User talk:Reaper Eternal

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Worlebury Camp

Hi, Well done for your effort on Worlebury Camp it has really improved - hence my regrading it as C class. It would be great to get it up to GA. There are some actions which I think would help to move it towards this:

• The lead should be expanded to summarise the whole article (see WP:LEAD) - in the lead Roman could also be wikilinked  Done
• There are several sections which need references to support the claims eg: first part of para at Triangular stone platforms; almost all of Other findings - if the 2 refs at the beginning cover the other claims these need to be sorted to verify individual statements.  Done
• Phrases such as "Unfortunately, a relatively recent planting of trees..." seem POV it is referenced but to a blog which is unlikely to pass Reliable Sources.  Done
• The gallery pictures could be distributed between other paragraphs (with captions) as Galleries are not popular with GA reviewers.  Done

Hope these are helpful. I will keep it on my watchlist & may be able to come up with other aspects for improvement as you get it towards GA.— Rod ^talk 19:30, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

• Also the bulleted list in "Other findings" should be turned into prose.— Rod ^talk 20:57, 28 October 2010 (UTC)  Done
• Also in some cases the units are metric (imperial) others are imperial (metric).— Rod ^talk 21:05, 28 October 2010 (UTC)  Done

Some more queries

• Can you indicate the era for explorations by Martin Atkins & Charles Dymond - who was Dymond & indicate any qualifications, as wp doesn't appear to have articles on them?
• What is "Bead-rim pottery of the Glastonbury type" is this similar to artifacts found from the Glastonbury Lake Village?  Done
• We are told the skulls are in N Somerset museum - where are the other artifacts now?— Rod ^talk 19:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Now I've found an official web resource stating it is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (although I've found 2 different reference numbers) can I suggest changing the infobox from UK place (which is very non specific) to Template:Infobox Historic Site which includes as designation as a SAM?— Rod ^talk 19:53, 29 October 2010 (UTC)  Done

Where does the figure of "over 100 pits" come from? This page from the local council says 90.— Rod ^talk 20:27, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

I think it may have come from the blog, which I removed from the references. I just looked it up in Dymond's book, and it says "They are 93 in number; 74 of them being in the larger division of the area, 1 in the transverse fosse, and 18 in the keep." I will fix it now. Page 65 FYI. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:32, 29 October 2010 (UTC)  Done

Richard Ivey School of Business article

Hi - I noticed that you reverted content on the Ivey wikipedia article, and also noticed that you are very active as an editor - that's amazing!

I find wikipedia a bit confusing and wanted to know if my edits have been OK?

The description of your edit was "Reverted edits by 64.42.209.108 (talk) to last revision by Mcheater (HG))." Does that mean that there was a problem with my edit? It looks like you reverted something by 64.42.209.108, rather than by me, but I wanted to check and be sure.

Anyways, thank you again for being an active wikipedian!

Mcheater (talk) 03:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC) (web comms @ the richard ivey school of business)

Thank you! Your edits were perfectly fine, and my edit had nothing to do with yours (other than restoring it). The IP address was inserting garbage into the article. He added "The Quantum shift fellows met in Sasketchewan. See King Tim" to the article. I reverted those edits (it means I undid them), hence the summary "Reverted edits by 64.42.209.108 (talk)". since you had contibuted the last good edition of that article, your version got picked, hence the summary "to last revision by Mcheater". I used huggle to do it, hence the final bit of the summary "(HG)". Reaper Eternal (talk) 04:37, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks for catching that stuff that was being pushed in - you rock!

Mcheater (talk) 16:01, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Odd acceptance of unsourced edit

Can you explain why you accepted this unsourced edit to an article subject to WP:ARBMAC? It was quickly reverted and is exactly the kind of edit that the pending changes is supposed to prevent. Toddst1 (talk) 11:48, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

See here [1] (it is debatable whether the Bosnian language is even still in existence). Also see here [2] where it says, "Serbo-Croat  : Language spoke by Bosnians, Serbs, Croats" . Also see here [3], where it mentions that Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian are "mutually intelligible". Finally, here [4] it states that the Štokavian dialect of Croatian is spoken by Croats, Serbs, and Bosnians. I hope this clears it up. Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:29, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I was also unaware that this article was subject to arbitration. I have not been around here for that long. Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:39, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I just realized that "Bosnian" could refer to the Bosniak people or the inhabitants of Bosnia. Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:47, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

No worries. All topics relating to the Balkans make up one hell of a hornet's nest and editing has been problematic for years. We have to be super careful there. Toddst1 (talk) 13:42, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

HotCat

I notice on the edit history for Albi the Squirrel, you attempted to add Category:Animal deaths, which HotCat changed to Category:Animal deaths by year, and in your edit history you asked "Why does HotCat keep autocompleting??!?"

The reason HotCat would not let you add Category:Animal deaths is that that is not a valid category - all articles about animal deaths should be placed in the appropriate category for the year they occurred (e.g. Category:2009 animal deaths). Strictly speaking, it's not valid to put an article in Category:Animal deaths by year either, but HotCat isn't smart enough on its own to read an article and figure out what year it's meant to go in.

In general, if you try to add a category tag with HotCat and it won't let you add the tag you want, you should take that as a warning that you're trying to add the wrong tag, and try to figure out what tag you should be adding instead. —Paul A (talk) 08:37, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the information. Reaper Eternal (talk) 10:25, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Stub categories

Stub categories should never be added directly, as you did in this edit. You add a stub category by adding an appropriate stub tag, which also creates the stub notice at the bottom of the page - in this case {{US-journalist-stub}}.

Also, existence of stub categories and date categories does not justify removing the {{uncategorised}} tag - the article still needs to have one or more real subject categories. Thanks. PamD (talk) 14:01, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I was trying to help clean up the enormous backlog of uncategorized articles. Does Wikipedia have a guideline on how to insert appropriate categories? Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:55, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I have been trying to get into a more constructive role on Wikipedia, rather than just being a vandal fighter. I am starting to focus on improving the references in Wikipedia. Is this a good thing to be doing? (For an example of what I am doing see Monte_Verde.) Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:44, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Categories/uncategorized seems to have useful info on adding categories. For sorting stubs, see WP:WSS. PamD (talk) 23:57, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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Newington College

My edit of the == History - Recent Events == section was meant to be constructive as it isn't really recent and seems to be an overly long description of a minor event in a short article on the 150 year history of Newington. You will notice that I left the more recent muck-up history even though it to seems largely irrelevent as well. Thank you for your interest inmy edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.45.201.57 (talk) 02:17, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

That is why it is recommended that editors make detailed edit summaries when removing large quantities of content. When these summaries are provided, it makes the edit obvious that it is not vandalism so it won't get reverted. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:21, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Don't forget to check you are rolling back far enough

See [5] but that bot is almost always something to check as it's dealing with references, in this case someone before that had removed something that I replaced. Happens to me at times too! Dougweller (talk) 06:39, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I can't see any rollbacks that I performed on Wikipedia:Help_desk or Illegal immigration, which is the article in question. Will you please point me to the diff/revision/edit that I made? Reaper Eternal (talk) 10:39, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

ANI

Did the right thing. No editor should ever make a call on the validity of an edit like that on their ownThe Resident Anthropologist (talk) 12:59, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the cookie, and I'm glad I did the right thing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

ORV article

Nice job copyediting the Off-road vehicle‎ article. Athene cunicularia (talk) 02:15, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks :) ! Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:22, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Ngemba

You say "Fixed dead end", but linking to a disambiguation page such as Bafut is not "fixing" it! When you make any link, please check that the link goes to a useful page, not a dab page. Thanks. PamD (talk) 13:27, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

You already yelled at warned me for this type of thing (see User talk:Reaper Eternal#Stub categories). There were several articles that I had wikified and added categories to before you warned me that my edits were not helping and directed me to the appropriate Wikipedia guideline page. I'm sorry, but I could not find every one of my edits that created stub categories or linked to disambiguation pages. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:35, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

OK, sorry about that. But please don't accuse me of "yelling" at you! PamD (talk) 13:40, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

And, by the way, I don't think you're using the "Talkback" right: I think you're supposed just to add your userid, not a whole signature, so it comes out looking much neater - have a look at Template:Talkback. Cheers. PamD (talk) 13:46, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I wasn't trying to assume bad faith on your part. (edit conflict) And thanks for letting me know how to use talkback templates! I think working with the Guild of Copy Editors is a much better use for my talents. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:48, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Could you?

Hi, you copyedited the article Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, which is up for GA class review, yesterday. Since then, I have added a bit to the first paragraph of the Themes section and overall to the Critical Reception section. Would it be possible for you to just give another look through those two parts? 165.91.166.182 (talk) 23:55, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Sure, I will give it another copyedit. Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:57, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I think the copyedit is done now. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:29, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Just one other thing, if you have the time. The reviewer had expressed concern for the beginning of the sentence "He ended by saying that "Dalrymple’s case sounds like a paranoid tirade or perverse tribute, but it is at least partially redeemed by the barrage of breathtakingly horrible true-life (one assumes) stories that this very angry doctor tells—and he can tell a story—to bolster it."" in the Critical Reception section. It does seem to be a bit awkward sounding. Do you have an opinion on what it can be changed to so that it flows better? 165.91.173.45 (talk) 04:04, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Since it is a quotation, I cannot really copyedit it because that would make the author be saying something he actually did not. However, I will abbreviate the ending. Reaper Eternal (talk) 11:27, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I found the issue. You began the sentence by saying: "He ended by saying that "Dalrymple's case sounds...."" However, that is the way you introduce an indirect quotation (where you paraphrase the author's words and do not use quotation marks), whereas you wanted a direct quotation (where you copy the author's words and use quotation marks). I changed it to the following: "He ended by saying, "Dalrymple's case sounds...."" I also changed the injected element to ellipsis points to make it read better. Reaper Eternal (talk) 11:35, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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What I was doing

I was clearing up a messed up page. Tables all wrong, one off a different page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.17.81.119 (talk) 23:46, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I appreciate your attempt to help wikipedia, but you removed a large amount of content in the process. Additionally, using edit summaries helps recent changes patrollers know what you are doing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:50, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Copyedit

Thanks for checking over my copyedited articles :) I have one question, what exactly is the words section? I know I've done around 200, but I don't really understand how you figure it out. Is it simply the amount of words you've changed? Thanks! --Addihockey10^e-mail 02:13, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Go to "My preferences", click on the "Appearance" tab, and click the "custom JS" for whatever skin you are using. Add the following line of code to it:

importScript('User:Dr_pda/prosesize.js'); //User:Dr_pda/prosesize.js

Restart your browser. Then, under the "Toolbox" link to the left, you will find a link called "Page size". Click this link before you start copyediting an article to count up its words. (If you forget, you can always access it by going to the newest revision before you began and clicking "Page size" with that open.) Add the words to your total and list it under your name when you finish copyediting. Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:21, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for helping me :) Could you check over the other 2 articles I've copyedited? They're at the backlog drive page under my name. Thanks :-D --Addihockey10^e-mail 21:05, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Protection

Hey! I just saw on your profile that you don't especially like vandalism, and it's good because I don't too! And I'm following a page in particular and there's vandalism often by anonymous or new people on wikipedia. I was just wondering if you know how to protect or semi-protect, or to have any kind of protection for a page. Thanks!!
Fabzzz (talk) 03:35, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, but I cannot protect a page because I am not an administrator. (Neither can you, by the way.) If you would show me what page it is that you want protected, I would be willing to file a request for page protection on your behalf if there is enough vandalism going on. Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:38, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

There is not a whole lot of vandalism, but it still is annoying to revert all the edits by anonymous people. The page is In Real Life, a TV show. The edits by anonymous people are sometimes right, but most of the time they are just plain vandalism. Thanks again for you help.
Fabzzz (talk) 03:44, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

There isn't really enough recent vandalism to warrant getting the page protected (my request would be declined anyway). If it gets worse or keeps on happening, you could ask me again and I will file the request. Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:49, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		For helping improve the prose in Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass so that it would pass its GA review. Keep up the good work at WP:GOCE, you're definitely one of their valued members. (Silver seren) 165.91.173.45 (talk) 08:31, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you; I'm glad to help! Reaper Eternal (talk) 11:34, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

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Moved off previous section

but Kennys real name is Gogasora, they just said so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.75.137 (talk) 03:36, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Let me guess, I reverted your recent addition of vandalism? Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:56, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok ill stop but how do you find out i changed something so fast?

Ok ill stop but how do you find out a changed something so fast? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.72.157.216 (talk) 02:34, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

I use a tool called Huggle which monitors all recent changes and flags those which might be vandalism. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:36, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

So you look for changes all night long.

Thank You

I am new to wikipedia editing, I am trying to do my best to help out this community. Thank you for showing me my wrong doings. User:Jpross123

That's OK; we all make mistakes. By the way, when you post on other's talk pages, you should sign your comments with this ~~~~. Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:01, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Acussing me?

i didnt do anything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.148.168.2 (talk) 02:56, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, you did vandalize with this edit. Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:02, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Paul R.Tregurtha

Hi, You prodded this as non-notable, but in fact there's already an article at MV Paul R. Tregurtha, to which I've redirected it! PamD (talk) 13:49, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

The initial article (which I prodded) was unreferenced and full of original research (..."usually seen around the great lakes of Michigan."). That's fine that you redirected it; I did not know of the original article. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:03, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

/* Nathyn Brendan Masters */

Significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject can be proven by the links and coverage on the web. The people seeking to delete it are ignoring the actual coverage from independent sources. They're calling whole articles trivial. Here's page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathyn_Brendan_Masters please help. They're also trying to delete pages I'm putting up for the Wikipedia comic project. Many are unfinished. But they're challenging pages about comic book characters. Seriously, I don't get it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rmavers (talk • contribs) 16:41, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

I tagged it for WP:CSD when it was looking like this [6]. It was then an unsourced BLP which thus did not indicate notability of the subject. You have since expanded and sourced the article, hence the removal of the CSD template. Thank you. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:46, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

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Duck Day

I don't think it meets the technical criteria for speedy deletion but by all means go ahead and tag it anyway - an admin will decline the speedy if it doesn't meet the requirements and the prod will stand. Exxolon (talk) 19:07, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

It got speedy deleted. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:55, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Further copyediting changes to Blogging in Burma

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blogging_in_Burma&action=historysubmit&diff=396969409&oldid=396637701 --Aichikawa (talk) 20:15, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the improvements. I also made some of my own changes afterwards as shown here [7]. Reaper Eternal (talk) 00:45, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page! You deserve a cookie!

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Your welcome! Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:28, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

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