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- Hello there Escape Artist Swyer. Sorry about forgetting to give your assignment. First things first I want you to install WP:POPUPS. To do this go to User:Escape Artist Swyer/monobook.js and add {{subst:navpop}}. Save the page and bypass the cache. This will allow you to revert vandalism. Once complete, inform me on my talk page. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 00:24, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
- Now read WP:VAND and applying what you have learned revert a case of vandalism and warn a user appropriatly. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 02:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
- Keep up what you are doing, and have some fun. I will check in now and then, and I will hand out a new assignment in about 4 days. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 19:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
- Good. You are definitly making progress. Now I want you to read WP:N, and then go to WP:AFD and comment in a deletion discussion. Edit the discussion so your comment looks like *'''Delete''' - reason for deletion. --~~~~. If you have any questions feel free to ask. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 00:20, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
- I apologize. I somehow missed the fact that you had already !voted in a afd. Well here is the next assignment. Go to WP:RFA and !vote for a candidate you think is ready for adminship. Leave me the name of the page when you are done. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 20:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
- I would appreciate it if you would complete your assignment. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 17:41, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey great work. Sorry if I was a bit snappy. Keep up what you are doing. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 02:36, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
- Looking good. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 23:23, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
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Well, no one has put any more comments on Tragic Kingdom's peer review. I asked WesleyDodds a few days ago, and he never responded (he did respond to other people's messages on his talk page since then.) What should we do now?
Oh, and one more thing. There is a long section of the credits for Boom Box on its Allmusic page, i.e. it lists about 200 names. How many, and/or which ones, should I add or leave out? Tezero (talk) 14:08, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
- Okay, here it is. Tezero (talk) 22:23, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
- Do you think it's going to make it? We've done about everything that's been asked, but no one's actively said "support." This would be my first FA if it passed, I'm kind of tense. Tezero (talk) 14:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- Then is it Raul or SandyGeorgia who decides whether it passes or fails by looking at the discussions? (I'm not asking which one it is, I'm asking is it either one of them, or is it some other way.) Tezero (talk) 22:07, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, that's good. Maybe I'll check over to see if there's any standing arguments. Tezero (talk) 22:14, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- Boom Box is hard too, there's almost no reviews or information about it out there. The article's only 13kb and I have no idea how I'm going to get it to a GA. I'm always thinking, this would be so much easier if it was a studio album. But I have to work with what I have...
- Oh, that's good. Maybe I'll check over to see if there's any standing arguments. Tezero (talk) 22:14, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- Then is it Raul or SandyGeorgia who decides whether it passes or fails by looking at the discussions? (I'm not asking which one it is, I'm asking is it either one of them, or is it some other way.) Tezero (talk) 22:07, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- Do you think it's going to make it? We've done about everything that's been asked, but no one's actively said "support." This would be my first FA if it passed, I'm kind of tense. Tezero (talk) 14:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- Okay, here it is. Tezero (talk) 22:23, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, and I don't have the album ,or even know anyone who does. I actually went to a few record stores recently looking for it (and other things) but none of them had it and I didn't want to go buy it on Amazon.com right away. Ask around here, someone might. Tezero (talk) 22:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- Nice, I didn't know you could do that. Well, I have a feeling Blagojevich isn't even going to jail, so... Tezero (talk) 00:36, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
- I guess we've done everything the FAC said, so all we have to do is wait for Raul or SandyGeorgia to come around. Tezero (talk) 04:12, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, and I don't have the album ,or even know anyone who does. I actually went to a few record stores recently looking for it (and other things) but none of them had it and I didn't want to go buy it on Amazon.com right away. Ask around here, someone might. Tezero (talk) 22:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
I hope your successful in getting the article to GA, it's been on my watchlist for a few months now—A sockpuppet used to edit it—and I've been watching your work from a distance. Well done. — Realist2 15:58, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
It was not promoted by SandyGeorgia. Why could it have happened? What was there left to do?! I thought we got everything? Tezero (talk) 15:12, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
- Hi, I don't speak for Sandy, I merely observed your comment on her talk page. But I think it likely that the article wasn't promoted simply because there were no support votes, and no new comments for ten days. Unfortunately, given the number of active FACs (40+) and a lack of reviewers at present, your article simply didn't attract enough editors to review it properly, and the FAC can be considered to be one of those that unfortunately "stalls" from time to time. Not every editor who leaves comments at a FAC watches the page, so when it comes to renominating the article (it's generally considered good practice to wait a couple of weeks), it might be a good idea to leave messages at the talk pages of those editors whose issues you feel you have resolved, to see if they feel enough work has been done to consider a support. All the best, Steve T • C 20:04, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
- Well, I think right now it's about as good as it'll get. It's been...9 days since it was failed the last time due to there not being enough "support" votes. (And SandyGeorgia still hasn't replied to you.) Should I nominate it again? Oh, and about all the GANs, most of them are "on hold." All I reviewed was With Teeth. Tezero (talk) 18:35, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Those sound like good ideas. But since I've only reviewed 5 GANs, it seems like a lot of work to do. I'll do at least a few of em (starting tomorrow; I'm with relatives today) but The Singles, No Doubt, and The Beacon Street Collection got reviewed quickly. We could do it, but yes it would be a lot of work.
P.S. Oh, and what did you mean "hit with a hammer"? The term "WP:HAMMER" sounds familiar... Tezero (talk) 20:10, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
Ok, sure, I'll merge at some point soon. Fail it, consider it withdrawn, whatever- it doesn't really matter. Talbot's new album has now been released anyway, so I can easily expand that article to aim for a good/featured topic, which is the reason I was nominating this one in the first place. Thanks. J Milburn (talk) 23:44, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Well, new things keep on coming up. We have one support vote, Dabomb87. There's a little more to do to get WesleyDodds to support it.
Oh, and about the liner notes, there's the usual; lyrics, special thanks, and some photographs. Above and below each photograph is a lyric snippet from the song "Tragic Kingdom". I don't think there's anything from the liner notes that could be added to the article. Tezero (talk) 03:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
- What do you mean? It's technically still open; comments can still be made. SandyGeorgia was just impatient. I didn't even get to see that last set of comments before it was "closed." I've responded to them (i.e. corrected the article accordingly) now, but still. Tezero (talk) 22:11, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
What do you think there is left that I can do to get Boom Box to GA standard, or at least to expand it a bit? There's those "expand" tags there, but there just seems to be no more material out there. Got any suggestions? Tezero (talk) 04:29, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
GA Nomination
I have just reviewed Boom Box and placed it on hold because there are a couple issues related to the sources that need to be addressed. Full review details are listed here. Contact me on my talk page when these issues are addressed so I can go ahead and promote the article. // Gbern3 (talk) 19:47, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
- Congratulations. Boom Box has been promoted. You responded very quickly. Thank you for fixing those issues I brought up. I reread the article before promoting it and I have a couple suggestions:
- The album spawned four singles—"New", the soundtrack to the movie Go; "Ex-Girlfriend"; "Simple Kind of Life"; and "Bathwater".
- Suggestion: The album spawned four singles: "New", a song on the soundtrack to the movie Go, "Ex-Girlfriend", "Simple Kind of Life", and "Bathwater". I don't think you need to use semicolons to separate album titles.
- Later, in April 2003, No Doubt went into hiatus to take a break to spend time with their families before starting to compile Everything in Time; The Singles 1992–2003; The Videos 1992–2003; and Boom Box, containing all of the above and Live in the Tragic Kingdom.
- Suggestion: In April 2003, No Doubt went into hiatus to take a break to spend time with their families before starting to compile Everything in Time, The Singles 1992–2003, The Videos 1992–2003, Live in the Tragic Kingdom, and Boom Box which contained all of the above. I don't think you need to say "Later" at the beginning of the sentence because you've already done a good job of putting everything in the article in chronological order. I also didn't think semicolons were necessary.
- The Singles 1992–2003 was well received by critics and was described as "a real joy"[18] and a "stellar collection".[19]; its mixture of styles was both praised as "sheer diversity" and criticised as having a "hotch-potch feel".
- There's a semicolon after ref 19 and criticised should be spelled with a "z" --> criticized. I didn't catch this before.
- The album spawned four singles—"New", the soundtrack to the movie Go; "Ex-Girlfriend"; "Simple Kind of Life"; and "Bathwater".
- I didn't think these were big enough problems to prevent the article from GA status so I didn't bring them up in the review. Also, I thought it would be more appropriate prevent promotion only if this article was up for peer review or nominated for WP:FA. I encourage you to review some other music related article that's been nominated for GA status. The list for Arts related articles is longer than the list for any other category. What I like to do is read the shorter articles. It's much easier to review and critique and it helps people. // Gbern3 (talk) 17:05, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
If you do decide to complete a GA review, there are a couple of templates and project pages that you may find helpful.
- GAList or GAList2 templates: I used this for your review. Makes checking off each criterion so much easier. Just copy and paste the code (in the "usage" section) into the article's review page and use the arguments aye (pass), nay (fail), ??? (I don't know), or just leave blank (neutral). You can also use the argument hold to give the nominator time to fix the problem.
- quick-fail criteria: A list of things that a page MUST NOT have to get GA status. If the article has one of the problems listed, you can fail it without having to read through the article. I did this yesterday for Jay-Z. I was a disappointed because the whole reason why I decided to review the Jay-Z article is because I like him as a rapper and a businessman but this article had a cleanup banner and was protected from editing by anonymous users. So I failed it because those are two things (cleanup banners and edit wars) that can make a article quick-fail. This article also needed much more inline citations and had some grammar errors. I was pissed off too because I discovered on the talk page that the article had already went through a peer review in August and the citations issue was brought up then. I felt like the nominator was wasting my time and everyone else's by nominating it.
- You can also use the {{FGAN}} quick-fail message to tell people on their talk page that you've failed their article. I used it here for the user who nominated Jay-Z.
Hope these help. // Gbern3 (talk) 16:46, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
That's totally fine. One thing you should know is that someone put Everything in Time on hold. The review is here. Just try to stop in and help out if you can; I'm working on other stuff now. Tezero (talk) 22:13, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
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I have nominated Gwen Stefani discography for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks, where editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Do U(knome)? yes...or no 05:21, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
- Following on from this list's demotion, the Gwen Stefani albums topic now has one featured article and one good article, hence as it doesn't have 2 featured items it's been automatically demoted to a good topic. Furthermore, the topic has gone under retention, i.e. if the list doesn't get refeatured by 18 June, then the topic can be nominated for removal, for having an article not up to standard. Sorry... :/ rst20xx (talk) 17:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Thought you'd like to know that this FAC you participated in has been restarted. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:18, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
So, do you think you're up to rewriting the infamous "music" paragraph in Tragic Kingdom? Boom Box isn't too far from GA standard; all it needs is more references in the background section. If we can get TK to pass FAC and BB to pass GAN, the whole thing will be eligible for a featured topic. Tezero (talk) 13:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- It's okay, but can you tell me what sources you were going to use to expand the paragraph? Tezero (talk) 21:10, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- I think it looks good, but just to be safe do you think we should get a copyeditor? Tezero (talk) 16:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
- It'll take some time. I really don't know what I'll do after this stuff is done, besides nominating it for FT or GT. What's your next project? Tezero (talk) 14:11, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
- I think it looks good, but just to be safe do you think we should get a copyeditor? Tezero (talk) 16:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Welcome back. Sorry I haven't been on the last few days; my Internet modem burned out and it took a few days to get a new one and have it set up. Tezero (talk) 18:20, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the info on how to re-format Fearless. I'm new when it comes to correctly formatting Wikipedia articles. I mostly do minor edits such as adding a sentence or two of info, correcting bad information, or correcting typos. I'll definitely have to get to work! Thanks again! Novelwriter65 (talk) 19:29, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
To more thoroughly answer your question, when the article was going through peer review, several editors complained that the extent of the background information given on capturing and battling with MissingNo. violated WP:GAMEGUIDE's policy, thus the brief summary in the article. It comes down to a case of trying to appease everyone sadly. I hope this answer is sufficient.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 14:37, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
That can happen. And I'm sorry if it's disappointing to have to wait another ten days but please do feel free to renominate it immediately and notify those folks who showed an interest last time. Once again, apologies. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:59, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
- Okay cool. It should fly through by then. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 17:12, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I believe we never cross paths before, I see that you are making improvements to the Spice article as well to the discography page, so are you by any chance willing to collaborate with me on the singles and albums articles, I always wanted to find some users to help me, but never found anyone, that is why stopped with "2 Become 1", too much work for me, I believe that we can make the whole group's discography at least good articles, there are only 13 singles and 4 albums and there is a pretty good amount of info available, lots of books about the group. Please let me know what you think about this, perhaps you have other projects alredy. Regards. Frcm1988 (talk) 04:39, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
- Oh I do have some books with information about the group, "Girl Power!", "Spice Power: The Inside Story", "Real Life: Real Spice The Official Story", "Spice Girls" and I use to have Victoria's autobiography "Learning to Fly" but I can't remember where I left it. Also with Google Books you can preview many pages of a lot of books like "Wannabe: How the Spice Girls Reinvented Pop Fame" or "The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits". And there is no rush, we can start after you finish your current project. Regards. Frcm1988 (talk) 16:54, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi.
Indeed the article is big and good, but is definitely a stub for our project for 3 reasons:
1.- Lacks year category, and several more to be GA 2.- There is no authorship for the songs 3.- The personnel section is most likely incomplete, since no producer is mentioned, and the section wasn´t made according to guidelines.
I´ll take care of the las two, but the authorship is fundamental.
Don´t hesitate to call if anything else comes up. Good luck with the GAN. Zidane tribal (talk) 01:48, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
- Hi again. The article is so well referenced that i got no problem rating it a B, good luck with the GAN, i still think it needs more categories, like genre, country and all that. Good work. Zidane tribal (talk) 01:45, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if you'd be able to check that I've addressed your concerns for the No Line on the Horizon FAC, just for the record? The cause was my copying over a table format per an earlier recommendation and trying to figure out how to work it. For your convenience, the link to the FAC discussion is here. Cheers, MelicansMatkin (talk, contributions) 01:45, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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I am reviewing the article Harajuku Lovers Live and have found it to be fallign jsut short of passing teh Good article criteria as there are links that changes domain and dab links. Please change it within the next two days lest the article should fail. --Legolas (talk2me) 10:09, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey! I found you on the "Guild of Copy Editors" page. I am currently working on the Nobel Prize article and I am going to nominate it for a GA soon, hopefully before the end of this week. However, it could need some more grammar/prose checks to make it better. I was wondering if you could give me a hand? Especially the parts after "History" needs some looking into. I would be very grateful for any help :)
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Hi Escape Artist, been a while since the last time that we chat, I have been re-editing "Wannabe" from scratch for the past two weeks in my sandbox, and it is HUGE!!!, there is so much info available. Im still doing the Composition section, and the reception and chart performance sections are missing, but they are the easiest to do. The article would probably need a lot of copyediting. I don't know if you have the time right know, since you are not very active recently, or if you are still interested in the project, so please let me know. Regards. Frcm1988 (talk) 22:23, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Escape Artist, I have finished the Composition section, and I was gathering reviews for the Critical reception, there are plenty of newspapers and magazines that reviewed the album or the song, the problem is that all of them are from the U.S. Considering that the group is British, the article probably need reviews from the UK or Europe, I tried to find archives from German, Italian, and French newspapers but could find anything. I don't perhaps you have access to British reviews, for now I will finish the Chart performance and put the formats and track listing. Hope you can help me. Regards. Frcm1988 (talk) 08:48, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, don't worry just leave a message when you are free, I return to the university tomorrow, so probably I will have only a couple of weeks without too much work, but after that I won't be able to edit as much as I used to. I wanted to finish the article before but oh well, it's almost done, and all the info that I have available is already there, perhaps is a bit too long. Regards. Frcm1988 (talk) 00:22, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Hey, thought if I should notify anyone, it'd best be you... Cool (Gwen Stefani song) was demoted from FA yesterday, which means the Love. Angel. Music. Baby. FT can be demoted come June 28 if the article isn't back up to GA - rst20xx (talk) 21:39, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, we haven't conversed in a while, but I just learned that starting the first day of September, featured topics have to have 50% of the articles featured. We together are responsible for the No Doubt albums topic, and this upcoming policy puts us in somewhat of a predicament. Tezero (talk) 01:48, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Do you have a subscription to Billboard.biz? I need to gets references to fix some dead links in Jesus Walks. GamerPro64 (talk) 14:07, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Escape, its been a long time since you last edited here, I don't know if you are coming back, hope everything is ok with you. PS. I already finished with some of the group's songs, right now Im doing "Stop", hope you get back one day to help me finish the project. Regards. Frcm1988 (talk) 21:56, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
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We have reached the midway point in our backlog elimination drive, so here is an update. Participation report — The November drive has 53 participants at this point. We had 77 participants in the September drive. In July, 95 people signed up for the drive, and in May we had 36. If you are not participating, it is not too late to join! Progress report — The drive is quite successful so far, as we have already almost reached our target of a 10% reduction in the number of articles in the backlog. We are doing very well at keeping our Requests page clear, as those articles count double for word count for this drive. Please keep in mind the possibility of removing other tags when you are finished with an article. If the article no longer needs {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, or other similar maintenance tags, please remove them, as this will make the tasks of other WikiProjects easier to complete. Thanks very much for participating in the Drive, and see you at the finish line!
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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
 Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today. |
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| Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!
We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated. Stats
Barnstars If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Our next drive is scheduled for January 2011. In the meantime, please consider helping out at the Wikification drive or any of the other places where help with backlogs is needed. Thank you for participating in the last 2010 backlog elimination drive! We look forward to seeing you in January! Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk) |
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Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
 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 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report.
Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here
On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011! – Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast. |
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Why don't you nominate the "Christmas Tree" article for GA? You did an awesome job with it anyways. :) — Legolas (talk2me) 10:22, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
| Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats. 
 So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. 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.
We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal. Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success! Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), The UtahraptorTalk to me, and Tea with toast (Talk) |
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Should we add the "Gwen Stefani" article to the "Gwen Stefani albums" featured topic? It makes sense to do so, since she's the author of those albums and therefore related to the topic. Leptictidium (mt) 08:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
| Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive
Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.
If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March. Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk) |
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The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:19, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
| Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
Elections are currently underway for our Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days and ends on June 30, 23:59 UTC. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! There is also a referendum to appoint a Coordinator Emeritus. Cast your vote today. |
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Seeing as you are a major contributor to the articles, I am letting you know that I have opened up a GTRC for teh Rock Steady GT. Adabow (talk · contribs) 09:43, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
| Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". |
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| Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors
The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. |
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I see you're editing Harajuku Lovers Tour 2005 - and it's quite a good job. You think it can be improved quickly enough to GA status and prevent this from failing? igordebraga ≠ 16:32, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
| Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors
The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their November 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles (and specifically will be targeting the oldest three months), as we want to copy edit as many of these as possible. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. |
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| Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
Elections are currently underway for our third tranche of Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, 16 December – 23:59 UTC, 31 December. All GOCE members, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are five candidates vying for four positions. Your vote really matters! Cast your vote today. |
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| 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.
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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Hello. FYI, I've had a userbox created for me, and I thought it might be of interest since you were involved with the WikiProject Novels/Crime task force. It says "This user reads Hard-boiled detective fiction" and the code to implement it is:
 | This user reads Hard-boiled detective fiction. |
. (Add double braces to the red text: {{ }}). Pete Best Beatles (talk) 22:10, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, the code seems to have a typo, causing it to appear incorrectly. Here is the fixed code that you can copy and paste.
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{{User:KomradeKalashnikov/Userboxes/HB Detective Fiction}} |
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linked pages | ||
-- KomradeKalashnikov (talk) 01:17, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
I came to the above page on a redirect from "Boris Pecker" but could find nothing about him. I left a query on the talk page in 2020. Please see my note on the talk page for Dead Famous. As no-one has taken up my query I have put in a request for discussion and deletion of the redirect .If there is a connection I would be happy for the redirect to remain if this was explained in the article Spinney Hill (talk) 10:02, 10 March 2023 (UTC) Spinney Hill (talk) 10:05, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
Quatermass (TV serial) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Spinixster (chat!) 08:46, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
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