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Hi. Is this what completed copy-editing is suppossed to look like? Queenmomcat appears to think so and has cited this as a completed copy-edit in their stats. I came across it looking for examples of copy-editing as a few editors appear to have very loose standards in applying it. Mabuska (talk) 23:23, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
This is answered in our FAQ: "Just copy and paste the words (minus the Table of Contents, and any references or notes sections) into any word processor that can do a word count, and take the number from there." Hope this clarifies. – SMasters ( talk) 14:54, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm going drop this here so that you see it while Huggling. Could you explain why you reverted the additions to the Pinto article? I'm not, myself, convinced that they belong, but you didn't give any explanation in your edit summary. Is that source not reliable? The info UNDUE? The reason I ask is that depending on your concern, it may be that the solution is rephrasing and/or trimming rather than removal. Just checking... Qwyrxian ( talk) 04:02, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! Whenever you are free, can you do a copy-edit of " Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"? It's a GAN, and I can really spot some poor sentences (although I edited the article). Novice7 ( talk) 04:08, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
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For helping me out by copy-editing, whenever an article is in need of one. Thank you Diannaa. Novice7 ( talk) 04:14, 18 March 2011 (UTC) |
Thank you. -- Diannaa ( Talk) 04:16, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Please note that I declined speedy deletion of this user page, because WP:CSD#A7 does not apply to user pages. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:44, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I see you moved Gary Sherman to Gary Sherman (director) and re-established the former as a disambiguation page. Please note that, while this move was most likely the right action, it has left a number of articles linking to a disambiguation page (not ordinarily the correct state of affairs); these links do not fix themselves.
Tomorrow, I plan to fix the remaining incorrect links. It would be pleasant to know that you had also made a stab at this. -- 79.68.237.87 ( talk) 19:29, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm a Belgian citizen and I found you in the "Artist" discussion page, I would like to ask you some help concerning a wikipedia article about the artist ben heine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ben_Heine. Please let me know how I can do to improve this article or to have someone do it as I really find it difficult to edit stuff properly on Wikipedia, I can't do it myself unfortunately... (and each time I tried to improve it in a neutral way, someone removed what I added) -- Caring-writer ( talk) 22:30, 18 March 2011 (UTC) I've been following Ben Heine's work for many years, may I mention that the current article is a text that appeared on Wikipedia in 2006 and that reflects what he did in that time only. He has totally changed and evolved. He has made many more things since then. He is a globally appreciated artist and he needs a better bio. There aren't so many criticisms about him. The article isn't fair, it REALLY NEEDS MANY UPDATES and contains strong mistakes defamation against the artist. Many well known national newspapers and magazines have talked about him and his work recently (see a non exhaustive list here below), none of them is even mentioned in the current article. He has stopped making political art since more than 2 years. Please just consider these publications, most of them are a few days/weeks old only... Daily Mail, The Telegraph, El Pais, Repubblica, De Standaard... These AREN'T blogs!!! These are national papers read by millions of people. Please have a look to the following list of errors in the current article (which I detailed here below, and which I'll mention to several other admins/contributors if needed and if not taken into account).
1) Ben isn't a political artist anymore, it's true he used to make political art accusing Israel of "crimes against humanity", but he stopped making such illustrations in 2009 and wrote an "[[ open letter to the Jewish Community]]" in December 2010 apologizing about his past behavior (saying it was the influences of his studies in Journalism. Parts of his final assignment talked about the "limits of freedom of expression in cartoons"). In this letter, he also firmly condemned the infamous Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest and said he was feeling deeply guilty about it. Here is the letter translated in English (Google translator). Ben doesn't deny the Holocaust, he visited Auschwitz Birkenau and feels sincerely sorry about the past suffering of the Jewish community. 2) Ben doesn't contribute to these websites anymore: DonQuichotte, MWC News, Rebelion, Tlaxcala, Irancartoon, Syriacartoon, Arabcartoon, Persiancartoon, Karikaturevi, Azercartoon, Dessin d'humour, National Caricaturist Network (Ben has explicitly asked these sites to remove all his illustrations from their platforms) 3) Ben doesn't collaborate with "La Libre Belgique" Anymore. Only 4 or 5 of his old cartoons have been published in this newspaper (in 2006 and 2007). 4) Pencil Vs Camera is not just a "little detail" in his biography, it is a creative and original series that has generated some huge reactions on the web and in the written press (see a non exhaustive list below). It is such an innovation that several TV channels around the world have also talked about it: Globo - Brazil, TV Brussel - Belgium, and many others). Same for "Digital Circlism"... 5) "Pere Ubu" (one of the main newspapers that clearly accused Heine in Belgium has removed the accusation from their site 6) Most of the links in the "notes" section (expecially the url's linking to images on Ben's blog) do not work... 7) Ben removed from his sites (blog, flickr, Deviantart and official site) all his cartoons accusing Israel or any Israeli person (Avigdor Lieberman...). 8) He didn't participate "recently" to the Kruger Workshop. This event happened in 2006!
List of recent notable publications with Ben Heine works and biography: WEB: - DAILY MAIL (UK - February 2011) - EL PAIS (Spain - February 2011) - THE TELEGRAPH (UK - February 2011) - NEWSLITE (UK : February 2011) - BBC Brazil (Brazil - February 2011) - LA REPUBBLICA (Italy - February 2011) - TV BRUSSEL (Belgium - January 2011) - CNN Turk (Turkey - February 2011) - POP PHOTOGRAPHY: (USA - January 2011) - SHORT NEWS (Germany - February 2011) - ESTADAO (Brazil - January 2011) - HET NIEUWSBLAD (Belgium - February 2011) - DE STANDAARD (Belgium - February 2011) - OBVIOUS MAG (Spain - January 2011) - WEBOVINY (Slovakia - January 2011) - ARTE SPAIN (Spain - January 2011) - Accessible Art Fair (Belgium - 2010) - TrendsNow (France- February 2011) - CHINA DAILY (China - 2010) - DUSHI (China - january 2011) - ABDUZEEDO (Brazil - 2010) - Other publications in 2010 PRINT: - Pop Photography (USA - January 2011) - Het Nieuwsblad - 1 (Belgium - 2011) - Het Nieuwsblad - 2 (Belgium - 2010) - Ca m'intéresse (France - 2010) - Daily Mirror (Great Britain - 2010) - Bookedi (South Korea - 2010) - Digital Artist 1 - 2 - 3 (China - 2010) - Belgian Embassy in London (February 2011) - Photoeidolo (Greece - 2011) - Šeimininkė (Lithuania - 2010) - View Mag (Germany - 2010) - Shambala Sun (Canada - 2010) - Imagine Demain le Monde (Belgium - 2009) - La Libre Belgique 1 2 (Belgium - 2009) - Moonwalk Through Art (The Netherlands - 2009) - Rolling Stone (USA - 2008) - 3e Millénaire (France - 2011) My suggestions for a new neutral article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ben_Heine#Article_about_Ben_Heine_needs_many_updates_and_corrections_.28please_read.29 (it would be good to add some of the above references, feel free to add more)
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Hi
I have a problem. I am a little disheartened as I keep getting reverted on articles I have copyedited.
Can you take a quick look at this one for me please, I will understand if you are too busy (but I also think I need a U.S. viewpoint and I believe you are Canadian?)
Basically I think it might be a UK v. US grammar problem, but am so unsure it is beginning to get to me a little - the edit summary of the first edit after my finishing did not help either though and may have upset me more than it should have done [1]. I approached it as a very sensitive article (an A class to FAC) and tried my best to apply everything from my education in the English language, everything I have learnt from editing here and from your little reviews and our discussions - yet still I am getting massive amounts of reverting [2].
This last one is really a setback, I feel as if I wasted a lot of time on a really difficult to follow and read article. Where am I going wrong? A lot of the sentences were really short and had commas in the middle - they seemed to be extremely superfluous, ", and" used in lots of places as well as "On (date), this happened", well you can see on the talk page what I said as my parting comments [[Talk:U.S. Route 131].
If you are too busy perhaps you can pass this on the Steve or another editor you know is from the U.S. - I would like to reply to one statement made and to point them to our discussion on the date comma in particular. It seems as if I am shooting myself in the foot by trying to make editors understand that if something is being done incorrectly by almost everybody it doesn't make it right :¬(
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 02:45, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Remember USS Chesapeake (1799)? it isn't even in your drop down. You definitely should be counting it, all the work you did on it was in March for sure; and it was a request - plus you checked it and gave me that editing feedback. I made a couple of small edits on Feb 27 but put it on hold while I was discussing the dates commas (again lol) and place formats, then had to spend a couple of days back at work and on the Wiki Guides project pages and an ANI/3RR problem leading me up to the evening of the 2nd March and began the proper edits on March 3, after which you checked it over, corrected a lot and gave me the feedback. Chaosdruid ( talk) 06:36, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the serious go-over and I hope we can work together in the future. I'm glad I twisted your arm...;)
TCO ( talk) 23:52, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much. -- Diannaa ( Talk) 00:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Dianaa. Just a note to let you know I closed this after you speedied the article -- just for housekeeping's sake and to dissuade the sock army: I realize non-admin closure involving SDs is usually not kosher. Cheers. -- Rrburke ( talk) 17:10, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I am not sure if this area interests you but I have seen recently increased activity of POV, blankings, reverts etc in the article of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. One of the accounts involved also edited the article of Sri Lanka Armed Forces and I reverted. As these articles are not within my field of interest, I would like to know if you can keep an eye for future developments and maybe assist in this area. I thought about taking these to RFPP but I don't think there is enough activity yet. Thank you . Dr.K. λogos πraxis 17:58, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
That's funny. I was just thinking about creating that page. Can you please restore that page history as my userspace draft? Marcus Qwertyus 18:35, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
You've got mail. Many thanks and sorry for the trouble. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 21:31, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Very indebted. Take care. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 21:43, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I see you just put a ban on User:65.8.221.157. I checked out some of the edits that were reverted by User:Fjp1995 and they don't appear to be vandalism. For example, this one [3] adds to confirmed award nominations that I checked out. and this one [4] adds writers who's names I googled and did indeed contribute to the show. I am not sure what is going on here - I have seem a busy pattern of reversion the past few days on various Phineas and Ferb related articles, with a number of contentious edits. I am not sure that in this case the right editor has been suspended. Will leave it to you to check it out and give your opinion. Cheers! Seaphoto Talk 21:41, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your work with File:Japanese officials check for radioactive material on residents living near the Fukushima station.jpg. Jessy T/ C 03:50, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hallo Diannaa, I need some help with my wordcount. After installing the automated script, I still cannot find the tool in the Tools menu (far left, I read). Of course, I am not able to prepare a sandwich! Thank you in advance.-- Broletto ( talk) 08:31, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. Spidey 104 16:50, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa- A few weeks back, you nominated a new article, Air Ambulance Card, LLC for speedy deletion. It was my first article, and I based it almost exclusively on highly credible third party sources including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and US News and World Report. According to the Wikipedia guidelines for notability, I believe it meets the standard for inclusion. I am happy to revise in order to address any concerns. Can you please userfy and provide specifics on what you see as problem areas? Thanks! Atticusrominger ( talk) 14:24, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
I am inquiring about the User:Markelmitchell, whom you left a comment on his/her talk page regarding the Administrators' noticeboard. The ANI post has been archived and the editor in question has yet to respond to it (or to anything, anyone in general). The user's disruptive editing has continued since your message at the talk page, edits most of which I've once again had to revert. What's the next move about this? Dan56 ( talk) 20:13, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You are a neutral admin which knows the history of my conflicts with Hobartimus, Nmate and co. Can you please express your opinion on this case: [6]? ( Iaaasi ( talk) 20:40, 22 March 2011 (UTC))
Isn't it a little strange when User:Iaaasi gets a second chance after an indef block, comes back from a week-long block for edit warring, makes 5(!) reverts in 24 hours, and then tries to have others warned/blocked who haven't broken any rule?? Or I'm just too sensitive? Squash Racket ( talk) 10:29, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Even if what you try to allege was true, it wouldn't be a blockable offence, use "citation needed" tags next time. Or may I remove any uncited information from any article on WP?
So the question remains: isn't it a little strange when
User:Iaaasi gets a second chance after an indef block, comes back from a week-long block for edit warring, makes 5(!) reverts in 24 hours, and then tries to have others warned/blocked who haven't broken any rule??
Squash Racket (
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10:45, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I counted five reverts by him in 24 hours at the article
Székely yesterday which is clearly a blockable offence.
What I found extremely strange that afterwards it was him who reported others who haven't broken any rule. And the misleading statements above from a couple of hours ago clearly resemble his earlier behavior for which he was indef blocked.
You seem to confuse me with User:Hobartimus, I haven't talked about his past behavior yet, especially not "on a daily basis". I'm not gonna disturb you anymore with this, in fact it was him who filed a report here, I only answered.
Squash Racket (
talk)
14:25, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I won't answer anymore if it disturbs you (please indicate if that's the situation), but I feel I have to say something seeing your response.
The edit summaries were constructed so, because User:Iaaasi and his incarnations had a tendency of making false reports. I like it when administrators see the truth even when he makes a report in the evening or at night (European time) expecting that those who are not always online won't be able to react before a decision is made.
The truthfulness/honesty comment referred to misleading statements he added here on this very talk page. How would you treat this "knowledgeable editor" when he cites a deletion from a year ago with an extensive edit summary as some kind of a sneaky attack? He also cites a request for sources as his own good example, when that request was sent out
two minutes before he added his comment here?
I think knowledge without honesty (I'm not talking about the past) isn't of much worth on WP.
Squash Racket (
talk)
09:43, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
If you could spare a moment here.Thanks-- SH 19:30, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Permission is below. {{permissionOTRS|ticket=https://secure.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID=2350537}} ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:53, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa,
Could you kindly tell me why haven't you notified me of the ongoing SPI against my account (even though it's customary)? I've learned of it only after it's been concluded and thus didn't have much opportunities in defending myself. I don't think that this is what a due process looks like.
Also I'm not quite sure whether it was on purpose or just plain ignorance, but some of your statements in the SPI request simply don't have anything to do with truth. Take the "Coolkoon has filed a 3RR report against Iaaasi" statement for instance. The truth is that in fact I've never filled a 3RR report. Ever. If you would've cared to check the
report itself, then you would've noticed that the report you're talking about has been filed by
User:Nmate. Also, the math on your claims about the
Slovakia-Hungary relations edit history doesn't add up well either. If you would've done the math, you would've known that (strictly speaking) I've done 2 reverts and stopped because
Iaaasi has threatened to report me for edit warring. Technically however I've only done a single revert, because prior to Iaaasi's second "revert" I've added some additional content. In the subsequent edit Iaaasi has however removed all the content I've added before (both of my edits) and that was when he threatened to report me. I've made no more edits after that. Today however I've seen that a new user called
Koalicio has obviously "helped" Iaaasi to turn the whole thing into a rather nasty edit war. Later on I've seen that Iaaasi has been reported for 3RR by Nmate.
The point is that during the SPI you didn't seem to show much
good faith towards me, actually quite the contrary. Or is it that WP policies are to be applied only to users, but not to admins? Or are they to be applied sporadically? Next time please try to keep at least the facts right. --
CoolKoon (
talk)
01:10, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
You recently deleted User:Shadygrove2007/John William Wright, citing CSD#R2 in the edit summary. As a redirect from the Userspace to the Mainspace, it was technically ineligible for criterion R2. That criterion only applies to redirect from the Mainspace. We are trying hard to clean up the cites to the R2 clause so that it's not so widely misunderstood by new users. In this case, there was no harm done because the redirect was speedy-deletable under criterion U1 but if you could help us keep the logs clean in future situations, it would make the education process easier. Thanks for your understanding. Rossami (talk) 01:10, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, in the Kapoor family page our topic of discussion is "hometown"(heading is "Peshawar or Lyallpur"), I agree with your style but the content was the main issue i.e hometown and as per the sources I have added they describe themself Pathans from Peshawar. Winston786 ( talk) 12:46, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Plz check the talk page, Thanks. Winston786 ( talk) 13:44, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
I wondered if you could help me out. On my watch list there is an entry for 'Talk: Buildings in bushfire prone areas' and 'Buildings in bushfire prone areas', both on 23 March 2011. Both were deleted because of copyright infringement. (I seem to remember asking on the article's talk page what country was the article referring to, which might explain how I got involved in the first place). I thought that was an end to the matter, and that I might as well get rid of any non-needed entries. For some reason, your name is on my watch list in the 'article' column, so when I went to your page to delete it, I found that I couldn't. What do I do now?
Its not that I want to get rid of you, more a case of wanting to tidy up!
Thanks in advance.
RASAM ( talk) 15:31, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Forgot a section heading the last time, oops!
RASAM ( talk) 15:34, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yokota126 is back to editing articles/OWN without talk page, discussion— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.184.105.239 ( talk • contribs)
I uploaded this picture and it keeps saying that I need to put in a rationale. Everytime I put one on, it is deleted and replaced with anohter warning. Can you help? thumb|alt=2011 NCAA Boss Button in On Demand|Showing what happens when Boss Button is clicked in 2011 NCAA March Madness On Demand — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corbin630 ( talk • contribs) 02:05, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
I guess you're looking at User_talk:Anishviswa#Help in formatting. Which is cool.
I was about to do the columns, but as regards the table - it's far too wide to fit on my humble screen - which means, it's too wide for most users. So IDK what the answer is, there. Chzz ► 18:21, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
21:03, 28 March 2011 Diannaa (talk | contribs) deleted "Chuck Rice" (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content): No sources; no Google hits other than Facebook) I clearly said in that page's talk page THAT IT'S NOT FINISHED! I also said in the talk page that I wanted someone to help! Then you turn around and delete it! In fact, the guy has like 5 blogs, and you only found his facebook page? http://rpgdesign.blogspot.com/ That's one of his blogs, now may I please re-create the article?! Dolphinjamez ( talk) 21:15, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Here's an RPGNOW.com link to his company's books, most of which are written by him: http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=437 Dolphinjamez ( talk) 21:51, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
http://rpgdesign.blogspot.com/2011/02/usher-dossiers-gets-another-5-star.html There, a five-star review on one of his books! Dolphinjamez ( talk) 22:37, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Didn't you listen?! The page was not complete! I was not done! DO NOT DELETE! CAN I HAVE SOME HELP? The page was not complete. And besides, are you trying to make it impossible for a new member of this site to write about his favorite author? Huh, huh?
Dolphinjamez (
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22:51, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Two jokes-
What's the difference between the England team and a tea bag?
The tea bag stays in the cup longer.
Why did the man throw his watch out of the window?
He wanted to see time fly!
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Thank you so much for copyediting the Eazy-E article. Crowz RSA 19:55, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for volunteering your time and efforts into copy-editing the article. However, i would like to hear your opinion in this matter. I had previously changed the population figure from 2 million to 20 lakhs. This is because this is how the population is counted in India. However, some editor has been edit-warring with me using vague reasons such as "For an English encyclopedia with worldwide reach, million is more acceptable than lakh." and "I don't think this is an appropriate page to promote use of lakh and crore." As this is an Indian article, it is more appropriate to use 20 lakh as opposed to 2 million. Do you agree? If so, then please change it in the article, as a revert done by me will result in an edit-war. Regards, Joyson Noel Holla at me! 12:05, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you please use the dashes and British spelling scripts to fix the problems in this article? I haven't made a request for a copy-edit, as it has been copy-edited in the past and i don't have a problem with typos. Thanks! Joyson Noel Holla at me! 13:26, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify's
April Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. We'll be trying to reduce the backlog to 18,000 articles and we need your help! Hard-working participants in the drive will receive
awards for their contributions! If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends. Thanks! Note: The drive started April 1, but you can still
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The Copy Editor's Lifetime Achievement Award | ||
I hereby present you this award because of your astonishing work: you have copy edited more articles (1,044!) and more words (646,254!) than anyone else over the past year of drives. Absolutely amazing! — Torchiest talk edits 02:46, 1 April 2011 (UTC) |
Hi, I recently participated in the copyedit drive - I had not done this before, and I found it diverting and amusing (as well as a useful way to contribute). It appears that you are a major worker in this effort, so... thank you for shepherding this! Herostratus ( talk) 03:25, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For being a driving wheel of the March 2011 Copyedit backlog drive. Herostratus ( talk) 03:25, 2 April 2011 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive! This newsletter summarizes the March drive and other recent events.
There were 99 signups for the drive; of these, 70 participated. Interest was high mainly due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page. We had a record-breaking 84 articles listed on the Requests page in March; 11 of these have been promoted to Good article status so far. Several of our recent efforts have received Featured Article status as well, and the GOCE is becoming a solid resource for the Wikipedia community. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.
Remarkable progress was made in reducing the backlog this month, as we now have fewer than 500 articles remaining from 2009. We are well under the 4,000-article mark for the total number remaining in the queue. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 53% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their April drive has started.
On March 21, SMasters appointed Chaosdruid ( talk) and Torchiest ( talk) as Guild coordinators to serve in place of The Utahraptor, who recently stepped down. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. 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 14:34, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Sure, I can hand them out right now, if that's okay. — Torchiest talk edits 03:57, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I am glad to be back :¬) I do miss the goings on here, and our chats lol.
I will get onto the barnstars right now. I may need a little pointer or two though!
For example, Steve has "modern" so I am looking them all up at the moment... Chaosdruid ( talk) 12:48, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
I'll take care of K through N. -- Tea with toast (talk) 14:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Haha, no problems. It is actually Scott, and the entire name is a nom de plume. Glad your browser problems have been solved. – SMasters ( talk) 21:41, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I have received a message abut deeyah jpg File with the title of "File permission problem with File:Deeyah.jpg", this is true that I uploaded the file after I recieved the permission, but I don't know how to paste the information in the relevant are. So I asked an admin. named Decltype to do it for me, Decltype sent the email to the author of the file , got persmission and removed the tag which was attached to the file about deletion. Can you please ask him about this. If you like then I can ask him to reply you. Regards. Jogibaba ( talk) 20:15, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star | |
For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, editing 42 articles with a combined total of 64,135 words (125,761 with rollover and bonuses), I hereby induct Diannaa into the exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. -- SMasters ( talk) 04:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC) |
Leaderboard Award – Word Count – 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Diannaa for copy editing a total of 64,135 words during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you so much for your efforts. – SMasters ( talk) 04:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC) |
You deleted the image my friend took of the school, "Terrace Park High School (1913)". It was taken just yesterday for the purposes of allowing people to see what this historic building looks like before it is partially demolished. So I'm confused why you deleted it. I selected, "for educational purposes only; not for commercial use" because I thought that was the most appropriate choice. I have an e-mail from my friend saying the image(s) are acceptable to use for web-sites talking about the school. How can I correct this problem? -David Tornheim, 4/4/11 9:03 p.m. (sorry I forget how to sign things.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Tornheim ( talk • contribs) 04:03, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, similar issue with my image " File:Right skewed.jpg" in Long Tail. I created this image specifically for the entry (and the associated annotation was my own ) although a version of the image can probably be found in any statistics book and in a more annotated version in thousands of technical books. It is a basic statistical shape, not biased to a particular field. Does the above advice apply to me as well? -- RonaldDrewman ( talk) 02:23, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Good morning! I keep 76.117.247.55 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) on my watchlist, since some editors treat him as just another IP. I was surprised to see that he earned a block from you, so went to have a look. If the block was triggered only by his edits at Wikipedia talk:Long-term abuse, may I ask you to have another look at them? This editor has been contributing since 2005, so his opinions of long-term abusers are probably worth listening to.
Forgive me if there are other factors that I've missed. -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:01, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I've just created the new template
GOCEtb to let users know that their request on the GOCE page has been actioned. It takes only two parameters viz:
article=article name
user=user name
and comes out like this:
Hello, Diannaa. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Wikipedia at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! |
Please let me know if it can be improved/modified. Best,
► Philg88 ◄
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14:43, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! If you're free, can you do a copy-edit of Mandy Moore discography's lead? I would like to nominate it for an FL. Thanks in advance. Novice7 ( talk) 17:27, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Nice copyedits! Ocaasi c 00:55, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Ok so why did my article i posted get deleted? i understand what i did wrong by altering the Blackbird song but my article was legit! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myoder002 ( talk • contribs) 02:42, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Can you please replace the photo of the File:Henry R. Tilton.jpg. The photo is over 100 years old. I though I picked the correct license. If I have not, please advice.
Thanks Seansasser ( talk) 04:26, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
As per you request here is the link
http://www.hazegray.org/features/1898gale/
Seansasser ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:10, 8 April 2011 (UTC).
Hi fellow editor. Is this editor a block evade? He seems familiar. He seems to be similar to a series of similar named users. Thanks -- SH 07:08, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Qwyrxian ( talk) 10:26, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
I believe I have called your attention to this before (I may be wrong), but I just thought a friendly reminder would suffice: Category talk:Wikipedia files on Wikimedia Commons#Bot to delink images illustrates how, by installing User:MGA73/nowcommonsreview.js, you can indicate to my bot to delink any images, which I will delete immediately afterwards. I run it as often as I can, usually daily. I have found it helpful beyond measure in delinking images that are on commons. I mention it as you have done recent work on Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons, and it appears it could have come in useful for you. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 05:17, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Well Ogrebot doesn't just delink the file, it relinks it to the equivalent on commons, so the content of the page isn't changed from a visual perspective. Thanks. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 06:28, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hitler's name is spelt like that. Check it out. Kelisi ( talk) 17:12, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
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Good point. -- TIAYN ( talk) 16:13, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thanks for your note about the banned sockfarmer, and for helping to maintain and promote the related userbox :) It may be worth mentioning I found a very odd coincidence here but on further thought I think it really is just a coincidence. Secondly, the CCI case at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Babasalichai is now open, and covers nearly all of the confirmed sockpuppets but not the IP addresses. Much of the various accounts' contributions will since have been reverted anyway, but this may still be helpful in removing some of the damage done by the socks in various places. In instances where copyvios are found, these will be removed or re-written even if the edits were made before any of the accounts were first blocked. -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 04:23, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
It looks like your editing at the moment, so maybe this will catch your eye. Por favor, a look at Talk:Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto and User:Kevincory1981 in the last section. I see a few of the key clues (also, xyr contribution history out another). WP:DUCK? Qwyrxian ( talk) 00:20, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. Is this what completed copy-editing is suppossed to look like? Queenmomcat appears to think so and has cited this as a completed copy-edit in their stats. I came across it looking for examples of copy-editing as a few editors appear to have very loose standards in applying it. Mabuska (talk) 23:23, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
This is answered in our FAQ: "Just copy and paste the words (minus the Table of Contents, and any references or notes sections) into any word processor that can do a word count, and take the number from there." Hope this clarifies. – SMasters ( talk) 14:54, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm going drop this here so that you see it while Huggling. Could you explain why you reverted the additions to the Pinto article? I'm not, myself, convinced that they belong, but you didn't give any explanation in your edit summary. Is that source not reliable? The info UNDUE? The reason I ask is that depending on your concern, it may be that the solution is rephrasing and/or trimming rather than removal. Just checking... Qwyrxian ( talk) 04:02, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! Whenever you are free, can you do a copy-edit of " Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"? It's a GAN, and I can really spot some poor sentences (although I edited the article). Novice7 ( talk) 04:08, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
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For helping me out by copy-editing, whenever an article is in need of one. Thank you Diannaa. Novice7 ( talk) 04:14, 18 March 2011 (UTC) |
Thank you. -- Diannaa ( Talk) 04:16, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Please note that I declined speedy deletion of this user page, because WP:CSD#A7 does not apply to user pages. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:44, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I see you moved Gary Sherman to Gary Sherman (director) and re-established the former as a disambiguation page. Please note that, while this move was most likely the right action, it has left a number of articles linking to a disambiguation page (not ordinarily the correct state of affairs); these links do not fix themselves.
Tomorrow, I plan to fix the remaining incorrect links. It would be pleasant to know that you had also made a stab at this. -- 79.68.237.87 ( talk) 19:29, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm a Belgian citizen and I found you in the "Artist" discussion page, I would like to ask you some help concerning a wikipedia article about the artist ben heine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ben_Heine. Please let me know how I can do to improve this article or to have someone do it as I really find it difficult to edit stuff properly on Wikipedia, I can't do it myself unfortunately... (and each time I tried to improve it in a neutral way, someone removed what I added) -- Caring-writer ( talk) 22:30, 18 March 2011 (UTC) I've been following Ben Heine's work for many years, may I mention that the current article is a text that appeared on Wikipedia in 2006 and that reflects what he did in that time only. He has totally changed and evolved. He has made many more things since then. He is a globally appreciated artist and he needs a better bio. There aren't so many criticisms about him. The article isn't fair, it REALLY NEEDS MANY UPDATES and contains strong mistakes defamation against the artist. Many well known national newspapers and magazines have talked about him and his work recently (see a non exhaustive list here below), none of them is even mentioned in the current article. He has stopped making political art since more than 2 years. Please just consider these publications, most of them are a few days/weeks old only... Daily Mail, The Telegraph, El Pais, Repubblica, De Standaard... These AREN'T blogs!!! These are national papers read by millions of people. Please have a look to the following list of errors in the current article (which I detailed here below, and which I'll mention to several other admins/contributors if needed and if not taken into account).
1) Ben isn't a political artist anymore, it's true he used to make political art accusing Israel of "crimes against humanity", but he stopped making such illustrations in 2009 and wrote an "[[ open letter to the Jewish Community]]" in December 2010 apologizing about his past behavior (saying it was the influences of his studies in Journalism. Parts of his final assignment talked about the "limits of freedom of expression in cartoons"). In this letter, he also firmly condemned the infamous Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest and said he was feeling deeply guilty about it. Here is the letter translated in English (Google translator). Ben doesn't deny the Holocaust, he visited Auschwitz Birkenau and feels sincerely sorry about the past suffering of the Jewish community. 2) Ben doesn't contribute to these websites anymore: DonQuichotte, MWC News, Rebelion, Tlaxcala, Irancartoon, Syriacartoon, Arabcartoon, Persiancartoon, Karikaturevi, Azercartoon, Dessin d'humour, National Caricaturist Network (Ben has explicitly asked these sites to remove all his illustrations from their platforms) 3) Ben doesn't collaborate with "La Libre Belgique" Anymore. Only 4 or 5 of his old cartoons have been published in this newspaper (in 2006 and 2007). 4) Pencil Vs Camera is not just a "little detail" in his biography, it is a creative and original series that has generated some huge reactions on the web and in the written press (see a non exhaustive list below). It is such an innovation that several TV channels around the world have also talked about it: Globo - Brazil, TV Brussel - Belgium, and many others). Same for "Digital Circlism"... 5) "Pere Ubu" (one of the main newspapers that clearly accused Heine in Belgium has removed the accusation from their site 6) Most of the links in the "notes" section (expecially the url's linking to images on Ben's blog) do not work... 7) Ben removed from his sites (blog, flickr, Deviantart and official site) all his cartoons accusing Israel or any Israeli person (Avigdor Lieberman...). 8) He didn't participate "recently" to the Kruger Workshop. This event happened in 2006!
List of recent notable publications with Ben Heine works and biography: WEB: - DAILY MAIL (UK - February 2011) - EL PAIS (Spain - February 2011) - THE TELEGRAPH (UK - February 2011) - NEWSLITE (UK : February 2011) - BBC Brazil (Brazil - February 2011) - LA REPUBBLICA (Italy - February 2011) - TV BRUSSEL (Belgium - January 2011) - CNN Turk (Turkey - February 2011) - POP PHOTOGRAPHY: (USA - January 2011) - SHORT NEWS (Germany - February 2011) - ESTADAO (Brazil - January 2011) - HET NIEUWSBLAD (Belgium - February 2011) - DE STANDAARD (Belgium - February 2011) - OBVIOUS MAG (Spain - January 2011) - WEBOVINY (Slovakia - January 2011) - ARTE SPAIN (Spain - January 2011) - Accessible Art Fair (Belgium - 2010) - TrendsNow (France- February 2011) - CHINA DAILY (China - 2010) - DUSHI (China - january 2011) - ABDUZEEDO (Brazil - 2010) - Other publications in 2010 PRINT: - Pop Photography (USA - January 2011) - Het Nieuwsblad - 1 (Belgium - 2011) - Het Nieuwsblad - 2 (Belgium - 2010) - Ca m'intéresse (France - 2010) - Daily Mirror (Great Britain - 2010) - Bookedi (South Korea - 2010) - Digital Artist 1 - 2 - 3 (China - 2010) - Belgian Embassy in London (February 2011) - Photoeidolo (Greece - 2011) - Šeimininkė (Lithuania - 2010) - View Mag (Germany - 2010) - Shambala Sun (Canada - 2010) - Imagine Demain le Monde (Belgium - 2009) - La Libre Belgique 1 2 (Belgium - 2009) - Moonwalk Through Art (The Netherlands - 2009) - Rolling Stone (USA - 2008) - 3e Millénaire (France - 2011) My suggestions for a new neutral article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ben_Heine#Article_about_Ben_Heine_needs_many_updates_and_corrections_.28please_read.29 (it would be good to add some of the above references, feel free to add more)
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Hi
I have a problem. I am a little disheartened as I keep getting reverted on articles I have copyedited.
Can you take a quick look at this one for me please, I will understand if you are too busy (but I also think I need a U.S. viewpoint and I believe you are Canadian?)
Basically I think it might be a UK v. US grammar problem, but am so unsure it is beginning to get to me a little - the edit summary of the first edit after my finishing did not help either though and may have upset me more than it should have done [1]. I approached it as a very sensitive article (an A class to FAC) and tried my best to apply everything from my education in the English language, everything I have learnt from editing here and from your little reviews and our discussions - yet still I am getting massive amounts of reverting [2].
This last one is really a setback, I feel as if I wasted a lot of time on a really difficult to follow and read article. Where am I going wrong? A lot of the sentences were really short and had commas in the middle - they seemed to be extremely superfluous, ", and" used in lots of places as well as "On (date), this happened", well you can see on the talk page what I said as my parting comments [[Talk:U.S. Route 131].
If you are too busy perhaps you can pass this on the Steve or another editor you know is from the U.S. - I would like to reply to one statement made and to point them to our discussion on the date comma in particular. It seems as if I am shooting myself in the foot by trying to make editors understand that if something is being done incorrectly by almost everybody it doesn't make it right :¬(
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 02:45, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Remember USS Chesapeake (1799)? it isn't even in your drop down. You definitely should be counting it, all the work you did on it was in March for sure; and it was a request - plus you checked it and gave me that editing feedback. I made a couple of small edits on Feb 27 but put it on hold while I was discussing the dates commas (again lol) and place formats, then had to spend a couple of days back at work and on the Wiki Guides project pages and an ANI/3RR problem leading me up to the evening of the 2nd March and began the proper edits on March 3, after which you checked it over, corrected a lot and gave me the feedback. Chaosdruid ( talk) 06:36, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the serious go-over and I hope we can work together in the future. I'm glad I twisted your arm...;)
TCO ( talk) 23:52, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much. -- Diannaa ( Talk) 00:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Dianaa. Just a note to let you know I closed this after you speedied the article -- just for housekeeping's sake and to dissuade the sock army: I realize non-admin closure involving SDs is usually not kosher. Cheers. -- Rrburke ( talk) 17:10, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I am not sure if this area interests you but I have seen recently increased activity of POV, blankings, reverts etc in the article of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. One of the accounts involved also edited the article of Sri Lanka Armed Forces and I reverted. As these articles are not within my field of interest, I would like to know if you can keep an eye for future developments and maybe assist in this area. I thought about taking these to RFPP but I don't think there is enough activity yet. Thank you . Dr.K. λogos πraxis 17:58, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
That's funny. I was just thinking about creating that page. Can you please restore that page history as my userspace draft? Marcus Qwertyus 18:35, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
You've got mail. Many thanks and sorry for the trouble. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 21:31, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Very indebted. Take care. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 21:43, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I see you just put a ban on User:65.8.221.157. I checked out some of the edits that were reverted by User:Fjp1995 and they don't appear to be vandalism. For example, this one [3] adds to confirmed award nominations that I checked out. and this one [4] adds writers who's names I googled and did indeed contribute to the show. I am not sure what is going on here - I have seem a busy pattern of reversion the past few days on various Phineas and Ferb related articles, with a number of contentious edits. I am not sure that in this case the right editor has been suspended. Will leave it to you to check it out and give your opinion. Cheers! Seaphoto Talk 21:41, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your work with File:Japanese officials check for radioactive material on residents living near the Fukushima station.jpg. Jessy T/ C 03:50, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hallo Diannaa, I need some help with my wordcount. After installing the automated script, I still cannot find the tool in the Tools menu (far left, I read). Of course, I am not able to prepare a sandwich! Thank you in advance.-- Broletto ( talk) 08:31, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. Spidey 104 16:50, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa- A few weeks back, you nominated a new article, Air Ambulance Card, LLC for speedy deletion. It was my first article, and I based it almost exclusively on highly credible third party sources including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and US News and World Report. According to the Wikipedia guidelines for notability, I believe it meets the standard for inclusion. I am happy to revise in order to address any concerns. Can you please userfy and provide specifics on what you see as problem areas? Thanks! Atticusrominger ( talk) 14:24, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
I am inquiring about the User:Markelmitchell, whom you left a comment on his/her talk page regarding the Administrators' noticeboard. The ANI post has been archived and the editor in question has yet to respond to it (or to anything, anyone in general). The user's disruptive editing has continued since your message at the talk page, edits most of which I've once again had to revert. What's the next move about this? Dan56 ( talk) 20:13, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You are a neutral admin which knows the history of my conflicts with Hobartimus, Nmate and co. Can you please express your opinion on this case: [6]? ( Iaaasi ( talk) 20:40, 22 March 2011 (UTC))
Isn't it a little strange when User:Iaaasi gets a second chance after an indef block, comes back from a week-long block for edit warring, makes 5(!) reverts in 24 hours, and then tries to have others warned/blocked who haven't broken any rule?? Or I'm just too sensitive? Squash Racket ( talk) 10:29, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Even if what you try to allege was true, it wouldn't be a blockable offence, use "citation needed" tags next time. Or may I remove any uncited information from any article on WP?
So the question remains: isn't it a little strange when
User:Iaaasi gets a second chance after an indef block, comes back from a week-long block for edit warring, makes 5(!) reverts in 24 hours, and then tries to have others warned/blocked who haven't broken any rule??
Squash Racket (
talk)
10:45, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I counted five reverts by him in 24 hours at the article
Székely yesterday which is clearly a blockable offence.
What I found extremely strange that afterwards it was him who reported others who haven't broken any rule. And the misleading statements above from a couple of hours ago clearly resemble his earlier behavior for which he was indef blocked.
You seem to confuse me with User:Hobartimus, I haven't talked about his past behavior yet, especially not "on a daily basis". I'm not gonna disturb you anymore with this, in fact it was him who filed a report here, I only answered.
Squash Racket (
talk)
14:25, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I won't answer anymore if it disturbs you (please indicate if that's the situation), but I feel I have to say something seeing your response.
The edit summaries were constructed so, because User:Iaaasi and his incarnations had a tendency of making false reports. I like it when administrators see the truth even when he makes a report in the evening or at night (European time) expecting that those who are not always online won't be able to react before a decision is made.
The truthfulness/honesty comment referred to misleading statements he added here on this very talk page. How would you treat this "knowledgeable editor" when he cites a deletion from a year ago with an extensive edit summary as some kind of a sneaky attack? He also cites a request for sources as his own good example, when that request was sent out
two minutes before he added his comment here?
I think knowledge without honesty (I'm not talking about the past) isn't of much worth on WP.
Squash Racket (
talk)
09:43, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
If you could spare a moment here.Thanks-- SH 19:30, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Permission is below. {{permissionOTRS|ticket=https://secure.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID=2350537}} ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:53, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa,
Could you kindly tell me why haven't you notified me of the ongoing SPI against my account (even though it's customary)? I've learned of it only after it's been concluded and thus didn't have much opportunities in defending myself. I don't think that this is what a due process looks like.
Also I'm not quite sure whether it was on purpose or just plain ignorance, but some of your statements in the SPI request simply don't have anything to do with truth. Take the "Coolkoon has filed a 3RR report against Iaaasi" statement for instance. The truth is that in fact I've never filled a 3RR report. Ever. If you would've cared to check the
report itself, then you would've noticed that the report you're talking about has been filed by
User:Nmate. Also, the math on your claims about the
Slovakia-Hungary relations edit history doesn't add up well either. If you would've done the math, you would've known that (strictly speaking) I've done 2 reverts and stopped because
Iaaasi has threatened to report me for edit warring. Technically however I've only done a single revert, because prior to Iaaasi's second "revert" I've added some additional content. In the subsequent edit Iaaasi has however removed all the content I've added before (both of my edits) and that was when he threatened to report me. I've made no more edits after that. Today however I've seen that a new user called
Koalicio has obviously "helped" Iaaasi to turn the whole thing into a rather nasty edit war. Later on I've seen that Iaaasi has been reported for 3RR by Nmate.
The point is that during the SPI you didn't seem to show much
good faith towards me, actually quite the contrary. Or is it that WP policies are to be applied only to users, but not to admins? Or are they to be applied sporadically? Next time please try to keep at least the facts right. --
CoolKoon (
talk)
01:10, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
You recently deleted User:Shadygrove2007/John William Wright, citing CSD#R2 in the edit summary. As a redirect from the Userspace to the Mainspace, it was technically ineligible for criterion R2. That criterion only applies to redirect from the Mainspace. We are trying hard to clean up the cites to the R2 clause so that it's not so widely misunderstood by new users. In this case, there was no harm done because the redirect was speedy-deletable under criterion U1 but if you could help us keep the logs clean in future situations, it would make the education process easier. Thanks for your understanding. Rossami (talk) 01:10, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, in the Kapoor family page our topic of discussion is "hometown"(heading is "Peshawar or Lyallpur"), I agree with your style but the content was the main issue i.e hometown and as per the sources I have added they describe themself Pathans from Peshawar. Winston786 ( talk) 12:46, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Plz check the talk page, Thanks. Winston786 ( talk) 13:44, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
I wondered if you could help me out. On my watch list there is an entry for 'Talk: Buildings in bushfire prone areas' and 'Buildings in bushfire prone areas', both on 23 March 2011. Both were deleted because of copyright infringement. (I seem to remember asking on the article's talk page what country was the article referring to, which might explain how I got involved in the first place). I thought that was an end to the matter, and that I might as well get rid of any non-needed entries. For some reason, your name is on my watch list in the 'article' column, so when I went to your page to delete it, I found that I couldn't. What do I do now?
Its not that I want to get rid of you, more a case of wanting to tidy up!
Thanks in advance.
RASAM ( talk) 15:31, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Forgot a section heading the last time, oops!
RASAM ( talk) 15:34, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yokota126 is back to editing articles/OWN without talk page, discussion— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.184.105.239 ( talk • contribs)
I uploaded this picture and it keeps saying that I need to put in a rationale. Everytime I put one on, it is deleted and replaced with anohter warning. Can you help? thumb|alt=2011 NCAA Boss Button in On Demand|Showing what happens when Boss Button is clicked in 2011 NCAA March Madness On Demand — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corbin630 ( talk • contribs) 02:05, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
I guess you're looking at User_talk:Anishviswa#Help in formatting. Which is cool.
I was about to do the columns, but as regards the table - it's far too wide to fit on my humble screen - which means, it's too wide for most users. So IDK what the answer is, there. Chzz ► 18:21, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
21:03, 28 March 2011 Diannaa (talk | contribs) deleted "Chuck Rice" (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content): No sources; no Google hits other than Facebook) I clearly said in that page's talk page THAT IT'S NOT FINISHED! I also said in the talk page that I wanted someone to help! Then you turn around and delete it! In fact, the guy has like 5 blogs, and you only found his facebook page? http://rpgdesign.blogspot.com/ That's one of his blogs, now may I please re-create the article?! Dolphinjamez ( talk) 21:15, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Here's an RPGNOW.com link to his company's books, most of which are written by him: http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=437 Dolphinjamez ( talk) 21:51, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
http://rpgdesign.blogspot.com/2011/02/usher-dossiers-gets-another-5-star.html There, a five-star review on one of his books! Dolphinjamez ( talk) 22:37, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Didn't you listen?! The page was not complete! I was not done! DO NOT DELETE! CAN I HAVE SOME HELP? The page was not complete. And besides, are you trying to make it impossible for a new member of this site to write about his favorite author? Huh, huh?
Dolphinjamez (
talk)
22:51, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Two jokes-
What's the difference between the England team and a tea bag?
The tea bag stays in the cup longer.
Why did the man throw his watch out of the window?
He wanted to see time fly!
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Thank you so much for copyediting the Eazy-E article. Crowz RSA 19:55, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for volunteering your time and efforts into copy-editing the article. However, i would like to hear your opinion in this matter. I had previously changed the population figure from 2 million to 20 lakhs. This is because this is how the population is counted in India. However, some editor has been edit-warring with me using vague reasons such as "For an English encyclopedia with worldwide reach, million is more acceptable than lakh." and "I don't think this is an appropriate page to promote use of lakh and crore." As this is an Indian article, it is more appropriate to use 20 lakh as opposed to 2 million. Do you agree? If so, then please change it in the article, as a revert done by me will result in an edit-war. Regards, Joyson Noel Holla at me! 12:05, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you please use the dashes and British spelling scripts to fix the problems in this article? I haven't made a request for a copy-edit, as it has been copy-edited in the past and i don't have a problem with typos. Thanks! Joyson Noel Holla at me! 13:26, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I recently participated in the copyedit drive - I had not done this before, and I found it diverting and amusing (as well as a useful way to contribute). It appears that you are a major worker in this effort, so... thank you for shepherding this! Herostratus ( talk) 03:25, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
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For being a driving wheel of the March 2011 Copyedit backlog drive. Herostratus ( talk) 03:25, 2 April 2011 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the
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March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive! This newsletter summarizes the March drive and other recent events.
There were 99 signups for the drive; of these, 70 participated. Interest was high mainly due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page. We had a record-breaking 84 articles listed on the Requests page in March; 11 of these have been promoted to Good article status so far. Several of our recent efforts have received Featured Article status as well, and the GOCE is becoming a solid resource for the Wikipedia community. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.
Remarkable progress was made in reducing the backlog this month, as we now have fewer than 500 articles remaining from 2009. We are well under the 4,000-article mark for the total number remaining in the queue. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 53% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their April drive has started.
On March 21, SMasters appointed Chaosdruid ( talk) and Torchiest ( talk) as Guild coordinators to serve in place of The Utahraptor, who recently stepped down. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. 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 14:34, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Sure, I can hand them out right now, if that's okay. — Torchiest talk edits 03:57, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I am glad to be back :¬) I do miss the goings on here, and our chats lol.
I will get onto the barnstars right now. I may need a little pointer or two though!
For example, Steve has "modern" so I am looking them all up at the moment... Chaosdruid ( talk) 12:48, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
I'll take care of K through N. -- Tea with toast (talk) 14:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Haha, no problems. It is actually Scott, and the entire name is a nom de plume. Glad your browser problems have been solved. – SMasters ( talk) 21:41, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I have received a message abut deeyah jpg File with the title of "File permission problem with File:Deeyah.jpg", this is true that I uploaded the file after I recieved the permission, but I don't know how to paste the information in the relevant are. So I asked an admin. named Decltype to do it for me, Decltype sent the email to the author of the file , got persmission and removed the tag which was attached to the file about deletion. Can you please ask him about this. If you like then I can ask him to reply you. Regards. Jogibaba ( talk) 20:15, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star | |
For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, editing 42 articles with a combined total of 64,135 words (125,761 with rollover and bonuses), I hereby induct Diannaa into the exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. -- SMasters ( talk) 04:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC) |
Leaderboard Award – Word Count – 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Diannaa for copy editing a total of 64,135 words during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you so much for your efforts. – SMasters ( talk) 04:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC) |
You deleted the image my friend took of the school, "Terrace Park High School (1913)". It was taken just yesterday for the purposes of allowing people to see what this historic building looks like before it is partially demolished. So I'm confused why you deleted it. I selected, "for educational purposes only; not for commercial use" because I thought that was the most appropriate choice. I have an e-mail from my friend saying the image(s) are acceptable to use for web-sites talking about the school. How can I correct this problem? -David Tornheim, 4/4/11 9:03 p.m. (sorry I forget how to sign things.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Tornheim ( talk • contribs) 04:03, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, similar issue with my image " File:Right skewed.jpg" in Long Tail. I created this image specifically for the entry (and the associated annotation was my own ) although a version of the image can probably be found in any statistics book and in a more annotated version in thousands of technical books. It is a basic statistical shape, not biased to a particular field. Does the above advice apply to me as well? -- RonaldDrewman ( talk) 02:23, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Good morning! I keep 76.117.247.55 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) on my watchlist, since some editors treat him as just another IP. I was surprised to see that he earned a block from you, so went to have a look. If the block was triggered only by his edits at Wikipedia talk:Long-term abuse, may I ask you to have another look at them? This editor has been contributing since 2005, so his opinions of long-term abusers are probably worth listening to.
Forgive me if there are other factors that I've missed. -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:01, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I've just created the new template
GOCEtb to let users know that their request on the GOCE page has been actioned. It takes only two parameters viz:
article=article name
user=user name
and comes out like this:
Hello, Diannaa. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Wikipedia at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! |
Please let me know if it can be improved/modified. Best,
► Philg88 ◄
talk
14:43, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! If you're free, can you do a copy-edit of Mandy Moore discography's lead? I would like to nominate it for an FL. Thanks in advance. Novice7 ( talk) 17:27, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Nice copyedits! Ocaasi c 00:55, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Ok so why did my article i posted get deleted? i understand what i did wrong by altering the Blackbird song but my article was legit! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myoder002 ( talk • contribs) 02:42, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Can you please replace the photo of the File:Henry R. Tilton.jpg. The photo is over 100 years old. I though I picked the correct license. If I have not, please advice.
Thanks Seansasser ( talk) 04:26, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
As per you request here is the link
http://www.hazegray.org/features/1898gale/
Seansasser ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:10, 8 April 2011 (UTC).
Hi fellow editor. Is this editor a block evade? He seems familiar. He seems to be similar to a series of similar named users. Thanks -- SH 07:08, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Qwyrxian ( talk) 10:26, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
I believe I have called your attention to this before (I may be wrong), but I just thought a friendly reminder would suffice: Category talk:Wikipedia files on Wikimedia Commons#Bot to delink images illustrates how, by installing User:MGA73/nowcommonsreview.js, you can indicate to my bot to delink any images, which I will delete immediately afterwards. I run it as often as I can, usually daily. I have found it helpful beyond measure in delinking images that are on commons. I mention it as you have done recent work on Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons, and it appears it could have come in useful for you. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 05:17, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Well Ogrebot doesn't just delink the file, it relinks it to the equivalent on commons, so the content of the page isn't changed from a visual perspective. Thanks. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 06:28, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for sorting out that mess with Canterbury High School (Ottawa)! Seaphoto Talk 01:34, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Your help appreciated here, again. Thank you, JNW ( talk) 14:57, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hitler's name is spelt like that. Check it out. Kelisi ( talk) 17:12, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
DGG ( talk ) 00:51, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Good point. -- TIAYN ( talk) 16:13, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thanks for your note about the banned sockfarmer, and for helping to maintain and promote the related userbox :) It may be worth mentioning I found a very odd coincidence here but on further thought I think it really is just a coincidence. Secondly, the CCI case at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Babasalichai is now open, and covers nearly all of the confirmed sockpuppets but not the IP addresses. Much of the various accounts' contributions will since have been reverted anyway, but this may still be helpful in removing some of the damage done by the socks in various places. In instances where copyvios are found, these will be removed or re-written even if the edits were made before any of the accounts were first blocked. -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 04:23, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
It looks like your editing at the moment, so maybe this will catch your eye. Por favor, a look at Talk:Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto and User:Kevincory1981 in the last section. I see a few of the key clues (also, xyr contribution history out another). WP:DUCK? Qwyrxian ( talk) 00:20, 12 April 2011 (UTC)