User talk:Spe88

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I am particularly interested in seeing a young homeschooler involved on Wikipedia. My wife was homeschooled, and we intend to do the same for our children. I intend for Wikipedia to be a significant tool in their education.

Jdavidb 15:49, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Response

Hello. In case you are unaware, I have responded to your commment on my talk page. You can add pages you edit, including user talk pages, to your watchlist so you can see when people respond to comments you post elsewhere. Jdavidb 16:33, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Pesticide naming conventions

Hi. I noticed that you made an edit to the Pesticide article in which you changed some links. I'm not sure if you know this, but generally on Wikipedia we use the singular form of things like pesticides and make redirects for the plural forms of the names. Bonus Onus July 5, 2005 20:13 (UTC)

Semi-acoustic Guitar

I wondered if this was any different than an acoustic electric. Feel free to discuss on the talk page if you have any input. Friday (talk) 18:50, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Peer review

After Tregoweth responded to my peer review request on his talk page by cleaning up the article on The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, I am asking you to see whether this will qualify for featured status. Leave your comments in the peer review page; feel free to read my comments for its improvement.

I am asking you, because it's one of your favourite things from your past (as stated on your user page).

I expect a response from you in a good while, if I can. --Slgrandson 21:10, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Homeschooling project

Hello, My name Master Scott Hall (you can call me Scott). I am relatively new contributing to Wikipedia, though I have been a user of it for some time. I am currently soliciting for interest in a Wikiproject that I have proposed on the subject of homeschooling. Before finding Wikipedia, my wife and I were seriously considering, but not quite convinced, to home educate our children.

After discovering the depth, scope, and long-term goals of Wikipedia, as well as the individuals driving it, I am convinced that WP has the potential to revolutionize homeschooling. I am also convinced that home education is the right choice for my family. I have, however, been somewhat discouraged by the oversight of home education in most of the education related projects on WP. There are many potential reasons for this discrepency, but I have resolved to try to do something about it.

Although I personally have very limited experience in building complex Wikiprojects, -templates, -portals, etc., I am confident that the right team can be assembled to tackle these issues. I would like to invite you to join this effort to make Wikipedia the resource for the home education of our children. If you are interested, please visits the temporary project page I have set up. Thank you --Master Scott Hall 00:08, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Update: The proposed project on Homeschooling was met with a very positive response. As a result, the project has been ugraded to an official WikiProject and can be found at WikiProject Alternative education. We have several experienced Wikipedians on board, as well as some new faces. We still need contributors with backgrounds in education, education theory and philosophy, and specific alternative education methods, such as homeschooling, charter schools, and E-learning from both teacher and student perspectives. There is also a lack of quality resources regarding anti-alternative education issues. If are interested in contributing or just have an interest, please visit the project page, or if you prefer, ask us a question. Thank you again, Master Scott Hall 18:55, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Dittoboy aka Bar-Ilan vandal

Could you add a description of this vandal's activities on Wikicities to the following investigation: user:Woggly/Bar-Ilan_vandal Thanks. --woggly 08:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries

Thanks, helpful comments. I developed it from stub. I will try harder on the wikification if no-one else does. Your further comments on 'over-categorisation' might be helpful, perhaps wkfn will improve this? The mecha/mechwarrior culture is extensive and the game is complex. I tried to give a mere flavour of this, thus I don't really agree about 'fancruft', maybe too many links.

From my knowledge of video-game culture, I don't think it would be correct to leave out what makes the game significant: Longevity/persistence (since 2002 is a long time for a modern game); active community (for a non-[MMORPG]), Microsoft connection, unusual elements of choice and strategy for a combat game etc. I hope you agree that an interactive, online game can't be discussed in the same way as a film.

Centrepull 23:29, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikia request

Hi, can you check your Film Guide talk page? Thanks! - Nhprman ^List 15:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:7ziplogo.png

Thanks for uploading Image:7ziplogo.png. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self-no-disclaimers}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Novell Logo.gif)

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Images

Hi there, I noticed a userbox you created about images and generally your stance on images. I agree completely, in fact I'm now be censored for viewing my opinion of BetacommandBot via a harmless userbox of my own. Maybe you would like to check the discussion here Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Bleveret/Userbox/BCBruin I could do with some support :( --Bleveret (talk) 16:02, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject homeschooling

Hi Spe88!

I noticed you were a member of WikiProject Alternative Education, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Homeschooling. In this "WikiProject," we have been together working on the collaboration of Homeschooling-related articles. As a member, I really hope you can join, and let me know if you need any help signing up or with anything else. If you have any questions about the project you can ask at the project's talk page. Cheers! RC-0722 ^communicator/_kills 23:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alternative education

There has been a proposal brought forward [1] regarding a merger of WikiProject Alternative Education, and as you are member of that project, I am notifying you. Thanks. Twenty Years 13:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Spe88/GoTo.Main Page listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect User:Spe88/GoTo.Main Page. Since you had some involvement with the User:Spe88/GoTo.Main Page redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 09:09, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:15, 30 November 2015 (UTC)