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I'm not sure I understand how this works. How come I didn't have a talk page.
Wow, so much to read. I just want to expand on some topics.
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You don't have to read it all before starting. Come back and read bits as they become relevant. And you will make mistakes at first, but it will get clearer with experience. I strongly recommend making fairly small edits to articles, and in time you may learn enough to be able to do bigger things. People who start out by writing substantial articles often find that they have not followed the guidelines, and all their work is deleted, which can be very frustrating and discouraging. Much better to learn slowly. Writing a featured article can come later. Your small but useful edits to Capernaum look like a good start. Feel free to contact me on my talk page if you have questions. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:03, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
It is a little daunting to be honest. I've placed the adoption thing on the other page, but noone has responded.
I see that you have put yourself up for adoption. I have already made an informal invitation to contact me for help above. I am perfectly willing to turn that informal offer into an adoption if you like. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:11, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help James (?), I appreciate it. I'm hoping to get the Capernaum featured but I don't know where to start. I wouldn't mind doing other tasks as well. By the way, how do you get those signs on your user page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Est.r ( talk • contribs) 09:13, 14 October 2010
Hey why does it say 'User:2010 Est.r'. Also, is my new page ok? Est.r ( talk) 12:13, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey sorry to bother you again, but how do I upload this photo [1] onto Wikipedia? - Est.r ( talk) 05:43, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
It doesn't look like I'll need to upload the photo after all. My article was 'redirected'. I didn't realise that someone had already created an article on the topic. - Est.r ( talk) 06:14, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
I see you have reverted some vandalism. That's great: thanks. It is a very good idea when you do to also give a warning to the vandal on their talk page. There are several reasons for this:
Ok thanks, next time I'll use the warning templates. Should we really be giving them 4 chances though? I mean, sometimes it's pretty obvious that they should be blocked. - Est.r ( talk) 06:16, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
So theoretically if it's a blatant vandal then I can start off with the second template, or even the third?- Est.r ( talk) 06:55, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
If I come across a vandal I'll revert. Other than that I probably won't go out of my way to engage in 'vandal fighting', well at least not for the time being. - Est.r ( talk) 12:53, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
I've just had a quick look through your editing history, Esther, and I think you are doing really good work. A lot of your edits are just little details, but I haven't seen a single one which doesn't look good, which is not the case with many new editors, even those with the best of intentions. One small suggestion for improvement, though, is to always use edit summaries. Sometimes you do, as in this edit, for example, but often you don't. Even very brief edit summaries can be very helpful to others. They can also sometimes protect your own work, because sometimes a perfectly good edit without any explanation can look to someone else like vandalism or other unconstructive editing, whereas with even a few words of explanation it may be clear what you were doing. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:13, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. I thought that most of the edits were self explanatory, and I didn't really know what to put in the space. - Est.r ( talk) 09:19, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, Esther. I've just dropped by to see how you are getting on. I looked at your recent editing history, and the answer seems to be that you are doing fine. It's nice to see friendly acknowledgements on this page from other users too. Keep up the good work. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, your edit summary seemed to request a check-up for Around the World with Willy Fog, so I thought I'd take a look. Your word count was correct, the number of words of readable prose before you began to edit. However, I found that some of the changes you made (refer to this aggregate diff) did not improve the tone or clarity of the text, and that, in some place, you overlooked other problems with the article. I would recommend changing the tag on the copy edit drive page to say that you are still working on it so that you are not penalized words for a bad edit, and continue working on the article. After you update the tag, take another look at the manual of style. There is a case of a time in the plot section that reads "8.00am" where it should be "8:00 am", optionally with dotted 'a.m.' but always with a space and a colon ( Wikipedia:Mos#Times). Also, while, in some cases, you fixed sentences that were rambling or unclear, you overlooked others. Just take another look and remember not to just correct basic errors in mechanics but to also address the need for "encyclopedic tone" in the article. Thanks for your efforts, and have fun! – Paul M. Nguyen ( chat| blame) 15:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Greetings GOCE Backlog elimination drive participant, We are now coming up to the last few days of the drive, the last for 2010. Currently, it looks like we will achieve our target for reducing the backlog by 10%, however, we still have huge numbers for 2009. We have 55 participants in this drive. If everyone just clears 2 articles each, we will reduce the backlog by a further 110 articles. If everyone can just do 3 articles, we will hit 165. If you have yet to work on any articles and have rollover words, remember that you do need to copyedit at least a couple of articles in this drive for your previous rollover to be valid for the next drive. There are many very small articles that will take less than 5-10 minutes to copyedit. Use CatScan to find them. Let's all concentrate our firepower on the first three months of 2009 as we approach the end of this final drive for the year. Thank you once again for participating, and see you at the finish line! – SMasters ( talk) 04:08, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hello again Esther. I've just had a look at your recent contributions. I see you haven't edited for over a week. I do hope this is just a short break, and you will be back, as you have continued to make useful contributions. Just two small suggestions:
Best wishes. Do contact me if you have any questions. JamesBWatson ( talk) 14:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, Esther. I thought I would mention that I have been looking by from time to time to see how you are doing. Usually I haven't said anything because nothing has needed saying, as you have been getting on fine without me. I see you haven't edited for a month now. I hope you haven't left for good, as you seemed to me to be a very good contributor, but if you have left but come back and read this, it was nice knowing you briefly. JamesBWatson ( talk) 11:38, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. On behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors, I am inviting you to sign up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive. Win a barnstar! It's fun. -- Diannaa ( Talk) 01:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Esther, since you have not edited for well over three months I am going to remove the adoption notice from my user page. You are, of course, still welcome to ask me for help if and when you return to editing. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
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I'm not sure I understand how this works. How come I didn't have a talk page.
Wow, so much to read. I just want to expand on some topics.
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You don't have to read it all before starting. Come back and read bits as they become relevant. And you will make mistakes at first, but it will get clearer with experience. I strongly recommend making fairly small edits to articles, and in time you may learn enough to be able to do bigger things. People who start out by writing substantial articles often find that they have not followed the guidelines, and all their work is deleted, which can be very frustrating and discouraging. Much better to learn slowly. Writing a featured article can come later. Your small but useful edits to Capernaum look like a good start. Feel free to contact me on my talk page if you have questions. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:03, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
It is a little daunting to be honest. I've placed the adoption thing on the other page, but noone has responded.
I see that you have put yourself up for adoption. I have already made an informal invitation to contact me for help above. I am perfectly willing to turn that informal offer into an adoption if you like. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:11, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help James (?), I appreciate it. I'm hoping to get the Capernaum featured but I don't know where to start. I wouldn't mind doing other tasks as well. By the way, how do you get those signs on your user page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Est.r ( talk • contribs) 09:13, 14 October 2010
Hey why does it say 'User:2010 Est.r'. Also, is my new page ok? Est.r ( talk) 12:13, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey sorry to bother you again, but how do I upload this photo [1] onto Wikipedia? - Est.r ( talk) 05:43, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
It doesn't look like I'll need to upload the photo after all. My article was 'redirected'. I didn't realise that someone had already created an article on the topic. - Est.r ( talk) 06:14, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
I see you have reverted some vandalism. That's great: thanks. It is a very good idea when you do to also give a warning to the vandal on their talk page. There are several reasons for this:
Ok thanks, next time I'll use the warning templates. Should we really be giving them 4 chances though? I mean, sometimes it's pretty obvious that they should be blocked. - Est.r ( talk) 06:16, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
So theoretically if it's a blatant vandal then I can start off with the second template, or even the third?- Est.r ( talk) 06:55, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
If I come across a vandal I'll revert. Other than that I probably won't go out of my way to engage in 'vandal fighting', well at least not for the time being. - Est.r ( talk) 12:53, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
I've just had a quick look through your editing history, Esther, and I think you are doing really good work. A lot of your edits are just little details, but I haven't seen a single one which doesn't look good, which is not the case with many new editors, even those with the best of intentions. One small suggestion for improvement, though, is to always use edit summaries. Sometimes you do, as in this edit, for example, but often you don't. Even very brief edit summaries can be very helpful to others. They can also sometimes protect your own work, because sometimes a perfectly good edit without any explanation can look to someone else like vandalism or other unconstructive editing, whereas with even a few words of explanation it may be clear what you were doing. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:13, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. I thought that most of the edits were self explanatory, and I didn't really know what to put in the space. - Est.r ( talk) 09:19, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, Esther. I've just dropped by to see how you are getting on. I looked at your recent editing history, and the answer seems to be that you are doing fine. It's nice to see friendly acknowledgements on this page from other users too. Keep up the good work. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, your edit summary seemed to request a check-up for Around the World with Willy Fog, so I thought I'd take a look. Your word count was correct, the number of words of readable prose before you began to edit. However, I found that some of the changes you made (refer to this aggregate diff) did not improve the tone or clarity of the text, and that, in some place, you overlooked other problems with the article. I would recommend changing the tag on the copy edit drive page to say that you are still working on it so that you are not penalized words for a bad edit, and continue working on the article. After you update the tag, take another look at the manual of style. There is a case of a time in the plot section that reads "8.00am" where it should be "8:00 am", optionally with dotted 'a.m.' but always with a space and a colon ( Wikipedia:Mos#Times). Also, while, in some cases, you fixed sentences that were rambling or unclear, you overlooked others. Just take another look and remember not to just correct basic errors in mechanics but to also address the need for "encyclopedic tone" in the article. Thanks for your efforts, and have fun! – Paul M. Nguyen ( chat| blame) 15:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Greetings GOCE Backlog elimination drive participant, We are now coming up to the last few days of the drive, the last for 2010. Currently, it looks like we will achieve our target for reducing the backlog by 10%, however, we still have huge numbers for 2009. We have 55 participants in this drive. If everyone just clears 2 articles each, we will reduce the backlog by a further 110 articles. If everyone can just do 3 articles, we will hit 165. If you have yet to work on any articles and have rollover words, remember that you do need to copyedit at least a couple of articles in this drive for your previous rollover to be valid for the next drive. There are many very small articles that will take less than 5-10 minutes to copyedit. Use CatScan to find them. Let's all concentrate our firepower on the first three months of 2009 as we approach the end of this final drive for the year. Thank you once again for participating, and see you at the finish line! – SMasters ( talk) 04:08, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hello again Esther. I've just had a look at your recent contributions. I see you haven't edited for over a week. I do hope this is just a short break, and you will be back, as you have continued to make useful contributions. Just two small suggestions:
Best wishes. Do contact me if you have any questions. JamesBWatson ( talk) 14:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Season's Greetings from the
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Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here
On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011!
– Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast. |
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Hello, Esther. I thought I would mention that I have been looking by from time to time to see how you are doing. Usually I haven't said anything because nothing has needed saying, as you have been getting on fine without me. I see you haven't edited for a month now. I hope you haven't left for good, as you seemed to me to be a very good contributor, but if you have left but come back and read this, it was nice knowing you briefly. JamesBWatson ( talk) 11:38, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by SunCountryGuy01 ( talk • contribs)
Hi. On behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors, I am inviting you to sign up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive. Win a barnstar! It's fun. -- Diannaa ( Talk) 01:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Esther, since you have not edited for well over three months I am going to remove the adoption notice from my user page. You are, of course, still welcome to ask me for help if and when you return to editing. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:19, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
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The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". |
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