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Hi, I recently listed the above article at WP:PR (after I delisted it from WP:FAC per recommendations) and noticed that you were interested in this type of articles. I wondered if you might like to review this article for me with an eye on getting a successful FA nom in the future. Many thanks - Dumelow (talk) 19:42, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, just a note to say thankyou very much for your comments on, copedit of and support for the article on Murray Maxwell, which has just passed at FAC.--Jackyd101 (talk) 07:39, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
I'd appreciate a bit of advice -- still rather new to the wikipedia editing experience.
I noticed something odd while trying to make a little improvement (hopefully) to the article on the (official) Astronomical Almanac -- by adding a few cross-references to other articles about closely related matter. (This is perhaps a first step, to 'let them know' of each other's existence -- possibly some will deserve amalgamation, there are several with similar title and related subject).
About 20 Oct 2008, anonymous 217.57.18.250 added an internet link to an unrelated private web document "Astronomical Almanac" 2009 by Pierpaolo Ricci. I doubt this link should be there, it's got nothing to do with the official publications the subject of the article -- it uses the same name, probably to misleading effect. The link does connect to astronomical data, but it's not "The Astronomical Almanac". Conceivably it deserves a place in one of the generic 'almanac' articles?
I'm still fairly new to this. I've not yet taken anything off any article. Do you think it's appropriate to remove this kind of link? So far I've just commented it with:- "(Not an official publication, but a private document that uses the same name)" -- to prevent people being misled.
I'd appreciate it if you could take a look if you have time. (Also, I'm a bit new to the messaging customs, and not completely sure where to look for any reply to this!) Thanks. Terry0051 (talk) 11:33, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
==> Thanks for your reply, action and info, I'm grateful for the pointers. Terry0051 (talk) 12:23, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there,
Would you like to take a look over Operation Perch for CE purposes? I believe the article is now complete bar the last section, which still needs to be done.--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 19:38, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Bless you ! --ROGER DAVIES talk 20:37, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for signing up at Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers and for your work doing reviews. It is now just over a year since the last peer review was archived with no repsonse after 14 (or more) days, something we all can be proud of. There is a new Peer review user box to track the backlog (peer reviews at least 4 days old with no substantial response), which can be found here. To include it on your user or talk page, please add ((Wikipedia:Peer review/PRbox)) . Thanks again, and keep up the good work, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I reviewed Hispanics in the United States Marine Corps. It's a good article and the reviewer was satisfied with my assessment asking me for the next one. Hispanics in the United States Navy, again a good article, but I would ask you as one of our best GA reviewers to take a look and thus make him aware of furter things to improve because the author is very likely to produce a series of articles about Hispanics. Thanks a lot. Greetings Wandalstouring (talk) 13:05, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Copied from my talk page just to be sure you see it.
I don't believe your revert was particularly helpful, though I don't intend to change it back because revert wars are equally unhelpful. By reverting, you have reintroduced a stylistic (and an WP:MOS) error; you may have noticed that the section was formerly in chronological order, which is a logical way to present such things. I don't quite understand why you're feeling the need to attribute Cobra to Bradley quite so emphatically and prominently - the text already explained that Cobra was Bradley's brainchild, because Montgomery's early intentions had become outdated. You seem to be seeing POV where none exists, and introducing it where there was none before. EyeSerenetalk 13:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
On the contrary my friend, my original edit was designed to bring us back to where we should have been all along - Cobra was a Bradley plan, all the campaign histories agree on that. Introducing Montgomery's issue here is a fringe view at best - I honestly don't think it belongs in the article at all but I agree, edit wars are not good things. II have introduced no error; I am in the process of fixing one. Denial of your POV isn't helpful either. We all have biases; the article as it stood did not conform to what most of the sources tell us. It wasn't Bradley's brainchild *because* of anything Montgomery did. DMorpheus (talk) 14:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Quick question: finally getting back to polishing the article, and I stumbled across some survival/recurrence rates. Would this be best placed in "Epidemiology" or "Treatment"? Strombollii (talk) 20:30, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
I've shamelessly plundered your (deleted) article for the The Academy. Please feel free to do what you will with it :) – Roger Davies talk 10:05, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
There has recently been some conjecture as to how to describe the victory by the German forces. Can you or other members of the project group please assist in the discussion on the talk page. I intend to call for a consensus decision in order to establish the infobox statement regarding the outcome of the battle. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 12:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC).
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One way of winning the battle is encourage the enemy to leave the battle field, and if that doesn't work, force them to. That is your approach, is it not. I do not consider my edits "disruptive". If someone disagrees, they can always discuss it. As for being anti any particular country, I can be whatever I want to be. This does not include my edits on articles. As for my edits, they are intended to be NPOV. I find that quite often the articles have a strong bias to a particular country. I try to redress this sometimes. Others try to be patriotic, and I point this out. Wallie (talk) 17:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, many thanks for the very thorough copyedit you gave the article. It is much improved over what it had been before. Thanks for the suggestions for further improvement (overlinking etc). I will take a look through the article and check for these things. I have been a bit busy recently but I hope I can get it to FAC again fairly soon. Once again thanks for all your help - Dumelow (talk) 12:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks! Are you thinking of standing?--Jackyd101 (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I would encourage you to run for a position, EyeSerene. You've been an outstanding coordinator since your cooption, and I know you'd make a great coordinator because you have done a good job of holding down the fort during and after absence. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:51, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi EyeSerene. Hope you are keeping well. Sorry to trouble you but I'm after a favor. I saw over at the defunct Wikipedia talk:WikiProject League of Copyeditors that you are willing to take on copy-editing. Currently WP:COMICS have Silver Age of Comic Books in for GA review and it has been suggested we get an outside copy-editor in to give it the once over, see Talk:Silver Age of Comic Books/GA2. I don't know if you can find the time to give it a pass? Don't worry if your familiarity of the topic is low, as that will probably flag up issues we just can't see. Appreciate any help you can give, Hiding T 09:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I was about to turn down the request for this user to be blocked as none of the edits I checked appeared to be vandalism; ok, they weren't good edits, but they all appeared to be in good faith. However, an edit conflict showed that you had blocked this user. I looked as to the reason, and it appears that it you gave abusing multiple accounts as the reason. Are you referring to User:Fun2334? That account was blocked for vandalism, but I can't see any malicious edits there either. Could you please re-review these edits and decide whether or not it is vandalism? Thanks! Stephen! Coming... 13:04, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for all you help so far on the Edelbrock article. I do have one question about sources. One great source was a man named Ralph Guldahl, Jr. He is actually the son of a famous golfer! He was employed by Edelbrock for many years and served as senior archivist until his health failed and he retired permanently. He was a close personal friend of the founder, Vic Edelbrock and invaluable resource in the writing of the article. I tried to source as much as a could that came from him, but some things are just not recorded. Is there a way of noting a source like this? Thanks. MiracleMat (talk) 15:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
No problem. :) I debated just doing it myself. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:49, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Would there be any possibility to make a slight copyedit during this week? I'm willing to put it under FAC next week and would like someone to check its prose a bit. Cheers, --Eurocopter (talk) 10:17, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey EyeSerene, I was wondering if you could review the Spokane, Washington article in an ACR. After you read the article, I believe all you need to do is apply the A-Class criteria to the article and put whether you believe it is worthy of being A-class in the section dealing with the review in the articles Talk page. Also, in addition to doing the assessment, it would be helpful if you could include some points for improvement. If you are up to review it, notify me here or on my Talk so I can stop looking for reviewers. Thanks! Anon134 (talk) 20:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
As a fellow Member running for Coordinator, I would like to wish You Good Luck! I Hope You Make it you have done such a great job as a co-opted Coordinator, Keep up the Good Work! Have A Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 00:24, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Your opinion on C-Class was excelent, and I respect it highly. It is great to see such diversity in the WikiProject. At the end one side will be forced to bow to the consensus of the WikiProject. Keep Up the Good Work :) Have A Great! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 12:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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I noted that you gave a neutral vote on the issue of adopting c-class, with the comment ,'I don't object to the motion strongly enough that I would actively oppose it, and accept that it could be implemented easily enough, but I've yet to be convinced that there would be any resulting benefit to article quality. I further believe this should be part of a wider debate about reviewing across all classes; if gaps have opened up in the scale, perhaps we need to re-examine the existing criteria and how they're being applied.'
I have never thought the purpose of a c grade was to improve article quality. I have always believed the purpose of the grading system is to identify to readers, not editors, which articles are good and which bad. The A,B etc. grading system was devised to select which articles were good enough for publication, and presumably by inference, worth people reading. I have added this point on the voting preamble, but currently most articles which we have assessed as 'reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies'(some 10,000) are being lumped into the category 'start', which contains a rag-bag of articles potentially with virtually no content whatsoever, or facts which are wholly unchecked. That is, some 10,000 of our articles with reasonable informative content are being dismissed compared to only 4,500 being acknowledged. This was not the intention of those who designed the grades originally, and is the reason a new grade has had to be introduced. i was hoping you might reconsider these points. Sandpiper (talk) 09:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
It seems we have our tenth official candidate with 20 or 20+ endorsements, congratulations! Have A Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 12:19, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
There are currently 12 members with 20 or 20+, and it has been less than a week so far, that means there is two spots left. The turnout has been great. Have A Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 21:15, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi EyeSerene. As you have no doubt noticed, I have been quite slack and have still not made the changes to Joseph Maxwell in preparation for FAC. I have been pushing the article further back on my list and, as it has been nearly three months, I was wondering if you would be willing to swap Maxwell on your pending list for Edgar Towner? I believe Towner is ready for FAC (pending you magical copyediting skills of course ;-)), and to save your frustrations no doubt, it would probably be better if you were able to copyedit Towner and when I have finally got around to making the changes to Maxwell I will bring it back and see if you are willing to give it a copy-edit then. If you are too busy or would rather not copy-edit either article, then please do not hesitate to say so. Thanks mate, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 21:56, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi EyeSerene. Sandy and I noticed that the warfare category of FAs has reached over 200 articles. Usually at this point we begin to subdivide the category. Could you please give your opinion on whether or how we should do this? Wikipedia talk:FA#Warfare.3F Thanks! Karanacs (talk) 14:50, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
I haven't got my copy yet but this might interest you http://stonebooks.com/archives/050619.shtml Keith-264 (talk) 20:14, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I've got a copy but it's not with me. As you can see in the review, Reid has a rather dry sense of humour as well as sound scholarship.[;-)Keith-264 (talk) 11:39, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
At last I've pulled me finger out and got my copies of No Holding Back and Fields of Fire so I'll be gleaning from them directly.Keith-264 (talk) 14:21, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Congrats on your election as a Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject! In keeping with the tradition of the project and in honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:52, 29 March 2009 (UTC)