User talk:Twinsday

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Twinsday, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Angus McLellan (Talk) 16:45, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

For your help with the Krakatoa related articles - they had needed some tlc - Satu Suro 12:44, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi, I really like your Lost Tapes page. It is really helping out a ton on a project of mine! --Boy of The Waters (talk) 12:50, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NowCommons: File:Krak1.jpg

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How the Earth Was Made

You asked for help? What help do you need? Cyberia23 (talk) 21:22, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please tell Collectonian that The History Channel changed its name to History. It's so obvious, yet she's not convinced. Can you proofread the infobox and lead and maybe add a little info on the episodes? I'm female. Do you mind telling me your gender? I'm just curious. Thanx. Twinsday (talk) 00:35, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well it is technically called the History Channel, "History" is just the shortened form of the name. GM is still General Motors, but we'd rather say "GM" right? Evidence to prove this... go to history.com and you will see it says "The History Channel - Home Page" in the top bar of the window. Yes, that could mean that it was overlooked and they haven't gotten around to changing it yet since they shortened their name, but they do still publish "History Channel Magazine" and so far that name hasn't changed. I suggest maybe trying and get a hold of someone from A&E Television Networks - they own History and see if they tell you what it's really called. Of course you could consider it's a pointless argument and just get over it. Also I'm male - I don't think many chicks are really into shows like MysteryQuest and UFO Hunters. Just my opinion. Cyberia23 (talk) 22:36, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! I don't know how to thank you for the article. Looks great—so pretty! Couldn't have done a better job myself. If you're interested, Scariest Places on Earth and Weird Travels may need a little expansion. Twinsday 10:21, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Other Siders

Thanks for helping with my fixing of othersiders. I didn't even notice the Vandalism until you noticed it. I would have been able to do a better job fixing it but i never watched the show. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitefang94 (talk • contribs) 15:39, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lituya Bay Megatsunami

Thanks for the picture caption. :)FlameHorse (talk) 03:48, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Added new show – Ancient Aliens

I started a new article for Ancient Aliens on History if you wanna take a look. I heard it's only going to be 5 episodes. We'll have to see how it turns out. Supposedly History is going in a "new direction" with their programming and were going to get rid of their paranormal shows. They already killed UFO Hunters and MonsterQuest, so I was surprised when they green lighted this new series. Cyberia23 (talk) 20:12, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I remember the documentary special with that title, which I saw was released on DVD through the channel's online store. serious hat 01:52, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit Backlog Elimination Drive

Hi, as a member of the Guild of Copy Editors you're hereby notified of and invited to participate in the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2010. Please help us eliminate the 8,000+ copyedit backlog! Participating editors will receive barnstars and other awards, according to their level of participation. ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! 00:22, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Lunar eclipse vs. lunar phase

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Judeo-Islamic philosophies (800 – 1400)

I reverted your speedy deletion nomination of this redirect because it is clearly in use [1]. Worth checking that in future :) Peter 14:06, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the fixes on my navbox!

--Mooshykris (talk) 01:21, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In reply to your previous post on my talkpage: I fully understand that. What I had in mind was something the most basic user can find straight from any page, and also something in better organization. I feel that this would be a more navagible way to find such information. --Mooshykris (talk) 14:36, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou

Hi,

Thanks for the welcome on my talk page. And thankyou for alerting me to my edits being reverted, i will make sure that in the future i provide sources. Thanks,

Technoguy123 (talk) 14:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Astrophotography

ty for the barnstar! It was interesting following the "facts", especially in the history section, learning more about some of the early work. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 14:56, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 01:26, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect

Hello Twinsday, should I perform the redirect back to the old article? Cheers, Davtra ^(talk) 06:21, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you very much for The Paranormal Barnstar. RandalR (talk) 13:43, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have you considered joining WikiProject Cryptozoology? We are a group of editors dedicated to improving the overall quality of Wikipedia's coverage on cryptozoology. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants. Please see our list of open tasks for ideas on where to get started. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page. We look forward to working with you in the future! ~~~~

Help on the Looks of Cryptozoology Project Page

Thank you so much for your offer to help. If you prefer the old look on the page that is fine! I think we need to keep the Okapi picture in place, since it is the emblem for the international society of cryptozoology. Feel free to change the templates and page back to green though..Please suggest future ideas at the talk page for graphic updates here.--Gniniv (talk) 07:55, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted Project Page to Green Background, working on Templates--Gniniv (talk) 08:16, 17 July 2010 (UTC) Changed User box to green (See example below):[reply]

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Cryptozoology.

Article Creation and Improvement Drive

Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive is voting on the next good article. We would appreciate your vote for Cryptozoology as the next candidate.--Gniniv (talk) 09:20, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Frozen"

Is the genre of Madonna's song "Frozen" pop or trip hop, as the infobox says? serioushat 07:37, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Trip-hop, but I reverted a blocked user. Feel free in revert it. Tbhotch^Talk ^C. 19:24, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

Hi! I was just curious which article I just created is being deleted. --Gniniv (talk) 08:23, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New User Welcome/Help

Thanks for your message and your help. As a new user I am trying to get used to how this all works and I followed other posts for format and just spent several hours doing an entry only to get your message about a "Speedy Deletion". I have looked carefully at the Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion and I could not find anything in the paragraphs that talks about "conflict of interest" as a critera, just because I wrote the entry. I did use all proper external references and I absolutely welcome advice on how to better compose the page. I guess my big question is that if I don't place the entry, although my professional background is supported and legitimate, what is the difference if someone else were to write that information and then post it? Seems a bit round about if each time someone else must write what we could easily (and more accurately) write ourselves. I'm not being difficult, just trying to learn how this all works. Seems a natural thing to have an entry. If I cannot write it myself, who would be an acceptable source? Can I have a friend or professional PR person write the entry or must I just wait until some other anonymous contributor finds my professional life worthy enough to then have them write an entry? Your advise is most appreciated! Thanks! RNMars24 (talk) 07:31, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You don't have worry about having a speedy deletion mentioned in my welcome. You are off with a good start. You have demonstrated your notability with third-party published sources and complied with the guideline WP:ENT. serioushat 08:56, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again SO much for your assistance, support, and particularly the time you have taken to help with your edits to make the entry more precise. I can already tell that being here is a very interesting journey on several levels! RNMars24 (talk) 19:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcomeauto

Note that some automated scripts add headings automatically, so this might cause problems. I have notified Wikipedia talk:Friendly. Thanks. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 01:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My Violation

I did not violate anything, The Animal Armageddon page is becoming a mess of false information. Some of the users editing the page now are including prehistoric animals that were not even featured in the show, plus they are editing the episode descriptions to include false information. I was just trying to get rid of the animals that were not featured in the show. Ask anyone who watched the show, and they would tell you none of those animals were featured. Plus the edit I made to Gojirasaurus was right too, Gojirasaurus was not even featured once on the show. --72.226.76.56 (talk) 19:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I confused you with another user because there are so many IP users and warned the wrong one, so I removed the warning on your talk page. serioushat 00:49, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I'm a moderator on a wikia myself and it happens sometimes.--72.226.76.56 (talk) 02:42, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Welcome

Hi, Thanks for the welcome on my talk page. – Viloris (talk) 12:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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}

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GOCE Invitation

There are currently
2,480 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.

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

Cryptobarnstar Awarded

		The Cryptobarnstar
		For improving the quality of the Cryptozoology article. Gniniv (talk) 05:49, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

P:CRYZOO

The above portal is finally cleaned up and ready for active service. I would appreciate you getting the word out to fellow editors and users.--Gniniv (talk) 01:10, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Words to watch

In accordance to the MoS guideline on words to watch, should we use words like supposed, alleged, purported, etc. especially in those paranormal-related articles? serioushat 05:37, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure. I started using words like that in the paranormal articles because I had other people constantly adding them to my edits. I guess without them it sounded like I was making a factual statement and some people had problems with that.

For example, from MonsterQuest the statement: An investigation of the plesiosaur-like lake monster nicknamed Champ that supposedly lurks in Lake Champlain... without "supposedly" it would sound like a monster does indeed live in the lake. With "supposedly" it means a monster might live in the lake, but there is still doubt because nothing solid has been found. I guess if you didn't use the doubtful words it would sound biased. Cyberia23 (talk) 19:51, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nikita

As an editor of dab Nikita, your input is invited at the merge discussion there. --Lexein (talk) 16:06, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

November copy edit drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!

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.

Sign-up has already begun at the November 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 of which 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!
— The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}/_{Contributions}, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa ^(Talk)

November 2010 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!

Discussions are underway to elect our inaugural group of GOCE Coordinators. Guild members and Drive participants are invited to have a look at the Coordinators page and join the discussion on its associated talk page.

We have reached the midway point in our backlog elimination drive, so here is an update.

Participation report — The November drive has 53 participants at this point. We had 77 participants in the September drive. In July, 95 people signed up for the drive, and in May we had 36. If you are not participating, it is not too late to join!

Progress report — The drive is quite successful so far, as we have already almost reached our target of a 10% reduction in the number of articles in the backlog. We are doing very well at keeping our Requests page clear, as those articles count double for word count for this drive.

Please keep in mind the possibility of removing other tags when you are finished with an article. If the article no longer needs {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, or other similar maintenance tags, please remove them, as this will make the tasks of other WikiProjects easier to complete. Thanks very much for participating in the Drive, and see you at the finish line!

Your drive coordinators –The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}/_{Contributions}, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa ^(Talk)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor (talk) at 16:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC).[reply]

fix cite style

Thanks for all your work and contributions to Wikipedia, and I do mean thank you. But I have a small bone to pick with you over an edit you recently made to List of Missouri conservation areas, to which you added the edit summary "fix cite style". I appreciate the intent, but I don't think you fixed anything and, in fact, made a bad situation worse. Small "bad", and small "worse", but still not good and better.

I composed the original article with two adjacent references to external pages, and being lazy that day I simply put the URLs in [square brackets]. That style, of course, replaces the URLs with small bracketed ^superscripts, the type with the little arrow that indicates it's an off-site link. That version of the page is here. (Hey, there's one of those arrowed ^superscripts now!)

The disadvantage to that style is that there is no explanatory, citationy-looking text associated with the links, and it puts nothing in the References section where such citationy text belongs. The advantage is that it suits one's lazy streak.

You "fixed" the situation soley by putting <ref></ref> tags around the URL references. That causes two bracketed ^superscripts without the arrows to be placed in the article text, which link to entries in the References section. The problem is that you only added the ref tags without the citationy text that needs to be added to the footnotes. That causes the article to have not one, but two sets of unannotated ^superscripts, the second set being far removed from the article text that they're supposed to support. Surely unannotated ^superscripts that link to unannotated ^superscripts isn't much of a fix. Your version is here.

Where you went wrong, obviously, was to invoke the mechanism meant for unlazy citations while still being lazy. Id est, by not adding the needed citationy text, which is ideally done with a {{cite }} template of the proper flavor. Lazy is as lazy does, you see, but lazy and unlazy just don't mix! Once you decide to buy the hog, you have to buy the whole hog.

Anyway, if I can put this much effort into a friendly note on such a minor point, I guess I can get unlazy enough to complete the citations in the manner that I should have done initially. Thanks again for all your contributions. Cheers! --Kbh3^rd talk 04:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome.

Thank you for the welcome. My wife is a long-time wiki editor, so I don't feel like I'm a total newbie. :) --Iavram (talk) 02:11, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE elections

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

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.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors via SMasters using AWB on 02:34, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!

We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated.

Stats

58 people signed up for this drive. Of these, 48 people participated in the drive.
Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%.
49 awards will go out to 33 of 48 participants. Check out the complete list of barnstar winners here.

Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Our next drive is scheduled for January 2011. In the meantime, please consider helping out at the Wikification drive or any of the other places where help with backlogs is needed.

Thank you for participating in the last 2010 backlog elimination drive! We look forward to seeing you in January!

Your drive coordinators –The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}/_{Contributions}, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa ^(Talk)

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Article templates

Hi, when you're tagging articles for problems, can you try to choose the one or two most important ones, rather than adding seven at once. "Cleanup" for example, is a bit general and can usually be replaced by something more specific (see WP:OVERTAGGING). Cheers, --Beloved Freak 23:18, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE Year-end Report

Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

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
Our encounter with Jimbo Wales
Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned
Report on our inaugural elections
Guild Plans for 2011
New barnstars introduced
Requests page improved
Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive!

Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011!
– Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:02, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Crypto

I got this message from Novus and was asked to pass the message along. I look forward to working with you. If there is anything I can do please let me know.Angry Mustelid (talk) 14:00, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I don't know why you sent me this message. Please read WP:CANVAS. serioushat 19:37, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive news

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats.

Participation

So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now.

Progress report

We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal.

Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa ^(Talk), The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}, and Tea with toast (Talk)

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Talkback

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GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.

Statistics

54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated.
One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%.
Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue.
Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here.

Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March.

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

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Chris Fleming

Thank you for your edits and tags on Chris Fleming. Since there was not a post on the talk page about the issues, I wanted to contact you directly about them. Firstly, in full disclosure, yes I may have a conflict of interest with the subject matter. Fleming has previously had articles about him in Wikipedia but they have been deleted for a large variety of issues (mainly sourcing and neutrality). He contacted me to develop an article on him that fit within the full Wiki guidelines. I endeavored to do this as neutrally as possible. Is there a procedure for declaring any conflict of interest?

Since you have tagged the article with neutrality and accuracy disputes, do you have any advice or specific locations where it can be cleaned up and corrected?

Also, the article was reviewed by Tkotc on February 27 while it was a draft in my userspace. Does it need further review once it is published?

Thank you for your assistance with this. - Samorgan44 (talk) 23:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Protected Areas vs. Protected area

I used capitals because the article is referring to protected areas as a formal classification and its various categorisations. What is referred to as a 'specific designator'. From the link you sent;

The capitalized version's meaning sometimes may be a special case of the lowercase version's meaning, or it may be eponymously related to it. The nature of capitonyms and specific designators is often related: in both cases, a word root's common and proper senses may be logically related to each other. A few words can be viewed as either capitonyms or specific designators; the evaluation is subjective. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cassianie (talk • contribs) 14:49, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Paranormal places

Proposed merge of Category:Reportedly haunted locations into Category:Paranormal places. Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_April_24#Category:Reportedly_haunted_locations. Simply south...... trying to improve for 5 years 16:13, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter

The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive

The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive.

Awards and barnstars
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GOCE elections

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Reply to your Question about my Blackout Photo

No, but if you have one, you can certainly replace mine. JC Rules! (talk) 07:28, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: TV

Hi, you asked on my talk page what I thought about documentary networks giving in to reality shows - I really don't have an opinion, except to say that they're just doing what sells I guess. They're names mean nothing anymore. Networks are a business after all and they go where the money takes them. These shows are obviously successful and that's why they continue to show more instead of what the network is supposed to be doing.

I shook my head long ago at MTV and VH1 for not playing music videos anymore, and then SciFi for airing wrestling. I could argue about History's choice of reality shows: Pawn Stars at least, does give history discussions on some of the items brought into the store, and American Pickers finding old stuff and discussing them as well. But I don't know what catching alligators, cutting down trees and driving on ice have to do with "history." That stuff IMO is maybe better for the Discovery Channel.

Anyway, I don't really watch TV anymore. If I have a show I want to watch I catch it posted on YouTube or Hulu. Cyberia23 (talk) 19:12, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Staredown

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Speedy deletion declined: Lethal Angels

Hello Twinsday. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Lethal Angels, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: a film is not an eligable subject for A7. Thank you. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 11:29, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't contact me again

Stay away from any of the pages in the userspace with prefix "user:Brummfuss". --Brutus Brummfuß (talk) 15:37, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE March copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their March 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far.

Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers.

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Television episode and season articles badly needed

Due to your userboxes, I feel I should inform you of a drive at Wikipedia:Television_episodes#Episodes to create articles for some of the most important episodes and seasons in television history. Please try to help out.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:04, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Jeremy Jaynes

Hi Twinsday. Previous revisions of this article cited multiple sources. It's not a speedy candidate, in my view, but do take it to AfD if you think deletion is warranted. Thanks, Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 01:03, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter.

Participation

Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months.

Progress report

During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.

When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators.

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GOCE May copy edit drive

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Argument from poor design

Hi -- you need to add a section to the talk page detailing the issues that you see. Otherwise article tags of this sort are impossible to address, and I will at some point in the near future remove them. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 17:56, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Theological positions diagram

I saw on talk page of user Stannered that you asked to vectorize two pictures. I recreated the second image following clean up instructions (and also "tweaked" it a bit):

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Proposed deletion of Encounters With the Unexplained

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The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)

Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.

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Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
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DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?

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Gallup citation style

Greetings,

Just now I skimmed the article Gallup (company), but I don't see anything obviously wrong with the citation style. I see that you recently added the "citation style" tag, which I removed on the assumption the problem has since been fixed. If I missed anything, feel free to re-add it. If you do so, I would suggest adding an explanation on the talk page so future editors can see and fix what you mean.

Thanks for your help tidying up the encyclopedia!

Beland (talk) 18:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New American Bible

Great job on the cover image for the New American Bible article. I suck at pics and your image is much better! Have a great holiday! - Thanks, Hoshie 05:47, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

November 2013

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Speedy deletion nomination of Template:TVUK

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Maddalam and Chenda Keli

Can you explain how an article can not have enough context to understand what an article is about (WP:A1), but it does have enough context to plainly indicate that the article was coined by the original author or someone they know (WP:A11). You tagged an article with these two statements at the same time. If you didn't know what the article is about how could you know it was coined by the original author or someone they knew? GB fan 09:41, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Monsters and Mysteries in America screen shot

Hello Twinsday, I'm Emperorofthedaleks, can you get a screen shot of Destination America show Monsters and Mysteries in America, maybe from the internet? Thank you. --Emperorofthedaleks (talk) 04:13, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sound effect

Hello Twinsday, I don't understand your revert in above, because I corrected at the headline. In many cases is written as my small edit in the en-WP. It's normal (also in this WP) to begin the text as the headline. I hope, you will correct your delete and thanks for this with regards -- Sweepy (talk) 22:58, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Suburban night sky.jpg

Hi - you uploaded two different images to this file name, one in April 2010 and one in June 2010. The later one has been moved to Commons, and we need to delete the file name so the linked articles will redirect to the file at Commons. First, however, I need you to re-upload the older image under a different file name, because I can't delete it using WP:CSD#F8 if there are two different images in the file. It will also give us the ability to use both images instead of only the newer one.

There are (sort of clear) instructions in the split media tag you'll see on the file. You can upload either here or to Commons, though uploading to Commons will save us having to tag it and move it ourselves later.

If you don't have the older image in your local storage anymore, you can download it from here and upload it under the new file name. If you don't want the older version moved, just ping me and I'll delete it for you, and of course ping me if you have questions. Thanks very much! :-) Katie^talk 19:53, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User:KrakatoaKatie, your instructions are incorrect. If a user reuploads an old revision under a different file name, then the reuploaded copy is to be deleted as we need to keep the original upload to preserve the original file history. What you should do is to delete File:Suburban night sky.jpg under WP:F8, then undelete the file which is not on Commons together with the relevant versions of the file information page (probably only Special:PermanentLink/359041064) and move that file and the page revision somewhere else without leaving a redirect. See Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Fixing cut-and-paste moves#How to undo a history merge. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:48, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Stefan2 is right - never mind! Katie^talk 21:56, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Avetik Chalabyan article up for deletion

Hi Twinsday! About 2 years ago I wrote a biography of a living person article [Chalabyan]. The article has been recently marked as up for deletion. Any advice on why this might be happening, how to address it or what to improve would really be appreciated. Obviously, your vote as an experienced editor on Wiki would really go a long way to make sure it's not deleted.

Thanks in advance for your attention to the matter.

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Charlie Weber

Greetings. Please reveal how you learned that Charlie Weber is of German ancestry. I saw no concomitant reference to verify the fact. I always thought that "Weber" was a Montenegrin name—it's often referred to as such in the Nero Wolfe corpus. Regards Tapered (talk) 23:42, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Max Weber was a famous German sociologist. serioushat 00:45, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lunar Phase

Hello, A lot of these photo exchanges are really personal choices, as I still think both photos I placed in this article belong there. However, no hard feelings, I've been a photographer all my life, and I understand that. You asked me to show you your grammar error. This is a copy and paste of the edit I reverted: File:Moondrop.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A full Moon setting behind San Gorgonio Mountain in California in a midsummer morning]] Should have been "on" not "in". Also the bracketing didn't work for some reason. Also, I may be mistaken, but I think someone is sock puppeting you. I saw a few edits made by this name: 'Twinsday' yesterday, and when I hit on the user link, it took me to a page that said there was no user by that name. I think something is crossed up. In fact, that edit with the grammar error may not be yours, however it has your name on it. The reason I did two reverts on your name yesterday, was because the work was sloppy, and nothing like I've ever seen from you before. If I were you, I would check all of my edits yesterday, and see if you end up on a duplicate 'Twinsday' page that has nothing to do with you. P.S. I agree with you that your earthshine photo you replaced mine with is as good as mine, but you should never have taken down the colorful opener I put in Lunar Phase, it made that page. lol... happy editing. Jessie Eastland (talk) 17:43, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I just read the newbi message you left me on my talk page. You and I are not in any disagreement. I had no issue with you removing the info box, as I removed it as well when I put up my halfmoon shot to open the page, which you later removed. However, you made two edits in one submission when you did that, and the other one is where you used "in" instead of "on". That was the reason for my revert, not the infobox removal. We all make silly mistakes no matter how long we have been editing here, it's called "humanity". Take care→ Jessie Eastland (talk) 18:05, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I believe "in a(n)/the [April/spring/cold/humid/early] morning" would be grammatically correct. "Lunar phase" was about all the phases of the Moon, so the NASA video is preferred over just a quarter phase. I think an animated gif would be perfect if available. serioushat 17:56, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with you on the grammar of in and on. "On a mid-summer's morning" is correct. "In a Mid-summer's morning" is not, unless you're talking in the first person, as in "I went for a walk in the morning". You wouldn't say: "I went for a walk on the morning". Also, it has to do with tense. If you were telling someone about what happened "on" a Tuesday, you wouldn't say: It happened "in" a Tuesday. I also disagree with you about removing my opening photo. For the time being, it was the best shot to put there. All of the other crescent moons on that page are void of all color. All of their saturation has been removed from them to blend in with each other in the line-up. That was the only Lunar Phase shot with the colors the moon exhibits as it is setting or rising as seen from our planet. All the other photos look computer generated, and do not draw the reader into the article. That opener made the page, and I wish you would reconsider replacing it. Here is the person impersonating you in commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Twinsday&action=edit&redlink=1 This guy is really a problem, He editing skills are non-existent. Your welcome→Jessie Eastland (talk) 18:55, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

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Hi Twinsday.

Please don't add syllable breaks to English pronunciations, except occasionally for disambiguation. I know we have a few, but those are just there to break up vowel clusters that readers might be confused by. There are two problems with adding them: they're not phonemic, and so shouldn't be in a phonemic transcription like ours, and sources disagree as to where they are. You've transcribed some words as having a CVC.VC.V structure, but there are linguists who insist English is CV.CV.CV. And you've transcribed others as CV.CV.CV though other linguists would analyze them as CVC.VC.V as well. It's not our job to settle the debate, certainly not on non-phonetic articles that just happen to have an IPAc-en template in them. I know the respell template forces you to mark syllable boundaries, but there's no one-to-one conversion between it and IPA anyway.

Also, the vowels need to work simultaneously in RP and GA. (E.g. 'algae' has /iː/ at the end, not /i/ -- though I know that wasn't your error -- and /ʌ/ ~ uh do not occur at the ends of words, with rare exceptions like "duh!", so that will almost always be wrong. But I restored your reverted fix for uranium, because that did work for both.) And of course breaking up spurious syllabic consonants, like you did at cupola, is a good thing. A decade ago someone went through with a bot and converted schwa plus m, n, l, r to syllabic, but didn't have a good algorithm and introduced a lot of errors.

Also, words like "caterpiller" don't have 2ary stress. English only has stress, really, not 1ary and 2ary. It's conventional to transcribe the first stressed syllable as having 2ary stress, because it doesn't take prosodic stress, but the difference disappears as soon as you put the word in context. But there's never 2ary stress after 1ary. That's just a convention of some dictionaries (like MW) to indicate that the vowel isn't reduced, because that reduces the number of vowel symbols they need. Other dicts (like OED) don't mark it. But the OED does use stress marks to distinguish words that are disyllabic, even when the stress is the same (e.g. hire vs higher). We can't do that on WP, since we define the stress mark as marking stress.

Also, RESPELL doesn't have a schwi vowel, so those should be transcribed "ə", not "ih", e.g. in apsis, apsides (another final /iː/ in IPA). And the stress should match the IPA. So if in IPA we have 2ary stress + 1ary stress, in RESPELL both syllables should be in caps. Something like deuteragonist is just DEW-tə- -- we don't need two respellings because the difference (DEW vs DOO) is predictable. You pronounce it however you pronounce "dew". (In IPA, put |dj| in a single cell.)

Oh, and monosyllables are stressed in English. Except in phrases, most monosyllables we transcribe will have stress.

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Hi, I see you made the nifty animation in that article. I would like Moonlight to have a proper illustration of moonlight at the top. There have been several pictures there in the past:

The first one I saw, more than ten years ago, was a brownish photo of the moon over the Rhine, with a lot of artificial lights in it. Photos can't show the Purkinje effect! Well, not unless taken with some special lens filter maybe. So I changed it to the painting Dovedale by Moonlight, which is kind of turquoise-tinted and impressed me as an accurate impression. Much like your simulated view of the red flower is an impression.
A photographer soon replaced this with a long-exposure photograph taken in moonlight. Long-exposure night photography is kind of a cool thing to do, but the result looks strikingly like daylight. Somebody on the talk page wondered whether it might be "the Midnight Sun?".

Subsequently another photographer replaced it with the current photo, which is low-exposure and "better illustrates moonlight". However, as you can see by my edited version here, the photo has the same spectrum as sunlight, it's just dimmer, so I don't think it illustrates moonlight well at all (though it's another cool photo). I propose to digitally filter this one to show the Purkinje effect, and put it back in the article with a caption explaining that. But I would like somebody to engage with me about this! I hoped you might be interested in the technical aspect, since nobody else seems to be. I was also toying with the idea of putting three versions of the same photo at the top of the article (low-exposure original, high-exposure version, and simulated Purkinje version), but that might be overkill. Card Zero (talk) 22:31, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Twinsday, hi, I saw you added some IPA for some Middle-earth articles. What is the source for these, i.e. how do we know these particular IPAs are correct? Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:48, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for not yet citing the sources for the IPAs I've added, as other Tolkien-related entries also didn't do so. Is the Encyclopedia of Arda a credible reference for correct pronunciations?

Thank you. serioushat 18:12, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Very doubtful, the EoA is "a personal project", which would require the owner, Mark Fisher, to be an accredited Tolkien scholar: but he isn't. He's a keen and longstanding fan, which is worthy but doesn't make his site a WP:RS. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:24, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RE: IPA

I switched it back for the English version mainly because of the breakdown it provides for our hearing impaired readers and consistency with other articles, though did incorporate the fixes. As for the pronunciation, it's taken from Street Fighter 6's announcer making it the closest to "word of God" there. That said I do know it's pronounced differently in third-party media and been trying to figure out if that's worth mentioning in the lead/best way to. Kung Fu Man (talk) 22:55, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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