User talk:Bella Swan/July-August 2008

Your userpage...

Your userpage is so awesome! How did you design it so good? I mean, I guess mine's okay but your's is so much more....awesome. ♥Tory~♥Amulet♥Heart♥ 21:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Actually red is my favorite color. But I decided to use blue on my userpage. I'm so mad right now, my stupid little brother almost got me blocked from Wikipedia! ♥Tory~♥Amulet♥Heart♥ 17:00, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Wow SEVEN brothers! I only have two. But I also have four sisters. i think... I always forget how many I have. ♥Tory~♥Amulet♥Heart♥ 16:53, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Werewolves

Ok, non problem. If you prefer, instead of trying to learn Italian (that is not as easy as English, believe me), I could try to translate our page in English but then someone of you should have to correct my mistakes :). Please let me know if that is a good idea. Remember that until July 4 I have to study for the final exam (you could reply in my page here). katiusha (tell me) 20:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Literally it means beneficial sorcerers, it's plural. katiusha (tell me) 18:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Singular should be stregone benefico, that (I think) would be more exact. Doesn't it refer to Carlisle? katiusha (tell me) 19:03, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I read that too. But if you search "stregoni benefici" on google you will find a site that states that stregoni is a italian vampire. I don't know who to trust...ok, it's not my business actually :) katiusha (tell me) 19:11, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey Bella

It's me, Princess Rebel, your crazy, australian, twelve-year-old pokeynut for a wikiadoptee. Check the new section on my userpage - we're gonna be busy for a while with TASK ONE.Princess Rebel (talk) 03:03, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Who's Up To The Challenge?

Find my secret page and recieve the ultra-special honour of a POKEYNUT AWARD. (NO CHEATING!) The Rebel's Gone Pokeynuts LOL 05:34, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Edward

Haha, sure did. Protection for longer than a week will be nice. *confetti* Andrea (talk) 14:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Thankyou for nominating Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for GA status. Unfortunately, it is not up to GA standards yet, and I have copied my initial concerns below. I have placed the nomination on hold for a week, in the hope you can make some progress on what promises to be an exceedingly interesting page.--seahamlass 17:26, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

First impressions

This is obviously a well loved article, but although packed with information and plenty of interesting details, it is not up to GA standards just yet. With sufficient time, care and hard work, however, I'm sure it will make the grade.

I have set out a few general areas for action below, to help you start working towards your GA goal, and will place this review on hold for a week to give you time to start making the changes. After that, I'll take another look and, if progress has been made, will provide a further, and more detailed, list of what is needed next.

• There are far too many un-cited statements, dates and figures at the moment, especially in the "Rowling's commentary and supplement" section. Please see WP:CITE/ES for help. I see that in a previous FAC discussion, the comment was made that: "Rowling's commentary and supplement" section could reasonably have the cleanup tag applied to it (i.e. converting list to prose)." However, it still remains a list, which is not encouraged at GA and/or FAC.

• Most of the refs that are cited check out as OK, although "Publisher slams book on "Harry Potter" distributor [newsday.com]" and "Laminated Harry Potter Deathly Hallows 7 Snape Bookmark - [ebay.com]" are both showing up as dead.

• When this article was delisted as a GA last September, the following comment was made: "The plot summary is several kilobytes long. It's divided into SEVEN SUBSECTIONS. This is a gross violation of WP fiction guidelines." The plot summary, although now trimmed, is still rather long and still has seven sub-sections. This, obviously, needs tackling.

• The lead needs to be expanded to conform with the guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. For an article of this length, at least three lengthy paragraphs would be needed, to "adequately summarize the article."

• The "Critical Reception" section seems rather limited. Although several book critics/newspapers are quoted, along with Stephen King, there is no general "overall view" of the reception the book received from fans and critics.

And a few technical issues...

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 6 metre, use 6 metre, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 6 metre.

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), when doing conversions, please use standard abbreviations: for example, miles -> mi, kilometers squared -> km², and pounds -> lb.

• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, if January 15, 2006 appeared in the article, link it as January 15, 2006.

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally should not start with "The". For example, if there was a section called ==The Biography==, it should be changed to ==Biography==.

• Per WP:WIAFA, this article's table of contents (ToC) may be too long – consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per Wikipedia:Summary style.

• Please make the spelling of English words consistent with either American or British spelling, not a mixture of both.

--seahamlass 16:37, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Bella, Just a heads up that I have left a question about this article on the Wikipedia GA noms talk page:[1] I can see you have done quite a bit of improvement work on the article in the past few days, but it seems an uphill struggle due to the many other edits the page attracts day in and day out. How do you feel about pulling the GA nom at the moment and going for a full peer review before trying again? I'm sure you are committed to making this a GA once more, but I wonder if the page could be protected, or something, while you were working on it to help you out?-- Seahamlass 11:55, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

I wish you the very best of luck! It must be so hard being committed to helping an article, then having it ripped up everytime you turn your back. I'm sure you'll get there though - and I really hope you do.-- Seahamlass 14:48, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Secret page

Hey, I made a secret page!! Try and find it, without cheating!!!!!! (that includes looking in the history) ~ California Girl 21:57, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey! =^-^=

Pretty good, in france for 2 months and since yesterday finally managed to piggyback the neighbor's Wifi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Estarrol (talk • contribs) 07:35, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

it's great, been going to france every summer of my life =^-^= managed yesterday to piggy back the neighbor's Wifi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Estarrol (talk • contribs) 16:47, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

lol still here till 8/2 ^-^ living in Wissembourg

lol i'll try to find something that will be a nice picture, and thanks for reminding me to sign, been a long time since i edited stuff, Estarrol (talk) 17:02, 10 July 2008 (UTC) P.S got a G-mail account, would be significantly easier to chat

for Gmail Sparrowhawk1991 and if possible can you look over the Article Ubel Blatt, trying to improve it but because i wasnt looking over it for 1 and a 1/2 months alot of people messed it up and i tried to fix it, also can you teach me on to make a table to display the story arcs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Estarrol (talk • contribs) 18:34, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Re:Rebel Queen Pokeynut

Sure, I wouldn't have a problem! Might have to get used to the pokeynuttedness, though...if that's a word. :P But this means I can use the secret LOL page, right? --^LaPianista! 21:48, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Twilight Boxed Set.jpg)

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Re:Humor

Thanks for the notice! Outright hilarious. :)

If you like other stuff like that, you might want to check out the WP:DOF, too.

Erm, I might take the opportunity to ask a teensy-tiny favor...could you give me a heads-up whenever Happysunshine gets back from camp? I'm thinking of another assignment for her.

Thanks, cheers, and happy editing,

LaPianista! ^«talk» 23:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

This is really unimportant, but...if you get bored, you can try finding my secret page (again, I moved it). And you get to keep the barnstar this time. :) —LaPianista! «talk» 20:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Re to your comment: No, sorry! I was just a little late in telling you.

In reparations, however, I'll try to find a secret page of yours...once you create it. :) —LaPianista! «talk» 04:58, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Breaking Dawn Talk Page

Hi

I merged the sections on the early book release given there were so many sections on the talkpage about the same thing. Should they be left separated in order to discuss specific aspects of the early release? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Canez (talk • contribs) 16:21, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

That's cool. I just figured it would look cleaner and easier to understand if they were all together but then again it doesn't stop people from making new subtopics to discuss something that's been discussed a few times already on the same page.

While I have your attention, do you know if there's a twilight project groupo formed or anything, with the specific focus of cleaning up the articles? I was thinking of rewriting the plot for at least the Breaking Dawn page but with the book still being so new I figured it wouldn't be a good idea so soon. Personally I think the plot section is far too long. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Canez (talk • contribs) 16:34, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Warriors (novel series)

Hi there. It looks like you've been a significant contributor to the article Warriors (novel series), so I'm notifying you of a GA reassessment that I've just started. I've left notes on the reassessment page, detailing the problems with the article in comparison to the GA criteria. Feel free to respond to my notes, both by addressing the problems in the article and adding to the discussion. Mr. Absurd (talk) 06:49, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Happysunshine

Hi, Bella!

If Happysunshine is no longer grounded, could you please tell her to check her assignment? I hate to keep on bugging her, since I think I've told her to check it three times already—besides, sisters are meant to bug each other, right? :P

And good news...you're officially one of my Wikifriends! Cheers! LaPianista! «talk» 17:22, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

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hi, nice to meet you

i am the fand of Twilight books too, can you share some of you view to me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.119.126.206 (talk) 22:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

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Barnstar

You've earned yourself a barnstar! How? Go to my userpage to find out why...

The Rebel's Gone Pokeynuts LOL 10:52, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

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