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Archived 2011

I archived 31 topics of 2011 in /Archive_6. -Wikid77 17:20, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

I archived 11 topics of 2011 in /Archive_6. -Wikid77 20:12, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Resilient Barnstar
	For an editor who is not afraid to contribute to discussions and speak up for themselves often in adversity. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:09, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

• Thank you for the honor. -Wikid77 02:08, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive update Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter. Participation So far, 45 people have signed up for the drive, of which 30 are actively participating, a very high participation rate. If you have not signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. If you have questions about getting started, feel free to talk to us. Progress report Progress has been less than that needed to meet our target for the drive (which would reduce the backlog by about 400 articles). Remember though, if everyone copy edits one or two articles every day, we will easily meet our goal. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. Reducing the number of articles on this list has been a major success of this drive. Thanks for participating! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:05, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Saul Ascher

Thank you for your efforts on the Saul Ascher article. I should have recognized that this article was too difficult to fix without resort to the German article. --DThomsen8 (talk) 18:14, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Good work on Saul Ascher. DThomsen8 (talk) 18:16, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

• Thank you. -Wikid77 02:08, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you kindly

	Thank you for your support
	Thank you for your helpful question (it let me express my views on the problem without getting too heavily "involved") and for your support. I sincerely hope to live up to your and the community's expectations as an admin. Qwyrxian (talk) 07:04, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Kremlin Clock

Hi. Thanks for the additions and general improvements you made to Kremlin Clock today. I hope you won't mind, but I've added the old text of the Old clock section back in after your new text, and restored the tag. This is because I feel that the section in the Russian WP article is probably good content. I've asked for a new translation of it on the relevant project page, but meanwhile it is possible to get a little from the machine translation, bad as it is. I have kept your own new text, of course, but you may want to note that the Google Books link is to a page not available for preview. Also, one of the {{Convert}}s seems not to have worked. Best, --Stfg (talk) 20:48, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

• Good, I've reworded what I could and reset the conversion for "25 tons". -Wikid77 02:08, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Thanks. It looks good. --Stfg (talk) 09:12, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive

Hi, Wikid77. Thanks for your help copy editing so many articles for the July drive, and for updating the daily tally on several occasions! I was wondering, since you did not enter a word count for some of your articles, if you are prepared to just forego that portion of the possible awards? Or if you like, I could fetch the information for you and do a tally. Whatever you think is best. Regards, --Dianna (talk) 00:29, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

• Yes, just forget the word counts now, and next time I'll will start on day 1 keeping the word counts. Thanks. -Wikid77 02:08, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	For your civil response regarding the Halperin fork. Thank you. Smallman12q (talk) 01:16, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

File:TetonsSunrise crop.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:TetonsSunrise crop.jpg, has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:39, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive report

Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive report Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Here is your end-of-drive report. Participation 50 people signed up for the drive, of which 39 participated. Thanks to all who copy edited articles and helped us reduce the backlogs in both the total articles and requests. We offered a bonus for copy edits from the Requests page, and have been somewhat successful in reducing that backlog, as a record 89 new requests were received in the month of July. Progress report During the month of July we reduced the backlog by 338 articles, or by about 8.5%. We did not reach our goal of a 10% reduction, but we came close, and did very well considering the small size of the group participating. Since our Backlog elimination drives began in May 2010, we have reduced the backlog by 4,708 articles. End-of-drive results can be found here. We will be handing out barnstars within the next week or two. Requests page Please remember that the GOCE Requests page is receiving a high number of requests, with the number of August requests already above three per day. Any assistance to help keep the backlog down would be greatly appreciated. Our next drive will be in September. We hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 16:44, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE Barnstar July 2011 drive

	The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
	For copy editing an impressive 107,076 words during the July 2011 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog elimination drive, I hereby award Wikid77 with the Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. Thank you for your outstanding efforts. Chaosdruid (talk) 02:10, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of Articles – 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Wikid77 for copy editing 82 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors' July 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you so much for your efforts. -- Chaosdruid (talk) 02:10, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Word Count – 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Wikid77 for copy editing a total of 107,076 words during the July 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for your hard work. -- Chaosdruid (talk) 02:10, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – 5k Article Count – Tied 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Wikid77 for copy editing 3 articles over 5,000 words during the Guild of Copy Editors' July 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your efforts. -- Chaosdruid (talk) 02:10, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Word counts in articles

Hi, Wikid77. One of the other coordinators noticed that some of the word counts were inaccurate that I used when tallying up after the July drive, so I am gonna take a couple minutes here to explain the record keeping that we use for our drives. The word count is normally derived using a script that you can install on your .js page (it will be your vector.js if you are using the default skin). The script adds a tool to your toolbox that you can use to obtain word counts for the GOCE copy edit drives, and is available at User:Dr pda/prosesize. Please install this script and use it to determine word counts for future drives. It does not work well for list-class articles or articles that have a lot of material in point format; for those types of articles you can obtain a word count by copying the article into any word processing software that offers a word count feature, and obtaining the information from that.

Please don't include in your drive totals any articles which do not have a {{copyedit}} tag on them when you start (unless they are from the Requests page). The idea is to reduce the backlog of tagged articles and items from the Requests page, so only those articles count in your drive totals. If you discover an article with a copy edit tag that does not actually require any copy editing, please go ahead and remove the tag, but that article should not count towards your drive totals. If you only copy edit one section of an article, you get credit for one article, but the word count should only include the section that you actually copy edited. Complete information is available on the main drive page, or you could ask any of the coordinators if you have any questions. Sincerely, --Dianna (talk) 22:40, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Convert/spell

Hi Wikid,
Please see Template talk:Convert#A problem. Peter Horn User talk 02:54, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

still problematic:

• Template:Convert/spell
• Template:Convert/spell
• Template:Convert/spell
• Template:Convert/spell

Peter Horn User talk 20:36, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

• I have fixed the double-redirect to Template:Convert/LoffAoffDu2Soff, for adj=on. -Wikid77 21:27, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

A token of appreciation for your tip on the GOCE talk page concerning the joining-up template. Odysseus1479 (talk) 06:28, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

• Thank you. I think the intent was to expect "{{j |xx yy}}" would be used several times per page, as with Interstate 10, to use "{{j |I-10}}". People forget that browsers which have been set to larger text sizes can cause lines to wrap within the first 6 words. -Wikid77 21:27, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

I hadn't heard of it before, but henceforth I will certainly use the template instead of resorting to non-breaking spaces—and I'm not aware of any other method of specifying non-breaking hyphens &c.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 03:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikicode note to you...

I see that when you are going over a few spaces in a line, you use the * to make a bullet. You don't really need to do that, as you can actually just use ":". (without the quotes) Examples:

Using : makes this

Using :: makes this (and so on)

You can even combine the * and one or more : !

• Using :* makes this

I understand that you may be ok with still using *, but who knows? Perhaps I've taught you something you didn't know before! :D Have a good WikiLife, and feel free to message me! LikeLakers2 (talk) 14:23, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Ship prefix problem

Sorry to bother you, but it looks like you're the resident expert on this template. The problem is described at Template talk:Ship prefix#Problem with Canadian ship names. My attempts to solve the issue on a private copy of the template failed miserably :( Favonian (talk) 20:45, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. >>> Sign up now <<<

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 17:24, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Coffea

Hi, I don't understand what you were fixing on this page, a "taxobox" glitch. Was there a reason that you commented out the About template? Nadiatalent (talk) 22:37, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks for the note. I have restored the About-hatnote. The glitch in the Taxobox comes from the internal div-tag ("<div>") in Template:Taxobox which forces all text down the page in older browsers when an image follows the taxobox. By putting an outer-table around the taxobox, then all the text can wrap alongside, left of the taxobox, on older browsers, such as IE7 on Windows Vista. Several months ago, I tried to remove the non-portable div-tag which had been added on 29 November 2010 into Template:Taxobox, but I was fought bitterly to have it remain and ruin the display on older browsers. I am not sure why it was considered crucial to have the div-tag. Let me know of any other issues. Thanks. -Wikid77 (talk) 23:00, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Sounds painful, but your solution seems to work here (where IE and Windows are not permitted). Nadiatalent (talk) 23:50, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive ces

Hi

Can you tell me what you are using to edit articles with? I am intrigued due to the edit summaries you are leaving.

I would also suggest that you consider editing large articles in more than one edit. There are a couple of reasons for this; most notably that it makes it easier to go back and correct problems that might arise, as well as helping other editors who can see what you have changed more easily. It also avoids any edit conflict problems that might arise. Chaosdruid (talk) 18:14, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

• I am editing some text in the WP edit-window, but using Microsoft Notepad for string substitutions, and Notetab for counting words & strings. I sync the rare edit-conflicts by merging texts, and when running multiple edits, there is a greater danger of alerting other editors to change a page and cause edit-conflicts. In reality, I typically edit some pages twice: once for most changes, and a 2nd edit to fix a few last-minute typos. In other cases, where I edited a page only "once" then perhaps I intended to edit again, but later I became distracted by other articles. The number of changes, per page, is somewhat staggering for me (large articles), so I try to just change the whole page at one time, while I can still focus on the subject, as a whole. -Wikid77 (talk) 18:44, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Arbitration

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• Misplaced Pages:Arbitration guide.

Thanks,OpenInfoForAll (talk) 22:43, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

{{columns}}

Hello! I saw you adding a column table to John Doe. Did you know that you can achieve the same effect with this template? Thanks, --hydrox (talk) 11:54, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive update Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation We have had 55 people sign up for this drive so far, and 31 have participated. If you have signed up but have not yet copy edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! It's not too late to join the drive if you have not already done so. Another great way to help out is to watch-list the Coordinators talk page and participate in the ongoing development of the Guild. Progress report So far, we have reduced the backlog by 75 articles, or about 19% of our goal. We have also cleared January 2010 off of the queue and are close to clearing off February and March. If each participant were to copy edit two articles from February and March 2010, they would be completely eliminated from the queue. Rollover words Several concerns have been brought up this drive about the usage of rollover words. Rollover words only count if they're from the previous drive. For example, if you received 1,000 rollover words in March and didn't participate in May, your rollover words return to zero. This is to encourage participation in multiple consecutive drives. Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:33, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Old Style 1752

I just wanted to let you know that I tood a look at your recently created article Old Style 1752--You did an excellent job with including references and citations.Amy Z (talk) 21:44, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

News and progress from RfA reform 2011

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GOCE word count

Hello, Wikid77, I was counting up how many words you copy edited to figure out which GOCE award we should give you, and I noticed that most of the articles don't seem to have a word count. I understand that you didn't want to participate in the leaderboard part of the drives, but it's imperative that you include the word count anyway, so we can calculate which barnstar to give you. I appreciate all work you have done for the Guild thus far, and hope that you will join us for our drive in November. Regards, The Utahraptor/_Contribs 19:36, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive report Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We would like to thank all who participated in this drive. Here is the end-of-drive report. Participation There were 58 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 42 participated. This is a slight increase from the July 2011 drive participation, where 39 out of 50 people that signed up participated. Thank you to everyone! Progress report During the drive, we reduced the backlog by 146 articles, or by about 4%. Overall we did well, especially considering the exceptionally large number of articles that were tagged during September. Thus far we have reduced the copy edit backlog by 4854 articles, or by about 58%. If we keep up our current rate of copy editing, the backlog should be reduced by 65–70% by the end of this year. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. Barnstars will be handed out this week. Once again, thank you for participating in the Guild's September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Our next drive will be in November, and we hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 04:19, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 barnstar

		The Guild of Copy Editors' Award
		Article Count – 1st Place It is with great pleasure that I bestow on Wikid77 the Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Award, for completing 138 copy edits – 1st Place – during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Your hard work during the drive makes you all the more deserving. Congratulations from the GOCE, and thank you. --Dianna (talk)

MfD nomination of Misplaced Pages:Italian Misplaced Pages lockout October 2011

Misplaced Pages:Italian Misplaced Pages lockout October 2011, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Italian Misplaced Pages lockout October 2011 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Misplaced Pages:Italian Misplaced Pages lockout October 2011 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. John Vandenberg 02:27, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

New Page Patrol survey

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Stubs

Thanks. Well, unlike most on here I try to think of the world evenly and at least try to think about each country as if it were my own. There is so much missing, millions of articles, but some of those millions are ones which already exist in other language. I just try to bridge the gap and at least try to identify topics I know which have been excluded due to systematic bias and which an encyclopedia of this magnitude really should cover. I actually think this project needs editors who think neutrally and who try to even up coverage by comparing categories with other wikipedias and trying to replicate them in coverage. There is something very wrong if we have 700 episodes of some US TV series but are missing 700 mountains or rivers of some region of a country. I know that people will generally edit what they are interested in which is why this has often been the case, but as an encyclopedia really it is our duty to try to approach the project from a neutral perspective. Because there is so much missing and time is an issue, initial quality can often be very low. I wish this wasn't the case but I do translate a lot of articles like Palacio de las Dueñas , Giunssani etc. I just try to cover what I can with the time I have. I never start an article which couldn't be sourced or reasonably improved, in fact the inter transwiki articles the content is there for the taking...♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:39, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Stubs

You contributed to a recent discussion about an editor who was creating many stubs. The conclusion was that this was just a case of a prolific editor, with no violation of policy. There remains a question about whether very small stubs are useful, regardless of how they are created. You may want to contribute to the discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Stub#Minimum size. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 19:28, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

I've also brought up the suggestion of a Transwikibot auto generating articles form other wikipedia which would solve this sub stub problem, related also to your Dutch post @ Jimbo. Care to comment?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:29, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Old Style calendar

Category:Old Style calendar, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Pichpich (talk) 22:49, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Request for further Dialogue on Gradmins and Ideas for Pages that Need Work

Greetings, this is to thank you for the vision of your recent suggestion that plans be formed to create a Gradmins category of administrator. What steps that I can assist with need to be taken to make that idea an actuality? Also, do you have any suggestions of pages that I might be useful in editing? I have a Master's degree in Anthropology and a PhD in Comparative Literature. A list of pages I've worked on is available here. Most of these it would appear I'm now banned from editing. I will start a few other new pages that need creation myself (by the way, am I banned from creating new pages within the jurisdiction of the ban, or just those that already exist?) If I start a new page on, for example, the clearly notable person Eva Turner Clarke, a founding member of the Shakespeare Fellowship, will it be automatically be deleted and I face further sanction from the Gulag team? Just asking. Maybe nobody knows, in which case I'm always in favor of setting precedent by assuming the liberty of conscience, on the examples you cited in your post to my talk page. Not to mention that these would be the sorts of pages that I am most professionally and academically prepared to work on. Any suggestions are much appreciated. "Forgive them for the know know what they do indeed." One of these days when I'm unbanned I've got a real barnstar for you, my friend.--BenJonson (talk) 17:56, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Per your message on my talk re WP:GOCE. Please review: http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Halsey_Minor#Substance. I believe this entry may be ready for removal from the project.--BenJonson (talk) 22:43, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Requested Intervention

It will take time to review the prior actions, and perhaps the strategy wiki has some discussions to enable more users to discuss whether bans are really needed. -Wikid77 (talk) 06:36, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

A subject of Interest

There is a vote going on here: that you might want to participate in. Smatprt (talk) 18:08, 13 November 2011 (UTC)