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933:—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody! 2386:, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue. 1945: 1460: 31: 4187: 2196:

elections every two years, and each campaign may have multiple polls, and that the polls are generally meaningless trivia after the election is over, it doesn't seem like a good practice to include them. Third, I see you yourself rewrote the article on the other candidate, yet you have not included the same information in that article. Altogether, I don't see a good reason for that material which is why I deleted it.

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new citations I had located were welcome, without the additional information. I explained my reasoning for the expansion, and his response was a little perplexing -- he's interested in seeing different information added, but indifferent to this. If someone else is OK with adding my material, then he's OK with it. (That whole conversation is

3807: 164:, not Woodruff. Anyway, I changed it to show the Governor because, quite simply, the article was incorrect before. According to the American Samoan Government and their Chief Historian, the Bank of American Samoa was actually established on July 25, 1929, not in 1914. My source is a historical report by the island government 700:, and with my potential COI, I am very cautious about making direct edits without clear consensus. I hope you can take a look at it, and if you agree that it's suitable material, please add it or weigh in on the Talk page. Of course, if you don't think it should be there, I'll work with that, too. Thanks. 213: 2762:

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Can you please help copyedit the article, add pictures, and convert it to Harvnb format? I am not very knowledgable in copyediting and will try to help, but will likely not be of much help. I think I've pretty much covered the scope of the whole article and it may be ready for a GA and FA soon, after

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article, and this past weekend I hit a snag. I had been working with the only other editor active on the page recently, and then late last week I proposed a small expansion to one section. The response from this editor was just that he didn't see why it was important to add more details, although the

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Unfortunately, college keeps me too busy to be involved in Scouts right now, though post-grad I want to sign up as a leader wherever I end up. Glad to see that you actually are in the Order and that I didn't just assume incorrectly lol. Just knew that if you were, Volusia and Brevard County are both

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Yep. The articles in question were ones I had created on asteroids back when those asteroids did not have names. Some of those later got a name, and someone made duplicate articles of them, so I was redirecting the old articles, arranged simply by numbers, to the new ones with the correct new names.

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and I believe we need help from someone expierienced on the video games wikiProject in resolving the dispute. At the minute it is just me and New Age Retro Hippie who are discussing the matter, and I believe we've hit a stalemate (to be honest we keep pretty much keep sending each other 30-paragraph

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I think this format is better because it lets you find the sources faster. I mean this article is no econ history of China, so converting shouldn't be that hard, lol. On the other hand, this article's GAN is really slow; I was the verge of asking the editor who did the GAN for econ history of China,

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Fair enough; your rationale makes sense; I had just forgotten to add it into the other article. However, I had assumed that the information had been lost in the warring over inclusion of the latest ad. As long as it conforms with standard practice not to include it, that's good enough for me. かんぱい！

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Admittedly, I made a very common newbie mistake by not citing or linking to my source. In this case, my source was the actual album box set and the dust jacket of the bonus lp in question. As I have found, many sources on the internet only cite there being 10 lps in the collection, and the only

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First, it doesn't seem that common to include polls in congressional races. Can you point to three articles about House incumbents with the same info? (I'll save you some time - not a single member of the Florida delegation has polling data in their article). Second, considering that there are

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I am glad to have shared that! I find the Governors of US territories like Guam and American Samoa are too often forgotten, and unfortunately I could not find much information on Mr. Boss. I you know of any source of information on him, please add it to the article. かんぱい！

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I think, given international coverage of the incident, we should at least have an article on the event, if not the man. In fact, it would probably be best to have an event article and merge the bio into that, since he is definitely a one-event notable. かんぱい！

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Your draft certainly has enough references to satisfy me as to notability. Please do move it over, as I did not tag for notability, merely for the standard that all BLP have references. Your version would certainly fix that problem. かんぱい！

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The argument, in it's most simple terms, is that only the most notable characters in the game warrant a mention in the article (whether or not you've played the game isn't a problem, don't worry. There is also some additional info on the

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Thanks Scapler, I appreciate the compliment. I do want to make the article better, and I do not mind your edit, I think that your version is quite good. I will post a note on the Scott talk page in a moment and move it over soon.

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Ah, I see. Do you think it would be better to delete the newer ones and move the older ones to the new titles, so the edit history is retained at the primary article, or is there generally not enough history to bother keeping?

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It appears the situation was more complicated than I had first thought. Thank you for the correction and citations to show me where I was wrong. You have improved and clarified the article greatly with your changes. かんぱい！

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Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of

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page as a notable resident. I remember his law offices on the northwest corner of the town square as a teenager in the early sixties but I didn't realize that he had been Governor of Guam.

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I would say there is not enough history worth keeping. They were, on average, only a sentence long, so the newer articles are actually longer, if only by about one sentence. かんぱい！

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As this is my first edit to anything on Wikipeda, I want it to be accurate and want to do things by the book. Any suggestions or tips you can offer would be very much appreciated.

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No problem. Bafflegab 1978 has done most of the work already though. Just convert Econ reform article to harvnb format, go through both articles again, and add a few pics.

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mention I have found anywhere so far to list a bonus lp is an ebay sale that lists a completely different bonus lp. Apparently, they produced more than one variation. (

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If it is, I'll be there to help defend it, since that would simply be a misuse of CSD. The new article is nowhere close to the one that was deleted; good work. かんぱい！

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Hi Scapler, Why did you state that Gov. Woodruff? established the Bank of American Samoa when it was established in 1914, and he was governor from 1927-1929? Regards,

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I saw the quality of your contributions at DYK and clicked on over to your user page and was pretty impressed. Would you be interested in helping with the

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Brilliant job finding that photo of him; I spent a long time looking for one a couple of years ago and couldn't find anything decent, online or offline. -

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Actually, I worked with someone on the Help desk to accomplish this, so never mind! However, I have proposed another relatively significant change on the

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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.

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Thanks, it's now live. Black Kite, the deleting admin, agreed that it meets the GNG. Hopefully it won't be blitzed as a recreation of a deleted article.

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Check p.129 of the same document. Also, Margaret Mead reports meeting the manager of the bank in 1925. Lastly, A. M. Noble, in

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