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December 2010 Information

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors via SMasters using AWB on 02:02, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated. Stats 58 people signed up for this drive. Of these, 48 people participated in the drive. Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%. 49 awards will go out to 33 of 48 participants. Check out the complete list of barnstar winners here. Barnstars If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Our next drive is scheduled for January 2011. In the meantime, please consider helping out at the Wikification drive or any of the other places where help with backlogs is needed. Thank you for participating in the last 2010 backlog elimination drive! We look forward to seeing you in January! Your drive coordinators – The Utahraptor Talk to me/ Contributions, S Masters ( talk), and Diannaa ( Talk)

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 – Just a chat. I'm spread too thin to be an active project member. I've already done pretty much everything I felt comfortable doing (I am not a pinball expert).

Hello SMcCandlish! A few years ago I started Wikipedia:WikiProject Pinball. After letting it sit mostly untouched for a while, I've returned to it, and am looking to do some serious work to revamp it. I would like to invite you back, as I believe that at least I, personally, should be able to keep up with it more frequently now, and help make it a more productive endeavor. You in particular I hope can spare a moment now and then, as you seem to have a more comprehensive knowledge of Wikipedia's procedures that I am trying to learn, and your past additions have been very appreciated. Anyway, I hope to see you there! -- 18:33, 6 December 2010 Fractalchez ( talk · contribs)

I'll be happy to help from time to time, though WP:CUE absorbs most of my editing time. I cleaned up the pinball project a bit mainly because pinball is directly descended from cue sports by way of bagatelle and bar billiards and such, but my interest in pinball per se is rather low (I suck at it! I'm a terrible player). >;-) I do want the project to be arranged and set up well for success of course, and I hope you approve of what I've done with the category overhauling. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 20:28, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

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 – The RfD was not actually properly filed, so I removed the RfD tag after a week. Would-be nominator contacted, and presented with alternative suggestion anyway.

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect MOS:BETTER. Since you had some involvement with the MOS:BETTER redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Mhiji ( talk) 04:43, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

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 – Just a note.

Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 20:06, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks and you, too. :-) — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 20:43, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

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 – Responded at CfD.

Category:Pool, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 22:16, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, but this was already decided (against) at CfD only about a month or so ago! — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 20:49, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello. You have a new message at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 December 24's talk page. Message added 00:07, 26 December 2010 (UTC). Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 00:07, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

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 – Armbrust will just handle it; if it needs more features later, we can just add them.

Have modified the draft of the future pool player infobox. Could give some feedback. Is there something missing? Thanks in advance. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 12:54, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh, hell, that thing's eventually going to have to be very complex, since it will need to be able to handle titles won, and in what league/tour and so on, plus it may even need to integrate all the snooker player i'box features, since some are players of both snooker and other cue sports, and... Gahhh... I can't even think about it right now. I'll just trust that you're doing the right thing. I have all kinds of family medical and legal stuff to deal with and just don't have time to even consider this right now. Sorry. If it seems sane and useful to you, go ahead and run with it. Two caveats: Try to make the field names as compatible as possible if not 100% compatible with infobox person and infobox snooker player, or it'll just cause problems later. There may be an person infobox meta-template or something. Ask over at Template talk:Infobox person. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 13:33, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Ok. Just wanted to inform you, that I work on it. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 14:24, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

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An article that you have been involved in editing, Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Traveler100 ( talk) 20:41, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

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Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 503 editors 2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives Our encounter with Jimbo Wales Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned Report on our inaugural elections Guild Plans for 2011 New barnstars introduced Requests page improved Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! 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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