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I've got an IP steaming on my talk page about this. If I'm handling this wrong, I would like to invite you, if you feel like to weigh in there with your thoughts. Slight Smile 18:55, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Thanks for the quick block of 24.189.169.225 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). I wasn't expecting someone to notice so quickly and was in the process of creating a SPI here... 24.189.168.173. What should happen with that (now actioned) SPI? Acps110 ( talk • contribs) 04:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Dianna,
Since you posted comments on my talk page, I think its important that you are aware that the user Sikh-history belongs to Jutt community (as he identifies himself on his page). The Jutt community in Punjab is known to treat Labana community in a very derogatory manner throughout history. This user has very carefully and cunningly removed content that shows anything positive about Labana community. I think to draw a conclusion that I am wrong just based on the fact that I re-added some content back that the biased user sikh-history removed is little premature.
He keeps adding it a Sikhism tag to it, which is wrong. to give you an analogy, its like since Apple is a fruit, it is 'Pie recipe' topic. Similarly, he would keep on changing Labana classification from a Tribe to a caste, which is again wrong. Only people who belong to the community know if it is a tribe or a caste, not an outsider. Labana being a tribe is evident from the Punjabi_tribes page.
I request you to suggest me on how to deter the bad behavior of user:sikh-history, to whom the labana page doesn't concern at all; someone who has his own Jutt agenda to push.
Smartest stupid ( talk) 01:10, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Smartest stupid ( talk) 05:08, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Smartest stupid ( talk) 05:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Smartest stupid ( talk) 17:03, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Smartest stupid ( talk) 05:26, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Diannaa, I quote you:
"Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Anna Anderson has been reverted, as it appears to have removed content from the page without explanation. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Diannaa (Talk) 00:25, 29 September 2010 (UTC)" -from talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:74.101.236.156
I want you to know my IP fluctuates for security purposes, but I am NOT this IP 74.101.236.156 - I gave up on the Anna Anderson article long ago. They did not respect me over there after all I did to clean up that work, and DrKiernan and I worked together on it in the summer of 2009.
That is the work that gave it the present basic shape - DrKiernan did the rest. I was mad at them for a while because they refused to include germane content for a section they started ... a section I would never have put in.
They also have steadily refused to include the writings of Robert Massie on the subject of Anna, but I surrendered that, as I said, long ago.
All that concerns me now is this IP address - someone is trying to look like MY IP range, but that address does not fall exactly into my security IP range. This is only the 2nd time this has ever occurred at Wikipedia. 75.21.119.216 ( talk) 07:58, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Please help! The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive is almost complete. Please help, as the backlog is still very large. Still exceeding 20,000 articles! The goal is 18,000 or less. Lets see if we can do it! We're going to need all the firepower we can get, so please remind your friends to help as well.Thank you for all your help thus far! Regards, Guoguo12 ( talk · contribs), Mono ( talk · contribs), Nolelover ( talk · contribs), Sumsum2010 ( talk · contribs), and WikiCopter ( talk · contribs). |
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Hi
Thanks for doing that copyedit :¬) Once again some silly obvious things I missed, although this time I am going to blame the fact that I wrote the whole thing and got snow-blindness lol
Couple of things though, the site was not purchased, the fishermen sold the details of the location. Also the company Seabed Explorations is a German company, not New Zealand, so "of New Zealand" should probably go back to "in New...". Should I put those back in or do you want to fix that?, your prose is a little better than mine!
That leaves the "genus" italics. I did check on the trees and there was a specific mention in MoS of italicising genus and below, but not family - I think I got a little confused there as the source had sp. and was not clear on which were genus, after checking I found that some things had changed since 1990 (such as the non-existence of "legumes" anymore!) and just forgot to go back and correct the previous, thanks for that. It got a little confusing on the teredo worm as the wiki article Shipworm seems to list "Teredo Worms" as a family in the lead, but then has teredo as a genus in Shipworm#Genera - I am unsure of which it should be, family or genus?
I still have more to do on the cargo but that can wait until the weekend I think ...
Vandals - where is it best to start? I noticed your request for help, but have only used the recent changes page and Lupins js script. I got sick of going to look at a link from the recent changes and then finding ten other editors had already pounced and when one went back to refresh the recent changes page, there were so many to check that it was impossible to see which were fixed and which weren't.
There seems to be no way to retrospectively check what was missed - I was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction there?
Chaosdruid ( talk) 05:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diana,
If you don't mind a long read, I would like some advice from you on this editor review. What I aim to get is some perspective on the relevant matter.
Thanks. Bobthefish2 ( talk) 03:56, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
oh dear ! today is getting to be more of a disaster as it goes along...
Where did I go wrong there? (you may well ask!)
I ordered them by "date posted" before editing it and then probably started adding them as if I had ordered by date of completion I suspect. I am going to just let you do that until I have had lots of coffee and have analysed my stupidity lol
Sorry, the idea was to save you coordinators work, not add to it :¬(
Chaosdruid ( talk) 21:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Gold Hat has eaten your {{
cookie}}! The cookie made them
happy and they'd like to give you a great big hug for donating it. Spread the WikiLove by giving out more {{
cookie}}s, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Thanks again!
Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{ subst:cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat a cookie with {{ subst:munch}}!
Would appreciate your views on the following predicament which pertains to my run ins with another editor where you have been inter-weaning and brings up the following issues .
(a) on multiple talk pages simultaneously ?
(b) on the objecting editors page ?
(c) on the contributing editors page ?
(d) on an editors page ?
In the circumstance , if confronting these issues is going to draw allusion to stalking , is it time to pack up and leave wikipedia ? Thanks
Intothefire (
talk) 19:12, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Do i need to go and retrospectively add the {{GOCE|user=UserName|date=date completed}} to articles I did from the requests page?
It is no problem and I shall willingly do it if I should have done it :¬)
Chaosdruid ( talk) 19:42, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, but you appear to be the only co-ordinator online atm!
I am having a two small and probably easily fixed dilemmas.
Which is correct - B one, or A two commas? I have searched MoS' on place names and others as well as some archives but cannot find anything, maybe I am suffering from snow-blindness.
The second problem is counter-attack and counterattack. It seems that counterattack is an accepted variation apart form in more long-established dictionaries like OED. Counteroffensive seemed a little too much without the - and so in the end I used counter-attack and counter-offensive as there were more further in and so it maintained consistency.
Once again, sorry to keep bugging you :¬) Chaosdruid ( talk) 02:08, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I give up, cannot find the conversation with whoever it was, the annoying thing was it was someone I trusted, similarly to yourself and Utahraptor, and more annoyingly I have been "correcting" them as I trusted what they said!
That's a pretty big list of articles I need to go and fix... Chaosdruid ( talk) 05:13, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, I got to your page through the WP:Guild of Copyeditors, mentorship program. I personally would love to try and improve my copyediting skills. Most of the articles I write are about history, archaeology, architecture (mostly in relation to the Ancient Near East and particularly Syria. Do let me know if you are still available as a mentor. Thanks. Yazan ( talk) 12:32, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
(indent) How about I contact you again in a week or so when the article has taken a rough shape, and needs only minor changes and copyedits? (if it's not a bother, that is). Thanks again! Yazan ( talk) 19:47, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
(indent) Thank you Diannaa! I will go through the changes later tonight. Thanks! Yazan ( talk) 05:25, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Apparently, the person this IP has not learned his lesson. He keeps coming back to make unnecessary or inaccurate changes to the New York City Subway articles. Thanks for reverting them all. I just hope he stops coming back for good because User:Acps110 and I are very annoyed by him. BTW, how do you add em dashes to articles? I seem to be able to only add en dashes. The Legendary Ranger ( talk) 14:31, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Diannaa You suck and you are not christian you satanist! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fireflow77 ( talk • contribs) 21:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I just posted on Toasts page User talk:Tea with toast#Edit count on Kutch article, I have been up all night (literally) trying to work something out, thought you would like to see the results, a little embarrassing but at least I'm laughing now ! (though that may be from all the caffeine lol) Chaosdruid ( talk) 16:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I'm looking for a copy editor who can take on a 20kb article (in British English) and massage some prose from good to 1a standard, so obviously, I need an experienced copy editor (I'm useless at copy-editing my own prose!) and the GOCE seems to have taken a different direction away from FA-level copy edits. Are you up for it and, if not, do you know someone who might be? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Wierd name spelling. where are you from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.246.72.135 ( talk) 00:14, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user talk page of this fan. ;-) Trijnstel ( talk) 14:13, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
I tried to install the Prose Size tool, and it appears to have worked, because I see the "Page size" choice in my Toolbox. However, when I click this tool, the "Prose size (text only)" line only contains the number of words that are not found in a bullet. On Alternate versions of Wonder Woman for example, it only shows 22 words, because most of the article is bulleted lists. Is this the correct function of Prose Size? Johnson487682 ( talk) 17:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi fellow editor, I cannot seem to use the addons to add proper citations. Is there a problem with my addons? Thanks -- SH 18:04, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
I copyedited and added a template to North Carolina Highway 13, and added the reporting template below yours, but I have no idea how to calculate the words, or how to prevent the 13 from slipping away from the article name. Advice?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 03:30, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at User_talk:SMasters#Potential_issue_with_copy_editor_Ankit_Maity's talk page.
Hey Diannaa. I have for a long time now wanted to become invloved in content contributions while I continue "backend" works, but I don't have time to sit down and write articles. I think that the GOCE is something that I can do that will get me involved again in contributing to Wikipedia article wise. I have joined the drive and have done Case Closed: The Raven Chaser and would like you to review it and let me know how I did on my first run. Thanks for your time in advance. -- DQ (t) (e) 22:03, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
I have signed up for the March copy editing drive and would be glad if you could have a look at my first effort, Sangaria, India. Actually it was not a good choice for a first try as it included a number of technical terms and abbreviations unfamiliar to me, but I did the best I could. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 09:54, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fellow Editor, I have had to revert this, as the user had left abusive messages on his own talk page. He may need a further block. Thanks -- SH 13:09, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Please come on over and give me a review at state reptile. TCO ( talk) 19:22, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to participate in the backlog elimination drive to improve my editing skills (I'm new). Are you available to review my edits? Octopet ( talk) 21:18, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Your edits are good so far. Here are a couple of additional edits I added in the section you have completed:
I have been participating in the copy editing backlog elimination drive. I have not been active in copy editing before, and I hope that the edits that I have done so far are up to the GOCE standards. Could you take a look at some of my edits listed on the backlog drive page and let me know what I can improve? Thanks! Dac04 ( talk) 23:08, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Thank you ever so much for that, I know you are busy most of the time, and particularly during a drive! (The discussion was on the GOCE coordinator talk page).
I was pretty paranoid then lol - a lot of the changes I wanted to do I considered too big for a copy-edit on such a high class ("A") article. Copy editing and reworking are pretty indistinct on lower class articles - I should not assume that A class are exempt from such changes. I will try to be less timid in future. In the past I normally ran the dashes script when finished, more recently I have been running it at the start. I left it as I had asked for the check, I won't next time lol.
Only one question:
I linked them as it seemed to me that readers would assume it was Chesapeake in the U.S. and I wanted to ensure they could find the Mill article (as well as point out it was in the UK). I just wondered what the reasoning was behind that one?
Thanks again, I have learnt a lot from that. :¬) Chaosdruid ( talk) 18:45, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
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This Cleanup Barnstar is given to Diannaa for wikifying 3 articles, a total of 10,839 words(with rollover). Thanks for participating, and please be sure to help out at our next drive! Sumsum2010· T· C· Review me! 03:10, 6 March 2011 (UTC) |
Hi, please inform on why the page Renaissance 2011 BITS Pilani was deleted despite a hang-on template being added and arguments that WERE BEING ADDED at the time to contest the allegations that it was promotional. Please advice what path to take if Wikipedia does not allow this: Independent listing of information on real content that was brought out at a particular event. Also, would it be too much to expect from a wikipedian to respect the hang-on request and desist from speedy deletion of an article to give it some chance for proving itself? the event is ongoing and we cannot be so lightning-quick that we can conclusively prove everything in less than 5 minutes which seems like the time taken to make this deletion decision. Nikhilsheth ( talk) 05:08, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, saw that you removed the section for films about the Korean War. Is the war's depiction in these moves offensive? Or are they simply inaccurate? Perhaps one sided? Thank you. Bolton76 (talk) 05:14, 06 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the the review. Agree with most of your changes. In some cases, are even changing back to how I had it before (not all, but when I see that I know we must be close). Few questions though.
1. Sentence case or title case. Tony has asked us to use sentence case in the past. (I think for article, book, and website titles). I really don't care, and maybe I was doing it wrong, but would like to do it one way all the time. I will ask him as well.
2. US versus U.S. (I normally let people change those around at will, had them change 7 times on Painted turtle and just smiled, as long as they are changed throughout article). U.S. is older (and the more common usage in the United States). US newer and more common outside. I think given the naming of this article, I should stick to the periods.
TCO ( talk) 08:57, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the help with posting a warning to Brian Boru about my subpage. He hasn't vandalized my page again since then, so let's hope it holds. Spidey 104 19:05, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa Thanks for your comments on the above page. I cheerfully admit to being bamboozled by the process and notifications. (First created page issues)
1. Copyright Issue: Do I need to get a specific Email from the Artists website to say that the material used is free-issue press material and not copyrighted? 2. Notability Issue: I accept that I need to prove notability and will work to compile enough material to satisfy requirements. 3. Conflict of Interest Issue: The artist is not client of mine or directly connected to me in any way. I admit to being a fan and so there is a bias problem. I can work to make the article less biased but do I need to add a statement to cover this whole issue? As regards the Joscho Portrait Live.jpg pic used in the article, I added Creative Commons license information and thought the notifications were inviting me to delete them once this was added. Instead I've got a Baseball Watcher Last warning. Please help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomcan ( talk • contribs) 23:10, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa - You removed the link I had put to jconcurrency.com and flagged it as spam. This is not spam - it is an invaluable aid to the understanding of Java concurrency. Java champion Yakov Fain is calling for Oracle to include it in their Java tutorial. http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/java_concurrent_animated.htm I won't restore it if you don't believe it belongs, but I can't think of a more relevant link to this topic! Thanks, Victor Grazi - vgrazi@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vgrazi ( talk • contribs) 03:50, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
So I went through this article for the drive and checked it off my list, but I think it could really use a review. It seems that it was originally machine translated, and there were a few rough parts for me to sort out. When you have a moment, would you mind taking a look at it? Thank you! - Pax85 ( talk) 04:39, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
I was going to RPP your user page last night while the vandalism was going on, but then noticed you were an admin and could semi-protect or protect it yourself if you wanted to. Anti-vandal fighting has been so much less stressful since my user page was semi-protected. — Tom Morris ( talk) 10:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, Can you please put an edit notice on Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Members/Welcome, to ask people not to edit that page because it is used for transculsion to many other pages? Some people have been putting in thank you notes. Perhaps they can be redirected to the main talk page or even the membership department talk page. Thanks! – SMasters ( talk) 08:20, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Should I be taking credit for In-situ capping of subaqueous waste? You did most of the work, and should get credit. I am learning what to do from looking at your changes, though. Wade Dump got me started with an environmental article, so I was not afraid of another one, and I do have an engineering and technical background. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! You have been very helpful in the past, so I was wondering if you can take a look at Talk:Siege of Szigetvár/GA2, and copyedit the article. The article is on hold for the prose to be copy-edited and turned into plain English. I also made a request on 'WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests'. Thanks. -- Kebeta ( talk) 14:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
WTF is a Level 2 warning and WTF is a level 3 warning. I have no idea what you are on about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.147.54.65 ( talk) 21:35, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
I don't get it.I looked everywhere, and there's no information that might help me.Can you tell me?-- Damirgraffiti ( talk) 02:13, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Robert John Bardo is a stalker. The term 'stalking' is entirely inappropriate ref for use on wiki; it's a key piece of the whole benighted project having become toxic. Sometimes teh littluns ref get this wrong, and some time the biguns fuck it up. ref Anyone wonder why I have little WP:RESPECT for this 'project' at this point? I've seen most everything here and root is right.
'The Strike' was the working title of teh Jimbo's fav kook-philosopher's Atlas Shrugged but a better lens to see my position through is as having gone off the reservation. Damned, Gold Hat ( talk) 03:54, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have a favor to ask of you. I was referred to you by User:Novice7 who said you may be able to copyedit an article that I wrote, " Love Sex Magic." It is up for GA and the reviewer has asked that it needs to be done. I would appreciate it alot, if you don't mind, if not that's fine. Thanks :) Candy o32 04:15, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. If possible, I'll copyedit Franco-Turkish War as a contribution to the March 2011 drive. It appears that the article on it in the French WP is so close to it that translation must be involved. But there is no translation template on its talk page, and I cannot prove which language version was translated to which. Is there anything I can usefully do about this? Thanks.
P.S. Do reply here if you like. I've watchlisted you. -- Stfg ( talk) 11:03, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
What is it?I don;t know what does it mean?-- Damirgraffiti ( talk) 00:40, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Oh.Ok!And by the way,I already know what vandalism is.-- Damirgraffiti ( talk) 02:23, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
So, is it ok that I can use the Vandalism Infomation onto my talk page?Is it fine to do that?-- Damirgraffiti ( talk) 02:31, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I've decided it's time I joined the Guild and contributed to the copy editing backlog elimination drive, so I've done that and logged my first article, Ensemble 360 (although to be honest that was more a complete rewrite and sourcing than strictly a copy editing job...). It was only 443 words, and I removed most of those anyway, but, hey, it's a start. I have not been active in wikipedia copy editing before, although copy editing and proof reading is something I do some of in one of my other lives. I hope that the edits that I do match Guild standards, but would welcome my work being checked and any feedback, improvement suggestions, etc. Thanks! Mooncow ( talk) 01:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
The user Markpb91 I am reverting is putting a negative slant on section of the Android (operating system) article, while removing any neutral or positive reference, while also removing a negative review of Mac OS X. I have asked on the talk page for suggestions, and gotten none. I can't find where, but I read that any negative npov content should be removed immediately, then discussed on the talk page. Everything I have reverted is against WP:NPOV, and each time he adds it back. Tell me what I should do, because apparently I'm doing it wrong. Thank you. - SudoGhost ( talk) 04:11, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I was trying to follow instructions to join in the copy editing but cannot seem to get the count to work. I inserted the code on my page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lost_Josephine_Minor/monobook.js
Can you tell what went wrong?
Thanks... I am starting to get frustrated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lost Josephine Minor ( talk • contribs) 05:45, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry to bug you, but I must ask, how was my edit vandalism, when it was done by accident yes, but then the same exact edit was made by not one, but two different administrators? I just want to be aware so that I do not inadvertently violate policy in the future, but I'm also wondering how my edit is vandalism, whereas their identical edits are not. "Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism. Edit warring over content is not vandalism." So I'm a little confused, and was hoping you might clarify. Thank you. - SudoGhost ( talk) 15:26, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I didn't remove it Pol430 removed and I reverted his edit and put it back or am I missing something because Im pretty sure I did do that. Please correct me if I am wrong. Gabesta449 edits ♦ chat 23:06, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I saw your post concerning my revert. I apologize in advance if i've got it badly wrong but I didn't feel the IP's edit met the talk page guidelines, The IP took a convo from my talk page that contained some mild personal attack and pasted it into the article talk page. Basically the IP has been somewhat harassing me ever since, I tried to stop the edit warring at 2011 Chinese protests. Would you mind taking another look at the situation overall and giving me some feedback. Thanks in advance Pol430 talk to me 23:12, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
For awhile I've been following the movements of this IP address 178.240.212.212. He has switched IP addresses quite a number of times. the IP addresses he has switch to well I had them written down but I lost the paper. I would like for you to take some sort of action against him, possibly an indefinite block. Oh and P.S. he was previously blocked by Materialscientist. Thanks and Cheers. Umm I didnt want to file a checkuser request for reasons I am unable to tell to you at this time anyway. Gabesta449 edits ♦ chat 23:32, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Prolly read Earth Abides as a kid, but not sure; have seen Nicholas and Alexandra. Damned, Gold Hat ( talk) 01:16, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
I had my list from an old email thread. It was about this:
We were discussing how many each had read; I've read 53 of them. A lot of the talk ended up being about all the ones that should have been on the list, but were not. Damned, Gold Hat ( talk) 01:20, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the vandalism of my user page. Surprisingly that is the first such instance in my nearly 3.5 years on the project :o) Redthoreau -- ( talk) 06:10, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, Hope you won't take offence if I say that I found
this a bit on the
WP:BITEy side—that may be partly as I'd read
Sue Gardner's essay on new editor recruitment only shortly before. A quick check of Google Books reveals that there is such a thing as Bennett's inequality and that it is related to Hoeffding's lemmainequality, so although the editor had provided too little to be informative in itself, it was enough to point interested readers or editors to something related and potentially useful. Best wishes,
Qwfp (
talk) 09:29, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, there is a vandal on the loose, 174.94.39.2, I believe you reverted an edit of his/hers. I am not sure how to report this on the vandalism noticeboard manually, so I thought I would come to an admin... Thanks. Dbrodbeck ( talk) 05:07, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I've just began copyediting earlier this month. Can you take a look at my articles to see if they meet the quality? Thank you! LKILLER123 01:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
This is not an edit war. I previously expressed in the edit summaries and the user's talk page that the image on the Commons was a possible copyvio, which is a serious issue. After justifying myself several times in several different ways, I felt that is was unnecessary to do so any further. The user has not provided evidence that he/she owns copyright to this image. Again, this is not a content dispute, it's an issue regarding copyvio. -- Jtalledo (talk) 03:37, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Listen Dianna: The Secret is a best-selling 2006 self-help book written by Rhonda Byrne and based upon William Walker Atkinson's prior works and school of thought, based on the notion that people are greedy and curious and will thus pay for anything that sounds like a formula for getting rich, and thus making the author rich instead of the reader.
This is a verifiable fact. The mere fact that the book was best-selling is enough to proove the claim by wikipedias own logic. Not being able to see through this makes wikipedia look very, very stupid indeed.
When you buy anything, such as a book you will by the laws of economics become poorer, and the author will become richer. That is how economics work and that is why people publish books about how to get rich.
This is self-evident and does not constitute "vandalism". You are by your actions hiding verifiable truth in disagreement with wikipedias own rules. So double-reverse your editing to include the above.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.212.14.115 ( talk • contribs)
Every once in a while I go through my watchlist aiming to fix _more_ than just the one or two bad edits reviewers normally see. Thus sometimes checking shows that there's been a lot of bad edits and you just have to go back a bunch.
While trying to figure things out this edit of yours caught my eye. You had an edit summary of "addition of unsourced negative content to a biographical article (HG))", but it sure looks like you added back the negative content that 69.111.17.135 had deleted. (That IP editor looked like the "good guy" in that heap of edits.)
Anyway, being the slow and painful type (both editing and personality) I gotta wonder, did you get it backwards? Shenme ( talk) 05:20, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
That was simply a translation of the Japanese Wikipedia article. The "sources" are but US propaganda, based on US show trials. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.166.181.85 ( talk) 14:49, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi - you deleted the above. I'm having a slight problem with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jaz lee. I've done a non-admin closure, but the thing doesn't seem to be actually IN today's Log. At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/Today "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jaz Lee" appears above the listing of nominations, and I can't see a way of getting rid of it or moving it into the correct place. This was created by a kid who tried to AfD it and got into a mess (partly through using the wrong capitalisation). Help? (An explanation would be appreciated, too, as I'm just at the end of an RfA with possible success(?) in sight.) I've left a message for the article's creator. Thanks in advance.... Peridon ( talk) 16:45, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, This is regarding an incidence of new article deletion: 04:53, 6 March 2011 Diannaa (talk | contribs) deleted "Renaissance 2011 BITS Pilani" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: This is not the place to post a blog)
In a very short time after the page first got marked for speedy deletion, I put in the tag "hold on" in the proper format as advised by the speedy deletion template. I put a couple of lines on the page's Talk section to explain that a page covering a 3-day national-level event is not a blog. I had started it as a stub (though I did not know at the time about these templates that I should have used) but there was never anything of advertizing nature in it, yet the page got accused at a time when there wasn't even enough content in it.
After the first Talk submission, I proceeded to write more explanation. After about 10 minutes when I saved the new section, I found that it had been deleted and all that was remaining now was the above mentioned line and you being the only link. I'd like to inquire why this was deleted when there was a hold-on template inserted and a short explanation on the Talk page and I was just writing more explanation. I had countered the blog and advertisement allegations. Over time there would have been enough references inserted on the page too. It was a description of an event. I don't know how to express the fact that anybody has no right to judge any event as insignificant. This was well-published and no tiny social gathering - it was a national level conference. Why didn't you participate in the Talk page if you felt the explanation (made in just 5 mins) was inadequate? If you didn't like the name, we would have changed it. Why did you delete a page that had a hold-on template on it within just 5 minutes, hence not giving any time to anybody to provide an adequate defense? Then there is absolutely no meaning of the hold-on template, and if you can't do anything about it now, then it means there is no accountability. I now have no way of even seeing the history to recover anything from there or any mechanism to revert this act that was in violation of wikipedia policy. Please let me know what needs to be done, and please forgive me for being new to these things? Nikhilsheth ( talk) 17:11, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
This event was held from 4th to 6th March 2011 at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. This page aims to create an independent report of all the events, talks, discussions and insights, shared by the people who attended it.<br /> Apart from reporting, this page can also be a common point to aggregate ideas that emerged from the conference. == 4 March 2011 == == 5 March 2011 == === Panel Discussion === ==== Participating Individuals ==== == 6 March 2011 == === Tata Jagriti Yatra ===
There are no sources quoted in the article. I looked for independent coverage of the event in online news sources and found nothing; there is still no coverage of the event in online news sources today, one week after the event. So the event likely fails notability guidelines, though that is not the criterion I deleted it under.
The reason I deleted the article is because the above wording indicates that the purpose of creating the article is to share information amongst the participants in the conference and to create a record of the event for your own purposes. That is not the purpose of Wikipedia; Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. The layout of the article is more like a blog and that is why it was deleted.
The hang-on tag was added at 4:36 and you added some remarks to the talk page at 4:43. The article was deleted at 4:53.
Here is the content of the talk page:
Arguing for keeping this page: Independent participants that attended this event and who are not all directly part of the event organizers or their de facto supporters, will collaborate on this page to give a neutral report of all everything that happened at the event. If anybody doesn't like the NAME of this page, then kindly RENAME it. We want to enlist all the talks and exercises that took place. Many of these have the potential to spin off new articles on wikipedia as they are about places, methods and concepts that do not exist on wikipedia right now. Please keep a watch on the page to make sure there is no biased perspective. But please don't delete it, as there is potential to gather a lot of content here and wikipedia is a good independent medium for the participants of this conference to bring it all together. [[User:Nikhilsheth|Nikhilsheth]] ([[User talk:Nikhilsheth|talk]]) 04:43, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
So again we are seeing the intent for conference participants to make blog-like posts in an effort to create a record of the event. The problem with this is that it is what we call primary sources and original research. What that means is that Wikipedia articles are not written directly by the participants in an event; Wikipedia articles are written by independent authors who use reliable secondary sources such as newspaper articles, content from trusted web sites, and material found in books to create the content. So that is why I deleted the article. Regards, -- Diannaa ( Talk) 17:41, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
-- The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 22:35, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I am contacting you for advice regarding some unusual behavior of one user. More precise, if you could instruct me how should I proceed in this kind of situations and how can this kind of behavior be stooped.
There is an active ANI report that wan`t filed by me, but I fell there is no administrator interested in resolving this problem while this user continues with his behavior and further insults. It is clear that talking to a user with that attitude I can`t solve anything.
Here are some relevant diffs: 1; the rest can be seen at the section of ANI that I provided.
I would appreciate your advice on this matter and if you can advice me regarding this ANI report. Thank you Adrian ( talk) 11:19, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I am smiling. I too am also seeking advice... but of a different sort. As you are a librarian and I have seen you on genealogy articles, I was wondering if you happen to know if the coronation date and the wedding/marriage date occur on the same day with European aristocracy? I ask because I was adding the coronation date for an article's subject but I don't know offhand if that corresponds to the wedding date. Since I know the date of her coronation, I would prefer to write it as her and her spouse's marriage date, but I don't know how aristocratic traditions work in this period (Late Medieval in Hungary - I think she is of the Hapsburg lineage) or for that matter most any other period. Would you possibly have some insight into this? I would not have bothered you but I have noticed that you edit some genealogy articles, and that you are a librarian on top of that, so I was thinking that you might have some exertise in this area or with this question. I appreciate any help that you can offer. Thank you kindly. Best Regards, Steve... Stevenmitchell ( talk) 13:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
I think I've completed edits on 2008 Bihar Flood: [5]. Please tell me if I've missed anything. I recorded one article in my drive participation, but have not yet removed the copy edit tag until I hear back from expert editors. I recorded 1068 words - this was the beginning count before I started edits. (The Page Size/word count said "6548 B (1068 words)" and I guessed I should list the second number. Is that correct?) Do I need to record the ending word count of the article? Where do I list the name of the article for the drive record? Thank you Octopet ( talk) 19:14, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
March 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.
![]() So far, 79 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 64 have participated. Interest is high due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page, and many new and first-time copy editors have joined us for the drive. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can
sign up now. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the
Requests page. We have assisted in the promotion of seven articles to
Good article status so far this month.
We have already achieved our target of reducing the overall backlog by 10%; however, we have more work to do with the 2009 backlog. We have almost eliminated May 2009 and we only have some 700 articles left from 2009. It is excellent progress, so let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!
The Utahraptor Talk to me has decided to step down from his position as project coordinator due to real-life issues. Your drive coordinators – S Masters ( talk), Diannaa ( Talk) and Tea with toast ( Talk) |
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Thanks for your help over on Gold Hat's talk page with the technical question. I've finished my first draft of the article expansion and am wondering if you'd mind having a look-over and maybe copy-editing it if you get the chance. I'd like to make it a Good Article and possibly a Featured Article but I haven't worked either process and am wondering if you can help me work my way through it. Thanks! N419 BH 06:29, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Request your attention on the article. My efforts to summarize certain quotes in the article triggered an edit war and I finally conceeded to the concerned user by reverting to his earlier version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vamsisv ( talk • contribs) 06:38, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, i'm currently participating in the current copy-edit elimination drive. When fixing articles with possible transcription errors such as Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed do i include the word-count in my totals even though all i had to do was find the [sic] tag and check out the source?? Or do i add no word-count? Mabuska (talk) 11:01, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the help! It really does mean a lot. Intoronto1125 ( talk) 03:29, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that I added some new content in response to a reviewer. Your choice if you wanted to look at it. Just informing, since you had given a support. TCO ( talk) 03:44, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
If intoronto1125 did not consistently get in the way of my improvements to any article we both work on, I would not be speaking to him in such blunt terms. He is getting in the way of my improvements to the article and several of his recent edits to the page have not at all been constructive. If I can't tell him to get out of the way of people who know what they're doing, what can I tell him?— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 18:24, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
This guy keeps persisting on adding content that I have reverted. He will not let discussion occur. He just assumes that I am wrong and that he is allowed to begin an edit war. I have persistently tried to begin conversation with him on his talk page but this was his written response shortly before he reverted me on the article, again. I am tired of dealing with him. He does not listen to any arguments I put forth. He instead insists that he is doing nothing wrong.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 19:20, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
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I've got an IP steaming on my talk page about this. If I'm handling this wrong, I would like to invite you, if you feel like to weigh in there with your thoughts. Slight Smile 18:55, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Thanks for the quick block of 24.189.169.225 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). I wasn't expecting someone to notice so quickly and was in the process of creating a SPI here... 24.189.168.173. What should happen with that (now actioned) SPI? Acps110 ( talk • contribs) 04:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Dianna,
Since you posted comments on my talk page, I think its important that you are aware that the user Sikh-history belongs to Jutt community (as he identifies himself on his page). The Jutt community in Punjab is known to treat Labana community in a very derogatory manner throughout history. This user has very carefully and cunningly removed content that shows anything positive about Labana community. I think to draw a conclusion that I am wrong just based on the fact that I re-added some content back that the biased user sikh-history removed is little premature.
He keeps adding it a Sikhism tag to it, which is wrong. to give you an analogy, its like since Apple is a fruit, it is 'Pie recipe' topic. Similarly, he would keep on changing Labana classification from a Tribe to a caste, which is again wrong. Only people who belong to the community know if it is a tribe or a caste, not an outsider. Labana being a tribe is evident from the Punjabi_tribes page.
I request you to suggest me on how to deter the bad behavior of user:sikh-history, to whom the labana page doesn't concern at all; someone who has his own Jutt agenda to push.
Smartest stupid ( talk) 01:10, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Smartest stupid ( talk) 05:08, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Smartest stupid ( talk) 05:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Smartest stupid ( talk) 17:03, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Smartest stupid ( talk) 05:26, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Diannaa, I quote you:
"Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Anna Anderson has been reverted, as it appears to have removed content from the page without explanation. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Diannaa (Talk) 00:25, 29 September 2010 (UTC)" -from talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:74.101.236.156
I want you to know my IP fluctuates for security purposes, but I am NOT this IP 74.101.236.156 - I gave up on the Anna Anderson article long ago. They did not respect me over there after all I did to clean up that work, and DrKiernan and I worked together on it in the summer of 2009.
That is the work that gave it the present basic shape - DrKiernan did the rest. I was mad at them for a while because they refused to include germane content for a section they started ... a section I would never have put in.
They also have steadily refused to include the writings of Robert Massie on the subject of Anna, but I surrendered that, as I said, long ago.
All that concerns me now is this IP address - someone is trying to look like MY IP range, but that address does not fall exactly into my security IP range. This is only the 2nd time this has ever occurred at Wikipedia. 75.21.119.216 ( talk) 07:58, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Please help! The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive is almost complete. Please help, as the backlog is still very large. Still exceeding 20,000 articles! The goal is 18,000 or less. Lets see if we can do it! We're going to need all the firepower we can get, so please remind your friends to help as well.Thank you for all your help thus far! Regards, Guoguo12 ( talk · contribs), Mono ( talk · contribs), Nolelover ( talk · contribs), Sumsum2010 ( talk · contribs), and WikiCopter ( talk · contribs). |
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Hi
Thanks for doing that copyedit :¬) Once again some silly obvious things I missed, although this time I am going to blame the fact that I wrote the whole thing and got snow-blindness lol
Couple of things though, the site was not purchased, the fishermen sold the details of the location. Also the company Seabed Explorations is a German company, not New Zealand, so "of New Zealand" should probably go back to "in New...". Should I put those back in or do you want to fix that?, your prose is a little better than mine!
That leaves the "genus" italics. I did check on the trees and there was a specific mention in MoS of italicising genus and below, but not family - I think I got a little confused there as the source had sp. and was not clear on which were genus, after checking I found that some things had changed since 1990 (such as the non-existence of "legumes" anymore!) and just forgot to go back and correct the previous, thanks for that. It got a little confusing on the teredo worm as the wiki article Shipworm seems to list "Teredo Worms" as a family in the lead, but then has teredo as a genus in Shipworm#Genera - I am unsure of which it should be, family or genus?
I still have more to do on the cargo but that can wait until the weekend I think ...
Vandals - where is it best to start? I noticed your request for help, but have only used the recent changes page and Lupins js script. I got sick of going to look at a link from the recent changes and then finding ten other editors had already pounced and when one went back to refresh the recent changes page, there were so many to check that it was impossible to see which were fixed and which weren't.
There seems to be no way to retrospectively check what was missed - I was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction there?
Chaosdruid ( talk) 05:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diana,
If you don't mind a long read, I would like some advice from you on this editor review. What I aim to get is some perspective on the relevant matter.
Thanks. Bobthefish2 ( talk) 03:56, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
oh dear ! today is getting to be more of a disaster as it goes along...
Where did I go wrong there? (you may well ask!)
I ordered them by "date posted" before editing it and then probably started adding them as if I had ordered by date of completion I suspect. I am going to just let you do that until I have had lots of coffee and have analysed my stupidity lol
Sorry, the idea was to save you coordinators work, not add to it :¬(
Chaosdruid ( talk) 21:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Gold Hat has eaten your {{
cookie}}! The cookie made them
happy and they'd like to give you a great big hug for donating it. Spread the WikiLove by giving out more {{
cookie}}s, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Thanks again!
Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{ subst:cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat a cookie with {{ subst:munch}}!
Would appreciate your views on the following predicament which pertains to my run ins with another editor where you have been inter-weaning and brings up the following issues .
(a) on multiple talk pages simultaneously ?
(b) on the objecting editors page ?
(c) on the contributing editors page ?
(d) on an editors page ?
In the circumstance , if confronting these issues is going to draw allusion to stalking , is it time to pack up and leave wikipedia ? Thanks
Intothefire (
talk) 19:12, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Do i need to go and retrospectively add the {{GOCE|user=UserName|date=date completed}} to articles I did from the requests page?
It is no problem and I shall willingly do it if I should have done it :¬)
Chaosdruid ( talk) 19:42, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, but you appear to be the only co-ordinator online atm!
I am having a two small and probably easily fixed dilemmas.
Which is correct - B one, or A two commas? I have searched MoS' on place names and others as well as some archives but cannot find anything, maybe I am suffering from snow-blindness.
The second problem is counter-attack and counterattack. It seems that counterattack is an accepted variation apart form in more long-established dictionaries like OED. Counteroffensive seemed a little too much without the - and so in the end I used counter-attack and counter-offensive as there were more further in and so it maintained consistency.
Once again, sorry to keep bugging you :¬) Chaosdruid ( talk) 02:08, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I give up, cannot find the conversation with whoever it was, the annoying thing was it was someone I trusted, similarly to yourself and Utahraptor, and more annoyingly I have been "correcting" them as I trusted what they said!
That's a pretty big list of articles I need to go and fix... Chaosdruid ( talk) 05:13, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, I got to your page through the WP:Guild of Copyeditors, mentorship program. I personally would love to try and improve my copyediting skills. Most of the articles I write are about history, archaeology, architecture (mostly in relation to the Ancient Near East and particularly Syria. Do let me know if you are still available as a mentor. Thanks. Yazan ( talk) 12:32, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
(indent) How about I contact you again in a week or so when the article has taken a rough shape, and needs only minor changes and copyedits? (if it's not a bother, that is). Thanks again! Yazan ( talk) 19:47, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
(indent) Thank you Diannaa! I will go through the changes later tonight. Thanks! Yazan ( talk) 05:25, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Apparently, the person this IP has not learned his lesson. He keeps coming back to make unnecessary or inaccurate changes to the New York City Subway articles. Thanks for reverting them all. I just hope he stops coming back for good because User:Acps110 and I are very annoyed by him. BTW, how do you add em dashes to articles? I seem to be able to only add en dashes. The Legendary Ranger ( talk) 14:31, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Diannaa You suck and you are not christian you satanist! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fireflow77 ( talk • contribs) 21:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I just posted on Toasts page User talk:Tea with toast#Edit count on Kutch article, I have been up all night (literally) trying to work something out, thought you would like to see the results, a little embarrassing but at least I'm laughing now ! (though that may be from all the caffeine lol) Chaosdruid ( talk) 16:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I'm looking for a copy editor who can take on a 20kb article (in British English) and massage some prose from good to 1a standard, so obviously, I need an experienced copy editor (I'm useless at copy-editing my own prose!) and the GOCE seems to have taken a different direction away from FA-level copy edits. Are you up for it and, if not, do you know someone who might be? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Wierd name spelling. where are you from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.246.72.135 ( talk) 00:14, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user talk page of this fan. ;-) Trijnstel ( talk) 14:13, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
I tried to install the Prose Size tool, and it appears to have worked, because I see the "Page size" choice in my Toolbox. However, when I click this tool, the "Prose size (text only)" line only contains the number of words that are not found in a bullet. On Alternate versions of Wonder Woman for example, it only shows 22 words, because most of the article is bulleted lists. Is this the correct function of Prose Size? Johnson487682 ( talk) 17:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi fellow editor, I cannot seem to use the addons to add proper citations. Is there a problem with my addons? Thanks -- SH 18:04, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
I copyedited and added a template to North Carolina Highway 13, and added the reporting template below yours, but I have no idea how to calculate the words, or how to prevent the 13 from slipping away from the article name. Advice?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 03:30, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at User_talk:SMasters#Potential_issue_with_copy_editor_Ankit_Maity's talk page.
Hey Diannaa. I have for a long time now wanted to become invloved in content contributions while I continue "backend" works, but I don't have time to sit down and write articles. I think that the GOCE is something that I can do that will get me involved again in contributing to Wikipedia article wise. I have joined the drive and have done Case Closed: The Raven Chaser and would like you to review it and let me know how I did on my first run. Thanks for your time in advance. -- DQ (t) (e) 22:03, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
I have signed up for the March copy editing drive and would be glad if you could have a look at my first effort, Sangaria, India. Actually it was not a good choice for a first try as it included a number of technical terms and abbreviations unfamiliar to me, but I did the best I could. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 09:54, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fellow Editor, I have had to revert this, as the user had left abusive messages on his own talk page. He may need a further block. Thanks -- SH 13:09, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Please come on over and give me a review at state reptile. TCO ( talk) 19:22, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to participate in the backlog elimination drive to improve my editing skills (I'm new). Are you available to review my edits? Octopet ( talk) 21:18, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Your edits are good so far. Here are a couple of additional edits I added in the section you have completed:
I have been participating in the copy editing backlog elimination drive. I have not been active in copy editing before, and I hope that the edits that I have done so far are up to the GOCE standards. Could you take a look at some of my edits listed on the backlog drive page and let me know what I can improve? Thanks! Dac04 ( talk) 23:08, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Thank you ever so much for that, I know you are busy most of the time, and particularly during a drive! (The discussion was on the GOCE coordinator talk page).
I was pretty paranoid then lol - a lot of the changes I wanted to do I considered too big for a copy-edit on such a high class ("A") article. Copy editing and reworking are pretty indistinct on lower class articles - I should not assume that A class are exempt from such changes. I will try to be less timid in future. In the past I normally ran the dashes script when finished, more recently I have been running it at the start. I left it as I had asked for the check, I won't next time lol.
Only one question:
I linked them as it seemed to me that readers would assume it was Chesapeake in the U.S. and I wanted to ensure they could find the Mill article (as well as point out it was in the UK). I just wondered what the reasoning was behind that one?
Thanks again, I have learnt a lot from that. :¬) Chaosdruid ( talk) 18:45, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
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This Cleanup Barnstar is given to Diannaa for wikifying 3 articles, a total of 10,839 words(with rollover). Thanks for participating, and please be sure to help out at our next drive! Sumsum2010· T· C· Review me! 03:10, 6 March 2011 (UTC) |
Hi, please inform on why the page Renaissance 2011 BITS Pilani was deleted despite a hang-on template being added and arguments that WERE BEING ADDED at the time to contest the allegations that it was promotional. Please advice what path to take if Wikipedia does not allow this: Independent listing of information on real content that was brought out at a particular event. Also, would it be too much to expect from a wikipedian to respect the hang-on request and desist from speedy deletion of an article to give it some chance for proving itself? the event is ongoing and we cannot be so lightning-quick that we can conclusively prove everything in less than 5 minutes which seems like the time taken to make this deletion decision. Nikhilsheth ( talk) 05:08, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, saw that you removed the section for films about the Korean War. Is the war's depiction in these moves offensive? Or are they simply inaccurate? Perhaps one sided? Thank you. Bolton76 (talk) 05:14, 06 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the the review. Agree with most of your changes. In some cases, are even changing back to how I had it before (not all, but when I see that I know we must be close). Few questions though.
1. Sentence case or title case. Tony has asked us to use sentence case in the past. (I think for article, book, and website titles). I really don't care, and maybe I was doing it wrong, but would like to do it one way all the time. I will ask him as well.
2. US versus U.S. (I normally let people change those around at will, had them change 7 times on Painted turtle and just smiled, as long as they are changed throughout article). U.S. is older (and the more common usage in the United States). US newer and more common outside. I think given the naming of this article, I should stick to the periods.
TCO ( talk) 08:57, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the help with posting a warning to Brian Boru about my subpage. He hasn't vandalized my page again since then, so let's hope it holds. Spidey 104 19:05, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa Thanks for your comments on the above page. I cheerfully admit to being bamboozled by the process and notifications. (First created page issues)
1. Copyright Issue: Do I need to get a specific Email from the Artists website to say that the material used is free-issue press material and not copyrighted? 2. Notability Issue: I accept that I need to prove notability and will work to compile enough material to satisfy requirements. 3. Conflict of Interest Issue: The artist is not client of mine or directly connected to me in any way. I admit to being a fan and so there is a bias problem. I can work to make the article less biased but do I need to add a statement to cover this whole issue? As regards the Joscho Portrait Live.jpg pic used in the article, I added Creative Commons license information and thought the notifications were inviting me to delete them once this was added. Instead I've got a Baseball Watcher Last warning. Please help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomcan ( talk • contribs) 23:10, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa - You removed the link I had put to jconcurrency.com and flagged it as spam. This is not spam - it is an invaluable aid to the understanding of Java concurrency. Java champion Yakov Fain is calling for Oracle to include it in their Java tutorial. http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/java_concurrent_animated.htm I won't restore it if you don't believe it belongs, but I can't think of a more relevant link to this topic! Thanks, Victor Grazi - vgrazi@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vgrazi ( talk • contribs) 03:50, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
So I went through this article for the drive and checked it off my list, but I think it could really use a review. It seems that it was originally machine translated, and there were a few rough parts for me to sort out. When you have a moment, would you mind taking a look at it? Thank you! - Pax85 ( talk) 04:39, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
I was going to RPP your user page last night while the vandalism was going on, but then noticed you were an admin and could semi-protect or protect it yourself if you wanted to. Anti-vandal fighting has been so much less stressful since my user page was semi-protected. — Tom Morris ( talk) 10:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, Can you please put an edit notice on Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Members/Welcome, to ask people not to edit that page because it is used for transculsion to many other pages? Some people have been putting in thank you notes. Perhaps they can be redirected to the main talk page or even the membership department talk page. Thanks! – SMasters ( talk) 08:20, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Should I be taking credit for In-situ capping of subaqueous waste? You did most of the work, and should get credit. I am learning what to do from looking at your changes, though. Wade Dump got me started with an environmental article, so I was not afraid of another one, and I do have an engineering and technical background. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! You have been very helpful in the past, so I was wondering if you can take a look at Talk:Siege of Szigetvár/GA2, and copyedit the article. The article is on hold for the prose to be copy-edited and turned into plain English. I also made a request on 'WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests'. Thanks. -- Kebeta ( talk) 14:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
WTF is a Level 2 warning and WTF is a level 3 warning. I have no idea what you are on about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.147.54.65 ( talk) 21:35, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
I don't get it.I looked everywhere, and there's no information that might help me.Can you tell me?-- Damirgraffiti ( talk) 02:13, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Robert John Bardo is a stalker. The term 'stalking' is entirely inappropriate ref for use on wiki; it's a key piece of the whole benighted project having become toxic. Sometimes teh littluns ref get this wrong, and some time the biguns fuck it up. ref Anyone wonder why I have little WP:RESPECT for this 'project' at this point? I've seen most everything here and root is right.
'The Strike' was the working title of teh Jimbo's fav kook-philosopher's Atlas Shrugged but a better lens to see my position through is as having gone off the reservation. Damned, Gold Hat ( talk) 03:54, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have a favor to ask of you. I was referred to you by User:Novice7 who said you may be able to copyedit an article that I wrote, " Love Sex Magic." It is up for GA and the reviewer has asked that it needs to be done. I would appreciate it alot, if you don't mind, if not that's fine. Thanks :) Candy o32 04:15, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. If possible, I'll copyedit Franco-Turkish War as a contribution to the March 2011 drive. It appears that the article on it in the French WP is so close to it that translation must be involved. But there is no translation template on its talk page, and I cannot prove which language version was translated to which. Is there anything I can usefully do about this? Thanks.
P.S. Do reply here if you like. I've watchlisted you. -- Stfg ( talk) 11:03, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
What is it?I don;t know what does it mean?-- Damirgraffiti ( talk) 00:40, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Oh.Ok!And by the way,I already know what vandalism is.-- Damirgraffiti ( talk) 02:23, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
So, is it ok that I can use the Vandalism Infomation onto my talk page?Is it fine to do that?-- Damirgraffiti ( talk) 02:31, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I've decided it's time I joined the Guild and contributed to the copy editing backlog elimination drive, so I've done that and logged my first article, Ensemble 360 (although to be honest that was more a complete rewrite and sourcing than strictly a copy editing job...). It was only 443 words, and I removed most of those anyway, but, hey, it's a start. I have not been active in wikipedia copy editing before, although copy editing and proof reading is something I do some of in one of my other lives. I hope that the edits that I do match Guild standards, but would welcome my work being checked and any feedback, improvement suggestions, etc. Thanks! Mooncow ( talk) 01:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
The user Markpb91 I am reverting is putting a negative slant on section of the Android (operating system) article, while removing any neutral or positive reference, while also removing a negative review of Mac OS X. I have asked on the talk page for suggestions, and gotten none. I can't find where, but I read that any negative npov content should be removed immediately, then discussed on the talk page. Everything I have reverted is against WP:NPOV, and each time he adds it back. Tell me what I should do, because apparently I'm doing it wrong. Thank you. - SudoGhost ( talk) 04:11, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I was trying to follow instructions to join in the copy editing but cannot seem to get the count to work. I inserted the code on my page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lost_Josephine_Minor/monobook.js
Can you tell what went wrong?
Thanks... I am starting to get frustrated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lost Josephine Minor ( talk • contribs) 05:45, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry to bug you, but I must ask, how was my edit vandalism, when it was done by accident yes, but then the same exact edit was made by not one, but two different administrators? I just want to be aware so that I do not inadvertently violate policy in the future, but I'm also wondering how my edit is vandalism, whereas their identical edits are not. "Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism. Edit warring over content is not vandalism." So I'm a little confused, and was hoping you might clarify. Thank you. - SudoGhost ( talk) 15:26, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I didn't remove it Pol430 removed and I reverted his edit and put it back or am I missing something because Im pretty sure I did do that. Please correct me if I am wrong. Gabesta449 edits ♦ chat 23:06, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I saw your post concerning my revert. I apologize in advance if i've got it badly wrong but I didn't feel the IP's edit met the talk page guidelines, The IP took a convo from my talk page that contained some mild personal attack and pasted it into the article talk page. Basically the IP has been somewhat harassing me ever since, I tried to stop the edit warring at 2011 Chinese protests. Would you mind taking another look at the situation overall and giving me some feedback. Thanks in advance Pol430 talk to me 23:12, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
For awhile I've been following the movements of this IP address 178.240.212.212. He has switched IP addresses quite a number of times. the IP addresses he has switch to well I had them written down but I lost the paper. I would like for you to take some sort of action against him, possibly an indefinite block. Oh and P.S. he was previously blocked by Materialscientist. Thanks and Cheers. Umm I didnt want to file a checkuser request for reasons I am unable to tell to you at this time anyway. Gabesta449 edits ♦ chat 23:32, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Prolly read Earth Abides as a kid, but not sure; have seen Nicholas and Alexandra. Damned, Gold Hat ( talk) 01:16, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
I had my list from an old email thread. It was about this:
We were discussing how many each had read; I've read 53 of them. A lot of the talk ended up being about all the ones that should have been on the list, but were not. Damned, Gold Hat ( talk) 01:20, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the vandalism of my user page. Surprisingly that is the first such instance in my nearly 3.5 years on the project :o) Redthoreau -- ( talk) 06:10, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, Hope you won't take offence if I say that I found
this a bit on the
WP:BITEy side—that may be partly as I'd read
Sue Gardner's essay on new editor recruitment only shortly before. A quick check of Google Books reveals that there is such a thing as Bennett's inequality and that it is related to Hoeffding's lemmainequality, so although the editor had provided too little to be informative in itself, it was enough to point interested readers or editors to something related and potentially useful. Best wishes,
Qwfp (
talk) 09:29, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, there is a vandal on the loose, 174.94.39.2, I believe you reverted an edit of his/hers. I am not sure how to report this on the vandalism noticeboard manually, so I thought I would come to an admin... Thanks. Dbrodbeck ( talk) 05:07, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I've just began copyediting earlier this month. Can you take a look at my articles to see if they meet the quality? Thank you! LKILLER123 01:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
This is not an edit war. I previously expressed in the edit summaries and the user's talk page that the image on the Commons was a possible copyvio, which is a serious issue. After justifying myself several times in several different ways, I felt that is was unnecessary to do so any further. The user has not provided evidence that he/she owns copyright to this image. Again, this is not a content dispute, it's an issue regarding copyvio. -- Jtalledo (talk) 03:37, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Listen Dianna: The Secret is a best-selling 2006 self-help book written by Rhonda Byrne and based upon William Walker Atkinson's prior works and school of thought, based on the notion that people are greedy and curious and will thus pay for anything that sounds like a formula for getting rich, and thus making the author rich instead of the reader.
This is a verifiable fact. The mere fact that the book was best-selling is enough to proove the claim by wikipedias own logic. Not being able to see through this makes wikipedia look very, very stupid indeed.
When you buy anything, such as a book you will by the laws of economics become poorer, and the author will become richer. That is how economics work and that is why people publish books about how to get rich.
This is self-evident and does not constitute "vandalism". You are by your actions hiding verifiable truth in disagreement with wikipedias own rules. So double-reverse your editing to include the above.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.212.14.115 ( talk • contribs)
Every once in a while I go through my watchlist aiming to fix _more_ than just the one or two bad edits reviewers normally see. Thus sometimes checking shows that there's been a lot of bad edits and you just have to go back a bunch.
While trying to figure things out this edit of yours caught my eye. You had an edit summary of "addition of unsourced negative content to a biographical article (HG))", but it sure looks like you added back the negative content that 69.111.17.135 had deleted. (That IP editor looked like the "good guy" in that heap of edits.)
Anyway, being the slow and painful type (both editing and personality) I gotta wonder, did you get it backwards? Shenme ( talk) 05:20, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
That was simply a translation of the Japanese Wikipedia article. The "sources" are but US propaganda, based on US show trials. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.166.181.85 ( talk) 14:49, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi - you deleted the above. I'm having a slight problem with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jaz lee. I've done a non-admin closure, but the thing doesn't seem to be actually IN today's Log. At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/Today "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jaz Lee" appears above the listing of nominations, and I can't see a way of getting rid of it or moving it into the correct place. This was created by a kid who tried to AfD it and got into a mess (partly through using the wrong capitalisation). Help? (An explanation would be appreciated, too, as I'm just at the end of an RfA with possible success(?) in sight.) I've left a message for the article's creator. Thanks in advance.... Peridon ( talk) 16:45, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, This is regarding an incidence of new article deletion: 04:53, 6 March 2011 Diannaa (talk | contribs) deleted "Renaissance 2011 BITS Pilani" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: This is not the place to post a blog)
In a very short time after the page first got marked for speedy deletion, I put in the tag "hold on" in the proper format as advised by the speedy deletion template. I put a couple of lines on the page's Talk section to explain that a page covering a 3-day national-level event is not a blog. I had started it as a stub (though I did not know at the time about these templates that I should have used) but there was never anything of advertizing nature in it, yet the page got accused at a time when there wasn't even enough content in it.
After the first Talk submission, I proceeded to write more explanation. After about 10 minutes when I saved the new section, I found that it had been deleted and all that was remaining now was the above mentioned line and you being the only link. I'd like to inquire why this was deleted when there was a hold-on template inserted and a short explanation on the Talk page and I was just writing more explanation. I had countered the blog and advertisement allegations. Over time there would have been enough references inserted on the page too. It was a description of an event. I don't know how to express the fact that anybody has no right to judge any event as insignificant. This was well-published and no tiny social gathering - it was a national level conference. Why didn't you participate in the Talk page if you felt the explanation (made in just 5 mins) was inadequate? If you didn't like the name, we would have changed it. Why did you delete a page that had a hold-on template on it within just 5 minutes, hence not giving any time to anybody to provide an adequate defense? Then there is absolutely no meaning of the hold-on template, and if you can't do anything about it now, then it means there is no accountability. I now have no way of even seeing the history to recover anything from there or any mechanism to revert this act that was in violation of wikipedia policy. Please let me know what needs to be done, and please forgive me for being new to these things? Nikhilsheth ( talk) 17:11, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
This event was held from 4th to 6th March 2011 at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. This page aims to create an independent report of all the events, talks, discussions and insights, shared by the people who attended it.<br /> Apart from reporting, this page can also be a common point to aggregate ideas that emerged from the conference. == 4 March 2011 == == 5 March 2011 == === Panel Discussion === ==== Participating Individuals ==== == 6 March 2011 == === Tata Jagriti Yatra ===
There are no sources quoted in the article. I looked for independent coverage of the event in online news sources and found nothing; there is still no coverage of the event in online news sources today, one week after the event. So the event likely fails notability guidelines, though that is not the criterion I deleted it under.
The reason I deleted the article is because the above wording indicates that the purpose of creating the article is to share information amongst the participants in the conference and to create a record of the event for your own purposes. That is not the purpose of Wikipedia; Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. The layout of the article is more like a blog and that is why it was deleted.
The hang-on tag was added at 4:36 and you added some remarks to the talk page at 4:43. The article was deleted at 4:53.
Here is the content of the talk page:
Arguing for keeping this page: Independent participants that attended this event and who are not all directly part of the event organizers or their de facto supporters, will collaborate on this page to give a neutral report of all everything that happened at the event. If anybody doesn't like the NAME of this page, then kindly RENAME it. We want to enlist all the talks and exercises that took place. Many of these have the potential to spin off new articles on wikipedia as they are about places, methods and concepts that do not exist on wikipedia right now. Please keep a watch on the page to make sure there is no biased perspective. But please don't delete it, as there is potential to gather a lot of content here and wikipedia is a good independent medium for the participants of this conference to bring it all together. [[User:Nikhilsheth|Nikhilsheth]] ([[User talk:Nikhilsheth|talk]]) 04:43, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
So again we are seeing the intent for conference participants to make blog-like posts in an effort to create a record of the event. The problem with this is that it is what we call primary sources and original research. What that means is that Wikipedia articles are not written directly by the participants in an event; Wikipedia articles are written by independent authors who use reliable secondary sources such as newspaper articles, content from trusted web sites, and material found in books to create the content. So that is why I deleted the article. Regards, -- Diannaa ( Talk) 17:41, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
-- The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 22:35, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I am contacting you for advice regarding some unusual behavior of one user. More precise, if you could instruct me how should I proceed in this kind of situations and how can this kind of behavior be stooped.
There is an active ANI report that wan`t filed by me, but I fell there is no administrator interested in resolving this problem while this user continues with his behavior and further insults. It is clear that talking to a user with that attitude I can`t solve anything.
Here are some relevant diffs: 1; the rest can be seen at the section of ANI that I provided.
I would appreciate your advice on this matter and if you can advice me regarding this ANI report. Thank you Adrian ( talk) 11:19, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I am smiling. I too am also seeking advice... but of a different sort. As you are a librarian and I have seen you on genealogy articles, I was wondering if you happen to know if the coronation date and the wedding/marriage date occur on the same day with European aristocracy? I ask because I was adding the coronation date for an article's subject but I don't know offhand if that corresponds to the wedding date. Since I know the date of her coronation, I would prefer to write it as her and her spouse's marriage date, but I don't know how aristocratic traditions work in this period (Late Medieval in Hungary - I think she is of the Hapsburg lineage) or for that matter most any other period. Would you possibly have some insight into this? I would not have bothered you but I have noticed that you edit some genealogy articles, and that you are a librarian on top of that, so I was thinking that you might have some exertise in this area or with this question. I appreciate any help that you can offer. Thank you kindly. Best Regards, Steve... Stevenmitchell ( talk) 13:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
I think I've completed edits on 2008 Bihar Flood: [5]. Please tell me if I've missed anything. I recorded one article in my drive participation, but have not yet removed the copy edit tag until I hear back from expert editors. I recorded 1068 words - this was the beginning count before I started edits. (The Page Size/word count said "6548 B (1068 words)" and I guessed I should list the second number. Is that correct?) Do I need to record the ending word count of the article? Where do I list the name of the article for the drive record? Thank you Octopet ( talk) 19:14, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
March 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.
![]() So far, 79 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 64 have participated. Interest is high due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page, and many new and first-time copy editors have joined us for the drive. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can
sign up now. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the
Requests page. We have assisted in the promotion of seven articles to
Good article status so far this month.
We have already achieved our target of reducing the overall backlog by 10%; however, we have more work to do with the 2009 backlog. We have almost eliminated May 2009 and we only have some 700 articles left from 2009. It is excellent progress, so let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!
The Utahraptor Talk to me has decided to step down from his position as project coordinator due to real-life issues. Your drive coordinators – S Masters ( talk), Diannaa ( Talk) and Tea with toast ( Talk) |
Sent on behalf of the
Guild of Copy Editors using
AWB on 04:42, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help over on Gold Hat's talk page with the technical question. I've finished my first draft of the article expansion and am wondering if you'd mind having a look-over and maybe copy-editing it if you get the chance. I'd like to make it a Good Article and possibly a Featured Article but I haven't worked either process and am wondering if you can help me work my way through it. Thanks! N419 BH 06:29, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Request your attention on the article. My efforts to summarize certain quotes in the article triggered an edit war and I finally conceeded to the concerned user by reverting to his earlier version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vamsisv ( talk • contribs) 06:38, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, i'm currently participating in the current copy-edit elimination drive. When fixing articles with possible transcription errors such as Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed do i include the word-count in my totals even though all i had to do was find the [sic] tag and check out the source?? Or do i add no word-count? Mabuska (talk) 11:01, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the help! It really does mean a lot. Intoronto1125 ( talk) 03:29, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that I added some new content in response to a reviewer. Your choice if you wanted to look at it. Just informing, since you had given a support. TCO ( talk) 03:44, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
If intoronto1125 did not consistently get in the way of my improvements to any article we both work on, I would not be speaking to him in such blunt terms. He is getting in the way of my improvements to the article and several of his recent edits to the page have not at all been constructive. If I can't tell him to get out of the way of people who know what they're doing, what can I tell him?— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 18:24, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
This guy keeps persisting on adding content that I have reverted. He will not let discussion occur. He just assumes that I am wrong and that he is allowed to begin an edit war. I have persistently tried to begin conversation with him on his talk page but this was his written response shortly before he reverted me on the article, again. I am tired of dealing with him. He does not listen to any arguments I put forth. He instead insists that he is doing nothing wrong.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 19:20, 18 March 2011 (UTC)