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Mediawiki 1.18 was deployed, the tool had some problems for a while (as did many others). At first it gave only zero counts. Then it did, but clicking it a second time didn't remove its stuff. It's working well for me again now, including the edit-preview trick for sections. Reinstall, maybe?
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For editors who want smaller articles, I suggest editing some smaller newly-tagged articles from 2011 (September or
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I don't know the consensus for dealing with list-type articles during the backlog-reduction drives; these can be humongous but have a low word count, and I've noticed these articles tend to be the last to go in a backlog. Should we copyedit only the non-list portion (with a word count if any,
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Thank you for the information. The article says, "In 1796 he was promoted to colonel and in 1798 was promoted to Major-General, and became head of the Vyborg musketeer regiment. He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1800." By the standard, this should say "major general" without caps.
83:. I added a source to the talk page. The grammar is wanting. I do have a general question. Some of his ranks are shown with capital letters, "Captain" for example, but many of them are not. Which way should they all be? I think capitalized, but I suppose there is a standard somewhere. --
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The tense of the article will need to be changed, and it appears as though some tone changes are in order, as well. My major concern with this is that the article contains no sources, and has been this way since its creation in March 2010. Perhaps do a reference search as well?
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Trollybus operations, and the article seems well done and accurate to me. I suggest removing the tag without taking credit for copy editing in the drive.
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Thanks for the FAQ link; I'd forgotten where it was. And yes, removing asterisks isn't too bad but many list-type articles have lots of table syntax, which is a bear to remove.--
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