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I disagree, naturally, but neither here nor my talk page is where content should be discussed. I'm interested in you detailing how you found fault with the new source and why the old source should eclipse the new one. I look forward the points you have to make when they appear on the EC talk page. The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous ( talk) 01:55, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
(Iaaaasi and the Stubes things again)
Please do not delete legitimate talk page comments, as you did at [[Talk:John Hunyadi]. Such edits are disruptive and appear to be vandalism. Thank you. ( Iaaasi ( talk) 11:38, 16 February 2011 (UTC))
Thanks for the response and the offer. Wondering if you had any luck or a chance to check. Thanks again.
Sincerely North8000 ( talk) 22:44, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
The article Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya contributions to Indian railways is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya contributions to Indian railways until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Travelbird ( talk) 07:22, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
However, please note that the contributions in Railway, whole section is taken from the Book : Nanji Bapa ni Nondh-pothi, which was published in 1999 from Baroda. This Book was given award by Kutch Shakti at Mumbai in 2000. The other books from which mainly Railway contribtions are taken are : Kutch Tari Asmita & Ratna Bhagat ni Chopdi. Names of all these Books, you will find in Reference section of original page. Further, I would request you to add back the names of Railways companies for which they have worked, whole para has been deleted by you. May be becasue there were many red links. I was doing a research and was going to create the pages of Railway Companies, names of which, now everyone has forgotton. Thanks. Jethwarp ( talk) 09:58, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive
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Greetings, of the cats I removed:
I totally agree that the most specific cats should be applied, but only when they immediately apply to the article. I do note someone removed the cat "Gurjar", which, by the name of the group, would seem to be applicable. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 05:33, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I've noticed that you used your review rights to reject my edit: [1]. You restored IP 84.2.98.93's version that contains obvious vandalism (unexplained deletion of an image & referenced text) and personal attacks against me. Can you please give me a valid reason for this action? ( Iaaasi ( talk) 14:29, 23 January 2011 (UTC))
Hi Chaosdruid, I've left a reply to your message on my talk page -- Marek. 69 talk 15:47, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
The number of 5000-K articles you copy edited for the drive is incorrect. For extra-large articles, you get credit for one 5000-K article for each 5000k of content. In other words, the epic Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya is worth six 5000-K articles. You therefore have 16 5000-K Articles, and win the Gold Leader Board Award! Congratulations! -- Diannaa ( Talk) 01:15, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
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That status bar is cool. How'd you get that?-- The Master of Mayhem ( talk) 21:03, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Yes, at the top. I saw it on the top of your 'page as well.-- The Master of Mayhem ( talk) 21:09, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, but would you mind giving me a hand with the status bar? You're in charge, 'cos I made a pig's ear of it. I hope that's fine with you.-- The Master of Mayhem ( talk) 22:06, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
OK, that's fine.-- The Master of Mayhem ( talk) 22:31, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Are you on about the "Status:Online" thing or whatever it says. That's what I'm looking for.-- The Master of Mayhem ( talk) 23:01, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
What happened here? -- Closedmouth ( talk) 08:40, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
It's nearly done. How do I change "Unknown" into "Online"? It's bugging me. And as for the tabs... -- The Master of Mayhem ( talk) 09:12, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
I added a bit to the second code, and it was a success. Thank you.-- The Master of Mayhem ( talk) 09:19, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive
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For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 Backlog elimination drive, copy editing articles with a total of 157,462 words, I hereby induct Chaosdruid into the exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star – SMasters ( talk) 07:34, 6 February 2011 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award–5K Articles–First Place It is with great pleasure that I bestow on Chaosdruid the prestigious Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Award, for completing the largest number of 5K articles (16) – 1st Place – during the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for your contributions. – SMasters ( talk) 07:34, 6 February 2011 (UTC) |
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This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Chaosdruid for copy editing an impressive 157,462 words during the WP:GOCE January 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your efforts. – SMasters ( talk) 07:34, 6 February 2011 (UTC) |
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This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Chaosdruid for copy editing 57 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your efforts. – SMasters ( talk) 07:34, 6 February 2011 (UTC) |
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Chaosdruid:
I think there's been a misunderstanding. I took special care to preserve your edits, since they were all prescient. The previous editor, however, had deleted far too much, and too suddenly (rather than in increments). His intention was obviously good, but it was too much to do without consensus, or even a simple suggestion. I merely restored deleted material which was already there.
Let me emphasize that I surgically re-inserted your edits while preparing mine, and that many of his were kept as well. Because what I restored had been there for over a year (at least), and because readers were probably accustomed to that approximate layout, we should perhaps put the article back to that last version of mine (with your edits), and I would strongly support you in any further typo and redlink fixes you'd make. I'd probabably be amenable to deleting some of the more flowery language, as well, but ask only that you ask me, if you'd like to delete entire paragraphs or sections.
Let me know what you think.
All the best, Sherlock4000 ( talk) 21:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Chaosdruid, as I've written in the talk page of Argentina, I'm at pains to explain that no part of the article was wiped out, deleted, nuked, or otherwise. I believe it's only logical to continue the expansion of, say, the culture section in the Culture of Argentina article while reducing the section itself, to keep the main article from ballooning in size (which it did, time and time again).--LK 21:18, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Chaosdruid:
You certainly know how to talk to people. You've convinced me that the article is in good hands, and I will defer to you in general. I ask only that you ank LK keep cuts to a reasonable minimum, and that you at least consider my version of the economy and its history (I'll add it to the talk page).
You mentioned Perón and Argentina's fall from grace. The damage in the country's reputation owed far less to his welcoming Nazis (a policy started shared by the U.S. in Operation Paperclip, as well as the U.S.S.R.) , as it did to his nationalizing the country's cereal export business. You see, the move cost leading landowners millions, and they retaliated by both squirreling money in Uruguay (they still do), and by turning Washington and London policymakers against Argentina (shortsightedly hoping this would lead to his overthrow).
The name of the agency he created to monopolize grain exports? You guessed it...IAPI.
Considering what you mentioned, perhaps the poster was à propos after all.
Thanks again for your time and trouble.
Sherlock4000 ( talk) 23:48, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
You can find out more about this tool on Wikipedia:DYKCHECK. It's mostly used to check whether an article has been expanded five-fold in a given number of days, which is a requirement for WP:DYK eligibility. On the other hand, it can also be used as a simple word counter.-- LK 23:30, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks so much... -- '''Attilios''' ( talk) 18:21, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
For copyediting The Lightning Thief, you receive this barnstar! -- Perseus 8235 15:43, 13 February 2011 (UTC) |
Hi, you say that the reflist is not necessary on the Argentine page but it is throwing errors to the maintenance lists. Please can you include it or take the project to your sandbox. Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 15:27, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Actually I simply didn't notice that you were around, you should have dropped me a message. Anyway, any step taken to reduce the article's size to a more acceptable level is extremely welcome from my point of view. Though I still think that it's the culture section the one with the most fat to cut. If Sherlock also agrees with your changes, I'd say it can be moved to mainspace immediately.-- LK ( talk) 19:06, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
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The Children's Literature Barnstar | |
For copyediting the Heroes of Olympus. Happy editing! Perseus 8235 17:04, 15 February 2011 (UTC) |
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The Writer's Barnstar | |
Thanks for copyediting Leo Valdez! Perseus 8235 17:05, 15 February 2011 (UTC) |
When you're creating a separate "work page" to keep proposed changes to an article out of the way, you should actually do that in a sandbox page rather than in articlespace. So I just wanted to let you know that I've moved your page to User:Chaosdruid/Argentina/Changes instead; it needs to remain in your own userspace until you're ready to copy and paste the finished text back into the real article. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 23:56, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments. On the intervention/invasion issue, I don't have any opinion one way or the other (I even don't remember if I did at one time). Basically, I'll let others haggle this one out. Cheers. -- Taivo ( talk) 05:54, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Chaosdruid, I did some work on the culture section of Argentina and I think I managed to reduce it to an acceptable length without removing anything important. You can see the results here, please let me know what you think of it.-- LK ( talk) 13:47, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
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The DYK project ( nominate) 18:05, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Well To be fair, they are not going to be deleted. Merge to list is the popular vote, ignoring the requirements of an article... where they will sit unreferenced for eternity. I actually have no idea how to do a mass AFD at present, perhaps you could do that as a favour? RAIN*the*ONE BAM 16:36, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks alot for telling me this, I have to articles which are waiting for a copyedit (but I haven't posted them seeing that I don't want to "strangle" the GCE!) Anyhow, thanks for letting me know; I might take you up on that pestering part! ;p -- TIAYN ( talk) 22:50, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Greetings! I edit (and find and provide photos) for the biographies of musicians, almost exclusively. However, in my searches on photographer's websites, occasionally something will just stand out, and I gain permissions for those photos as well, asking the photographers to give up their copyright, in exchange for a Creative Commons license. William Cho's work is so exceptional that I secured permission from him for a variety of photos, including the bridge above, and several others- which-- I think all were uploaded to Commons in a Category : Buildings in Singapore. He's a great person, and I really think you should contact him.. I have his email address. If he has more photos for the articles you mentioned, I'm sure he'll be happy to provide them. I myself recognize great photography but have limited myself mostly, to the 900 photos or so I uploaded and placed on the biography articles- mainly in en.Wikipedia but some other language versions too. Let me know if I can be of help. -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 05:46, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks a lot. Can you explain further the procedure regarding legal threats. I haven't added any incorrect information on the page. Most of the things that are on the article right now were already there when I started editing it. I just tried to remove the unencyclopedic and unsourced material per WP:BLP. That person who is claiming to be Aryan Vaid is using random IP addresses. I think a semi-protection of the page will be helpful. Regards --- Managerarc talk 09:33, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Chaosdruid, the article about Uruguay has seen a large number of edits over the last couple of days (I happen to be responsible for most of them), virtually no section was left untouched. I don't see this article becoming a FA any time soon, but I'm mostly satisfied with the current revision, though so far the only comments have been from an anonymous user who finds the lexical similarity between Uruguay and "urgay" hilarious enough to justify the blanking of the article (I don't blame him, I blame this guy here). In any case, after this drastic alteration the article could use the attention of an experienced copy editor for a very quick, very informal review. Can you think of one? ;)-- LK ( talk) 22:52, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
I've always known my Grammar is less than perfect, but I try my best (Which is usually not too good). The part about Holly can be removed. She was with this guy who nearly killed his child, Holly went missing for weeks and they did a big missing person SL. Jake was a suspect, if Loretta's child killer thing had gone ahead, she would have been in the frame too. So I guess it isn't relevant. RAIN*the*ONE BAM 20:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Sadly I couldn't find any barnstar fitting your description, you'll have to settle for this.
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The Uruguay Barnstar of National Merit | |
For copyediting the main article of this WikiProject, the 6825 words-long Uruguay! I think you drink way too much coffee by the way. Which happens to be mostly a product of South America. A mere coincidence? |
-- LK ( talk) 00:32, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the moral support! -- Nconwaymicelli ( talk) 5:35, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Chaosdruid!
I saw you've been continuing the work on the home page even before I was able to get to it (especially with all those nice tabs) I wanted to thank you! They look great and I think we're going to end up with a lot more organized set up which is important now that we've cluttered up that talk page with reams of text :) I'm thinking we may want to throw tabs on the talk page as well (or a menu?) since so many people are checking back there now for easy navigation. I'm going to think if I can come up with anything else but don't wait for me! keep being bold! Jalexander--WMF 22:11, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
I actually reworded it because it was sort of a grammar confusion - a couple people mentioned that they weren't sure whether it was meant to be singular possessive or plural, so I reworded it to just skip the issue altogether. :) Feel free to revert me, I'm not emotionally wrapped up in it. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 04:04, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for doing great work getting the project pages organized. I guess we'll have to see how this evolves before we know what works and doesn't. We'll have to get the admins on the project to watch that new page. Best, The Interior (Talk) 05:49, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
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Can an admin please tell me where this should go, or deal with the request directly? Thanks
Hi
I need an admin, or experienced user, to review. I am trying to keep the page and talk page NPOV and need to know if I was correct in my actions.
The page John_Hunyadi and the section dealing with the disputes are Talk:John_Hunyadi#H._Munro_Chadwick and where I made my declaration of NPOV Talk:John_Hunyadi#H._Munro_Chadwick (near the end of the section).
In particular the 2RR statement as well as wanting to make sure I have not acted incorrectly in reverting.
Chaosdruid ( talk) 22:13, 1 March 2011 (UTC)