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Hi Miniapolis, here's an alert to a secret revert of one of your edits. I noticed that you recently blanked

Thanks for the heads-up; I'm watching the page also, and blocked the IP (which I have a feeling is

WP:NOTHERE; funny how WP's position in the Google algorithm brings out the would-be advertisers :-). All the best, Miniapolis

19:47, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

WP:GOCE

September backlog elimination drive barnstars

		The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
		This barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words as part of the GOCE September 2013 copy edit drive. Thanks for participating! – Jonesey95 (talk ) 03:57, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copyediting 35 articles during the GOCE September Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copyediting 68,436 words during the GOCE September Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: 5K Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copyediting 2 long articles during the GOCE September Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Oldest Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copyediting 32 old articles during the GOCE September Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for your copy edit of the 6,742-word article Birla Institute of Technology and Science during the GOCE September Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for taking on this long article! – Jonesey95 (talk ) 03:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Thank u for copy-editing Chandralekha (1948 film). BTW, I hope u edited all the statements according to these supporting sources: [1], [2], and [3] ---- Kailash29792 (talk) 09:36, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome (and thanks for the cookie :-)). I'm only about halfway done, and haven't done anything with the sources. I'm polishing the prose, and fixing obvious errors as I see them; that's

time-consuming enough. All the best, Miniapolis

19:55, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for completing the copy edit :-) ---- Kailash29792 (talk) 02:16, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Glad to help. Good luck with GA and all the best, Miniapolis 13:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

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• Delivered by Northamerica1000^(talk) 20:51, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

You have undone my reversion of User:Fatmansam123's vandalism. Not sure why. ```Buster Seven Talk 13:43, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry; we were trying to do the same thing at the same time. Feel free to continue (they've been blocked for 24 hours). All the best, Miniapolis 13:47, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

No Prob. Just starting to get involved with Vandalism patrolling. ```Buster Seven Talk 13:51, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

For copy editing Kamal Haasan. Keep up the good work. ---- Kailash29792 (talk) 01:35, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much! Sorry for being a bit snippy on the

Requests page; as I plowed through the article, I saw what you were talking about :-). All the best, Miniapolis

02:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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• who works primarily in the [[Tamil film industry]]. Haasan has won several Indian film awards (including three [[National Film Awards]] and a number of [[Filmfare Awards|Southern Filmfare Awards]

Thanks,

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• rating from 0–100 reviews by film critics, the film has a rating score of 58 based on 23 reviews {a mixed, or average, film).<ref name="metacritic">{{cite news |title=Fuck Reviews - Metacritic |work=[[Metacritic]]|url=http:/

Thanks,

Thanks ever so much for your help with copyediting Fuck (film), much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 03:17, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Glad to help, but I'm only about halfway done; I can comfortably copyedit about 2,000 words a day :-), and do it section by section to avoid edit conflicts. If you check the history you'll see where I left off last night, and it should be done today. All the best, Miniapolis 13:26, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks again, looks great, — Cirt (talk) 18:12, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Miniapolis, thanks for taking the above request. Having just done Kasumi (Dead or Alive), I thought I'd let you know that Niemti—who has been editing the above article—was editing "Kasumi" at the same time as me. Niemti objected to my removal of some questionable, crufty material and sources (see our conversation on the talk page) and defended it by wikilawyering. S/he seems quite combative and defensive of certain material as you can see on Mai Shiranui's GA review. I'm not saying his/her edits are generally problematic and I'm not bringing this to you as an admin, just giving a friendly heads-up about the problems I had with him/her. In "Kasumi" I found misused and inaccurately used quotations, cruft and original research that did not exist in the stated sources—'Reception' sections seem prone to this kind of thing. The chances are you'll have no problems at all; I hope this is the case for you. Cheers, 21:48, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Oh joy. Thanks for the heads-up; I checked the GAN (because I always take "I failed solely because of the prose" with a grain of salt) and their talk page. You're right; they don't seem to play too well with others, but I trust they've learned that you can't bully your way to a GA. Don't worry—I can take whatever comes (I hate that animation, but can't find a policy-based reason to remove it :-)). Thanks again and all the best, Miniapolis 22:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

No worries; I see you've had the pleasure already. I've read your post on my talk page and will reply there. The animation is...erm...pure class... :-D Cheers,

Baffle gab1978 (talk

) 03:13, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Per

Baffle is :-). Miniapolis

00:50, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

A copyedit is a copyedit (requested by

Manual of Style. Please see your talk page. Miniapolis

02:01, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

A

talk

) 02:05, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

True, fictional characters (think of TV shows) are generally referred to by their first name unless they are in a work environment (office, hospital, police station, church, etc.) and have a title (Mr. X, Dr. X, Officer X, Rev. X, etc.). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 13:00, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Again, I copyedit according to the

dealing with them appropriately. Miniapolis

20:25, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

I added 2 books with references and when I did you deleted the listing why please explain why you delete after the books were added.

Do you work for a competitor and why would anyone delete the article when adding books to it.

Did we add the wrong book

Perpetual Income: How-to Generate Cash Flow from Low-End House Investments by Bryan Wittenmyer (Jul 1, 1999)Page 32

Rent Reviews and Variable Rents Hardcover – December 1, 1984 by D.N. Clarke(Author) J.E. Adams (Author) PAGE 38

The next article I write will be to the company rent my vacation home and let them handle this.

What reason do you have to delete when we are working on references. At this point please terminate me form my membership if this is not put back on the site. I will also never forget what was done here for the rest of my life and I worked for free. Just delete me as I suspect this is corruption on a good day.

I will also recommended everyone in our class cancel the membership and never help again. goodbye forever

I added 2 books with references and when I did you deleted the listing why please explain why you delete after the books were added.

Do you work for a competitor and why would anyone delete the article when adding books to it.

Did we add the wrong book

Perpetual Income: How-to Generate Cash Flow from Low-End House Investments by Bryan Wittenmyer (Jul 1, 1999)Page 32

Rent Reviews and Variable Rents Hardcover – December 1, 1984 by D.N. Clarke(Author) J.E. Adams (Author) PAGE 38

The next article I write will be to the company rent my vacation home and let them handle this.

What reason do you have to delete when we are working on references. At this point please terminate me form my membership if this is not put back on the site. I will also never forget what was done here for the rest of my life and I worked for free. Just delete me as I suspect this is corruption on a good day.

I will also recommended everyone in our class cancel the membership and never help again. goodbye forever — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.122.39.11 (talk) 02:29, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Um...I didn't delete the article (but I would have, based on

not advertising. Miniapolis

02:39, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For your copyediting help with Fuck (film). Thank you for providing such helpful copyediting services to the Wikipedia community. — Cirt (talk) 18:33, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much! Good luck (I presume FAC is the next stop) and all the best, Miniapolis 19:42, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

You're most welcome, and perhaps... — Cirt (talk) 19:53, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for copyediting the article.. A question for you, if you look past the bad grammar and English writing, were there any other big or minor problems with the article? --TIAYN (talk) 15:35, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

The article is very good; the only issues I could see were the relatively few sources cited (I kept seeing the same refs, sometimes the same page cited several times in a sentence) and the large number of red links. The first may not cause you any trouble at GAN and FAC (I think it's a GA now—too bad I can't review it :-)), but I've seen reviewers fuss about a lot of red links. Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 15:42, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: Your undo of the CSD:G7 on

Trout accepted, as a

learning experience (and they're always fun :-)). I undid your G7 because it looked like the article's creator intended to resubmit and not blank it (so we were both trying to figure out what they intended; in retrospect, I should've left it alone and asked them). I ended up deleting it as G12 (although not an unambiguous copyvio), but it was also a G11 candidate. We'll see if they try to re-create it. Miniapolis

13:54, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Can you have a look at this ANI? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#CI.2C_OWN_etc._of_user_DrChrissy_on_animal_welfare CI, OWN etc. of user DrChrissy on animal welfare. She removed the leading academic sources without explain, again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.16.57 (talk) 23:41, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

That thread was closed as inappropriate for ANI as a content dispute; the dispute-resolution noticeboard is

WP:BOOMERANG if I were you. Please sign your posts with four tildes. Miniapolis

13:27, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

GOCE September 2013 drive wrap-up

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Hi there.

Thanks for reviewing my Instant Company page. This is my first time creating a page for Wiki and have been working on this page for some time. Can you provide me with some guidance as to where I can improve. I read your notes, but I'm still unsure - can you give me some examples? I have been referring to the Regus site for help also. Thanks

Wednesday2013 (talk) 06:37, 24 October 2013 (UTC)Wednesday2013

Hi. I don't know what the Regus site you refer to is, but because Wikipedia ranks high in search-engine algorithms many companies (and people) try to submit articles as

notable for an encyclopedia article. All the best, Miniapolis

13:19, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Miniapolis, I'm sorry if I'm in the wrong place but I don't really know anyone else to ask.

A few days ago, I made an edit to the above template intending to add a feature allowing it to return a plain url instead of the normal formatted link. Now there are several editors on the talk pqge complaining about the change breaking citation templates--but the template never worked with citation templates in the first place as it returns a formatted url not the plain one those templates require. Going batty has been going round fixing the templates which can't have worked in the first place, so i can't just undo it. Also, its transcluded on over 1000 pages so I'll be wasting server resources. I feel like an idiot--maybe i am. (See my diff on the template and the discussion on the talk) I'm sorry if I'm being annoying. RainCity471 (whack!) 21:33, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Don't beat yourself up; that's why they put erasers on pencils :-). Template editing is far from my forte, but Jonesey95 (who's a cinch to know more than I do) doesn't seem to think there's much—if any—problem. Keep me posted, and I'll help any way I can. Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 02:14, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

And I guess why MediaWiki has an undo button, otherwise this would be Vandalpedia because we'd have to start from scratch every time someone blanked a page... Anyway I think I'll keep clear of templates... I like to think I'm fairly technically literate but I obviously don't seem to be: I've got the

Sibelius (software) so it got stuck on a really loud chord. Thanks for all your help and best wishes, RainCity471 (whack!

) 22:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

These things happen. The preview button saves me untold embarrassment, but sometimes (especially with templates) you can't tell how something will work until you (gulp) save it. Never forget that there's nothing you can do on WP that can't be undone :-). All the best, Miniapolis 23:43, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

RainCity471: Really, it's not a problem. What you saw as complaining, I saw as "making a note of an unintended consequence of the wonderful, bold work you did to improve our glorious encyclopedia of all world knowledge." Additions of features, even fixing(s?) of bugs, always have unintended consequences that will ruffle someone's feathers (yes, I have feathers). That's life. You did a good thing, and it made a little work for someone else, but if the world (or at least WP) is a better place when you're done, you can sleep well at night. Keep it up! (And M is right: there's always "undo" if everything goes pear-shaped.) – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:38, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

You're right, Jonesey (and I can't speak for RainCity but I think they'd agree now that the omigodwhathaveidone shock has worn off); we all make mistakes, and the important thing is to learn from them. All the best, Miniapolis 14:49, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, both of you are right. At the risk of being a bit

WP:BEANSey, even this could be undone... Thanks for all of your help and best wishes, RainCity471 (whack!

) 15:27, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

And Jonesey: sorry I misunderstood you on the template talk page. RainCity471 (whack!) 20:27, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Chandralekha (1948 film) has passed its GA review. I also owe you for that. If ever I was awarded for that on wiki, I would prefer being praised for having brought the article from slumps to GA status in less than a year. ---- Kailash29792 (talk) 04:10, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Thanks for your hard work during the October 2013 blitz! For tirelessly copy editing more than 10,000 words in just a week, please accept this award along with our appreciation. Nice work! —Torchiest talkedits 15:22, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

You might want to add a better rationale for deletion rather than simply referring to the MFD for the bounty board. It's likely to be a more contentious discussion since it still in use and doesn't only offer monetary rewards. Cheers SmartSE (talk) 15:27, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Your point is well-taken, but Suburban Express is already there pleading ignorance of how WP works :-). If the consensus is to keep, that's okay by me. All the best, Miniapolis 15:31, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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I want to apologize for the mixup with

No problem; I've reviewed

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kelly McGonigal (2). Thanks and all the best, Miniapolis

14:04, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

...and deleted Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kelly McGonigal to head off any more confusion :-). All the best, Miniapolis 14:10, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Thank you very much for reviewing and approving the article. Thank you very very much.

My pleasure! Congratulations and all the best, Miniapolis 14:07, 29 October 2013 (UTC)