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The Military history Wikiproject has opened nominations for the Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year. Nominations will be accepted until 13 December at 23:59 GMT, with voting to begin at 0:00 GMT 14 December. The voting will conclude on 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:36, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.
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Candidate nominations for Guild coordinators to serve from January 1 to June 30, 2015, are currently underway. The nomination period will close at 23:59 on December 15 (UTC), after which voting will commence until 23:59 on December 31, 2014. Self-nominations are welcomed. Please consider getting involved; it's your Guild and it won't coordinate itself, so if you'd like to help coordinate Guild activities we'd love to hear from you. Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:17, 10 December 2014 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2014 Newsletter
Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in November's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 43 people who signed up for this drive, 26 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: The November Drive removed 26 requests from the Requests page and 509 articles from the {{copy edit}} backlog. We copy edited 83 articles tagged in the target months; July, August, and September 2013. Together with tag removals from articles unsuitable for copy editing, we eliminated July 2013 from the backlog and reduced August and September's tags to 61 and 70 respectively. As of 01:01, 1 December 2014 (UTC), the backlog stood at 1,974 articles, dipping below 2,000 for the first time in the Guild's history (see graph at right). Well done everyone! Blitz: The December Blitz will run from December 14–20 and will focus on articles related to Religion, in recognition of this month's religious holidays in much of the English-speaking world. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. Sign up here! Election time again: The election of coordinators to serve from 1 January to 30 June 2015 is now underway. Candidates can nominate themselves or others from December 01, 00:01 (UTC), until December 15, 23:59. The voting period will run from December 16, 00:01 (UTC), until December 31, 23:59. You can read about coordinators' duties here. Please consider getting involved and remember to cast you vote—it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Thank you all once again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve anything without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:15, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Nominations for the military historian of the year and military newcomer of the year have now closed, and voting for the candidates has officially opened. All project members are invited to cast there votes for the Military historian and Military newcomer of the year candidates before the elections close at 23:59 December 21st. For the coordinators, TomStar81
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It is very inappropriate to close a CFD discussion early especially when the close is the opposite of consensus! I'm not going to get into an issue over WP:WHEEL here, but you really do need to reopen that discussion per WP:WHEEL since I believe that your revert is in violation. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:00, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you! WhatamIdoing (WMF) (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ed, voting actually closed at midnight UTC and I was about to archive the polls... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 01:43, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors Late December 2014 Newsletter
Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the December Blitz. Of the 14 editors who signed up for the blitz, 11 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. January drive: The January backlog-reduction drive is just around the corner; sign up here! Election time again: The election of coordinators to serve from January 1 to June 30, 2015 is now underway. The voting period runs from December 16, 00:01 (UTC), until December 31, 23:59. Please cast your vote—it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! Happy holidays from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
The Resilient Barnstar | |
For your fabulous efforts at maintaining integrity of The Signpost. kosboot (talk) 02:42, 25 December 2014 (UTC) |
Happy Holidays | ||
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. - Ealdgyth - Talk 15:09, 25 December 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Ed, I just noticed that when you move protected Template:WW2InfoBox in April you also lifted the protection against IP accounts editing it which I instituted for a indefinite period in March. As I suspect this was an accident, I've just reinstated this protection (I considered leaving things as-is, but it's a template with few watchers which directly affects the very popular World War II article and vandalism in the past has been slowly corrected). I hope that this is OK. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 01:35, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! A new year has come! How times flies! 2015 will be a new year, and it is also a chance for you to start afresh! Thank you for your contributions!
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Can I just say that I'm really glad you had no part in the new rules? Because I respect you, but the giant middle finger of a no-consensus change to FP scoring, combined with a not-even-discussed one FP per article rule is such a giant fuck you to an entire class of contributors... Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:36, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.
Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round, and one of the new changes this year is that all scores must be claimed within two weeks of an article's promotion or appearance, so don't forget to add them to your submissions pages! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs)
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Guild of Copy Editors 2014 Annual Report
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 9, November-December 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)
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Hi User:The ed17, I'm not sure if you're the right person to talk to about this, so I apologize in advance for noise. I'm hoping to get an article into the signpost and you've helped me do that in the past. See m:Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service for more details. We're looking to summarize the project and welcome volunteers. TL;DR: we're working to build a cross-lingual, machine learning classifier service for edits that will support new wikitools that need edit quality measures (e.g. WP:Snuggle, User:HostBot, WP:Huggle and User:ClueBot NG). --20:30, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi EpochFail. It looks okay to me, provided the intended audience is, as Ed said, not me, rather tech-savvy editors. I honestly have not the slightest clue what most of it is about, but if you think it will do what you want it to do, I have no particular problem running it. God bless, Go Phightins! 15:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
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Ed, as you can notice on my talk page Adan Cuerden took a Wiki-break over a controversy about a picture of Pedro he intended to nominate that was remobved from the article. I am kind of paniking, because he was the head-editor on the FP Signpost entry. I have no idea how to put up a draft - where information is - no idea of anything. He made the draft and put that on my page while we worked together. Tell me now what to do. I don't know how long he will be gone and everything will stop without him. Hafspajen (talk) 20:23, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Just to let you know, you should have an email tonight - personal email is blocked at work, which accounts for most of the time I have available for Wiki these days. Parsecboy (talk) 13:22, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Numbers are down 18% from last year. Interesting but can't say if it's indicating a trend. Serendipodous 00:10, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
You locked Battle of the Somme under full page protection due to edit-warring. The two principal edit-warriors have agreed not to edit the page while moderated discussion is in progress. Could you please unlocked the page to permit third-party edits and to permit the moderator to make consensus edits? Robert McClenon (talk) 15:20, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
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With a bar. Efforts like "The Signpost" are exemplary! For such a long period, exemplary with bar(s). Thanks for the long term contribution. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:35, 24 January 2015 (UTC) |
Re: Your post on the WikiProject Military history talk page. You mentioned that you were going to contact someone at NHHC by email. Was there any response and did anything come of it? Just curious. Please respond here when you get the chance as I will be watching this page for a reply. Cuprum17 (talk) 17:35, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I just realised that you created a page for USS Aroostook (AOG-14) on Commons in 2011. The ship depicted is, however, the minelayer USS Aroostook (CM-3), and not MV Esso Delivery No. 11, which became the gasoline tanker USS Aroostook (AOG-14) in 1943. The NARA description is wrong. CM-3 was decommissioned in 1931 and never reactivated. She was the sistership of USS Oglala (CM-4), famous for being sunk and raised at Pearl Harbor. I corrected the info and uploaded correct photos of AOG-14 from Navsource.org. Cheers Cobatfor (talk) 17:55, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
I hope you don't need it - I'll raise one for closing that ridiculous article AfD anyway. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 17:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC) |
Can you As the deleting admin userfy the ArbitrationGate controversy to User:Retartist/ArbitrationGate controversy. I want to turn it into a joke page in userspace (like the ones with the joke template at the top). Hope this isn't too much trouble --RetΔrtist (разговор) 23:02, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
The Epic Barnstar | ||
For your 2014 contributions to multiple history related articles you are hereby award this Epic Barnstar. Congratulations! For the Military history Wikiproject Coordinators, TomStar81 (Talk) 07:39, 29 January 2015 (UTC) |
User:Christina1969's sock IP, 89.134.28.154 is back to continue editwarring at Dreadnoughtus] YET AGAIN.--Mr Fink (talk) 18:42, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
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