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Thanks for starting up the November drive. I was out with my kids doing some trick-or-treating and it slipped my mind. — Torchiest talk edits 00:23, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Stfg. I've just closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Loon, Bohol Elected Barangay Officials (2010-2013) as a clear delete; if you can point me to the other articles of this nature that you mentioned, I'd be happy to delete them as well, using this AfD as the rationale - saves you having to bulk-nom them. Yunshui 雲 水 13:05, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, and warm regards. After discussing and with your kind guidance here. We approached GOCE on 21 July 2012 for c/e the Hyderabad, India, and after certain period it was initiated by User:Lfstevens on 02 September 2012, who did his best for copy editing the article. After which we had gone through the certain reviews and advice from established editors and nominated the article for FAC on 20 September 2012, and there it was denied for FA, due to articles standard of poor English and punctuations.
We applied our best efforts and time to establish the article but as we are not native speakers of English, we severely lack to correct the punctuations, grammar and tone part, and as already we had been through at GOCE I humbly request your kind self to please spare some time at Hyderabad, India and guide us to establish the Briton tone of the article. Thanks and Regards :)-- Omer123hussain ( talk) 14:55, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Should Racquetball classification , Table tennis classification , Powerlifting classification , Template:Basketball classifications , Template:Athletics classifications be sent for deletion, now that the first set have been deleted? -- 65.92.181.190 ( talk) 07:45, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
It's an article about state (in the sense of one of the United States) university systems -- why and how should it be globalized? We have an article public university for the more general concept. -- JBL ( talk) 20:30, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
stop vandalizing and storming Hyderabad article with your agenda driven vandalism, you are wantedly storming the article by adding grammar mistakes Covidien ( talk) 15:10, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
First of all he may not allow u, this is a good artcile, You can do anything, provided you dont vandalize the article in the name of copy edit, by altering the content or inducing new grammar mistakes. Covidien ( talk) 15:23, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
It appeals to u Covidien ( talk) 15:51, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Note:- I understand some SOCKS might have upset you, but at the same I hope this negative thoughts cant stop you to continue your excellent task. Regards :)-- Omer123hussain ( talk) 20:23, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Didn't see your tag on pregnancy from rape. I won't make further edits till you're done. Jokestress ( talk) 18:24, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I added questions for everyone who made a submission at the October CEM contest. Please answer when you have a chance. Thanks! — Torchiest talk edits 18:20, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Is it your intention to withdraw your nomination here? Thanks. Go Phightins ! 22:56, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Yes, the stationary versus mobile vendors issue in the economy section of Hyderabad looks clear now. However, I have a question on page range. The page range for that thing is 15 to 16. So, I wrote it as 15–6. However you changed that to 15–16.
I read somewhere in the MoS that the common part of the page range (in this case, 1) should be omitted in the closing page of the range. For example, 115–27, for the page range 115 to 127. Is that correct? I have not checked the article for which style is used, and I understand perhaps consistency in style in a given article is more important than a blanket rule. Still, just wanted to clarify my query. Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 15:33, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. Dr Chrissy has added in new information for the "Communication" section. I think it may need copyediting. LittleJerry ( talk) 23:50, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help with the prose size! Still can't get the script working, it is in my vector.js, though. Cheers, TBr and ley 19:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for the barnstar Let's see if we can get this fixed. I see you have it in you vector.js as Dr_pda/... Could you try changing the underscore to a space and see if that fixes it? (Don't forget to purge the cache after the edit). -- Stfg ( talk) 19:29, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Sorry to hear from Torchiest that you're stepping down as GOCE lead coordinator, and I hope things are okay your way. He's asked me to stand for coordinator; administrative stuff always takes time from the fun (copyediting), but I realize that someone has to do it :-). All the best, Miniapolis ( talk) 03:46, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, Stfg! I just wanted to let you know that I forgot to tag one of my entries in the November copyediting drive. S. Sarath Kumar was tagged in December 2011, which I believe makes it one of the "oldest articles" for the drive, but I neglected to mark it. I just wanted to know if, since you clarified the October 2011 article I copyedited when you checked over my entries, it is alright to modify that, or if you'll at least keep it in mind when you and the others managing the drive are determining everyone's totals? Thanks in advance! :) Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! ( talk) 12:44, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Congrats on all the work you have both done in getting the Hyderabad article so far. Good luck with the FAC. I saw you removed the cn and deadlink tags from the article. The ref given does not link through to stats that support the data given, which is why I tagged it. Is it possible to give clear ref for the stats rather than a link to a search engine? These stats are among those most messed with by vandals and it would be good to have things ship shape for FAC. Best wishes for your weekend. Span ( talk) 02:15, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Gee... there are loads of (grammar, spelling) mistakes in the nomination by Omer. Do we correct those, or just leave it as it is?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 21:52, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Good call on that change. I suppose there's still the chance for a reform ticket to materialize. ;) — Torchiest talk edits 17:37, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Simon, if you get a chance, could you take a look here and see if there's anything else that could be added to this list? I thought it would be helpful to try and compile all the little things that can be forgotten into a single location. Thanks. — Torchiest talk edits 14:49, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, apologize to bother you in this vacation time :), please advice for further actions about the remarks of SandyGeorgia, according to him the article need to be copy edited independently again, which it had already been for two times. Honestly speaking I don’t think we can find any more good copy editor than you, and the remarks pointed by User:Sandy seems not to be so so serious to reject the article for being FA. Any way I am paused and feeling negative in this situation and needs your's and User:Dwaipayanc advice to move forward. Regards :)-- Omer123hussain ( talk) 12:43, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Gee... I don't know how to voice my thoughts. I am typing this to both stfg and SandyGeorgia.
First, thanks to both of you for the immense help in this article. Stfg brought this article from a damaged state (quick fails in FAC) to a great one. Without him, I cannot even imagine this article to be in the FAC. Sandy, the FAC-pro, is helping shape up it further. As an editor whose English knowledge is far inferior to both of you, I do not have the audacity to comment on several issues that you guys have different opinion on. When two knowledgeable persons are debating on intellectual issues, the by-standers gain by imbibing new knowledge, and I am doing the same. However, what makes me tense is the degree of conflict (rather,the manifestation of the conflict) in some of the issues.
If you allow, may I suggest a working way? There are some issues in the FAC where we are able to work our way out towards an agreeable solution. No problem with that. On the other hand, there are some issues where clearly both of you will stick to your points of view (which is natural). We are gradually working on the easier issues, and we will continue that. In the difficult instances, can we expect/invite other esteemed opinions? (For example, Hamltonston opined in the "skilled" use of spices issues.)
I do want both of you to please continue your contribution to the article and the FAC. Omer, the principal contributor, and I will feel like orphans if stfg pauses his support. On the other hand, we will ever remain indebted to Sandy if her detailed critique eventually lifts the article to FA status. So, please, we want you both. That's my plea...-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 21:16, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
( ←) Thank you for your visit, Sandy. I always like to sleep on things like this, but this morning I had been planning to go to your talk page with a flea in the ear for replying to ad rem comments with personal attacks. I don't need to be so fierce after your visit here, but there are some things I need to say:
Now for the main point. I understand very well that comments by FAC reviewers don't have to be accepted, but in all your years at FAC, you must surely have noticed how poorly that works in practice: how often very questionable suggestions get an immediate " Done". And questionable suggestions abound, particularly about prose. People have their own ideas about how English works, and very often notions are influenced by half-remembered nostrums of school-ma'ams or simply "how she is spoke in our family/town/skool". Call me "literal" if you like, but when contention arises with language issues, I do actually check in the OED and a couple of usage guides.
Now: I'm not completely walking away from this article and its FAC, but I'm heavily invested in it already, and it will be disprutive if I'm all over it commenting on everything anyone tries to do. Torchiest did some work on it a few days ago and has done some more today. He writes to a professional standard (which I don't) so that is great news and I want it to happen. Dr. Blofeld too, if he will. So I will definitely stand aside while other editors have their say. I'm grateful to Sandy for saying she intends to do likewise. Then we'll see. But I already started announcing about a month ago that I plan to take a semi-break to pursue a real-life project that has been held suspended while I had GOCE duties. How long that will be, I don't know, but now feels like a good time to start. I'll look in most days, but maybe not do very much. I hope you'll understand. -- Stfg ( talk) 12:15, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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Cheers! :) Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! ( talk) 23:20, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for starting up the November drive. I was out with my kids doing some trick-or-treating and it slipped my mind. — Torchiest talk edits 00:23, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Stfg. I've just closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Loon, Bohol Elected Barangay Officials (2010-2013) as a clear delete; if you can point me to the other articles of this nature that you mentioned, I'd be happy to delete them as well, using this AfD as the rationale - saves you having to bulk-nom them. Yunshui 雲 水 13:05, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, and warm regards. After discussing and with your kind guidance here. We approached GOCE on 21 July 2012 for c/e the Hyderabad, India, and after certain period it was initiated by User:Lfstevens on 02 September 2012, who did his best for copy editing the article. After which we had gone through the certain reviews and advice from established editors and nominated the article for FAC on 20 September 2012, and there it was denied for FA, due to articles standard of poor English and punctuations.
We applied our best efforts and time to establish the article but as we are not native speakers of English, we severely lack to correct the punctuations, grammar and tone part, and as already we had been through at GOCE I humbly request your kind self to please spare some time at Hyderabad, India and guide us to establish the Briton tone of the article. Thanks and Regards :)-- Omer123hussain ( talk) 14:55, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Should Racquetball classification , Table tennis classification , Powerlifting classification , Template:Basketball classifications , Template:Athletics classifications be sent for deletion, now that the first set have been deleted? -- 65.92.181.190 ( talk) 07:45, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
It's an article about state (in the sense of one of the United States) university systems -- why and how should it be globalized? We have an article public university for the more general concept. -- JBL ( talk) 20:30, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
stop vandalizing and storming Hyderabad article with your agenda driven vandalism, you are wantedly storming the article by adding grammar mistakes Covidien ( talk) 15:10, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
First of all he may not allow u, this is a good artcile, You can do anything, provided you dont vandalize the article in the name of copy edit, by altering the content or inducing new grammar mistakes. Covidien ( talk) 15:23, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
It appeals to u Covidien ( talk) 15:51, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Note:- I understand some SOCKS might have upset you, but at the same I hope this negative thoughts cant stop you to continue your excellent task. Regards :)-- Omer123hussain ( talk) 20:23, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Didn't see your tag on pregnancy from rape. I won't make further edits till you're done. Jokestress ( talk) 18:24, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I added questions for everyone who made a submission at the October CEM contest. Please answer when you have a chance. Thanks! — Torchiest talk edits 18:20, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Is it your intention to withdraw your nomination here? Thanks. Go Phightins ! 22:56, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Yes, the stationary versus mobile vendors issue in the economy section of Hyderabad looks clear now. However, I have a question on page range. The page range for that thing is 15 to 16. So, I wrote it as 15–6. However you changed that to 15–16.
I read somewhere in the MoS that the common part of the page range (in this case, 1) should be omitted in the closing page of the range. For example, 115–27, for the page range 115 to 127. Is that correct? I have not checked the article for which style is used, and I understand perhaps consistency in style in a given article is more important than a blanket rule. Still, just wanted to clarify my query. Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 15:33, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
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Sorry for accidentally rolling back Misza Bot; I was scrolling in my watchlist and tried to click to stop and accidentally clicked on the "rollback" link. Go Phightins ! 19:28, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello. Dr Chrissy has added in new information for the "Communication" section. I think it may need copyediting. LittleJerry ( talk) 23:50, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
just wanted to thank you for your edits. Johann Peter Hebel is now a Good Article on three different wikis! :) Regards.-- Tomcat ( 7) 15:31, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
could you do me a favour? Otis Redding is currently again failing because of the prose Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Otis Redding/archive3. Could you check for spelling errors and awkward grammar? Regards.-- Tomcat ( 7) 21:51, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help with the prose size! Still can't get the script working, it is in my vector.js, though. Cheers, TBr and ley 19:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for the barnstar Let's see if we can get this fixed. I see you have it in you vector.js as Dr_pda/... Could you try changing the underscore to a space and see if that fixes it? (Don't forget to purge the cache after the edit). -- Stfg ( talk) 19:29, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Sorry to hear from Torchiest that you're stepping down as GOCE lead coordinator, and I hope things are okay your way. He's asked me to stand for coordinator; administrative stuff always takes time from the fun (copyediting), but I realize that someone has to do it :-). All the best, Miniapolis ( talk) 03:46, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, Stfg! I just wanted to let you know that I forgot to tag one of my entries in the November copyediting drive. S. Sarath Kumar was tagged in December 2011, which I believe makes it one of the "oldest articles" for the drive, but I neglected to mark it. I just wanted to know if, since you clarified the October 2011 article I copyedited when you checked over my entries, it is alright to modify that, or if you'll at least keep it in mind when you and the others managing the drive are determining everyone's totals? Thanks in advance! :) Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! ( talk) 12:44, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Congrats on all the work you have both done in getting the Hyderabad article so far. Good luck with the FAC. I saw you removed the cn and deadlink tags from the article. The ref given does not link through to stats that support the data given, which is why I tagged it. Is it possible to give clear ref for the stats rather than a link to a search engine? These stats are among those most messed with by vandals and it would be good to have things ship shape for FAC. Best wishes for your weekend. Span ( talk) 02:15, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Gee... there are loads of (grammar, spelling) mistakes in the nomination by Omer. Do we correct those, or just leave it as it is?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 21:52, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Good call on that change. I suppose there's still the chance for a reform ticket to materialize. ;) — Torchiest talk edits 17:37, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
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The Welsh Buzzard| 19:24, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Gareth Griffith-Jones
– The WelshBuzzard – is wishing you
the season's greetings.
Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's
solstice or
Christmas,
Diwali,
Hogmanay,
Hanukkah,
Lenaia,
Festivus,
or the
Saturnalia,
this is a special time of year for (almost) everyone.
Hello, Stfg.
You are invited to join
WikiProject Brands, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of
brands and brand-related topics. |
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To you and yours, Have a Merry ______ (fill in the blank) and Happy New Year! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 01:18, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
The Cleanup Barnstar | ||
For copy editing articles in excess of 6000 words during the Guild of Copy Editors December 2012 Blitz, I bequeath unto you this token of thanks. Merry Christmas! — Torchiest talk edits 17:19, 23 December 2012 (UTC) |
...and enjoy your sabbatical :-). Happy holidays and all the best, Miniapolis ( talk) 16:02, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the one you gave me too.Getting a barnstar was certainley a great surprise! Assistant N ( talk) 23:19, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Merry Christmas | |
May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and goodwill,
May the year ahead be full of contentment and joy, May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow, Merry Christmas To U & Ur Family. Jivesh1205 ( Talk) 08:43, 24 December 2012 (UTC) |
Merry Christmas | |
May this lovely Christmas season bring you delights in all possible forms. May you receive love in abundance and joy that lasts throughout this season. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year wishes to you and your loved ones! — Tomíca (T2ME) 11:32, 24 December 2012 (UTC) |
Happy Festivus! | ||
Here's wishing you a happy
Festivus! May you emerge victorious from the Feats of Strength, may your list of Grievances be short, and may your days be filled with Festivus Miracles. — Torchiest talk edits 13:57, 24 December 2012 (UTC) |
Tomcat (
7) is wishing you a
Merry
Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes
WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the Christmas cheer by adding {{ subst:Xmas3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
-- Tomcat ( 7) 14:48, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Happy New Year! | ||
Wishing you and yours an excellent 2013. CocoLacoste talk 09:25, 29 December 2012 (UTC) |
Just wondering if you were going to submit anything in the next two hours. The list for this month is a bit short. :) — Torchiest talk edits 22:07, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
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The Guild of Copy Editors' Award | ||
Thanks for your submission to the November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month contest! For your work on Hyderabad, India, please accept this award on behalf of the WP:GOCE. — Torchiest talk edits 15:12, 1 January 2013 (UTC) |
File:Happy New Year 2013.jpg | Have an enjoyable New Year! | |
Hello Stfg: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable
New Year! Cheers,
Northamerica1000
(talk) 15:19, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hey Simon, if you get a chance, could you take a look here and see if there's anything else that could be added to this list? I thought it would be helpful to try and compile all the little things that can be forgotten into a single location. Thanks. — Torchiest talk edits 14:49, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Baffle Gab Award for Outstanding Service to the GOCE | |
Stfg, please accept this (picture of a) beautiful writing implement as a token of thanks from me for your outstanding service to the Guild of Copy Editors. It's far more practical than a barnstar and will give you years of writing pleasure! Wishing you all the best for the future, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 03:31, 2 January 2013 (UTC) |
The Third Opinion Award | ||
This seems like a beautiful barnstar to recognise your wise work on Wikipedia! Greenmaven ( talk) 03:50, 4 January 2013 (UTC) — Greenmaven ( talk) 03:50, 4 January 2013 (UTC) |
Hi, apologize to bother you in this vacation time :), please advice for further actions about the remarks of SandyGeorgia, according to him the article need to be copy edited independently again, which it had already been for two times. Honestly speaking I don’t think we can find any more good copy editor than you, and the remarks pointed by User:Sandy seems not to be so so serious to reject the article for being FA. Any way I am paused and feeling negative in this situation and needs your's and User:Dwaipayanc advice to move forward. Regards :)-- Omer123hussain ( talk) 12:43, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Gee... I don't know how to voice my thoughts. I am typing this to both stfg and SandyGeorgia.
First, thanks to both of you for the immense help in this article. Stfg brought this article from a damaged state (quick fails in FAC) to a great one. Without him, I cannot even imagine this article to be in the FAC. Sandy, the FAC-pro, is helping shape up it further. As an editor whose English knowledge is far inferior to both of you, I do not have the audacity to comment on several issues that you guys have different opinion on. When two knowledgeable persons are debating on intellectual issues, the by-standers gain by imbibing new knowledge, and I am doing the same. However, what makes me tense is the degree of conflict (rather,the manifestation of the conflict) in some of the issues.
If you allow, may I suggest a working way? There are some issues in the FAC where we are able to work our way out towards an agreeable solution. No problem with that. On the other hand, there are some issues where clearly both of you will stick to your points of view (which is natural). We are gradually working on the easier issues, and we will continue that. In the difficult instances, can we expect/invite other esteemed opinions? (For example, Hamltonston opined in the "skilled" use of spices issues.)
I do want both of you to please continue your contribution to the article and the FAC. Omer, the principal contributor, and I will feel like orphans if stfg pauses his support. On the other hand, we will ever remain indebted to Sandy if her detailed critique eventually lifts the article to FA status. So, please, we want you both. That's my plea...-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 21:16, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
( ←) Thank you for your visit, Sandy. I always like to sleep on things like this, but this morning I had been planning to go to your talk page with a flea in the ear for replying to ad rem comments with personal attacks. I don't need to be so fierce after your visit here, but there are some things I need to say:
Now for the main point. I understand very well that comments by FAC reviewers don't have to be accepted, but in all your years at FAC, you must surely have noticed how poorly that works in practice: how often very questionable suggestions get an immediate " Done". And questionable suggestions abound, particularly about prose. People have their own ideas about how English works, and very often notions are influenced by half-remembered nostrums of school-ma'ams or simply "how she is spoke in our family/town/skool". Call me "literal" if you like, but when contention arises with language issues, I do actually check in the OED and a couple of usage guides.
Now: I'm not completely walking away from this article and its FAC, but I'm heavily invested in it already, and it will be disprutive if I'm all over it commenting on everything anyone tries to do. Torchiest did some work on it a few days ago and has done some more today. He writes to a professional standard (which I don't) so that is great news and I want it to happen. Dr. Blofeld too, if he will. So I will definitely stand aside while other editors have their say. I'm grateful to Sandy for saying she intends to do likewise. Then we'll see. But I already started announcing about a month ago that I plan to take a semi-break to pursue a real-life project that has been held suspended while I had GOCE duties. How long that will be, I don't know, but now feels like a good time to start. I'll look in most days, but maybe not do very much. I hope you'll understand. -- Stfg ( talk) 12:15, 6 January 2013 (UTC)