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Wailea-Makena, Hawaii

Thanks for your edits to Wailea-Makena, Hawaii. There are several issues with the new material you have added, and I will attempt to address them on the talk page in the next day or so. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 09:53, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I see that Nyttend removed your new material. If you are interested in helping me restore your edits, then contact me. I have the sources that you need, as well as images and content. Viriditas (talk) 09:54, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I'm interested. I'm also interested in learning how to stay in my lane, editorially speaking. Thanks for any tips.Lfstevens (talk) 22:15, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

No problem, we will work on this together. I would not have removed the material like Nyttend did, but editors have different ways of dealing with content. I'm going to create a subpage in your user space where we can brainstorm some ideas. See User:Lfstevens/Wailea-Makena, Hawaii. You may also be interested in a larger article concerning the same subtopic: User:Viriditas/South Maui Coastal Heritage Corridor. Viriditas (talk) 22:46, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Looks good to me. Print it! (Or I can if you prefer.)Lfstevens (talk) 03:30, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

We still need to add inline references and either expand a bit or tighten it up. Can you think of anything off the top of your head we should add? Viriditas (talk) 08:26, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

We could put in something about the historic church and Makena landing...

Good idea. Can you think of any sources you would like to add? Viriditas (talk) 07:50, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Aloha from Hawaii, aquaponics page edits

Aloha Lfstevens

Thanks for the reply to my edits discussion on the aquaponics page. I am pleased to meet you and pleased that you have a great attitude. From my vantage point, there is a ton of not-quite accurate technical information on that page that direly needs to be fixed to reflect current knowledge and to help users wade the murky waters of modern aquaponics safely.

There are also many good historical references on aquaponics on the page that are vague, and don't give you any way to find the original source; these could easily be fleshed out with appropriate links to online versions of the research and related papers.

I'm way too busy running our farm with my wife Susanne, and teaching aquaponics courses, to engage in much Wiki editing, even though I would enjoy it. I've got six kids and don't spend enough time with them as it is. But I understand you are one of the volunteers who are cleaning up Wiki so it is more relevant and concise. E. B. White has been of my heroes since I was sixteen and first read "The Elements of Style", so I absolutely understand the desire to fix messy writing. If you are interested in a collaboration to edit this particular page, I would be happy to work with you on it, and offer to research the technical information and sources while you do the writing. There is a lot of good aquaponics information out there that hasn't even been referred to or fleshed out on this page. For instance, Will Allen, of Growing Power, TBMK a non-profit (although his systems are rather primitive), is doing fantastic things with aquaponics, worms, and inner-city food production.

And of course, when you're on the Big Island, you must come eat with us. As they say "Small world, Big Island". Just email us at training@friendlyaquaponics.com to let us know your arrival. KaimanaOMaunaKea (talk) 06:19, 17 December 2009 (UTC) Tim Mann, kaimana@hawaiiantel.net 12-16-09

Removing information

Hi Lfstevens. For some time I have noticed the much needed copyedits you have been making to articles on marine life. This is good. You say you enjoy editing articles where you can learn about the subject matter as you go along. However, you also seem to remove information without giving explanations. Unless you know the subject matter very well, you should be careful about removing material you think doesn't contribute anything. For example, looking at this recent edit to bigeye tuna, you replaced "Bigeye mature at a later age than other commercially important tuna species, such as skipjack and yellowfin tuna, and the removal of large numbers of juvenile bigeye before they reach breeding age is a major concern to fisheries managers..." with "The removal of large numbers of juvenile bigeye before they reach breeding age is a major concern to fisheries managers,...". The later maturing of bigeye is an important factor here. Why would you remove it? Your previous edit involved a lot of reorganising, and it is very difficult to see if you removed information there. I'm somewhat nervous about trying to unravel your recent edits to fish, since I notice you have removed information there as well. And I must say this goes back a long way.

When you remove information, would you please make it a separate edit and explain in the edit summary why you think it should be removed. If you think information should be removed, but are not absolutely clear, you can always discuss it on the talk page. Apologies for being a bit of a Christmas grinch. --Geronimo20 (talk) 06:34, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

My intent is to never reduce the info content of an article. Sometimes, however, the info is horribly vague, and also unsourced. In those situations, removing it seems warranted. Whether bigeye mature at a later age than others might be interesting, but shouldn't we know what the relevant ages are? And isn't the real point that we're taking bigeyes too young, whatever the maturation age of some other species may be?

I break my edits into discrete pieces to make it easier for you and other to see what I'm doing (I got admonished on that point early on!)

Finally, Merry Xmas, and please be as fierce as you want in defending Wikintegrity.Lfstevens (talk) 15:38, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

You should not remove information from marine life articles merely because it is unsourced. These are not BLPs. Unsourced material could be removed if it is POV or outright wrong. Otherwise, a better approach, if you really think it should be sourced, is to see if you can find a source yourself. It is not "vague" to state that other commercial species mature earlier. That is precise information. Giving the ages would just be additional information.

Looking at your latest edit, you have replaced "This can be at the surface (pelagic), or at the bottom (demersal)" with "This can be at the surface or at the bottom". The first version should stand. This is stating what is happening in a very straightforward way, and at the same time introducing the terms used in fisheries. This is as it should be. In a fishery, it would be expressed as "This can be pelagic or demersal". You have wiped out the didactic interlacing, and considerably reduced the value of the sentence as an encyclopedic entry.

Further down in the same edit, you have replaced "compared to... bottom trawling, longline fishing results in relatively little destructive impact on bottom habitats" with "compared to... bottom trawling, longline fishing is less destructive to bottom habitats." This has changed the meaning. Longlining is not just "less destructive", it is hardly destructive at all. Now this may be a somewhat subtle shift in logic, but I notice you doing this a lot. You are subtly shifting meanings in ways that can be detrimental to the quality of the article.

While I agree that that "relatively little" and "less" are not semantically identical, neither is "hardly destructive", and I'd argue that my relative comparison is closer than your absolute one. But my habit is to give in on such questions, and I do so here, since quantifying the matter is beyond my ken, and you certainly don't know less about the subject than I do. And thanks for adding "encyclopediac" to my vocabulary.Lfstevens (talk) 15:38, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Looking at this newer edit you made while I was writing this, you have replaced "Digestion and absorption of food occur in the intestine" with "Digestion occurs in the intestine". Now digestion is not the same as absorption. Why have you removed absorption?

I removed it because I didn't see the distinction as material to the sentence, and I also didn't see digestion as being interestingly different from absorption. I stand corrected.Lfstevens (talk) 15:38, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Copyediting is concerned with matters such as grammar, style, and removing the superfluous. It should never result in the removal of information or in the shifting of meaning or logic. That line should not be crossed unless you really know the subject matter. (talk) 07:58, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree. I appreciate your careful scrutiny, and your prolific editing as well.Lfstevens (talk) 15:38, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Individually, these specific points may be somewhat trivial, but the cumulative effects of many such edits is not. --Geronimo20 (talk) 22:51, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Lfstevens. I feel I might be echoing the discussion above, but, while most of your recent revisions to the Walrus have been beneficial or benign, some really DO erase important information, and many are hard to track. For example you changed this sentence: "The walrus prefers shallow shelf regions and forages on the sea bottom." to "The walrus prefers forages on the sea bottom." This revision (aside from introducing a grammatical error) inexplicably erases the very important, fundamental fact that the walrus prefers shallow shelf regions. "Foraging on the sea bottom" in no way implies "shallow shelf regions" (the narwhal, for example, also feeds on the bottom of the sea, but it happens to be at up to 1800 m depths of Baffin Bay). It is the presence of ice on shallow shelf areas (no more than 100 m deep) that is vital to normal walrus foraging - and the increased recent retreat of the ice off of the shelf that is driving recently documented stresses and behavioral changes in the walrus populations. While your efforts are, again, largely beneficial, I would ask you to please be careful when copy editing and to stick to grammatical errors or truly unwieldy phrasing, and to be very respectful of content, especially in an established, well-referenced article like Walrus. Also, wholesale reorganizations of article sections are probably not advisable without discussion on the Talk page. Thanks, Eliezg (talk) 01:16, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to comment and for catching my typo. I plan to add the shallow water preference to a more appropriate section than one on feeding because of its broader import. About organization, you may have noticed a draft of an outline for animal pages. This came from my frustration with the widespread disorganization of many such pages. Is there an existing model to emulate (in the spirit that there is no such thing as a new problem?) If not, is there better/broader forum than an article talk page for such a discussion (and what do you think of the outline?) Organizational changes do have a broader impact than the more typical "add a fact" edits made by most contributors. But if the content survives, perhaps organization is less of an issue.Lfstevens (talk) 04:20, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Oops...the outline is on Lfstevens

Hawaii

Aloha, noticed your recent edits to the main Hawaii article. It certainly did need some "tightening" of the prose, since it tends to be a dumping ground for all sorts of random info instead of a well-written summary as it should be. However, as you might be aware, we had a long negotiated compromise to spell the state name consistently without the ʻokina but keep it for the island names. Otherwise it tends to attract purists who rewrite it "in English" by removing all diacritics everywhere. My thinking is that the majroity of English speakers probably know about the state "Hawaii", but most do not even know there is more than one island. The GNIS also uses "Hawaii" for the state name but "Hawaiʻi" for the Big Island. We will see how long they last this time. Have you read the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Hawaii/Manual of Style page for example? It needs to be expanded. Someone also added the copyediting tag for some reason.

If you have the time for another project, many of the pages in Category:Royal Family of Hawaii contain text that was just copied from Victorian-era books and retains the florid prose. I work on some from tiem to time but there are many left. Thanks, W Nowicki (talk) 22:53, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Didn't know about that discussion or about the manual of style. Thanks for the heads-up. I guess all the other now okina-addled articles I've worked on are out of step, too. I'm kind of surprised nobody pinged me before this.Lfstevens (talk) 23:48, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Grey reef shark

Hi, I noticed your edits to this article; please note that the code for adding alt text uses a '|', not a '.' (the preview function will help in catching this), and also, I prefer using the {{convert}} with the abbr=on tag, so as to avoid favoring of American/British spelling. Also, in your edits to "Taxonomy", it's important to maintain the information on how C. wheeleri was originally differentiated from C. amblyrhynchos, as that's pertinent taxonomic information. Thanks. -- Yzx (talk) 19:12, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for catching my typo. I hadn't realized you were working on this article. I'll go elsewhere until you're through. Cheers!Lfstevens (talk) 23:10, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: Niihau

Aloha. I'm planning to improve this article over the next month or so. If you want to collaborate and/or talk about strategy on the talk page, that would also be great. I'm not a fan of small paragraphs, and best practice (per MOS and other guidelines) is to merge standalone sentences into larger paragraphs rather than breaking them apart. Viriditas (talk) 03:02, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. You're certainly the author of record on this as on many other articles. As is obvious, I have little knowledge of Niihau, but always work on the text as I learn about a new subject. I tend to like my paragraphs to have a single main idea, but I take your point and will work on conforming better to the MOS, etc. Since you work on so many things Hawaii, you might want to scope out Amy Gilliom which I just drastically expanded and cited.Lfstevens (talk) 03:09, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

I like your edits. I think the encyclopedic style is to use sections rather than paragraphs to contain the main idea. I agree that the paragraphs need to flow more easily and connect (or thread) back to the main idea, so obviously more work is required. I noticed, for example, that we have enough information (in the sources that is) to start a new section on shell leis. In fact, there is so much information on this subtopic, we could create a new page. There's a lot to do, but right now we desperately need geographic and geological information describing the formation of the island, its relationship to the main chain, the islets, and more about the demographics of the locals. Viriditas (talk) 03:37, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

List of marine aquarium fish species

Hi Lfstevens, I have undone your last edition in List of marine aquarium fish species to my last version, because I consider that, in a long list like that, some spacing is necessary in gaining clarity. --Flakinho (talk) 16:22, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Fishery

Hi. Your copyedits are much appreciated and welcome and I encourage you to continue. Please excuse me if I appear pedantic and revert this or that. I will try to explain carefully why, and you can always respond if you disagree. Sometimes when you "simplify" what seems unnecessary and roundabout ways of saying something, you are in fact obliterating carefully qualified distinctions. This has annoyed me in the past, and I probably have let too much slip by without challenging you. This has resulted in some detriment in the articles concerned, though you have improved them in other ways. You seem to be here for the long haul and your copyedits focused on the language are generally good and appropriate. So I would like to get on a good working relationship with you. But that means getting real about what does not work from my perspective. I am not happy with the conversions you added to fishery. Surely tonnes or metric tons are enough. I think the person responsible for that template should be shot. --Epipelagic (talk) 07:49, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Revert as you like, but I truly welcome your feedback. Per earlier feedback, I generally take small bites. On your "carefully qualified distinctions" point, I never intend to reduce content, but there's a thin line between distinctions and weaseling, not to mention that encyclopedia readers are likely to miss such subtleties without spotlights. I think conversions are useful, but WP needs a better means of presenting them. I'd much rather hover over a number to see alternative units (with appropriate links) than to see them embedded in the text, but fixing that is over my current pay grade. I add templates in the hope that someday they'll work better. It'll be a great day when Web 2.0 shows up in WP. Lfstevens (talk) 16:05, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Just a thanks

I just wanted to thank you for taking your time to copyedit the article. Magiciandude (talk) 23:08, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

My pleasure Lfstevens (talk) 14:14, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Business ecology / ecosystem

Noticed you've merged these two articles, thanks. Are you planning to do anything with Ecological model of competition which also looks like a candidate for merge? I have reinstated the merger proposal for this page. Cat4567nip (talk) 12:18, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

I'll check it out. The substance/fluff ratio was pretty high low on the first two... Lfstevens (talk) 07:42, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Noticed you made a fairly substantive edit to this article, and went to look at it as I actually suspected it to be some unsourced conspiracy theory. Needless to say I was dead wrong. That issue hasn't been covered in U.S. media at all. My only suggestion is you may want to find some additional sources. Thanks for keeping the article up to date! N419BH 15:59, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. Will look for another source, although this article has more sources than any I've yet seen. Lfstevens (talk) 16:09, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi! You did a great deal of much-needed reorganization in the article and included most of the information that I feel to be important. I was unhappy to see some of my edits go, but that is to be expected. As you can imagine, some of the editors for this article have tended to appear to be more partial to BP's point of view than others, which has made for an agreement to be careful to avoid drastic edits and explain edits fully. While I do feel that the way you arranged the clean-up into 3 sections works well, you have deleted the information about oil reaching any shorelines in that section and shoreline clean-up. Was that an oversight, or did you not feel it to be important? Gandydancer (talk) 12:25, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Wasn't trying to remove content. I moved stuff I thought belonged elsewhere. The article covers spill damage in great detail. I tried to focus the cleanup section on activities. Please feel free to put any shoreline cleanup info in/back in, and thanks for opening this discussion. Lfstevens (talk) 15:26, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Actually that was what I had planned to do, however when it came right down to it, it was not so easy at all! I looked at the history and found info regarding the spread that was gone after you had finished your edits (Spill area), however I do not know how to find the origional edit page. I am not an experienced editor and what may take editors familiar with editing only a few minutes can take me hours, and success is not at all assured at that. Then I was unsure about where to add it, even if I could find the references. Since you are the one who deleted it, perhaps you could find a way to put it back? Gandydancer (talk) 16:47, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Oh! An edit was just done and I realize that "Spill area" is not disappeared at all! Perhaps I missed it because it was moved up in the article. At any rate, I am embarrassed. Please accept my apology and continue with your good editing. Gandydancer (talk) 17:32, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Finish your editing of GPS

Alright, go ahead and finish your editing of the GPS article. I am taking a break from editing. Enjoy your work! RHB100 (talk) 00:13, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

OK, Thank you for letting me know you are finished for now. But what is this "NAVSTAR" link you put in the Geometric Dilution of Precision Computation section. It seems to just link back to the GPS article? RHB100 (talk) 18:40, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

It was there before. Someone took it out and left a broken sentence. Lfstevens (talk) 22:03, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Breaking copyedits into discrete pieces

That's a great idea to split major copy edits into sections. It might be less dramatic, but it's much more collaborative than suddenly launching a new version of the article.Alistair Stevenson (talk) 23:47, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, someone suggested it to me, long ago. Lfstevens (talk) 23:52, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

List of fish of Hawaii

Hello. There was a reference error in one of the edits you made to the page. I have replaced the broken ref tag with {{cn}} and maybe you can go back and put in the right source. If you do, maybe you can check my cleanup of the Blue-Spotted Grouper entry on the same page. Thanks. 24.34.148.49 (talk) 12:41, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the catch. Lfstevens (talk) 13:51, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

No. 4 Commando

Thanks for the copy edit. I am always impressed by the quality of the copy editors guild and embarrassed by my poor efforts. --Jim Sweeney (talk) 09:26, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Glad to help. You do the hard work of research. Copy-editing's the easy part. Lfstevens (talk) 14:34, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Quick one

Nice copyedits on potential applications of carbon nanotubes. Need more of that style of treatment across Wikpedia. Cheers, Donama (talk) 01:11, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement. I need it! Lfstevens (talk) 01:26, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy

Hi,

You tagged BHRT with a copyedit tag a while back ; can you identify what the problems are? I substantially wrote most of it and am therefore a little blind to its faults. I wouldn't mind removing the tag, but only if the problems have been addressed. Thanks, WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 18:39, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

I only got as far as the first sentence. It's

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), also known as bioidentical hormone therapy or natural hormone therapy is a generally ill-defined term that frequently refers to the use of hormones that are molecularly identical to endogenous hormones in hormone replacement therapy, but is also strongly associated with pharmacy compounding, blood or saliva testing, efforts to reach a targeted level of hormones in the body (as established through blood or saliva testing) and exaggerated, unfounded claims of safety and efficacy.

It should be something more like

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is a medical treatment that employs hormones which are molecularly identical to endogenous hormones.

The rest should come in later sentences and/or sections. Since this topic is not a hot one for me, I flagged it hoping that someone else from the Guild of copy editors would pick it up in the next drive. Lfstevens (talk) 00:27, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

But that's kinda the point - it's not a medical treatment; it's not just using identical hormones; it's not even defined. These are issues discussed at length in the body, it's a controversial intervention with no real medical meaning but a lot of marketing baggage and little science. It can't be simply defined as "a medical treatment" because that's plain old hormone replacement therapy. Nearly every single point made by people who promote BHRT has been criticized by the mainstream medical community for being disingenuous. It's not a simply defined or definable term since it has no medical meaning and its actual definition varies according to who is using the term. There's a series of overlapping definitions which combine to include aspects of treatment, but there's no "one definition" that can be used.

Also, is it good practice to tag a whole page for a single sentence? I'm asking out of ignorance, I'm not a member of the CEG or a frequent user of the template. Wouldn't {{copyedit|section}}, {{copyedit|lead}} or {{copyedit|first sentence}} be a better choice?

Do you have any other comments or suggestions about the rest of the article? WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 13:28, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Whatever it is or isn't, it needs to be explained in simple language. I didn't make that attempt because I wasn't that interested. You're welcome to modify or remove the tag as you choose. I was just trying (a little) to help. Another approach is to add the article to the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests page which typically receives prompt attention. Lfstevens (talk) 16:56, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

xxx of Hawaii cats

Hi. Please do not add categories as Category:Crustaceans of Hawaii to higher taxa that are not endemic to Hawaii. These organisms often occur worldwide and adding a Hawaii only cat would not be appropriate as one could not add every corner of the world. Thanks. Lycaon (talk) 10:23, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Not sure that makes sense. If the category were named "xxx endemic to Hawaii" it would, but it isn't. This way if you're trying to learn about Hawaii, the category is helpful to you. Is there another way to easily find the things that live there? Is your principle applied to analogous categories for other geographies? Lfstevens (talk) 16:07, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Haplogroup E1b1a

Thanks for the copyediting of the Haplogroup E1b1a article. Much appreciated. --Brout8 (talk) 12:31, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Copyediting Johns Hopkins University

Terribly sorry, Lfstevens. I had begun my edit on 1/1 and remained signed in. I hadn't noticed your tag. Mea Culpa! Thanks for your hard (and excellent) work. Please continue. Rhetoricus (talk) 22:34, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

No worries. Have a great '11. Lfstevens (talk) 23:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Logarithm

Hi, and many many thanks for your copyediting work on logarithm. Since you put the template there, I put the message here instead of correcting it myself: the {{nowrap}} template does not accept = inside, i.e.,

{{nowrap|a=b}} yields {{{1}}}

Thus, it is necessary to write

{{nowrap begin}}a=b{{nowrap end}} which gives a=b. Jakob.scholbach (talk) 17:05, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the catch. Lfstevens (talk) 23:09, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

copyedit

This is the first time I've encountered your guild's ce template, on logarithm. It seems odd to ask others to not interfere while you make such big changes to an article. Lots of your changes I'd like to just jump in and revert, like removing "In mathematics" at the front, and putting "Innumerate" where it seems incorrect. OK if I do? Dicklyon (talk) 02:17, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I fixed a few things already, like a google docs viewer URL that you added, which I changed to the original pdf's url. Dicklyon (talk) 02:20, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

The template serves mostly to prevent edit conflicts, which waste everyone's time. I'm copyediting (mostly) this piece at the behest of another editor who is trying to elevate it to GA status. If you were to wait until I finish, you might find your time better spent. You might have noticed that the requesting editor uses my talk page to give me feedbac, so that's another approach. Of course, you're welcome to ignore all that and make whatever changes you feel are required. It's a wiki... Lfstevens (talk) 02:50, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

OK, I'll make a few selected edits on sections and try to state out of your way. Thanks for your work. Dicklyon (talk) 02:51, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate your patience. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 02:58, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your copyedit of Grigory Potemkin. Much appreciated. - Jarry1250  20:31, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. Thanks for noticing. Lfstevens (talk) 23:55, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits today at Handel

Thanks for your copy-edit improvements today at Handel. I'm begging you to return to the article periodically as it's hard to keep up with the multitude of schoolboy-type edits that the article attracts. Thanks again.  GFHandel.   22:30, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

All set. Lfstevens (talk) 01:06, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Shapley-Folkman lemma: Copy-editing

Hi Lfstevens! How great it is that you are copy-editing!

I've applauded all of your edits, except a few.

• Per WP:MOS in mathematics (and more generally in mathematics), sentences cannot begin with mathematical symbols. Thus, I'll tweak your sentence beginning with "Conv(Q)".
• Referring to the Shapley-Folkman lemma as Shapley-Folkman is great for American lectures (or textbooks if your name is Gilbert Strang). However, such abbreviations drive many mathematicians insane, and so should be avoided.
• Even Homer nods, with this edit: It's important to discuss the average because the sum alone doesn't give interesting metric results (see Howe; or see Trockel, page 31).

Your fresh eyes are finding many flaws already! Thanks again for your help. (I hope that you see that I'm kept almost all your edits, and emulated a few with new edits of my own. 09:20, 20 January 2011 (UTC))

Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 08:39, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. Appreciate the feedback. Lfstevens (talk) 16:11, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Dear Lfstevens, I completed a major revision of the article, which I hope has moved it closer to credible A/FA candidacy. My familiar eyes skip too much when reading, so I trust that your fresh eyes could find flaws and suggest corrections, once again. (Feel free to pass, of course!) Thanks again for your last copy-editing and now for your consideration. Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 15:05, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

your CE on Svetlana Kuznetsova

hello,

thank you for your copy-edit. Now the article looks much better, and I hope it pass to the GAN. I hope you didn't merge or split paragraphs together or from each other, because the paragraphs should be split chronologically; each paragraph consists tournaments in three months. The first paragraph for example should have tournaments played in the months January, February and March.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 10:09, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I wasn't following that rule. Is it mentioned somewhere? Lfstevens (talk) 15:30, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Santana discography

Hey, thank you for your CE on Santana discography :D!-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 09:02, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! Lfstevens (talk) 16:40, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Crustaceans of Hawaii

I notice you recently (re-)created the category "Crustaceans of Hawaii". This is a poor idea for a category, in my opinion, since all the species you tagged have very wide distributions across the Indo-Pacific, and are therefore already in the category Indo-Pacific crustaceans. Adding a category for every country and territory in which each species can be found results in a cumbersome tide of categories, carrying little extra information. I think the appropriate medium to keep a record of which species occur in a given small area is to produce a list, for instance, of the crustaceans of Hawaii (with appropriate references). --Stemonitis (talk) 08:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

I did it for Hawaii because those islands host many endemic species, and because Hawaii is a popular topic in many other respects. It's quite reasonable to aid its millions of ocean-focused visitors by simplifying access to related information. There are already many x of y categories out there, including half a dozen Crustaceans of .... If you really think it's a bad idea, I suggest taking it up with the powers that be. As time passes, I am editing/creating articles to fill out WP's content on Hawaiian marine life, and will increase the initially limited content in the category. Thanks for noticing. Lfstevens (talk) 16:39, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

I, too, want to make the information as accessible as possible, and I gave a suggestion on how that might be implemented. Your category would be fine if we had articles on several of the Hawaiian endemic crustaceans, but so far, we have none. --Stemonitis (talk) 16:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

CE

hello,

could you check the lead of Miles Davis discography, please? Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 18:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Done. Lfstevens (talk) 01:45, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

see

There is a teensy weensy possibility that WP:OWN is indicated when one editor makes over 40% of all edits on an article, and 28 times as many edits as I have made :). Cheers. Collect (talk) 18:45, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

This guy's weird. Anyway, it is true that I changed the word entrepreneur to magnate. I have put my rationale on the page, because there are few people that reach the distinction of magnate, that is, a person who has a high status and high influence within a certain field, and achieves their wealth therefrom. Entrepreneur is a very general term, and I personally do not like it because anyone who starts a business is arguably an entrepreneur. I certainly agree McMahon is both, but the better-fitting word would be magnate IMO. Collect has also been arguing that there was no consensus for my removal of the political positions section, which is also bogus. I asked you, and I had no one complain but him. And his only reason for complaining is the idea that I did it without his approval. Sorry, I didn't want to drag you into this, but this guy Collect is a serious bully.--Screwball23 talk 19:15, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Kindly redact all of your personal attacks. I made no such attacks on you. And since Lfstevens is the person whose edits you reverted (they were not my edits), I think that trying to attack me does not gain you any points at all. Thank you most kindly. Collect (talk) 19:25, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

You absolutely did make personal attacks on me. You are trying to accuse me of wrongdoing because of the number of edits I make. And you still haven't come up with a logical reason why you are against the material.--Screwball23 talk 19:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

See WP:WQA please (notification that you are indirectly mentioned) Collect (talk) 21:19, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

I had no idea of the depth of this feud. You've both built up a long list of fed-up coeditors. I hope you'll think about that. In the meantime, please leave me out of it. Lfstevens (talk) 22:22, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

"magnate"

Note the discussion ongoing at Linda McMahon where one editor seems bent on "magnate" and removing "novice." Also note my attempt at commenting out personal material on the talk page which I felt was not in any way aimed at improving the article while I was seeking to get the talk page back on track, but which was un-commented out by another editor. Cheers. Collect (talk) 06:52, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Dude, see above. Lfstevens (talk) 15:15, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Note the person (you) who made the edits - if you do not wish to stand behind any of your edits, that is fine, but do not then expect others to respect them either. Cheers. Collect (talk) 16:20, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

We all have better things to do than argue over this. Didn't you get the "castle...sand" reference? Whatever words we write will soon be washed away by someone smarter or dumber than we are. I changed just about every paragraph in those articles. If one of my edits lasts a few days less than the others, I'm not going to let it bug me. I do the best I can, and encourage others to do the same. I encourage you to do the best you can, and spend your hours as fruitfully as you can. Take a deep breath, and go look something up. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 04:53, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

GOCE / Mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter. Participation So far, 79 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 64 have participated. Interest is high due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page, and many new and first-time copy editors have joined us for the drive. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. We have assisted in the promotion of seven articles to Good article status so far this month. Progress report We have already achieved our target of reducing the overall backlog by 10%; however, we have more work to do with the 2009 backlog. We have almost eliminated May 2009 and we only have some 700 articles left from 2009. It is excellent progress, so let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success! Utahraptor resigns The Utahraptor has decided to step down from his position as project coordinator due to real-life issues. Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa and Tea with toast (Talk)

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Tag

I presume the tally on the March copyedit drive is up to date, and that your work on Les Misérables (musical) is now complete. I believe you may have omitted to remove the {{GOCEinuse}} tag from the article. --Ohconfucius 09:17, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I've only begun to work it. I got distracted by some personal stuff, which is still an issue. If want to work it, be my guest.

Lfstevens (talk) 19:39, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

• It's still 'yours'. I don't mean to step on any toes. It's just that I was going through contributors' lists and saw you listing the article as {{completed}} rather than {{working}}, which made me think maybe you had finished. You will note that I only did some work on formatting and linking. Silly me <blushes> – I guess I should have known work was not complete by the fact that such a large article usually needs a lot more edits. --Ohconfucius 02:10, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Nobel Prize controversies

My apologies if we edit conflict on that article - I have just reformatted many of its refs and am running reflinks and citation bot over it (after citation bot edit I'm done). Materialscientist (talk) 23:40, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Done. (I have copy/pasted your ce of Physiology or medicine into my version, thus nothing is lost). Sorry for inconvenience. Materialscientist (talk) 23:45, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Stuff happens. I'll hack the rest of my changes back in. I'd really appreciate it if you could hold off until I'm out of your way. Lfstevens (talk) 23:55, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

I know and am sorry. I've broke my word and got back in with my useless reference fixing in "Physiology or medicine" and now will leave for sure (revert me if it caused edit conflict). Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 23:59, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Palmface :) I thought you were done for a while. Thanks for reverting me and sorry for edit conflicts. Materialscientist (talk) 02:27, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Please go away. Lfstevens (talk) 02:29, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Vent at me as much as you wish, but please check your text editor - it apparently glues words together, not in bare text, but when separated by

Logarithm FAC

Hi, there are two tiny complaints by a reviewer, Randomblue concerning language issues. I think I can leave things as they are (as far as these two things are concerned), but since I'm not a native speaker I thought I ask a professional to be sure. Could you please have a look here and comment (and/or fix)? Thank you, Jakob.scholbach (talk) 16:07, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Made some edits. Good luck! Lfstevens (talk) 17:49, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you with such trivial matters, but since I'm not a native speaker I thought I better check back with someone into the language: FAC reviewer Cryptic C62 complains

"The discrete logarithm is concerned with solving the equation" People can be concerned. Cats can sometimes be concerned. Logarithms are never concerned. They are both laid back and inanimate.

I'm fairly sure this use of "to concern" is fully appropriate. Right or wrong? Thanks. Jakob.scholbach (talk) 20:22, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

I also try to avoid animating the inanimate, but it's not a big crime to do so. Why not go with the shorter, "The discrete logarithm solves the equation" or maybe "aids in solving"? Lfstevens (talk) 17:37, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

International Gendarmerie

Thank you for copy editing of the article International Gendarmerie.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:35, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

My pleasure. Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 07:27, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Willie Nelson

Hi, thanks for the corrections of the copy-edits. I also wanted to ask, why do you think that using as a source an autobiography is not reliable? IMO I think that a autobiography is even more reliable than the research of an author because, definitively the author knows the facts of his life better than anyone that does a research. Anyway the cited books were wrote by other authors and not by Nelson himself. The reason for I do this question is that I just want to know if its really considered unreliable because I want to nominate it to GA.--GDuwenTell me! 02:29, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

I have the greatest respect for Willie. I was thinking about Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons#Using the subject as a self-published source. While the subject has the best information, they may or not be biased. I have 0 issue with the specifics in the article. I was just thinking that it would be better to rely on an uninterested party. Lfstevens (talk) 06:35, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

I understand, but sometimes you know that it's not easy to find reliable sources for specific things. After some research the most complete is Willie Nelson: An Epic Life. I guess that I have now to read again the article and see if it's ready to nominate.--GDuwenTell me! 21:49, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Timeline of the 2011 Egyptian revolution up to the resignation of Mubarak

I just wanted to thank you for copyediting the article. You did a great job. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 08:34, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 19:43, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

"Copyvio"

While fixing up some articles that you haphazardly cleaned up unaware of the style in place on several related pages, I came across this edit. World Lingo is a Misplaced Pages mirror and therefore there was no copyvio there.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 18:33, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the cv catch. I appreciate it if you'd be a bit more specific in your other criticisms. Lfstevens (talk) 18:48, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

You cleaned up Juukou B-Fighter and B-Fighter Kabuto last month and you removed several bullet points from the lists of characters within the articles. These bulleted lists are the norm for other similar articles and I spent a couple of minutes replacing them earlier.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 19:24, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

United Kingdom

Hi, editors have noticed several changes of meaning in the edits you and other GCE editors are currently making to United Kingdom. Is this the correct venue to discuss those, or at some central talk page for the Guild or at the local article? Not clear that such an important article should have meaning changes included in copyediting. Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 10:23, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry for requesting a copy edit and then asking for it to stop but would you mind halting for now in light of some of the concerns that have been raised? Thank you for your work so far. Harrison49 (talk) 12:08, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

2010 Pakistan floods being outdated

Hi. A user removed the tag you added at the top in March. According to that user, "It was added on the assumption that the article needed updating in the weeks after the event. I have removed the tag." You may want to talk to him about it.--EclecticEnnui (talk) 01:49, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

GOCE nomination

On behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors WikiProject, I present to you the following:

The Utahraptor/Contribs would like to nominate you to be a coordinator for the Guild of Copy Editors WikiProject. If you would like to accept this nomination, please add your name to the appropriate nomination page listed at the bottom of this page. Thank you!

--The Utahraptor/_Contribs 22:11, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

A tool for you!

Hi Lfstevens! I see that you are an copyeditor, and thought that you might appreciate some help with finding and eliminating multiple links (or wikification) from the article on which you are working.

I case you're not aware, all you need to do is install the following script:

importScript('User:Ucucha/duplinks.js');

onto Special:MyPage/skin.js, and you'll find a clickable link called "Highlight duplicate links" in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). It can be found both in normal view mode and edit mode. Press on it, and away you go! Have fun! --Sp33dyphil © • © 09:27, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Jivesh Here

Hi. My name is Jivesh and i edit Beyonce-related articles on Misplaced Pages. I don't think we have talked to each other in the past. Well, i need someone to copy-edit one of the articles i wrote and i asked for help on Sandy's page where i was directed to you among other copy-editors (who are busy in RL). If you have time, please copy-edit "Run the World (Girls)". I will wait for a reply (cross my fingers for a positive one). Regards, Jivesh1205 (Talk) 07:29, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Jivesh. Wish I could help but I got very backlogged during last month's backlog reduction drive, and your article is pretty extensive. Kudos for your incredible efforts on BK's behalf. I'd suggest you add your article to the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests page. A bunch of editors watch that page for juicy articles. I'm sure one will be tempted. Lfstevens (talk)

Thanks for those kind words. Are you a fan of Beyonce? Let be for the c/e. It does not matter. Take it one day when you feel your backlog has diminished. For the time being, can you please do me a little favor. A reviewer at the FAC is opposing because he wants all the quotes in the first paragraph here to be transformed into original prose. Please do ti. It is only one paragraph. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 08:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Congrats. You got me to do a section! Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 09:26, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you but it has already been done by User:Journalist. But i really appreciate your help. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 09:39, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Coral reference problem introduced by recent edits

Hello. In your edits in the coral article you introduced a format error for what is now reference 27. I can't figure out how to fix it without interfering with your other edits. Can you make the necessary corrections? Thanks. Wilson44691 (talk) 10:58, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for letting me know. Lfstevens (talk)

My Sincere Wishes For This Festive Season

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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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Distributed operating system‎

Copy editing is one thing, this is another story. I think you removed some very useful information - cutting way too much valuable material. It is good to edit it, not murder it... History2007 (talk) 23:22, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

I hope you will be more specific. While I have found much to excise, I don't want to cut any meat. I'm happy to repair any real damage. Thanks for communicating and HNY. Lfstevens (talk) 01:56, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

As long as you do not delete more, it is ok. I will get to fix that article sometime in 2012. It is one of the better articles in that series, almost free of errors. Alas the Ksudhir fellow who wrote is missing. That was all he wrote. The rest of the series is a rummage sale of errors. I have cleaned up a few, many more need to be done, e.g. supercomputer itself. In any case, thanks for responding to the copyedit request. Cheers. History2007 (talk) 16:45, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi there. Just a quick note to say thank you for the copyedit you did for the ontological argument a few days ago - I wanted you to know that I appreciated it. ItsZippy 21:42, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

My pleasure. Thanks for the acknowledgement. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 23:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Please,, don't destroy the article Conquistador again, You try not wrecking it another time.

This article is developed in the "Background" and "consequence" It actions beginning, development and conclusion, "Who did that", "Who ordered what". Please, should not delete the story, because it will cannot be understood. The "Inquisición" was not the governt of Spain or Portugal. I want to thank your good intentions but I can see that you do not know the story you are playing. This countries were having very pragmatic governts. The goal of these kings, noblemen, richmen...etc were to increase the category of their lineages. The Inquisición was in the service of power and not the other way. Inquisición never ruled countries. People could change their name, lineage, etc, because there was no effective government control. The control was exercised by power groups and misrule resulted in: Civil wars and vendettas, abuse, exploitation, plundering, extermination, slavery, abuse and subjugation of women, envy, rivalry among powerful groups or countries...I apologize if I can be offensive in my post. It is not my intention, because I like that you have read the article and I can see that you have worked hard in the article. I've tried not to romanticize nor seem infantilizing behavior either the Conquistadors. Can you find details of the deads of european settlers or armies by American diseases? The French army could not conquer Hispaniola island by an epidemic that killed white soldiers. Dutch empire cannot be established in Brazil by the same reason. But these peoples are not named "conquistadors" so, they are not included unfortunately. Spain and Portugal and later other countries did not want dead subjects, servants and workers were needed, and African slaves were expensives. Te agradezco mucho el trabajo tan duro que has hecho, y me gusta que hayas leido el articulo. He intentado crear un hilo argumental que muestre a que se debieron las acciones de estas personas. He intentado que quede claro que los conquistadores eran personas de aquella epoca. He intendado que no sea una historia romantica de Conquistadores buenos y civilizados y salvajes malos y depravados. Los pueblos nativos con culturas de la edad de piedra o la edad del bronce, en Asia, africa, o America estaban en desventaja. La conquista del planeta no se debió a 1 persona, el rey Fernando el Catolico no es mas que un rey como los demas, no es más importante que otros. Mi lengua nativa es el español, y estoy estudiando inglés pero tengo muchos errores en inglés. Curritocurrito (talk) 11:18, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. As I noted on the talk page, once you stepped back in, I stepped out. Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 15:22, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Oops!

Hi. It wasn't an "assist" on Shammar actually. I didn't see any inuse banner anywhere and just dived in without looking at the history file. Sorry if I interrupted your work. Best, --Stfg (talk) 10:46, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

No worries. I got a lot of objections to the goce tag, so I stopped using it. Lfstevens (talk) 14:28, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Really? I've never had that yet. Did they say why? --Stfg (talk) 15:02, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Just that some jerk was getting in their way. It may have more to do with me than with the tag ;) Lfstevens (talk) 22:29, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Grace Perry

Your dedication in copy-editing astounds me. It would be sin not to let you know how appreciative I am with your editing job on Grace Perry. You made it a cleaner and meaner article. You make editing seem effortless. WassailPjt48 (talk) 12:45, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

You are most welcome. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 19:58, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Biodiversity of New Caledonia, paleobotany forgotten

Hello, could you to work on this article, please? Biodiversity of New Caledonia. It is a very important archaic species group in Paleobotany and evolution. 85.251.99.49 (talk) 08:02, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Sure. Lfstevens (talk) 20:34, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much

Thank you very much by your unselfish cooperation in Article "Biodiversity of New Caledonia". Muchas gracias por tu colaboración desinteresada en el articulo "Biodiversidad de Nueva Caledonia". 85.251.99.49 (talk) 23:13, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Iraq War in Anbar Province

Major thanks for your help copyediting! I spent five years stationed at Kaneohe Bay and always appreciate a little aloha spirit! :) Palm_Dogg (talk) 18:37, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

I hear that aloha spirit is a powerful force! Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 18:53, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

moved

Copyedit?

Hi Lfstevens, I saw that you do a great deal of copyediting and was wondering if you could copyedit a page that I've been working on? If you have time/are interested, the page is William T. Anderson, I'm hoping to eventually bring it up to featured status. It's a fairly long article (5700 words), but the prose is hopefully in an Ok state at the moment, so hopefully there won't be too much to fix. It's not very urgent, so if you can't get to it for a while that's fine. Thanks! Mark Arsten (talk) 01:10, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Happy to take a crack, but it won't be until May, so continue without me if you like. Lfstevens (talk) 20:28, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

That's fine, I got distracted on another article so I won't be finished with Anderson anytime soon. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 04:01, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

• Alright, good job. I haven't gone line by line yet, but your changes look great at first glance--well worth the wait! Mark Arsten (talk) 19:25, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Cor blimey!

You're doing it again, aren't you. How on earth do you keep going? You thoroughly deserve the above.

Anyway, why I came here right now was to ask whether there's a reason why you sometimes put gaps between the items on your list of completed copyedits, and whether you'd like me to close them when I notice it. Cos your actual article count now is 53, one more than you've listed (at least, it was 5 minutes ago :-) Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 21:29, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the catch. The blank line comes from the editor that I use. After I paste the word count info and delete the extra text, it magically inserts another CR. I delete the blanks every so often. Lfstevens (talk) 22:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Ned Kelly copyedit

Hi Lfstevens, thank-you for your copy edits to the Ned Kelly page as they were certainly needed. I would like to point out though, in your obvious haste, that you BROKE THE PAGE. In the Ned Kelly armour section, you have a syntax error for a conversion. As an expert on the subject, I would also like to point out that you have made a number of errors during your editing. For instance, the in the Jerilderie letter, it you seem to have confused the two letters. In the Aaron Sherrit section, you got rid of the famous bit of the policemen hiding under the bed, and you got rid of "You must be drunk, Anton. You know that it's over that way,'. In another section, you got rid of the very famous act when Curnow convinced Ned to let him go. You also got rid of 'the outlaw howled like a wild beast brought to bay, and swore at the police' Again, very famous. You also got rid of what happened to Martin Cherry, Then you got rid of ' that they must have killed one another'. This is incredible crucial, and the subject of much controversy.. You also got rid of 'After Ned Kelly's capture there was considerable debate over having the armour destroyed,' That is not copy editong, it now starting to become vandalism. Then you made a change which reslted in 'Two stolen circular saws iron tacks were tried'. Circular saws and iron tacks are two different things.Also plough shares and mould boards are two different things. You have certainly made a mess of the page of one of the most well known Australians. Could you please improve the page in response to the errors which I have highlighted. Once that is done, I will then highlight the other numerous errors which you have caused. David.moreno72 (talk) 07:42, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing my changes. I eliminated a lot of material that did not add substance to this massive article. The remarks you note were simply included, with no mention of their notoriety. I am ready to repair any damage I have done! I'll continue this discussion on the article's talk page. Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 15:46, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Lfstevens, Thanks for your revision, it was much appreciated. When it comes it Australian history, being Australian born, I can become a bit over passionate, so don't take any of my attention getters personally.I think the changes that you have made have now restored the essence of the article. What I would like to clarify though is the Jerilderie Letter. I think there needs to be clarification that Ned is famous for two separate letters. The first one was posted to Mr Donald Cameron on 16 Dec 1878. The second, and more famous is the Jerilderie letter, given to Ms Gill on 9 Feb 1879. To make it easier, I suggest that 'Excerpts of the Jerilderie letter given to Ms Gill on 9 Feb 1879' instead of 'Excerpts of the second letter '. Also, when the police arrived at Glenrowan, they travelled in two trains, a pilot train with a policeman strapped to the front, and the main train, which carried the bulk of passengers, so the term 'trains' needs to be used. Also could you put back that Byrne's body was secretly buried by police. Also, could you put pack the heading of Kelly's statement, as now the statement is missing who said it. Also, you state that 'armour section remains confusing'. This is all part of the Kelly legend, where fact and fiction have become intertwined, so the many facets of the story needs to be revealed, even if they contradict. This is probably why the Ned Kelly story is so famous, and is the most written about person in Australian history. This is partly why the article is so long. He killed 3 police, held up two towns and stole from their banks, and then went down in a final siege with homemade armour. When the Kelly gang was in the area, entire towns would shut down in a 'perfect panic'. FYI, I have been to the actual site of the Glenrowan Inn, which is now just a vacant lot. David.moreno72 (talk) 05:00, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

I will continue to correct any flaws that I introduced. If something was missing/wrong before I showed up, I hope you will make the correction. (I'm happy to buff the result, if you like.) But please, take future comments to the article's talk page so that others can participate. Lfstevens (talk) 05:06, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir

Thanks for editing that one - I'd meant to get around to it myself at some point. I did (as part of being a reviewer) do a bit of further copyediting on it. Allens (talk | contribs) 18:28, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. And welcome to the party! Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 18:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Kirkcaldy

Thanks for your help converting references to the harvnb style. What i'm not sure is if references from PDFs (portable document files), newspapers and websites need converting too? All of the references have been converted on the Dundee article and all references are spilt into several sub-sections relating to news, maps and websites etc. Is this what i should be aiming for? Kilnburn (talk) 19:47, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. As I understand, harvs are optional, and not all editors even like them, since they somewhat slow retrieval time. If you think they're helpful, don't hesitate to do the PDFs too. Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 19:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

After looking at the criteria for FA, i decided to remove the harvnb style. I just feel that you need to have a link between the appropriate reference on the notes section and that on the references section to make it worthwhile. It's too time consuming. Anyway, i do need a bit of help addressing the prose, grammar and flow of the article; it is something i can't really do on my own. Kilnburn (talk) 18:52, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for editing St. Louis history

Thank you for your thorough edit of the history of St. Louis article prose and information. You did a great job and I appreciate it. poroubalous (talk) 19:07, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for noticing. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk)

Hi

Could you copyedit Compton-Belkovich Thorium Anomaly for me? --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 19:31, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Sure. Please put a copyedit tag on it for me. Lfstevens (talk)

Done. I guess you're trying for the copyedit May backlog drive. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 19:43, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

COMP128

Please stop removing the banner, it is there for a reason. For example "A8 is used a session key" is not grammatically correct, it should be "A8 is used as a session key". Bomazi (talk) 09:36, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Actually, Bomazi, {{copy edit}} is the wrong tag there, because one can only copy edit material that is intelligible in the first place. The article is a machine or machine-like translation from the German one. The right tag is {{Rough translation}}, which I have placed, and I've requested a translation as instructed on the banner now there.

Lfs, I'm sorry, but you really didn't crack this one, and I think it might be better not to count it. --Stfg (talk) 10:47, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. Lfstevens (talk) 14:45, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Regarding a copy edit

I'd just like to thank you for copy editing "Love the Way You Lie". It's really appreciated. Thanks, —WP:PENGUIN · 15:27, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Cheers!

Expand

You do realize that "expand" no longer exists, right? Ten Pound Hammer • 19:48, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

I do now. Thanks. Lfstevens (talk) 20:06, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Nellikuzhi

Hi, Lfstevens. Routine checks were done on this article as part of the copy edit drive audits, and I found quite a few additional things to do. Some of them are directly related to copy edits, such as punctuation, spelling, and grammatical errors. There was also a lot of over-linking; "Kothamangalam" was linked six times. If you could please keep in mind that it might be years before the next skilled Wikipedian shows up on these articles, that would be great. Thanks again for helping out with the copy edit drive. -- Dianna (talk) 15:07, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. Lfstevens (talk) 15:14, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

A8 (Croatia)

Hi. You booked A8 (Croatia) from the GOCE Requests page on 9th May but appear to have done nothing with it. What are your plans? --Stfg (talk) 15:20, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Got distracted. Thanks for the reminder. Take it if you want, but othewise I'll get to to it today or tomorrow. Lfstevens (talk) 15:22, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

I'll take it, unless someone objects - I'm familiar with the various Croatia articles. Allens (talk | contribs) 16:54, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Cool! Lfstevens (talk) 17:07, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, cool. Thank you both. --Stfg (talk) 17:39, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Invoked your name

Hi, I've submitted a request for semi-protection for the page Conquistador and invoked your name because the edit history as I read it seems to show careful and extensive editing by you with an aggressive response from Curritocurrito, after which you graciously stepped aside. I don't think that I can usefully point directly to the semi-protection request whose heading involves a template; it was the top item at Misplaced Pages:Requests for page protection. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 (talk) 13:15, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Lfstevens (talk) 14:54, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Hijacking this section to tell you that I am questioning your edits here. Regards, --M4gnum0n (talk) 13:35, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 15:41, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Days Gone Bye

This may be a bit late, but thank you so much for copyediting the prose of the article. :) —DAP388 (talk) 20:31, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

My pleasure. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 03:48, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Restored maintenance tags

Hey there, I've gone ahead and restored the unaddressed maintenance tags on the Curtis Moss, Julie Labonté, and Daniel Harper articles. In particular, the article requires copy editing for spelling and wikification for consistency in formatting. Generally, I would go ahead and make the edits myself, but with the initial editor creating numerous articles from a template with typos and formatting that is not in compliance with the Manual of Style for biographies, I'm a bit spent at the moment. Feel free to contact me if you have questions. Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 18:11, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Thomas S. Hinde Copy-editing

Hello Lfstevens,

Thank you so much for copy-editing Thomas S. Hinde. You did an excellent job and I really think the article looks cleaned up and more professional. I was wondering if you have any recommendations about where the article can be improved in the future? Anyways thank you for investing your time and I am sure many people will be able to enjoy the article in the future.

Best Regards, Lawman4312 (talk) 01:52, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Law. Thanks for noticing. I put some suggestions on the talk page. Lfstevens (talk) 03:56, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Paul McCartney FAC

Thanks for all the insightful and helpful edits and comments at Paul McCartney. I think I have resolved most, or maybe all of your comments. Perhaps a little clarification may be needed on your part so I can fully resolve your concerns. In particular, when you say "tour info should be demoted", what exactly do you mean by that? Please clarify. ~ GabeMc 22:31, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Would you please take the time to weigh-in here? We are having a dispute about "number" versus "No." Thanks again for all the fantastic help! I will work on you comments now, and I should have them resolved before I finish editing for the night. ~ GabeMc 01:53, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Great comments and edits. Wow, nice work. Thank you so much, really, you've been a big help. So I'm curious, do you think its FA status now? ~ GabeMc 06:05, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

With this article changing so fast, any opinion on FA is short-lived. I think it needs to be shorter to live up to its potential. 10k is too long... Lfstevens (talk) 08:35, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Have you noticed how much I've demoted? ~ GabeMc 08:38, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

• Please take a look at the recent diffs at McCartney. It would appear that User:andreasegde is starting to undo some of your work. Please help, do we need to file an ANI report asap? ~ GabeMc 09:49, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

I can't keep up with the incredibly rapid changes. If you'd like another pass on it when things settle down some, please readd to the request page.

Actually, after a few minor changes things have settled down quite a bit. I demoted much material to notes as you suggested, thanks for that. The page is quite stable right now, and its much shorter and readable. If you wouldn't mind just taking another run through now, to see if you catch anything, I would appreciate it beyond words! I can't tell you how many hours I have put into this article (500+), but without your help it had no chance, now it has a great chance. It also inpsired me to buy the Chicago MoS and the MLA handbook so as to empower myself and need less assistance at FAC in the future. You've been great, and if Macca gets through FAC it will have been largely for your efforts. Thanks again. ~ GabeMc 04:33, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Your efforts are phenomenal, but the changes just today number in the many dozens. That says "flux" to me. I'm happy to hit it again, but not yet.

Okay, I'll ask in a week. ~ GabeMc 07:52, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Its been a week, and the article is extremely stable right now, save for the talk page nonsense. If you have the time, I would greatly appreciate if you took another look at the article. Thanks again. ~ GabeMc 21:18, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Sgt. Pepper straw poll

There is currently a straw poll taking place here. Your input would be appreciated. ~ GabeMc 05:21, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

There is also a thread on this issue at the McCartney talk page, and we could use some objective advice there. ~ GabeMc 05:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thanks Lfstevens! You assisted in various ways on the Paul McCartney FAC. Your review and copyedit of the article was wonderful! Thank you! Without your help McCartney would not be a FA today! ~ GabeMc 22:13, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Požega Valley

Hi there. Sorry to keep popping up, but just to remind you that you marked the request for Požega Valley as {{Working}} a few days ago but then appear to have moved on to other requests. Anyway, hope you're enjoying the drive. Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 09:04, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Don't stop! It's done now. Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 16:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Pop! :) Thanks, and for all your other work as well. --Stfg (talk) 17:08, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the copyedit and the comments you left on the talk page - I'll try to address those concerns shortly. Would you mind if I dropped you a note asking you to take a look at the additions once that's done?--Tomobe03 (talk) 18:28, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. I'm kind of booked for awhile. Please readd to the requests page when you're ready. Lfstevens (talk) 18:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Elsa García

Hey, could you please come by to the Elsa García article and check how the article have been developed? I think is like a fan view. Is not just the ownership of the article that the author have, but how the article reads at all. Thanks, is just checking and dropping your ideas/concerns about this article. Osplace 23:03, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Sure. I added a couple of comments on the talk page. Lfstevens (talk) 23:17, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, everything looks better, and already read the comments on talk page. You are so kind! And... could you please review this draft? Osplace 02:49, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Took a quick look, and the comments are basically the same. Good luck! Lfstevens (talk) 03:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Osplace 14:35, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

ce on SS-Handschar

Thanks so much! I've left a couple of questions on the talk page and would appreciate your feedback. Regards, Peacemaker67 (talk) 23:10, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

That's it. Cheers and thanks for noticing! Lfstevens (talk) 23:12, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

All I can say is WOW. You did a fantastic job with the task at hand. Thank you so much for the copyedit. :) —DAP388 (talk) 21:33, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Had a couple of other changes. All done now. Thanks for noticing. Lfstevens (talk) 22:05, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

"The/the" request for formal mediation

FYI, I have requested formal mediation here to decide the "The/the" issue, hopefully once and for all. Feel free to add your name there if you so wish. ~ GabeMc 00:16, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

German Peasants' War

Pop!! Dianna has pointed out to me that you're copy editing German Peasants' War, perhaps from the requests page, and that User:Tdslk also edited it, probably from a copyedit tag, which they removed yesterday at around 06:00 UTC. Please would you both touch base to agree how you'd like to proceed? I'd be happy for you both to take credit for the article as a Request, with the 50% bonus, if that's what you agree. Please let me know if any help is required with this. Cheers, Simon. --Stfg (talk) 23:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

I'll check with Tdslk. I'm hard at work. It's very disorganized at the moment and rife with stuff. Lfstevens (talk)

Tdslk's changes are modest. I'll incorporate them. He/she can have the credit. My cup runneth over. Lfstevens (talk) 02:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

It doth, but you're earning it. By all means take credit for it too. Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 09:20, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Battle of Sharon (1918)

Hi thanks very much for your time and effort copyediting this article.

I see that you have changed the citations so that some of the page numbers appears in the article, but the name of the source is in the citation list while others have been left and you have grouped all Falls refs together but not others. I've never seen this before and I don't understand what you have done or why. Can you please undo it? --Rskp (talk) 07:41, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. I reduced the number of refs from ~180 to ~80 with no loss of info and linked them to the refs below. I'm happy to patch the result to fix errors I introduced, but I think this way is shorter/better. That's just me. I left the existing named refs alone. I'm happy if someone wants to merge those also. Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 08:05, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

I still don't understand why you reduced the number of refs in such an arbitrary way. Your personal approach to refs is not required for GAR. I don't need you to 'patch the result to fix errors' whatever that may mean, could you please just revert all your changes to the citations back to the way they were before you started your copyedit? --Rskp (talk) 03:12, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

The reason that I reduced the # of refs is that they contained lots of redundant info and took up a lot of space. I left the already-named refs and those that contained additional info. Why do you want the change undone? Lfstevens (talk) 15:47, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

There is no redundant info in the citations. The reason I want you to undo your changes to the citations is as I've already explained - that your idiosyncratic approach to the refs in this article is not required for a GA - the reason the copyedit was requested. For the third time, please undo your changes to the citations. --Rskp (talk) 03:35, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

I fear we're talking past each other. They may not be required, but they're not forbidden, either and they have benefits which you have not rebutted. Why not open a discussion about this on the talk page and see what the world thinks? Lfstevens (talk) 04:25, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

The benefits you talk about are completely negated by the complexity of the refs as they now stand. It seems you have created this problem, are refusing to fix it and now wish to take up as much time as you can. Thanks but no thanks. --Rskp (talk) 04:53, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

You click the refs as before, and the footnotes now link to the refs. It's unWP like to dictate how things have to be. Chill. Lfstevens (talk) 05:16, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I couldn't agree more, please do not "dictate how things have to be." I suggest you keep your personal style for articles you create, and respect the styles of the editors who work on the articles, you copyedit. --Rskp (talk) 07:30, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

• For your information Misplaced Pages:Citing sources states "If an article already has citations, adopt the method in use or seek consensus on the talk page before changing it." I suggest that, in your future copyedit work, you bear this in mind. --Rskp (talk) 04:20, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

In the process of changing the citations you changed the dates of several from two different publications by the same author. This is a serious error on your part which has now been fixed. In the future I hope you will show respect for the work you are editing. --Rskp (talk) 06:33, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for helping me in my article. HowHigh2 (talk) 21:23, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 03:36, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

GOCE

I was wondering if you could give "The Little Guy" a copy-edit. It is already at GAN (the reviewer has requested a copy-edit) and I only have six days left. Thanks, TBrandley 02:15, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I'll try. Please add to Requests page: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. Lfstevens (talk) 03:35, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Its already there, at the very bottom. Thanks! TBrandley 03:36, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you on your copy edits on Bu Bu Jing Xin and Flashpoint (comics). To express my gratitude, here a link for you to download a copy the soundtrack of The Dark Knight Rises.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 19:52, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

THanks for noticing. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 03:21, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Drama Queen !

Hello, I noticed you left some comments on the Talk page of Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album). (I'd reply there, though I do not know if you are watching that page.) I've looked for total sales of the releases with no luck, is there a certain website that would have this information. And also about the picture.. where? Cheers! -- DivaKnockouts (talk) 14:25, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

I have no idea where to look. I was just saying....Lfstevens (talk) 15:23, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh, ok... And what about the picture? -- DivaKnockouts (talk) 22:33, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Spider-Man

Please don't stop copyediting because I am editing. You are not in the way. I am also curious to see if I clarified what you said should be clarified better. Jhenderson 19:42, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

I'd appreciate it if you'd hold off until I finish (an hour?) I hate messing around with conflicts. Lfstevens (talk) 19:47, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Ok. I didn't realize you were a guild of copy editor at the time. ;) Jhenderson 19:50, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean that I couldn't wait? Those were previous edits before you even told me to not edit. You didn't need to put that in the edit summary.Jhenderson 01:02, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

No harm done. Good luck with the piece. Lfstevens (talk) 01:36, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

You're copyediting's done? Jhenderson 02:20, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think so, says completed on the GOCE page. TBrandley 02:21, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I also checked there too to make sure he said that and sure enough he did. Jhenderson 02:23, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Natural farming

An article that you have been involved in editing, Natural farming, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Nirvana2013 (talk) 06:42, 30 July 2012 (UTC) Nirvana2013 (talk) 06:42, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Huge favor!

I'm sorry to bother you, but if you are willing to do so, could you please give a copyedit to this James Dean sandbox? I originally put most of the content onto the main article, but it was revert, and one editor has some concerns with some bits of the prose. He made some edits in the lead, but I'm not very comfortable with the flow of it. Other than a few careless errors, I don't see any issues with it. If you could take a look at it, it would be very appreciated. :) —DAP388 (talk) 03:51, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

I'll take a look, but it will be a few days. Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 04:07, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Question about references

Hi. I noticed you added reference templates to The Magpie (Monet). While I have no plans on changing your edits, and appreciate the work you did, I'm curious, is this a normal function of the copyediting team? I ask, because I stopped using citation templates last year and find that they get in the way of editing the article. My understanding is that citation templates shouldn't be added if they aren't already in use. Again, I'm not looking for you to remove them, and I'm perfectly happy with the work you did, but I would like some clarification on this for future reference. Viriditas (talk) 03:13, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

I like cites because they're "smarter" than the old way (easier links, more consistent formatting, and someday, I hope indexed/linked across articles). I don't know about any policy about not using them, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. Lfstevens (talk) 04:59, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Reflectance paper

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Thanks for the copyedit

Hi, just wanted to say thanks for the copyedit of Murder of Celine Figard. Paul MacDermott (talk) 14:01, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 15:50, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Dodo

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My unintentional bad. Thanks for pointing it out. Lfstevens (talk) 21:27, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

No worries; sorry for the template; what happened? You undid a bunch of copyedits I had made following the discovery that this was supposed to be written in British English. --John (talk) 22:09, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

I'll stop editing until you're done. No need to step on each other. Lfstevens (talk) 22:15, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

That certainly wasn't my intention, and I am sorry if you took it that way. I just wondered how you managed to undo a bunch of my edits in the process of yours. I think I am just about done now anyway. --John (talk) 08:09, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm done, too. Enjoy! Lfstevens (talk) 15:14, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Pyramid of Neferefre

Hello,

thank you very much for your copyedits! Now the prose reads much smoother than before :). Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 09:19, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 15:14, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Project X

Hello Lfstevens, thank you for copyediting this article. Just a query, i notice you stopped at the release section. Does that mean the lower sections are ok? Darkwarriorblake (talk) 02:21, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Missed a spot. Thanks for pointing it out. Lfstevens (talk) 06:29, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks muchly for your time LFstevens.Darkwarriorblake (talk) 12:05, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on Batman as well :D Darkwarriorblake (talk) 12:55, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Re: John Neulinger

Thank you again for your exceptional work with copyediting. Regarding John Neulinger, you tagged a statement for clarification and I'm wondering how to proceed. The statement follows: "Neulinger envisioned a world where the very concept of a "job" was no longer plausible, where work would be leisure-oriented." Would expanding this statement help clarify? Footnote 3 clarifies part of it, but I think you are asking for clarification about the "leisure-oriented" work part, correct? Viriditas (talk) 00:37, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

The notion of "leisure-oriented work" made no sense to me. I've always seen leisure as work's opposite. Lfstevens (talk)

Well, that's Neulinger's entire thesis. He's defined "leisure-work" as an activity in a post-industrial world where intrinsic reward and perceived freedom is balanced with extrinsic reward and the lack of perceived freedom such that people are self-actualized. In many ways, Neulinger was anticipating the information society and the skills needed by knowledge engineers. If you've worked in IT, then you know that the workplace has been completely redefined and the notion of work has been reinvented, much in the same vein as Neulinger's thesis. In other words, the idea of working 9-5 is no longer relevant for many new technology companies (you come in and get the work done when you can) and the notion of these jobs as "work" is almost a foreign concept since many of these IT workers are doing what they love and enjoy every minute of it. Is this making sense? I will attempt to explain it in detail, but I hope you see what Neulinger was getting at. This is particularly true in terms of management styles. The notion that workers in America should "enjoy" their jobs was pretty much unheard of until 20 years ago. Neulinger was way ahead of the curve. Viriditas (talk) 06:24, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I hope you'll amplify the point in the article, too. I've been wondering what's going to happen to work as computers and robots continue eating jobs. We haven't created net jobs in the US since 2000, except in health care, whose resistance to productivity improvements via IT and real competition can't last forever. Don't know if it will be leisurious or not... Lfstevens (talk) 13:19, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for copy editing Karwar  ! -Rayabhari (talk) 05:26, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 06:10, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

BJJ ranking system copyedit

First, I'd just like to say thank you for taking the time to copyedit the BJJ ranking system page. While the vast majority of the page looks vastly improved, there were a few sentences that I found confusing and where critical words had been removed. For example, "Many students remain blue belts at least 3 years of dedicated training as a blue belt to achieve." confused me, but I admit I know very little about copyediting. I'm trying to take some time to add back the missing info without damaging any of your much appreciated improvements but I certainly wouldn't mind if you might take a second look when I'm done and make sure it adheres to all grammatical standards. At any rate, thanks again. Buddy23Lee (talk) 22:03, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for catching them. I'll take a look when you're ready. Lfstevens (talk) 22:29, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you good sir. I think I've added back the pertinent info but also likely cluttered it up again. I don't know how well those little belt rank sections lend themselves to copy-editing but anything we can do to get them up to snuff without losing too much of the content would be fantastic. Again, thank you for all that you do. Buddy23Lee (talk) 22:03, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

The problem I was trying to fix was that each rank should include what it takes to achieve it, rather than describing what is necessary to achieve the next rank. I didn't change it again. I still prefer my approach. Lfstevens (talk) 22:27, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Yes, that could be problematic given that the belts don't really have many formal requirements and more contain themes that surround each rank, particularly as it relates to earning the next one. Maybe I can move some of that material to the actual ranks in question rather then just referencing them. At any rate, I'll stop troubling you with all this. Thank you for your time sir. Buddy23Lee (talk) 19:47, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Beatles RfC

Hello Lfstevens; this message is to inform you that there is currently a public poll to determine whether to capitalize the definite article ("the") when mentioning the band "THE BEATLES" mid-sentence. As you've previously participated either here, here, or here, your input would be appreciated. Thank you for your time. For the mediators. ~ GabeMc 22:35, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Appreciated your Nigamananda work

Dear friend,

The original name of Nigamananda is 108 Paramahansa Shree Mad Swami Nigamananda Saraswati Deva.

Really your work is appreciated. This article Nigamananda was waiting since long time for perfect person, who could give final touch and finally you did it. Your work remains excellent in wikipedia history.

My best wishes with you always. Dcmpuri (talk) 04:38, 26 September 2012

May this be your final incarnation! Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 07:50, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Brazilian Military Cemetery of Pistoia

Hi Lfstevens, how are you? I saw you helped the page La Madrague (song) I've made, and as I'm not a good English writer, please, I ask again your help.

If you have 5 minutes, I ask you to correct my mistakes in this new page, can you? I put also copy-edit. Thanks a lot for your precious help.

Rex Momo (talk) 12:35, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Done. Enjoy. Lfstevens (talk) 14:17, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot!!! And sorry to have written the name of another User... :-)

Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs

Hello. Back in July you copy edited this article and put a merge tag on it, which I just noticed today. Although I very much appreciate the cleanup, I disagree with the merge proposal and have given my reasoning on the talk page, here. I just wanted to notify you and give you a chance to reply. A. Parrot (talk) 23:18, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

I realize the article has serious defects, and I'd be willing to turn it into a redirect until a proper article on the subject is written. I just don't think Egyptian mythology should be the redirect target. Would it be acceptable to you if it were redirected to Ancient Egyptian religion#Afterlife? A. Parrot (talk) 00:26, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Good idea. Lfstevens (talk) 00:30, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

The Magpie

I wanted to let you know that I've added your name to the heading. Let me know if that is OK, or feel free to remove it. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 23:13, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

No worries...Cheers. Lfstevens (talk) 04:06, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Siege of Constantinople (717–718)

Thanks for the copyedit, well done. Cheers, Constantine ✍ 08:40, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Whoa!

Hi. I think you need to slow down a little and use the preview. Please take a look at this (infobox) and this (References section). --Stfg (talk) 09:43, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Doh! My editor showed extra braces...Lfstevens (talk) 06:32, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

List of songs recorded by Selena

I reverted your additions of subsections since this is a list which needs a proper lead. Best, Jona 19:01, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Jona, that isn't a proper lead, it's a wall of text containing minute detail with no evident structure. Please try to imagine what a reader who doesn't know much about Selena will make of it. A lead is supposed to be a summary. Lfstevens's division into section was a huge improvement. (Addition of a higher-level summary at the top wouldn't be a bad idea, though.) --Stfg (talk) 19:57, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

I suggest reverting your reversions and writing the lead, AJona1992! Lfstevens (talk) 06:33, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Catullus 16

Ping :) --Stfg (talk) 09:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Dius Fidius

Thanks for your efforts at Dius Fidius. I'm sorry to say I was the one who dumped the disastrous copy there when I was trying to edit Jupiter (mythology), a much more highly trafficked article that was full of similar content from a particular editor (it still needs some work). The editor who contributed the material is very erudite, but English is not his first language, and there are longstanding problems with his overly technical and esoteric approach to writing articles on Roman deities. He always insists his meaning is perfectly clear, so I'm glad to know that you might agree with me to the contrary. It's hard to copyedit when you don't know what on earth he's trying to say.

Because this is an area I work in a lot, I've had to spend hours and hours reading the sources just to copyedit his contributions. See also Janus, which is unreadably obscure, and Neptune (mythology). And there are others, unfortunately. So far I've found no mechanism on WP for dealing with good-faith edits that serve only the individual's preoccupations, and don't produce content that's usable for the readers most likely to come to these articles. If you have any procedural suggestions, please leave me a note on my talk page. He hasn't edited in a while, but it isn't unusual for him to take a break and then come back to dump a massive amount of these 'notebook jottings,' as one of my fellow editors called them. Cynwolfe (talk) 12:54, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

I'd say there's strength in numbers. Gather a posse and let the guns blaze. Lfstevens (talk) 16:02, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Voivode of Transylvania

Thank you for starting to edit the above article. Borsoka (talk) 13:26, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

My pleasure. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 18:25, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you again. I am working on it. Have a nice day! Borsoka (talk) 02:56, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

your edit of Eye of the Serpent

Just out of curiosity, not being a native speaker of English: AFAIK in phrases with simple present tense in the if-clause, you use future tense (not present tense) in the main clause? Drow69 (talk) 10:47, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

It depends on the intended meaning. Check out "subjunctive" and "indicative". Lfstevens (talk) 18:24, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Copy-editing Jürgen Ehlers

Many thanks for your helpful copy-editing of Jürgen Ehlers! I'll do some last tweaking on the article and then make it an FAC. Markus Poessel (talk) 12:47, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Good luck with your project. Lfstevens (talk) 18:20, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

GOCE November 2012 drive barnstars

	The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
	For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive, 111 articles for a cumulative grand total of 833,827 words, please accept this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. Thank you for your magnificent contribution. --Stfg (talk) 14:18, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

		The Guild of Copy Editors' Award
		Article Count – 1st Place This Guild of Copy Editors Gold Star Award is awarded to Lfstevens for copy editing the largest number of articles (111) during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on achieving first place in this category. Thank you for your hard work. --Stfg (talk) 14:18, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

		The Guild of Copy Editors' Award
		Word Count – 1st Place This Guild of Copy Editors Gold Star Award is awarded to Lfstevens for copy editing the largest number of words (203,601) during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on achieving first place in this category. Thank you for your hard work. --Stfg (talk) 14:18, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

		The Guild of Copy Editors' Award
		Oldest articles – 1st Place This Guild of Copy Editors Gold Star Award is awarded to Lfstevens for copy editing the largest number (91) of articles from the oldest monthly cleanup categories during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on achieving first place in this category. Thank you for carrying such a large share of this load. --Stfg (talk) 14:18, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of 5k articles edited – 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Lfstevens for copy editing 6 articles of 5000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 14:18, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Longest article – 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Lfstevens for copy editing Booster Gold (8088 words) during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 14:18, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Aaargh! Sorry about the xxx. And I did them in a sandbox and previewed them, too! <sigh> --Stfg (talk) 19:01, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

And all this time I've been thinking you were a bot! Thanks for all your efforts. Another great coordinating success. On to 2013! Lfstevens (talk) 19:26, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Ununseptium

Hey there! Those awards in the previous edition, they... They are worth a lot. Congrats!

Which probably tells me you're a perfect person to ask for a copyedit. I would really love you to do this. Any Wiki-paybacks requested in return will be completed, I promise :)

There are two points which may scare you away, but they aren't as scary as they seem.

• Complicated subject. If you know anything about it, good! If not, even better! There have been some concerns it is not readable for those who are not common with it. A copyedit could solve this problem. If only you could do it!

• Open FAC. Yes, it does sound bad. We... We were stupid maybe. Or too happy about what we have written. We didn't see that coming, the user to have participated in PR (and even first FAC commenters) were happy about it, menthioned little to no prose problems. The lesson has anyway been learned. I swear it's been.

I also checked your contributions: you haven't been involved in active editing of anything during last three days. Can I hope it means you're free?

If you have any questions about anything, article-related or not, I'll be happy to answer them!

Please RSVP!--R8R Gtrs (talk) 20:19, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

I'd love to help, but I have some other things cooking at the moment. Your best bet is to add it to the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests page which typically receives prompt attention. Good luck. Lfstevens (talk) 00:00, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

December Blitz barnstar

		The Modest Barnstar
		Please accept this barnstar for copy editing articles for a grand total of 2914 words during the Guild of Copy Editors December 2012 Blitz. Merry Christmas! --Stfg (talk) 15:51, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Otis Redding

Hello,

do you want to be the co-nom at Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Otis Redding/archive4? Regards.--Tomcat (7) 12:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I'm afraid I need to beg off. I've got a busy time ahead. Lfstevens (talk) 14:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Jo Stafford

Hi, thanks for the copyedit. As the article's disappeared from the requests page I'm guessing you've finished so I'll add it to the GA list. Paul MacDermott (talk) 13:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I've finished. Good luck. Lfstevens (talk) 14:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

GregJackP Boomer! 20:06, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

Thank you for copyediting Infighting in Los Zetas. I liked the work you did on it. Happy editing! ComputerJA (talk) 00:41, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 16:27, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for copyediting the Le Duan, Do Muoi and the History of the COmmunist Party of Vietnam articles for me.. You did a great job, and I'm not just saying that.. I really appreciate it. --TIAYN (talk) 08:42, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. I learned a lot in the process. Good luck with your project. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 17:04, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Jimmy Page

Hi there. I just had a look at your edits in the Jimmy Page article. Good job. Do you want to collaborate and take the article to WP:GAC? Plant's Strider (talk) 15:23, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing, but I'm already over-committed. Good luck! Lfstevens (talk) 17:14, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

GOCE mid-drive newsletter, January 2013

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The X-Files copyedit

Hello, I noticed you recently did a copyedit for The X-Files article. First, thank you for that. Secondly, I noticed some problems arose after the copyedit, which some have been fixed, but there's two more that I think your help is needed given you changed quite a bit of the text in the article, so you might know what happened. The first is a ref error for #17, which says there is no ref named "npr", which there is, it's ref #4. Ref #17 is using the ref name "npr" but it still doesn't work, and I have no idea why. The second problem is in the Accolades section, which has a ref name "awardnoms", but there is no actual citation for it, causing a cite error. Anyway, thought I'd give you a head-ups if you didn't notice those errors. Thanks. Drovethrughosts (talk) 14:50, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. I've really only just gotten started. I'll be sure to fix everything. I was puzzled by npr, to, but I'll find a fix. Lfstevens (talk) 16:21, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

X-Files Copyedit

Just wanted to drop my and express my gratitude for the copyedit! The article looks great. Thanks.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 23:53, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much

Thank you for the copy editing help at Targeted Killing in International Law, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 16:15, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin

Dear Lfstevens, thank you for copyediting the article. Your hard work is of great value. Borsoka (talk) 03:12, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Still working! Lfstevens (talk) 04:48, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Battle of Greece copyedit

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Hi Lfstevens! Your recent extensive copyedit of Battle of Greece was a much needed and much appreciated polish. I went over your edits and I must confess I was impressed with your ability of making difficult sentences simpler. Congratulations on your hard work! Nxavar (talk) 11:21, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 17:24, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Copy edits

Hey there. I'm doing a big sweep of copy edits for the backlog drive today. Your work, as usual, is good. I noticed a few places where you missed commas here and here, but otherwise nothing significant. I had to find something to complain about though; it's my job now. :) Also, the work you did at Battle of Greece was really quite excellent. I noticed your addition of both the {{harvnb}} and {{sfn}} templates there, and was wondering why you opted for a mixture of both. I'm becoming a bigger and bigger fan of {{sfn}}, since it can merge duplicate citations without needing a <ref name="Ref Name"> value in front like {{harvnb}} does. Anyway, keep up the high quality and quantity of copy edits you crank out. Cheers. —Torchiest _edits 20:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi T. Thanks for checking up on me. I was beginning to feel a little lonely this month!

My theory was to employ harvnb only when the ref included additional text beyond just the citation. Sfn is a true gift to editors! However, I'm still jonesing for a true ref database. Someday I hope we won't have to manually include the references section at the bottom, and that sfn will look like: {{sfn|isbn=|p=|some text}} that will produce what the harvnb/cite combo does today.

While I'm wishing, it would be cool for wp to put the refs/notes/see/external stuff on a separate tab automatically, and move cites out of the notes and not require editors to deal with organizing any of that. I don't even know where to mention stuff like this...

Cheers!Lfstevens (talk) 20:59, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I see what you mean now, looking at it more closely. And yes, a more user-friendly display and editing window would be nice. Supposedly interface changes are coming soon, although I don't know if they would impact citation stuff or not. You could probably ask at Misplaced Pages:Village Pump (technical) to find out the status of those changes. —Torchiest _edits 16:25, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

FLC

Thanks for the copy edit. I have nominated Chopra's awards and nominations list for FLC. Please, feel free to review it. Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Priyanka Chopra/archive2. Thank You.Prashant  ✉  12:12, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Good luck! Lfstevens (talk) 15:55, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Re: Glassheart

Many thanks for you work on the Glassheart album page. — Lil_℧niquℇ №1 18:03, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 18:04, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Music for a Time of War

Lfstevens, I have seen some of your recent work. Thank you for your quality contributions to Misplaced Pages. On the off chance you are interested and have the time, I am seeking a copy edit for an article I am currently working on, Music for a Time of War. Any assistance would be appreciated, otherwise, keep up the great work! --Another Believer _(Talk) 04:31, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Enjoy. Lfstevens (talk) 03:04, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your time and assistance. Much appreciated! --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:56, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

(Oh, by the way, I requested a review at the Guild, so be sure to update your tally accordingly! Thanks again.) Should I add the Guild template to the article's talk page, or do reviewers typically take care of the template and removing the request?--Another Believer _(Talk) 15:57, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Took care of the Request page. See ya! Lfstevens (talk) 16:16, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Chopra FLC

Hi, I have nominated Chopra's awards and nominations list for FLC. Please, feel free to represent your though on it. The list was successfully reviewed for one month and have improved a lot. I'll be grateful if you can represent your suggestions here...Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Priyanka Chopra/archive2 as fast as you can. Thank You.Prashant  ✉  10:53, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	How lucky for Misplaced Pages to have such talent! Gandydancer (talk) 17:37, 5 February 2013 (UTC)