User talk:Brian Sayrs

Hello there Brian, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Hey, thanks, maveric. I'm truly enjoying myself. Perhaps I'll stay a while!

Minor edits

In recognition of your dedicated use of the minor edit, I award you the **Minor Barnstar** ClockworkSoul

You and the rest of your team have been making excellent and much needed minor edits. In recognition of your dedication, I offer you my sincere gratitude, and this Minor Barnstar. -- [[User:ClockworkSoul|User:ClockworkSoul/sig]] 07:11, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wow, I'm not sure I deserve this...I guess I'll have to work harder now! Brian Sayrs 20:21, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sietse Snel's page is a good place to look for minor tasks to perform.

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with User:Sietse Snel/Fix common mistakes project, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

January 15 Seattle meetup

Just wanted to let you know we are planning another Seattle meetup on January 15, 2005. We're trying to get a sense of who will attend, so please drop by that page & leave a note. I realize at that distance you aren't likely to make it, but I haven't heard of an Eastern Washington meetups... -- Jmabel | Talk 01:35, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

There aren't very many Eastern Washington editors, as far as I can tell. Perhaps I need to try to find some! Anyway, there will be times when I'm on the west side (February 16-17 in Olympia, for instance) so perhaps we can arrange something for that time. Brian Sayrs 18:33, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)

Liberty Lake, Washington

Hi, I'm wondering whether it is a good idea to split off the City article in the way that you did. Couldn't you simply edit the existing Liberty Lake, Washington article? After all, isn't that what the city is named? If you do not want the CDP census data mixed in with the new city information, then I would suggest moving the CDP article to something like Liberty Lake (CDP), Washington. Best. older≠wiser 03:13, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)

I know you've done a great deal of work on this topic, and I respect that. But in this case, editing it as a single article was to become burdensome because "Liberty Lake, Washington" is a place, and "City of Liberty Lake, Washington" is a government entity. Unfortunately, they are not synonymous nor coterminal--this is more due to local political circumstances than census characteristics, highlighting a need for these subjects to be treated separately. I considered moving the CDP and community data to another location, but due to my impression of the current naming standard within the CDP category, I moved the other. Besides, I consider the City to be a subordinate subject to the community (as a government is only one characteristic of a community), so I made the City article carry the parenthetical modifier. Thanks, though, for challenging my thoughts on this! I need to keep on my toes! Brian Sayrs 18:25, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)

Except that the naming is inconsistent with nearly every other U.S. city article. The CDP article is really not about the "community"--it is census data about an arbitrarily defined area for statistical purposes. It every other case that I am aware of where there are both a CDP and an incorporated municipality with the same name, either the municipality gets the undisambiguated name (i.e., "Name, State" for the city and "Name (CDP), State" for the CDP) or both articles are disambiguated and the simple name is a disambiguation page that links to both. Personally, I think most people have no clear idea what a CDP is and when they think of a place they are generally thinking of a municipality (and the associated community, culture, etc.) and not some statistical entity defined by the Census Bureau. older≠wiser 18:45, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

Again, I want to stress that I respect the work you've done on this topic, but since I am a resident of Liberty Lake, and no one in the entire State of Washington would deny me the right to claim to be an expert on Liberty Lake issues since I have been involved in the creation and governance of the City of Liberty Lake, I am stating the clear fact that Liberty Lake, Washington and Liberty Lake, Washington (City) are not only clearly differentiated topics, but also named appropriately. This will be a topic addressed within the articles once I have the opportunity to finish the articles in question. Not only do they have distinct histories and cultural characteristics, but many people in this community would argue that they aren't even in the same place. You might find this odd, but the argument is not entirely without merit. This will all be clear once the artcles are complete. Brian Sayrs 00:13, 2005 Jan 8 (UTC)

Looking for help on a major wiki project

Hey :) I was wondering if you'd be interesting in helping out with www.Knowmore.org, a corporation search wiki we're trying to get off the ground. We could DEFINATELY use some people that know how to make a wiki community great & the site is almost a blank slate at this point. It's been heavily customized and is designed to help responsible consumers enter any product or company name and immediatly find information about that co. (the main focus of the wiki is corporate & political information in a much more specialized way then wikipedia currently offers) Let me know if you're interested! aim: knowmoreorg or bernard@knowmore.org

User categorization

Greetings, Brian Sayrs! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Washington and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Washington page. The page will be deleted when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Washington page? Thanks!!

To add your name to the category, please use the tag [[Category:Wikipedians in Washington|Brian Sayrs]] to ensure proper sorting.

For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 04:29, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

TODO

Spokane County, Washington
Spokane Regional Transportation Council
Liberty Lake, Washington
City of Liberty Lake, Washington
Special:Whatlinkshere/Mandate disambiguation (Mandate->What links here)
Washington State Local elections, 2006
Central Valley School District
RCW and Revised Code of Washington and Category:United States state legal codes

Legal wager

Re your comments on the Roman litigation article, I have (rather belatedly) created an article on that type of wager - Legal wager. I'd welcome your comments. --David.Mestel 06:32, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

*blush*--David.Mestel 08:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Warriors

Info-Warriors unite!

Glad to see you here as well, Brian. Check out the Local Elections page. Washington has the best (that I've found) collection of pages on the 2006 election, and I'm hoping to get people involved in keeping them up to date. Chadlupkes 03:37, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Userbox Public Transit

According to Wikipedia:The German solution, here’s a a tip for you: {{User:Olve/Userboxes/Public transport}} (in lieu of the blanked template:User Public Transit). -- Olve 21:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC) (corr. Olve 22:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Construction

Tag: {{construction}} Yanksox ^(talk) 00:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, you're fast! Thanks. Brian Sayrs 00:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Eastern Washington

Hello, I noticed you on the Spokane Valley talk page and thought you might be interested or able to help with this, WP:EWA its WikiProject Eastern Washington. It was only started a few days ago so there is not much on the page. Thanks SpokaneWilly 04:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Brian Sayrs! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 156 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Pat Sullivan (politician) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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