User talk:CorbieVreccan

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8. Other things that happened November 22, 2006 - January 3, 2007

Thank you for your support

Thank you for your support in the RfA on my behalf. It is an honor to have received your expression of confidence. To be chosen as an administrator requires a high level of confidence by a broad section of the community. Although I received a great deal of support, at this time I do not hold the level of confidence required, and the RfA did not pass. It is my wish that I will continue to deserve your confidence. Sincerely, --BostonMA ^talk 16:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm sure you'll breeze through the next one. I look forward to working together in the future. I think you'll do just fine with the extra buttons. :-) ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:25, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Kathryn

I hope I spelled that right:), it's a very important name for me.

Anyhow - welcome to Wikiproject Religion! There is a lot to do there. Also, consider joining the neutrality project. We could use folks like you.

Today is the Mahayana Buddhist New Year, so here is a complimentary card made by me. Hope you like it!

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  Please click on useless image and all my useless Wiki-links. Happy New Year from a complete maniac. Nina Odell 19:14, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome and the lovely card, Nina. I particularly enjoyed your tips for angry new admins. I'll check out the neutrality project and see if I can help. Happy Buddhist New Year to you, too! ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:25, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

You clicked on the links! You clicked on the links! Thank you! Feel free to shameless thieve from me and share with anyone who needs a whacking stick. Nina Odell 12:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Same Sex Marriage User Box

Hi...I just wanted to say that I appreciate the humor in your same sex marriage user box. Also, I note the good work you are doing in wikipedia and just wanted to say thanks and hi. --Kukini 05:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Why thank you! That means a lot to me. What a pleasant change to check in from CVU patrol and see something kind (instead of retaliatory rampaging vandals who want to tell me all about their penises). And it's a good day when my romantic challenges can educate, inform, and inspire... *cue dreamy muzak*... *snerk* :-) ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:25, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Glad I made you smile too. Cheers, --Kukini 16:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for joining the project!

Thank you for having joined the WikiProject Religion! It is basically only a recently reformed group, and, as you probably could tell from the project page, and there is still a lot that needs to be done. Any help you might be able to give in any area of the project would be more than welcome. I noticed in particular that you expressed interest in the Paganism, Neopaganism, and some of the traditions of the African Diaspora and the First Nations. You have no idea how happy I am to see that! Our aims are to improve and maintain the articles relating to religion which do not fall within the scope of any of the other projects, as well as to potentially create new task forces or other projects to deal specifically with those other faiths. There are several articles which relate to one or more of these traditions which do not fall within the specific focus of any other projects, and we are more than grateful to have anyone who is knowledgable about those subjects. I have just now begun to catalogue all the relevant articles, and am finding that there is a huge number of articles which deal with religion subjects in general, without any particular focus on any specific religions. Any contributions you might be able to make on these articles, or any other articles that might interest you, would be more than welcome. Also, as indicated on the project page, we are hoping to create dedicated subprojects dealing with any faiths which have enough members to support one, and I hope that we may well have enough members interested in some of your interests to create subprojects or stand-alone projects dealing with them. If you should ever have any questions, or wish any sort of assistance, please do not hesitate to let me or the other members of the project know. Happy editing, and thanks again for joining the project! Badbilltucker 14:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year, Kathryn! Judging from your userboxes, I think we have a few interests in common. :-) I noticed that you were listed under the League of copyeditors and I am in urgent need for someone to help me with copyediting of the Ohio Wesleyan University. Would you have some time for it? Thank you so much for your time!!! WikiprojectOWU 22:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Admin jobs

Hi Kathryn!

Please accept my apologies for the very much delayed reply to your message (I'm a bit unwell and have been on something of an on-again-off-again Wikibreak).

Yes, non-admins can contribute to WP:RfA discussions.

In fact, I'm a big believer in the idea that non-admins should do - and be encouraged to do - any task on Wikipedia that doesn't require the couple of extra buttons that being an admin gives you. Adminship is really no big deal - it's two extra options (protect and delete) and one extra function (block). That's all it comes down to.

Anything you see on Wikipedia - literally anything - that doesn't require the pushing of one of those buttons is something that everybody on Wikipedia should be doing. So discuss away on WP:RfA, close obvious "keeps" at the end of their time on WP:AfD, voice your opinions wherever an opportunity presents, and "act like an admin should" whenever you have reason to.

You'll just be benefitting Wikipedia by doing so. Happy editing! ⇨REDVEЯS 20:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your informative and kind response, Redvers. Please rest up and get well, we need you here! Slàn! ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 22:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you very much for protecting the Pupil (band) article. (bows my head) Moonwalkerwiz 07:13, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Random Smiley

User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward2Jerry lavoie 22:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Seeing the ogham font

Hi. I noticed this message you left on the talk page of the Ogham article. I had this problem too, and I've just had a quick look for the solution today. A nice Alan Wood-shaped bloke helped me solve it. You just need to install one of the fonts from the list (some are no longer available, and some you have to register for or pay for). It worked for me. :) You probably have it sorted already, as I see you left your message at the end of November. --Mal 11:28, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Award of a Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		The Barnstar of Diligence is hereby awarded in recognition of extraordinary scrutiny, patience, and community service. Awarded by Addhoc

Thank you! You are very kind, and it does my heart good to have my work noticed. :-) ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for editing that atricle with false information.

My bad. I was just trying to prevent anyone else from listening to that horrible spin off of rap. Snap music is destroying rap music. Try and tell me you (or anyone around you) would listen to or enjoy snap. Yes, that is the point. The ends justify the means in this case. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.214.83.160 (talk) 04:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC).

Welcome to WikiProject LGBT studies!

Hi, CorbieVreccan, welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies! We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and intersex people. LGBT Studies covers people, culture, history, and related subjects concerning sexual identity and gender identity - this covers a lot of ground and your help is appreciated! Some points that may be helpful: Our main aim is to help improve articles, so if someone seeks help, please try to assist if you are able. Likewise feel free to ask for help, advice or clarification. Many important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it. If you have another language besides English, please consider adding yourself to our translation section, to help us improve our foreign LGBT topics. The project has several ongoing and developing activities, such as article quality assessment, peer review and a project-wide article collaboration, all of which you are welcome to take part in. We also have a unique program to improve our lower quality articles, Jumpaclass, so please consider signing up there. If you're going to stay awhile, please create a square in our project quilt! You can put anything you want in it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. And once again - Welcome!

-- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 05:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue III - February 1, 2007

Announcement: If someone requests help or feedback on an article, please try your hardest to help them out if you are able. Thank you. Project News The LGBT Portal has once again been revamped and a work rota started. Efforts towards Featured Portal status are slowly coming together. The assessment system has been a great success, we have tagged over 4000 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system. The Translation department has changed its focus, to LGBT articles about non-English topics and people on which there may be more information on the relevant foreign Wikipedia. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English. Jumpaclass is picking up slowly, with nine people having entered. With over 2000 stubs we need to improve our article quality. Please sign up and get it going! Challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub! There is an ongoing discussion about the current LGBT categorisation system here, here, and a little bit here. A special page has now been set up here to deal with this. A Watchlist has been set up to monitor controversial and/or highly vandalised articles. It can also be used for article disputes, just add a note explaining the nature of the dispute. With the influx of so many active members, there is now enough support for a LGBT studies peer review, which may be found here. It's in the beta phase at the moment, so bear with us if we make any mistakes. Feel free to peer review any articles you have been working on. It was agreed this month to start reducing the uses of the Notice board, as many members felt that it was not effective. An open tasks template has been created, bringing together important announcements, FAC/FARs, Peer reviews, XfDs, the COTM, and requested articles. You may desire to watchlist it. A Deletion sorting subpage is also now working to bring together XfDs - this should be bot-driven, but we have not currently tagged enough articles to make this fully automated, so please update the list with any LGBT-related XfDs you come across. Article news Two articles were recently shepherded through the Featured Article process by two of our members - Same-sex marriage in Spain and The Well of Loneliness. Congratulations go to (respectively) Raystorm and Celithemis! Member News We more than doubled our membership this month! 53 new users have joined the Wikiproject: Aleta, Koweja, Profriend, Andrewn, Carolynparrishfan, Cpnlsn88, Brian1979, Tullerk, Garydw, Ganymead, Celithemis, Burnley, Lquilter, Parammon, Forsakendaemon, Allyn, bcatt, Dfeuer, Raystorm, Fabienne1, Esprix, Antanta, Janusvulcan, Elizabeth Lund, Ashleyvh, E. Sn0 =31337=, MiraLuka, White hotel, Zythe, Athena2006, CosmicWaffles, Emiellaiendiay, Musimax, AlexReynolds, Swollib, Nield, Kriza, 100110100, Andral, thickslab, Ronline, Iamvered, FisherQueen, William percy, Viannah, Ssbohio, Ali-oops, Anyaanomaly, Revolución, Ender2155, LuciferMorgan, Kathryn NicDhàna, and Artgoyle. Please make them feel welcome!

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Harley Reagan and Quodoushka

Hi Kathryn,

Thank you for taking an interest in my recent edits. I'm new to this wiki thing, but as a computer programmer/user since the dawn of time (or at least since 1973) and a former BBS operator (when BBSes were systems, not web apps), I am *very* interested in becoming good at this and would welcome whatever help you may offer.

More to the point--I am a personal friend of Harley Reagan and am interested in making his entry, and the Quodoushka entry, neutral and accurate and then preventing vandalism.

Dr. Reagan is a controversial guy who does controversial things -- and he has a long-time policy of refusing to dignify his attackers by with a response. This, of course, does nothing to discourage them and with the advent and popularity of wikipedia they now have a platform that can no longer be ignored. I have begun the process of working with him and his organization to get permission to fix this and I belive I will be able to do that in the next month or so.

So, I'll need a little time to put together content and get permission to post it. Then I may need a little help driving the wikipedia -- It's very powerful and the interface can be more than a little confusing at times.

Thanks again for your help,

--Bearheart 17:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC) (aka Bill Weinman, http://bw.org/)

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League of Copyeditors participation drive!

Dear League member,

We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you can, please help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

• Select an article to copy-edit from the backlog. After your copy-edit, list the article in the articles ready for final proofread section.
• Select a different article to proofread from the articles ready for final proofread section.

Thanks for your help! BuddingJournalist 08:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Irish Republican navbox?

Hi Kathryn, two things:

1. Failte! Welcome to WP:IRA!
2. You mentioned on the MfD page that we had an Irish Republican navbox; are you referring to Template:IRAs? Or another? If it's another one, I'd sure appreciate a link to it. Erin Go Bragh^talk 09:22, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

WP:LGBT Coordinator Election Notice This is just a quick, automated note to let you know that there is an election being conducted over the next 7 days for the position of "Coordinator" for the LGBT WikiProject. Your participation is requested. -- SatyrTN (talk · contribs)

im very sorry

Dear Kathryn, I am very sorry about the edit that my son made on this website. he has abused his privilege to use his computer. I completely agrre with you about the itd time to straiten up. I think he gets the idea though. Thank you for your time and Jordan is also sorry for the bad edit. ( I know this might seem a little bit harsh but I work with websites and I know just how annoying it is)

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.166.77.24 (talk) 06:40, 12 February 2007 (UTC).

Thanks

Thanks Kathryn ;) 86.42.176.24 22:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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