User talk:Mungo Kitsch/Archive 6

Archive 1

←

Archive 4

Archive 5

Archive 6

Archive 7

Archive 8

Archive 9

Removing Category:Debut albums

Certainly As you can see from my contribs, I have been removing Category:Debut albums as it gets refined--it's a two-step process for me. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:50, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Also For what it's worth, I didn't originally create the scheme for diffusing it; I just figured that I would help implement it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:50, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

No worries Your note is completely legitimate and makes a lot of sense--I'm glad we're on the same page! If you happen to notice any errors I've made, please let me know. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:18, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums#Foreign language in track listings. – Fayenatic (talk) 18:48, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue I, January 2012 Headlines From the team: One year on... USA report: NARA's ExtravaSCANza; Kennedy comes to Commons, new partnership with Delaware Art Museum; Whistler's Mother in high res; brief news UK report: QRpedia codes in Monmouth; brief news France report: Public Domain Day, Workshop and GLAM Toolbox Germany report: Wikipedia Academy; Lange Nächte; QRpedia im Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte Italy report: Old and New Italian GLAMs contributing to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons Mexico report: Content donation in Mexico City Netherlands report: The Teylers Challenge Russia report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Russia Australia and New Zealand report: Australian Paralympic Committee and other Australian and New Zealand GLAM efforts Africa report: Wikipedia on mobile phones in Africa and WikiAfrica welcomes a Wikipedian in residence at the Africa Centre in Cape Town Tool testing report: Testing the tools for GLAM stats and metrics Open Access report: WikiProject Open Access; Featured Frogs; Tool testing Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 20:46, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Heritage (Opeth album)

wouldn't it be nice to show the history of the album by showing it's working title?173.206.146.189 (talk) 18:31, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

well i guess it had to be the name since it didn't have any other.173.206.146.189 (talk) 04:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

WP Rock Music in the Signpost

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Rock Music for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 01:18, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Sakib

can you please review this page: sakib

thanks :)--Historyfeelings - talk 06:58, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

I really appreciate your help in Sakib article, the problem is that english is not my first language, so you might find some mistakes in other sections also.

thanks a lot --Historyfeelings - talk 23:17, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their March 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. 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: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:28, 20 February 2012 (UTC) >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Ichthus: January 2012

ICHTHUS

January 2012

In this issue...

• From the Editor
• What are You doing For Lent?
• Fun and Exciting Contest Launched
• Spotlight on WikiProject Catholicism

---

Ichthus is published by WikiProject Christianity
For submissions and subscriptions contact the Newsroom

thanks

I do really appreciate your kindness --Historyfeelings - talk 04:54, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue II, February 2012 Headlines USA report: GLAMcamp DC, Princeton Edit-a-Thon, new social media UK report: British Library seek Wikipedian in Residence; Black Country Museum Backstage Pass France report: Continuation of the GLAM projects, GLAM Conference in Belgrade Germany report: Cultural Partnerships coordinator for Germany Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments, Gruppo Archeologico Ambrosiano and Wikipedian in Residence Course in Milan Czech Republic report: Second Czech GLAM meeting; Current state of Czech GLAM; Serbian Conference; Czech Republic to join Wiki Loves Monuments Netherlands report: The Teylers Challenge Australia and New Zealand report: Australian GLAM efforts: Sports, Libraries and other cultural institutions Israel report: GLAM:NLI Project Report, New GLAM-IL Collaborations, GLAM-IL Mailing List Africa report: Wikimedia Kenya and New Institutions Contributing to African Knowledge on Wikipedia Russia report: GLAM in Russia: RIA Novosti Sweden report: GLAM in Sweden; white paper starte Denmark report: Wikipedian-in-Residence at Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen India report: Collaboration with Crafts Museum Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments: worldwide in 2012 Tool testing report: BaGLAMa now with timelines; Linkypedia is back; AmalGLAMate; Xmas bug; Toolserver problems Open Access report: Ten years "Open Access"; chameleons, bees, copyright Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 20:15, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Life Metal

I have seen this edit on my watchlist. Life Metal is a term used by members of the Black Metal scene for bands with a Death Metal style that don’t worship death but sing about fun or social issues etc.; but I have also seen it being used for Graveland (NS/Pagan Metal band) and Nargaroth (no death worship either; by the way, I had to undo edits there myself), which are both not Satanic and therefore no true Black Metal bands (I hope you know that this is the traditional definition of Black Metal and that you won’t reply to my explanation with that whole “genre warrior” bullshit like some other users did). --217/83 12:35, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Katatonia

My intentions were not to update everything. So what shall we do bout the drums?October 010 (talk) 22:32, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm not disputed anything you have said which is probably right but what you hav said is like also asking why when album says on article its released for example in aug 1999 but recorded in feb 1999, why would that be posted. I believe it shows the timeline of the album because the recording i believe is more important than the release because the recording was obviously first before the release in a way showing the release doesn't even matter.October 010 (talk) 19:14, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue III, March 2012 Headlines USA report: Latest Wikipedian in Residence at Smithsonian; paid Wikipedian in Residence positions listed UK report: QRpedia goes to Church; edit-a-thon at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry Spain report: Figueres Edit-a-thon; GLAM workshop for museum professionals and educators France report: New partnerships and progress of many projects Germany report: Leipzig Book Fair; More on the Long Nights Russia report: GLAM in Russia Bulgaria report: GLAM in Bulgaria Serbia report: Open Wiki GLAM of Serbia Conference, The internal meeting Chile report: First Latin American GLAM-WIKI conference hosted in Santiago Mexico report: Edit-a-thon at Museo de Arte Popular Africa report: 55 GLAMs contributes to African contents on Wikipedia Australia and New Zealand report: Australian and New Zealand GLAM efforts Open Access report: Scholarly journal goes wiki; Open Access Media Importer takes shape Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 18:46, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months. Progress report During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot (talk) 21:53, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Impiety (band)

Hi there. Would you mind having a look at this for me - Impiety (band)? I'm having some difficulties explaining the concept of WP:RS to an anon user who has just contravened 3RR. Cheers, Blackmetalbaz (talk) 13:02, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

A couple things:

1. I'm sorry you've had no luck at ANI with that IP, but I saw that you reposted it, and I'll continue to try to help if I can with that.
2. Thanks for your help/comments regarding Alice In Chains and genre related stuff.
3. I felt like this conversation may be of interest of you. It's nothing too major, and I've already tried to "clear your good name", but I figured you may want to say something too, (and I'd want to know if it were regarding me.) It's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Metalvayne#Highly_unlikely... Sergecross73 msg me 14:28, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

IP #90

Wow, you're right. They appear to be extremely irritating! I'd not particularly noticed any particular set of IPs until you mentioned it, but yes, it would be nice if a range-block were possible. I have no idea whether that is technologically feasible though. But then, I'm one of those people that thinks everyone should have to sign up to edit. It would cut down the vandalism and genre-warring to a massive degree. Blackmetalbaz (talk) 11:25, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Citing websites

Hi there. I was reading the Weather Systems (Anathema album) article, and checked out the citations provided. I wonder if you know of Template:Cite web, it provides formatting to supply citations from websites. (I know it is highly unlikely given your veteran editor barnstar, still)(Oops, posted on User page instead of Talk, fixed) :) Easwarno1 (talk) 22:58, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Cool. I just figure that the cite web template provides more organization to a citation and provides a set of attributes that can be searched for by future editors when link-rot occurs. To each their own though, I guess. Easwarno1 (talk) 01:13, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Genre warrior

I seem to have had a very productive email exchange with Sky Broadband's abuse line, and they say they have suspended the user in question. Please let me know if his activities start up again. Someguy1221 (talk) 18:45, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Hey, that's awesome! Thanks a lot for the help, and I'm glad that the exchange with Sky Broadband was productive. I can be a little more at ease now. Backtable ^{Speak to me}_{concerning my deeds.} 21:39, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their May 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. 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: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot (talk) 18:15, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Lillian Schwartz

Hi, Regarding the edits to that page, you should probably be aware of Talk:Shroud_of_Turin#Lillian_Schwartz as well. I have refereed the issue to the volunteer response team based on the advice of moonriddengirl. But you should probably know the context. Cheers. History2007 (talk) 12:34, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue IV, April 2012 Headlines USA report: Wikimedia presence at American Association of Museums; Oregon Historical County Records mass upload; brief news UK report: MonmouthpediA project; first QRpedia railway station Spain report: Augmented Reality; emerging artists internship; workshop for museum professionals France report: Release of content and outreach Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon at Teylers Museum Germany report: Long Nights; Wikipedia Academy; Wikipedia meets Museums, GLAM coordinator; Wikipedian in residence vacancy; Open GLAM workshop Australia and New Zealand report: Australian and New Zealand GLAM efforts Israel report: GLAM:NLI Edit-a-thon; Two Wikipedian-in-Residence positions Sweden report: Wikipedian in Residence at the Swedish National Heritage Board Bulgaria report: State Archive, Zoo and Natural History Museum Open Access report: Journal meets Wikipedia; presentations at OA and Wikimedia conferences Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 19:10, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Guy that called Wolves in the Throne Room a hipster band

...Why could I not stop laughing at your revert? I feel that was definitely trolling • GunMetal Angel 08:56, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Common Dead

I was directed by TParis related to this article: Should I take it to DRV since the article didn't changed it that much since the last AfD? (or is it even a G4?) The article in question was not deleted after the AfD, but moved to the Incubator and since a few days it was moved back to mainspace. As I said the page didn't improved that much... mabdul 21:02, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello, and sorry for my late response. You could try to put it up for deletion review if you want to, but the person behind this article would probably have to know about that. About the previous AFD, I was not aware of that before you had brought it up on my talk page. The source citation for the Common Dead page could use some improvement, and I don't know how many sources are reliable. Thank you for the message. Backtable ^{Speak to me}_{concerning my deeds.} 01:41, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

FYI: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 May 9. mabdul 10:44, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

May 2012

I have a specific issue with anon IP editing to the Sylosis article. As usual it is genre warring. Band is sourced as a number of specific genres in reliable sources, but a number of anon IPs seem to want to draw me into a slow-motion edit war. Obviously, I am unprepared to do this, so your input would be welcomed; a general revert to sourced content and semi-protection strikes me as appropriate, but that is an admin decision to make. Cheers in advance, Blackmetalbaz (talk) 20:41, 9 May 2012 (UTC) 20:37, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles. Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 14:14, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Discussion input request

Hi,

Last month I moved the list of experimental metal artists to its own list. Some of the entries have been challenged, and the discussion has stalled, as only me and the challenging editor have commented. I really don't care if the entries stay or are removed, I just want to get some third opinions. Check the talk page for the discussion. Oh, and King Crimson is one of the entries involved. Since you seem to do a lot on Wikipedia about this band, I thought that this might interest you.

Thanks, --¿3family6 _contribs 20:12, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Funeral (band) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Funeral (band) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Funeral (band) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. meco (talk) 21:26, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue V, May 2012 Headlines USA report: OCLC announces Wikipedian in Residence; 2 edit-a-thons; US cultural partnerships report; brief news UK report: Monmouthpedia launches; British Library Wikipedian in Residence Spain report: Wikipedian in Residence at National Art Museum; Wikimedia representation at MuseumNext France report: Cultural lobbying; current and future projects Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments and Case Studies Germany report: GLAM work in cities across Germany Sweden report: GLAM handbook released; Europeana Awareness project launched Mexico report: Collaborating with local artisans through Museo de Arte Popular Africa report: Lagos Black Heritage Festival and Case Studies Australia and New Zealand report: Wikimedia representation at Intelligent Info conference; editing workshops Open Access report: Open Access developments: politics and software Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 21:26, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 15:16, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their July 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on July 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on July 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to eliminate the articles tagged in April, May and June 2011 from the queue and to complete all requests placed before the end of June. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 6 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in April–June 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:44, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Signify question

Hey Backtable. So, kind of funny, I responded to a question you posed almost three years ago at the Signify talk page, and I thought I'd let you know, since its been so long, that I actually provided some thoughts in response. I don't know if you remember asking, still care anymore, or maybe found an answer long ago, and I'm wrong, but I thought I'd throw that out there, in case I could be helpful, or if you could correct me if you had found out otherwise in the meantime. Let me know. Thanks! Sergecross73 msg me 17:59, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Template:Soviet Spies

You seem to have been a major contributor to Template:Soviet Spies: would you mind taking a look to see whether I have added a number of names correctly? It's my first time to edit a template... Many thanks - Aboudaqn (talk) 14:10, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue VI, June 2012 Headlines From the team: We want your feedback! USA report: Walters Museum upload, GLAM Consortium, QRpedia in Congressional Cemetery UK report: National Archives digitisation grant; WWI edit-a-thon; brief news Italy report: New case studies and featured contents from Italian GLAMs Germany report: Long nights; New Wikimedians in Residence; Wikipedia Academy & Zedler Prize Sweden report: Council of Central Museums co-operation Austria report: WikiCon 2012; Zedler Prize Finland report: Open Knowledge Festival Africa report: WikiAfrica Content Partnerships and Knowledge Projects Australia and New Zealand report: Workshops in Queensland; Creative Commons activity Open Access report: Obama petition; SpringerImages; World Open Educational Resources Congress; Wikipedia Academy; Wikipedia Cite-o-meter Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 12:46, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Angela Hacker

Since you were in the Angela Hacker merge discussion, can I also get your opinion on another country music related merger here? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:50, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 25 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—May, June, and July 2011—by about 40%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 264 articles so far, to around 2500 articles. Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, your best copy-editing work of the month will be eligible for fabulous prizes! See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:24, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 45 people who signed up this drive, 31 have copy-edited at least one article. Lfstevens continues to carry most of the weight, having edited 360 articles and over a quarter of a million words already. Thanks to all who have participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, will be available early in August here. Progress report: We are once again very close to achieving in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog. Only 35 such articles remain at press time. The total backlog currently sits at under 2400 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We are just two articles away from completing all requests made before July 2012 (both are in progress). Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, you'll be able to submit your best copy-editing work for palaver, praise, and prizes. See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 23:48, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue VII, July 2012 Headlines USA report: World Digital Library Wikipedian in Residence UK report: British Library update; UK representation at Wikimania 2012; brief news Spain report: Wikipedian in Residence for a whole town; Backstage Pass at National Art Museum of Catalonia Germany report: Wikipedian in Residence updates; WikiCon 2012; Hamburgmuseum workshop Italy report: July's case studies shed new light on African GLAMs Mexico report: Second editathon with Wikipedia Student Clubs; participation in Mexico City's Creative Commons Film Festival; private art gallery donates 650+ images Africa report: A month in Africa's GLAMs Wikimania report: Wikimania gets GLAMorous Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Year 2 of Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science; Open Access Media Importer tested; WikiProject Medicine goes publishing Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 17:20, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 drive barnstar!

		The Minor Barnstar
		Thanks for your participation in the July 2012 drive. We hope you'll join us again! —Torchiest talkedits 01:22, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Your request to block 24.56.44.192

Hi. I declined your request to block this IP. It wasn't clear to me that this person was editing in bad faith -- is there more to this story that I don't know? I see you gave him two pretty severe warnings then asked to have him blocked.

Thanks for clarifying for me. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:29, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello, and thanks for getting back to me on this. I can respect the fact that you declined the block, because maybe the individual has not performed enough activity to warrant such discipline. But as I said in the block request, all the editing this person has done is change the genre listings of band and album pages, with no discussion or effort to reach concensus at all. All edits from that IP have been article edits. I can respect that you would like to see if this person persists, and I saw the message you left on their user talk page.

By the way, since I had posted that block request, the IP has performed this edit on the All That Remains (band) page. The edit has since been reverted. Backtable ^{Speak to me}_{concerning my deeds.} 05:00, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

ANI discussion

Hi Backtable. I know you've dealt with User:Metalvayne in the past. There's a discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Disruptive_editing_by_User:Metalvayne - if there's anything you'd like to add. Thanks! Sergecross73 msg me 13:06, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

GOCE news and September drive invitation

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events: The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best August copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC). September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit the articles tagged longest ago and to complete all requests placed before the end of August. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top six in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". This drive features a much easier signup process. We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:43, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Question concerning comments on the ANI board.

I've just now brought this up in the discussion over genre-warring on the ANI board, but just in case you're no longer following the conversation I thought I'd mention it here: If I, or another editor were to remove the genre parameter from the affected pages in question like you have suggested, would you, or any editors you know support it? And would the ANI board be an appropriate place to gather consensus on the subject? Thank you. Friginator (talk) 01:34, 27 August 2012 (UTC)