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Please comment on Talk:Focus on the Family

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Please comment on Talk:Flag of India

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GOCE July 2012 barnstars

The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive, 31 articles with an accumulated total of 107,550 words, Miniapolis is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. Thank you for this magnificent contribution. --Stfg (talk) 11:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award – Number of articles edited – 6th Place
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 31 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 11:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award – Number of words edited – 4th Place
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing articles to a total of 63,081 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 11:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award – Number of 5k articles edited – 4th Place
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 2 articles of 5000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 11:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award – Number of oldest-category articles – 2nd Place
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 25 articles from the oldest monthly copyedit categories during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 11:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

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WikiProject Wikify and the future of wikification

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Please comment on Talk:Muhammad Iqbal

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Please comment on Talk:Nichiren Buddhism

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GOCE news and September drive invitation

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

  • The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best August copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
  • September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit the articles tagged longest ago and to complete all requests placed before the end of August. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top six in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". This drive features a much easier signup process. We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.
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Talkback

Hello, Miniapolis. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Amateur radio.
Message added 22:54, 3 August 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

I don't want to spam you, but I think this is important, and would like to know your opinion. WingtipvorteX PTT 22:54, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the heads-up. Although, of course, one's choice of username is up to them, the youngsters (who are often the proudest of all of their callsigns) should be vigorously dissuaded from a username so transparent. That being said, though, they'll have to pry my callsign license plates from my cold, dead hands...:-) All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 02:15, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Yes. It would be nice if such a thing could be written into policy, but I doubt it given the small number of people it affects. Youngsters are proud of their callsigns with good reason. I was 14 when I got mine, so I understand them, as do most of us, since so many hams started out in their teens.
If callsign license plates were a big problem, word would have gotten out. But it is a good illustration, hi hi. 73! de WingtipvorteX PTT 23:41, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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