User talk:AdrianMastronardi
Welcome!
Useful links[edit]
Philately at WP[edit]
Hi and welcome to WP! I'm not that familiar with the portal concept, but it seems like it could be a useful entree into the philatelic material, and of course I'm glad it's not just me doing philatelic stuff. One thing that I'd eventually like to add is a sort of visual stamp identifier gallery, been slowly adding scans for exotic places (my own collection is worldwide and collecting goals include a "one of everything"). At some point I'd like to write an article on WP's philately area for the APS journal, help publicize it further, so useful to think about how to make the portal interesting for both collectors and noncollectors. Stan 02:30, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I am quite happy to help and work with you to develop philately portal here. We'll enjoy it :-) --AdrianMastronardi 20:12, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Philately at fr:wp and de:wp[edit]
Welcome. I'm Sebjarod of the Wikipédia in french. You're welcome to visit and use what is developped on fr: and de:. Bonne continuation. Sebjarod 18:33, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Philately-stub[edit]
Dear Adrian - sorry to have to tell you this, but I've just proposed your philately-stub template for deletion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria. The reasons are fairly straightforward. the stub template was never cleared by the Stub sorting project (not mandatory, but recommended), and will almost certainly never reach the criterion of 60-100 stub articles to be a viable stub category.
As it is, the category seems to have been around for two weeks and only have three articles in it. With this small a number of stubs, it makes far more sense to list them on a page (if you are setting up or have set up a Philately WikiProject it would make sense to list it there) rather than creating yet another stub category. Grutness|hello? 
08:42, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Need your support[edit]
As a member of the Project Philately I would like to make you aware of a discussion about the Category:Philatelists that some of us have recently come to a consensus about. The discussion is here, but essentially a decision was made to try and remove all the subcategories that grouped the philatelists into country categories even though there are only just over 20 pages referenced and some of the subcategories had a few as 1 listing. Besides which, I would never go looking for a philatelist based on a country of origin, even if I knew it, I would look at the category for his/her name. Anyway, this is up for discussion now at a CfD, categories for deletion, page and I would appreciate if you would weigh in on the matter having first looked at the original discussion. I am sure you will see the benefit and logic of getting rid of these redundant subcategories and vote a Support for this. By way of reference, one of these subcategories was up for deletion a short time ago and basically all the non-philately people won the day, overriding the philatelic viewpoint. I am sure you would not want that to happen again. Do not delay as CfDs get dealt with fairly quickly. TIA ww2censor 20:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Philately Portal[edit]
I left a message about the portal at this page that might interest you as you worked on the portal but I have not seen you around recently. Cheers ww2censor 16:08, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Philately WikiProject[edit]
You are listed as a participant in the Philately WikiProject. Today I have created an inactive list consisting of those participants who have not made any philatelic edits for more than six months. I was going to use a 3 month cut off point but felt generous. You may be one of those editors, so if I have moved you and you want to remain an active participant, please forgive me, and move your name back from the inactive list to the active list. If you are still active on Wikipedia but are inactive in philately I hope there is no harm done in listing you as inactive. We really need more active participants for all philatelic articles. The Philately Portal has been running for some time and I am doing occasional updates, Postage stamps of Ireland is a candidate for featured article (that would be the first philatelic article), and several of the redlinks have been filled but we need more activity so if you are around please participate. Otherwise thanks for the work you have done in the past. Cheers ww2censor 00:25, 25 June 2007 (UTC)