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I stumbled across your list, having noticed that Haile Fide is on it. Hmm, I'd have thought writing biographies of the current Ministers of Ethiopia was a higher priority than this deceased politician.;-) However, I'll see how fast I can get to writing an article on him. - llywrch (talk) 21:51, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
- I hope I completed the task fast enough for your satisfaction. ;-) -- llywrch (talk) 05:12, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
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- If by "recently," one means "well over four years ago," and by "Ahmed Khatib," one means a completely unrelated Syrian politician, this notification makes perfect sense. —Sesel (talk) 22:23, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
- Wow. How bizarre is this. The bot did it! Not sure how to fix matters ... an editor had created the indicated article today, and I left an A10 on that page ... resulting in a notice here?--Epeefleche (talk) 05:14, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject
I saw you in The Onion's edit history. So, I thought you might find the following interesting: If you haven't heard already, I've proposed to create a WikiProject for The Onion. If you like or dislike the idea, or just want more info, look here and cast your vote. —Preceding signed comment added by Nicky Nouse (talk • contribs • wikia) 21:47, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Alphonse Alley
There has been some discussion about finding a source for the death date for Alphonse Alley. I've looked back at the early editing history, and am asking the editors who contributed back then (including you) if they have time to comment at Talk:Alphonse Alley#Birth and death dates, to help clear things up here. Carcharoth (talk) 10:41, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
New article on your wishlist
Just so you know, I made a stub for Sergio Bagú, who is on your wish list. Enjoy! —Tom Morris (talk) 15:18, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Research survey invitation
Greetings Sesel-
My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a doctoral student at the University of Oregon, studying digital media and online community. I am posting to invite you to participate in my research study exploring the work of Wikipedia editors who are members of WikiProject: Countering Systemic Bias. The online survey should take 20 to 25 minutes to complete and can be found here:
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I have quoted you at Template talk:Did you know/Riek Machar. If you would care to check the current version of this article and comment on the DYK nomination, that would be great. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 01:48, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Your wish has been done.Borgatya (talk) 16:27, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Joseph Nathaniel France created
Hi there. I created this article today and noticed you had him on your article wish list. I just created the stub today but plan on expanding it tomorrow. SGMD1 Talk/Contribs 03:22, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
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MSU Interview
Dear Sesel,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication
Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia
Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU,
a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known
about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!)
want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea
(the class) to the community [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_
(proposals)/Archive_82#Learn_to_be_a_Wikipedia_Administrator_-_New_class_at_MSU|HERE]],
where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a
few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes,
dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our
students.
So a few things about the interviews:
- Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
- Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of
communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
- All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym)
will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission
to do so.
- All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an
interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
- The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics
review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students
have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to
speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain
anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable
doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will
be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012
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Your article wish-list for Guyana
Hi Sesel,
Dthomsen8 and I are trying to get WikiProject Guyana going again. I saw you had made some contributions to Donald Ramotar, so I came here to see if you might be interested in joining the project - but it looks like you're very busy already. However, I wondered if you'd mind us adding your 'wish-list' for Guyana-articles to our list of requested articles? All best, Lorelei (talk) 19:21, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
- I don't mind at all. I don't contribute as much as I used to, so I probably won't join the project, but I wish it all the best! —Sesel (talk) 22:48, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you Sesel :) Lorelei (talk) 23:26, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
List of countries by system of government - references needed
As one of the main authors of the article List of countries by system of government I'd like to point out the RefImprove-Tag in this article, which stands there since 2007. Many of the details has been out of date for a long time. For more information please visit the talk. — Allrounder (talk) 16:50, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am a little concerned about this edit, which took Fred Degazon out of the living people category. For one thing, the first reference is from the official government website of the President of Dominica claims that he is alive and has been updated at least as recently as 2011. While that particular page may not have been updated in a long while, it is not our position to speculate whether or not that is the case. You also wrote "Even a representative of the Dominica government I corresponded with was not sure", but that is not verifiable. I'm not doubting that you did that, but neither I nor anyone else can verify that information. Even if the correspondence was written and you sent it to WP:OTRS, what's to say that that particular representative would know anything about it? If Degazon is living in exile, I wouldn't expect any representative of the government to be well informed about him. Overall, I don't see any compelling reason here to remove him from the living people category, which has more protections than that "possibly living" one (easier to watch for vandalism etc.).
Ever since a few editors fought hard to have Pola Illéry removed from the living people category because they just didn't believe the sources, and it turned out that she was still alive, I've watched out for these kinds of things. No one is harmed by leaving Degazon in the living people category, but I'd like to hear your thoughts. Canadian Paul 14:18, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Sesel, Just to let you know that I have re-added a clause that you removed from Agathe Uwilingiyimana regarding her being called "Madame Agathe", with a citation. It looks from the sources as though the title is applied equally to Uwilingiyimana as well sa to Agathe Habyarimana. Thanks! — Amakuru (talk) 11:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Clément Barbot article
I saw on your article wishlist that you want an article on Clément Barbot and I just created one so... yeah :) -Newyorkadam (talk) 23:54, 13 February 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
Move of Javier Diez Canseco
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I see that you listed David Carliner as a high priority article on your wishlist. I have finally gotten around to writing an article on Carliner. I hope you'll take a look and edit it as you see fit. Remes (talk) 21:24, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks! It looks excellent. —Sesel (talk) 00:05, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
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