User talk:Acebulf/Archives/2010

This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Split a Page?

How does one go about doing this without creating problems? Think the Diabetes in cats and dogs page needs to be split between feline and canine; think it more every time I edit it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_in_cats_and_dogs

Not the only one thinking this either:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Diabetes_in_cats_and_dogs#Opinion_about_quality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Diabetes_in_cats_and_dogs#Very_partial_article

More familiar with doing this in Wikia--would appreciate any input!

TIA!!

We hope (talk) 13:18, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

"Makudam"

Hi there. I appreciate you reverting MAKUDAM to include the speedy deletion template. I have placed a speedy delete tag on both MAKUDAM and Symbol of Christ, both created by the same user and both up for deletion, and he seems hell-bent on reverting them. I replaced the templates three times on each and then promptly quit, in an effort to avoid edit-warring. As each article is on AfD, is there much of a point to keeping it up if they'll be deleted anyway? I've done plenty of new page patrolling, but am not sure how it works on the admin's end. AlexHOUSE (talk) 18:18, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not getting massively worked up over this, but I left a message for him on the talk page of Symbol of Christ. AlexHOUSE (talk) 18:28, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Hirtz compass

On April 10, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hirtz compass, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 21:33, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the review

I still feel I'd given that editor enough leeway but if more than one editor feels I didn't I suppose that's something I'll have to take on board. Crispmuncher (talk) 20:31, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Been a while.

Randomly saw your name on the WP:5MP, just dropped by to say it's been a while. _EricLeb⁰¹ (Page | Talk) 03:56, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Ahh, not bad. Trying to get a little more implied, but next year is what'll count. How's the IB? _EricLeb⁰¹ (Page | Talk) 20:28, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, lower grades are probably common for everyone there, so nothing to worry about. Not very much new at L'Odyssee, they're trying to get a private bus for sports, Genevieve Lalonde made the world juniors in athletics, and Lindsay Violette had a baby. Other than that, pretty much the same school; disorganized as hell, but the same school. Is M-M as bad as Alaa was making it out to be? _EricLeb⁰¹ (Page | Talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:14, 10 July 2010 (UTC).

Figured as much. Not sure what was her name (actually don't remember what gender...). She left around eight months pregnant mid-May while teaching us Physics. _EricLeb⁰¹ (Page | Talk) 21:26, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

It's fine, was just watching the Cup. Took Bio, Physics, Chemistry, Spanish, and German (doubt you'll be able to help on those last two, but whatever). Not sure yet of what it'll be composed. I forgot to ask what Mehdi has been up to. _EricLeb⁰¹ (Page | Talk) 20:31, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Haven't started Chemistry yet, other than Science 10. Physics, revision of basic Classical Newtonian formulas and transposition of graphs, laws of Newton and multi-directional force addition (NE + SW) and decomposition, basic laws related to energy (conservation, cinematic, gravitational potential energy), sound waves and their basic formulas, Doppler effect, and qualities of sound (speed, variation with temperature). I'm not quite sure what'll be there next year, but I could check the website for Eric Landry's page... I know he has the material there. Getting your MSN would probably be easier though. _EricLeb⁰¹ (Page | Talk) 03:26, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm just a random user who stumbled across this talk page from who knows where. One link leads to another, and another, and… Anyway, you guys should seriously cut out personal conversation (see WP:MYSPACE). It's frowned upon. Anyway, nice to meet you, and see you guys around the encyclopedia. Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 07:43, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I realize that. We simply had no other ties for communication. All taken care of now. And you might have come from the WP:LOCE ;) _EricLeb⁰¹ (Page | Talk) 15:12, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Newsletter

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now passed the halfway point, so here's an update.

Progress Report - Progress toward the targets has been good. 751 articles out of the approximately 1,600 we would like to get completed by the end of the month were done by July 15, so we will be very close to meeting the target for volume. However, we would like to clear all of the 2008 articles from the backlog, and there are still 892 left to do. Please consider choosing one of these older articles when looking for something to copy edit. If we focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue.

Participation Report - 95 people signed up for the July drive. This is a great result compared to May, when we had 36. However, in May only one person that signed up didn't do any copy edits, and in July only 59 of the 95 have posted any copy edits on the big board.

The task may seem insurmountable but please remember that if all 95 participants copy edit just one article a day from now until the end of the month, we will eliminate 1,300 more articles from the backlog. So please consider participating at whatever level you can! All contributions are appreciated.

This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa ^(Talk), S Masters (talk), and The Raptor ^{Let's talk}.

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody!

Stats
If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the May 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, your word totals are cumulative for barnstars (not the leaderboard). Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars.

Eight people will receive The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Barnstar (100,000+ words): Chaosdruid, Diannaa, Ericleb01, Lfstevens, Shimeru, S Masters, The Utahraptor, and Torchiest.
Bullock and Slon02 will receive The Order of the Superior Scribe (80,000+).
The Barnstar of Diligence (60,000+) goes to Derild4921, GaryColemanFan, kojozone, and Mlpearc.
The Modern Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar (40,000+) goes to A. Parrot, AirplanePro, Auntieruth55, Bejinhan, David Rush, and mono.
Nobody will receive The Old School League of Copy Editors award (30,000+).
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar (20,000+) goes to Backtable, Cindamuse, dtgriffith, Duff, e. ripley, Laurinavicius, NerdyScienceDude, and TEK.
The Cleanup Barnstar (12,000+) goes to Brickie, Casliber, cymru lass, December21st2012Freak, Nolelover, TheTito, Whoosit, and YellowMonkey.
The Working Man's Barnstar (8,000+) goes to Bsherr, Duchess of Bathwick, HELLKNOWZ, Mabeenot, noraft, Pyfan, and Richard asr.
The Modest Barnstar (4,000+) goes to Adrian J. Hunter, Airplaneman, Annalise, Camerafiend, Cricket02, Fetchcomms, Gosox5555, LeonidasSpartan, Paulmnguyen, Piotrus, SuperHamster, Taelus, and TPW.

Gold Star Award

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	Articles	Words	5k+ Articles
1.	Diannaa (248)	Shimeru (200,392)	Shimeru/Ericleb01 (13)
2.	Slon02 (157)	Diannaa (164,960)	Chaosdruid (8)
3.	GaryColemanFan (101)	Chaosdruid (130,630)	Derild4921 (7)
4.	Torchiest (100)	The Utahraptor (117,347)	GaryColemanFan/Slon02 (6)
5.	Shimeru (80)	Ericleb01 (114,893)	Bejinhan/The Utahraptor (5)

Coordinator: ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! Co-coordinators: Diannaa ^TALK and S Masters (talk) | Newsletter by: The Raptor ^{You rang?}/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions}

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor at 18:05, 1 August 2010 (UTC).

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive invitation

There are currently
2,696 articles in the backlog.
You can help us! Join the
September 2010 drive today!

The Guild of Copy-Editors – September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive

The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invite you to participate in the September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September at 23:59 (UTC). The goals for this drive are to eliminate 2008 from the queue and to reduce the backlog to fewer than 5,000 articles.

Sign-up has already begun at the September drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page.

Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

Awards and barnstars
A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GoCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.

Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive!
— ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! and S Masters (talk).

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor at 23:25, 17 August 2010 (UTC).

Invitation to join WikiProject Bacon !

Wikipedia:WikiProject Bacon has been created, and you are cordially invited to join, and list yourself as a participant at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bacon#Participants!
You may also feel free to add the userbox - {{User Bacon}} - to your userpage, to indicate your participation in the WikiProject.
The Wikipedia:Bacon WikiCup is also ongoing, more info about that at User:SuperHamster/Bacon Challenge 2011, and User:SuperHamster/Bacon WikiCup 2011.

Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 08:45, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

GOCE copy edit drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!

The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue.

Sign-up has already begun at the November drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page.

Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

Awards and barnstars

A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants, some of which are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.

Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive!
— The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}/_{Contributions}, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa ^(Talk)

GOCE elections

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors via SMasters using AWB on 01:07, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Year-end Report

Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report.

Highlights

Membership grows to 503 editors
2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives
Our encounter with Jimbo Wales
Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned
Report on our inaugural elections
Guild Plans for 2011
New barnstars introduced
Requests page improved
Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive!

Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011!
– Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 06:03, 31 December 2010 (UTC)