User talk:Jonesey95/Archive4

GOCE 2014 report

Guild of Copy Editors 2014 Annual Report Our 2014 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page; Review the election results; Membership news; Changes around the Guild's pages; Plans for 2015. – Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by

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Completed GOCE requests

Hi, Jonesey. I don't know if you were planning to archive your finished requests, but please feel free to do so in future :-). Thanks and all the best, Miniapolis 21:52, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

I was planning to wait a day or so to allow the requester to see the update if it came up on their watchlist, and to give Request page watchers a chance to see that editors are working on requests. I think it looks a little odd when a request just disappears from the page in a Watchlist diff, but maybe that's just me. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:17, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Baffle also used to archive right away, and it seems to work well; the only time it's best to leave them up there is with new (or over-zealous—i.e. working too fast) copyeditors of GANs or FACs. If you'd rather leave yours, though, that's fine by me (just don't forget to archive 'em eventually :-)). All the best, Miniapolis 14:24, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Sivaji (film)

I have placed the article under GA reassessment as it was passed in 2008 (almost 7 years back). The reviewer has asked for a GOCE member to do a c/e on the "Plot" and "Release" sections only. Would you like to perform a c/e on them? — Ssven2 ^{speak 2 me} 04:36, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

I will be happy to do it. I usually work on GOCE requests in chronological order to be fair to all editors. Please post your request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests, and I'll try to get to it when it makes it to the top of the list. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:47, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank You :)

Hello Jonesey95!

Thank you for fixing my recent reference citation.

I am new to Wikipedia but very keen about editing :)

You can brief me with regard to citation as I am very wiling to learn maximum I can.

Thank you:) Pixarh (talk) 14:24, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:26, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for your copyedit on Cynthia Ann Parker. Could you please add the GOCE tag to the articles talk page. Appreciate it.--BabbaQ (talk) 12:40, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:40, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

thanks

Hi, thnx for ur editing :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 700ali (talk • contribs) 07:13, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:40, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Auto-Ed

Doesn't really work for me. Whenever I try to fix template stuff it always says no difference. Any help? Eurodyne (talk) 06:21, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Please provide a link to your script, and I will look at it. Also let me know specifically what you are trying to fix. You can see one of mine here: User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/twoisbnparams.js. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:40, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I have created User:Eurodyne/AutoEd/twoisbnparams.js. See my User:Eurodyne/common.js and User:Eurodyne/vector.js. Eurodyne (talk) 15:57, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

If the findargdups script is already working for you, remove the AutoEd scripts from vector.js, since you don't need items in both common.js and vector.js.

You are calling my scripts, not your own, since my username is in your common.js. If you feel comfortable maintaining your own scripts, change my username to yours in common.js. If you want to use mine, feel free; you are still responsible for all of your own edits, even if my script has bugs or produces false positives (which some of them do).

Then try running your ISBN script (from the More menu) when visiting the page User:Jonesey95/sandbox3. That page has an ISBN error that is detected and fixed by the script. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

For some reason, it works on your sandbox page but not on the real article... Eurodyne (talk) 03:08, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

In that case, the article probably does not have an ISBN error that can be fixed by the script. If you link to the article (which is always a good idea when asking for help), I will try to explain specifically why the script is not proposing to change anything. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:28, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

I looked in Category:Pages with ISBN errors and Category:Pages with citations having redundant parameters and found Bernard Glemser. I used the AutoEd Dual ISBNs button and still no difference. Eurodyne (talk) 03:55, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Bernard Glemser contained the invalid ISBN "55306519X". There is no script that can fix that ISBN; it is only nine digits, and there is no way a script can tell what was intended. You would have to fix the error manually through research or other means.

I designed the script to fix obvious problems with a minimum of false positives. It easily fixes ISBN parameters that list two ISBNs, or that use dashes instead of hyphens, or that precede the ISBN with extraneous text like "13:" or "ISBN". When I created the first version of the script and started using it to process the errors in the category, there were 8,000 articles in the category. I used the script to get that number down to about 2,000, after which all of the easy ones were done. Since then, a group of gnomes has been fixing ISBNs by hand, using research to locate correct ISBNs, replace the ISBNs with other accurate identifiers, or otherwise fix the problems. The 120 remaining article-space pages (aside from the four or five new ones that pop into the category each day) are the stubborn remainder.

In the case of the Glemser article, that erroneous ISBN was sitting in a list of two books that were displaying below the references, in the article for no apparent reason, so I have deleted both of them. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:00, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

findargups

Hi. I want to make sure I'm using the tool correctly. Can you check over my contribs when using the tool? I sometimes wonder which duplicate template argument to remove. Any tips? Eurodyne (talk) 06:39, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

The answer is not always removal of the duplicate parameter. You have to figure out what the original editor intended. Often, the parameter name needs to be changed, not removed entirely. Other times, merging the two parameters together is the right thing to do.

In this edit, you should have changed |goals2= to |goals1= so that each team would have a goal total.

In this edit, you deleted the useful note 1 instead of merging it with note 2 using a line break.

This edit was reasonable. You could have changed the first |location= to "Melbourne, Australia".

In this edit, you broke the name of the |work=.

This edit looks right. You kept the parameter that had more information.

In this edit, I'm guessing that the parameter name should have been changed, not deleted, but I don't know the template well enough to figure it out.

In this edit, the earlier |accessdate= parameters should have been changed to |date=.

This edit and this edit were good.

Thanks for asking for help before you did 100 of them. Please return to the articles and clean up the edits that weren't quite right. I recommend taking more time and looking carefully at the before/after results of your edits to ensure that you have achieved the original editor's intent (to the extent it is possible to figure that out). – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:51, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

GOCE January 2015 drive

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 60,000 words during the GOCE January 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 15:20, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 23 articles during the GOCE January 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 15:20, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 52,243 total words during the GOCE January 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 15:20, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting five long articles during the GOCE January 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 15:20, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 15 old articles during the GOCE January 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 15:20, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 10,611 words – during the GOCE January 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 15:20, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Enthiran

I have posted the film at the WP:GOCE/REQ page. Would you be interested in copyediting it? — Ssven2 ^{speak 2 me} 17:09, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

We've got a long list of requests, and I tend to work on the older ones first. We'll get to it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:44, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors February 2015 Newsletter Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 38 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were able to remove August 2013 from the general copyediting backlog and November 2014 from the request-page backlog. Many thanks, everyone! Blitz: The February Blitz will run from February 15–21 and again focuses on the requests page. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one request article. Sign up here! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Vandalism on Lee Kuan Yew

I'm a little confused. I swear that I did not remove or change content from Lee Kuan Yew. Probably someone hacked my account and started messing things up. —Magicaluniverse (talk) 03:00, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

You may have left yourself logged in on a public computer. I suggest changing your password, for starters. Then check your Contributions to see if any other changes were made in your name, and revert them if necessary. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:14, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

List of programs broadcast by Teletoon

I had to revert before edits made by an indef blocked user but this also undid the cite updates you did. I would appreciate it if you could redo the refill of the bare references. Sorry about this but things got interleaved and I couldn't think of a better way to remove the untrusted changes by the blocked user. Geraldo Perez (talk) 15:55, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Done. You can use Reflinks too. It's pretty straightforward and available to all editors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

SCAP

The deprecation of the Scap parameter is currently being discussed at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#RfC:_Proposed_exceptions_to_general_deprecation_of_Allcaps, so please wait with removing it from articles untill a consensus is reached and the discussion is closed. Perhaps you could selfrevert your recent spate of edits removing the parameter from many articles pending this decision.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 21:53, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I try to stay away from MOS Talk pages; too many dancing angels for me. I'll wait to see how the discussion turns out and revert those deprecated parameter fixes if the "scap" feature is restored to the CS1 module. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:11, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Blitz bling

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	Thanks for copyediting a total of 4,899 words during the February 2015 Guild of Copy Editors blitz (and for tying up the rest of the loose ends :-)). All the best, Miniapolis 02:06, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2015 Newsletter Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 21 people who signed up, eight copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: The blitz removed 16 articles from the requests list, and we're almost done with December 2014. Many thanks, everyone! Drive: The month-long March drive begins in about a week. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Infobox Improvement

I just noticed that Sophie Hunter has notable relatives and this should be reflected in her infobox. All sources are in the family family section of the page. If you may be so kind to copy-paste this to the page, I would be very grateful and it would be a big improvement to her page.

|family =

• Michael Gow
• (maternal grandfather)
• J. E. B. Seely
• (maternal great-grandfather)
• Timothy Carlton
• (father-in-law)
• Wanda Ventham
• (mother-in-law)

There should also be an "Education" parameter aside from the already indicated "Alma Mater" as she went to St. Paul's Girls' School which is a notable school in the UK. I do hope you can include that too. THANKS! Keep up the good work on Wiki! 213.164.22.2 (talk) 06:08, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

It appears that someone has already added this information. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:17, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

WorldCat url citations

Hi Jonesey,

This is my first use of talk, so I hope I am using it correctly.

Thanks for your correction in my citations (ISSN to ISBN). I had just started using the cite syntax in place of straight markup text, and it pointed out the error. I was in the process of fixing that when I found you had already done so in the Bron article.

However, you also removed a number of url links I had to the WorldCat index. Originally I had mistakenly put them on the ISSN's (acutally ISBN's), but found that if I used the url parameter in cite, they went onto the title instead -- which seemed okay since WorldCat tells you how to find copies of the book in question. However, you also removed that.

Given how useful WorldCat is, I would very much like to include links to it in my citations, but now I am not certain how to do in properly to Wikipedia standards. Is there another cite parameter that can be used? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ethersearch (talk • contribs) 00:04, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

You used the Talk page correctly, except that you should always sign your messages by placing four tildes, ~~~~, at the end of your message. You are welcome to reply here to try it out.

I used the ISSN and JSTOR templates to link to the appropriate destinations. Using a cite template, like {{cite book}}, will automatically link parameters like |issn= to the right place. If you don't use the cite template, ISSN will not link, but ISBN is magic and will link just fine, like this: ISBN 9785020098237.

Let me know if you have further questions. I spend a lot of time editing citations, so I can help. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:48, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I think also I have figured out how to include WorldCat links in cite templates -- with the oclc parameter. Ethersearch (talk) 01:50, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that will work. ISBN will also lead to WorldCat, and to many other sources as well. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:51, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-10

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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Portland Oregon (March 7, 2015)

You are invited!

• Saturday, March 7: Art+Feminism – noon to 5pm

  Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Portland Art Museum's Crumpacker Family Library (Mark Building, 2nd Floor; 1219 SW Park Avenue). Art+Feminism is a campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend. Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.

Hope you can make it! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Thanks,

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Draft:So Help Me God (album)

If you honestly believe that this constitutes "content", then there's something wrong, but that's your prerogative. It got moved to a draft space because it completely failed WP:NALBUMS, which I said when I re-directed it twice in my edit summaries, but was reverted both times, and in my reasoning for speedy deletion. 4 sources, 4 sentences, no release date, no sources for the "confirmed" track list songs = not eligible for main space. Just had to drop by and give you a little educating so you're aware for the future.  — ₳aron 09:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for linking to WP:NALBUMS. The following text is at the top of the page: "Important note: Failing to satisfy the notability guidelines is not a criterion for speedy deletion." I removed the CSD template with a detailed edit summary explaining how the criteria you cited were not valid. Nominating the article for deletion via PROD or AFD would have been reasonable, but CSD was not. Thanks for the educating, and happy editing! – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:45, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Jonesey95. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:18, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Deletion tag

Hi. Please remove deletion tag from Mahmoud Reza Khavari, he was a very notable banker even before the embezzlement, he was chairman of Iran's biggest bank, Bank Melli Iran. As you can see here he has a profile on Bloomberg. also after the scandal, he has recieved a nationwide attention and coverage in Iran like his partner Mahafarid Amir Khosravi (see Farsi page). now 4 years after escape he is still a headline (see [12] [13] for example). he has also been notorious in Canada (see [14] [15] [16] for example) and has been subject to a speech in House of Commons of Canada. Pahlevun (talk) 19:53, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the friendly note. As it says on the proposed deletion notice:

"If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason."

After you add these sources to the article to establish the person's notability, you may remove the proposed deletion tag yourself. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:11, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

OK. thank you. Pahlevun (talk) 20:55, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

100 barnstars for you

Thanks for making me laugh with your use of an "ASCII barnstar" on User talk:Zhaofeng Li/reFill. Here are 100 barnstars for you: **************************************************************************************************** GoingBatty (talk) 21:25, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. It just came to me while I was typing, and it made me laugh too.

I did think of taking it too far by creating an ASCII barnstar template that could be substed to result in a single character, but I figured it would be CSD'd pretty quickly. Maybe I'll do that for April Fool's Day. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

* * * * * * * ********************* * * * * * ** * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *		The ASCII Barnstar
		For bringing humor to an otherwise drab and dreary day. GoingBatty (talk) 22:53, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Jonesey95, I hereby award you The Copyeditor's Barnstar for your comprehensive and thorough copyedit of Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge. Thank you for your continued extraordinary service to Wikipedia and to the Guild of Copyeditors. -- Caponer (talk) 22:41, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! A barnstar with a mop! It's perfect. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:59, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

ISSN fix

Thanks for this and the other two fixes, but how did you know what number to use? I used the number given by the magazine itself. Mjroots (talk) 06:47, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

I looked up the number at worldcat.org. The number you entered, and that is apparently in the magazine (yikes!) is not mathematically valid. ISSNs, like ISBNs, have a "check digit" at the end that is a mathematical combination of the other numbers. It reduces the chance of typos. I have cleaned up a few thousand ISSNs on WP, and I found a number that were printed in magazines with incorrect values. I suppose it's possible that the agency issuing ISSNs made a mistake and sent an invalid number to the publication, but it seems more likely that someone typed the wrong number on the masthead in 1987 and nobody has thought about it since.

Unfortunately, there is not a publicly accessible database of ISSNs, but worldcat works pretty well. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:24, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Scottish Labour Party leadership election, 2014

Hi Jonesey, just wanted to say thanks for taking this on, and good work so far. This is Paul (talk) 18:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. There are a few phrases that seem like they might be proper UK English to me, like the "at" in "MPs in Scotland feared losing their seats at the 2015 UK general election". In the US, we would always say "in the election", not "at the election", so I have been changing it. Is "at the election" proper UK English? – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:49, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

I think they both tend to be used interchangeably, so it's ok if you change it. This is Paul (talk) 20:06, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again for the copyedit, you've done a great job. I'll add it to the GAN pile and hope for the best. Cheers, This is Paul (talk) 19:50, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Berkhamsted, an apology

Yesterday you kindly cleaned up a duplicate arguement on a historical time line table within the Berkhamsted. When I looked at the table, I realised that I had repeated the actual text content of that line two lines down in more accurate detail and in a more logical place. Without thinking whether I should contact you first, I corrected my mistake.-- BOD -- 23:34, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry

We both need to copy everything added before hit save, Jonesey. It is a bit of a rush, I guess ... Hafspajen (talk) 23:43, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hafspajen: I posted a note on the Newsroom page asking why I don't see section edit links. If they were there, I Edit conflicts are not as fun as reading your prose.

I see that if I comment out most of the header, I get section edit links. I might do that temporarily so that we can work separately. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:48, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Well, try, but ... doubt it will work. Try to save often... it is better than make a lot of small editis and save, just try to save each entry, as soon you are ready. Like editing ANI a bit ... :)Hafspajen (talk) 23:50, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

It worked. I have removed it in case publication really happens at 00:00 UTC. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:03, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

• How did you do that? that would be good to apply even while working with the draft. We use to conflict each other a lot. Hafspajen (talk) 01:16, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Nothing up my sleeve.... Ta-dah! – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:21, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

March 2015 GOCE bling

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 60,000 words during the GOCE March 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 24 articles during the GOCE March 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 29,234 total words during the GOCE March 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting three long articles during the GOCE March 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 14 old articles during the GOCE March 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 10,214 words – during the GOCE March 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:07, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

...and thanks very much for doing all the other stuff (hope you understand Torchiest's instructions better than I do :-)). All the best, Miniapolis 14:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing an ISBN

Hi Jonesey!

Thank you so much for fixing my reference citation (ISBN). I'm new to Wikipedia and to book numbers (actually it is my first dealing with these numbers at all, so I had to read a bit to get to know what was the issue). But I'm very thankful to you for helping to fix this. All the best! --L7starlight (talk) 14:14, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome! – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:20, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Template editor

Just wondering if you would want to have the template editor right, so that you could edit protected templates yourself instead of having to do requests? -- WOSlinker (talk) 14:46, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Support.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:48, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

WOSlinker, I would like that. I would be happy to provide samples of edits that I have done to templates or their sandboxes if that is required for the process. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:11, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

You now have it, so go and edit {{Death date and age}} if you want to. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:33, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:54, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

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Go Phightins!, I'm going to pass on this opportunity. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:29, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	I am not sure if i have any authority to give this barnstar, but I am very grateful for your ongoing copyedit of the Berkhamsted article. -- BOD -- 07:10, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Berkhamsted

Hi Jonesey, at the appropriate time, let me know when you would like me to clear up any clarifications or other questions. I am away from my computer until late GMT Tuesday, with limited access to to a very poor internet connection via an iPad. I am not good at composing good answers on my iPad.-- BOD -- 14:42, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

I should be done by Tuesday, at which point the article will be all yours. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:29, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

i am so grateful for your improvements and happy to wait and simply answer any points that need answering. Personally I would rather not alter anything too much post copyedit in case the standard is not maintained.-- BOD -- 18:09, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

I have started working on the clarification/inconsistency notices you helpfully placed on the article, plus some of the areas raised in the copyedit discussion on the talk page. I hope I do not mess up your good work. Some of the more difficult areas, like the potted prose castle history I will leave to the weekend.-- BOD -- 18:52, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:54, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

I have completely redone the demography section, if you have any free time in your busy wikipedia schedule, I would naturally very much appreciate your check over.(I am not sure if you take requests from your talk page).-- BOD -- 20:34, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

oh oh I redid the castle section too. The page has benefitted by the good works of two other wikipedians after your copy edit.-- BOD -- 21:01, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

and champagne for you. Thanks for returning to the Berko page and cleaning up the new bits. -- BOD -- 08:04, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Featured Content

We would like to have a group discussion on Skype text chat with everyone on the FC team. In a few days, User:Go Phightins! will contact you privately to coordinate this. Please let him know about your availability if you are willing to participate. Thank you. Gamaliel (talk) 16:17, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Gamaliel, thanks for the invitation, but as you can see above, I have already declined this invitation. Please let me know how it turns out. I am willing to continue copy editing when I am available. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:30, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Using French citation/reference templates in translated articles

Here's a link to a section of an article I'm working on, if you'd be kind enough to try your script on it. Thanks. [17]Dpendery (talk) 20:44, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Done. I think it worked pretty well. Ask any time. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:11, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, that worked great. One error message came up in the "date" parameter, which wants a legitimate English month value. It's no big deal to translate this manually, but if you'd be interested in adding that to the script, here are the values:

janvier January février February mars March avril April mai May juin June juillet July août August septembre September octobre October novembre November décembre December

You've been very helpful. Dpendery (talk) 09:50, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. I leave date corrections for a very skillful bot who does much better work than I do. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:21, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

April 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2015 Newsletter March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 19–25. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here! May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in December 2013, January and February 2014 and all request articles, begins soon. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Thank You

… For taking time to review The Dream (sculpture). Much appreciated! ----Another Believer _(Talk) 06:03, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

It's always a pleasure to edit your work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:03, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [18]
• VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [19]
• You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [20]
• If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [21]

Problems

• There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [22]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
• Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [23] [24] [25]
• If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [26]
• You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [27]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [28] [29]

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15:31, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

GOCE April blitz

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words during the GOCE April 2015 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:43, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now chat with other users in Phabricator. [30]
• There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [31] [32]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
• It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [33]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [34]
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [35]

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15:20, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Sad and beautiful story, isn't it?

By the way, have you visited the museums lately? EEng (talk) 16:42, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Tragic, indeed. It sounds like he had a good time while it lasted, though.

I have visited the Museum of Silly Captions, and I even spent a little time trying to think of a few, but I spend next to no time at ANI and other initialism-ridden islands, so some of the jokes are lost on me. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:07, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

The museums proper are down past the table of contents. EEng (talk) 18:48, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

GOCE June 2015 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2015 News May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, and we got within 50 articles of our all-time low in the backlog. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Coordinator elections: Nominations are open through June 15 for GOCE coordinators, with voting from June 16–30. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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GOCE May drive

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 31 articles during the GOCE May 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 12:43, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting four old articles during the GOCE May 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 12:43, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words during the GOCE May 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 12:43, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

I'd like to take you up on your offer to take over as lead coordinator (and will stay on as coordinator if needed), and will be around to mind the store in July. All the best, Miniapolis 12:43, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Miniapolis, I am willing to be the lead coordinator if you will stay on as a coordinator. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:44, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Second opinion on grammar question

Hi Jonesey95,

I posted a section to Talk:List of nuclear reactors#Grammatical_consistensy:_.22Shutdown.22_or_.22shut_down.22_and_capitalization about how to correct grammatical issues on that page, and I am looking for more input on whether the page should be changed according to my suggestions. As a copy editor, do you have anything to say about it?

Thanks! Mechanic1c (talk) 11:06, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Blitzes

I know you're often up at this time, so thought you would be the person to send this to, though I'll ping @Miniapolis, Philg88, and Biblioworm: as well. The page displaying general information on blitzes mentions "The Copy Editing Project Blitzes are one-week-long efforts of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing, signified by the copy edit tag" - I would say that this, and other mentions of the copy edit tag should be changed to just say articles needing copy edit - the current theme, and, indeed, a rather large amount of previous themes, have not been about the copy edit tag - the theme was requests and as requests often don't contain the copy edit tag (GAN or FAN mostly) it should be removed. "The Copy Editing Project Blitzes are one-week-long efforts of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing" would suffice, and be shorter, and indeed sweeter. Obviously it's rather a large change, and I didn't feel it was appropriate to do myself, thus the talk page message. Finding articles and the second bullet under instructions also need to be changed.

However, I'd rather not have the finding articles part removed entirely as it's certainly applicable - perhaps mention that it can only be done if the theme applies to copy-edit tagged articles at the top?

Aside from that, good luck with lead coordinator (you're definitely going to be, but I thought I'd mention it anyway) - I'm probably out of the running entirely, and in hindsight it's probably for the best, though I do sincerely want to help maintain the project. Hopefully I get a laptop charger before the blitz, at least. KieranTribe (talk) 13:54, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I recommend that you make those changes to the Blitz page yourself. Be bold. They look reasonable to me. Someone else might come along and tweak your changes, but you'll make the pages better. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:19, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Ok, I'll get to that. You commented literally 20 minutes after I went offline, damn it. Didn't particularly want to touch it before asking, anyway. :-)

Enjoy your day! KieranTribe (talk) 14:29, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thank you for taking the time to copyedit P.T.. It's very much appreciated. :) Rapunzel-bellflower (talk) 18:12, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:11, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

June blitz barnstars

I've created the barnstar page and was looking at Torchiest's script and instructions, but they don't seem relevant to blitzes (the awards in particular). Have you been doing the blitz barnstar tables manually, or is there another script for them? All the best, Miniapolis 16:22, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

I've been doing the calculations for blitzes manually, since the blitzes are usually a lot smaller than the drives, there is no leaderboard to track, and there are no bonus words. Thanks for the star below. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:43, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words during the GOCE June 2015 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:14, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

P.T. (demo)

Thanks for the copyedit of P.T. (demo). I really appreciate it. I am curious though. What do you want clarified on the part where the bloody moving bag advises the player? Jhenderson ⁷⁷⁷ 23:31, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

I put the explanation in the clarify tag. If you hover over the tag or edit the section, you will see that I wrote "Is there something written on the bag, or is the bag actually talking?". – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:03, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

I see. The paper bag was speaking if that helps on how you wanted it clarified. Jhenderson ⁷⁷⁷ 00:24, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for fixing my table that was here: User:Bfpage/sandbox/complicated table work. That was incredibly kind of you even after the initial response that I received. I don't even think I can thank you enough. Have a great vacation. Best Regards,

  Bfpage |leave a message  00:08, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. Just because you posted a request for help at the wrong venue doesn't mean you get no help. We all continue to learn how this place works. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:31, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Tunisian Arabic

Dear User,

As you are one of the contributors to Tunisian Arabic. You are kindly asked to review the part about Domains of Use and adjust it directly or through comments in the talk page of Tunisian Arabic.

Yours Sincerely,

--Csisc (talk) 13:52, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
  • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [36]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [37] [38] [39] [40]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [41]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [42]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [43]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [44]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [45]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Barnstar script

Have you had any luck running it? I've been banging my head against it all afternoon and am just sinking deeper into the mire :-). Hate to ask Torchiest, but it may be the only way we're going to get it done. I don't know if we have to remove the {{Working}} lines, but right now that's the least of my worries; it died after you and then it died after Lfstevens and I can't figure out why. All the best, Miniapolis 21:09, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Not yet. I'll give it a try on my office computer in the next day or two. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:47, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, but check to see if Torchiest has run it first. All the best, Miniapolis 19:49, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

GOCE July drive

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words during the GOCE July 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 21:06, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

...and (sigh) Vanamonde93 is complaining on my talk page that the numbers are wrong. All the best, Miniapolis 21:06, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Deprecated parameters

Why are you not also removing them?[46] It seems silly to leave the |version= lying around if it's deprecated... Just a puzzled editor here. --Izno (talk) 04:57, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

It's not necessary to remove it, and it's more work for me – I just double-click on "v2" and paste it after the arXiv value, which is quick, whereas backspacing through |version= takes a little longer and is more prone to error. Feel free to stalk my edits and improve upon them. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:02, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Duplicate URL parameters

don't need two url parameters. 98.230.192.179 (talk) 23:38, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that and fixing it. I have fixed many hundreds of those duplicate parameter errors. Sporkbot fixes the kind of error that I left behind, and it doesn't cause any display errors or error messages, so I didn't worry about it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:29, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

GOCE August 2015 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors August 2015 Newsletter July drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 24 people who signed up, 17 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. August blitz: The one-week April blitz, targeting biographical articles that have been tagged for copy editing for over a year, will run from August 16–22. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the article list on the blitz page. Sign up here! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis, and Pax85. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Agnes World

Thanks for fixing the ISBN on this page. I did try a few different variations but none of them worked so I just left it as an error in the hope that some kind person would do the fix for me. Tigerboy1966  08:44, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. I don't claim to be kind, but I was happy to fix the ISBN for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:47, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Scottish Labour Party leadership election, 2014

Hi. Just a quick note to say thanks for the copy edit during my absence. You've done a great job as usual. I'll put it forward for FAC in the next few days. Cheers, This is Paul (talk) 23:49, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. Good luck with the FAC. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:11, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

(snipped by Jonesey95)

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
• You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [47]

(snipped by Jonesey95)

16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Late start and need advice

I figured out the js script/word count and am now looking at the article that I randomly chose (Bill Cable. In reading it and the single comment on the talk page I concur with that comment that this appears to be a fan page does not meet notability tests WP:BIO. It is really atrocious. There is so much fluff that needs to come out that about all that remains is a gay porn actor with a few cross-over minor rolls and a non-descript connection with Cassandra Peterson (Elvira).

User:SlimJim/sandbox/Bill_Cable

Any input would be welcome. I could still CE it, but it would not improve it. As I get back into learning the basics after a wikibreak, I will probably tag this for a normal delete process. I need to read more about that to make sure I'm doing it right. Thanks, --SlimJim^Talk 08:32, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm not very active when it comes to PROD or AfD, so take this advice with a grain of salt. Read WP:ENTERTAINER and then scroll up to read WP:BASIC. Look at each of the sources to see if it mentions the person himself and if it is a reliable independent source. Many of the sources appear to refer to other people mentioned in the article. If you think that the article fails GNG, I think you'll have to put it through AfD. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:23, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

August blitz

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words during the GOCE August 2015 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:21, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Have a look

.. at Lo Kauppi Micael Bindefeld, Anna Bråkenhielm and Saga Becker.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:42, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

OK, I took a look. They look fine to me. I don't see anything that grabs my attention. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:36, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use the Wikidata query service. [48]
• Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [49]
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [50][51]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [52]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [53]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [54]
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [55]

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16:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Why?

Re this, what is the point of hiding the deprecation from the editor who attempts to use a deprecated template? This makes no sense to me. The whole objective is to let them know not to insert these transclusions.LeadSongDog come howl! 17:10, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

The deprecation notice still shows when you click to create a Cite DOI template, and it shows when you view the template directly after saving it, but the notice will not show when the Cite DOI template is used in an article. We don't need to bother innocent article readers by yelling at them that a particular template has been deprecated (by showing a huge notice in the References section).

Thanks for coming here to ask. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:34, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Educational assignment

hi,sir please dont delete my assignment its me college work.(Ishitaabraham (talk) 11:15,25 september 2015 (UTC)

Ishitaabraham: I did not delete your assignment. I fixed the article that you had edited. You introduced a wide variety of formatting errors to a public Wikipedia article. If you want to experiment with editing Wikipedia articles, you should copy the whole article into your personal sandbox, as suggested in Wikipedia's advice for students, which you should definitely read. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:16, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks much

Thank you for your cleanup help at Free Speech Flag.

Much appreciated,

— Cirt (talk) 16:40, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. You did the difficult part. I just came by with a feather duster. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:46, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Guild and everything

Just wanted to recognize all the great things that you do. You're all over the guild, but you do so many other things as well. You rock! Have a drink on me. Best wishes for a long and productive millennium. Cheers! Lfstevens (talk) 07:20, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I have a good time here on WP. I hope you're ready for a shorty-run in November, because we're due. I did a dozen or so shorties in September, in addition to the articles I took credit for in the drive, but there are a few hundred more out there. I'd like to see the backlog get down below 2,000 articles permanently. I think we can do it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:57, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Barnstar script (again)

I'm so glad you could get it to work, because it's been giving me fits; you and I output okay, but I got hung up on Baffle and still can't figure out why. Any hints would be much appreciated. Thanks and all the best, Miniapolis 23:29, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

I stared and stared at Baffle gab1978's list of articles and finally walked through it character by character until I found these two lines:

1.  Completed Willy Rohr {1,099) *O
2.  Completed Artelia {1,484) *O

Can you see it now? Look for something that does not match its counterpart. Diabolical. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:34, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Great minds think alike, but even after I replaced the curly brackets with parentheses the damn thing wouldn't go any further for me :-). Hopefully I'll have better luck next time. Thanks for the guidance and all the best, Miniapolis 18:43, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Sorry folks; darned typos i didn't know they'd cause problems with the automation. I typed those manually so was not thinking, as usual. Must try harder. :-/ Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 01:42, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Nah, it's fine. It keeps this old brain nimble. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:15, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Hey stalkers, can you help a friend out with a barnstar for September so that we can close the books on the drive? I'd give one to myself, but it's just so unseemly. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:16, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

September drive bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words during the GOCE September 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:58, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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October blitz bling

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words during the GOCE October 2015 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:44, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2015 Newsletter September drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 25 editors who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. October blitz: The one-week October blitz, targeting requests, has just concluded. Of the nine editors who signed up, seven copyedited at least one request; check your talk page for your barnstar! The month-long November drive, focusing on our oldest backlog articles (June, July, and August 2014) and the October requests, is just around the corner. Hope to see you there! Thanks again for your support; together, we can improve the encyclopedia! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis and Pax85. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Draft:Lane County Historical Museum Thank you!

Thanks very much for the encouragement to move this draft to mainspace and develop it there. I've worked on it off and on for too long-- that is, long enough for some of the resources I had identified to become dead links! I've decided to work on in one more day, then move it in mostly-complete form. Thanks again for your comment. — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 02:43, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. It was a pleasure to read, and I'm sure it will grow a bit once you move it to mainspace and get a chance to expose it to other Oregon folks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:58, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

... for uploading images of Eugene sculptures. I appreciate your time and assistance, truly. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:03, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

I had some walking around to do today and yesterday, so I was able to pick these up. They certainly do make the articles look more lively. I should be able to get some more in my travels over the next few weeks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:13, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For this edit. THANK YOU IT WAS DRIVING ME NUTS. Izno (talk) 23:57, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

We all have things to learn. I know that I have made mistakes in my WP edits. I am always pleased when someone fixes them for me. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:15, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Syntax question

Hi you recently made fixed my mistakes in California Golden Bears football. With last one being on 3:36 October 28. Can you please let me know what I am doing wrong with my "Andy" citation. I tried to fix the listed mistake but cannot figure it out. Thank youRybkovich (talk) 21:29, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! I fixed two errors with that edit. The first was to change |archive= to |archive-url=. |archive= is not a valid parameter, which is why there was a red error message in the citation before I fixed it. The second change was to set the |archive-date= parameter to match the date on which the page was archived at archive.org. You can see that date at the top of the archive.org page and also in the archive.org URL, in a number-only format right after "/web/". – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:41, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Got it thank you Rybkovich (talk) 02:36, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Oregon

You are invited to join WikiProject Oregon, a WikiProject dedicated to improving articles related to the U.S. state of Oregon . You received this invitation because of your history editing Oregon articles or discussion of Oregon topics. The Oregon WikiProject group discussion is here. If you are interested in joining, please visit the project page, and add your name to the list of participants. New members may read about existing members and introduce themselves here.

Valfontis (talk) 02:01, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Sure, why not? Thanks for the invitation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:43, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Like ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:03, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Oregon! If you'd like, you can add the WP Oregon userbox to your user page using this code: {{User WikiProject Oregon}}. Check out the ongoing and archived discussions at WT:ORE and be sure to add the page to your Watchlist. If you are new to Wikipedia, it's a good idea to browse through the core principles of Wikipedia as well. The project home page at WP:ORE has many useful links to get you started. The recent changes and recent discussions links will display recent edits on articles within the project's scope. Welcome! Valfontis (talk) 15:55, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Sonam Kapoor

Hello, Jonesey95 -- I was just looking at the requests for copyedits on the Requests page, and near the bottom I saw Sonam Kapoor. When I looked at the article, it looked very familiar, as if I had already done a copy-edit of it. When I looked in the Revision History, I only saw two edits. (I didn't look at them, though.) So I thought, maybe I hadn't. (I had forgotten for a moment that when I do a copy-edit for GOCE, I often do the entire article in one or two groups of edits.) Then I looked at my talk page and saw a request for a copy-edit from Frankie, at User talk:Corinne#CE. I even sent Frankie a note apologizing. Then I looked at the talk page of the article and saw that I had placed a GOCE template there on October 27, 2015. I would only do that if I had really completed a copy-edit of the entire article. So I added an additional note to Frankie on my talk page.

So, it looks like I forgot to add the "Done" template to the Sonam Kapoor request on the GOCE Requests page. I was just about to do that when I thought I'd better ask you whether there is any way to retroactively add the "Done" template to October 27, 2015, the day I added the GOCE template to the article's talk page. I thought statistics were kept to give an idea of how long the GOCE project takes to compete copy-edits, on average, and this delay will skew those statistics. If not, then I apologize, and I will add the "Done" template as soon as I hear from you. Corinne (talk) 01:09, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Corinne, you must have placed {{Done}} because the request was archived on 27th October here. Indeed you did here. In the article's history I see four edits from you starting here, two of which you marked as minor edits, which is probably the reason you're only seeing two. Since then there's been lots of activity history and it's recently been refused FA status, so that's probably the reason it's back at REQ. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 01:53, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Oh.... Thank you, Baffle gab1978. I could never have found all that. So that explains it. I suppose I could have another look at it, but I've kind of had enough of that general subject for a while. I hope you or someone else will take that one. Corinne (talk) 02:58, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

No worries; If it reaches the top on my watch I'll probably take it. Don't forget to remove your {{Working}} template from the request. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 03:18, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Oh, yes. I will. I had forgotten about that. Corinne (talk) 03:28, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Cite court false positive

Resolved

Thanks for this edit. It looks like User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/unnamed.js is incorrectly flagging the |vol= parameter on {{cite court}}, which doesn't support |volume=. Would you mind correcting the script? There's an overhaul in the works that will introduce |volume=, but |vol= should still be considered valid. Thanks! – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 20:44, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

I am aware of this error, which is why I inspect every edit before saving. It looks like I missed that one! Darn it.

I do not have the regex skills to fix the script, otherwise I would have done it already; maybe GoingBatty or one of my talk page stalkers can help me with this code.

To my TPSs: the issue with the script linked above is that it detects {{cite court|...|vol=foo}} as an error and tries to convert |vol= to |volume=. {{Cite court}} currently supports only |vol=, so my script would break the citation. Two straightforward solutions would be to add |volume= as an alias for |vol= in {{cite court}} (paging SMcCandlish for a quick fix) or to modify my regex so that {{cite court}} is excluded from the search portion of the regex. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

You might try this. The first catches {{cite something}} except {{cite court}}. The second, your old rule tweaked a bit, finds {{citation}}:

str = str.replace(/({{\s*[cC]ite (?!court)(?:[^}{]*(?:\{\{[^}{]*}}[^}{]*)*))\|\s*vol\s*=/gi, '$1\|volume=');

str = str.replace(/({{\s*[cC]ita(?:[^}{]*(?:\{\{[^}{]*}}[^}{]*)*))\|\s*vol\s*=/gi, '$1\|volume=');

The simple testing I did shows that the first works in the cases that I tested. I did not test the second.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:08, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Trappist. It looks like it works well. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:29, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Well, the template should actually be fixed to support |volume= like the rest of the citation templates. I went to go fix that, and can't know, because it's been cascade protected, and now even template-editors can't edit it. I'm skeptical that that level of protection is justified, but it's that way for now. @Trappist the monk: Would you mind adding that parameter alias? Some of us actually never use |vol=; I always use the full word, and it would be frustrating to have to remember that a single template in the cite family chokes on it. (Hopefully only a single one.)  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  11:43, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Is it that you want the sandbox version to replace the live version?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:02, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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Telugu

As per your suggestion at this edit I've added it in template. please tell me if its correct?--Vin09 (talk) 04:36, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

I recommend that you ask for help on the template's talk page, or at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:40, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, actually when adding I made mistake again adding in doc page. I'll try your suggetion. Thanks.--Vin09 (talk) 04:41, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes you are

Yes, you are a terrible, terrible person. I do enjoy the userbox. I will send a screenshot off to the spawn of Satan herself. Hmmm, GoingBatty is not as terrible as you are, but the userbox does apply to them. Bgwhite (talk) 06:16, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

This editor is almost as evil as Bgwhite's mother-in-law

ISBN

That does not fix the ISBN either click on the link and even Worldcat.org does not find it, so it can't be a valid ISBN number. Can you find the right one? I couldn't. ww2censor (talk) 11:10, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

It is a valid ISBN number. That doesn't mean that it has been assigned to a book, but it could be. Worldcat does not know about all ISBNs. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:46, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Regarding copyright issue for the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Mohammad_Izhar_Ashraf

Hi,

The data used in this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Mohammad_Izhar_Ashraf was taken from the http://www.ashrafjahangir.com/personality_HSIA.asp. This is the original source. We hold the copyright of this content. Please release this page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sufitruth (talk • contribs) 13:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Sufitruth, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:23, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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Isaac Folorunso Adewole

Hi Jonesey,

How are you doing today? I trust you are doing fine. Could you please help with copy editing on the above article? Thanks in anticipation. Wikic¤l¤gy^{t@lk to M£} 12:46, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Please post your request to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:02, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Tag

Hello,

Thanks for doing verification on James Stunt article. An editor has a concern that a paid editor should not remove COI tag from the article. Now that you have done verification and some copyediting, can you please resolve this tag as well by editing text you think is written in COI manner?

--Skinssnapper (talk) 08:45, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes. That will be part of my editing. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:44, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

November GOCE drive

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 53 articles during the GOCE November 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 16:32, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 49,255 total words during the GOCE November 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 16:32, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 29 old articles during the GOCE November 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 16:32, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

		The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words during the GOCE November 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 16:32, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

So shiny.... – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:12, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Reference Cleanups

Thanks for your fix on Pidgin Hawaiian. Since you seem to like to clean up references, can you figure out the formatting error in Reference 31 in Harris Isbell? I haven't been able to fix it. (Changing references to single column has no effect).

Thanks, Steve

Finney1234 (talk) 17:31, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

I fixed it by removing the line break in the |title= parameter. This is a new error that we are detecting as of today. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:05, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Doh...I was trying to fix the wrong reference. Thanks. Also glad to know why the error was showing up when I hadn't noticed it before.

Finney1234 (talk) 22:24, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Creating articles

How come you can create articles and others can't? And what is the Guild of Copy Editors? Apparently a self-appointed 'institution' of the Wikipedia itself. Does that make it credible? Probably not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by T A Francis (talk • contribs) 09:33, 6 December 2015‎ (UTC)

Anyone can create an article if he or she is logged in to an account, which it looks like you have figured out. If you want to create an article, Wikipedia:Your first article is a great place to start.

You can read about the WikiProject that is the Guild of Copy Editors to find out more about it. There are many such WikiProjects, made of up volunteers, dedicated to improving some aspect of the encyclopedia.

In the future, please add talk page comments at the bottom of the page (it is easiest to click the "New Section" link at the top of the page) and sign them using four tilde (~) characters. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:22, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Blitz daily updates

I usually leave the tough stuff up to you :-), but I figured this list isn't fluid like requests. However, I can't get the daily articles edited (which should be 6) to show. What the hell am I doing wrong? All the best, Miniapolis 00:17, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

It's on the next line, outside of the update template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:08, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Aha. No way would I have figured that out on my own :-). Thanks and all the best, Miniapolis 15:00, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!

Hello Jonesey95: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:07, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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December blitz bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words during the GOCE December 2015 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:47, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

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Good luck with your article. I did not tag it; I helped clean it up. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:58, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

hii

Who r u Pradeep Mahala (talk) 19:35, 30 December 2015 (UTC)