Please note that I do not normally (1) copy-edit articles or (2) review articles that are not candidates for promotion to featured status.
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Please review Since your objections, the article has been amended by Lazer Brain. Please let me know if you think this is sufficient copy-editing. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:45, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You make it sound as though I did it on purpose. Are you in a bad mood? The Features and admins page is a lot of fiddly work which I do as a volunteer. I've had to write the largest part of two SP pages this week, as well as manage a horrendous real-life workload. Why are you giving me such a hard time? I'll go there right away and add your name. I might at that it says under "Creator", "restoration by User:Jujutacular". Your contribution is buried in the reviewers' discourse, which I suppose I'll have to comb through carefully in future. Tony(talk)15:18, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm having some trouble copy-editing this one, especially since it's going to be on the main page soon. I worked on the article a bit 3-4 years ago, but that's ancient history! Would you be able to help me out? —Deckiller (t-c-l) 21:04, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I went to your page and I saw Jimbo staring back at me. I then saw another picture of you and thought you and Jimbo were either clones or somehow bred very closely! Yikes! Is this some sort of plot that Jimbo is upto to replicate himself? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivegotbellyfur (talk • contribs) 22:37, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Tony1, I understand the desire to keep the questions under control, but perhaps, before editing someone else's question,[1] you should try at least a note to their talkpage to give them the opportunity to edit it themselves? And his question was what, 10 words over? But your comment to him was considerably more than that, so seems to have added more clutter than what you were trying to remove. --Elonka14:27, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not concerned. It's boring that someone just disregarded the instructions. The cost of going to people's talk pages and asking, then keeping tabs, is going to get out of hand. It will come to chopping off what is written after 75 words. The instructions are very clear. Tony(talk)14:31, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Your attitude is not helpful. Please remember that the goal here is to facilitate the election process, not go rules-happy, which in itself could get out of hand. What if you edit someone's question to change its meaning? That would get even more tangled. Or in other words: If a question is 85 words instead of 75, please use some good judgment and just leave it alone. And do not edit someone else's question unless you have given them the opportunity to do it themselves. You are an organized person, I am confident that you will be able to figure out a way to keep track. --Elonka14:40, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Tony, would you please show me anywhere where the community actually approved these rules? And no, this is not the community, this is a group of about twenty people. I'm rather concerned that rules are just being made up because a minority doesn't like stuff, and now that people are enforcing them without even leaving notes telling others what they allegedly did wrong, it's going too far. Heimstern Läufer(talk)15:11, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
85 words is too much over the limit to be fair to other questioners; whereas one or two words over the limit might sometimes be negotiable. There are three choices: edit it down myself, remove the words from 76 onwards with a note on the user's talk page; or remove the entire question to the user's talk page, asking them to repost it within the required length. If the question has already been answered, an editing down is more likely. Tony(talk)15:15, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
85 words is not a problem. 200 words is a problem. Perhaps you should talk to an arbitration clerk about how they deal with "too long" statements? They don't get obsessive about word counts -- Judgment is required. But copyediting someone else's question, removing a word here and there, is absolutely not a good choice. It's actually kind of horrifying that you even think that that is an appropriate action. To be clear: Do not edit other people's posts in that way. --Elonka16:00, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Would a text length of 86 words be a problem and 199 words not be? The only way to ensure fairness to all is if the word count is strictly adhered to. Perhaps instead of rewriting others' questions to fit the wordcount, moderators should actually truncate the text at the 75th word. ;-) --Ohconfucius¡digame!16:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
