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Mubadala Edits

Hi,

I hope all is well.

My name is Rashed Al Harmoodi and I'm the media relations manager at Mubadala. I have noticed that you recently edited the Mubadala page, and I wanted to bring to your attention a note I have posted on the Mubadala discussion page. I'd greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on some of the corrections to the Mubadala page that I've suggested.

regards, Rashed Rashedmubadala (talk) 08:32, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody!


Stats
If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the May 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, your word totals are cumulative for barnstars (not the leaderboard). Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars.

GOCE backlog elimination drive chart up to 31 July
  • Eight people will receive The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Barnstar (100,000+ words): Chaosdruid, Diannaa, Ericleb01, Lfstevens, Shimeru, S Masters, The Utahraptor, and Torchiest.
  • Bullock and Slon02 will receive The Order of the Superior Scribe (80,000+).
  • The Barnstar of Diligence (60,000+) goes to Derild4921, GaryColemanFan, kojozone, and Mlpearc.
  • The Modern Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar (40,000+) goes to A. Parrot, AirplanePro, Auntieruth55, Bejinhan, David Rush, and mono.
  • Nobody will receive The Old School League of Copy Editors award (30,000+).
  • The Tireless Contributor Barnstar (20,000+) goes to Backtable, Cindamuse, dtgriffith, Duff, e. ripley, Laurinavicius, NerdyScienceDude, and TEK.
  • The Cleanup Barnstar (12,000+) goes to Brickie, Casliber, cymru lass, December21st2012Freak, Nolelover, TheTito, Whoosit, and YellowMonkey.
  • The Working Man's Barnstar (8,000+) goes to Bsherr, Duchess of Bathwick, HELLKNOWZ, Mabeenot, noraft, Pyfan, and Richard asr.
  • The Modest Barnstar (4,000+) goes to Adrian J. Hunter, Airplaneman, Annalise, Camerafiend, Cricket02, Fetchcomms, Gosox5555, LeonidasSpartan, Paulmnguyen, Piotrus, SuperHamster, Taelus, and TPW.


Gold Star Award

Gold Star Award Leaderboard
Articles Words 5k+ Articles
1. Diannaa (248) Shimeru (200,392) Shimeru/Ericleb01 (13)
2. Slon02 (157) Diannaa (164,960) Chaosdruid (8)
3. GaryColemanFan (101) Chaosdruid (130,630) Derild4921 (7)
4. Torchiest (100) The Utahraptor (117,347) GaryColemanFan/Slon02 (6)
5. Shimeru (80) Ericleb01 (114,893) Bejinhan/The Utahraptor (5)

Coordinator: ɳorɑfʈ Talk! Co-coordinators: Diannaa TALK and S Masters (talk) | Newsletter by: The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor at 18:14, 1 August 2010 (UTC).

Awesome userpage!

The Excellent User Page Award
This is the coolest userpage I've ever seen. Your style deserves recognition. Cheers! Dragonite023383 (talk) 19:17, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you! ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 00:37, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

MOTD Barnstar

The MOTD Barnstar
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 day 23:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you! ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 00:46, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I've nominated Slavic names for DYK

Could you check it please? Thanks in advance!

Wojgniew (talk) 19:44, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

It appears to have already been checked, and it isn't eligible. Sorry. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 00:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

your user talk page

It takes too long to load. Can you optimize the images better? thanks Specialkjamie (talk) 19:58, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

The above user is a blocked sockpuppet. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 00:54, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Creation of Articles

Hello, I know you are on vacation at the moment, but nce you return to normal editing you make consider creating the following articles: 2010 AMP Energy 500, 2010 AAA Texas 500, and 2010 Kobalt Tools 500 (Phoenix). I'm sorry about our agreement; I quess it just didn't work out. ~ Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 21:22, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

I will create those articles when I have a chance to do so. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 01:02, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Okay; they are the final articles of this year to be created. --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 01:09, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This Tireless Contributor barnstar is awarded to NerdyScienceDude for copy editing articles totalling 23,560 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 backlog drive. Your contributions are appreciated!--Diannaa (Talk) 15:10, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you! I'm glad I did some glory at the GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive. I'll definitely help out the next one. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 04:13, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 2 August 2010

WikiProject Apple Inc. August 2010 Newsletter
The iNewsletter/issue 1/august 2010/by mono & dwayne
Project news
  • After several months of collaboration on Macintosh, the article was delisted from featured article status.
  • Last month, WikiProject Apple Inc. quietly launched several new departments (collaboration, outreach and strategy). A new program by the outreach department is preparing to launch a recruiting effort (ORDER).
  • Please take a moment to welcome our new members: Eraserhead1, Leet Sher, and Allmightyduck.
  • Details are being ironed out for a weekly project discussion on IRC. Contact Mono for more information.
New articles Featured article

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Mono at 01:49, 6 August 2010 (UTC).

Hi

And welcome back! Your presence has been missed :) Airplaneman ✈ 03:02, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Airplaneman. I had a lot of fun at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, which will be my next project. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 04:19, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
That's cool! Airplaneman ✈ 03:53, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

WP:NASCAR

"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject NASCAR for a Signpost article to be published this month. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 21:21, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

I believe the 2010 Coke Zero 400 article is closer to the GA staus than your others. --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 23:32, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
I have adjusted my comment. Thanks for pointing that out. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 23:49, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
You're welcome! --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 00:29, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 9 August 2010

Gorilla warfare RfA

Hi. Decided not to badger you at the RfA page - hope you're OK with me posting here. Your neutral !vote intrigues me. Let's start with a classic strawman argument (I know, I know): If he had 1,000,000 edits, 900,000 of which were automated, would you oppose? That's a hefty 90%. Of course, that'd mean 100,000 manual edits. What I'm trying to get at is this. The candidate seems to have made several thousands of manual edits across the two usernames. Are you unable to gauge whether you trust them to follow policy properly from the (more recent) manual edits they have made? Hope you don't mind me asking. --Dweller (talk) 20:18, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

I never thought of automated edits put into context like this. I would trust GorillaWarfare to to follow policy since he has demonstrated that ability. I will move my !vote. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 20:32, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
He is a she BTW :) Pedro :  Chat  20:43, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Lol @ Pedro. Either way, cheers NSD. --Dweller (talk) 20:44, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Sorry I got the gender mixed up. I didn't know. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 20:46, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Recent items up for deletion

Hello, I am new to Wikipedia, at least putting things on it. I am still trying to figure most things out and I hope my recent updates don't get deleted. Am I doing something wrong or just not getting info up quick enough? Digitalkiller (talk) 03:32, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

The article looks fine now. There was no indication of notability before. Now it has citations, which has saved it from speedy. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 13:30, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Removed speedy from Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/GorillaWarfare/Mii_Party

Hi NerdyScienceDude. Thank you for your work on patrolling pages and tagging for speedy deletion. I just wanted to inform you that I declined to delete Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/GorillaWarfare/Mii_Party, a page that you tagged for speedy deletion under criterion G2 because of the following concern: the page is not a test page, it is being used for an RfA question, please check the history :). Please review the criteria for speedy deletion and especially what is considered Non-criteria. In future you should rather tag such pages for proposed deletion or start an appropriate deletion discussion. Regards Kingpin13 (talk) 13:56, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Oops, didn't see the history. I'll be careful next time. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 14:01, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Vacation

Hey, NSD (if I may call you that), you removed your vacation tag from your talk page, but you didn't from you user page. I was just asking. :) --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 03:37, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks for pointing that out. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 19:16, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Christmas motto series

Hi! As a contributor to the MOTD, I thought I would draw your attention to a discussion for a possible Christmas Motto series. If you get a chance, could you please pop in and give your thoughts? Thanks! Stephen! Coming... 15:58, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

I've left a support. ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 01:49, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400

Hey NSD, the article listed above is next for tranformation. It will look similair to 2010 Auto Club 500, which just passed GAN. So . I will start tonight, but I probably won't finish it until next week some time. --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 01:40, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

I have made some tweaks to it myself. It's nice to hear one of the articles I created will be reviewed for GA. Is Airplaneman reviewing it like some of the other NASCAR articles? ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 23:56, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm actually going to sit it out for the next review or two so some new ideas from other users can be seen. I'll help, though :). Airplaneman ✈ 00:06, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Its ready now, but would you nominate it, I have 2010 Carfax 400 for GAN now. --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 00:09, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 August 2010

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive invitation
There are currently
2,511 articles in the backlog.
You can help us! Join the
September 2010 drive today!

The Guild of Copy-Editors – September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive

The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invite you to participate in the September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September at 23:59 (UTC). The goals for this drive are to eliminate 2008 from the queue and to reduce the backlog to fewer than 5,000 articles.

Sign-up has already begun at the September drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page.

Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

Awards and barnstars
A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GoCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.

Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive!
— ɳorɑfʈ Talk! and S Masters (talk).

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GA review for 2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400

Hi, I have started the review. Derild4921☼ 01:35, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

That was quick! ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 01:36, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I thought the same thing! --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 01:39, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Well mainly because I've seen you around on Airplaneman's talk page so I thought as a first GA review it would be easier to have some model articles to help me. :P Derild4921☼ 01:45, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm sure you'll do a fine job. Let Airplaneman know if you need any help since he knows a lot about GA reviewing. ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 01:49, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey NSD, I seen you change on here, when do you start school? --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 02:10, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm starting school tomorrow. Looks like Derild4921 has started looking through the article. ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 02:16, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Yes he has, and I start Thursday. Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 02:18, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

It's also nice to see Airplaneman going for adminship again. Hopefully he'll pass this time. ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 02:21, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

I hope so, he deserves it, since he has been such a great editor. --Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 02:24, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Just note that there is a hidden comment in the lead: "Please do not erase, it will be used in the future", with some broadcasting stats and whatnot. Airplaneman ✈ 03:05, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Removed. I forgot to earlier. Nascar1996 Contributions / Guestbook 03:38, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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Airplaneman ✈ 02:48, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks from the GOCE

Thank you very much for signing up for the Guild of Copy Editors' September Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two years, to the summer of 2008! We're going to need all the help we can muster to reduce the backlog to a manageable size. We've set a goal of clearing all of 2008 from the backlog, and getting the total under 5000. To do that, we're going to need more participants. Please invite anyone you can to join the drive! Once again, thanks for your support! If you have any questions, contact one of our coordinators—ɳorɑfʈ Talk!, The Raptor You rang?, or SMasters (Talk).

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DYK for 2010 National Scout Jamboree

The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Vote comment

As you commented in the pending closure discussion I am notifying you that the Wikipedia:Pending changes/Vote comment is now open and will be for two weeks, discussion as required can continue on the talkpage. Thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 00:02, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Hidden subpage

The Original Barnstar
This is for finding my hidden subpage, even if it was accidentally. Here is the link to the May drive. The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 01:51, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

And by the way, I've removed the talkback you left on my talk page. I don't want a direct link to my hidden subpage in any place except where it should be. Hopefully you understand. The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 01:51, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Whoa, a barnstar for ending up at the wrong page? How interesting. Anyway, thanks! ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 01:58, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I've also found hidden subpages accidentally (for example, I found User:Hi878's hidden page accidentally). I guess it'll happen. But hey, you got a barnstar for doing nothing! Pretty cool if you ask me. ;) The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 02:10, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Indeed. ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 02:11, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Teal

Access Denied added a little colour to my userpage. I used to quite like not having any fancy background, but I've decided to leave it for a while to see if I like it. Trouble is, it's green, not teal [you know how I like teal! ;)] and changing the word "teal" to hex codes doesn't seem to have any effect. Any chance you could take a look? Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:12, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)If you don't mind, I'll have a crack at it. I'm using the hex triplets found at List of colors as a reference. Airplaneman ✈ 16:28, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 Fixed. The background is now the same teal you use in your signature and displaytitle. ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 19:59, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Please self-rv :(. You should've checked the page history first... Airplaneman ✈ 20:02, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Autowotsit

Hello, this is just to let you know that I have granted you the "autopatrolled" permission. This won't affect your editing, it just automatically marks any page you create as patrolled, benefiting new page patrollers. Please remember:

  • This permission does not give you any special status or authority
  • Submission of inappropriate material may lead to its removal
  • You may wish to display the {{Autopatrolled}} top icon and/or the {{User wikipedia/autopatrolled}} userbox on your user page
  • If, for any reason, you decide yo do not want the permission, let me know and I can remove it
If you have any questions about the permission, don't hesitate to ask. Otherwise, happy editing!--HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 04:18, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! ~NSD (✉ • ✐) 04:19, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank semi-spam

Thanks for your support in my RfA, which was closed as successful. Your endorsement of my content contributions was greatly appreciated. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 14:50, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 August 2010

2010 Irwin Tools Night Race

The race article will be ready in an hour or less. :) Nascar1996 21:25, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

The article is now finished, and ready for DYK. Nascar1996 22:43, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

NASCAR Newsletter August, 2010

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Wikify Drive

Since you signed up for the September 2010 GOCE event, I wanted to invite you to participate in a similar event: the September 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. In case you didn't know, "Wikification" is the process of formatting articles using Wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and adding internal links to material. Barnstars will be awarded to participating editors. Thanks!

 ℳono 

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The Signpost: 30 August 2010

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