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Hi Dianna. So many Indian names are given with titles and things like Shri, Swamiji, etc, and I feel the urge to remove these per MOS, but am not sure whether use of the bare name is too discourteous in Indian culture to allow this. Do you know about this? Best, --Stfg (talk) 20:07, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 05:43, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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What's the difference between "Ninja Diannaa" and regular ol' "Diannaa?" Nobody Ent 10:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dianna. Finished now, and I've removed the underlines too. Cheers, Simon. --Stfg (talk) 14:40, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
--The UtahraptorTalk/Contribs 15:26, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
There is a note on the GOCE page that says ppl should ask you their questions/concerns (technically, that's more of a paraphrase). Anyway, I took a stab at 2 articles, but I can't say I'm totally satified with either effort, and was hoping you could give me your initial opinion. The first article needs a lot more work in many areas I think. In particluar, I didn't know what to do about the sentence in the article that is exactly the same as in the lead. That's all in this article. The second article was of a much higher quality I thought (from a prose standpoint), and I couldn't find much wrong with it. I left notes on both talk pages if you'd like to read those too. If there's somewhere else I should be asking this, pls point the way. Thanks. --Despayre (talk) 00:58, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Unrelated, but FYI, the top of this page says it's 9:06am where you live. I live in BC, it's 9:06PM... is that just another Alberta thing like no taxes? --Despayre (talk) 05:12, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. Just to let you know that I completed the mailing list and took out the lines separating the four slices. Cheers, Simon. --Stfg (talk) 10:34, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
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. 19:33, 20 February 2012 (UTC) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
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Hi, can you c/e this article, if you are free. I'm planning to take this to FLC. —Vensatry (Ping me) 18:26, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks, Yasht --Dianna (talk) 19:46, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
You're correct, the article needs alot of work, if only only the grammar.I didn't want to start an edit-battle with the ... ahem ... shall we say 'fans of no-whites-allowed" anon-ip crowd on that page, so I was hoping an admin would step in and do it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HammerFilmFan (talk • contribs)
I notice on the mentor program page, that UtahRaptor is still listed as a mentor, but I thought I was reading elsewhere that due to concerns away from WP he was unable to edit for now. Might be an idea to drop him from the mentor program? Or ask him? --Despayre (talk) 05:36, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna, I've started it. I have a local screenshot of the "articles needing copy edit" box, as there aren't so many from 2010 any more and we might want to start recording progress on 2011 too. Not totalled yet, but just in case. --Stfg (talk) 00:30, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I am going to try to do some graphing using a spreadsheet program and will prolly put up the first graph after a week or so. Thanks for your help. -- Dianna (talk) 03:32, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for getting so many of the articles vetted. It's hard to know how far to go with cutting content or removing tags. Just use your own best judgement as to what is best for the wiki and best for our group of volunteers. --Dianna (talk) 12:48, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I saw that you cleared two entries at WP:Contributor copyright investigations/Vanished 6551232.
List of astronauts educated at the United States Naval Academy (moved from List of United States Naval Academy alumni (astronauts))
I agree that the lead (actually the whole article, including the table) was copied from List of United States Naval Academy alumni. I placed {{Copied}} templates per WP:Copying within Wikipedia. If you see copying in the future, it would be very helpful if you could place {{Copied}} tags with from and to populated. {{Copying within Wikipedia}} can be used, but I think that no one patrols its maintenance category.
Thanks for updating the dead links. I bumbled through The Royal Gazette's search once before I realized that they had been fixed. I rewrote a sentence about the IATA's survey of overall passenger satisfaction. The majority of the first clause had been copied from its cited source. "North American region" and "overall passenger satisfaction" are fixed phrases, but there is flexibility around them.
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FYI, in case you didn't notice (see [1]). thank you. Frietjes (talk) 22:25, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
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If we add ourselves to the current leaderboard (GOCE March), do we use rollover words in our count? Bddmagic (talk) 14:33, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am a relative newbie but kinda tech savvy. I've wikified a few pages, wrote a couple and now want to copy edit random cool stuff on your drive. But I can't get the darn prose javascript to create that neat word count thingie. Could you help me out? I'd very much like to revise Almagovars. Thanks so much!
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Thank you for your interest in helping out with the drive! -- Dianna (talk) 03:03, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
As always, thanks for your ce work on several articles I had previously suggested for consideration of same. I would now suggest the articles: Joachim von Ribbentrop & Nazi Party as they both could use your fine skills for better presentation. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 18:42, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
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I'll read through the MOS more carefully and try to make fewer mistakes next time. Thanks for the feedback and pointers! -Anagogist (talk) 11:54, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello , thank you for your recent assistance at this talk page. It is great advice and I see it is effective as long as the 1st letter is involved. I think the request where I canceled the admin help request here will actually need an admin to delete the redirect. If there is another way for that please also advise, and I will observe your associated edits as well. Thank you for your assistance. - My76Strat (talk) 06:34, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Actually, the IP inserted the text about capitals both places they were mentioned, if you want to prune the other set. Dru of Id (talk) 03:03, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. Can you see why the archive list at WT:GOCE stops at December 2011 even though Miszabot has created .../2012/January and .../2012/February? I'm flummoxed. --Stfg (talk) 21:42, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, We have a dispute here . You were involved in similar dispute between us here and here. Since you are familiar with the topic, I invite you to help resolve this dispute. Thanks. Ramcrk (talk) 17:51, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. Regarding this, two things:
Thanks! --MZMcBride (talk) 03:00, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. It was very kind of you to write what you did in the drive newsletter. Thanks, I really appreciate it. Cheers, Simon --Stfg (talk) 11:10, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I just did one for Ratlam but got an error when putting the total in at the Drive page under my name and saved. What am I doing wrong? — WylieCoyote (talk) 21:27, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
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I've seen your edit message in the View History for the Adolf Hitler page. I can see that there's a form of citation there that I haven't come across before and with which I am unfamiliar. As far as I'm aware, Maser did more personal research on Hitler's background than anyone else, so I think his book should be included in any list. Where would I add it to the Citation List? The entries do not seem to be in any kind of alphabetical order. Also, I would like to look over the Hitler page carefully and probably make some changes, because I have already removed some very odd information on it (see the most recent items in View History) and expect there will be a lot more. 17:26, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
I was rushing to get to work and my earlier message may have been a little terse, so I just wanted to elaborate a bit about the other change: Saying stuff like "some historians claim" is considered weasel words, so unless we have the space and inclination to say specifically which historians are making the claim, it's better to not use those kinds of phrases. Regards, -- Dianna (talk) 19:05, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Sorry, I edited the article on Adolf Hitler, but couldn't provide my explanation in the tiny edit summary, it was only a matter of time before I got reverted by someone. Please read what I say in the article talk page, however. Thanks for your time DontClickMeName talkcontributations 04:35, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, are you too busy? You can say so it you are. DontClickMeName talkcontributions 05:26, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
That seems very convincing, and indeed it would feel completely correct if I agreed (so again, I wouldn't think differently if I were you). However, I, with more time to think about it, say that none of what Hitler did (such as "his artwork, drawing cartoons and instructions for an army newspaper", having "a second bout of blindness" learning of defeat, etc.) during his time in the army is really worth mentioning compared to what he does as a dictator. I don't like sounding like this, but according to this reason (which I would feel completely correct agreeing with), the whole "early years" section should be removed. Are we going to do that? DontClickMeName talkcontributions 03:32, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure what the protocol is with vandalism, but this guy has been making some bad edits to the Spetsnaz page. I don't know whether you warn people or just outright ban them, or even if an admin is the right person to talk about this kind of thing, but there you go anyway. Elvis Clay (talk) 14:23, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, i was wondering if you would be interested in giving a helping hand at the Bhagat Singh article. The article has been nominated for GA. Something went wrong with my script, so i was hoping that you wouldn't mind anglicizing the spellings. Additionally, if you were to be interested in copy-editing the article and fixing the overlinking and underlinking issues, that would be greatly appreciated by me as well. Thank you. Joyson Prabhu Holla at me! 17:09, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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The Bronze Wikification Barnstar is given to Diannaa for wikifying 10 articles during the March Mini 2012 drive. Keep it up! ;-) benzband (talk) 13:04, 25 March 2012 (UTC) |