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Number 455 (328 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Shubinator (talk) 12:15, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
please refrain from letting users add unverified information to the mowbray college wiki page
-CakeMace —Preceding unsigned comment added by CakeMace (talk • contribs) 03:27, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this? If you look at the history, it's been reverted several times. Argh. tedder (talk) 04:09, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
hi i think you helped clean my page Mark Howard (producer). you added italics to "acadie" and "Wrecking ball". ive tried to continue in this fashion exactly with the codes you seem to use but have had no luck. do you think you could tell me how you did this??? thanks alot--Charliedylan (talk) 20:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 456 (329 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 07:44, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
you have got to be kidding, Drake Bell Dodson? where did Dodson come from? how could you threaten to block me when someone added that nonsense to the page? i'm really confused...this site bothers me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.240.9.26 (talk) 01:32, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
At least he spelled 'faggot' correctly this time. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 19:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
hey thanks for your help. ive worked it out now and made the changes. did you take two of my notes/sources off??? i had 16 but now only 14. could you tell me which ones and why? cheers--Charliedylan (talk) 23:59, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
My edits make perfect sense and are constructive. You have now deleted them two times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack.welty (talk • contribs) 00:51, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 457 (330 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 17:03, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
How was my adding Obama to that page vandalism? Getting to trigger happy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.135.3.91 (talk) 17:40, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For your exceptional vandal-fighting efforts; it is quite an under-appreciated task. –Juliancolton | Talk 17:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC) |
I second Julian's emotion. -->David Shankbone 18:43, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 458 (331 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Jamie☆S93 00:56, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thanks so much i had no idea how to find that info. thanks for all your help and being patient with my stumbling and fumbling! cheers--Charliedylan (talk) 05:16, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 459 (332 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 06:56, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 460 (333 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 06:56, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
I was changing the doubles one that I forgot to rename the header before I transfered it from my sandbox! I was just making it clear that it was doubles rather than singles! TennisAuthority 03:19, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 461 (334 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Jamie☆S93 12:56, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 462 (335 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Jamie☆S93 12:56, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 463 (336 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 08:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
This guy keeps deleting the reference to keep it "consistent". As you check the history? He seems to go at no end to keep the reference out. I don't want to keep reverting so I need some help in dealing with this guy. Even when I talk to him, he seems to stand firm and thinks I own the page which is not true because I know some rules about Wikipedia but not all. I don't know what to do? Should I give in and say he wins? Let me know. Thank you. Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 02:25, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 464 (337 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 14:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
yo i dontk now how to make new things on here but im just sayin, sry i messed aroudn just now. purely out of fun. wont happen again. thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.51.59.218 (talk) 15:36, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Much appreciate the kind words on the DYK! — Hunter Kahn (contribs) 02:37, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Your reversion constitutes vandalism. Please do not continue to reflexively replace content without explanation or checking the quality. And lay off the templates. WP 02:09, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 465 (338 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 14:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 466-467 (340 create/expand - 127 nominations)
--PFHLai (talk) 05:43, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey Alansohn, I think there was a vandal yesterday doing the same kind of thing as 172.130.19.37, though I'd have to plow through my history--I think I rolled that kind of edit back once or twice. (I'm dropping you a line cause you just beat me to it, rolling back on Chris Fedak.) Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:44, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 468 (341 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 14:22, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 469 (342 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 08:22, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Just to let you know, I've linked to your "Dumping poop" section from my user page. Please feel free to change the link there if you ever move this inspired account of the Huggle experience. Also, I wanted to suggest changing "almost absolutely" to "virtually" or "next to" nothing. It's a little awkward as-is. Other than that, I thought you were spot-on. Recognizance (talk) 06:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping an eye open. I waited a while to see if they would delete that content a third time, but it really was bedtime... I will readily admit I'm no expert on these matters, but in case of doubt the benefit should go to the established text, esp. given the edit summaries. Still, I didn't use rollback and didn't leave a vandal warning; by the time you reverted, a warning was more than appropriate. So thanks again, and keep up the good work! Drmies (talk) 14:29, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
You recently warned VinAF1 (talk · contribs) of vandalism for his edits on Vinny Ball. All I could see that he did was add a ((hangon)) tag with an explanation. Admittedly, it was a lame explanation, and would not have withstood an admin's review, but I don't know that I'd call it vandalism. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 16:35, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Number 470 (343 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Dravecky (talk) 20:22, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
You seem to have been doing the counter-vandalism process for a long time. As I'm trying to be useful on Wikipedia, I decided my first step will be to revert obvious vandalism. I've been at it for a little while, got a few thousand reverts under my belt, and was curious if you had any useful counter vandal information you could provide. Obviously you've seen alot more than me, and have surely have learned something I haven't. Thank you. I also found your "dumping poop" and "a matter of good and evil" sections interesting. :-) Fyyer 00:12, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've nominated Ryan Braun to be a Featured Article. As you were an editor, you may wish to contribute your view as to whether it should be a FA. The discussion of the FA comment process can be found at [1], and the page that you can go in through to leave comments is the article's talk page at [2]. Same hold for Kevin Youkilis, which I think is only lacking in that we need to work on the inline ciations. Many thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 08:08, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
I am author of Mid-atlantic Pagan Alliance. The organization folded a year ago, and I am finally getting around to cleaning up some left-overs. I wanted to have speedy deletion of this article. And as I am the substantial contributor of this article I blanked the page to initiate the Speedy deletion. The following is the policy that I followed.
"Author requests deletion, if requested in good faith, and provided the page's only substantial content was added by its author. (For redirects created as a result of a pagemove, the mover must also have been the only substantive contributor to the page prior to the move.) If the author blanks the page (outside user space), this can be taken as a deletion request. "
Please let me know the proper procedure to initiate speedy deletion otherwise.MCWicoff (talk) 03:33, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Why is it unconstrutive? The Great Cornholio has alot to do with toilet paper. If this is unconstruthive, why is the same link on the Bunghole page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hunterdude64 (talk • contribs) 03:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
I am trying to add the correct name of Alexis Bledel's mother to her article. Why do you continue to undo my edits??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.135.50.207 (talk) 05:13, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
How do you know that "Nanette" is her mother's real name and not Lupe? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.135.50.207 (talk) 05:20, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Alansohn - why has the page on Alexis Bledel been locked? I have some interesting new information I would like to add to the article, but when I push "edit" I get a message saying that the article has been temporarily locked. I see that you have gotten into a dispute with some other user about vandalizing the page. I have actual interesting new information concerning a new movie of hers. How would I add it to the page? 71.135.63.193 (talk) 04:03, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
For reverting the vandalism on my talk page! Matt Deres (talk) 01:50, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey Alansohn, is this blasphemy, perpetrated upon the food of the gods, not worthy of serious physical punishment? ;) Drmies (talk) 19:12, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. I saw it on huggle, but you reverted it before I did. :P Lәo(βǃʘʘɱ) 19:31, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Alansohn, my revisions simply removed unnecessary and suspiciously timed information on the Terry McAuliffe page. It's the biased "controversies" that is the vandalism. Why not discuss this on the talk page there, rather than undo edits without joining the discussion? Whatrocks11 (talk) 19:35, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
I hereby award you the Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your remarkable efforts in fighting vandalism. gidonb (talk) 02:34, 2 June 2009 (UTC) |
The article has an error. People born in Guam are native-born citizens. I know because I used to live on Guam. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.54.35.200 (talk) 03:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
There is a request for clarification regardling your current restriction. - jc37 15:01, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
There is something wrong. In that article there are a lot of incorrect information. I try to fix the article and gave a reference to each sentence I wrote, someone removed my changes and explain that kind of act by simple untrue statement "the article is not neutral". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arabic muslim (talk • contribs) 19:27, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
thank you so much for reverting those offensive messages on my userpage. That user must be another IP of one of the users I reverted trying to take revenge, I don't know. But I owe you...thanks! SchnitzelMannGreek. 23:02, 2 June 2009 (UTC) |
Your speedy reverts [[3]] erased another (two to be exact) eye sore. Thank you Again ! Maxis ftw (talk) 23:11, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your concern on vandalism but Matt Decker is my article so therefore I can't vandalise my own article and I would have no interest in editing my own article in a negative way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ulyanov322 (talk • contribs)
Hi, Thanks for sourcing this. Trilobyte fossil (talk) 21:04, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
as i did explain it on the talk page. thanks. 93.86.201.173 (talk) 16:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
i so sorry and it not my falut!my name is ben z —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.15.244.71 (talk) 04:18, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, your revert to this article restored some typos. I guess this was not what you intended... --Crusio (talk) 09:46, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Don't feel like getting all that snugly-poo with the Wiki deal Mr. Sohn so I'm just chattin toya here'n'now. Saw a page with Sohn Sohn Sohn and no intuitive way to address you so here is my evil. I observe that you simply completely reverted to your former writings on alternative housing after I took the time to alter them. I altered them in such a way as to draw attention to their having been altered. I observe you have been wronged by your standards Sir. I hope that among the slew of editorial sabatages you suffer mine were no great blows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.59.225.194 (talk) 07:26, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I have put those views in a seperate article
Pakistani viewpoint about creation of Bangladesh
Because I find the section
Creation of Bangladesh
In the aritcle Two-Nation Theory very offensive and against Two nation theory. It is not neutral at all. It is anti-Pakistani.
--ChJameel (talk) 22:35, 4 June 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChJameel (talk • contribs)
Just so that you are aware, the only reason I pulled the words was because upon reflection I realized that you'd use it as just one more of your attempts to make a CFD discussion about me instead of about the topic at hand. But I have to congratulate you for managing to make it about me anyway. Be sure to keep the link handy for next time. Otto4711 (talk) 21:56, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
...for this. You would think that someone that could come up with "Fixed ideological Bias" would be capable of more substantive contribution. See ya 'round Tiderolls 04:34, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
If homophobia is discrimination, then so is arachnaphobia.--114.76.212.56 (talk) 06:21, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
You reverted my change, and said I needed citiations... which there already were in the first section of the article.
What more do you want? Please read the pages you are reverting my changes were accurate, yours were dead wrong. You are reverting back to something that doesn't even apply anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.241.183.159 (talk) 22:02, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey Alansohn, I know you write a lot of articles on recently deceased people after their obituaries come out; I have one from a few days ago that I remember thinking would be article-worthy, but I haven't had time to take any action on it now, and I'm not sure if I will be able to for a little while, so if you're interested then it's an easy article you can do. (If you're not interested, of course, no big deal—I might be able to get around to it eventually, too.) Here are the sources:
Best, rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 02:17, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
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You should consider Archiving some of thouse discussions, this page is hideously long. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.125.138.48 (talk) 04:59, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about the missing edit summaries on the Idioglossia article. One revision was a minor linking fix that I believe is uncontroversial. The other, a "See also" link to Home sign, definitely merited some explanation. I'm going to restore the former revision and add the latter to Talk:Idioglossia; please don't see this as edit warring. -- Control.valve (talk) 04:42, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Number 471 (344 create/expand - 127 nominations)
Mifter (talk) 05:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
FYI. I'm curious to see your comments. Postdlf (talk) 08:09, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey I was just trying to "disambiguate" one WikiPedia Statement. Is that too much to take?
I am really tired of you so-called "editors", by the way, and the nonsense you impose on me. So go ahead and be as immature as a typical "wikiPedia" editor can be and "ban" me or my "IP" forever, and be known as the choot you are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.162.158.157 (talk) 14:58, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
For reverting the vandalism on my talk page. --Abce2|AccessDenied 15:16, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
I can put what ever I want to chlorophyll it's a free editing website. If you are going to keep doing that go screw your self and get off so elementary school children can have an easier definiton for words. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tylergibson3440 (talk • contribs) 20:21, 10 June 2009 (UTC) Listen I didn't type that I have hundreds of viruses and someone must have hacked me or something. I swear I didn't do that. Forgive who ever did that, but it wasn't me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tylergibson3440 (talk • contribs) 20:21, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Can you please clarify the justification behind this edit to San Diego Thunder? Seems to be a good-faith AfD nom to me. KuyaBriBriTalk 20:26, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Try finding out why an edit was made before you give out a warning Thecityone (talk) 00:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Please see comments here Talk:Belgium–Mexico relations. LibStar (talk) 04:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Until the recent incident in Riverdale, I had no idea how many bombings there had been in this country I just put up a page on another one. It is truly shocking.Historicist (talk) 15:05, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Are you a person or a bot? I want an explanation as to why the Normandy Landing edits are being reverted, as they make NO sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.48.25.60 (talk • contribs)
This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Normandy Landings. Alansohn (talk) 18:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
the problem is that there is already a page on "hurricanes", but it is about tropical storms, I want to create a page on Hurricanes (wilma, andrews, etc.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by NoduloMan (talk • contribs) 21:24, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
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Dear Alansohn, I continued the discussion on the translation of La Católica on its discussion page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.77.255.226 (talk) 21:35, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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As I posted on the DYK talk page, I've added another 2K of prose to this page to bring it past the lower limit. It's basically a run-down of his professional career. Do I need to relist it, or just leave it as is? -Dewelar (talk) 03:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
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Number 472 (345 create/expand - 127 nominations)
05:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
My edit (a revert) was not vandalism, it was repairing vandalism perpetrated by B9_Hummingbird_Hovering. The explanation for same was in the edit summary. B9 was restoring material that was deleted as OR (As discussed on the talk page of that article). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.41.131 (talk) 08:38, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I have reverted your un-blanking of this page and tagged it db-author, because Rodmunday (talk · contribs) who blanked it was the author and (apart from a trivial correction) the only author, and gave reasons on its talk page for withdrawing it, saying he had decided it was misleading and would incorporate the material elsewhere. I had myself had some doubts about the article, which was why it was on my watch-list. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:29, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Your warm words of welcome mean a lot to me. Thank you. Debresser (talk) 16:08, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The Established editors association will be a kind of union of who have made substantial and enduring contributions to the encyclopedia for a period of time (say, two years or more). The proposed articles of association are here - suggestions welcome.
If you wish to be elected, please notify me here. If you know of someone else who may be eligible, please nominate them here
Discussion is here.Peter Damian (talk) 19:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Alan; thanks for your note on my reaching 200 "DYK"s. It was only when I started messing around with a new userpage design and creating a separate list of my hooks that I realised I had undercounted by about 6, hence the sudden leap above 200! There is indeed a never-ending list of new articles to write on churches, buildings and the like ... having exhausted Brighton and Hove's vast array of churches, I'm about to move on to my home district, where there are at least 25 which need articles. Then the corresponding village articles need expanding... The funny thing is, when I started writing WP articles 3 years ago I never thought I would specialise in this area: I knew nothing about architecture etc. Railway-related stuff was all I could offer. But this work has given me a whole new area of interest, and now I can't wait to find the time to research and write more to fill in those gaps! Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 22:44, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I removed some vandalism left here by an IP, and found said IP had already received the requisite warnings for a block, so I sent it to AIV. LonelyBeacon (talk) 12:49, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Can you give me your opinion on this one? thanks.Historicist (talk) 16:20, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the recent vandalism to my user page, it's much appreciated. ERK talk 21:32, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
In fact that's an awful wall of text and I unfortunately don't have much time for Wikipedia these days (and it's only getting worse). I'll leave that check to someone else. -- Luk talk 14:59, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
My edits are constructive. Your reverts are unconstructive. I am trying to be constructive and also follow NPOV. Essentially either Legends needs to be categorized under legends, for people trying to look up "Legends", or it needs to be linked back to the Castlevania: Legends article (which I did in the see also section). Looking up "non-canon" is quite unclear since people looking up information on "legends" won't find it by looking up "non-canon". "Legends" is a better categorization heading. I even left an explanation in the talk page but people seemed to have ignored it. I don't appreciate your fanatic accusations.Draculvania (talk) 16:31, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
I hope my explanation for my recent edit made more sense. I just can't see how non-canon heading can be seen as a constructive heading when people trying to look up specific information are going to have a better chance if they see the specific game they are looking for listed under the exact title. I wasn't trying to remove the information that the game is non-canon, but just trying to make it easier to search for by giving it its own heading (I made sure there was a non-canon note at the beginning of the legends section). I also apologize for calling you fanatic.Draculvania (talk) 16:56, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Oops! I'm sorry about that edit, that was very clumsy of me, it won't happen again. I'm really sorry about it! Alma Kusska (talk) 18:31, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Could you take a look at the editing history of this, which you inadvertently got involved in recently? It appears to me that User:B9 hummingbird hovering has his own original theory about Eastern concepts that he has decided are synonymous with "apperception", and won't take "prove it" for an answer. Seems to me like a pretty blatant WP:OR violation. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:50, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Great work on starting and expanding that article. When you upload images, unless they're fair use, please upload them to Wikimedia Commons instead of en.Wikipedia. That way, they'll be available for everyone in all language Wikipedias. Also, please put the appropriate project boxes on the article discussion page. I did it for this article. Anyway, no big deal. Again, thanks for starting a quality article on this subject. Cla68 (talk) 23:49, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
CVU Anti-Vandalism Award | ||
First warning. Stop beating me. :)--Abce2|AccessDenied 01:39, 18 June 2009 (UTC) |
You've got barnstars! | ||
Second warning. Stop doing great things. :)--Abce2|AccessDenied 01:39, 18 June 2009 (UTC) |
I acually beat you?! I thought you were just offline! Any way, you're welcome! --Abce2|AccessDenied 01:50, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Ended up only half-blanking the page instead of all of it as intended. This was per consensus on the talk page. Derrial Book is to be deleted and the information on the page is not being moved anywhere. Myself and DrFluffy are for this and 199.126.152.28 is against. 2 to 1, we win, so don't stop us from deleting the page. And if the consensus changes from delete to merge (no reason why it should) they can just take data from the page history, so don't restore the page ever. It's gone for good. This is not vandalism. 65.120.179.226 (talk) 01:44, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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Reversing Power Moves in the Name of Progress | |
I am curious as to whether you just follow around John from Idegon's needless deletions and fix his problems with them. You know, doing something in the name of progress rather than just stomping things out because they don't abide by "the community's preferences" and to get quick edit stats so he gets fake awards. Isn't it also community practice to give a "needs citation" warning before deletion? WildhockeyTroJan (talk) 02:34, 27 November 2019 (UTC) |
I've added Wayne Valley High School to my watchlist; if the "proud coach" resumes disruption when the block expires tomorrow, I'll impose a longer block. OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:46, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Just a gentle reminder that the WP:BRD process is optional, so you can't demand that someone follow it. According to WP:BRD, it is best suited for use "While editing a particular page that many editors are discussing with little to no progress being made, or when an editor's concerns are not addressed on the talk page after a reasonable amount of effort." That doesn't seem to be the situation here. IMO it's generally more complicated than new editors can handle anyway. There are alternatives to BRD (several of which are listed in BRD itself) that would be reasonable and policy-compliant ways to respond to your reversion. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:56, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors December 2019 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the December 2019 GOCE newsletter, an update of Guild happenings since the September edition. Our Annual Report should be ready in late January. Election time: Nominations for the election of a new tranche of Guild coordinators to serve for the first half of 2020 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself! September Drive: Of the thirty-two editors who signed up, twenty-three editors copy edited at least one article; they completed 39 requests and removed 138 articles from the backlog, bringing the backlog to a low of 519 articles. October Blitz: This event ran from 13 to 19 October, with themes of science, technology and transport articles tagged for copy edit, and Requests. Sixteen editors helped remove 29 articles from the backlog and completed 23 requests. November Drive: Of the twenty-eight editors who signed up for this event, twenty editors completed at least one copy edit; they completed 29 requests and removed 133 articles from the backlog. Our December Blitz will run from 15 to 21 December. Sign up now! Progress report: From September to November 2019, GOCE copy editors processed 154 requests. Over the same period, the backlog of articles tagged for copy editing was reduced by 41% to an all-time low of 479 articles. Request archiving: The archiving of completed requests has now been automated. Thanks to Zhuyifei1999 and Bobbychan193, YiFeiBot is now archiving the Requests page. Archiving occurs around 24 hours after a user's signature and one of the templates ((Done)), ((Withdrawn)) or ((Declined)) are placed below the request. The bot uses the Guild's standard "purpose codes" to determine the way it should archive each request so it's important to use the correct codes and templates. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Hi. Thanks for this edit. Looking at it again, I see that I garbled what I was trying to do. This was a drive-by edit prompted by something I happened to see in passing and I don't really remember where I was going with it except that I see that I was looking at page 60 of this and I vaguely remember that I intended to cite it but, in my garble, it didn't get in. That may of may not be useful to you. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 20:48, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well A. MarnetteD|Talk 19:38, 19 December 2019 (UTC) |
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Please ensure you follow what I’ve said in the two edit summaries for North Arlington High School and apply this to any other high school articles you edit – thank you Steven (Editor) (talk) 17:25, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Please follow this and any issues let me know, thank you Steven (Editor) (talk) 17:50, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
このミラPはAlansohnたちのメリークリスマスも新年も変革と幸運の豊かな十年をおめでとうございます!
フレフレ、みんなの未来!/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE!
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Greeting Alansohn, I haven't reached out in a while. I hope this finds you well. I would consider your input at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_December_22#Category:Gambling_regulators. I have taken time to add many New Jersey biographies to this category and I feel it is valuable. Best, Accurizer (talk) 00:51, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
– 2020 is a leap year – news article.
– Background color is Classic Blue (#0F4C81), Pantone's 2020 Color of the year
– North America1000 20:48, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report
Our 2019 Annual Report is now ready for review.
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ridgefield School District (Connecticut) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ridgefield School District (Connecticut) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. ––Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs) 21:36, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
You introduced a non-sentence in a recent edit: "Born and raised in Saint Croix, United States." Please be more careful: the opening sentence in a section is not the section title. Tony (talk) 07:19, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Edison, New Jersey; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Points to note:
If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. [5]. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:13, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.
Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
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There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:29, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Alan, I see that you've done some previous work on this article. I came across a fresh NYT article about the school, and given the other news coverage, I'm wondering if you think the story merits mention. I typically err on the side of WP:NOTNEWS, but this story seems to be fairly significant. Your thoughts? OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:29, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
I have created this page, and quickly ran out of material. It is remarkable how little they have online. Perhaps you could lend a hand. Regards, --''Paul, in Saudi'' (talk) 06:53, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here. March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now! Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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At Guttenberg, New Jersey, your edit added info which is in conflict with an earlier sentence in lead. 9th or 7th smallest? Would you mind having a look? Refs for first seem to be a calculation. ThanksDjflem (talk) 16:33, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
At Talk:Howell Township, New Jersey there is a discussion as to how to handle geo-stubs.Djflem (talk) 06:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi-a section of Interstate 195 (New Jersey) runs through Mercer County, New Jersey. That section in Mercer County was name in honor of Francis J. McManimon. It is unclear as to how to insert this in the Interstate 195 (New Jersey) article; the highway in New Jersey was name after someone else. Thank you-RFD (talk) 11:51, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I see recently you updated the Eastampton Township page. You put Anthony Zeno as the mayor of the town, and yes the mayors directory states he is the mayor. However, if you look on the township website (eastampton.com), it states Robert Apgar is the current mayor of Eastampton. As an Eastampton resident who attended a council meeting this year, I can confirm the new alignment is as followed:
Mayor: Robert Apgar (D, term ends 2020) Deputy Mayor: Dominic Santillo (D, term ends 2022) Councilmen: Anthony Zeno (D, term ends 2020), Eddie Besko (D, term ends 2022), Gerald "Jay" Springer (D, term ends 2020). — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZenomanKnows (talk • contribs) 07:07, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Maybe you can explain to me how a person can be "from" two places simultaneously. That would be a neat trick. Both the accomplishment and the explanation. But of your course you will never, never change your mind. Never! No one on Wikipedia EVER changes.Vmavanti (talk) 19:48, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hullo. An edit war has broken out, CLCStudent and I have been reverting an IP who is very keen on removing a referenced section of history. We're at 3RR a piece, so will back off. I've report the edit war and have asked for page protection. Since this is in your area of expertise/interest, I thought you may want to have a look and return the removed text when the page is protected. Cheers. Ifnord (talk) 02:19, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
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Issue 38, January – April 2020
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The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in round 2 were:
The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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The article for Woodlynne School District has some linkrot in it's administration section, which is awkwardly structured. Is it OK with you if I edit the article?Jacona (talk) 18:00, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
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Dear Alansohn/Archive 23,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 21:43, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Cozy Morley requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cozy Morley. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 11:10, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events
Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports
March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Issue 39, May – June 2020
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Hi! When I made List of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark I was able to determine a list of former/closed/merged Catholic schools by comparing the list of schools from the archdiocese in 1998 (the earliest available online) and a list from 2020.
If you like you can expand on these by finding newspaper articles about any closures/mergers. This info can then be posted to New Jersey municipality articles to show the Catholic schools they used to have.
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A tag has been placed on Category:Private schools in Hudson County, New Jersey requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:16, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.
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Coming from an editor who years back was no fan of yours, I found your "Dumping poop" essay to be eloquent, thoughtful and very damn correct. Thank you for sharing those thoughts. Ravenswing 06:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC) |
In Jonathan Kuminga's article, it shows he attends The Patrick School in Hillside. But the link to the school goes to St. Patrick High School which is located in Elizabeth, an entirely different town.
I was wondering if you may be able to clear this up, and whether "The Patrick School" is just some news outlets' incorrect way of referring to St. Patrick HS? That still wouldn't explain the Hillside vs. Elizabeth confusion though.
I tried looking into this but got lost as to what might actually be correct. I have no idea if a "Patrick School" in Hillside even exists. SportsGuy789 (talk) 17:08, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you were not notified about this recent nomination: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dansk International Designs. I believe that you created the article in 2009; I'm not sure why you didn't get the notification. So now you know. :) — Toughpigs (talk) 23:17, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi! This is a bit belated, but I finally found the page in the American Men and Women of Science that gave the birth date & place for Patrick X. Gallagher (you asked me about this a few months ago). I added the page and full quote of the entry to the article, confirming that he was indeed born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on January 2, 1935. — MarkH21talk 09:51, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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You have twice removed the template that I added to show that "based off of" is an error in the source material being quoted in Wayne Valley High School. Either you do not believe that "based off of" is grammatically incorrect, or you have not properly understood when sic is used. Your last edit summary suggests the latter. If there is an error in source material that is being quoted, then adding [sic] indicates to the reader that the error is indeed in the source, and has not been introduced in the process of reproducing the quote. Sankura (talk) 18:07, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Alansohn! I just want to say thanks for referring me to WP:CITEVAR on your most recent edit to Washington Heights, Manhattan. I will admit a lot of my edits were just changing references to my preferred style, because I was looking through stuff for typos, adding refs, rewording, etc. and I was like, why not change the references to my preferred style along the way? But I 100% understand why it's not really beneficial to allow editors to do that, so I will stop. The most recent edit I did though (after yours) was keeping one of my reference changes that was actually necessary because the old link was dead.
Anyway thanks again! I appreciate everything you do for Wikipedia. The Spirit of Oohoowahoo (talk) 21:51, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
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Having a bad day? Not sure why you care enough about the Wolfe Kelman article to receive a ping every time someone touches it – then took the time, twice, to fuss with the style of the citations – if you do not care enough to worry about the fact that the citations themselves were dead and needed salvaging. If you're going to patrol every article you ever created, maybe take the time to review the factual content and work hard to fix that, rather than worrying about the style of your expired citations when someone else kicks in to update the dead material? None of the changes made were an attack on the work you did in 2009, they were not a comment on your citation style when you created the page, they were not attacking the terrific citations you found in 2009 supporting the article - they were all legitimate salvage efforts on material that had simply become deprecated since 2009 and needed salvaging (with a few others benefitting from wiki articles having been created, perhaps with slightly different names, that now gave bluelinks in support of the redlinks still in the citations).
No need to tell me that I have met your approval in that "every source had been reviewed"; if I wanted to damage the article, I would have simply left it with the broken sources that were already there, which you had not checked on until I fixed them. No need to thank me, just doing the work that all editors try to do to back each other up in the growth and maintenance of Wikipedia. And I wasn't being sarcastic about "Having a bad day?". You are clearly a longtime and prolific editor, and I believe that you would not normally be more worried about the nuances of trivial citation style on an article you created 11 years ago than you would be about the deprecated content itself. I hope this was not because others have changed your citations for no other reason than to change the style. (as I read that last sentence, I realize how Pollyanna it sounds. OF COURSE people do that. Oh well.) Jmg38 (talk) 01:57, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020. Current and upcoming events
September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports
June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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September 26, 12:30pm: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for our The Met x Wikipedia Virtual Edit Meet-up: Met Fashion. This is a follow-up to last year's successful MetFashion 2019, and will follow a similar theme optimized for a remote online experience. We will be partially coordinating with the international Wiki Loves Fashion campaign. Watch and join the livestream! The Metropolitan Museum of Art event on Saturday Sep 26 will host a tutorial and question-and-answer session live on YouTube and other social media platforms.
Chat about improving articles! Support will be provided to help guide new editors in this area at Wikimedia Fashion Chat for the duration of the campaign.
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Was that edit summary really necessary? OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:49, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hello Alansohn, In the past I've been told to remove county from the infobox for U.S. schools. I was pointed to the U.S. example. I understand that you don't agree. Looking through the archives of the template talk page I don't find much support for your position although there was a claim by someone that New Jersey is a special case. Gab4gab (talk) 17:20, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
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The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.
The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.
Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Well spotted I will self revert. I based it on the inclusion of Rob Johnson (soccer) in Category:Sportspeople from Jackson Township, New Jersey— Rod talk 21:15, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Laurel Grove Memorial Park is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laurel Grove Memorial Park until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Hog Farm Bacon 21:11, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
/beɪˈoʊn/, bay-OHN, and "bay-OWN" convey the exact same information, and are all consistent with the sources cited in Bayonne, New Jersey. However, they are not equally scientific. "bay-OWN" relies on the reader's knowledge on the pronunciation of bay and own spelled in the incredibly inconsistent English orthography (compare says and down). bay-OHN relies on the values of b, ay, oh, and n defined in Help:Pronunciation respelling key which the ((respell)) template links the notation to. /beɪˈoʊn/ relies on the values of /b/, /eɪ/, /oʊ/, and /n/ defined in the Help:IPA/English key, based on a phonological analysis of the sound system of dialects of English, using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which is widely used by linguists and dictionaries around the world. This is why Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation demands the use of the IPA first and foremost and the respelling second, and discourages the use of ad hoc respellings that rely on the pronunciation of existing words like "bay-OWN" (MOS:RESPELL). I'm having a hard time understanding why you've kept reinstating the ad hoc respelling. Nardog (talk) 17:40, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
believe that every single person reading through this encyclopedia understands IPA pronunciation rules. If that were the case H:RESPELL and ((respell)) wouldn't exist. If you believe the 7,953 articles currently using the template, such as Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Wikipedia, Ronald Reagan, Kamala Harris, Theodore Roosevelt, Amazon (company), Wiki, Dick Cheney, and English language, all contain original research, and thus MOS:PRON needs to be revised, then please bring up the issue in the appropriate forum. But you may not apply that argument in just one article without achieving consensus on a larger scale, per WP:CONLEVEL.
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Hello Alansohn, the ANI case you opened, WP:ANI#Edit warring by WilliamJE, is still waiting for your reply before it can be closed. ◅ Sebastian 02:12, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, I recently made an article for the New Jersey dairy industry. It is a work in progress. I thought you would be interested as it is an uncovered but important topic in the state's history. Every little antiques shop in the state almost always has plenty of milk bottles from New Jersey dairy farms that no longer exist. Best, Thriley (talk) 02:38, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Some areas in the article are an approximate number, and therefore the number in sq km that corresponds to some numbers in sq mi in the article is inaccurate. I wrote a correct number in sq km for each approximate number, but I did understand that is better to leave the numbers from the source. My changes were just math. e.g. 13.66 sq mi = 35.379238 sq km ~ 35.38 sq km, not 35.37 sq km (source). 13.66 is an approximate number. The population density in the article is old (2010). I calculated the 2019 population density (129,216 / 12.319 sq mi), and I wrote it, with no source. Bitholov. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bitholov (talk • contribs) Bitholov, thanks for the response. Be sure to use sources for your data and be sure to sign your messages with four tildes (~~~~). Alansohn (talk) 00:43, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I see your name is first on the list of frequent contributors to DYK. I wonder if you can help? I would like to nominate a DYK (I don't care about credit for myself - whoever posts it can take it). But as an IP I do not seem to be able to. Can you perhaps do the honors? Thanks. It is as follows.
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