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Pather Panchali copy edits

Hi, thanks a ton for the copy edit you did. I have not been able to be online for the past several days. I will follow up on your comments at the talk page of the article, and alert you when that is done. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 21:53, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year :) I hope you're well. I have it watchlisted. Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 22:43, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi! Tried to add an explanation of the term epiphany of wonder as an endnote. Ended up mostly just quoting the source! It's really difficult for me to paraphrase those sentences without losing the meaning. Is it any better now so far as the easiness of understanding is concerned? Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, Dwaipayan, I seem to have overlooked this message somehow, but I did see the edit you made. I'm not sure how many of the Hindi words in parentheses are needed, but otherwise it looks like a very good approach. As you say, those sentences are hard to paraphrase, and this way you've made sure to keep it faithful to the source. Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 20:42, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the approving nod.--Dwaipayan (talk) 20:47, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Formatting issue

I am in need of your second opinion or third maybe. I know you are very busy, but if you have a moment to spare I would ask a favor of you.

I am undertaking a major copyedit of the article located here. https://en.wikipedia.org/Lloyd_Bryan_Molander_Adams

I am kind of stuck on the formatting of one of the sections in the article. It is the one called Television shows and series. If you get a moment, could you please take a look at that one section, and perhaps suggest to me what sort of wikicode or formatting code will get rid of the awful blue box business. I mean that thing is worse than the BSOD on one of your computers!

I also left a note for Miniapolis on her page to take a look if she can. I really appreciated the support both of you showed toward me when I first joined the Guild of Copy Editors. I am pretty sure you both got a terrible first impression of me, but I can assure you both that my work and deeds here at wikipedia are up the the strict standards of GOCE. Believe it or not, I am in real life a writer and published author, as well as a copyeditor, proofreader, book editor, etc for like about 17 or so years.

Anyway, I will be thanking you in advance if you have an opportunity to take a look at that one section. Thanks! I hope you will have the most perfect day today!

Ciao! Carriearchdale (talk) 20:01, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

@Carriearchdale: GOCE coordinator Jonesey95 has fixed it now and appears to be looking through it. The issue you had was that you put a space at the start of that line. In wiki markup, that creates the shaded box, which you rightly don't want. If you want indentation, the way to do it is by putting a colon at the start of the line. But we don't specify our own indentation in article text, as a rule. We leave that to Misplaced Pages's own rendering. Hope that helps. --Stfg (talk) 21:00, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Courtesy note

I have replied to your question at my RfA. Thank you for taking the time to ask it and feel free to ask me to clarify anything or just enquirer further. I appreciate questions - I am with Sagan on this one. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 23:35, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

GOCE February blitz wrapup

Guild of Copy Editors Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2014 wrap-up Participation: Out of seven people who signed up for this blitz, all copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 16 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by

March GOCE copyedit drive

Notes from the Guild of Copy Editors The March 2014 backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles in need of copyediting. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copyedit all articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and to complete all requests placed in January 2014. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copyedits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: number of articles, number of words, number of articles over 5,000 words, number of articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and the longest article. We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:59, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, I am actually not Mark W. Rocha. I made a mistake when making the account. I used his name because he is the sole reason why I wanted to make a wikipedia page. I have already requested to have my username changed for this reason.Mark W. Rocha (talk) 00:54, 22 February 2014 (UTC)