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Hookup culture

Just as a heads up, I thought that I'd mention that your edits to Hookup culture were once again reverted last night. The article seems to be stabilizing somewhat, but it went through a bit of an edit war. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:54, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for a new challenge?

Foundation for a Drug-Free World is a Scientologist anti-drug organization. The article is basically a hit piece, as one might expect. I gave it a quick round of copy editing and improved its structure somewhat, but it still needs a lot of work to fix the bias. If you're bored, maybe you could take a look at it and see if you can work some of your NPOV magic on it. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:55, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Eugene Plotkin

What the hell do you think you are playing at? You have converted a redirect to an article concerning an Eugene Plotkin (amongst others) involved in an insider trading case into an article concerning another Eugene Plotkin entirely. Do you have the faintest idea how confusing this is, and of what the potential consequences could be? Any existing link to the redirect could end up libelling the Israeli mathematician. I am going to restore the redirect, and suggest that you start another article on the mathematician, with a proper disambiguating title. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:22, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Eugene Plotkin (mathematician)

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Thanks much

Thank you for your copy editing help at Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 10:17, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A quick note

Hi Jaytwist; thanks for your copy-editing; it's most appreciated. Just a quick note about your changes to Principality of Nitra; changing "say/said" and "write/wrote" to "indicate", "argues", "hold", etc introduces 'weasel words' and ambiguity into articles and the Good Article criteria require compliance to words to watch. We need to be careful not to imply things that aren't verified by references, especially when we can't easily check them. Most of your changes there are definite improvements though; thanks again. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 03:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

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		Jaytwist, I hereby bestow upon you The Copyeditor's Barnstar for your extensive copy editing of Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia)‎. Thank you for all your contributions, and for continuing to improve the overall quality and standard of Wikipedia's articles! -- Caponer (talk) 03:57, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your masterful wordsmithing is needed!

Jaytwist, should you have some free time, would you be able to run a brief copy edit on the article User:Caponer/Charles M. Williams. I will be moving this article into the mainspace, so your edits will also move to the new article. I really appreciated your great contributions to Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia)‎, and would like it if you could spruce up the article for Charles M. Williams before it goes primetime. Any guidance or assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! -- Caponer (talk) 02:47, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A pie for you!

Jaytwist, I hereby present you with this delicious pie in appreciation of your thorough review and copyedit of Charles M. Williams (American academic)! You've vastly improved the quality and readability of this article, and for that I am incredibly grateful! Enjoy this pie, and please do not hesitate if you need my assistance in the future! Caponer (talk) 03:28, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bounce (Iggy Azalea song)

Thanks so much for the fixing on the article. I have nominated it for copy editing at the guild, I have just one more section to add to the article and then I'm done. If you are willing, I'd really appreciate it if you could do a thorough c/e, I know it's a chore lol. It would mean so much! Please let me know! Thanks—Cool Marc 16:15, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Sorry for the late response. I'm done with my draft on the article. You can go ahead with the c/e now! Thanks again for your willingness to help, the c/e will do the article wonders! Also please note that not every sentence has a ref at the end due to WP:OVERCITE. You can trim all the fluff out as well if you wish, especially the lead needs a bit of a cut lol! Thanks again Jay!—Cool Marc 14:23, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I'm not sure if you're familiar with song articles, but the edit you did on Bounce removed practically the majority of the info on the article? Most of which was not fluff. Wow. Was this intended? Must say I'm glad another user reverted the edit because I honestly didn't expect such a c/e that the article would end up like a stub! Have a look at FAs like Love the Way You Lie or Diamonds (Rihanna song). Song articles have many aspects that need to go into detail when it comes to a GA or FA. The only section that needed trimming was the music video section and the lead...—Cool Marc 20:57, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Charles M. Williams (American academic)

On 7 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charles M. Williams (American academic), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Harvard Business School professor Charles M. Williams survived the sinking of the USS Lexington by swinging from a line onto the deck of a rescuing destroyer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charles M. Williams (American academic). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Help needed

Hey, I have submitted Shrenik Kasturbhai Lalbhai for DYK at Template: Did you know nominations/Shrenik Kasturbhai Lalbhai. The reviewer requests copyediting for grammar. Can you help me by copyediting the article as I am not native speaker of English? Please help. Reply me on my talk page. Regards and thank you -Nizil (talk) 20:40, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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C/e

Thank you for your helpful edits on the Rommel myth article. Could you let me know which other areas need attention so that I can improve the article? K.e.coffman (talk) 00:31, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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