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WikiProject Wikfiy's April Drive

Hi there! I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify's April Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. We'll be trying to reduce the backlog to 18,000 articles and we need your help! Hard-working participants in the drive will receive awards for their contributions! If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends. Thanks! Note: The drive started April 1, but you can still join!

My recent warning, apologies

The Bugle: Issue LXIII, May 2011

Your Military History Newsletter Project News: From the editors – Contest results, A-class medal recipients Articles: The month's featured and A-class Milhist content Editorial: Hawkeye's thoughts on the article writing process

WP:Edit summaries

I agree with this edit, but we should use only policy based language, such as "not yet notable" or "no article yet" in edit summaries. --Lexein (talk) 02:59, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

I must disagree. "Significance", or "why the subject is important", is used in policy; it is different than notability because it represents a standard lower than notability. See WP:A7. Guoguo12 (Talk)  18:39, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Two quick questions

Hi there, I am currently taking part in your wikify June drive, also my first. I have been looking at the edits by some of the other editors, particularly those scaling the top of the leader board as it is, to see if i can find ways to speed up my own wikifying technique. My questions are in relation to some edit's i have spotted. Take this article for example Morrissey Hearing by current board leader User:Kerowyn. The article is relatively small but could have been improved further rather than adding a bullet point next to the reference and counting it as wikified. For a start there could have been more wikilinks added such as "testify" and "custody", as an example. Please do not misunderstand as i am not trying to point a finger, but simply find out for myself if simple motions such as this count as wikifying an article. If this is so, it may help my own ranking on the leaderboard. Another question i would like to ask is on articles containing only 1 or 2 sentences is it allowed to just link 2 or 3 words and count it as wikified if it is not eligible for an infobox etc? This also seems to be quite a popular way of wikifying. Thanks for your help.
Bailo26 23:57, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for pointing out the edits by Kerowyn (talk · contribs). I'll remind the editor to be more careful in wikifying, look over (or someone will) the users edits, and possibly disqualify any not fully wikified articles until they are fully wikified. As for the second question, on "articles containing only 1 or 2 sentences", yes adding just two or three links is okay as long as it is thorough—if it can be linked, it should be, bearing in mind the exceptions at WP:OVERLINK. Guoguo12 (Talk)  02:13, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

After scanning through the user's log, I found that most of the articles completed were appropriately wikified. Morrissey Hearing is okay—words like "testify" and "custody" are nearly plain English words, which should not be wikified per WP:OVERLINK. If the user had linked "testify" and "custody", that would have been okay as well. Guoguo12 (Talk)  15:30, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

The only issue I found with the user's work, and Guoguo, you might want to mention this, is the failure to link the definition of the article. In other words, what was the Morrissey Hearing? It was a "legal proceeding". That should have been linked, if nothing else. As a general rule, x should always be linked in the format "(Article title) is an x", or "(Article title), born DOB, was an x". Those should always be linked, and I noticed that Kerowyn didn't always do that. Nolelover 15:39, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah, okay Nolelover, good point. I've notified the user about the stuff before but do go ahead and add the definition stuff, too. Guoguo12 (Talk)  15:41, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

 Done, and thanks for bringing this to our attention Bailo. Nolelover 15:52, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I just read your message and clearly you're better at this than I am. It took me a long time to come up with words that didn't sound too harsh. But I forgot to use a smiley . Guoguo12 (Talk)  15:56, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Heh, I've got some RL experience in that sort of thing, and yes, smileys make even the worst criticism bearable. ;) Nolelover 15:59, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi all! Thanks for the help. It's good to know what I've been doing wrong. It happens not infrequently that all that is left to do is remove the wikify tag, especially if the article is a stub to begin with. The solar eclipse articles were almost all like that. Kerowyn 17:59, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Altered speedy deletion rationale: Automatic build and deployment documentum dar composer

Hello Guoguo12. I am just letting you know that I deleted Automatic build and deployment documentum dar composer, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, under a different criterion from the one you provided, which doesn't fit the page in question. Thank you. —DoRD (talk) 02:58, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Back for more? I originally tagged the page for deletion under A1, which you deleted the page under. However, you'll find that A1 "applies only to very short articles". I'd say no content (A3) is more like it. The page very clearly had not content on it—only coding of some sort which I did not attempt to identify. I also threw in G1, "patent nonsense", for good measure. It looked like "incoherent text or gibberish" to me—both, for that matter. But anyway, there's always WP:SNOW and WP:NOT, right? Guoguo12 (Talk)  03:07, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

No, it wasn't "very short", so perhaps my rationale didn't exactly fit, either. It was XML code for something I wasn't able to identify, so it wasn't nonsense, per se. In any case, if the author disagrees, they are welcome to appeal it. Cheers —DoRD (talk) 03:16, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

WP:Milestones

Your analysis was spot on. I apologise for any inconvenience, it should be fixed now. I really should have given the script a once-over after your last message... sigh. Ah well. Thanks also to Bdk for fixing. - Jarry1250  12:45, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Jarry1250. In any case, if it wasn't for your bot, the page would be completely devoid of interesting or useful information. Guoguo12 (Talk)  14:50, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

#2

Just saw it on my watchlist. Good luck! Nolelover 15:24, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

What? Really? You're actually watching that page? I didn't even transclude it correctly! But anyway, thanks! Guoguo12 (Talk)  15:29, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

(I watch User:X!/Tally) Good luck. --The Σ _contribs 21:03, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Thank you. Guoguo12 (Talk)  00:34, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Actually, don't hold your breaths, guys. I'll be too busy to start the RfA until tomorrow. Guoguo12 (Talk)  22:49, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

*Releases breath, passes out* Hurry up! :D But in all seriousness, do make sure that you have plenty of time to devote to this - RfA is not a good week to be on WP for a minimal amount of time. And yes, I was actually watching the page. Added it a few weeks ago - wanted to know as soon as anything happened. :) Nolelover 23:05, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

 Done, see WP:RFA. Guoguo12 (Talk)  22:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Your RFA

Good luck with your RFA. I know you'd do well with the mop. –BuickCenturyDriver 23:50, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Guoguo12 (Talk)  23:51, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

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