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This barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing articles totalling 66312 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE November copy edit drive. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk) |
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This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing five articles of 5000 words or more during the GOCE November copy edit drive. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk) |
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This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing articles totalling 66312 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE November copy edit drive. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk) |
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Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive report
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There were 48 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 35 participated. Thank you to everyone who helped reduce the size of the backlog!
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If you take a look around you'll see that that is hrafn's MO on the topics dealing with creationism and religion. consider:
- Talk:Scriptural_geologist#Mortenson.27s_PhD_thesis
- Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_42#Suspect_PhD_thesis
- Talk:John_Murray_(science_lecturer)
-- Mthoodhood (talk) 17:23, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yes—I figured that, although his own talk page is benign. I'm no creationist either (and a lapsed Catholic to boot :-)), but he crossed the line. While it's necessary to keep as much misinformation (and disinformation) as possible out of the encyclopedia, those article talk-page posts here and here were an embarrassment. Since they were posted close together in time, though, maybe he was having a bad day. Miniapolis (talk) 17:44, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
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Aleamotuʻa
I'm about half way through copyediting this. You're welcome to take it over, but I noticed you hadn't posted anything since you tagged it. Lfstevens (talk) 03:52, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- No, please continue (I tagged it last night before going to bed, because it wasn't tagged already). Have fun and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 14:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
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Sexual exploitation and abuse
Hi Miniapolis: I appreciate the importance of copy editing but I am afraid your change of the of the article title from Sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian response to Sexual abuse in humanitarian response should have been discussed before the change. The longer title was chosen on purpose after some discussion as it more accurately reflects the issue and the language used in the humanitarian community. I tried to undo your move before discovering that I could not—I have little experience in moving pages. In the meantime, I have found: “Wikipedia:Moving a page” and see that I cannot just undo the change. It is at least open for discussion if any of the reasons listed for moving apply in this case and I would appreciate it being changed back to the original title. Joel Mc (talk) 12:47, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please see my reply on the article talk page. Miniapolis (talk) 14:40, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
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Re:Kolkata
Thanks for the copyedit of Kolkata article. Hope it survives the FARC. Amartyabag TALK2ME 14:58, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- It should; it's a good article! Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 16:12, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
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For wikifying 31 articles this drive, Miniapolis, I award you the Bronze Wikification Barnstar!!! |
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For coming in 9th place on the leaderboard, I award you the Working Wikifier's Barnstar! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 03:10, 23 January 2012 (UTC) |
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Re: Elections in Croatia
Thank you very much for taking time and effort to copyedit the article. I appreciate it a lot!--Tomobe03 (talk) 01:13, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- Glad to help! Miniapolis (talk) 01:21, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
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Decimal-commas in numbers from Spanish sources
Thanks for working to copy-edit the complex, older articles during the January
- English: "The culture was 10,000 years old, over 2,000 years ago."
- Spanish: "La cultura fue de 10.000 años, más de 2.000 años atrás."
I understand you were in a hurry, due to the extreme complexity of all the articles, so those are some hints to watch quickly for 3-digit decimals with zeroes "x.x00". I hope we'll get most of the really complex old articles finished next time, because if all drives have articles this complicated, I worry that few editors will want to fix such articles each month. Thanks again for helping. -Wikid77 (talk) 04:54, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the correction; I was gaga by the end of the drive (which seemed rougher than others because of the large number of long articles) and couldn't tell if it was an absolute figure or some kind of index or ratio. It was one of those articles not rough enough for a not-English tag, but tough to copyedit because you're not sure of its original meaning :-). Miniapolis (talk) 14:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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Leaderboard Award – 5k articles - Third Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 6 articles of 5000 words or more during the January 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your hard work. -- Dianna (talk) 22:34, 3 February 2012 (UTC) |
Leaderboard Award – Word count – Fourth Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing articles totalling 64,786 words during the January 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your hard work. -- Dianna (talk) 22:34, 3 February 2012 (UTC) |
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Elections in Croatia
Hi again! I reviewed your copyedits in an attempt to address concerns stated in the hidden text. Two were relatively simple and required clarification, hope that makes sense now. Specifically, the person heading an election list but not necessarily being a candidate on that list situation is as follows: Electoral legislation provides that a party/coalition may nominate lists of 14 candidates each in parliamentary elections and those are the persons which are actually voted for. In addition to those 14 names, there is another name added to the top of the list with a specific title (Nositelj liste, which literally means bearer of the list) to distinguish him/her from the actual candidates. That person's name is intended to symbolize the political party associated with the list and it is normally the party head at the national level, regardless of him/her being actual candidate on that or any other list. For instance, in the last parliamentary elections all HDZ lists were headed by the then prime minister Kosor, but she was, of course, a candidate in one of the constituencies only and her name appeared twice at the list, once as a "nositelj" and once as candidate 1. What's this called in English, if there is a name for it - I simply don't know.
The European Parliament election situation is this: After July 1, 2013 when Croatia is expected to accede to the EU, the 12 Euro MPs will be elected in a special election as MEPs, but no the special elections may only be held more than six months ahead of scheduled 2014 European Parliament elections. This means that the Croatian government has until mid-December 2013 to hold those elections, but the earliest date of the election depends on the day when the ratification process is complete - again, that is expected to be on 1 July 2013, but it is possible that the ratification be delayed in one of 27 existing EU member states, hence the odd formulation.
As far as town vs. municipal councils are concerned - I don't know what to say. In Croatia,
Once again, thanks for the copyedit!--Tomobe03 (talk) 21:23, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- My pleasure, and thanks for the explanations; as an American, I don't know as much about parliamentary democracy as I should (although I think it's a better system of government than republican—American-style—democracy). If there's an English word for Nositelj liste I don't know what it is, but someone better acquainted with parliamentary democracy may understand the concept. Thanks again and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 02:21, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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- Glad to help. Although I'm a bit busy at the moment, I've watchlisted it. All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 20:25, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
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- Sorry; I've been removing red links from what I thought were deleted articles or articles unlikely to be created (usually due to non-notability and/or non-verifiability), but my judgement is far from infallible :-). From now on, I'll certainly leave them alone. All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 17:26, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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Copyediting Television in Croatia
Hi! Thanks for taking time to copyedit the Television in Croatia article. I appreciate your effort!--Tomobe03 (talk) 01:55, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
- Glad to help. Another good article; I was just going to leave a note on your talk page :-). All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 02:37, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
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Potential problem on Microbicides article
Hi Miniapolis. I just saw you've started on the Microbices article. Unfortunately User:Gofigure41 had tagged it with {{GOCEinuse}}, and then copied into their own user space to work on, and then a bot came along and removed it when it hadn't been modified for a day. I've put a note on their talk page too, and will leave you to agree how you want to proceed. Best, --Stfg (talk) 19:40, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- No problem; I'll leave a note on Gofigure41's talk page to continue. There's plenty of articles! :-) Thanks for the heads-up and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 20:39, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- That's very generous of you. Actually, though, could you hold off on that for an hour or two? I see now that he only made a little start, hasn't edited it for four days, and has moved on to something else. As he is new here, I'd like to try to guide him to things he's more ready for. Thanks. --Stfg (talk) 20:55, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- Sometimes (not often, but sometimes) I'm too efficient for my own good (i.e. I already left him a message :-)). In the meantime, though, I'll start something else; I can always pick up on it if no one else has. It's almost requests-pageworthy: a pretty easy job for almost 3,000 words. Please let me know if he doesn't want to continue the article and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 21:04, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- That's very generous of you. Actually, though, could you hold off on that for an hour or two? I see now that he only made a little start, hasn't edited it for four days, and has moved on to something else. As he is new here, I'd like to try to guide him to things he's more ready for. Thanks. --Stfg (talk) 20:55, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Done. Thanks for mentoring and all the best, Anne. Miniapolis (talk) 21:16, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
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