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14:58, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your edits to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and, equally importantly, your discussion on the talk page. I have read your user page and am impressed with your willingness to help out (I gather your primary interest is football). I hope that my questions and comments are constructive. And I fully support the principle of eliminating game cruft and you can seek my support if anyone protests. Feel free to respond on this page. I support your goal of getting the article featured by Christmas.
Vyeh ( talk) 21:46, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
We're still legitimately Start class until we have gone through sources and made sure there is on OR in article. I believe content will be good once the material in the sources we know about have been integrated. And organization is good, although there are a couple of single subsections (Critical Reaction and Inspirations we should look at). And I think we need to shift Gameplay from a recital of game mechanics, but I think that will happen as we go through the sources. From C to B, we will have to get feedback on what content should be added and then hunt for sources (which might not mention Alpha Centauri but might be about Sid Meier, Brian Reynolds, Firaxis from the same time period). In addition, there is a massive amount of clean-up that we will need to do (but there is no point in doing clean-up until we know what material will remain. I think the two biggest things right now is going through sources, which will be slow and overhaul of the Gameplay section, which we should discuss. In my opinion, we should be using Civilization (series) and Civilization II as baseline. I like the approach in the second paragraph under Critical reaction and would like to look at those sources for specific comparisons between SMAC and Civ II. Of the existing content, I'd axe the Datalinks, Terrain, Bases, Society entirely. I'd focus Units and Combat on Psionic Combat. I like Native Life although we might consider moving parts of it to Storyline and merging the rest into the preceding section to get a new section "Native Life and Psionic Combat." The Diplomacy section should contrast with Civilization and needs tightening. Social Engineering is distinctive from Civilization and should be addressed from that viewpoint (as I said, we need to go through sources). And I think Victory Condition should highlight the difference in Victory Conditions from Civilization II. Vyeh ( talk) 14:50, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
The patch paragraph n has been removed (not just moved) for failure to have a secondary source. I believe the last cite is a secondary source and I would appreciate your opinion on the matter. Vyeh ( talk) 18:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can muster to get it down to a manageable number. We've ambitiously set a goal of clearing all of 2008 from the backlog this month. In order to do that, we're going to need more participants. Is there anyone that you can invite or ask to participate with you? If so, we're offering an award to the person who brings in the most referrals. Just notify ɳorɑfʈ Talk! or Diannaa TALK of who your referrals are. Once again, thanks for your support! Diannaa TALK 20:53, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to take a moment and announce that the July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive has started, and will run for a month. Thanks for signing up. There's a special prize for most edits on the first day, in case you've got high ambitions. Enjoy! ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:13, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Welcome back! Can you look at the Development section in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. In particular, could you look at the Inspirations subsection and the last 4 paragraphs of the Development section before the Inspirations section. And the Legacy section will need work (not sure what at this point). Note Guyinblack25's July 1 comment on my talk page. Leave the citations in the lead for now. If there is something you really want back in Gameplay, give it a try (I will add to Gameplay as I go through sources). Go ahead and combine 1-2 sentence paragraphs. Anyway, Guyinblack25 says we may be able to reach Good article and you deserve a lot of the credit! Vyeh ( talk) 11:23, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now passed the halfway point, so here's an update. Progress Report - Progress toward the targets has been good. 751 articles out of the approximately 1,600 we would like to get completed by the end of the month were done by July 15, so we will be very close to meeting the target for volume. However, we would like to clear all of the 2008 articles from the backlog, and there are still 892 left to do. Please consider choosing one of these older articles when looking for something to copy edit. If we focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue. Participation Report - 95 people signed up for the July drive. This is a great result compared to May, when we had 36. However, in May only one person that signed up didn't do any copy edits, and in July only 59 of the 95 have posted any copy edits on the big board. The task may seem insurmountable but please remember that if all 95 participants copy edit just one article a day from now until the end of the month, we will eliminate 1,300 more articles from the backlog. So please consider participating at whatever level you can! All contributions are appreciated. This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa ( Talk), S Masters ( talk), and The Raptor Let's talk. |
The Clean-up Barnstar | ||
This Clean-up barnstar is awarded to Nolelover for copy editing articles totalling 12,216 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 backlog drive. Your contributions are appreciated!-- Diannaa ( Talk) 17:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC) |
Greetings from the
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July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including
Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody!
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I think you're misunderstanding. This has nothing to do with Poptropica; it's a madeup fan game. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 20:13, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Since you signed up for the September 2010 GOCE event, I wanted to invite you to participate in a similar event: the September 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. In case you didn't know, "Wikification" is the process of formatting articles using Wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and adding internal links to material. Barnstars will be awarded to participating editors. Thanks!
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I think you were too hasty to label this as a hoax (although it was certainly unreferenced). The original contributor has been around for years, and a few minutes with Google Books allowed me to find references establishing the existence of this person. Kenilworth Terrace ( talk) 16:37, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
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== GOCE drive has begun ==
Hello, I just wanted to take a moment and announce that the September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive has started, and will run for a month. Thanks for signing up. There's a special prize for most edits on the first day, in case you've got high ambitions. -- Diannaa ( Talk) 02:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC) |
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Hello, I just wanted to take a moment and announce that the September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive has started, and will run for a month. Thanks for signing up. There's a special prize for most edits on the first day, in case you've got high ambitions. -- Diannaa ( Talk) 02:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC) |
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The Hidden Page Barnstar | ||
I award you one for finding Trekphiler's page. Aren't you glad you answered the phone? TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura 20:34, 1 September 2010 (UTC) |
I was looking over AfDs that needed closing, and some of the comments I saw you made were not particularly beneficial to determining consensus at times. Not that they were necessarily bad comments, just that they didn't really make much of a difference in finding consensus or really affect the discussion, which AfD is. Some examples include "per nom", harshness doesn't matter; notability does, sort of failing one a notability guideline and definitely another?, several opinions without any particular reason, more per above, except per almost all of the above, which means, uh, what?, per someone, what you say doesn't matter unless it's policy-based, time doesn't matter that much, notability does, why does your gut say that, and why is it weak?, random useless comment, if it needs better references, maybe it should go or maybe not; why do you think it should stay?, reason is notability; if there are a few more sources to add, you can add them to prove notability, looking bad is not a valid deletion rationale.
I strongly, strongly advise you to read this page, as your comments just don't really mean much to the closing admin in the end. When an admin looks to close the discussion, he or she examines what consensus has formed, but that doesn't mean it's a vote. Many AfDs have been closed as delete when there were many more comments in favor of keeping. It's all about the reasoning and basis on policy, and your individual opinion, not "per that guy" or "seems OK".
Please take this advice into consideration when next participating in AfD discussions. — fetch · comms 01:49, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Please take Fetchcomms' advice to heart. Your input is not well-grounded in Wikipedia's policies and guidelines and will likely be discounted by the closing admin. What matters is Wikipedia:Notability, Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, not the passage of time, or whether the article looks good or bad. Many AfDs have been closed against the majority opinion because the majority did not base their arguments on Wikipedia's policies or guidelines:
In Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, the closing admin discounted all the non-policy based keep arguments. Because none of those supporting retention provided sources to establish notability, the article was deleted despite the fact that 7 editors supported retention and only 5 supported deletion. In Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Death of Gerry Ryan, the debate was closed as "keep", despite the fact that 9 supported deletion and only 2 supported retention. This closure was endorsed at DRV because the consensus at the DRV was that those supporting deletion had weak, worthless arguments that weren't policy-based.
Keep in mind that AfD is not a vote. Before participating in another AfD, consider whether you are providing valued input or whether your argument is something that the closing admin will discount. Cunard ( talk) 06:48, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Your edit here made me laugh. Whether or not the horse is dead it is not exactly a "person"! Oreo Priest talk 07:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
Reason: You said you wanted a trout. So here. I also thought the edit you made was funny. Joe Gazz84 user• talk• contribs• Editor Review 23:42, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
Backlog Elimination Drive!
Participation report — We have 71 participants in the September drive. 95 people signed up for the July drive, and in May we had 36. Progress report — We have been making solid progress in eliminating the 2008 articles from the backlog so far. If we continue to focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue. Overall volumes are lower than expected though, with nearly a thousand articles yet to be done if we are to meet our overall target. If you have not yet participated in the drive, we recommend you do so. If each person who signed up edits one article per day from now till the end of the month we can eliminate another 1,065 articles from the backlog. All contributions are appreciated. Announcement: credit for 10k+ articles — Participants editing a 10k word article may claim credit for two 5k+ articles on the leaderboard. Those that edit a 15k word article may claim credit for three. Regardless, the article is still counted as a single article in the tallies. Reminder — Articles from the Requests page can be included in your tally, even if they do not have a copy edit tag. This is a great place to go if you are interested in finding a higher quality article to work on. This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa ( Talk), S Masters ( talk), HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK, and The Raptor Let's talk. |
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I hereby award Nolelover the Barnstar eaten by a bear award for performing " the worlds most tedious edit". Your work (and humorous edit summary) are appreciated. → Wordbuilder ( talk) 19:30, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
LOL, and thanks! Re-typing every single access date was awful. Just out of curiosity (and because I'm making an FSU version), how long did it take you to write all that? Nole lover 20:03, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
It took hours. Maybe there is a better method, but what I did was copied and pasted the info from the source (that was the easy part) and then manually typed in the links and the formatting for the tables (I think I got carpal tunnel syndrome). If you start putting something together, let me know and I'll stop by and lend a hand. → Wordbuilder ( talk) 16:04, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
That would be great. I've started in my sandbox. I'll take all the help I can get - I'm gonna try getting an article for every year and fixing the others up. I just ask that you don't move it to mainspace though. ;) Nole lover 17:38, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
— fetch · comms 03:22, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Nolelover (cool name), I wished to thank you for the support vote in my RfA. Your comment resounds (when you wrote "looks trustworthy"). Will hope and work well to better that :) Sincerely. Wifione ....... Leave a message 19:12, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
G'day Nolelover.
When you cast your vote on Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage you deleted my vote for closing the project. Don't do that! If it was unintentional try and be a lot more careful in the future, will you? Qwrk ( talk) 18:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:42, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Nolelover; I have really appreciated the help you have given me. Unfortunately I will be on vacation for a month and I will have no internet access. I am really sorry about and you have been a great help.
Im taking over the copy edit for this page because the tag has been there for 5 days -- its says if its been there for a couple of hours without an edit it can be changed. Lihaas ( talk) 10:23, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Get ready. The October 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive is about to begin. Prep your keyboards, as the drive aims to wikify over 2,000 articles this month. We're going to need all the firepower we can get, so please get your friends to join up as well. In case you didn't know, wikification is fairly simple: just add wiki markup, links, and similar ". Thanks for joining; we're looking forward to an exciting time this month! Regards, |
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