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Hello, Corinne, and season's greetings to you. Do you know how to make the Gallery work at Timothy Birdsall? Thanks! Rothorpe ( talk) 18:44, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hope you're OK and just busy with Christmas, Corinne. Rothorpe ( talk) 02:48, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Oh, good/bad. I almost put that in as an alternative theory. Welcome back! Rothorpe ( talk) 04:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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Twofingered Typist Hello, Twofingered Typist -- I've been admiring the incredible pace at which you have been copy-editing articles for the GOCE this past year. If it weren't for your participation, I think we'd be much farther behind than we now are. I also like your collection of user boxes. I can relate to your memory of typewriters. I saw that you had accepted the Rommel myth article at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. Just out of curiosity, I glanced at the article, not to see your copy-edits (I didn't even look at the article history) but because I didn't know anything about the topic of the article. I saw you had posted the "GOCE in use" template at the top of the article, but it rendered incorrectly and showed up in red. The correct template is {{GOCEinuse}}, with no spaces in between the words. In case you had not already seen it, you might be interested in my collection of links, GOCE templates, other templates, external links (the Merriam-Webster link might be wrong, but I haven't gotten around to fixing it) and other useful things at the top right of my talk page. You are welcome to copy all of it, or whatever you think might be helpful. I got tired of asking people how to do things, or looking for things only to forget where I had found them, so I decided to put them all in one place. Best wishes for a happy holiday season, and best regards, – Corinne ( talk) 22:36, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
I have reviewed your noms at TAFI. Great noms by the way. If you want to, please review Javine Hylton at TAFI. I nominated that article because I think it could benefit from being included. BabbaQ ( talk) 23:14, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, can you take a look at the blurb at User:KAVEBEAR/sandbox#Nom and copy-edit for any mistakes? I think you also copy-edited the article Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman when it was being reviewed for FAC-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 10:04, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Dear Corinne, I will be working a little bit more on this section of the Hadrian article. What I intend to do is to supply sources on the various opinions expressed since Antiquity about Hadrian's late adoption by Trajan, Hadrian's relationship with Plotina, etc. I will tell you when my work on this section is finished. Cerme ( talk) 14:53, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Corinne, I've added a few additional sources, mostly in French. I will leave the text alone so as to allow you to copy-edit it. I believe in the near future I might use some additional Anglophone sources, available through JSTOR. However, I do not want to make the text far too cluttered with scholarly sources, so please tell me when you think that "enough is enough" - bis repetita non placent. Cerme ( talk) 20:11, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Corinne, it's been a while. I hope the new year is going well for you. I was hoping you'd be willing to copyedit an article I recently created (as usual when I post here), To rob Peter to pay Paul. Best Regards, — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 13:25, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Rodw I wonder if you could help us out at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests? The list of requests for copy-edits has grown quite long, and there are only a few of us copy-editing on a regular basis. If you have time, and would like to help, perhaps we could catch up a little. – Corinne ( talk) 04:51, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
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Some time between my edit made at 19:51 on 23 January 2017 and 00:31 on 24 January 2017 (see my Contributions), something changed in the view of diffs. When I go to an article and click on "Revision History", then click on "Compare selected revisions", everything looks as it always has looked, with the two columns for the previous and the new version. (Sometimes I have the "Improved diff view" enabled and sometimes I don't. When I have the "Improved diff view" enabled, it stays enabled until I disable or get rid of it, and I've had it enabled for a while now.) But sometime between those two edits, something changed. Now, there is the small green triangle, then the improved diff view in a box, and then, below that box, there is another green triangle that wasn't there before, with a narrow light gray horizontal box below it, and after that the two usual before-and-after columns. When I click on the second green triangle, the improve diff view goes away, and then there are two green triangles, one above the other. Can you look to see if anything was done to my account or pages in that time period so that now there are two green triangles instead of one? Can you tell me how to get rid of the second one and the horizontal gray bar below it? – Corinne ( talk) 01:42, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. I do hope you are well. I've decided to try to dip my toe into wikipedia again. You were a big help on getting Cucurbita to FA and I and User:Sminthopsis84 have tweaked Asa Gray. I was wonder if you had time to copyedit Gray's article up to GA standards? Thank you for your consideration and prior help on Cucurbita. HalfGig talk 22:20, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
I had a look at my talk page on the offchance that I had missed something---and I had! Rothorpe ( talk) 03:10, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
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Because you have so many Copyeditor Barnstars, I'm awarding this, the Special Barnstar, for you being so kind, helpful, polite, quick-responding, and a supreme copy editor. Now we'll see how Asa Gray does as a GA nomination. HalfGig talk 12:38, 27 January 2017 (UTC) |
Here you write a mistake: the marriage ended on 22 December 2015, not "three months later" as you written. Belen is the third Argentinian host of Sanremo (Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo - Sanremo Music Festival), plaese correct here your edit. You can control on IT.WIKI -- 151.67.43.10 ( talk) 00:04, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey! Would you please help me with What's Your Raashee? by copyediting it? I am intending to take this to GA and then FA. I would appreciate your gesture. Krish | Talk 18:59, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Corinne.
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Corinne, Andy D has accused me here of calling you a liar because I found your statement "not credible" that you had never seen narrow gauge hyphenated when used as an adjective, as in narrow-gauge railway. I want to assure you that I took your comment to be in good faith, not an intentional distortion or lie or anything like that. Yet I don't find it credible, as I said, since the term usually has a hyphen in books, in news, in web pages, in dictionaries such as the OED, etc. I won't be responding directly to Andy's ridiculous complaint, but wanted to be sure you know that I took your comment to be in good faith – yet not credible. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:17, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Corinne, obviously I would have had no opportunity to express lack of credulity if you had said "I don't remember seeing the phrases written with a hyphen", and I presume that's what you really intended. You also note "I think the hyphen is distracting," and I off course believe that's what you think. But look at it this way instead: if you don't remember seeing the hyphen, yet the hyphen is used most of the time in sources written for a general audience, and presuming you're not most looking at railfan-targeted writing, maybe the hyphen is actually not distracting you enough to notice it. I'm pretty sure this is the general way it works in English: that putting hyphens to help people see word-pairs as single units does not distract them, they do not notice or remember the hyphen, they just read more easily. Please review some of your English style and grammar guides and us know whether this makes sense to you in light of what they document and advise. Dicklyon ( talk) 16:48, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Corinne, Are you going to finish copy editing the Belén Rodríguez article? It looks like you were busy talking to other users. It says on the edit summary on January 29, "Removed "GOCE in use" template. Will resume copy-editing tomorrow". You didn't resume copy editing the next day. If you're free from talking to users, could you finish copy editing the article before it gets the article unprotected. You better finish it as quickly as possible. Thanks for your help and I hope the copy edit will be finished as quickly as possible. Talk to you later. 2001:569:70DD:7500:39EA:19D8:DF90:EF4D ( talk) 20:38, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
You are a miracle of patience. E Eng 03:44, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
...but of course you were wasting your time [1]. E Eng 20:42, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Unfortunately I have little personal knowledge about him; I came across the article only in a maintenance-tagging batch, and have never had much to do with the content at all. But my instinct, nonetheless, would be that if we can't properly and reliably source a middle name or initial for him, then it probably shouldn't be there. Bearcat ( talk) 18:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Corinne.
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Mr rnddude First, I want to thank you very much for the information at Talk:Caracalla#Regarding the "the" issue on the article about the existence of two Roman emperors at the same time for many years. I love to learn new things about history. Your explanation refreshed my memory of history, both lessons in high school many years ago and things I've read since then. I didn't realize, though, that the Byzantine emperors were emperors of an Eastern Roman Empire. I thought it was just the Byzantine Empire, with the Roman Empire being in the west.
I'm also a little confused as to why the emperors in Europe in later centuries had the title of "Holy Roman Emperor". Why was "Holy" added to "Roman Emperor"? Also, why were they called "Holy Roman Emperor" when they were not in Rome at all, but rather in places like Austria (I think)?
If you don't mind, I'd like to point out some errors you made twice in that comment, the one in which you gave me so much information. First, early in the comment, you wrote,
There's "Byzantinum", which I am certain is just a typo. That's not the reason I'm writing. In the clause "which was it's capital", "its" should not have an apostrophe. The word is a possessive adjective (like my, your, his, her, our, and their; it is the third person singular form for things, and maybe also animals; the other two third person singular possessive adjectives are his and her). Also, though it seems more common in the writing of speakers of British English, "which" really should be used only for non-restrictive (or non-identifying, or non-limiting) adjective clauses. If the information in the clause is necessary to identify, restrict, or limit the noun being modified/described, we call it a restrictive clause, and we should use "that". So, the sentence should read:
Mr rnddude Another way to write this that avoids the problem of choosing between "which" and "that", and uses fewer words, is:
Later on, you write:
The word "hundreds" does not need an apostrophe. It is simply the plural form of "hundred", and most plural nouns are formed simply by the addition of "s".
I hope you are not offended or annoyed by my pointing these out to you. I won't do this again if you prefer. – Corinne ( talk) 00:57, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
There's "Byantinum", which I am certain is just a typofrom my mispelled
Byzantinum. If you copied it across you left out the "z", which was what I first noticed and originally thought you were referring to that. I checked and the z was definitely there. It was when I came home I noticed that I'd added a random n into Byzantium and that that was what you were referring to. Mr rnddude ( talk) 02:43, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello Corinne. I'm sorry to pop up out of the blue like this but my friend Gerda thought that you might be able/willing to help me with a small grammar problem. I absolutely don't want to be a nuisance so if you would rather not, please say so; but if it is possible, please indicate and I will ask you my question. Thanks and best wishes, DBaK ( talk) 23:40, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
( edit conflict) This is the third edit conflict I've gotten in the last few minutes, this time with the Today's articles for improvement article.
Hi Corinne, thanks for copyediting Trunajaya rebellion a while back. I added a new section to the article, Trunajaya_rebellion#Forces_involved, would you mind copyediting that too? Not too confident of my English writing skills there. HaEr48 ( talk) 09:02, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
EdChem You are welcome; I'm glad to help. Unfortunately, I found chemistry (in high school) to be my most difficult subject. I found it difficult to have to learn so much about something I could not see or touch – too abstract. In college, I took one more chemistry course (for non-science majors) and passed only because it wasn't much more difficult than the high school course. However, I enjoyed geology and crystallography and mineralogy courses. The basic concepts of chemistry such as atoms, electrons, molecule structure with linked atoms, bonds, etc., I can understand (and I'm fascinated by the table of elements). It's things like "mole" that I had a hard time with. In some ways I can see that chemistry is at the root of all of life, and that the reactions and changes are almost magical, amazing, and often but not always predictable. I admire anyone who understands chemistry. – Corinne ( talk) 15:56, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks, Sca! Thanks for thinking of me. It's nice to hear from you. I hope you have a very nice Christmas and a happy, healthy year in 2017. Best wishes, – Corinne ( talk) 01:01, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello Corinne: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Doug Weller talk 15:22, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
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Miniapolis I hope you are enjoying the holidays. I've just made a few copy-edits to Docetism, including to the footnotes. I notice that in most of the footnotes that include passages from books, the passage is in quotation marks, sometimes with a phrase or short passage within the longer passage set off with single quotation marks, as in Note 13, in which the passage begins "N Brox". (I actually added the final double quotation mark since there was an initial double quotation mark at the beginning of the passage.) However, I noticed that in Note 7, from Foster 2009, the passage is not enclosed in double quotation marks, and within the passage there is a title of a work enclosed in double quotation marks. Can you tell me what the usual punctuation for a footnote is? I assume there is a difference between a footnote that is taken directly from a source and a footnote that is merely a comment written by the author of the Wikipedia article. Is a footnote (or material within a footnote) that is taken directly from a source always enclosed in a pair of double quotation marks? – Corinne ( talk) 17:11, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
EEng This week's article for improvement is Tectonics. I've made a few copy-edits. I'd like to ask your opinion about two different things.
1) One is on the wording of one sentence. See Talk:Tectonics#Crust and lithosphere. I've gotten the reply from Vsmith, a geologist. Now I know a comma is not needed before "lithosphere", but I'm still not sure whether we need "the" before "lithosphere". It's got to be clear that "crust" and "lithosphere" are two different things. What do you think?
2) The other is regarding this edit, in which GeoWriter changed "earth" to "Earth". I thought, when the definite article ("the") is used, "earth" does not need to be capitalized. If we follow the pattern of referring to the other planets without the definite article, such as "Mars", "Saturn", etc. – and of course they are capitalized – then we would capitalize "earth" when we refer to our planet without the article: Earth is the third planet from the sun, etc. I certainly don't want to argue with such a knowledgeable person as GeoWriter. I think I've seen discussions regarding this somewhere, but can't remember where. I just wondered what you thought about this. – Corinne ( talk) 15:27, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
I, uh, finally got around to it [2], per your comments on my talk page two months ago, my reply one and a half months ago, and finally actually did it say five minutes ago. Sorry bout the ridiculous delay for a such a simple issue. Oh, and your talk page message wasn't too long for me to be bothered with it. I just completely slipped on it. Belive me, I can't complain about length of comments. Mr rnddude ( talk) 02:45, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Vsmith I don't know whether you have Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates on your watch list (I would assume so), but if you don't, your thoughts might be helpful at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates#Second opinion needed on article being mentored. You probably know that Jo-Jo Eumerus has written quite a few articles on volcanoes and other geographic topics regarding South America, so whatever is learned at this discussion may be pertinent to the others. – Corinne ( talk) 23:14, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Corinne:
I can’t remember now how I stumbled across the GOCE, but early in my WP career I did. I took up a GOCE request and edited the article True Detective. Within hours of doing so I was notified by a GOCE coordinator that it would be advisable that I stick to editing articles with a “Copy Edit” tag until I had more experience. Shortly after that, another GOCE coordinator got in touch and explained that while there was nothing wrong with my copy edits, they were insufficient for a GOCE request. People asking for GOCE copy edits had high expectations of the copy edit – these edits were a “big deal” – since the requesters were going for GA or FA status. I couldn’t just do a quick cursory line edit, I had to be prepared to make substantive edits if necessary and try not to miss anything. I took that advice to heart.
That’s the sort of guidance I thought GOCE coordinators might see fit to pass on in this instance after examining the copy edits in question. That was not the case. I never felt it was my place as a simple editor to mentor and was not doing so.
Instead, a drive by comment has escalated this to the absurd, with accusations of piling on a new editor, which has prompted the coordinator emeritus (who to that point was untroubled by my expression of concern) to launch what comes close to a personal attack suggesting, I guess, that because I had “issues” in the past (explained above) I should be the last one to be commenting on another editor's copy edits or acting as the GOCE “police”. (Bitey or what? :) )
All of this is a lead-in to a big thank you. You eloquently expressed what I had been attempting to do, you understood that I had not detailed all my concerns publicly (there were more), and you suggested that a coordinator should provide guidance to a new editor. I must say, over the past few days, I was sorely tempted to find a new hobby and move along from WP, but your tacit support has convinced me that I’m a big boy and my enjoyment of what I do should come before everything else.
Thank you again, and all the best for 2017. Cheers. Twofingered Typist ( talk) 16:14, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
P.S. As to the suggestion that these things be handled privately by email, I have absolutely no idea how this is done on WP. As far as I know that information is private. So please feel free to delete this when you have read it.
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Hi Corinne,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Henri-Edmond Cross, 1908, Les cyprès à Cagnes, oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 17, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-01-17. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 05:57, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Chris. Happy New Year to you! I made a few copy-edits to the article on Henri-Edmond Cross, then took a look at the caption. I made a few minor changes to the wording. I wonder, does the text have to be centered like it is now? If not, I think left-justified (text to the left margin) is easier to read. – Corinne ( talk) 16:41, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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Cypresses at Cagnes, an oil painting on canvas by the French neo-impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross. Cross (1856–1910) played an important role in shaping the second phase of the Neo-Impressionist movement. His later works, using broad, blocky brushstrokes with small areas of exposed bare canvas between the strokes, have been cited as precursors to Fauvism and Cubism. Painting: Henri-Edmond Cross |
EEng What do you advise regarding this edit and the one just before it by the same editor? It is unsourced – and added in the middle of an unsourced paragraph with a tag on it – contains some subjective words and phrases such as "luckily", "very healthy life", and "well-respected family", and minor punctuation errors such as a period after "Miss". Would you simply revert both edits, with an edit summary saying "Removing unsourced material; see WP:RS", or leave it there and place another "citation needed" tag and/or leave a note on the editor's talk page with some advice and a few links? I think it was a good-faith edit; it's just that the editor doesn't know the WP basics. – Corinne ( talk) 23:08, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Corinne, and season's greetings to you. Do you know how to make the Gallery work at Timothy Birdsall? Thanks! Rothorpe ( talk) 18:44, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hope you're OK and just busy with Christmas, Corinne. Rothorpe ( talk) 02:48, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Oh, good/bad. I almost put that in as an alternative theory. Welcome back! Rothorpe ( talk) 04:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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Twofingered Typist Hello, Twofingered Typist -- I've been admiring the incredible pace at which you have been copy-editing articles for the GOCE this past year. If it weren't for your participation, I think we'd be much farther behind than we now are. I also like your collection of user boxes. I can relate to your memory of typewriters. I saw that you had accepted the Rommel myth article at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. Just out of curiosity, I glanced at the article, not to see your copy-edits (I didn't even look at the article history) but because I didn't know anything about the topic of the article. I saw you had posted the "GOCE in use" template at the top of the article, but it rendered incorrectly and showed up in red. The correct template is {{GOCEinuse}}, with no spaces in between the words. In case you had not already seen it, you might be interested in my collection of links, GOCE templates, other templates, external links (the Merriam-Webster link might be wrong, but I haven't gotten around to fixing it) and other useful things at the top right of my talk page. You are welcome to copy all of it, or whatever you think might be helpful. I got tired of asking people how to do things, or looking for things only to forget where I had found them, so I decided to put them all in one place. Best wishes for a happy holiday season, and best regards, – Corinne ( talk) 22:36, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
I have reviewed your noms at TAFI. Great noms by the way. If you want to, please review Javine Hylton at TAFI. I nominated that article because I think it could benefit from being included. BabbaQ ( talk) 23:14, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, can you take a look at the blurb at User:KAVEBEAR/sandbox#Nom and copy-edit for any mistakes? I think you also copy-edited the article Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman when it was being reviewed for FAC-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 10:04, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Dear Corinne, I will be working a little bit more on this section of the Hadrian article. What I intend to do is to supply sources on the various opinions expressed since Antiquity about Hadrian's late adoption by Trajan, Hadrian's relationship with Plotina, etc. I will tell you when my work on this section is finished. Cerme ( talk) 14:53, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Corinne, I've added a few additional sources, mostly in French. I will leave the text alone so as to allow you to copy-edit it. I believe in the near future I might use some additional Anglophone sources, available through JSTOR. However, I do not want to make the text far too cluttered with scholarly sources, so please tell me when you think that "enough is enough" - bis repetita non placent. Cerme ( talk) 20:11, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Corinne, it's been a while. I hope the new year is going well for you. I was hoping you'd be willing to copyedit an article I recently created (as usual when I post here), To rob Peter to pay Paul. Best Regards, — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 13:25, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Rodw I wonder if you could help us out at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests? The list of requests for copy-edits has grown quite long, and there are only a few of us copy-editing on a regular basis. If you have time, and would like to help, perhaps we could catch up a little. – Corinne ( talk) 04:51, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
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Some time between my edit made at 19:51 on 23 January 2017 and 00:31 on 24 January 2017 (see my Contributions), something changed in the view of diffs. When I go to an article and click on "Revision History", then click on "Compare selected revisions", everything looks as it always has looked, with the two columns for the previous and the new version. (Sometimes I have the "Improved diff view" enabled and sometimes I don't. When I have the "Improved diff view" enabled, it stays enabled until I disable or get rid of it, and I've had it enabled for a while now.) But sometime between those two edits, something changed. Now, there is the small green triangle, then the improved diff view in a box, and then, below that box, there is another green triangle that wasn't there before, with a narrow light gray horizontal box below it, and after that the two usual before-and-after columns. When I click on the second green triangle, the improve diff view goes away, and then there are two green triangles, one above the other. Can you look to see if anything was done to my account or pages in that time period so that now there are two green triangles instead of one? Can you tell me how to get rid of the second one and the horizontal gray bar below it? – Corinne ( talk) 01:42, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. I do hope you are well. I've decided to try to dip my toe into wikipedia again. You were a big help on getting Cucurbita to FA and I and User:Sminthopsis84 have tweaked Asa Gray. I was wonder if you had time to copyedit Gray's article up to GA standards? Thank you for your consideration and prior help on Cucurbita. HalfGig talk 22:20, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
I had a look at my talk page on the offchance that I had missed something---and I had! Rothorpe ( talk) 03:10, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
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Because you have so many Copyeditor Barnstars, I'm awarding this, the Special Barnstar, for you being so kind, helpful, polite, quick-responding, and a supreme copy editor. Now we'll see how Asa Gray does as a GA nomination. HalfGig talk 12:38, 27 January 2017 (UTC) |
Here you write a mistake: the marriage ended on 22 December 2015, not "three months later" as you written. Belen is the third Argentinian host of Sanremo (Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo - Sanremo Music Festival), plaese correct here your edit. You can control on IT.WIKI -- 151.67.43.10 ( talk) 00:04, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey! Would you please help me with What's Your Raashee? by copyediting it? I am intending to take this to GA and then FA. I would appreciate your gesture. Krish | Talk 18:59, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
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Corinne, Andy D has accused me here of calling you a liar because I found your statement "not credible" that you had never seen narrow gauge hyphenated when used as an adjective, as in narrow-gauge railway. I want to assure you that I took your comment to be in good faith, not an intentional distortion or lie or anything like that. Yet I don't find it credible, as I said, since the term usually has a hyphen in books, in news, in web pages, in dictionaries such as the OED, etc. I won't be responding directly to Andy's ridiculous complaint, but wanted to be sure you know that I took your comment to be in good faith – yet not credible. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:17, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Corinne, obviously I would have had no opportunity to express lack of credulity if you had said "I don't remember seeing the phrases written with a hyphen", and I presume that's what you really intended. You also note "I think the hyphen is distracting," and I off course believe that's what you think. But look at it this way instead: if you don't remember seeing the hyphen, yet the hyphen is used most of the time in sources written for a general audience, and presuming you're not most looking at railfan-targeted writing, maybe the hyphen is actually not distracting you enough to notice it. I'm pretty sure this is the general way it works in English: that putting hyphens to help people see word-pairs as single units does not distract them, they do not notice or remember the hyphen, they just read more easily. Please review some of your English style and grammar guides and us know whether this makes sense to you in light of what they document and advise. Dicklyon ( talk) 16:48, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Corinne, Are you going to finish copy editing the Belén Rodríguez article? It looks like you were busy talking to other users. It says on the edit summary on January 29, "Removed "GOCE in use" template. Will resume copy-editing tomorrow". You didn't resume copy editing the next day. If you're free from talking to users, could you finish copy editing the article before it gets the article unprotected. You better finish it as quickly as possible. Thanks for your help and I hope the copy edit will be finished as quickly as possible. Talk to you later. 2001:569:70DD:7500:39EA:19D8:DF90:EF4D ( talk) 20:38, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
You are a miracle of patience. E Eng 03:44, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
...but of course you were wasting your time [1]. E Eng 20:42, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Unfortunately I have little personal knowledge about him; I came across the article only in a maintenance-tagging batch, and have never had much to do with the content at all. But my instinct, nonetheless, would be that if we can't properly and reliably source a middle name or initial for him, then it probably shouldn't be there. Bearcat ( talk) 18:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
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Mr rnddude First, I want to thank you very much for the information at Talk:Caracalla#Regarding the "the" issue on the article about the existence of two Roman emperors at the same time for many years. I love to learn new things about history. Your explanation refreshed my memory of history, both lessons in high school many years ago and things I've read since then. I didn't realize, though, that the Byzantine emperors were emperors of an Eastern Roman Empire. I thought it was just the Byzantine Empire, with the Roman Empire being in the west.
I'm also a little confused as to why the emperors in Europe in later centuries had the title of "Holy Roman Emperor". Why was "Holy" added to "Roman Emperor"? Also, why were they called "Holy Roman Emperor" when they were not in Rome at all, but rather in places like Austria (I think)?
If you don't mind, I'd like to point out some errors you made twice in that comment, the one in which you gave me so much information. First, early in the comment, you wrote,
There's "Byzantinum", which I am certain is just a typo. That's not the reason I'm writing. In the clause "which was it's capital", "its" should not have an apostrophe. The word is a possessive adjective (like my, your, his, her, our, and their; it is the third person singular form for things, and maybe also animals; the other two third person singular possessive adjectives are his and her). Also, though it seems more common in the writing of speakers of British English, "which" really should be used only for non-restrictive (or non-identifying, or non-limiting) adjective clauses. If the information in the clause is necessary to identify, restrict, or limit the noun being modified/described, we call it a restrictive clause, and we should use "that". So, the sentence should read:
Mr rnddude Another way to write this that avoids the problem of choosing between "which" and "that", and uses fewer words, is:
Later on, you write:
The word "hundreds" does not need an apostrophe. It is simply the plural form of "hundred", and most plural nouns are formed simply by the addition of "s".
I hope you are not offended or annoyed by my pointing these out to you. I won't do this again if you prefer. – Corinne ( talk) 00:57, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
There's "Byantinum", which I am certain is just a typofrom my mispelled
Byzantinum. If you copied it across you left out the "z", which was what I first noticed and originally thought you were referring to that. I checked and the z was definitely there. It was when I came home I noticed that I'd added a random n into Byzantium and that that was what you were referring to. Mr rnddude ( talk) 02:43, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello Corinne. I'm sorry to pop up out of the blue like this but my friend Gerda thought that you might be able/willing to help me with a small grammar problem. I absolutely don't want to be a nuisance so if you would rather not, please say so; but if it is possible, please indicate and I will ask you my question. Thanks and best wishes, DBaK ( talk) 23:40, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
( edit conflict) This is the third edit conflict I've gotten in the last few minutes, this time with the Today's articles for improvement article.
Hi Corinne, thanks for copyediting Trunajaya rebellion a while back. I added a new section to the article, Trunajaya_rebellion#Forces_involved, would you mind copyediting that too? Not too confident of my English writing skills there. HaEr48 ( talk) 09:02, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
EdChem You are welcome; I'm glad to help. Unfortunately, I found chemistry (in high school) to be my most difficult subject. I found it difficult to have to learn so much about something I could not see or touch – too abstract. In college, I took one more chemistry course (for non-science majors) and passed only because it wasn't much more difficult than the high school course. However, I enjoyed geology and crystallography and mineralogy courses. The basic concepts of chemistry such as atoms, electrons, molecule structure with linked atoms, bonds, etc., I can understand (and I'm fascinated by the table of elements). It's things like "mole" that I had a hard time with. In some ways I can see that chemistry is at the root of all of life, and that the reactions and changes are almost magical, amazing, and often but not always predictable. I admire anyone who understands chemistry. – Corinne ( talk) 15:56, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
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Miniapolis I hope you are enjoying the holidays. I've just made a few copy-edits to Docetism, including to the footnotes. I notice that in most of the footnotes that include passages from books, the passage is in quotation marks, sometimes with a phrase or short passage within the longer passage set off with single quotation marks, as in Note 13, in which the passage begins "N Brox". (I actually added the final double quotation mark since there was an initial double quotation mark at the beginning of the passage.) However, I noticed that in Note 7, from Foster 2009, the passage is not enclosed in double quotation marks, and within the passage there is a title of a work enclosed in double quotation marks. Can you tell me what the usual punctuation for a footnote is? I assume there is a difference between a footnote that is taken directly from a source and a footnote that is merely a comment written by the author of the Wikipedia article. Is a footnote (or material within a footnote) that is taken directly from a source always enclosed in a pair of double quotation marks? – Corinne ( talk) 17:11, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
EEng This week's article for improvement is Tectonics. I've made a few copy-edits. I'd like to ask your opinion about two different things.
1) One is on the wording of one sentence. See Talk:Tectonics#Crust and lithosphere. I've gotten the reply from Vsmith, a geologist. Now I know a comma is not needed before "lithosphere", but I'm still not sure whether we need "the" before "lithosphere". It's got to be clear that "crust" and "lithosphere" are two different things. What do you think?
2) The other is regarding this edit, in which GeoWriter changed "earth" to "Earth". I thought, when the definite article ("the") is used, "earth" does not need to be capitalized. If we follow the pattern of referring to the other planets without the definite article, such as "Mars", "Saturn", etc. – and of course they are capitalized – then we would capitalize "earth" when we refer to our planet without the article: Earth is the third planet from the sun, etc. I certainly don't want to argue with such a knowledgeable person as GeoWriter. I think I've seen discussions regarding this somewhere, but can't remember where. I just wondered what you thought about this. – Corinne ( talk) 15:27, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
I, uh, finally got around to it [2], per your comments on my talk page two months ago, my reply one and a half months ago, and finally actually did it say five minutes ago. Sorry bout the ridiculous delay for a such a simple issue. Oh, and your talk page message wasn't too long for me to be bothered with it. I just completely slipped on it. Belive me, I can't complain about length of comments. Mr rnddude ( talk) 02:45, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Vsmith I don't know whether you have Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates on your watch list (I would assume so), but if you don't, your thoughts might be helpful at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates#Second opinion needed on article being mentored. You probably know that Jo-Jo Eumerus has written quite a few articles on volcanoes and other geographic topics regarding South America, so whatever is learned at this discussion may be pertinent to the others. – Corinne ( talk) 23:14, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Corinne:
I can’t remember now how I stumbled across the GOCE, but early in my WP career I did. I took up a GOCE request and edited the article True Detective. Within hours of doing so I was notified by a GOCE coordinator that it would be advisable that I stick to editing articles with a “Copy Edit” tag until I had more experience. Shortly after that, another GOCE coordinator got in touch and explained that while there was nothing wrong with my copy edits, they were insufficient for a GOCE request. People asking for GOCE copy edits had high expectations of the copy edit – these edits were a “big deal” – since the requesters were going for GA or FA status. I couldn’t just do a quick cursory line edit, I had to be prepared to make substantive edits if necessary and try not to miss anything. I took that advice to heart.
That’s the sort of guidance I thought GOCE coordinators might see fit to pass on in this instance after examining the copy edits in question. That was not the case. I never felt it was my place as a simple editor to mentor and was not doing so.
Instead, a drive by comment has escalated this to the absurd, with accusations of piling on a new editor, which has prompted the coordinator emeritus (who to that point was untroubled by my expression of concern) to launch what comes close to a personal attack suggesting, I guess, that because I had “issues” in the past (explained above) I should be the last one to be commenting on another editor's copy edits or acting as the GOCE “police”. (Bitey or what? :) )
All of this is a lead-in to a big thank you. You eloquently expressed what I had been attempting to do, you understood that I had not detailed all my concerns publicly (there were more), and you suggested that a coordinator should provide guidance to a new editor. I must say, over the past few days, I was sorely tempted to find a new hobby and move along from WP, but your tacit support has convinced me that I’m a big boy and my enjoyment of what I do should come before everything else.
Thank you again, and all the best for 2017. Cheers. Twofingered Typist ( talk) 16:14, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
P.S. As to the suggestion that these things be handled privately by email, I have absolutely no idea how this is done on WP. As far as I know that information is private. So please feel free to delete this when you have read it.
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Hi Corinne,
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Hi, Chris. Happy New Year to you! I made a few copy-edits to the article on Henri-Edmond Cross, then took a look at the caption. I made a few minor changes to the wording. I wonder, does the text have to be centered like it is now? If not, I think left-justified (text to the left margin) is easier to read. – Corinne ( talk) 16:41, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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EEng What do you advise regarding this edit and the one just before it by the same editor? It is unsourced – and added in the middle of an unsourced paragraph with a tag on it – contains some subjective words and phrases such as "luckily", "very healthy life", and "well-respected family", and minor punctuation errors such as a period after "Miss". Would you simply revert both edits, with an edit summary saying "Removing unsourced material; see WP:RS", or leave it there and place another "citation needed" tag and/or leave a note on the editor's talk page with some advice and a few links? I think it was a good-faith edit; it's just that the editor doesn't know the WP basics. – Corinne ( talk) 23:08, 11 February 2017 (UTC)