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My page is constantly being monitored by dedicated talk page stalkers. Some of them (I probably don't know them all) are The ed17, IceUnshattered, Juliancolton, Nutiketaiel, Sonia, and Little Mountain 5 off the top of my head. Most of the time they lurk in the dark, but some of them might respond to your comments before I do. Don't be alarmed though; they might provide you with better responses than I can.
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No, I don't mind in the least. :) I need people to keep my space groomed while I pop in and out of consciousness Wikipedia activity. Thanks for sticking around! —La Pianista♫ ♪22:25, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'd like to invite you to participate in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. In May, about 30 editors helped remove the {{copyedit}} tag from 1175 articles. The backlog is still over 7500 articles, and extends back to the beginning of 2008! We really need your help to reduce it. Copyediting just a couple articles can qualify you for a barnstar. Serious copyeditors can win prestigious and exclusive rewards. See the event page for more information. And thanks for your consideration. ɳorɑfʈ Talk!14:54, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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And I am! Dangnabit, Singlish. What else have you been doing besides running around and collecting adminships all over the place? —La Pianista♫ ♪20:29, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, there's still five days to go, the chickens ain't hatched yet. I've been quite involved in this new pending changes thing, and pop in at the help desk and AN/I from time to time. Still not a content writer, as you can see. :P In other news? I've grown up, I guess- deciding where to go for uni. And it seems Wikipedia has as well. So many editors that I remember from when I first logged on are now gone, and new ones are shaping the direction of the project. But because we are Wikipedia, it's become a different place. I've gotten accustomed to oversights and strange phone calls. Somewhat depressing. sonia♫♪21:16, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strange phone calls? o.o If you ever receive an unwanted phone call where you can identify the editor, shoot me an email and they'll find themselves indefinitely blocked. —Ed(talk • majestic titan)01:05, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
@Sonia/Singlish: I know the chickens aren't hatched, but the sheer fact that you're established to that degree makes the little witch-heart warm inside. Congrats!
Strange phone calls? Should be a little more than depressing. Don't shoot Eddie an email, though, as he'll probably shoot something else. *rimshot* In all seriousness, there is nothing wrong with letting an admin know about that. If they are in possession of your phone number, what other information might they have? —La Pianista♫ ♪01:28, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Seeing as they know your phone number, however, I don't think an indef block will do any more than just make them angrier/more perverse. And, you know, a simple website like Yellowbook (just click "Reverse lookup" and enter a phone number) can track your address. I wouldn't take this lightly. —La Pianista♫ ♪01:34, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
They don't know my home phone number, at least. But yeah, it wasn't particularly great- and I have no clue who it is or why I'm being targeted. I don't exactly do anything controversial on-wiki. Or anything interesting, for that matter. In any case, good to see you here :) sonia♫♪06:15, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, no, I'm no violinist...though I do fiddle with people from time to time (hahaa...godawful pun). I could try to help in other ways, though, but I won't make any promises. —La Pianista♫ ♪05:51, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, and last thing before I really check out. Check out what? Myself, of course! Damn, I'm lookin' good... Huh. As you can see I am not functioning properly at this hour.
Could you go through Suite, Op. 14 (Bartók)? It's DYK approved (YAY) but I want to make it even better, at least a GA. It doesn't matter if you don't understand - it's the same for me and your battleships. Cruisers. Floating metal things with guns.
Fyi, in case you missed the second wikibreak, I'll be out with my flute-playing cousin, aka best friend, practically-sister, having fun and doing whatever giggly Asian musician girls do. See you later! —La Pianista♫ ♪07:03, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If you do nab some book sources, would you mind grabbing material about Chopin nocturnes as well? I'm currently without a library to my disposal and the online journals are oddly turning up nothing. ɳOCTURNEɳOIRtalk // contribs16:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
To be honest, I don't have any physical book sources - all of those in the Bartok are from Google Books. However, by pure coincidence, I'll be picking up some books at the library later today. I'll try to find some on the Nocturnes, but be warned that this is in Arlington. They'll likely have a bio of Bach and a pocket bio of Beethoven as their entire classical non-fiction. —La Pianista♫ ♪16:41, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that you had access to an university's music library. You can wait until I return to school (late August), if you're not in too much of a rush; I'll have book sources then. ɳOCTURNEɳOIRtalk // contribs16:49, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, Panda-kun. I was able to make one edit. I only checked out one book because I haven't gotten my "student ID" yet (total bullcrap - you need that *and* a library card to borrow more), and that was the only mention of the nocturnes in that book. I don't have a student ID because I only take private piano there - more bullcrap. When I go for dual credit in the fall, however, I'll get a student ID. I doubt I'll remember to check out more books, so please remind me. —La Pianista♫ ♪05:42, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
On July 20, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Suite, Op. 14 (Bartók), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the 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.
This award is given to you for helping out Motto of the day. Thanks to your effort, MOTD has brilliantly and successfully passed the most difficult period of the year. In fact, there are mottoes scheduled until the end of the summer. For this reason MOTD would like to express heartfelt thanks to you for your support. We appreciate your efforts in further helping the project! – delivered by Simply south on behalf of Wikipedia:Motto of the day23:01, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It is surprising, though, that you don't have all your subpages watched. I mean, someone could have linked . (Btw, I wasn't the least tempted to do that. The least tempted.) —La Pianista♫ ♪02:15, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Didn't want to start a new section, but IRC just went down for me. Sorry about cutting you off. It does this often, and I won't be able to access it till a few hours from now. sonia♫01:30, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please discuss the content on the talk page rather than just reverting. You appear to have violated WP:3RR in a content dispute. I've re-remove the content per WP:BLP as it's unsourced. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:48, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about that misunderstanding. Not to make excuses for myself, but I would have appreciated it if the user had explained in an edit summary why he was constantly blanking sections.
I agree, the user should have explained their reason ... and I've also given them a 3rr warning. I'm assuming GF that they were removing it for BLP reasons; but as they never gave a reason, their true motivations remain a mystery. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:58, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Haha, that's who they are and I wonder if I should join anyways despite knowing next to nothing about military history ... :) Icy // ♫15:28, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You should! I know as much of military history as you do, perhaps less.
Pianista, what're you doing stealing my glory? :P But seriously. Very tempted. Will probably succumb to your flattery... must resist... may resist.... Also, dude. Can touch the sky if I wanted? :P Watch your tenses... ;] (wow, A-class reviews have really made an evil, hard, picky gnome reviewer out of me... man, I have to learn to be nice again xD)
Ed, I do what I can - don't go around calling regular light copy edits "excellent" - leave that for Dank or something :) Icy // ♫01:02, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Haha wow! WikiLove templates have sure gotten pretty fancy-pants these days. Old-timer? Who, me? Naw.
You know, Pianista, you did already join on 22 July 2008. Yes! I'm serious! You're the fourth name from the bottom :) (unless I'm hallucinating? Not ruling out the possibility) Icy // ♫18:49, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
1) Who are you and why are you stalking me?
2) I must have been hallucinating because when I checked the other day, I wasn't on the list.
You don't edit MOTD that much anymore. I was just looking through the archives, and I remembered all the fun we had when I was around (remember Nukietael's "awkward" moments with you? D: SimonKSK22:50, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Remember? How could I forget? No, seriously, how could I forget? Nutiket and the likes of you have scarred me for life.
And I'm kind-of-sort-of semi-retired, which is retirement in the most wishy-washy manner possible. Nothing to be overly excited about, but nothing to weep over, either, so we should still celebrate. Lukewarmly, at least. :) —La Pianista♫ ♪00:25, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
-_- Nutiket scarred you the most, though. :P I'm also, in a way, semi-retired. I came back mainly to check on MOTD (since we always were a bit short on mottoes at times), but now I see we're practically swimming in them. I'm very active over at the simple wiki though, making articles for the songs of the Beatles. So let's celebrate our semi-retirement. SimonKSK19:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There are currently 2,544 articles in the backlog. You can help us! Join the September 2010 drive today!
The Guild of Copy-Editors – September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive
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It seems that the Classical WikiProject has already reached a decision. A really nonsensical decision. To be honest, Sulmues, I stopped worrying about it a long time ago. If they don't want an assessment page, I suppose there's nothing we can do about it.
The Barnstar to the Very Fine Artist who Plays the Piano like Beethoven's Daughter. Thanks for letting everyone listen to your music. You make miracles with your hands. Sulmues(talk)05:07, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!GOCE September 2010 backlog elimination drive progress graphs
Participation report — We have 71 participants in the September drive. 95 people signed up for the July drive, and in May we had 36.
Progress report — We have been making solid progress in eliminating the 2008 articles from the backlog so far. If we continue to focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue. Overall volumes are lower than expected though, with nearly a thousand articles yet to be done if we are to meet our overall target. If you have not yet participated in the drive, we recommend you do so. If each person who signed up edits one article per day from now till the end of the month we can eliminate another 1,065 articles from the backlog. All contributions are appreciated.
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Reminder — Articles from the Requests page can be included in your tally, even if they do not have a copy edit tag. This is a great place to go if you are interested in finding a higher quality article to work on.
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GOCE September 2010 backlog elimination drive progress graphs
Greetings from the Guild of Copy EditorsSeptember 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated! Several of our top editors were called away to real life concerns during the month (be careful out there, people!). This meant that once again, we did not meet all our lofty targets, but we did come close.
Stats
Out of 76 registered editors, 45 actively participated.
We nearly wiped out the 2008 articles from the backlog—there were only 13 remaining when the drive closed.
We reduced the backlog by 725 articles (11.5%), so it was another successful drive.
A total of 59 barnstars will be awarded to 40 editors—well done, and congratulations to all.
Barnstars
If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the July 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, you may have earned rollover words, which counted towards this month's barnstars (except for the leaderboard awards). Any unused word credits will be held over for the next drive, as long as you participated in the September drive. Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars. Click here to see a list of barnstar winners.
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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.
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Having checked the history of this, I deleted it as an expired PROD, and then was alarmed to see on the talk page your {{Old prod full}} referring to a similar article with a different title. After a brief twinge of conscience, I have decided to rely on the letter of the law, supplemented if necessary by WP:IAR, in order to avoid wasting time at AfD on a hopeless case. I will give the author some talk page advice. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:21, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there! I thought you might be interested in the December 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. We're currently recruiting help to clear a massive backlog (22,000+ articles), and we need your help! Participants in the drive will receive barnstars for their contributions! If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends. Thanks!
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.
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FYI, the G7 tag on enwiki only caused me to delete a page where the only revision was your adding the G7 tag! The file is on Commons, and any request for deletion will have to be made Commonsside. Courcelles08:22, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
:))))) <gets hugged> <is happy> You're making me feel guilty for not practicing enough -_-'
I've been spending vacation sleeping, eating, and occasionally doing a minimal amount of homework (though I had performance yesterday and zat was tiring)
T'was violin - I played a movement from Bach's first violin sonata (<333333) and a movement from an easy concerto I learned for an audition... on piano I'm learning the first one and a crazy Polish piece no one knows xD Icy // ♫16:27, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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
