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For your work on the History of Allahabad article :) œ ™ 15:46, 2 November 2009 (UTC) |
Can you help copy edit Dravidian parties and Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics? The former was nominated for GA but was not promoted mainly because of the style. Other issues raised are now sorted. Your help will be very much appreciated. Cheers Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 12:39, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
...copyedit Kohala (mountain)? I asked my comrades and they're all busy so now I ask a stranger who just so happens to be a copyedit-er. Plz? :D Res Mar 02:21, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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Great work copy editing the Universal monsters page. Keep up the good work Theo10011 ( talk) 23:09, 26 December 2009 (UTC) |
Hi Dianna. Love the cat. Just wanted to call to your attention the preferred use of "gay and lesbian" over "homosexual". This is in regard to your changes to the Madeline Davis entry. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:IDENTITY#IdentitySee and http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gays-anatomy/200810/the-terms-homosexual-and-the-n-word. Thanks-- Aichikawa ( talk) 19:18, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Diannaa, your recent edit to the Orthodox Union article did something weird. A diff [1] to the previous version shows the entire Sysnagogue Affiliation section to be changed. Do you know what caused this? Hard to see how small copy edits could do that. I do see that the text immediately preceding switched a fact-template at the end to a ref, which might be outside the scope of copyediting, but still seems unlikely to cause the analyzer to fail. Dovid ( talk) 19:16, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you kindly for the barnstar! I hope to see you around the project. TheTito Discuss 10:59, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I've responded on the page. RG ( talk) 02:38, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Namashkar Diana, after a long while I had a look at the Rajput article again and saw the usual gross distortion of historical facts and dubious assertive and opinionated distortion of historical data so I did some brief edit of the article. With regards to the title of the article you reverted, it is in my opinion that within realm of Indian historiography there was never a Maratha Empire, as during this period of Maratha ascention (1720s) till up to the early 1800s there was certainly no centralized governmental system in the Indian subcontinent, but although the Marathas were certainly the dominant/expansive power at the time there ever a Maratha emperor. The Marathas themselves were powerful but rigidly diveded people as authority was rarely in absolute hands of the supposed Brahminical head of the Marathas (the Peshwa), as different clannish warlords usually had their way. Rather than jumping to conclusions and create suggestive heading I thought it would be more appropriate to attempt to summarise the period in to a more holistic historical heading. 'Maratha empire' certianly sounds neater than 'Disintegration of the Mughal empire, Maratha disturbance to the British Raj' but it would be a gross distortion and simplification of pre-modern Indian history. Perhaps a more holistic title to this particularly troubled period in history is need?? Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated, do let me know. Maharaj Devraj ( talk) 12:13, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, been away for a short while. Concerning the heading of the concerned section, I would not be too suprised that the term being used in the Maratha empire article, as there are some element of certain right wing ideologies of mordern India involved here, although in my own opinion the Marattha's form of governence is more inclined fowards a ' confederate' rather than a centralised 'empire' with an emperor, so based on your suggestion I would much rather prefer some thing like 'Marattha ascendency'? Such simplification would still not do justice to the period of chaos that was 18th century India though, so seems like we got some kind of dilemma here.
Yeah, totally agree with you that a lot of Indian article needs editing. I will try to gruadual browse through some of the historical/cultural articles!
Let me give some thought to this matter for a day or two, also got to mention that Rajasthan and northern India was certainly never directly under control of the Maratha state you mentioned. Maharaj Devraj ( talk) 12:20, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:16, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)left = margin:0.2em 0.5em 0.2em 0; width:{{= Apprentice Editor verging on incivility, and is assisting biased editors ==
I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
I think Kookookoojoob is another sock puppet. Could you look into this? It seems obvious now. I don't know how to report and fill out those forms the way you did. Would you be able to do that, if you agree with my suspicion?-- Devanagari108 ( talk) 22:16, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your message. I've reminded Tao about playing the ball, not the player. If it happens again sanctions will follow. I'm also keeping an eye on the article and related matters; I think a fairly short leash (adminwise) might be helpful, so I'll post something to the article talk page. EyeSerene talk 12:38, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar! -- Panda609 ( talk) 23:40, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, quick question. In the Lead for Adi Da his other names are in quotation marks, and I was wondering if that is necessary and/or correct to do? Or if they should simply remain bolded. I notice in some other articles the other names are just bolded. Just a grammatical/encyclopedic question!-- Devanagari108 ( talk) 05:53, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi again, I was wondering if, as a copy editor, you would be interested in tightening up the grammar on the Adi Da page? It needs some work in terms of grammatical flow, such as placing of commas, etc.-- Devanagari108 ( talk) 02:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Could you check WP:External Links and see what you think about the last two External Links on the Adi Da page? It seems to me that the two official links should stay, but I question keeping "Case of Adi Da", since that is cited in the article, and Rick Ross, which is also cited within the article. But my understanding is not complete, so I'm curious what you might conclude about those links based on the policy (which I skimmed).-- Devanagari108 ( talk) 07:32, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa. I noticed that you have been copy-editing my sandbox User:White Shadows/German U-boat bases in occupied France. Is it almost ready to go to the mainspace? Are there any Copyright violations still in existence?-- White Shadows you're breaking up 21:57, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. You could well be right about the identity of the IP, but as far as admin action goes it's largely irrelevant unless it's an indication that socking or block evasion is going on (which isn't the case as Tao apparently isn't editing from their account and their block has expired). What matters is the level of disruption caused, and at the moment there's not enough to merit any sort of protection or block. Your warning to the IP is appropriate so I think we should just maintain a watching brief for now. I don't know if it's worth adding that personally I believe Tao's suspicions about David Starr wanting to whitewash the article were correct, but as he's not editing now there's certainly no reason for inflammatory comments. Removing it was probably the right think to do. All the best, EyeSerene talk 11:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
[2]. It appears to be an interesting possibility. I want to make sure I am clear on the goal here, though. Basically this involves general cleanup and refactoring of existing content, the addition of references and such, perhaps some fleshing out if needed, etc. And from the link you provided bringing things into conformance with the manual of style is also an important goal as well. Is this the proper idea of what is meant by copy-editing? -- GoRight ( talk) 13:52, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for all of the hard work you put into this article. Do you think that it's ready for a GAN? I know that there is one more problem, the citation needed tags in the Airforce section but other than that, this is a very good article IMHO.-- White Shadows you're breaking up 22:43, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, thank you, Thank you!!! – ukexpat ( talk) 18:19, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
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more NPOV was needed as Arius also claimed to believe in a literal "Son" and for that reason he said that the Son must have come after the Father...so the prior reading was POV. Your summarily removing what I put in was uncalled for. Arius claimed to believe in a "literal Son" too.
In fact what's written further down in the very same article STATES that. About Arius's own position...."were he a son in the truest sense" Arius argued, "he must have come after the Father."
And it's been argued that Athanasius was the one that really took the position of a metaphorical Son. (No literal son is the same age as his literal father). But I did not put there. How I re-worded it made it simply NEUTRAL AND OBJECTIVE. That it is CLAIMED that Athanius took the first view, and that Arius took the second. That notion is actually disputed. And is a matter of opinion. And it was being stated as fact in the article. (wrongly)
In fact some people say that just the opposite, about Athanasius and Arius, is true compared to what was stated in the article.
the prior reading is contested by nontrinitarian churches and was POV. Please do not revert again, as this will result in an edit war. I'll just re-do it again. thank you
Thank you, thank you, Thank you!!! – ukexpat ( talk) 18:19, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hope you don't mind that I took another go at trying to fix the situation at All Day Music and gave my reason at Editor assistance. Despite accusations from the other editor involved, I am not an inexperienced editor, nor one who is hard to get along with, and I'm not trying to assert article ownership. I only made a couple of edits to the article before this happened, and am not its original author. More importantly, I have given reasons for my changes, and I believe article ownership issues have to do with people who just want it "their way" and don't care to discuss reasons for it. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 00:16, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Excuse me I'm wrong by scoring the vandalism that does not affect you but it was for the version of that person (99.24.161.251) which has sentences that do not relate to that page but which is in North Africa and Morocco. I apologize if you'd think that you are targeting. I had no idea how to correct my mistake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Comesturnruler ( talk • contribs) 18:49, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, (I've also replied to what you said on my Editor Review). Can you do a copy edit for German submarine U-43 (1939), it's currently undergoing a GAN and the reviewer wants the article to be copy edited. Thanks ;)-- White Shadows you're breaking up 01:39, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
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Please see Talk:Battle of the Netherlands/GA2 for more information. This article is on hold for GA. Chris ( talk) 21:38, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, as a member of the Guild of Copy Editors you're hereby notified of and invited to participate in the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2010. Please help us eliminate the 8,000+ copyedit backlog! Participating editors will receive barnstars and other awards, according to their level of participation. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 00:20, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
Here's a cookie for you! Thank you very much for the excellent copyedit on Organization_of_the_Luftwaffe_(1933–1945). ' Perseus 71 talk 21:43, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
As I understand the protocol (or maybe I don't), a editor should not replace an entire article from scratch, without conversing with other active editors on the site. That is the issue, not content. It is much easier to edit, if changes are done slowly, not massively. Did you see my suggested plan on the Article Talk? Is that a good approach?-- Mrhorseracer ( talk) 13:52, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I don't mean to bother you or anything but can you copy-edit the current GAN Penelope Cruz? The GA reviewer said that the article needs to be copy-edited by Monday May 3 or else they will fail the article due to prose problems. I left a request at the Copy-editors request page but I have not gotten any feedback and I asked another editor if they could do a copy-edit but they were unable to due to scheduling conflicts. I would so very grateful if you could do a copy-edit on the article. Thanks, Crystal Clear x3 17:58, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for your hard work on your copy-edit for the Penelope Cruz article! Crystal Clear x3 05:33, 1 May 2010 (UTC) |
Hi Diannaa. I've seen the great work you do at Editor assistance/Requests. Do you watch Wikipedia:New contributors' help page as well? It's basically the same thing, but is more likely to attract questions from new users, though experienced users post questions there too. I've been posting replies on that page for over a year, but only started going over to Editor assistance regularly in the last month. I don't know if my answers are always the best, though. I don't have a ready list of answers to common questions, and am likely to respond off the cuff, which may look better than a cut and paste answer, but I may be missing concise answers. I think your style is the best of any of the regulars. The new contribs page does tend to get a lot of "how do I post an article", "how do I upload a picture" questions, which can be tedious, but again it's not too different from the other help pages. You would be very welcome there. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 19:05, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
From your recent edit I conclude I did not clearly explain in the text why Walker board set a minimum for normal load, so I tried again. Thanks for pointing it out. Just to clarify in case it is still not clearly explained: The low normal load of 400 tons (25% of the maximum) was a trick from the shipyard to decrease the draft and increase the speed during trials. The Walker board ended the malpractice by specifying a minimum. Yoenit ( talk) 18:07, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
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I am writing to inform you that we have introduced additional Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Awards for the drive. To qualify, you will need to add an asterisk to all the full copyedits you have completed from the Requests page. More information can be found in the awards section of the Drive. If you have any questions, please post them to the Drive's talk page. Once again, thank you for participating, and we look forward to a meaningful drop in the numbers due to your hard work and efforts. |
I just wanted to thank you for your kindness regarding: Talk:Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrucken. I feel a little embarrassed to say that this user has long intimidated me from editing from an account. We have been in dispute in both English and Swedish wikipedia before, and the discussion have always looked about the same way as this one, so I suppose I felt that an account would expose me to more of this. It feels better to know that I did nothing wrong, and in the future, I will not hesitate to ask for a third opinion. Perhaps I will edit from an account in the future. Again: thank you for your help! -- 85.226.43.194 ( talk) 22:05, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Please do not accuse me of war, when I am actively engaged in discussion about this article. Please see discussion page for rationales behind my edits. And to clarify again, I am not providing speculation or research, only summarisation of a novel. Thank you for your attention. -- Alwpoe ( talk) 10:11, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that problem with all the edit boxes being clustered up. It was very annoying! Torchiest talk/ contribs 16:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Someone smart put up a leaderboard at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Backlog_elimination_drives/May_2010#Progress. You're on it, so if you can keep your numbers on it updated as you post your running totals, that would be helpful and much appreciated! ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 15:08, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I saw the new leaderboard. You'll need to keep that updated if you want it to stay. And I'm a little hesitant to add a chart like that if it doesn't include everyone who is getting a barnstar. I'd hate for the guys with 4,000 words to go "Hey, where's my barnstar?" You may want to include a note that says its only listing the top ten. Also, the purpose of a leaderboard is generally to show how people are doing in a competition, and nobody is competing for barnstars...just the Gold Star Award. But I'm not going to ask you to take it down. Just expressing my opinion. Thanks again for the newsletter. I'll get it out here in a couple hours. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 01:29, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
That's another GA candidate I have been working on. If you get time, can you correct the grammar? -- Jaan Pärn ( talk) 15:35, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now reached the halfway point, and here's what has happened so far.
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I forgot to respond to you about your editing on USS Constitution. Just wanted to relate my thanks for fixing things up. -- Brad ( talk) 00:01, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you do me a favor? I've got a lot going on IRL in the next couple days. Could you and SMasters work out a final newsletter to send to everyone? He's pretty good with graphic layout, and you're the communications deputy for the drive, so you two should make a great team on this. You're going to want to provide some statistics, like total number of words copyedited, total articles edited, etc. If you don't have time to do any of this, that's okay. I'll just do it when I get back. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 01:33, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for helping coordinate the drive, Diannaa. I had a lot of fun. fds Talk 15:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hey there Diannaa! Can you please copy edit this article for me so it can pass a GAN? Sturmvogel 66 wishes for the prose to be reworded and fixed up a bit. Thanks.-- White Shadows stood on the edge 01:17, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Diannaa, as I was cleaning out CAT:TEMP, I kept noticing your name. Accordingly, I have turned on the WP:ROLLBACK feature for your account. Please let me know if you don't want it, and please read that page to see when and when not to use the new button. Happy editing! Courcelles ( talk) 15:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
I started giving out the barnstars, then got bogged down with other things right after the Working Man's Barnstar. Can you give out the Cleanup and higher awards? I'll do the leaderboard awards. If it is too much for you, shanghai S Masters too. You can grab the language for the award off the page of one of the Working Man Barnstar Awardees. Pretty basic. Just notes the number of articles and total words, really. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 07:29, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
User:IBen/TB mono 03:34, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
The Guild of Copy Editors' Award | ||
Diannaa, for your hard work and dedication to the encyclopedia during the May 2010 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive, copyediting the second most articles (212) and the second largest amount of text (136,200 words); for your service to the GOCE in co-coordinating the drive; and for being there for me when I needed your help; I hereby award you this special GOCE Gold Star Award, for an absolutely stellar performance. You have my warmest thanks. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:36, 10 June 2010 (UTC) |
Hi Diannaa, I've been thinking a lot about marketing the drive, and I think one thing that would help is if we monitored the signups closely, and sent a welcome message to each new sign-up, with an exhortation to ask friends to join the drive. My target for participation this drive is 60 active participants, about double the last one. I'm also about to send out a notice to all GOCE members announcing the drive. Do you have any other ideas? ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 14:19, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can to get it down to a manageable number. We've ambitiously set a goal of clearing all of 2008 from the backlog this month. In order to do that, we're going to need more participants. Is there anyone that you can invite or ask to participate with you? If so, we're offering an award to the person who brings in the most referrals. Just notify ɳorɑfʈ Talk! or Diannaa TALK of who your referrals are. Once again, thanks for your support!
ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 02:12, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to invite you to participate in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. In May, about 30 editors helped remove the {{copyedit}} tag from 1175 articles. The backlog is still over 7500 articles, and extends back to the beginning of 2008! We really need your help to reduce it. Copyediting just a couple articles can qualify you for a barnstar. Serious copyeditors can win prestigious and exclusive rewards. See the event page for more information. And thanks for your consideration. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 14:41, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I invited Jimmy Wales to sign up, and he did! I told him that if he symbolically copyedited a single article for the drive, that we give us a lot of good exposure, which would help participation. I also offered to find him a short article to work on. I have a little assignment for you. I'd like you to post on his user page, introducing yourself as the drive communications coordinator, welcoming him to the drive as a participant (in reality what you're doing is both welcoming him and advertising to everyone who watches his page that he's signed up), and saying something along the lines of "we know you're busy, so would you like us to find you a short article to edit, or would you like to proceed on your own?" ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 10:57, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can muster to get it down to a manageable number, so the exposure this project receives from your participation will be incredibly helpful. If you would like to take Noraft's suggestion and symbolically copyedit a single article, one of us would be happy to choose one for you if you want. Or if you have time to do more than one, that would be great too. As the drive communications coordinator, I thank you on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors for your support! Diannaa TALK 16:05, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
User:IBen/TB mono 00:45, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, regarding your request for referrals to the CopyEdit Drive, User:SuperHamster might like to join. |:-) ~ Qwerp Qwertus · _Talk_· _Talkback Me_· 05:38, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
User:IBen/TB — mono pending changes begin june 15 03:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for the copy edit very much appreciated. -- Jim Sweeney ( talk) 10:37, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, nice to say hi, you've been to my talk posting things and I've never come by to say Hey. Have a small (Dumb) question, I recently opened my Public alternate account, my dumb question is can I edit in both accounts for the drive and log my complete articles under my main, or both, or none, or I can Only edit for the drive under the account I've signed up with (this one is my guess), but the only dumb question is "the one NOT asked" t Thanks Mlpearc pull my chain 'Tribs 16:05, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I see you are active on the pop history articles again. Can you go through the Dusty Springfield article for grammar? I have written it but I'm not a native speaker. Thanks! -- Jaan Pärn ( talk) 10:19, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I've just re-edited Stuart period, from the original Stuart period (England). I've fixed the dabs, and put a {copyedit tag} on it. I would like to take this to (my 1st) - {WP:GA+} article. As this article covers over 100 years of history, (social, royal, political and military &c), I would be most pleased if you, or anyone you suggest, could help me with any suggestions, or improvements, &/or Copy-edits? Thank you kindly for your time, and concideration, regards Steve. Stephen2nd ( talk) 15:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).
Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.
When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.
If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles ( talk) 20:56, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your copyedit! Commas before quotes seemed odd to me too, but I added them after reading this. But this gives exceptions. So now I know. :) -- mav ( reviews needed) 01:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, I certifiably don't wish to be involved in an edit war, however the other user, simply ignored the discussion posted by me and another user and kept reverting changes with any discussion at all. What is the best course of action in that case? Also I see that you have reverted the changes that I have made, this article is about an ethnic minority in the US, Russians, Ukrainians are not the same ethnic group, there is already a separate page for Ukrainian-Americans, etc. Please take a look the discussion and re post my changes. Sotnik ( talk) 04:32, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your help, and sorry I misspelled your user name twice.
1. I've read Lord of the Flies and know who Jack Merridew is. What this Jack Merridew has done, however, is link his user name to that page. Did you notice we have two Lord of the Flies pages? The real one, and the one he copied and linked to his user name. Here are the two:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
Oh, now I see--I thought WP pages labeled "(Redirected from...) permanently carried the label.
2. I know how to find user pages and talk pages and revision history pages. I was asking how to find user account history pages. Nuujinn provided the User:Jack Merridew/History link; I'm asking how I would find that on my own. Would I have to type in "user:jack merridew/history" to Google search, or can it be found from his user page? I googled for one for you and for me, and found we don't have one.
I'm astonished at the hijinks WP allows.
Thanks again, --
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Why are you editing pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_School,_Rajajinagar? It's a private school, not a public school. Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_school_(India_and_Sri_Lanka). Vvneagleone ( talk) 17:27, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I wanted to say that you've been doing an awesome job of contacting folks who have signed up for the drive. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 15:22, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
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HI
Thanks for the reply. I didn't put any refs in myself but should have spotted that punctuation after ref. As there were already external links I thought it would be best to keep to the established format as I didnt what to change the ones there already into. I will make sure I remove them in future.
Also I didn't realise that if the article is Sugar and I link to sugar it would work - past experience has shown me that I had to get the capitalisation the same as the article name or the link would fail. I must have missed something there along the way.
I thought headers that were names would follow the same as for page titles - As it was the Biositemap Information Model (the name of it) I thought it should have been caps.
Thanks for your time on that and for the kind words :¬)
Chaosdruid ( talk) 04:32, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Just wondering if you have finished copyediting the article. Gage ( talk) 10:23, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
I'd suggest you invite User:Nihil novi. I told him about the copyediting drive, but an invitation from you should inspire him further :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:34, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for copyediting Spies Reminiscent of Us, still needs just a slight expansion in the reception section on my part, but I hope to have it at GA sometime in the near future. I was wondering though if you could help me out again by taking a few looks at Road to the Multiverse. I've added it to the GOCE requests page, so if you can't I'm sure someone else can take a glance, but I really envy your work ethic, and hope you'll consider giving the article a somewhat thorough copyedit, as I've also listed the article for a peer review, in hopes of eventually getting to featured status, though that is a long way off. Thanks again. Gage ( talk) 03:27, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to take a moment and announce that the July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive has started, and will run for a month. Thanks for signing up. There's a special prize for most edits on the first day, in case you've got high ambitions. Enjoy! ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 03:59, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
THANK YOU for the copy edit, very much appreciated. -- Jim Sweeney ( talk) 09:05, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I got AirplanePro2000 and HJ Mitchell both invited to join. AirplanePro Radio Checklist 00:42, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Re this issue. I am doing the best I can to communicate on the talk page of the associated article. Trust the relevant Wiki editors will do likewise. It's probably ok to clear the thread for now if you want.
Neil Parker ( talk) 11:58, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Ok thanks - have filed an rfc as you suggest. Will be interesting to see what comment comes out of it.
Neil Parker ( talk) 09:53, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I know that you've already copy-edited this article before but can you go over the Armament and crew section one more time on the German Type IXA submarine article? I only have to fix up the prose, fix any spelling mistakes in the article and seperate the paragraphs a bit more and then the GAN will finaly pass. Thank you so much :)-- White Shadows There goes another day 19:01, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa, I'm having a problem with activating the link for page size. I have followed the instructions, but the page size option has not appeared when I have visited different articles. I'd really appreciate some help - thanks! David Rush ( talk) 14:58, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I tried what you said, but it still doesn't appear to be working. I should be able to see the words page size on the left of the screen when looking at any Wikipedia article, right? Thanks for your help so far! :) David Rush ( talk) 16:01, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I changed to the Vector skin as you suggested and it's working now! Thank you! :) David Rush ( talk) 16:22, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
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For your work on the History of Allahabad article :) œ ™ 15:46, 2 November 2009 (UTC) |
Can you help copy edit Dravidian parties and Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics? The former was nominated for GA but was not promoted mainly because of the style. Other issues raised are now sorted. Your help will be very much appreciated. Cheers Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 12:39, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
...copyedit Kohala (mountain)? I asked my comrades and they're all busy so now I ask a stranger who just so happens to be a copyedit-er. Plz? :D Res Mar 02:21, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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Great work copy editing the Universal monsters page. Keep up the good work Theo10011 ( talk) 23:09, 26 December 2009 (UTC) |
Hi Dianna. Love the cat. Just wanted to call to your attention the preferred use of "gay and lesbian" over "homosexual". This is in regard to your changes to the Madeline Davis entry. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:IDENTITY#IdentitySee and http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gays-anatomy/200810/the-terms-homosexual-and-the-n-word. Thanks-- Aichikawa ( talk) 19:18, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Diannaa, your recent edit to the Orthodox Union article did something weird. A diff [1] to the previous version shows the entire Sysnagogue Affiliation section to be changed. Do you know what caused this? Hard to see how small copy edits could do that. I do see that the text immediately preceding switched a fact-template at the end to a ref, which might be outside the scope of copyediting, but still seems unlikely to cause the analyzer to fail. Dovid ( talk) 19:16, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you kindly for the barnstar! I hope to see you around the project. TheTito Discuss 10:59, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I've responded on the page. RG ( talk) 02:38, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Namashkar Diana, after a long while I had a look at the Rajput article again and saw the usual gross distortion of historical facts and dubious assertive and opinionated distortion of historical data so I did some brief edit of the article. With regards to the title of the article you reverted, it is in my opinion that within realm of Indian historiography there was never a Maratha Empire, as during this period of Maratha ascention (1720s) till up to the early 1800s there was certainly no centralized governmental system in the Indian subcontinent, but although the Marathas were certainly the dominant/expansive power at the time there ever a Maratha emperor. The Marathas themselves were powerful but rigidly diveded people as authority was rarely in absolute hands of the supposed Brahminical head of the Marathas (the Peshwa), as different clannish warlords usually had their way. Rather than jumping to conclusions and create suggestive heading I thought it would be more appropriate to attempt to summarise the period in to a more holistic historical heading. 'Maratha empire' certianly sounds neater than 'Disintegration of the Mughal empire, Maratha disturbance to the British Raj' but it would be a gross distortion and simplification of pre-modern Indian history. Perhaps a more holistic title to this particularly troubled period in history is need?? Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated, do let me know. Maharaj Devraj ( talk) 12:13, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, been away for a short while. Concerning the heading of the concerned section, I would not be too suprised that the term being used in the Maratha empire article, as there are some element of certain right wing ideologies of mordern India involved here, although in my own opinion the Marattha's form of governence is more inclined fowards a ' confederate' rather than a centralised 'empire' with an emperor, so based on your suggestion I would much rather prefer some thing like 'Marattha ascendency'? Such simplification would still not do justice to the period of chaos that was 18th century India though, so seems like we got some kind of dilemma here.
Yeah, totally agree with you that a lot of Indian article needs editing. I will try to gruadual browse through some of the historical/cultural articles!
Let me give some thought to this matter for a day or two, also got to mention that Rajasthan and northern India was certainly never directly under control of the Maratha state you mentioned. Maharaj Devraj ( talk) 12:20, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)left = margin:0.2em 0.5em 0.2em 0; width:{{= Apprentice Editor verging on incivility, and is assisting biased editors ==
I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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I'd just like to leave record here that Diannaa has been sarcastic and 'snarky' in some of her comments after inserting herself into editing conflicts on the Adi Da page. She has sided with biased editors and not attempted to meet good faith POV editing suggestions by established editor on page (that would be me.) She has aided biased editors long-documented attempts to remove cited and sourced factual info that met NPOV standards, calling a 2-against-1 simple majority 'consensus', and has for my attempts to argue my case and keep these edits from occurring unfairly and unjustifiably accused me of incivility, vandalism, and a string of infractions that verges on template blasting. She waited for a single day that I was inactive, pointing to this and saying "let's make the edits." She is essentially helping to bully a 'minority' view, on a highly contentious page on a controversial religious figure/cult leader. This is not the high level of neutrality that Admin's have typically shown, on this page or others. I am not aspiring to be one, so I am sometimes frank and blunt in my comments with biased editors. However, admins should be held to a higher standard, that I do not feel she has met. I have been editing for many months longer than she has, especially on this page, and she has addressed me with contempt and arrogance, not respecting that she has little familiarity with topic or the page's history. I wish for this record to simply document my perception of her activities. Tao2911 ( talk) 17:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
I think Kookookoojoob is another sock puppet. Could you look into this? It seems obvious now. I don't know how to report and fill out those forms the way you did. Would you be able to do that, if you agree with my suspicion?-- Devanagari108 ( talk) 22:16, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your message. I've reminded Tao about playing the ball, not the player. If it happens again sanctions will follow. I'm also keeping an eye on the article and related matters; I think a fairly short leash (adminwise) might be helpful, so I'll post something to the article talk page. EyeSerene talk 12:38, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar! -- Panda609 ( talk) 23:40, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, quick question. In the Lead for Adi Da his other names are in quotation marks, and I was wondering if that is necessary and/or correct to do? Or if they should simply remain bolded. I notice in some other articles the other names are just bolded. Just a grammatical/encyclopedic question!-- Devanagari108 ( talk) 05:53, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi again, I was wondering if, as a copy editor, you would be interested in tightening up the grammar on the Adi Da page? It needs some work in terms of grammatical flow, such as placing of commas, etc.-- Devanagari108 ( talk) 02:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Could you check WP:External Links and see what you think about the last two External Links on the Adi Da page? It seems to me that the two official links should stay, but I question keeping "Case of Adi Da", since that is cited in the article, and Rick Ross, which is also cited within the article. But my understanding is not complete, so I'm curious what you might conclude about those links based on the policy (which I skimmed).-- Devanagari108 ( talk) 07:32, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa. I noticed that you have been copy-editing my sandbox User:White Shadows/German U-boat bases in occupied France. Is it almost ready to go to the mainspace? Are there any Copyright violations still in existence?-- White Shadows you're breaking up 21:57, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. You could well be right about the identity of the IP, but as far as admin action goes it's largely irrelevant unless it's an indication that socking or block evasion is going on (which isn't the case as Tao apparently isn't editing from their account and their block has expired). What matters is the level of disruption caused, and at the moment there's not enough to merit any sort of protection or block. Your warning to the IP is appropriate so I think we should just maintain a watching brief for now. I don't know if it's worth adding that personally I believe Tao's suspicions about David Starr wanting to whitewash the article were correct, but as he's not editing now there's certainly no reason for inflammatory comments. Removing it was probably the right think to do. All the best, EyeSerene talk 11:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
[2]. It appears to be an interesting possibility. I want to make sure I am clear on the goal here, though. Basically this involves general cleanup and refactoring of existing content, the addition of references and such, perhaps some fleshing out if needed, etc. And from the link you provided bringing things into conformance with the manual of style is also an important goal as well. Is this the proper idea of what is meant by copy-editing? -- GoRight ( talk) 13:52, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for all of the hard work you put into this article. Do you think that it's ready for a GAN? I know that there is one more problem, the citation needed tags in the Airforce section but other than that, this is a very good article IMHO.-- White Shadows you're breaking up 22:43, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
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more NPOV was needed as Arius also claimed to believe in a literal "Son" and for that reason he said that the Son must have come after the Father...so the prior reading was POV. Your summarily removing what I put in was uncalled for. Arius claimed to believe in a "literal Son" too.
In fact what's written further down in the very same article STATES that. About Arius's own position...."were he a son in the truest sense" Arius argued, "he must have come after the Father."
And it's been argued that Athanasius was the one that really took the position of a metaphorical Son. (No literal son is the same age as his literal father). But I did not put there. How I re-worded it made it simply NEUTRAL AND OBJECTIVE. That it is CLAIMED that Athanius took the first view, and that Arius took the second. That notion is actually disputed. And is a matter of opinion. And it was being stated as fact in the article. (wrongly)
In fact some people say that just the opposite, about Athanasius and Arius, is true compared to what was stated in the article.
the prior reading is contested by nontrinitarian churches and was POV. Please do not revert again, as this will result in an edit war. I'll just re-do it again. thank you
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Hope you don't mind that I took another go at trying to fix the situation at All Day Music and gave my reason at Editor assistance. Despite accusations from the other editor involved, I am not an inexperienced editor, nor one who is hard to get along with, and I'm not trying to assert article ownership. I only made a couple of edits to the article before this happened, and am not its original author. More importantly, I have given reasons for my changes, and I believe article ownership issues have to do with people who just want it "their way" and don't care to discuss reasons for it. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 00:16, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Excuse me I'm wrong by scoring the vandalism that does not affect you but it was for the version of that person (99.24.161.251) which has sentences that do not relate to that page but which is in North Africa and Morocco. I apologize if you'd think that you are targeting. I had no idea how to correct my mistake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Comesturnruler ( talk • contribs) 18:49, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, (I've also replied to what you said on my Editor Review). Can you do a copy edit for German submarine U-43 (1939), it's currently undergoing a GAN and the reviewer wants the article to be copy edited. Thanks ;)-- White Shadows you're breaking up 01:39, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
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Please see Talk:Battle of the Netherlands/GA2 for more information. This article is on hold for GA. Chris ( talk) 21:38, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, as a member of the Guild of Copy Editors you're hereby notified of and invited to participate in the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2010. Please help us eliminate the 8,000+ copyedit backlog! Participating editors will receive barnstars and other awards, according to their level of participation. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 00:20, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
Here's a cookie for you! Thank you very much for the excellent copyedit on Organization_of_the_Luftwaffe_(1933–1945). ' Perseus 71 talk 21:43, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
As I understand the protocol (or maybe I don't), a editor should not replace an entire article from scratch, without conversing with other active editors on the site. That is the issue, not content. It is much easier to edit, if changes are done slowly, not massively. Did you see my suggested plan on the Article Talk? Is that a good approach?-- Mrhorseracer ( talk) 13:52, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I don't mean to bother you or anything but can you copy-edit the current GAN Penelope Cruz? The GA reviewer said that the article needs to be copy-edited by Monday May 3 or else they will fail the article due to prose problems. I left a request at the Copy-editors request page but I have not gotten any feedback and I asked another editor if they could do a copy-edit but they were unable to due to scheduling conflicts. I would so very grateful if you could do a copy-edit on the article. Thanks, Crystal Clear x3 17:58, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for your hard work on your copy-edit for the Penelope Cruz article! Crystal Clear x3 05:33, 1 May 2010 (UTC) |
Hi Diannaa. I've seen the great work you do at Editor assistance/Requests. Do you watch Wikipedia:New contributors' help page as well? It's basically the same thing, but is more likely to attract questions from new users, though experienced users post questions there too. I've been posting replies on that page for over a year, but only started going over to Editor assistance regularly in the last month. I don't know if my answers are always the best, though. I don't have a ready list of answers to common questions, and am likely to respond off the cuff, which may look better than a cut and paste answer, but I may be missing concise answers. I think your style is the best of any of the regulars. The new contribs page does tend to get a lot of "how do I post an article", "how do I upload a picture" questions, which can be tedious, but again it's not too different from the other help pages. You would be very welcome there. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 19:05, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
From your recent edit I conclude I did not clearly explain in the text why Walker board set a minimum for normal load, so I tried again. Thanks for pointing it out. Just to clarify in case it is still not clearly explained: The low normal load of 400 tons (25% of the maximum) was a trick from the shipyard to decrease the draft and increase the speed during trials. The Walker board ended the malpractice by specifying a minimum. Yoenit ( talk) 18:07, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
On behalf of the coordinator of the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
Backlog elimination drive for May 2010,
ɳorɑfʈ
Talk!, I would like to thank you for your active participation in the Drive.
I am writing to inform you that we have introduced additional Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Awards for the drive. To qualify, you will need to add an asterisk to all the full copyedits you have completed from the Requests page. More information can be found in the awards section of the Drive. If you have any questions, please post them to the Drive's talk page. Once again, thank you for participating, and we look forward to a meaningful drop in the numbers due to your hard work and efforts. |
I just wanted to thank you for your kindness regarding: Talk:Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrucken. I feel a little embarrassed to say that this user has long intimidated me from editing from an account. We have been in dispute in both English and Swedish wikipedia before, and the discussion have always looked about the same way as this one, so I suppose I felt that an account would expose me to more of this. It feels better to know that I did nothing wrong, and in the future, I will not hesitate to ask for a third opinion. Perhaps I will edit from an account in the future. Again: thank you for your help! -- 85.226.43.194 ( talk) 22:05, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Please do not accuse me of war, when I am actively engaged in discussion about this article. Please see discussion page for rationales behind my edits. And to clarify again, I am not providing speculation or research, only summarisation of a novel. Thank you for your attention. -- Alwpoe ( talk) 10:11, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that problem with all the edit boxes being clustered up. It was very annoying! Torchiest talk/ contribs 16:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Someone smart put up a leaderboard at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Backlog_elimination_drives/May_2010#Progress. You're on it, so if you can keep your numbers on it updated as you post your running totals, that would be helpful and much appreciated! ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 15:08, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I saw the new leaderboard. You'll need to keep that updated if you want it to stay. And I'm a little hesitant to add a chart like that if it doesn't include everyone who is getting a barnstar. I'd hate for the guys with 4,000 words to go "Hey, where's my barnstar?" You may want to include a note that says its only listing the top ten. Also, the purpose of a leaderboard is generally to show how people are doing in a competition, and nobody is competing for barnstars...just the Gold Star Award. But I'm not going to ask you to take it down. Just expressing my opinion. Thanks again for the newsletter. I'll get it out here in a couple hours. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 01:29, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
That's another GA candidate I have been working on. If you get time, can you correct the grammar? -- Jaan Pärn ( talk) 15:35, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now reached the halfway point, and here's what has happened so far.
Thank you very much for your participation so far! This newsletter by
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I forgot to respond to you about your editing on USS Constitution. Just wanted to relate my thanks for fixing things up. -- Brad ( talk) 00:01, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you do me a favor? I've got a lot going on IRL in the next couple days. Could you and SMasters work out a final newsletter to send to everyone? He's pretty good with graphic layout, and you're the communications deputy for the drive, so you two should make a great team on this. You're going to want to provide some statistics, like total number of words copyedited, total articles edited, etc. If you don't have time to do any of this, that's okay. I'll just do it when I get back. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 01:33, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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Moving forward The drive has not only forced a great leap forward in reducing the backlog. It has helped promote the Guild, and led to a greater awareness of the level of vigilance required to keep the backlog manageable. Ideas such as charts, graphs, and barnstars helped motivate editors, and meeting other users helped quell any feelings gnomish editors may have had in the past that they were toiling all alone. Keep up the good work people!! Stats
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Thanks for helping coordinate the drive, Diannaa. I had a lot of fun. fds Talk 15:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hey there Diannaa! Can you please copy edit this article for me so it can pass a GAN? Sturmvogel 66 wishes for the prose to be reworded and fixed up a bit. Thanks.-- White Shadows stood on the edge 01:17, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Diannaa, as I was cleaning out CAT:TEMP, I kept noticing your name. Accordingly, I have turned on the WP:ROLLBACK feature for your account. Please let me know if you don't want it, and please read that page to see when and when not to use the new button. Happy editing! Courcelles ( talk) 15:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
I started giving out the barnstars, then got bogged down with other things right after the Working Man's Barnstar. Can you give out the Cleanup and higher awards? I'll do the leaderboard awards. If it is too much for you, shanghai S Masters too. You can grab the language for the award off the page of one of the Working Man Barnstar Awardees. Pretty basic. Just notes the number of articles and total words, really. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 07:29, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
User:IBen/TB mono 03:34, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
The Guild of Copy Editors' Award | ||
Diannaa, for your hard work and dedication to the encyclopedia during the May 2010 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive, copyediting the second most articles (212) and the second largest amount of text (136,200 words); for your service to the GOCE in co-coordinating the drive; and for being there for me when I needed your help; I hereby award you this special GOCE Gold Star Award, for an absolutely stellar performance. You have my warmest thanks. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:36, 10 June 2010 (UTC) |
Hi Diannaa, I've been thinking a lot about marketing the drive, and I think one thing that would help is if we monitored the signups closely, and sent a welcome message to each new sign-up, with an exhortation to ask friends to join the drive. My target for participation this drive is 60 active participants, about double the last one. I'm also about to send out a notice to all GOCE members announcing the drive. Do you have any other ideas? ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 14:19, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can to get it down to a manageable number. We've ambitiously set a goal of clearing all of 2008 from the backlog this month. In order to do that, we're going to need more participants. Is there anyone that you can invite or ask to participate with you? If so, we're offering an award to the person who brings in the most referrals. Just notify ɳorɑfʈ Talk! or Diannaa TALK of who your referrals are. Once again, thanks for your support!
ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 02:12, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to invite you to participate in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. In May, about 30 editors helped remove the {{copyedit}} tag from 1175 articles. The backlog is still over 7500 articles, and extends back to the beginning of 2008! We really need your help to reduce it. Copyediting just a couple articles can qualify you for a barnstar. Serious copyeditors can win prestigious and exclusive rewards. See the event page for more information. And thanks for your consideration. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 14:41, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I invited Jimmy Wales to sign up, and he did! I told him that if he symbolically copyedited a single article for the drive, that we give us a lot of good exposure, which would help participation. I also offered to find him a short article to work on. I have a little assignment for you. I'd like you to post on his user page, introducing yourself as the drive communications coordinator, welcoming him to the drive as a participant (in reality what you're doing is both welcoming him and advertising to everyone who watches his page that he's signed up), and saying something along the lines of "we know you're busy, so would you like us to find you a short article to edit, or would you like to proceed on your own?" ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 10:57, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can muster to get it down to a manageable number, so the exposure this project receives from your participation will be incredibly helpful. If you would like to take Noraft's suggestion and symbolically copyedit a single article, one of us would be happy to choose one for you if you want. Or if you have time to do more than one, that would be great too. As the drive communications coordinator, I thank you on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors for your support! Diannaa TALK 16:05, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
User:IBen/TB mono 00:45, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, regarding your request for referrals to the CopyEdit Drive, User:SuperHamster might like to join. |:-) ~ Qwerp Qwertus · _Talk_· _Talkback Me_· 05:38, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
User:IBen/TB — mono pending changes begin june 15 03:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for the copy edit very much appreciated. -- Jim Sweeney ( talk) 10:37, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, nice to say hi, you've been to my talk posting things and I've never come by to say Hey. Have a small (Dumb) question, I recently opened my Public alternate account, my dumb question is can I edit in both accounts for the drive and log my complete articles under my main, or both, or none, or I can Only edit for the drive under the account I've signed up with (this one is my guess), but the only dumb question is "the one NOT asked" t Thanks Mlpearc pull my chain 'Tribs 16:05, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I see you are active on the pop history articles again. Can you go through the Dusty Springfield article for grammar? I have written it but I'm not a native speaker. Thanks! -- Jaan Pärn ( talk) 10:19, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I've just re-edited Stuart period, from the original Stuart period (England). I've fixed the dabs, and put a {copyedit tag} on it. I would like to take this to (my 1st) - {WP:GA+} article. As this article covers over 100 years of history, (social, royal, political and military &c), I would be most pleased if you, or anyone you suggest, could help me with any suggestions, or improvements, &/or Copy-edits? Thank you kindly for your time, and concideration, regards Steve. Stephen2nd ( talk) 15:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).
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Thank you for your copyedit! Commas before quotes seemed odd to me too, but I added them after reading this. But this gives exceptions. So now I know. :) -- mav ( reviews needed) 01:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, I certifiably don't wish to be involved in an edit war, however the other user, simply ignored the discussion posted by me and another user and kept reverting changes with any discussion at all. What is the best course of action in that case? Also I see that you have reverted the changes that I have made, this article is about an ethnic minority in the US, Russians, Ukrainians are not the same ethnic group, there is already a separate page for Ukrainian-Americans, etc. Please take a look the discussion and re post my changes. Sotnik ( talk) 04:32, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your help, and sorry I misspelled your user name twice.
1. I've read Lord of the Flies and know who Jack Merridew is. What this Jack Merridew has done, however, is link his user name to that page. Did you notice we have two Lord of the Flies pages? The real one, and the one he copied and linked to his user name. Here are the two:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
Oh, now I see--I thought WP pages labeled "(Redirected from...) permanently carried the label.
2. I know how to find user pages and talk pages and revision history pages. I was asking how to find user account history pages. Nuujinn provided the User:Jack Merridew/History link; I'm asking how I would find that on my own. Would I have to type in "user:jack merridew/history" to Google search, or can it be found from his user page? I googled for one for you and for me, and found we don't have one.
I'm astonished at the hijinks WP allows.
Thanks again, --
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Why are you editing pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_School,_Rajajinagar? It's a private school, not a public school. Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_school_(India_and_Sri_Lanka). Vvneagleone ( talk) 17:27, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
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HI
Thanks for the reply. I didn't put any refs in myself but should have spotted that punctuation after ref. As there were already external links I thought it would be best to keep to the established format as I didnt what to change the ones there already into. I will make sure I remove them in future.
Also I didn't realise that if the article is Sugar and I link to sugar it would work - past experience has shown me that I had to get the capitalisation the same as the article name or the link would fail. I must have missed something there along the way.
I thought headers that were names would follow the same as for page titles - As it was the Biositemap Information Model (the name of it) I thought it should have been caps.
Thanks for your time on that and for the kind words :¬)
Chaosdruid ( talk) 04:32, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Just wondering if you have finished copyediting the article. Gage ( talk) 10:23, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
I'd suggest you invite User:Nihil novi. I told him about the copyediting drive, but an invitation from you should inspire him further :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:34, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for copyediting Spies Reminiscent of Us, still needs just a slight expansion in the reception section on my part, but I hope to have it at GA sometime in the near future. I was wondering though if you could help me out again by taking a few looks at Road to the Multiverse. I've added it to the GOCE requests page, so if you can't I'm sure someone else can take a glance, but I really envy your work ethic, and hope you'll consider giving the article a somewhat thorough copyedit, as I've also listed the article for a peer review, in hopes of eventually getting to featured status, though that is a long way off. Thanks again. Gage ( talk) 03:27, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to take a moment and announce that the July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive has started, and will run for a month. Thanks for signing up. There's a special prize for most edits on the first day, in case you've got high ambitions. Enjoy! ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 03:59, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
THANK YOU for the copy edit, very much appreciated. -- Jim Sweeney ( talk) 09:05, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I got AirplanePro2000 and HJ Mitchell both invited to join. AirplanePro Radio Checklist 00:42, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Re this issue. I am doing the best I can to communicate on the talk page of the associated article. Trust the relevant Wiki editors will do likewise. It's probably ok to clear the thread for now if you want.
Neil Parker ( talk) 11:58, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Ok thanks - have filed an rfc as you suggest. Will be interesting to see what comment comes out of it.
Neil Parker ( talk) 09:53, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I know that you've already copy-edited this article before but can you go over the Armament and crew section one more time on the German Type IXA submarine article? I only have to fix up the prose, fix any spelling mistakes in the article and seperate the paragraphs a bit more and then the GAN will finaly pass. Thank you so much :)-- White Shadows There goes another day 19:01, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa, I'm having a problem with activating the link for page size. I have followed the instructions, but the page size option has not appeared when I have visited different articles. I'd really appreciate some help - thanks! David Rush ( talk) 14:58, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I tried what you said, but it still doesn't appear to be working. I should be able to see the words page size on the left of the screen when looking at any Wikipedia article, right? Thanks for your help so far! :) David Rush ( talk) 16:01, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I changed to the Vector skin as you suggested and it's working now! Thank you! :) David Rush ( talk) 16:22, 3 July 2010 (UTC)