User talk:Demiurge1000

GOCE drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE January 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation 45 people signed up for this drive this time; of these, 35 participated. This is similar to the number of editors who helped out in November. Thanks to all who participated! Barnstars will be distributed in the near future. Progress report Recent drives have been focusing on the oldest three months in the backlog. During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—July, August, and September 2010—from the queue, and there are less than 300 articles remaining from 2010. 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 January 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy edit drive will be in March. Your drive coordinators – The Utahraptor talk, S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), Stfg (Talk), Sp33dyphil (talk), and Dank (talk)

Belittling another editor

Demiurge, I couldn't help noticing you belittling User:92.13.76.159 when you edited Manchester Grammar School here, saying "That's quite enough editing tests from you, young man." I don't think it's appropriate to tell off other editors like naughty children. Who's to say the editor is young anyway? There are templates warning against "biting" newcomers and abusing people in edit summaries, although I don't think they're necessary, given you're not a new user. I don't think this is a big deal, but please try to be more courteous. (WP Editor 2011 (talk) 07:03, 12 March 2012 (UTC))

I am sure that Demiurge1000 was not biting the young man in anyway but playful.

 Kiefer.Wolfowitz 09:59, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

When a school article is edited to state that a pupil is the most clever in it, I don't think it's inappropriate to assume that the editor is said pupil, or one of his friends. I think the edit summary was reasonable, especially since it was followed up with an appropriate template here. I'm sure Demiurge1000 will keep in mind your comments, but I don't see the problem. Worm^TT · (talk) 10:11, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

To declare oneself the cleverest pupil of the largest independent school in England, one must be fairly young, yes. (I take the liberty of assuming that the edit was not made by a teacher, nor by the school's archivist, who also has a Wikipedia account and with whom I've had some brief correspondence.) My quite wide experience - for what it's worth, I was offered a place at the school, and later taught at a competing one in the same area - tells me that such young and clever people are interested in the opportunity to express themselves, not so much in worrying about the exact tone of jocular comments made by others in response to their getting carried away in expressing themselves. A school pupil whom I first encountered on Wikipedia when they were engaged in a similar act of self-aggrandisement, rapidly developed into one of the most promising young editors that myself and Worm have ever seen on Wikipedia. And he was not in the least discouraged by my tone. Nor, I think, is anyone else.

So I don't agree with your comments. However, I do applaud the sentiment. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:01, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I now notice a suggestion on the talk page of "WP Editor 2011" that they have been banned previously under another account. Wouldn't be entirely surprising, although I'm curious to know which account. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:07, 10 April 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.

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	For explaining the benefits of adoption, must have taken some time to write this. Thanks Misconceptions2 (talk) 01:33, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Misconceptions2, it's appreciated. The more we can do to help new (and not so new) editors stay on the positive side of contributing, the better for Wikipedia! --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

My List

I have created a list and i have included ur name in it. I hope u dont mind that. You can view it over Here! Yasht101 :) 04:05, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

No problem at all. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Ian Molyneux

The DYK project (nominate) 10:15, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Rcsprinter (talk) 19:33, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

		The Modest Barnstar
		Thanks for your recent contributions! 66.87.0.179 (talk) 20:38, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Reply to March 2012

Hi there, I didn't think I was adding 'unreferenced or poorly referenced information' to Joyce's page - the current entry is untrue and inaccurate: "The Daily Record on 1 March 2012 reported that in an interview Joyce admitted a relationship..." is incorrect, in fact the Record broke the story without his knowledge. And why would you deem the very relevant comment from the Scottish Labour leader irrelevant, when *after* her statement he said he would step down? At the moment the entry reads very pro-Joyce, as opposed to objective, which was my intention. Here is the link to the initial story: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics-news/2012/03/01/revealed-house-of-commons-assault-rap-mp-eric-joyce-had-secret-affair-with-teenage-researcher-age-17-86908-23770566/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hrvyklly (talk • contribs) 10:21, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Well, I don't agree that your additions had the effect of making the article adhere more closely to our biographies of living persons policy. And Daily Record (Scotland) is very far indeed from being the sort of source that would be most suitable to substantiate controversial content in a BLP.

However, the place that you should have discussed these issues was on the talk page of the article, where I notice there were several ongoing discussions, and you participated in none of them. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March barnstar

		The Modest Barnstar
		Thisa barnstar is awarded to Demiurge1000 for copy editing articles totalling over 4,000 words during the March copy edit drive. Your participation is appreciated. -- Dianna (talk) 19:05, 2 April 2012 (UTC) (UTC)

Thanks Dianna! --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

RE: Suggestion - mentoring

Well, I would like to try. Pdiddyjr (talk) 13:26, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

That's great! Please see my reply on your talk page. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrap-up

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Dispute resolution survey

Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Demiurge1000. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 11:23, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

I tried this, and it doesn't take five minutes, and thus I didn't finish. Although I decided to attempt the survey this time anyway, for future reference I think you should consider removing the question about age, unless you believe it is essential to the survey in some important way.

I think the survey could have been made shorter by not repeating some of the questions with minor variations in them.

I may still try and finish and submit the whole thing if I get time! --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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Incomplete DYK nomination

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/iostat at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; see step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 10:45, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks DYKhousekeepingbot! Now fixed. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Visual Reading article and libelous comments posted on it by a new page controller

Hello Demiurge1000,

I have asked for advice... and for your protection from the new page controller who feels it is fine to call other people's work "pseudoscience garbage" and openly laughs at it. And now I receive your comment, which makes me completely confused and frustrated. I clearly indicated that I search for advice and help as I do not know what to do. I provided evidence. And now it looks like it is me who is wrong. I have nothing to say.... It is fine for somebody to tag other people's work whichever way they like it, but not fine for someone to seek protection from being openly laughed at.

I would greatly appreciate your advice on how to deal with this issue.

Kind regards, Azbukva