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Hi Matt - can you do the honours on Evidence-based medicine :-)Gareth Leng 18:20, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Gareth! You bet, let me get a confirmation from Robert (and I am assumimg you are still okay with the article and Robert's response to your concerns) and then I'll lock it. D. Matt Innis 18:39, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Topic informant qustion

• writing or editing articles about one's own company or organization, as well as adding links to websites with which one is associated

A church is an organization, so it is okay if I write about Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church? You can ask Larry whether I'm capable of collaborating on an unbiased article about my own religion. Look at the Wikipedia version (2001 to 2005 anyway). If anything, I may have overcorrected for bias and balanced the article the 'other way'. --Ed Poor 18:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

That is a very good question, Ed. Any problem with asking that on the forum? I don't feel comfortable making a unilateral decision on that without hearing from the community first and then we can answer it once and for all (until the next time :-) D. Matt Innis 18:41, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Air pollution dispersion terminology due for approval today

Hi, Matt: Another of my gentle reminder hints. :) Milton Beychok 18:38, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Matt, I think you are protecting the approved article and then setting the status in the metadata. Recall that changes in categories will only register on the category pages after an edit on the articles or subpage. The best approach is to set the metadata early in the process and then makes the finishing edits on the respective pages, in this way the categories all register correctly. I hope this makes sense. Chris Day 19:23, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

That's exactly what I'm doing, but I will certainly change that process if it makes it all work! Thanks Chris. D. Matt Innis 00:44, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

It is becoming clear that an upcoming script priority is to have a way to "jog" or update all subpages associated with a particular medtadata template after it has been updated. I assume this is possible but don't know how to program it. Chris Day 00:48, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey guess what Matt and Chris?

I archived my talk page all by myself and it worked. (I've no idea *why* it worked, of course, but...) Aleta Curry 02:56, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

HaHa! There's hope for you, yet! Now there isn't anything you can't do... give a lady high speed internet and there is no stopping her :-D. Matt Innis 03:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

You ain't kidding! It's like having a bad tooth pulled! Aleta Curry 03:04, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow, lol, Dial-up stinks, but I had no idea you were hurting that bad! Bless you! D. Matt Innis 03:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Definitely can't stop the right ladies. Now it is true I've had dinner with Grace Hopper, but not that it was a date. She still inspires me; being dead doesn't seem to cramp her style. Howard C. Berkowitz 04:18, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

She's probably still a good listener ;-) But are you saying she had bad teeth? ! D. Matt Innis 04:22, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Final approval of AN- is due today

Hi, Matt: Another one of my gentle reminders about a final approval due today. Milton Beychok 16:36, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Move/Rename

Matt: The procedure you proposed on my talk page blows up big time! Once I moved the main article and subpages, then I could no longer find/access the Metadata template to revise it and move it.

Fortunately, in anticipation of that happening, I had written down the url of the Metadata template and the url of the Talk page ... so I was able to access them and to finish the move okay. But that is a tortuous way of doing it. We really need a new, simpler method. Chris is working on it and maybe he will succeed soon. Milton Beychok 06:01, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

More about moves

I want to move United States Department of Defense to U.S. Department of Defense because most of the other cabinet articles are now titled U.S .... , but I cannot because the there is a redirect named U.S. Department of Defense and the system thinks it is an article. Can you please delete that redirect, so I can make the desired move? (That's another bug with moving an article). Milton Beychok 06:21, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

I tried revising the names in the Metadata template and moving the Metadata template first ... and then moving everything else with the Move tab. That worked fairly well. However, after the Move tab moved everything else, two pop-up boxes appeared. One said the article names in the Metadate template needed revising (even though I had done so before moving it) ... so I did that and all was then well.

The other pop-up box that appeared told me to do something (I've forgotten what) to delete the old MetaData template. However, I ignored that since all seemed well after I revised the names in the new metadata template.

Wrapping it up, moving the Metadata page first worked fairly well except for those two pop-up boxes that appeared at the end. I am afraid that would really confuse most of us. Milton Beychok 07:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Milt, so far at least we can move the metadata first, move the article and subpages, then rename the metadata (for some reason), then ignore the last one (unless it is necessary for some other function that we are not aware of, yet). I see that Chris has been moving some things as well and will likely figure out those final details, so let's wait to see what he comes up with before we try writing this in the procedures for moving an article cluster.. D. Matt Innis 07:48, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Ignore the orange warning box, just use the one at the top titled cluster move. Chris Day 07:51, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Here is what you should do (and you can try that "test" link at the top of the talk page, next to the language variant info).

1) Move the metadata to the new page first. DO NOT change the pagename field until the end.

2) Go to the new metadata page. Now move the article BUT make sure you check the two options, one to move the TALK page AND the other to move the subpages. There should be a link to initiate the article move at the top of the page.

3) Then go to the new article page. Now the old approval page and the metadata page need to be tagged for deletion. You should see two links and instructions to do this at the top of the page.

4) Finally, there is a link at the top of the page to go back and edit the metadata so the pagename field can be updated (ABC field should be updated too).

Those instruction work if everything is as expected, I have not tested all the unexpected scenarios yet, so be prepared for surprises. Chris Day 07:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

I found a bug that is a problem if there is no approval page to start with, nevertheless, it is close. WIll try and finish it this weekend. Chris Day 08:18, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Ouch! And I just finished a number of hours slogging through a number of renames! I promise ... no more of that until you finish, Chris. I probably left a number of old Metadata sheets lying around in Metadata heaven. Milton Beychok 09:17, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

NMR spectroscopy reminder

Approval is today!! -Joe Quick 17:04, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Got it, Thanks Joe - are you sure you don't want to be approvals manager?! D. Matt Innis 05:24, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

I've (sort of) decided to volunteer to do that once I have my plans figured out for where I will be going to school in the fall. I'm still waiting on responses but had an interview with my top choice over the phone the other day, so things are looking good... --Joe Quick 04:00, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Good news all around! I've got my fingers crossed for both ;-) D. Matt Innis 04:01, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Re HMO page

Mr. Innis, I agree with your edits and made an additional edit to address a talk page concern. I believe the latest edits now address all concerns. With your approval, I will add the article back to mainspace. Please notify me at my talk page. Thanks. Neil Brick 05:06, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

I have made additional changes to the page. When you get a chance, please see my talk page. Neil Brick 05:28, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

I answered on your talk! D. Matt Innis 03:33, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Am I eligible to approve the biography of James Clerk Maxwell?

Matt, please look here and tell me if I am eligible to join in the approval nomination of James Clerk Maxwell. Regards, Milton Beychok 19:45, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Page move for Preschool education

Thank you for the offer to move the page to the correct naming format. I would not even know how to begin since there are sub-pages. Melissa Newman 17:35, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Sure, just let me know when and where and I'll take it from there! D. Matt Innis 17:43, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the where was what I thought you were going to be in charge of. As for the when, whenever you like ... just send me the link. Melissa Newman 17:38, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Ah, no, that would be too easy!... and probably wrong :-) I just enforce the policies, not make them ;) D. Matt Innis 18:24, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Until the issue is settled on if we are going to have a separate space for student versions, I think that it is just best to leave things alone. After that issue is settled, the StudentWorkgroup will need to decide on a bunch of policy issues related to that namespace. Yes, I admit that I have a bias towards the namespace solution. Although Larry also suggested the idea, I don't know how many other people have to agree to make a policy. Melissa Newman

Response about images

As I stated to Larry, I don't have a problem with picking images writing wikicode, even writing PHP code, but I do not want to have to write emails to companies and people asking for permission. I am a backroom worker type of person. I like to work behind the scenes and let somebody that has better communication skills do the customer communication. I will do the research, including obtaining email addresses, but the actual correspondence I would prefer to hand to somebody else. Melissa Newman 00:18, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I added a bunch of image links to the page listed. I included the licenses of either GNU or creative commons as well as the trace back to the source. The government website is public domain, so from what I read on wikipedia we are free to load those images to our servers. Do all of these have to be downloaded and uploaded manually? Or has the batch file upload extension been installed on this website? If all of the images in a group are from the same author with the same license can I just zip and email to somebody who has permission to do a bulk upload? Melissa Newman 01:28, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Accidental release source terms/Draft due for re-approval today

Matt, another of my gentle reminders. Milton Beychok 18:02, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Paul Wormer is eminently qualified to be a Physics Editor

Matt, Paul Wormer wants to become a Physics Editor. In my opinion, he is eminently qualified to be one. I am sure that Daniel Mietchen would agree that Paul is very qualified to be Physics Editor. I would hazard a guess that Paul has probably written more Physics articles in CZ than anyone else.

Can you, as a Constable, see that Paul is made an Editor? Milton Beychok 07:40, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

As I understand the process, Constables are responsible only for approving Authors -- Editors are chosen by another group of people altogether -- I suggest that you email Larry about this. Hayford Peirce 15:16, 18 February 2009 (UTC)