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Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We would like to thank all who participated in this drive. Here is the end-of-drive report.
There were 48 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 35 participated. Thank you to everyone who helped reduce the size of the backlog!
During the drive, we reduced the backlog by 232 articles, or by about 6%. This is a two percent increase from our September drive, when we copy edited 4% of the backlog. We were successful in our primary goal of clearing the oldest three months—March, April, and May 2010—from the queue. Thanks to all who helped copy edit these difficult articles. Thus far we have reduced the copy edit backlog by 5086 articles, or by about 61%. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.
The term of our second tranche of coordinators has run out, and we will be accepting nominations from December 5, 00:01 UTC to December 15, 23:59 UTC. If you or any other member of the Guild of Copy Editors wishes to be a coordinator, add your name to this page along with a statement describing why you believe you should be a coordinator for the Guild. You must be able to commit to a six month term. Thanks! Once again, thank you for participating in the Guild's November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Our next drive will be in January, and we hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters |
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Hi. I agree the article needs ce work. I worked on it last night for a while, however, it could use more work. So feel free to have at it. In the past there has been editor fighting over POV but the article has been quiet for sometime now. Cheers, Kierzek ( talk) 16:23, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
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It does not matter. I love that Beyonce message. Thanks. Lol. Take care. Jivesh1205 ( Talk) 18:42, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
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Have what a good holiday and particularly thanks for your help in getting Led Zep to GA status - next stop FA.-- SabreBD ( talk) 20:52, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
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Best wishes for joy and happiness. Hope you have a great one! Jona yo! Selena 4 ever 00:05, 27 December 2011 (UTC) |
Many thanks for the greeting. Have a prosperous and healthy year. Robotics1 ( talk) 10:13, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
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I've created User:Chaosdruid/Systron_Donner_Inertial with the limited content that used to be on that page. Let me know if you need anything else :) -- SatyrTN ( talk / contribs) 17:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
You may be interested in this: " Commons:Category:Jewel of Muscat (ship, 2010)". I visited the museum yesterday. Happy new year! — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 11:52, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
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In the opening statement of your evidence you say that Editor Nobody Ent's sequence of events Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility_enforcement/Evidence#Issue_resolved_before_initial_block_imposed is correct. The thread includes Nobody Ent's characterization of my request of Editor MF to be a gentleman as "condescending". It was not. Not when I made it and not now. Perhaps Ent has an issue with authority and views any stern comment as condescending. I dont know and I dont care how Ent views it. Thats his authority issue. Not mine. I didn't comment at the time Ent posted since I realized that most other editors would see it for what it was-- sour grapes. My request to Editor MF was from equal to equal...peer to peer. I hope I am mis-reading your blanket approval. Buster Seven Talk 07:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know - I've responded at Talk:Speech_generating_device#Robotics_project and have popped in a couple of questions at the end :) Failedwizard ( talk) 20:13, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chaosdruid As you know George Devol died last August. The picture in the George Devol article (thank you for not merging it) is the same as the one on the Industrial robot page. I have found some much better pictures, but I know it is not trivial putting pictures on Wikipedia. Example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/08/17/Obituaries/Images/OB-MAIN-DEVOL_1313620202.jpg - its public domain Robotics1 ( talk) 22:32, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Chaosdruid. I am sorry that I did not understand the process for assessment. I followed very closely the assessments of other similar articles and explained my changes on the talk pages. You can find a list of articles that I have edited over the last seven months on my user page. I cannot recall which of them involved reassessments. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 20:30, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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You can find my response to your concerns regarding this issue on the talk page of Forward kinematics. I am sorry, I thought that was where you saw that I had relabeled the image. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 04:11, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Can you please construct a sentence about the vibratos and trills for me? But please do it in a way to include the explanation you gave about the semitone. Please Jivesh1205 ( Talk) 19:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
I copyedited I Am... Sasha Fierce in June or July of last year. To be honest there were quite a few similar problems, with refs incorrectly cited (or interpreted), and if you look back at the copyedit notes Talk:I_Am..._Sasha_Fierce#Copyedit_July_2011, I do not even know if you followed up and corrected the problems I had found. Chaosdruid ( talk) 19:22, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the information regarding the templates. I am not bothered, as I have no idea what I am doing. I'll re-write the plot synopsis by rewording the original. I'm going to look for information about the remake on ProQuest, but I won't be able to do this until after the blackout finishes. ValkoWhite ( talk) 04:05, 18 January 2012 (UTC)ValkoWhite
Hi. Yes, it's the correct naming convention, per WP:NCF. If there was no article of that name, it would be Don't Go in the Woods. If another article existed (a book, song, etc), it would become Don't Go in the Woods (film). As there are two films with this title, the year is added to become Don't Go in the Woods (2010 film). Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 08:00, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Responded on my talk page. Cheers, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 03:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chaosdruid, I had a message left on my talk page saying I was instrumental in deletion of the above article. (please see). Actually I had never heard of European Robotics Research Network. I went to their site and it seems legit but what happened there? Is it worth trying to upgrade it? Robotics1 ( talk) 19:02, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Update: I have just researched them on google - there are articles about them all over the place. The Telegraph for a start. They even get funding from the European Commission. You don't get that unless you are notable. And ironically there is a wikipedia article on them in German. Why on earth was it deleted? Robotics1 ( talk) 19:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
am about! hope to be back on this evening. Robotics1 ( talk) 16:46, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the help. I replied in the article talk page Codrin.B ( talk) 18:27, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
I added Carpi (people) to the copy editing requests. I see the two articles being quite related, they have undergone a lot of work recently, mostly done by User:Daizus and I think they might benefit from being copy edited together. User:Saukkomies answered your call for help. Thanks again.-- Codrin.B ( talk) 17:32, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
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Most motion control is done with a dolly/slider rig and/or an automated pan tilt head. Arms are also used. I just edited the article so that it's a little bit broader. Plowboylifestyle ( talk) 19:38, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
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Were you aware that there was already a copyedit in progress? (as per the GOCE requests page) Chaosdruid (talk) 11:15, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Chaosdruid. Looks like there was some mistake in an edit on West Memphis Three - [1] - you marked it as a minor edit, saying you were adding a link, but you must have been looking at an old page because it got rolled back to an old version. I have restored the version to before your edit, so I don't think your link would be added. Do you want to have a look. If, of course, your roll back was intentional, then it would need to be discussed, as it contains some dubious material, and questionable sources. SilkTork ✔Tea time 10:08, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
The official history of the campign, THE WAR IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS 1939-1940 By Major L. F. Ellis C.V.O., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. LONDON 1954 HMSO - CHAPTER XVI LAST DAYS AT DUNKIRK (p.248) says; "When the operation ended 338,226 had been evacuated — 308,888 of them in the ships under Admiral Ramsay's orders." The figure that I added last night was for British servicemen only (includes RAF I suspect) and also includes Operation Ariel. I ommitted those evacuated during Operation Cycle, as the great majority of those were taken down the coast to Cherbourg, and then exvacuated again during "Ariel". Alansplodge ( talk) 11:30, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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I have been conducting a Good Article review of Klemens von Metternich. I've noticed that you were active with this article earlier this year. I will need several days to complete the review, and I am wondering if you have any general comments about the article that you could post. Thanks, DCI talk.
Just to let you know, there's no patrolling link on the blank page, so there's not much I can actually do at this point.
I do know that there's been a bit of a system bug in recent weeks with deleted pages occasionally remaining listed by maintenance tools even after deletion — for example, there were four deleted articles which remained on the Untagged Uncategorized Articles toolserver for a full month after their deletion in early January, and wouldn't drop no matter how many times I tried to recreate, tag, detag and redelete temporary placeholder pages. Unfortunately, there was no fix forthcoming at the system level; we only got them off the list just last week by having the tool maintainer specifically add the four titles to a manual exclusions file.
The best I can suggest would be to bring it to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) to see if there's anything they can do to help. Bearcat ( talk) 18:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Woohoo! Bearcat ( talk) 19:34, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Oh, believe me, there's never any shortage of weird bugs and quirks to discover and work around on Wikipedia... Bearcat ( talk) 20:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I originally proposed to delete the Inner Tibet and Outer Tibet articles, as I found these two pages in the Tibet (disambiguation) page. By clicking on these pages I was expecting to be brought to some articles leading to the geographic description of both terms, but instead it brought me to the Simla Accord (1914) (for Inner Tibet) and the the Tibet Autonomous Region (for Outer Tibet) created more than 50 years after the Simla Accord.
I have read your edit summary regarding the Inner Tibet redirect and now understand better the idea behind this redirect. So I have also removed the "proposed deletion tag" for Outer Tibet, but changed the redirect towards Simla Accord as well, so that both Inner and Outer Tibet are redirecting to the same page. I hope this is fine so. Regards, -- Pseudois ( talk) 18:42, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Would you be kind enough to point to this? I have searched the page Wikipedia:Moving a page and have found no mention of a page rename process. Finding concensus is what the various editors of the page have been trying to do for over a year on and off. I think every one would just like to sort it out so that we can all move on. If you have a genuine objection to the name that is emerging as concensus then by all means make a constructive suggestion. If we end up with a deadlock then I suppose we will have to resort to RFC to sort it out. However, I did not see any process comparable to RFC mentioned on "moving a page."
Thankyou for getting back to me on this one, a problem is now solved. Op47 ( talk) 16:07, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
The above link will point to the comment regarding Dodesukaden which you posted on my talk page, as well as to my reply. —Roman Spinner (talk) 06:31, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chaosdruid, I've seen your comments on the above article's copy-edit request at the Guild's page. Do you still want to copy-edit the article? I'm working down the list and I'm nearly there - I'll do my best to sort out the prose but I'm not going to delve into the subject. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 05:50, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive
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March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months. Progress report During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{ GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May. Your drive coordinators – Dianna ( Talk), Stfg ( Talk), and Dank ( talk)To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot ( talk) 21:56, 4 April 2012 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We would like to thank all who participated in this drive. Here is the end-of-drive report.
There were 48 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 35 participated. Thank you to everyone who helped reduce the size of the backlog!
During the drive, we reduced the backlog by 232 articles, or by about 6%. This is a two percent increase from our September drive, when we copy edited 4% of the backlog. We were successful in our primary goal of clearing the oldest three months—March, April, and May 2010—from the queue. Thanks to all who helped copy edit these difficult articles. Thus far we have reduced the copy edit backlog by 5086 articles, or by about 61%. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.
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Hi. I agree the article needs ce work. I worked on it last night for a while, however, it could use more work. So feel free to have at it. In the past there has been editor fighting over POV but the article has been quiet for sometime now. Cheers, Kierzek ( talk) 16:23, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
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It does not matter. I love that Beyonce message. Thanks. Lol. Take care. Jivesh1205 ( Talk) 18:42, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
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Have what a good holiday and particularly thanks for your help in getting Led Zep to GA status - next stop FA.-- SabreBD ( talk) 20:52, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
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In the opening statement of your evidence you say that Editor Nobody Ent's sequence of events Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility_enforcement/Evidence#Issue_resolved_before_initial_block_imposed is correct. The thread includes Nobody Ent's characterization of my request of Editor MF to be a gentleman as "condescending". It was not. Not when I made it and not now. Perhaps Ent has an issue with authority and views any stern comment as condescending. I dont know and I dont care how Ent views it. Thats his authority issue. Not mine. I didn't comment at the time Ent posted since I realized that most other editors would see it for what it was-- sour grapes. My request to Editor MF was from equal to equal...peer to peer. I hope I am mis-reading your blanket approval. Buster Seven Talk 07:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know - I've responded at Talk:Speech_generating_device#Robotics_project and have popped in a couple of questions at the end :) Failedwizard ( talk) 20:13, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chaosdruid As you know George Devol died last August. The picture in the George Devol article (thank you for not merging it) is the same as the one on the Industrial robot page. I have found some much better pictures, but I know it is not trivial putting pictures on Wikipedia. Example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/08/17/Obituaries/Images/OB-MAIN-DEVOL_1313620202.jpg - its public domain Robotics1 ( talk) 22:32, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Chaosdruid. I am sorry that I did not understand the process for assessment. I followed very closely the assessments of other similar articles and explained my changes on the talk pages. You can find a list of articles that I have edited over the last seven months on my user page. I cannot recall which of them involved reassessments. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 20:30, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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You can find my response to your concerns regarding this issue on the talk page of Forward kinematics. I am sorry, I thought that was where you saw that I had relabeled the image. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 04:11, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Can you please construct a sentence about the vibratos and trills for me? But please do it in a way to include the explanation you gave about the semitone. Please Jivesh1205 ( Talk) 19:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
I copyedited I Am... Sasha Fierce in June or July of last year. To be honest there were quite a few similar problems, with refs incorrectly cited (or interpreted), and if you look back at the copyedit notes Talk:I_Am..._Sasha_Fierce#Copyedit_July_2011, I do not even know if you followed up and corrected the problems I had found. Chaosdruid ( talk) 19:22, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the information regarding the templates. I am not bothered, as I have no idea what I am doing. I'll re-write the plot synopsis by rewording the original. I'm going to look for information about the remake on ProQuest, but I won't be able to do this until after the blackout finishes. ValkoWhite ( talk) 04:05, 18 January 2012 (UTC)ValkoWhite
Hi. Yes, it's the correct naming convention, per WP:NCF. If there was no article of that name, it would be Don't Go in the Woods. If another article existed (a book, song, etc), it would become Don't Go in the Woods (film). As there are two films with this title, the year is added to become Don't Go in the Woods (2010 film). Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 08:00, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Responded on my talk page. Cheers, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 03:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chaosdruid, I had a message left on my talk page saying I was instrumental in deletion of the above article. (please see). Actually I had never heard of European Robotics Research Network. I went to their site and it seems legit but what happened there? Is it worth trying to upgrade it? Robotics1 ( talk) 19:02, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Update: I have just researched them on google - there are articles about them all over the place. The Telegraph for a start. They even get funding from the European Commission. You don't get that unless you are notable. And ironically there is a wikipedia article on them in German. Why on earth was it deleted? Robotics1 ( talk) 19:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
am about! hope to be back on this evening. Robotics1 ( talk) 16:46, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the help. I replied in the article talk page Codrin.B ( talk) 18:27, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
I added Carpi (people) to the copy editing requests. I see the two articles being quite related, they have undergone a lot of work recently, mostly done by User:Daizus and I think they might benefit from being copy edited together. User:Saukkomies answered your call for help. Thanks again.-- Codrin.B ( talk) 17:32, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
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Most motion control is done with a dolly/slider rig and/or an automated pan tilt head. Arms are also used. I just edited the article so that it's a little bit broader. Plowboylifestyle ( talk) 19:38, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
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Were you aware that there was already a copyedit in progress? (as per the GOCE requests page) Chaosdruid (talk) 11:15, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Chaosdruid. Looks like there was some mistake in an edit on West Memphis Three - [1] - you marked it as a minor edit, saying you were adding a link, but you must have been looking at an old page because it got rolled back to an old version. I have restored the version to before your edit, so I don't think your link would be added. Do you want to have a look. If, of course, your roll back was intentional, then it would need to be discussed, as it contains some dubious material, and questionable sources. SilkTork ✔Tea time 10:08, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
The official history of the campign, THE WAR IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS 1939-1940 By Major L. F. Ellis C.V.O., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. LONDON 1954 HMSO - CHAPTER XVI LAST DAYS AT DUNKIRK (p.248) says; "When the operation ended 338,226 had been evacuated — 308,888 of them in the ships under Admiral Ramsay's orders." The figure that I added last night was for British servicemen only (includes RAF I suspect) and also includes Operation Ariel. I ommitted those evacuated during Operation Cycle, as the great majority of those were taken down the coast to Cherbourg, and then exvacuated again during "Ariel". Alansplodge ( talk) 11:30, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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I have been conducting a Good Article review of Klemens von Metternich. I've noticed that you were active with this article earlier this year. I will need several days to complete the review, and I am wondering if you have any general comments about the article that you could post. Thanks, DCI talk.
Just to let you know, there's no patrolling link on the blank page, so there's not much I can actually do at this point.
I do know that there's been a bit of a system bug in recent weeks with deleted pages occasionally remaining listed by maintenance tools even after deletion — for example, there were four deleted articles which remained on the Untagged Uncategorized Articles toolserver for a full month after their deletion in early January, and wouldn't drop no matter how many times I tried to recreate, tag, detag and redelete temporary placeholder pages. Unfortunately, there was no fix forthcoming at the system level; we only got them off the list just last week by having the tool maintainer specifically add the four titles to a manual exclusions file.
The best I can suggest would be to bring it to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) to see if there's anything they can do to help. Bearcat ( talk) 18:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Woohoo! Bearcat ( talk) 19:34, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Oh, believe me, there's never any shortage of weird bugs and quirks to discover and work around on Wikipedia... Bearcat ( talk) 20:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I originally proposed to delete the Inner Tibet and Outer Tibet articles, as I found these two pages in the Tibet (disambiguation) page. By clicking on these pages I was expecting to be brought to some articles leading to the geographic description of both terms, but instead it brought me to the Simla Accord (1914) (for Inner Tibet) and the the Tibet Autonomous Region (for Outer Tibet) created more than 50 years after the Simla Accord.
I have read your edit summary regarding the Inner Tibet redirect and now understand better the idea behind this redirect. So I have also removed the "proposed deletion tag" for Outer Tibet, but changed the redirect towards Simla Accord as well, so that both Inner and Outer Tibet are redirecting to the same page. I hope this is fine so. Regards, -- Pseudois ( talk) 18:42, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Would you be kind enough to point to this? I have searched the page Wikipedia:Moving a page and have found no mention of a page rename process. Finding concensus is what the various editors of the page have been trying to do for over a year on and off. I think every one would just like to sort it out so that we can all move on. If you have a genuine objection to the name that is emerging as concensus then by all means make a constructive suggestion. If we end up with a deadlock then I suppose we will have to resort to RFC to sort it out. However, I did not see any process comparable to RFC mentioned on "moving a page."
Thankyou for getting back to me on this one, a problem is now solved. Op47 ( talk) 16:07, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
The above link will point to the comment regarding Dodesukaden which you posted on my talk page, as well as to my reply. —Roman Spinner (talk) 06:31, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chaosdruid, I've seen your comments on the above article's copy-edit request at the Guild's page. Do you still want to copy-edit the article? I'm working down the list and I'm nearly there - I'll do my best to sort out the prose but I'm not going to delve into the subject. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 05:50, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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