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Your submission at Articles for creation: J. Morris Slemons (April 16)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Ringbang was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Ringbang (talk) 00:41, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Hello! Leschnei, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Ringbang (talk) 00:41, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your exceptional work at WP:CLEAN. Just a couple of pointers: 1) please sign your entries there, 2) when striking user comments, please only strike the comment, but do not strike the user names. Also, it's easier to read replies by placing them below user posts and indenting them. Sorry to nitpick, but it helps keep the page in order, and again, thanks very much for your work! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:44, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		Thanks for your great work cleaning up entries listed at WP:CLEAN. It is most appreciated. North America1000 14:44, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

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May 2016 drive awards

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 33 articles during the GOCE May 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:33, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 45,078 total words during the GOCE May 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:33, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 1 long article during the GOCE May 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:33, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 33 old articles during the GOCE May 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:33, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 5,948 words – during the GOCE May 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:33, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copy edits totaling over 60,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:33, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Your help desk question

You have responses.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:31, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes! May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography. Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:02, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

June blitz

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE June 2016 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:52, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the July Drive! <<<

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Wikipedia email re Newspapers.com signup

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WikiProject WIldfire

Hello! I have recently started a new WikiProject and am trying to recruit new members. The project, WikiProject Wildfire, focuses on articles that relate to wildfires. There is a lot of work that needs to be done. From updating templates, to classifying and improving articles. Any level of commitment is welcome! If you care to just add some input on the founding of the new project, awesome. If you would like to take an active role in editing articles, that is awesome as well! Knowledge of wildfires is NOT a prerequisite for joining the project. In fact, it would be great to have some members of the project who are NOT fire-buffs. That way we make sure that articles aren't just written by and for people in the fire community. If this is something you have any interest in, I would love to have you join the project! Please feel free to join the discussion or leave me a message on my talk page. (Note that you are receiving this message from me because I saw you made multiple edits on a wildfire related page, specifically Yarnell Hill Fire. Not just spamming you at random.) Hope you have a great day! Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:04, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 Drive Barnstars

		The (old school) League of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copy edits totaling over 30,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:42, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 21,481 total words during the GOCE July 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:42, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 12 old articles during the GOCE July 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:42, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

August GOCE blitz award

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE August 2016 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:20, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the September 2016 GOCE newsletter. >>> Sign up for the September Drive, already in progress! <<< July Drive: The July drive was a roaring success. We set out to remove April, May, and June 2015 from our backlog (our 149 oldest articles), and by 23 July, we were done with those months. We added July 2015 (66 articles) and copy-edited 37 of those. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from June 2016. Well done! Overall, we recorded copy edits to 240 articles by 20 editors, reducing our total backlog to 13 months and 1,656 articles, the second-lowest month-end total ever. August Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 21 through 27 August; the theme was sports-related articles in honor of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Of the eight editors who signed up, five editors removed 11 articles from the backlog. A quiet blitz – everyone must be on vacation. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the September Drive! <<<

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:36, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for this. I ran out of time earlier today playing with that and just sat down to finish it, only to find out that you've done all the work.. :) Kuru (talk) 04:10, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

@Kuru: it's my pleasure. By the way, how do I get your custom signature to work in a reply like this? Leschnei (talk) 22:28, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

September 2016 GOCE drive awards

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 13 articles during the GOCE September 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 22:58, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 34,632 total words during the GOCE September 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 22:58, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 3 long articles during the GOCE September 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 22:58, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 12 old articles during the GOCE September 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 22:58, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 14,281 words – during the GOCE September 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 22:58, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copy edits totaling over 60,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 22:58, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2016 GOCE blitz award

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE October 2016 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:57, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: J. Morris Slemons has been accepted

J. Morris Slemons, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Leschnei. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to STiki!

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Congratulations from STiki!

	The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
	Congratulations, Leschnei! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Ugog Nizdast (talk) 12:31, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Accidental Revert

Hey. I just realized that I accidentally reverted your edit instead of someone else. It was completely my fault an I apologize. --Seahorseruler ^{(Talk Page) (Contribs)} 16:12, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Seahorseruler, No problem. Leschnei (talk) 16:16, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful! >>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<< Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating! September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words). October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page. Housekeeping note: we do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your Watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<<

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Eric Moussambani - Edit

Hi, you sent me a message that my edit to the article on Eric Moussambani had been undone because it did not appear constructive and, unless I'm much mistaken, you may wish to reconsider that. The paragraph I edited (see below) refers to the female athlete Paula Barila Bolopa, who competed in the Women's 50m freestyle event at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. However, the article refers to Paula using the male pronoun 'he' on two occasions. As it is clear Eric Moussambani competed in the 100m freestyle, and that the sources (5 & 6) refer to Barila Bolopa, I perceived this to be a typo and thus changed the entries for 'he' to 'she'.

"His performance generated spectator and media interest in Paula Barila Bolopa, the only other Equatoguinean swimmer at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He competed in the men's 50 meters freestyle event, struggling to finish the race with a time of 1:03.97. In setting a record for the slowest time in Olympic history for that event, he also achieved major celebrity status."

I now note that I should have also changed 'Men's 50m freestyle' to 'Women's'. For clarity one could also recommend that 'His' is changed to 'Eric Moussambani' and the first 'he/she' to Paula Barila Bolopa or, simply, Barila Bolopa. Thus the paragraph would read:

"Eric Moussambani's performance generated spectator and media interest in Paula Barila Bolopa, the only other Equatoguinean swimmer at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Barila Bolopa competed in the Women's 50 meters freestyle event, struggling to finish the race with a time of 1:03.97. In setting a record for the slowest time in Olympic history for that event, she also achieved major celebrity status."

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:252D:8800:D178:C93:A22C:EE57 (talk) 04:11, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

@2A00:23C5:252D:8800:D178:C93:A22C:EE57:, thanks for the heads-up. You're completely right - obviously I should have gone to bed before editing that article. I'm going to go revert my edit now and I'll make the other changes as well. Leschnei (talk) 13:14, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Legion of Super-Heroes

I undid your edit to Legion of Super-Heroes. You stated in your edit summary "changing 'Legion' to 'legion' when it is not used as part of a proper name." The proper name of the organization is "the Legion of Super-Heroes", hence in this article the term "Legion" is a shorthand substitution of the full name. It is not a generic term in the context of this article but rather a registered trademark per the United States Patent and Trademark Office http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:eepiay.2.1

Mtminchi08 (talk) 02:34, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

@Mtminchi08:, I made those edits because I was following the guidelines here. As I'm not an expert in proper nouns, I'm not going to argue over it. But so you know, I am copyediting this article as part of a drive for the Guild of Copy Editors. I would appreciate it if you would discuss with me if there's a problem before you revert so I don't have to repeat my work, like the wikilink changes (etc) in the edit you reverted. In turn, I'll make my edits in smaller chunks. Thanks for the explanation, Leschnei (talk) 02:53, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the February 2017 GOCE newsletter. The Guild has been busy since the last time your coordinators sent out a newsletter! >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< December blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 December; the themes were Requests and eliminating the November 2015 backlog. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine editors completed 29 articles. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all who took part. January drive: The January drive was a great success. We set out to remove December 2015 and January and February 2016 from our backlog (195 articles), and by 22 January we had cleared those and had to add a third month (March 2016). At the end of the month we had almost cleared out that last month as well, for a total of 180 old articles removed from the backlog! We reduced our overall backlog by 337 articles, to a low of 1,465 articles, our second-lowest month-end total ever. We also handled all of the remaining requests from December 2016. Officially, 19 editors recorded 337 copy edits (over 679,000 words). February blitz: The one-week February blitz, focusing on the remaining March 2016 backlog and January 2017 requests, ran from 12 to 18 February. Seven editors reduced the total in those two backlog segments from 32 to 10 articles, leaving us in good shape going in to the March drive. Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 stepped aside as lead coordinator, remaining as coordinator and allowing Miniapolis to be the lead, and Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators. Thanks to all who participated! Speaking of coordinators, congratulations to Jonesey95 on their well-deserved induction into the Guild of Copy Editors Hall of Fame. The plaque reads: "For dedicated service as lead coordinator (2014, 1 July – 31 December 2015 and all of 2016) and coordinator (1 January – 30 June 2015 and 1 January – 30 June 2017); exceptional template-creation work (considerably streamlining project administration), and their emphasis on keeping the GOCE a drama-free zone." Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Guild of Copy Editors February Blitz barnstar

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE February 2017 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:23, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Pings

Hi Leschnei. Just letting you know that this won't have triggered a notification for Gestrid. You have to use that template in the same edit that you sign for it to work properly. See Wikipedia:Notifications#Triggering events on this. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:04, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

That's true that it didn't ping me, but I have the page watchlisted anyway, so I saw it. This did ping me, though, Cordless Larry. No worries, though. — Gestrid (talk) 22:38, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Cordless Larry. I remember reading about that somewhere, but it didn't even occur to me when I added the ping after the fact! Leschnei (talk) 00:55, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

No worries. I had to be told about this myself, so I like to pass the message on when I see it happening. I presumed that Gestrid would see your reply in this case, but wanted to make sure you knew because that's not always the case with other users on other pages. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:12, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Highland and Island Emigration Society copy editing

Hi. Just a note of thanks for your edits on the HIES page. I am the original author. It represented a lot of work and I was discouraged by the reviewers feedback, and didn't really understand many of his comments - so it was my first and last WP page! Probably I should not be so thin skinned! However, I like what you have done.

I will look at it more closely to see if there is anything I think should be added - eg the missing citation in the Rules section.

Thanks again for your interest and good efforts. Camerojo (talk) 23:15, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

@Camerojo:, you're very welcome. Don't be discouraged; if that was your first article, I'm very impressed. It's difficult to make that subject something other than just a rehash of Potato famine or Highland clearances, and I think that you did a good job of it.

Keep in mind that the reviewer stated that your references look good and I agree (though I don't have access to the books). That puts you ahead of many articles on Wikipedia! There were three main aunts that the reviewer thought needed addressing. First, Manual of Style stuff. Hopefully I caught a lot of that . Second, NPOV; I'm not sure what that's about. I thought that the article addressed both sides of the issue, but you could always ask the original reviewer for more details on that point. Third, images; maybe Wikimedia Commons would have some relevant ones.

Overall, I think that the review is not so negative. They are pretty picky about details in GA reviews! Leschnei (talk) 23:57, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

By the way, @Camerojo:, if you do decide to work on this article more, there are a couple of Harvard references that I couldn't fix: the MacKenzie 1883 reference wants a page number (I think) and Kent 1994 is missing from the Bibliography. Cheers! Leschnei (talk) 01:04, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

When queried, the reviewer told me that the NPOV was only because I originally referred to the "sad" history of the clearances!! He removed my "sad" and said he would revise the NPOV fail, but never did. Kent 1994 is in the Biblio - are you thinking of another that was missing? I do not know the page number of the MacKenzie 1883 reference - it is widely quoted text which I have only been able to find in transcribed versions. Camerojo (talk) 20:37, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

@Camerojo:, the references were fixed by another editor before you took a look. I was wrong about the Mackenzie reference - it didn't need a page number, the name was just misspelled! Since the GA reviewer fixed the NPOV problem, that's one less thing for you to worry about. Leschnei (talk) 23:38, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

GOCE May 2017 drive bling

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 13 articles during the GOCE May 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 22,876 total words during the GOCE May 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copyediting 1 long article during the GOCE May 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
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		This barnstar is awarded to Leschnei for copy edits totaling over 30,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Congrats on placing on the leaderboard in every category! I know that isn't easy, and it's nice to see someone go for it! Well done, and keep up the good work! – Reidgreg (talk) 17:45, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

The Planet Heroes

Try https://web.archive.org/web/20070709144633/http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=10&e=planetheroeslanding which is an archive of the website at Fisher Price. Some of the information appears to be available through there...Naraht (talk) 11:25, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Naraht (talk · contribs), I'll take a look at it. I guess I just don't like using sales sites as references, so having the article link only to Fisher Price, Amazon, and Ebay doesn't seem acceptable. But I haven't found anything else. It's simply a random article that I was trying to improve (for the good of humanity, not because of any emotional attachment to the subject!). Leschnei (talk) 11:47, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

NP, been there myself. I once ended up doing significant improvements to an article that I found simply because they had misspelled "Johns Hopkins University" as "John Hopkins University".Naraht (talk) 11:50, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

The black hole of Wikipedia editing. Leschnei (talk) 11:51, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Yup. Actually changing "Johns Hopkins University" -> "John Hopkins University" has lead to me editing wikipedia in languages that I don't even know...Naraht (talk) 14:05, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Isabel Alice Hartley Crawford

Looks like a good article. I think it needs to be moved to Userspace rather than an a place in mainspace with your username...Naraht (talk) 18:41, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Naraht, I'm still learning all of the ins and outs of moving things around. I realized this morning that a one-sentence article called Isabel Crawford already exists - I think that I put it on my list of things to work on when I ran across it a year ago, but then forgot that it was a stub and not a red link. So, I've had the article moved back to my sandbox and I'll move the info into the existing article as normal edits. Leschnei (talk) 19:38, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

What I was saying is that it isn't really in your sandbox, given that the place that it was put doesn't have User: at the beginning. The move back to userspace went incorrectly is what I meant.Naraht (talk) 21:26, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Naraht - Ah, proving once again that I don't understand all of this sandbox vs userspace vs mainspace stuff. I have copied the information and sources over to the existing Isabel Crawford article. Would it be appropriate to solve the problem by putting a deletion request template at the top of the misplaced Isabel Alice Hartley Crawford article? Leschnei (talk) 22:05, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Cemetery

If you come across the Findagrave entries for the people buried, could you add them to Wikidata? I just added the Findagrave entry for the cemetery itself to Wikidata and added the street address. I know most people do not like the Findagrave link in the articles, but Wikidata loves them! --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 14:05, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): Will do! Leschnei (talk) 14:59, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

SMS Kaiser Barbarossa

Hey, I saw your attempt to fix the problem - it turns out there's a glitch with the efn template (see here). Parsecboy (talk) 15:03, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Parsecboy, that's good to know. All of those SMS articles have the same error. I guess it's best not to use list-defined footnotes for now. Leschnei (talk) 15:13, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, it seems that way - even this one, where the two notes are using the same ref, was broken. Odd that the template is that fragile, but at least there's a way to fix it. Parsecboy (talk) 15:20, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

A description of a link is not clear or has been vandalized (help)

Hello. I was using the visual editor to edit the article "Royal Spanish Academy" and when I was trying to edit the link "Dictionary of the Spanish Language" (in the lead of the article), I noticed that in the dialog -which appears when the link is clicked while editing with the visual editor- the description of the link is "conjugacion del verbo habeer" which transliterated from the Spanish grossly means "conjugation of the verb to haave (sic)" which I think is not descriptive of the article linked, is poorly written, is not in English and is even misleading because the dictionary doesn't provide conjugations of verbs -it just provides definitions of words.
1. Is there a way to edit the description of links or only administrators can do it?
2. If I can't do it, could you fix that description so it reflects an accurate description?
Thank you in advance. Thinker78 (talk) 05:00, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

@Thinker78: by happy accident, you've asked me about something that I asked at the help desk just last week! The labels that show up when you click a link in Visual Editor come from Wikidata. The way to fix it is to go to the linked Wikipedia page (Dictionary of the Spanish Language, in this case), then in the left sidebar, under tools, select 'Wikidata item'. I haven't done much with Wikidata, but at the top of each page is a label and a description that can be edited. For some reason, these were in Spanish. I have changed the label to 'Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy' and the description to 'Dictionary of the Spanish language by the Royal Spanish Academy, first published in 1780'. The description should pop up now when you click the link. If you feel that either the label or the description is not quite right, feel free to change them. Leschnei (talk) 11:42, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Bungalow

Did you mean to revert this? Just asking in case I missed something... ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 12:51, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Never mind; you fixed what I should have caught. Thanks ;-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 12:52, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

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Dominican is NOT done; there are still links to fix through the redirects

Redirects are fine, links to the redirects must still be fixed. bd2412 T 15:01, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

@BD2412:, this is exactly what I'm having trouble grasping. Is it the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers and Washington Heights, Manhattan that need fixing? Any others? Leschnei (talk) 16:11, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes, those are the pages that need fixing - nothing else. bd2412 T 16:19, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

I think I understand now. Thanks again. Leschnei (talk) 16:20, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News Hello copy editors! Welcome to the December 2017 GOCE newsletter, which contains nine months(!) of updates. The Guild has been busy and successful; your diligent efforts in 2017 has brought the backlog of articles requiring copy edit to below 1,000 articles for the first time. Thanks to all editors who have contributed their time and energy to help make this happen. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< Our copy-editing drives (month-long backlog-reduction drives held in odd-numbered months) and blitzes (week-long themed editing in even-numbered months) have been very successful this year. March drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2016 from our backlog and all February 2017 Requests (a total of 304 articles). By the end of the month, all but 22 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 28 who signed up, 22 editors recorded 257 copy edits (439,952 words). (These numbers do not always make sense when you compare them to the overall reduction in the backlog, because not all editors record every copy edit on the drive page.) April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 April; the theme was Requests. Of the 15 who signed up, 9 editors completed 43 articles (81,822 words). May drive: The goals were to remove July, August, and September 2016 from the backlog and to complete all March 2017 Requests (a total of 300 articles). By the end of the month, we had reduced our overall backlog to an all-time low of 1,388 articles. Of the 28 who signed up, 17 editors completed 187 articles (321,810 words). June blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 18 through 24 June; the theme was Requests. Of the 16 who signed up, 9 editors completed 28 copy edits (117,089 words). 2017 Coordinator elections: In June, coordinators for the second half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 moved back into the lead coordinator position, with Miniapolis stepping down to remain as coordinator; Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators, and Keira1996 rejoined after an extended absence. Thanks to all who participated! July drive: We set out to remove August, September, October, and November 2016 from the backlog and to complete all May and June 2017 Requests (a total of 242 articles). The drive was an enormous success, and the target was nearly achieved within three weeks, so that December 2016 was added to the "old articles" list used as a goal for the drive. By the end of the month, only three articles from 2016 remained, and for the second drive in a row, the backlog was reduced to a new all-time low, this time to 1,363 articles. Of the 33 who signed up, 21 editors completed 337 articles (556,482 words). August blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 20 through 26 August; the theme was biographical articles tagged for copy editing for more than six months (47 articles). Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors completed 38 copy edits (42,589 words). September drive: The goals were to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all August 2017 Requests (a total of 338 articles). Of the 19 who signed up, 14 editors completed 121 copy edits (267,227 words). October blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 22 through 28 October; the theme was Requests. Of the 14 who signed up, 8 editors completed 20 articles (55,642 words). November drive: We set out again to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all October 2017 Requests (a total of 207 articles). By the end of the month, these goals were reached and the backlog shrank to its lowest total ever, 997 articles, the first time it had fallen under one thousand (click on the graph above to see this amazing feat in graphical form). It was also the first time that the oldest copy-edit tag was less than eight months old. Of the 25 who signed up, 16 editors completed 159 articles (285,929 words). 2018 Coordinator elections: Voting is open for the election of coordinators for the first half of 2018. Please visit the election page to vote between now and December 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Thanks for participating! Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before (or after) every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Keira1996. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Happy new year!

New month, new list, since it is already 2018 on Wikipedia. The new monthly disambiguation list is at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/January 2018. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:12, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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Mz7 (talk) 00:41, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

@Mz7: thank you! Leschnei (talk) 01:01, 10 January 2018 (UTC)