User talk:Diannaa/Archive 3

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political/philosophical beliefs. Therefore, I recommend that the edits by anonymous users should not be taken lightly as "vandalism," but that they be treated in the same fashion as those edits by people who have an account already. That is, I hope there is no profiling. There should be no difference whatsoever between the credibility given to a regular registered member and that given to an anonymous editor: both should be verified, none should be presumed guilty of vandalism. As someone who is likely to become an administrator, I beseech you to maintain this tradition. --

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the RfA. Editors would then appeal for more privileges. (Of course, it's not simple at the technical level). Your desire to work on copyright violations as an administrator shows the limits of this approach. An admin account needs a wide variety of privileges to do such work. In contrast, working on WP:CSD, WP:AIV, WP:UAA, etc could be done with restricted-privilege accounts. Myself, I do mostly policing work yet I rarely feel the need for admin privileges. --

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lead that does not appear elsewhere in the article (or add things to the article that only appear in the lead). If there are no further facts available for his early years, you could trim the more recent years slightly to compensate. I am glad you seem to have a thick skin, as this is a lot of news to hear at once. I will put a note on the talk page when my bit is done. Regards, --

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the number of words in the readable prose section of the article (excluding text in tables and lists, etc). You should record the number of words present in the article before you begin working (you can get it out of the history later, if need be) and report the article length on the record page for the drive. Full instructions can be found at

4137: 3136:. The better thing to have done would have been to have deleted it manually with an edit summary that included a direct link to a discussion on the talk page begun by the editor removing the content. Then a discussion could have ensued between regular editors of the article and a consensus arrived at. I fear that a new editor may have been 3315:. The first two passed a PR, and the last one is currently listed among PR requests. However before I submit any of the above for GAN, I'd like to have them copyedited since I'm not a native speaker of English. Would you please copyedit at least one of those three? All of them are currently listed at WP:GOCE requests. Thanks!-- 4092:. If you accept the nomination, you must state and sign your acceptance. You may also choose to make a statement and/or answer the optional questions to supplement the information your nominator has given. Once you are satisfied with the page, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so. 3799:. Obviously there is some overlap so the best place to start is the "Category" and then move to the "List" and send to anyone on the list who is not a member of the category. OK? I will take the back half of the alphabet (M through Z) and you can do from the beginning to and including the letter L. What say you?-- 4845:

I wish you luck with the RfA. I don't pay enough attention to them to guess how likely yours is to pass. I've always thought the RfA process shows the Knowledge bureaucracy at its worst. They should simply give editors a second account with Admin privileges limited to a narrow scope as agreed upon in

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You are absolutely right. But the main reason that your edits were reverted is because you removed large blocks of content without explanation, and the patrolling software we use picks up that kind of edit and draws our attention to it when it is done by IPs or newly created accounts. Once you create

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A specific change I made to this article was changing the word "mobilisation" to "troops" because I felt the reader would think he was running from the Soviet invaders. The Soviets had in fact invaded in June 1940 and by 1941 were mobilising to repel the Germans, who had by then decided to invade the

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Yes, now I get it. When patrolling with Huggle, we should be looking strictly for vandalism. Other types of material we wish to see removed should be done using the B-R-D cycle. If we are not interested in getting involved in talk page discussion to justify removal of the content, we should leave the

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I have to disagree with reverting this edit once the editor provided a citation from a large-circulation daily from a major metropolis. Biographies are meant to inform the reader about the person who is the subject of the biography. Thus, information of the sort presented in that interview, no matter

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I have added the template as requested. If your GA reveiewer feels it needs further copy editing please let me know and I will go over it again. Not too many copy editors are drawing from the requests page right now so it is hard to find time to get them all done. So sorry you had such a long wait. I

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No, it's great advice, and I will re-read it tomorrow to be sure that I understood it all. I have been on Knowledge for nearly a year but only recently took up vandal-fighting to add variety to my activities, so I don't mind the help. You are right; every time I start up Huggle there are typically at

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Yes, the work is good. Another editor has reveiwed it as well and has placed some comments on your talk page. You need to keep a running total of your word count by adding up the words from all the articles that you edit. I have done this for the first two to get you started. Thank you very much for

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My work on this page has wrongfully been tagged as "vandalism." Erroneous content has been added to the page and it needs to be reverted to a previous version with the correct content. Two issues: the date of the game for eighth place is incorrect, since all the sources report it as 2 Sept. 1920 and

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That's good to hear. I just wanted to reassure you that everything posted on the list will be dealt with, and several of us have the skills to get you to GA or even FA. I am working through the list in the order things were posted, even though you also requested edits on my page, because some people

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Hi, and thanks for participating in the drive. Editors will receive one barnstar for word count at the end of the drive. It is possible to win additional barnstars for appearing on the leader board, copy editing the largest article, and so on, but each person who qualifies for a word count barnstar

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Hi, and thank you for signing up for the copy edit drive. During drives, we keep track of the number of articles we edit and the word count, using the word count of the article before we start the copy edit (typically the articles shrink a bit during the editing). The Page Size script will give you

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issues. I agree that the addition was not well-worded and was not well-integrated into the article. But, once cited, it is not for us to remove via Huggle. It would have been for regular editors of the article to remove through discussion on the article’s talk page. Once the editor had a source, it

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Another example occurs when an editor adds something unsourced to an article. HG and the “Failing to cite a verifiable reliable source” warning may not apply since it is only for extraordinary statements whose unsourced presence could harm Knowledge. If the unsourced statement does not rise to that

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If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the July 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, you may have earned rollover words, which counted towards this month's barnstars (except for the leaderboard awards). Any unused word credits will be held over for the

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Hi, thank you for your kind words. You will be very close to ready for your next nomination when I am done, so please be sure to check out the review and address the other concerns as well, such as locating any missing citations. If I spot anything unsourced I will tag it. Remove anything from the

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Thank you for the modest barnstar. It is nice about what happened in the September drive, especially since there were only 13 articles remaining from 2008. I wasn't as active in this drive as I was in July (school might have something to do with it, because July was a summer vacation month for me,

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Hi Diannaa, This is about Rajput page. In Sanskrit, semen means reta or shukra, it does not mean ruj.I have checked the online dictionary from English to Sanskrit.The user Ikonoblast has changed the word Rajput to Rujput in Hindi.The word semen is obscene as well as offensive and against the Wiki

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anonymous if you create an account, because when you edit as an IP anyone (not just administrators) can geolocate you using your IP address. Some IPs can be geolocated to a specific building such as a library or school. I actually believe editing using an account has advantages, and that is why I

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Not at all; I have mostly been copy editing during my tenure here and only recently started fighting vandals, so I welcome any advice and tips. Huggle issues a level one to start and reports automatically after there are four on the board. That is why I worded it that way. You are right; before I

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Ok, I get it. I am glad there are bots and experienced users to help with stuff! This business recently about getting bite-y towards vandals made me more cognisant that when I am saying, yeah, Mr. IP, that's a great edit, that I should be adding a "Welcome" template to their talk page. We need to

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See that, Elen? This Diannaa woman is as sharp as a tack! Those of us who have been admins longer (like five months ;) ) can't get our neurons going in the morning without a heavy dose of coffee, and that's why we keep electing new admins, to provide a fresh supply of the junior admins to make

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will appreciate the assistance. Much of the work there can be done by people without admin tools, so I will be able to get my feet wet first. I think low level policing work is something I will attempt initially as well. I will have a lot of studying to do, though, before I will feel comfortable

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Greetings, Diannaa; I've got a question about the drive's awarding system. There are awards offered for those who copyedit articles with a 4000 word count, 8000 word count, 12000 word count, and so on. Do we get these individual awards as we go along, or are they all saved up for the end of the

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It’s good that you waited a year. That’s why you’re good at assessing what is or is not a good edit. I do not agree with the consensus among many Wikipedians that vandal fighting is a newbie task. I think that one needs editing experience to be good at analyzing and deliberating over each edit.

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Hi, Thanks for your hard work cleaning up the verbal carnage at USS Mississippi. Just kidding, but I do need someone to follow in my wake to tidy up. My wife does this in real life, but would shoot me if she knew how much time I've spent on this article (or at WP in general). I have one

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to rock magazine Revolver that she's watched pornography." their edit summary: "Porn update." I just don't feel it's encyclopedic to include it; Knowledge is not a supermarket tabloid. However, it seems Momsen's intent was to shock with these remarks, so perhaps she would not mind the content

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The main thing I do when copy editing is to make the language simpler and more direct; remove any emotional content, unless it is covered by the sources; remove the words "also" and "however", which are just about always expendable; and or course look at grammar and spelling and all those

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Hi Diannaa. Thank you for your help.I am afraid the offensive word is still there.It is on the top right hand side of the main Rajput page, underneath where it says "castes of India".If you could replace the present page with what it was on the 15th Oct. 2010,that would be great.Thanks a

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If it is not too much of a hassle, may I ask you for any thoughts regarding the style and grammar (or anything else) in the article? Is there something I should pay more attention to? This is my first article and I would really like the next ones to be, well... less awful. Thanks again!

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Yes, I have. Anyone who thinks this job is glamourous should give it a try (spoiler alert: it's not)! I have also been doing lots of waiting and observing how other admins handle some of the less clear-cut work. It's been a great experience so far. Thanks for your supportive comments.

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creating an account. I'd contend we, anonymous editors, are responsible for about half of all the material made available, and the creation of some of the most sensible rules related to editing and formatting. There are many reasons for not creating an account, from paranoia to

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Hi Diannaa! I just joined the Copy Editor's Guild and I wanted to know something. If I edited an article listed in the back log, do I just remove the article from the back log and remove the tag? Or do I need to let someone know first? Please let me know as soon as you can! :)

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Elen has already copied it, and I have added the scintillating title. Elen, Thanks, I will always feel like we graduated from college together, since we both got our admin tools around the same time. Though I feel like I have a lot more studying yet ahead of me, for sure.

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deleting articles. The RFA has shown some gaps in my knowledge! This type of feedback is one reason why I accepted the nomination so early in my Knowledge career: It can act as a tool to further development. Thank you very much for your supportive comments. --

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About the last point: I preferred "mobilization" since that was the term actually used in the original source. Anyway, thanks for all the helpful suggestions! I hope the next time you happen to copy edit an article of mine, it will be a much simpler task.

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I am not convinced. I think the person just posted it because it was sensational. It is actually no more relevant to her career as would be, say, her taste in TV shows. You can tell they intended it to be sensational by the way they worded it: "Momsen is

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Please don't take it personally. I am criticising the edit, not you personally. You are not being attacked. It is not necessary or desirable to insert a lengthy quote from the source in the article. That is not the usual way to do it. Have a look at any

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whats going on.. on the hunger for more 2 section for trackstar u have produced by kanye when i (Cardiak) produced the record and everytime i put my name u change it back to kanye... i have produced 3 beats on the album and trackstar is one of them

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Hello, thank you so much for offering to copy-edit this article. I think that if this article gets a copy-edit it will be able to pass the GA review. As you can see from the last review, prose was the main reason it failed. Once again, thanks.

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page. I am looking for areas in which I can improve. I have identified you as both an experienced and trusted Wikipedian, and as someone that has had sufficient contact with me to able to recognize areas in which I can improve.

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No worries; everyone's brains get a little muddled when discussing certain topics (sex, the Middle East, parenting; I could go on). I will let IGeMiNix know about this further discussion in case they are not watching this page.

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page and see if there is anything else they have done that needs cleaning up. You can do the cleanup with HG. It will not issue further warning templates if the editor has not edited since the last warning, but it will make the

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area. So the troops he was hiding from in the summer of 1941 may have been Soviets but they were not in the process of invading the country at the time. It's your call as to how much of this you need to include in the article.

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policy. I think the user Ikonoblast is biased towards rajputs and the views expressed are not neautral.Could you please remove the obscene and offensive word ruj in Hindi and replace it with the original word Raj. Thank you.

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It seems I'm late, but congratulations. I'm sure you'll do a good job. Feel free to ping me if you need anything (except advice on A7, but, other than that, anything!). I see you're already putting your new buttons to use.

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Do you want to do it tonight? SMasters is on the sleepy-time side of the planet, I think, so it would be just you and me. There are 345 in the Category:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors members and about 200 listed on the

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And in the course of trying to make a perfectly unobjectionable correction to an article that appeared on the front page and that I happened to see had an error in it, I've been accused of being a vandal and a plagiarist.

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Hi, I have done all of the leaderboard, but I have to stop now. I will continue later but if you have time, please feel free to go down the list, and I will go up the list so that we don't have an edit conflict. Cheers. -

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A huge "thank you" to all editors who helped clear the backlog and to others who helped out behind-the-scenes. See you at the next drive, and until then, please continue to help us work through the backlog. Happy editing!

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so we can transclude from there. After you are done your section of the alphabet in the "category", you can do the same letters of the alphabet from the "list". That part will go fast because the names will be familiar.

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to someone else's talk page, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. In addition, you can spread the sunshine to anyone who visits your userpage and/or talk page by adding

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I have removed the Sanskrit stuff that Ikonoblast had added, and also a maintenance tag he placed on the article. Thank you for reporting this. My apologies that this content remained on the page for so long.

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pushing his agenda of Ronald Reagan. They are all on a proxy, as seen the University of Sydney tag on his page and how their IP only ranges by 1. Also, I restored your report as a bot removed it by accident.--

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I would say that, overall, anywhere from one-third to one-half of the work I do when on vandalism patrol is done manually, where HG just takes me to the article to be dealt with. Sorry to be so long-winded. —

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Hey, that's good news. Thank you for your kind words and your participation in our efforts. I am gonna chip away at the remianing 2008 articles so they will be cleaned up, I hope, when the next drive starts.

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drive? I'm asking because a number of us have already gathered enough words for the 4000-related award, and some have even gotten enough for the 8000 one, but nobody appears to have received anything yet.

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I replaced the maintenance tags because it looked like the person who removed them had a COI. But the peculiar thing is, virtually everyone editing the article seems to have a COI or is a single purpose

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Or nominate some. (And darned if I hadn't been planning to browbeat you into an RFA around February.) It seems like everyone I decide should be an admin ends up getting nominated one way or another.

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template to the editor’s page. That template indicates that a source is necessary, but does not indicate that the edit was reverted. You can use HG to apply the template without letting HG revert.

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With the greatest of respect, what her mom might think, and what were her reasons for saying it, are not relevant. Nor are the motives of the editor adding the text relevant. All that matters is

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The phrase "On 3 April 1944, however, she provided fighter support for an air strike on the German battleship Tirpitz in Altafjord, Norway, which disabled the German ship for three months." is

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Many thanks on a thorough and very good copyedit! I usually have to go back and correct various distortions that copyeditors have inadvertently introduced, but your job was excellent! Cheers,

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Thanks. Please go over the article and look for factual errors that may have been introduced. Sometimes I took an educated guess at the meaning of passages, especially in the plot section. --

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qustions though, "Greek Navy" or "Greek navy" -- we have it both ways. I think that we are consistent with "U.S. Navy", so should we follow this with the Greeks. Talk to you soon. Kevin --

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a "copyright violation"? (It would be an "edit war" if I insisted on adding back in the quoted material; if the other editor thinks the article is better off with just a link, fine by me.)

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Excellent. This is all going according to plan. Now I can move my timetable for complete and utter world domination up by 27 minutes and 4 seconds (it's meticulously detailed, you see...)

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Until all the refereces have citation info that at least identifies the source and date, I'd like some sort of tag on the article identifying this need per my comments on the talk page. --

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Many thanks for the excellent and thorough copyediting of the Harry Männil article! I was pleasantly surprised to see that you even looked up a few additional details from the references.

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template to an IP editor’s talk page. I think that that is a great thing since it encourages good IP editors to keep up the good work. I did, however, want to mention two things to you:

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The way we write Knowledge articles is we write an article and quote our sources. We do not make extensive quotations from copyright material to produce the articles. We actually write

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Hi Tony, thank you very much. You should also mention that I am a member of the Guild of Copy Editors as I have been quite active in that organisation. Otherwise the blurb is great. --

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I declined your CSD tagging of this article as geographic articles are not subject to speedy deletion under A7. You will need to place an AfD if you wish to pursue deletion. --

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least two or three other people vandal hunting at the same time, so there is no rush to get things done. Someone else can be reverting while I am off investigating something. --

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Actually I usually do all similar barnstars at one, to avoid work (the bane of existence). I will do all the "Modest" barnstars before I go out. Thanks for your help so far. --

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If there is more than one person editing on this IP I wish the constructive one would open an account. but they could indeed both be the same person. Thanks for the link. --

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The initial point you were trying to incorporate into the article (five were converted and three were scrapped) has now been included in the article along with a source. --

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The phrase " In September 1943, she supported the invasion of Italy at Salerno. The ship was redesignated CVE-6 by the American Navy on 15 July 1943" is word for word from

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Thank you so much for taking the time to respond at the RFA. You obviously put a lot of thought into your !vote, and the feedback it provides is very valuable. Regards, --

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Please feel free to visit and post any comments or criticism you have. At a certain point, I cannot improve if no one tells me what I need to work on. Thanks in advance,

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Don't use the phrase "according to officials" or similar. It sounds like you don't trust your sources. I changed this to read "Männil was accused" and "officials stated".

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Yes! You know, I should have started out with that. You’ve said in just a few sentences what I took paragraphs to muddle through. Sorry for not being clearer. Thanks! —

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the source for the bob nudd update is from the credits of the movie. if your dont believe the validity of the item in question watch the film before deleting the post.

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It is a fact that the New York Yankees are winning the 2010 American League Championship Series. I just traveled from the future and saw the Yankees win this game.

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Funny, I was just thinking exactly the same thing - it's as if we graduated together :) Not sure what Courcelles means, but if he's buying, mine's a cappucino :) --

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Can I just semi-protect my User page while leaving my talk page unprotected? Vandalism on the user page is unacceptable to me. And, my user page in particular has

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level (e.g., adding to a culinary article about a certain dish that some cooks use margarine instead of butter), then it is more appropriate to manually add a

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Don't read things into events. for example, "he was forced to escape" is just as clear when expressed "he escaped". It actually sounds more lively and direct.

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how distasetful, is nevertheless informative as to the nature of the person that is Taylor Momsen, the subject of the wikiarticle. Thus, it is encyclopedic,

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I saw that one but I don't think it's enough yet. We should wait for a major newspaper or wire service to carry the story. We have to be very careful about

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for which we then incorporate footnotes. to do otherwise is plagiarism and a violation of copyright law. I will post some useful links on your talk page. --

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and I had more time to kill), but I did learn some worthy information. I'll be signing up for the November drive; I do like these drives and their motives.

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Hi, sorry for not responding earlier; it was bedtime. It looks like "vandalism" is too strong a word, since you did explain the removal of the content. --

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Why did you reverse my edits? I dont put untrue things and dont like em.How it displeased you? The truth is truth and historians must put it correctly.

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Congratulations! If you need any help or advice, feel free to give me a shout. My monobook script thingy has lots of useful admin related scripts, as do

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installed Huggle I used to report and obtain blocks without four warnings having been issued. I am glad you posted a clarification (for both of us!) --

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I saw that! And I foresee a Yankees win as well. But we will still have to wait for it to appear in the papers before we add it to the encyclopedia. --

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Thanks! Looks like two factions edit-warring. Hopefully they'll respond to my talk page discussion, especially about making his notability clear. --

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Now we're up to question number three (although at least question number two has been answered): Is quoting material (inside quotations marks) in a

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template: it lets you optionally indicate a particular article for which you want to commend them, and, most importantly, it encourages the anon to

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Looks like somebody beat us to it. I'm not exactly sure which one to go with at this point: the one on my subpage or the one on the drive subpage.

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and thus is a copyright violation. If you cut and pasted this material from other wikipedia articles they too are in violation of copyright law. --

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You're welcome. I am gonna keep an eye on things for a while. Sandy herself said the article was over the hump, so Maybe - - *fingers crossed* --

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I add my congratulations. You have lots of support! Speaking at least for myself, we at the GOCE are glad to have (another) admin in our ranks. –

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next drive, as long as you participated in the September drive. Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars.

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You can remove the tag yourself when you are satisfied that the article is OK. If you would like your work checked, just post a message on the

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Yes, you sure can just get your main page protected and leave your talk page as-is. It is important that IPs have a way to contact you. --

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I semiprotected your talk page for 24 hours. I didn't realize at first you were an admin, so if you want, feel free to unprotect/extend.

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and do a peer review on it. Not an actual peer review but similar to that? And also can you quick copy edit it for me too? :) thanks--

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have to take the time to follow my own interests as well or Knowledge is no longer fun. I have an article in progress and will look at

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I see you have added these both to the Requests page. That's a good idea. I will get through as many of these as possible before the

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I investigated and am pretty sure the article was better before. I will add it to my watch list for a while and see what happens. --

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ok i did it the way u said do it..... but i just wanted to correct it and it has been getting chaned for a couple of days now...

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I just wanted to say I'm sorry I couldn't support, that it's nothing personal and, whatever the outcome, my door is always open.

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The recent edit, although it is true, seems rather questionable for it to be on a Knowledge page. Does it even belong there?--

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In the final part of our series on copyright, Moonriddengirl describes how to deal with copyright infringements on Knowledge

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I didn't get to the discussion soon enough, but you have my complete support in your new role as administrator. Congrats!

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Thanks. There are also some helpful edits coming from that wifi so it would be a shame to block the good with the bad. --

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Hi, you are right, not only are they an SPA, they are blocked. Thank you for catching this mistake, and my apologies. --

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Thanks for copyedting Varahi. Would you please add the on the article talk acknowledging the GOCE copyedit? Thanks. --

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Our newest A-class medal recipients, this September's top contestants, plus the reviewers' Roll of Honour (Apr-Sep 2010)

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I don't think it belongs there. In fact I removed it also. The subject is a minor, and the post is not encyclopedic. --

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But, with my talk page I’d like to leave it unprotected. I like responding to the nasties, taking them seriously. (see

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You're welcome. You can get your page semi'd if you want to. They can also revdel those nasties for you if you like. --

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Hello Diannaa, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of

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Thank you so much for your help! :) By the way, I have also signed up to help for the November drive. Can't wait!!

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Just think, not even one morning Elen had to provide the coffee. You, on the other hand, might get three or four!

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How peculiar. Sorry about that. I will see if the actual person I was trying to send a message to got anything. --

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Probably best to capitalise it same as we did for the US Navy. Good catch. I will fix this before I go to work. --

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Well of course I laughed; you just could not hear me through the internetz. Must be a bad connection. Dang that

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on Halloween. Hopefully these have made your Halloween (and the proceeding days) much sweeter. Happy Halloween!

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Thank you for mediating on recent edits for article “Petar i Zli Vuci”. I really appreciate your objectivity. (

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By the way, I did a search on Google News and found nothing. The same when I searched Yahoo News. Good luck! —

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Thank you so much. The point of the Knowledge, however, has been, since its inception, to allow for editing

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When I rule the world, I shall name a city in your honor. But first, we must change your name to Vancouver.

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That's the second time someone accidently edited over me with Huggle. I'll be glad when they fix that bug.

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did mine. He happened to have my page watchlisted when someone vandalised it. I also am on good terms with

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dianna, please respect me because i just want to put my name because i'm a professional basketball player

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Thanks for the copyedit. Can you please put this template: {{GOCE|user=Diannaa|date=October 7, 2010}} on

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We nearly wiped out the 2008 articles from the backlog—there were only 13 remaining when the drive closed.

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It may be unexpected at first but I hope you agree with my kind words given in the nomination statement.

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How is it considered vandalism when I clearly think it's irrelevent as I said in the editing comment?

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material in the article for someone who is interested in that topic to decide and discuss. Thanks. --

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Free culture conference, "The Register" retracts accusations, students blog about Knowledge, and more

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Me too, SpikeToronto. I tried Bing search and Google and no reports yet. Best wait till tomorrow. --

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You weren't at all phased by that? Nothing? Nothing at all. Wow, I'm impressed. You should do fine.

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is my favorite example. I am sorry you have found your wikipedia experience unpleasant. Thanks. --

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Knowledge:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/November 2010/Newsletter 1

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The results of September's coordinator elections, plus ongoing project discussions and proposals

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The article was actually in pretty good shape, not so awful at all. Some points to keep in mind:

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http://www.heritage.org/About/Press/How-Great-was-Ronald-Reagan-40th-President-Place-in-History

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article. You really done a great job, thanks. You done it so well I thought you deserved this:

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thanks i appreciate that i will try to find one.. hopefully the tracklisting will be out soon

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Good faith vs. bad faith, climate change, court citations, weirdest medieval fact, brief news

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appearing in her article. Though her mom might. Thank you for your thought-provoking post. --

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Board resolutions, fundraiser challenge, traffic report, ten thousand good articles, and more

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Airplane construction with Knowledge, lessons from the strategy project, logic over rhetoric

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A total of 59 barnstars will be awarded to 40 editors—well done, and congratulations to all.

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Please answer the question. And is everyone who edits Knowledge engaging in an "edit war"?

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Thanks y'all. Thannks NSD, for the sunshine. And I won't forget the GOCE, Don't worry! --

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I will have to support some candidates at RFAs so I will no longer be the "new girl". --

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editing of that page is vandalism. So, yeah, a semi for that page might be a good idea.

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Thanks, I removed it the first time also as it was very out of place. See ya around!--

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Spanish police pursues BLP vandals, Jimbo interviewed, advice for experts and spammers

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This is something you need to discuss on the talk pagew of the article, not here. --

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to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at

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Do you know the rule on IP editors editing the RfA? Can they or is that outlawed?--

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attract more competetent editors as well as protect the content we already have. --

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We reduced the backlog by 725 articles (11.5%), so it was another successful drive.

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Thanks! I have some discussion on the article talk. I've asked for help at ANI. --

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Yes, I saw it, well, thanks again. This IP guy has a history of such behaviour...

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I would like to suggest that you reverse your decision about a speedy delete for

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suggested it. I hope you took no offense. Thanks again for your contributions. --

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I did remove it but someone had already replaced it. I have removed it again. --

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Yeah, mee too! I have been fighting vandals lately for something fresh to do. --

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No prob. Somebody else already removed the bad warning. And to err is Huggle...

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Hi Diannaa! I went to do something on an IP editor’s talk page and noticed that

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If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the

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The article is now semi'd so I am going to clean it up. That usually helps. --

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If I am telling you stuff you already know, feel free to tell me to f*ck off!

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Hey Diannaa, First congrats on the admin bit. Second, can you take a look at

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so I can use it in my adoption program as an example of a blatant G1.thanks,

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Arb resignation during plagiarism discussion; election RfC closing in 2 days

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Foundation's finances, geodata milestone, interim counsel, museum conference

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Heartiest congratulations for getting the mop! Well done, you deserve it. –

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Thank you for your trust in me and good luck with your future articles. --

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reviews for the period 1 April-30 September 2010, I hereby award you this

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and hopefully it has made your day better. Spread the sunshine by adding

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is temporarily down. I think we might have to send the invites manually.

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I am glad you listed them there. I will choose one of the three to do. --

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Well it seems they made an account, also they are the same person. This

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04:17, 13 October 2010 (UTC) OK, Thanks. I misinterpreted the meaning --

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Thank you; you were wise to get a a-class review as well. The people at

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FYI, Sarama failed GAN today due to prose issues. Please take a look at

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as PART OF THE FOOTNOTES. The material is identical because it's being

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http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv8n1/johv8n1o.pdf

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have already been waiting a while. Thanks for your understanding. --

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Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Knowledge, by Joseph Reagle

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Editing experience makes a good vandal fighter. You fit the bill! —

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I'm having fun, you know. I'm really not a megalomonitical madman.

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It appears I tagged the wrong article. Sorry to waste your time --

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German chapter remodeled to meet Foundation requirements, and more

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for copy editing three articles of 5,000 words or more during the

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In all seriousness though, congradulations. You deserve the mop.

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LV (September 2010)

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Knowledge:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/List of participants

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The article is already speedy-deleted. My head is spinning :D --

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For anonymous (i.e., IP) editors, you should consider using the

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Okay, thanks for clearing that up! Cheers, and good luck!!! :)

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Nice job. From what I've experienced, this was well-deserved.

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Knowledge fundraiser event, Frankfurt book fair, news in brief

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It would be best to use the version in your userspace, as per

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For registered users that you want to welcome, you might like

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for copy editing a total of 95,927 words–3rd Place–during the

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Hit me with a baseball, I'll hit you with a sledgehammer. :)

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Hi! I'd like to nominate three articles at WP:GAN, those are

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GOCE September 2010 backlog elimination drive progress graphs

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Mike Godwin leaves the Foundation, ArbCom election announced

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