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Amanda Filipacchi

Hello Cymru.lass,

I found your comments in the Signpost discussion to be thoughtful and worthwhile. The very bad behavior, whether or not it was "sexism" strictly speaking, took place on the talk pages of a whole group of articles, and also on the talk page of a heavily involved editor, Qworty. Much of this material has since been redacted. Qworty attacked Filipacchi in venomous personal terms, and wrote astoundingly bitter things about her career, her books, her family background and her mother. The editor ranted and raved against the New York Times in highly sexualized terms, and went on to the articles about Filippachi's mother, where the talk page got very ugly, and also her father and the company her father founded. So, it is the pattern of editing, and the vitriol on the talk pages, that in mind constitutes "revenge editing". That's my view of the matter. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 15:26, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

I've looked into it more and Qworty's edits may indeed be characterized as "revenge edits". I suppose, then, the issue is not that the edits weren't "revenge edits", but that helpful contributions by other people got lumped in with Qworty's edits by the media. Thank you for pointing that out to me! Cheers,— Preceding signed comment added byCymru.lass (talk •contribs) 16:03, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a deeper look. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it18:15, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Notifications box replacement prototypes released

Hey Cymru.lass; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:50, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Input request

Hello Cymru.lass,

I am requesting input from all participants in the discussion from the recent Signpost article on sexism in Wikipedia for a proposal atWikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/National teams#Proposed change: consistency in article title gendering. Thank you in advance for any contributions to the discussion. Dkreisst(talk) 21:30, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day

Happy First Edit Day, Cymru.lass, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! :) LovelyEdit talkedits 19:28, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

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Hunting for embedded outlines

While you are reading or browsing Wikipedia articles, please...

...keep a lookout for outlines embedded in articles.

I've run across a number of these over the years. One example is the Outline of fencing, which used to be part of the fencing article.

If you know about or spot any structured general topics lists in articles, please let me know (on my talk page).

Another thing you might find are articles that are comprised mostly of lists (without "Outline of" or "List of" being in the article's title). If you come across any of these, please report them to me on my talk page. I'd sure like to take a look at them.

Happy hunting.

I look forward to "hearing" from you (on my talk page). Sincerely, The Transhumanist 07:59, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

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Macklemore

Hi. Thanks for your comment on my page about the Macklemore page. I've made another slight tweak to the IPA pronunciation that you've added. See the reply I've added on my talk page for more details.Leenewton (talk) 00:54, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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RE: Mary Joy

Hi. Regarding Mary Joy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), I've just dropped a note at Talk:Mary Joy#Other products regarding the pest control stuff. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 12:46, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

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Berliner Tageszeitung

Looks exactly the same to me. Hwyl. Deb (talk) 20:54, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. Please note I have undo your edit, has you have clearly have misunderstood how this work. If you wish to contest this Speedy Deletion, then please, BUT you can only do so by clicking on the "Contest this Speedy Deletion" button. You do not delete the tag box yourself. --Crazyseiko (talk) 09:33, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Issue with Speedy Deletion

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Harvard ALI Issue with Speedy Deletion Thank you

Thank you for looking at the Harvard ALI page and for your advice.NYC.Geek (talk) 09:58, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Declined speedy deletion

I've declined your speedy deletion request on List of Thomas & Friends episodes. Generally speaking, the only time duplication of articles qualifies for speedy deletion is when one of the articles was very recently created. In this case, that article dates back to 2012; there's no way to "speedily" judge which of the article structures is better. Perhaps both might even be good--there are plenty of television show that have both an omnibus article for all episodes as well as a detailed season by season set of articles. But not always. Ultimately, that needs to be decided at a serious discussion of involved (and, if needed, uninvolved users). Probably the easiest way is to propose a merger, tagging each involved page and then holding one central discussion on any one of the talk pages (just be sure editors on each page know where to go to to hold the discussion). Qwyrxian (talk) 13:21, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Whoops! My mistake--I see that you weren't the one who nominated it for deletion; I'll make these comments to that user. Qwyrxian (talk) 13:23, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

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Talkback

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Barnstars, get your barnstars here, get 'em while they're hot

	The Rescue Barnstar
	Thanks for contesting Bencey's speedy deletion of Return of the Killer Klowns from Outer Space in 3D. He probably wasn't even deleting for the reason he gave, he most likely did it because I created the page, and him and I aren't exactly friendly to each other. So thanks. --Matthew (talk) 18:40, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Well-meant, I am sure, but ...

...Was this really necessary. The poor guy has been blocked for three months and that happened a week or more before your note. I've no idea what particular welcome message it is that you are referring to but, frankly, the thing comes across as being extremely officious in the circumstances. Maybe take a peek at more recent events before slapping this boilerplate-type message on other people? - Sitush (talk) 00:16, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

I'm currently substing all transcluded incidences of the template {{welcome}} and if I see a particular welcomer's username pop up more than a few times, I've been leaving the note (which I personally wrote) on their talkpage. I apologize for not realizing the guy was blocked. That said, all my message is is a short friendly reminder/possible introduction to the concept of substing. My only goal is to give the user a heads-up. I'm not trying to be officious, and I'm not "slapping" it on anyone. Thank you for alerting me to the fact that I failed to notice the guy's blocked status. I'll be more careful about that in the future. — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 00:20, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I've never understood subst'ing and I'm sure that my name will pop up on your list eventually. Generally, I use Twinkle but that is not always the case. Perhaps you need to explain the underlying issues? Dammit, I've gone 100k edits here and haven't got it, so either I am particularly stupid (possible!) or it is really a rather arcane aspect of the project. I'm not saying that arcane aspects do not require attention but they probably do require more explanation. - Sitush (talk) 00:27, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

In my message I left a link to the Wikipedia namespace page on substitution, and I also explained how to substitute something (my message says: "[f]or example, you should use {{subst:welcome}} rather than {{welcome}}"). In my experience, something short and sweet like that is a lot better received by users unfamiliar with the topic than a wall of text. The link is right there if they want to read more. — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 00:31, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

How's this message? It's a modified version of {{uw-subst}}. — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 00:48, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Ok. We'll have to disagree about that. I'm also now curious why your talk page messages are appearing with a "the preceding comment is signed by" note. Some very weird goings-on here, as I am sure you are not daft enough not to sign your posts on such a regular basis. Anyway, I'm past caring and doubtless someone else will chip in as and when ... - Sitush (talk) 00:51, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

I am signing my comments. The "unsigned comments" message reads "preceding unsigned comment" [emphasis added by me]. My sig reads "preceding signed comment". It's just what my custom user signature looks like. — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 00:54, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Subst

Thank you for the feedback! Is it possible to have {{welcome}} set up so it always substs? WhisperToMe (talk) 03:30, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

You're very welcome! :) I don't think one can actually code a template so it automatically substs (i.e., without a bot coming along and doing it). I just spent a little while digging through the Wikipedia and Help namespaces, and nothing came up. I think it could be done by a bot. (Hmm... I think I smell a new project for cymru.lass! I've always wanted to tackle the task of learning how to create a bot.) If not, I'm perfectly content to do it through AutoWikiBrowser every few months. (I'm one of those weird people who finds tasks like that oddly soothing.)

Oh, also! I noticed you typed out <nowiki>{{welcome}}</nowiki>. Did you know about the template {{tl}}? Typing in {{tl|welcome}} gives {{welcome}}, which saves you a bit of time. And, if you're like me, fumbling around for the > key. My pinky hates the > and / keys.) There's also {{tlf}}, which is the same, except it doesn't link to the template. Also, {{tls}}, which links the template and puts subst: in front of it ({{tls|welcome}} gives {{subst:welcome}}). And if you want it to display in code, there's {{tlx}} (would display {{welcome}}), {{tlc}} (would display {{welcome}}), and {{tlxs}} (would display {{subst:welcome}}). All of those templates can also handle displaying parameters (their documentation pages explain how). Anyways. Just thought you might enjoy that little time-saving trick. :) My apologies for the wall of text. Happy editing! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 15:29, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

I just stumbled upon Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, which appears to "belong" to User:AnomieBOT. So, there does appear to be a bot who does this kind of thing. I'll head on over to AnomieBOT and ask her owner how I should go about having the welcome templates added to her task list. (I'm not entirely sure if there has to be additional discussion or not; I'm assuming the owner will know.) Cheers, — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 15:48, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Third thing (this is just a point of interest), there is a template called {{require subst}}, which produces an error message if the template is not substed. That said, I wouldn't think it'd be appropriate for use on any of the welcome templates, simply because a good chunk of the users being welcomed might be confused by the error message. AnomieBOT (or just me doing it in AWB appears to be the way to go. — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 15:56, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

RE: Substing templates

Thanks for your message. It has been well noted. Cheers :) --Enock4seth (talk) 06:06, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your message and clean up of all the ones I did wrong! Ellin Beltz (talk) 06:35, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Aw, thanks guys. I mean, you're welcome! You know what I mean. :) Glad I could help. Happy editing!! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 15:30, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Welcome too. Nice, Connecting with Wikipedians around the globe bit by bit. :) --Enock4seth (talk) 19:02, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for the reminder, obviously needed in my case. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:16, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Welcome template

Oooppppssss!!!! I never knew that - thanks for letting me know! And BTW I'm sorry to hear about your wrist. Praying that it will heal soon! --Bermicourt (talk) 20:58, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

No worries! When I first started editing as an IP, I would occasionally welcome people, and I didn't know that {{welcome}}, etc., were supposed to be substed. (Come to think of it, I don't think I knew what substing even was.) I'm just passing on the knowledge—after all, isn't that what Wikipedia's all about? :) Thank you for the well-wishes! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 16:28, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

I've been here for years and never knew there was a substed, or any of the other details you've pointed out on this thread. I will just cut-and-paste the right ones now, as I've been doing for the wrong ones since 2006! I don't like to see even anon-IPs go unwelcomed, so I welcome every single red "talk" that shows up on my watchlist. Sorry you had so many of mine to straighten out!! Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:48, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

@Ellin Beltz: It's no trouble at all :) I used a nifty tool called AutoWikiBrowser, and I'm one of those weird people that actually thinks stuff like that is fun. Tasks like that are how I unwind after a long day of school and work. Also, I just discovered there's a bot that substitutes other templates that are supposed to be substituted, and I'm going about getting the welcome templates added to its list.

Also, I think it's so cool that you care so much about welcoming new users. Have you heard of Twinkle? It's an addition to the editing interface you can enable through Special:Preferences (you don't have to download anything). I think you'd find it super useful. It adds a little drop-down menu to the right of the Read, Edit and Watchlist buttons. There are a bunch of tools in the drop-down, and one of them helps you quickly add a welcome template to a user talk page. It's awesome because there are a bunch of different templates to chose from (and there's a preview button you can click to see what the message looks like, if you want). There's the standard welcome template (and a couple variations of it), the standard IP welcome template, a template for welcoming an IP who has vandalized (it's firm about vandalism being wrong, but still pretty friendly), and a whole bunch more. There's also an optional space for you to link to an article they edited. The tool also automatically substitutes the template and signs your message for you.

I saw from your userpage that you're a vandalism fighter (me too!)—you would also find Twinkle useful for that. On user talk pages, there are several vandalism-related options in the drop-down menu. One is to warn a user (there are several different types of warnings available, not just the {{uw-vandalism}} series), and like the welcome dialog, you can link to an article and preview the warning and the tool automatically substs the template and signs the warning. In the warning dialog, there's also a box for you to add your own message onto the warning. Another vandalism-related option is labelled ARV, and it brings up a dialog with options to report a username policy violation, a possible sockpuppet account, and to report a user to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (that one has a few sub-options—vandalism after final warning, vandalism after recently being released from a block, promotion-only account, and so on). There's a couple other features I think you'd find useful, but I just realized how long-winded this message is getting. You can head on over to Wikipedia:Twinkle to read more about the tool (and find instructions on how to enable it). Also, Wikipedia:Twinkle/doc talks more about each individual feature (and provides links to a place where you can test out welcoming/warning with Twinkle). Be sure to check out the section titled "Revert and rollback"—there's some changes Twinkle makes to diff pages that are also useful for vandalism reversion. Also, if you decide to enable Twinkle, head over to Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences once you do. There are different preferences you can set (including one to automatically open a user's talk page in a new tab or window after you revert their edit).

Anyways. I hope you found that useful. :) Cheers, and happy editing! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 17:29, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

That is super useful, I enabled Twinkle and will use it!! Thanks so much! Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:00, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Glad I could help! Happy editing, — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 19:14, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Kwamikagani's () pages

I will be perfectly happy to delete Melanau–Kajang languages when and only when all the links from mainspace to Melanau–Kajang languages () have been corrected. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 19:58, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

• Don't tell Kwami because a) I don't like his attitude and b) I am trying to discourage him from creating these silly () pages, but I have to admit that the preferred action would have been:

• Move Melanau–Kajang languages () to Melanau–Kajang languages leaving a redirect behind
• Wait for AvicBot (talk · contribs) to fix the double redirects created by the move - which it would probably do within hours
• Check that incoming links have gone and then delete Melanau–Kajang languages ().

— RHaworth (talk · contribs) 15:20, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

I'm a little confused as to why Kwami's creating these pages in the first place. What exactly are they? Cymru.lass in America (talk) 16:33, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

• See this discussion and see if you can find a clear explanation in it. I clearly rub Kwami up the wrong way so it might be instructive if you were to ask him. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:42, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Declined speedies for Serial ata and Esata

Hi. I see that you have declined my request to speedy delete these two redirects in my effort to clean up the redirects into the "Serial ATA" article somewhat.

I am all for adding useful redirects, but I really don't think that these two ones serve any useful purpose.

As you probably know the topics are correctly spelled "Serial ATA" and "eSATA", and while there are various non-standard forms in common use (which we should support, of course), noone knowing the correct capitalization would write them as "Serial ata", "serial ata" or "esata". Since our search box is case-insensitive, it will still catch these form sonce the two redirects are deleted, as the actual article is named "Serial ATA" and we still have a redirect from "eSATA" to "Serial ATA". So no functionality will get lost at all.

Further, since these capitalizations are wrong, if they were used in articles they would have to be corrected, anyway. So, they don't serve a purpose here as well.

You wrote: "Redirects from alternate capitalizations are common." That's right, but there is a difference between alternative capitalizations and incorrect capitalizations. We should support any correct alternative capitalization, but not incorrect ones, in particular not, when they don't serve a purpose such as catching a common misspelling or such.

Regarding: "Moreover, this page is visited quite frequently (http://stats.grok.se/en/latest30/Serial_ata), meaning people are in fact using this redirect to navigate" Well, I guess this is down to people typing "serial ata" or "Serial ata" in the search box. However, this is no problem at all. If we delete the redirects "Serial ata" and "Esata", users can still type "serial ata" and "esata" and the remaining redirect "eSATA" will take over and bring up the correct article "Serial ATA". In other words, I think, we get these stats only because these redirects exists. Once they are gone, we will get the same stats for "Serial ATA" and "eSATA".

In one of the edit summaries you mentioned "R#KEEP". I tried to look this up, but this redirects to an apparently unrelated article - what did you mean by that?

Thanks and greetings. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 21:34, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

My bad on the R#KEEP thing—I left out part of the link name! That's a bit embarrassing. The link should actually be WP:R#KEEP, which is Wikipedia's policy on reasons to not delete redirects. I specifically wanted to highlight reason 2, which states that redirects should be kept if "[t]hey would aid accidental linking and make the creation of duplicate articles less likely.... In other words, redirects with no incoming links are not candidates for deletion on those grounds because they are of benefit to the browsing user...." [click the link for the full text of that item]. Also, one of the other listed reasons is "Someone finds them useful. Hint: If someone says they find a redirect useful, they probably do. You might not find it useful—this is not because the other person is being untruthful, but because you browse Wikipedia in different ways. stats.grok.se can also provide evidence of outside utility." I believe that's relevant too.

You're totally right in saying that the search bar is case-insensitive. However, wikilinks and links to here from external sites are most definitely case-sensitive. While those two articles currently don't have any incoming wikilinks from article space, we can't really say whether or not they will in the future. The whole purpose of redirects is to aid in navigation, and that's what this one is doing/will do. Also, Wikipedia:R#When should we delete a redirect? guides users to only "consider the deletion only of either really harmful redirects or of very recent ones".

I also declined your speedy deletion nominations because they didn't fall under the scope of the G6 criterion, which is pretty specific. Deletions like that require discussion. That said, I'm totally open to you nominating them for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. I hope this helps clear things up. Let me know if you have any more questions! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 21:57, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Severe weather

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Welcome to the Education Program!

Welcome to the program! I think the most satisfying thing is to work directly with professors to help design and lead assignments. Sometimes you might encounter professors who aren't willing to hear you out, other times they'll have open arms. I hope you have some rewarding experiences that end up touching many classrooms! Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 12:37, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

@Biosthmors: Thank you for the kind welcome, Biosthmors! (Such an interesting username, by the way!) I'm really excited to start working with the education program. I've already subscribed to the ambassador mailing list, filed out my ambassador profile and reviewed the training modules. Do you have any suggestions on getting involved with a course? Should I wait for a professor or student to contact me, or should I seek out a course to help with? Cheers! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 17:59, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Funny you ask! I just set up a phone call with a professor just now from paying attention to the education noticeboard. There is one professor with a course on the noticeboard that sounds cool that no-one has gotten to. But I don't think you (until you're a regional ambassador) can assign the user right to professors, though. So.... hmmmmm.... I would email Jami and ask her to think of you when she's considering throwing regional ambassadors professors to interview on Skype. I typically just keep an eye out on Wikipedia for opportunities. Ah. I know. You can look through Special:Courses for classrooms that don't have online Ambassadors yet (other than Jami). I think you can see some of those at Special:Log/online. It's good you've signed up for the mailing list, though I don't think it's been active lately! There is a mailing list for the regional ambassadors is a bit more active. But WP:ENB is the central place, of course. So, here's the secret: you might email professors looking for ambassadors and then offer to help if they speak with you. That way you get your foot in the door, see what the prof. knows about Wikipedia, help them learn more, ask details about the assignment, see if you can get those details tweaked perhaps if the assignment isn't lined up to Wikipedia's norms. That's the secret. I think the best thing ambassadors can do is work with the instructors to design the course page. I'm making those kinds of edits right now. =) Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 18:16, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

But really it's whatever you make it. So maybe you'll find a niche to work in that I haven't even thought about. =) Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 18:48, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello nice Lady

See you are online and i would realy need some professional help. Would you pls so kind to have 5 minutes for me? kind regardsAdniim- (talk) 06:53, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

@Adniim: Hello, Adniim! What was it that you needed help with? cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 14:56, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

hi. thx for reply eaven if its to late now. but maybe you could help me anyway.

the is a one edit account witch got personal motivation to delet an article about a journalist and it also seams he got some friends helping him with that. maybe you would be so friendly and have a short objectiv look on this article. and help me a bit in the delet discussion - so far this seams to be not very friedly their and not very objectiv. Michel Von Tell — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adniim- (talk • contribs) 13:19, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

ah i saw you commented this. thank you. so i am not quite sure if you read everything in this mess :) allowed me to give you my arguments why this article should be keeped.

1 .Has been featured multiple times in notable mainstream media. MMnews (alexa rank 500 of germany), Russia today (after cnn biggest news tv of the word), paraguay television and some more. see in article.

2 Has had significant roles in multiple films, shows, or other productions. Films, audio books, shows, books, interviews, articles, big blogs etc see in article (witch was/is still under construction).

3 Has a large fan base.

It of course has! you see about 1 million views on YT. His politic dokumentation alone got about 100 000 views. and this is quite a lot if you keep in mind it is a documentary about geopolitics!! also it is SWITZERLAND - less people then NYC! and this 7 million people their got 4 diffent languages! finaly you see he had very much highly notable guests. and i also showed their the YT channel of the 2 biggest TV stations of the country. www.youtube.com/user/sfr/videos this the offical channel of the 2 biggest tv stations of switzerland SF1 SF2 Schweizer Fernsehen.

have a look at how many views they got and compare please!

and you also know - a single one of this 3 points would be good enough.

are this not quite many good arguments to keep this article? special if you keep in mind how small switzerland is, this article is just under construction? i mean hey. u know as good as me. 30% of Wikipedia got much less sources then this. would be nice if you could think about your voteing or let me know what exactly yor argument is. also i could show you hunderet of journalists witch are listed in wikipedia witch got WAY less sources and notablity then this article. here just some of them.

Osaremen ehi james Larry Izamoje Chief Olu Oyesanya Meir Javedanfar Óðinn Jónsson Juan Bautista Rivarola Matto Leopoldo Ramos Giménez Luis Ruffinelli Alfredo Seiferheld Adriano Irala Fulgencio R. Moreno Sali Nivica Ludmilla Pajo Bedri Pejani Skender Temali Mirko Gashi Mirshahin Agayev Aslan Aslanov Kurt Thyboe Monica Ritterband Henrik Qvortrup Hans Pilgaard

now tell me pls - why they are in and this article is not good enough? what is missing they got? would be nice if you could help me a bit. but anyway thank you for takeing time. Adniim- (talk) 15:23, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

@Adniim-: Hello, Adniim! I'm sorry it took me a while to get back to you--I've been sick. I appreciate that you're trying to prevent that article from being deleted, but it's really not a good idea to try to persuade editors on anywhere but the article's AfD page. It could be seen as canvassing, which is against Wikipedia's rules. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 17:45, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks so much for the advice!!VSmith001 (talk) 18:35, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

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Would you like to OA for a Molecular Biology course project?

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I and User:Keilana are OAs for a course project in Molecular Biology, taught at John Hopkins University for the upcoming Spring, 2014 semester. We ran the same course last semester, and you can check out the course page. I will be putting together the new course pages (two, one each for two sections) for the upcoming semester in the next couple of days.

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Hello

Hi Fiona, can I add something here???? Jim Carter ^(talk) 12:48, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi, do I know you? cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 07:40, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Nope. I just wanted to change your total edits Userbox which I did earlier today without waiting for your reply, sorry for that. Hope your wrist is okay now 0:-) . BTW Fiona, can you translate an article to spanish?? Jim Carter ^(talk) 12:14, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors February 2015 Newsletter Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 38 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were able to remove August 2013 from the general copyediting backlog and November 2014 from the request-page backlog. Many thanks, everyone! Blitz: The February Blitz will run from February 15–21 and again focuses on the requests page. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one request article. Sign up here! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2015 Newsletter Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 21 people who signed up, eight copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: The blitz removed 16 articles from the requests list, and we're almost done with December 2014. Many thanks, everyone! Drive: The month-long March drive begins in about a week. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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April 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2015 Newsletter March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 19–25. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here! May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in December 2013, January and February 2014 and all request articles, begins soon. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

  2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)

  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

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GOCE June 2015 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2015 News May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, and we got within 50 articles of our all-time low in the backlog. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Coordinator elections: Nominations are open through June 15 for GOCE coordinators, with voting from June 16–30. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Thank you as well!

Heyo. Thanks for thanking me but also thanks to you! You made me realize that there were some improvements that could be made to that template and the way it was being implemented. So good work team! high-five. Hope you are having a great monday. --Zackmann08 (talk) 18:49, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

need your kind consideration

Hey...Cymru.lass , can you plz guide me to become a big wikipedian contributor ....--Jogi don (talk) 04:03, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Seattle Wiknic 2015

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Meetup to revitalize & prioritize WikiProject Seattle

In the Seattle area? Edit Wikipedia or Wikimedia sister projects? You are invited to help. Come to our first Meetup to revitalize & prioritize WikiProject Seattle on July 27, 2015, 6pm to 9pm, at Café Allegro

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GOCE August 2015 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors August 2015 Newsletter July drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 24 people who signed up, 17 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. August blitz: The one-week April blitz, targeting biographical articles that have been tagged for copy editing for over a year, will run from August 16–22. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the article list on the blitz page. Sign up here! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis, and Pax85. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikipedia Lab at the UW Research Commons

	What:	Wikipedia Lab
	When:	Weekly on Mondays, starting 10/5/2015 through 11/30/2015, 4:30pm-6:30pm
	Who:	UW students, faculty, and staff; Wikimedians; Seattle community members
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	Focus:	Women and the Sciences in October and Pacific Northwest in November; weekly topics
	Wikipedia Lab at the UW Libraries Research Commons brings together local Wikipedia experts with University of Washington subject specialists and UW community members to learn about editing Wikipedia. Come contribute vital, local, and corrective content to the world's largest online encyclopedia. Come as you are with questions, ideas, or content knowledge to share! The Wikipedia Lab will run weekly, every Monday, during fall quarter. The Lab has two thematic focuses: Women in the Sciences and the Pacific Northwest. Each week will feature a special collections librarian content specialist and Wikipedian editors. Sponsored by the UW Libraries & Wikimedians User Group

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October 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2015 Newsletter September drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 25 editors who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. October blitz: The one-week October blitz, targeting requests, has just concluded. Of the nine editors who signed up, seven copyedited at least one request; check your talk page for your barnstar! The month-long November drive, focusing on our oldest backlog articles (June, July, and August 2014) and the October requests, is just around the corner. Hope to see you there! Thanks again for your support; together, we can improve the encyclopedia! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis and Pax85. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Guild of Copy Editors 2015 End of Year Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2015 End of Year Report Our 2015 End of Year Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page; New record lows in the article backlog and on the Requests page; Coordinator election results; Membership news; Changes around the Guild's pages; Plans for 2016. – Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by Jonesey95 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:41, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia 15 meetup in Seattle

Wikipedia 15 meetup in Seattle, January 16, 2016

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 28 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 17–23. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here! May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in March, April, and May 2015, and all request articles, begins May 1. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis, and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wiki Loves Pride 2016

As a participant of WikiProject LGBT studies, you are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?

1. Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
2. Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
3. Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.

This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.

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June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes! May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography. Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the July Drive! <<<

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Seattle Wiknic 2016

In the Seattle area? You are invited to the Seattle Wiknic 2016 on Saturday, July 16, 2016, noon to 3pm at the Washington Park Arboretum, in the meadow area to the south of the Graham Visitors Center, approximately at 47.637435°N 122.293986°W / 47.637435; -122.293986. Click here for more details!

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the September 2016 GOCE newsletter. >>> Sign up for the September Drive, already in progress! <<< July Drive: The July drive was a roaring success. We set out to remove April, May, and June 2015 from our backlog (our 149 oldest articles), and by 23 July, we were done with those months. We added July 2015 (66 articles) and copy-edited 37 of those. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from June 2016. Well done! Overall, we recorded copy edits to 240 articles by 20 editors, reducing our total backlog to 13 months and 1,656 articles, the second-lowest month-end total ever. August Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 21 through 27 August; the theme was sports-related articles in honor of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Of the eight editors who signed up, five editors removed 11 articles from the backlog. A quiet blitz – everyone must be on vacation. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the September Drive! <<<

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Help in understanding policies

Hello Fiona, I'm completely new to Wikipedia editing. I've been assigned to edit an article to be edited for my course work. I would like to know if I can remove the citation and replace with new ones? Thank you very much!Asmat (talk) 20:58, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello Symru, this is Haifa Alburek a student in Lawrence technological university. This is my first time exploring editing on Wikipedia and I would like to get your help on some basic skills that I need to have in order to start editing. I have chosen an artical on Wikipedia about information processing and it looks like there is couple points that could use some editing, so can you help me figure out in general when looking at articals what are the first thing that I should look for to edit.

Regards~

Haifa ALburekHaifaalburek (talk) 02:19, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello! My name is Kristen and I am a student and new Wikipedia user. We have to introduce ourselves to an ambassador like yourself for an assignment. Your Wikipedia contributions look great, and very interesting. Thanks! Kbaker22 (talk) 13:26, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

New newsletter for Notifications

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