User talk:Joe Quick

Joe Quick

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Thanks!

Thanks so much for fixing my major boo-boos. Perhaps some day someone could show me how to do this rather than depending on the kindness of others.Mary Ash 20:48, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem. What you did was almost right, but then it looks like you tried to fix a mistake and wound up with a whole string of redirects. To make an archive, first move your talk page to the archive at Talk:Your_Name/Archive_X where X is the number of the archive. Then go back to your talk page (make sure it is actually the talk page, since it will be set to redirect to the new archive) and replace the redirect with {{archive box|auto=long}}. Does that make sense? -Joe Quick 21:33, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

It sort of makes sense. I'll have my kids take a look at what you wrote. I'm sure they can help me, if not I'll ask for once again. Many thanks. BTW just made some yummy red pepper jelly that I plan to freeze in my new freezer. Life is yummy!!Mary Ash 23:59, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Scary synchronicity

About an hour ago, I finished indexing a book that contained a reference to Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, the same book you cited in a footnote to your Vernacular article. Cue the Twilight Zone music! Bruce M. Tindall 21:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm actually reading Anderson right now. Or I should be. I think this is now the third time I've read it for one course or another, so it's hard to stay focused... -Joe Quick 15:29, 24 January 2011 (CST)

Suppose that *I* were reading The Roots of Coincidence by Arthur Koestler right now -- what would *that* signify? Hayford Peirce 21:43, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Just another branch of coincidence, I suppose. ;) --Joe Quick 21:50, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Approval Manager

Hi, Joe. I have asked Matt to rename the account (no "s"). As for the approval process: I have not yet installed the templates for advertising and managing the process, but should have them ready soon. --Peter Schmitt 01:19, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

The account is renamed. You'll need to sign in through the new account name from now on. If you need me to do something with the old account page, let me know. D. Matt Innis 01:29, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks. I'm studying the new approval procedures so I can get things rolling soon. -Joe Quick 15:32, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

And, may I say - Welcome back. There is hope after all. Let me know if there is anything I can do to make your job easier. D. Matt Innis 22:22, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I guess the best thing you could do is to call for review whenever you come across an article that ought to be approved. I think I'm going to archive the "Ready for Approval" page and start fresh with a subpage of the Approval Manager account but I'm not sure just yet. I'll make sure you all know how to get my attention once I've studied the new approval mechanisms and the templates are ready to go.

What do you think about a push to reapprove currently approved articles under the new procedure? I think it might be good in order to try to get a standard across all approved articles. It might also be an easier way to build momentum... -Joe Quick 00:21, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Since we cannot un-approve articles and considering how few Editors are active I do not think that we should work on Approved articles.

Nominating an article should be done by putting a template on the corresponding talk page. All stages of the approval process should be announced by the green banner on recent pages. I am working on this on the EC wiki. --Peter Schmitt 09:58, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

What's to stop the EC un-approving an article? Peter Jackson 10:21, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Peter. I'll wait until the templates are ready before I go around establishing new procedures or anything. With all the work that has clearly gone into the new approvals mechanisms, I want to be sure to follow the intent of the EC as closely as possible.

I didn't have un-approval in mind at all. I'm just thinking about how to build momentum. Other approvals have always been the best way to get people to think about approval for their own articles: approvals has always proceeded in bursts. So I was thinking about the easiest way to get some visible action.

The EC has graciously provided me with the tools I think I need to start to draw in outside reviewers for articles. These people will hopefully become (at least occasional) contributors and Editors for the wiki. I'll need to rely on suggestions from other Citizens for who to contact about a lot of articles, but then I can reach out to the people who are both familiar and enthusiastic about the topics of the articles we are most proud of. That's the plan, anyway. ;) -Joe Quick 13:56, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Approval templates

Joe, I have created the first versions of the approval templates (and have announced in the forum). Sorry that it took me longer than expected. I have not yet a documentation for usage, and some work remains to be done, so I will have to help when a process should be started. --Peter Schmitt 00:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Peter and Joe, I replaced the approval nomination template as Peter asked on my talk page. I assume the single green line is because there are no announcements to make yet. Let me know if something else needs to happen. D. Matt Innis 00:49, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes, Matt. The new template has not yet been used. I have (re)nominated the previously nominated Randomized controlled trial/Draft. It will be the first test case. --Peter Schmitt 01:09, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Peter. I'll look into what other articles we can get started with the new process. -Joe Quick 02:24, 16 September 2011 (UTC)