday, July 25, 2015, ~9:30am-4pm

Due to a conflict with the Redondo Loves Wikipedia edit-a-thon, the fifth annual Los Angeles Wiknic has been rescheduled. As before, the location will be at Pan-Pacific Park (map) and will be held on Saturday, July 25, 2015 from 9:30am to 4pm or so. Please RSVP and volunteer to bring food or drinks if possible! I hope to see you there! —howcheng {chat} - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:28, 7 July 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

This Thursday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center

You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center in LA on October 15! (drop-in any time, 10am-4pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:25, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Wik-Ed Women Session #5

Wik-Ed Women Session #5

Dear fellow Wikipedian, I would like to personally invite you to the March edition of the Wik-Ed Women meetup, which will take place on March 15, from 6-10 in the evening. It will occur at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90021 (downtown LA -- map). The building has a pink top with old signage for American Accessories, Inc. dba Princess Accessories (Photos [PDF]). There is on-site parking in the back, which also has an entrance. If you cannot attend in person, you are more than willing to work remotely, as we appreciate all help that you can provide. Finally, here is a link to the Facebook event, in case you want to invite friends, as we are always looking for new editors to help expand coverage of women on Wikipedia! I hope to see you there! Cosmicphantom (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:54, 15 March 2016 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Proposed deletion of Charlie Grosso

The article Charlie Grosso has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Horribly promotional article with no independent sources. If she were clearly notable, I'd be inclined to WP:TNT myself, but the sources I'm seeing largely have a PR vibe, and mostly e.g. interviews on blogs. At best this is a WP:TNT scenario. If someone does find reliable sources (WP:RS) to satisfy WP:GNG, no objection to recreation. If deleted I'll likely add to the A+F list to see if sources can be found to write a neutral article at that point.

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Minor fixes to userscripts

Hey Eric Shalov, it looks like you've got a user script in use by others that has bare javascript global wg-style variables. These are phab:T72470 deprecated, and while I don't think there's a timeline for their removal, it's been that way for a while. It's usually a straightforward fix, all uses need to use mw.config.get, such as converting wgTitle to mw.config.get('wgTitle'). There's some more info at mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)#Global wg variables. The page is User:Eric Shalov/tracker.js; I can take care of cleaning them up for you if you like, just let me know! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:03, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

 Done ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:54, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

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LA Meetup: February 17, 2024

Edit-a-thon and Wikipedia Day Celebration

Please join Wikimedians of Los Angeles on Saturday, February 17 from 12:00 to 4:00 pm for a Los Angeles and West Hollywood-themed edit-a-thon at the West Hollywood Library. (For the details and to sign up, see Wikipedia:Meetup/Los Angeles/February 2024.) We'll also be celebrating Wikipedia's 23rd birthday/Wikipedia Day. (There will be cake!) We hope to see you there! JSFarman via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2024 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here. To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

Jennifer Beveridge moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Jennifer Beveridge. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Broc (talk) 07:55, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

June 8, 2024

The Return of the LA Wiknic

Eat, drink, and bask in the glory of Los Angeles in early June at the 9th not-annual Wiknic! Saturday, June 8 from 11:30 to 2:30 pm Pan Pacific Park 7600 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90036 Get the details and RSVP here. (It's a potluck. There's a wish list on the meetup page.) Get the details and join WikiLA here. To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Jennifer Beveridge

Hello, Eric Shalov. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Jennifer Beveridge, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 08:08, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon August 24

August 24: Not just an edit-a-thon, an edit-a-thon in Manhattan Beach. Please join WikiLA at an edit-a-thon to improve and create articles related to marine life and the ocean in the Los Angeles area. Inspiration courtesy of the public library in Manhattan Beach, one of SoCal's most beautiful coastal communities. Saturday, August 24 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Manhattan Beach Public Library, 1320 Highland Ave., Manhattan Beach 90266 Get the details and RSVP here To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups remove.your name, from this list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:56, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Jennifer Beveridge

Hello, Eric Shalov. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Jennifer Beveridge".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:49, 6 September 2024 (UTC)