Thank you edit
Thank you for your nomination. It was a nice surprise on the evening when Santa Claus places gifts into our shoes here in Hungary. :) Borsoka (talk) 18:15, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Borsoka: You very much deserve it. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:25, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016 edit
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News edit
Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News
  Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful! Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating! September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words). October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page. Housekeeping note: we do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your Watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk. |
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This Month in GLAM: November 2016 edit
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WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017 edit
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Nomination for MilHist newcommer edit
I'm very honoured by your nomination. Thank you Robert Brukner (talk) 03:12, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
- You're very welcome. Best of luck! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:58, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Happy Saturnalia! edit
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| Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 01:42, 18 December 2016 (UTC) |
- Thanks, Ealdgyth. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:58, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Eretria (Shannara) edit
Now that there's some notability, I've been working on an article for this character. I notice that you also created one a long time ago, so I thought I'd let you know that it's back. -- James26 (talk) 12:04, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
- Seems like a lifetime ago. Nice work! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:58, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- @James26: Do note that there was once a Template:The Sword of Shannara that I can restore if you create several of these articles, assuming there's enough refs for them. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:59, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
ITN recognition for 2016 Irkutsk mass methanol poisoning edit
On 21 December 2016, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2016 Irkutsk mass methanol poisoning, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 03:17, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
I am led to understand edit
That you are of the opinion that filmographies do not need to be sourced. As an academic concerned with rampant plagiarism at wikipedia, and the practical impossibility that tracing sources via wikilink places on student and other readers (as well as the explicit statements in WP:VER that wikilinks do not satisfy the requirement for sources)—all this makes incomprehensible an opinion that such blocks of non-"sky is blue" purported factual material need not be sourced. By any widely accepted standard (for instance this), this removes all film and other arts related articles with such lists as being anything other than IMDB-copied or -comparable untrustworthy sources of content (and so off of any reading lists we might offer). This is all the more the case, since the vast majority of high traffic articles are BLP-focused. Reply here with the argument to the contrary? Le Prof [Leprof_7272] 73.210.155.96 (talk) 08:02, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
ITN recognition for 2016 San Pablito Market fireworks explosion edit
On 22 December 2016, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2016 San Pablito Market fireworks explosion, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 02:38, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 December 2016 edit
- Year in review: Looking back on 2016
- News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results
- Special report: German ArbCom implodes
- Featured content: The Christmas edition
- Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
- Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues
- Recent research: One study and several abstracts
Holiday card edit
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| Wishing you a Charlie Russell Christmas, The ed17/Archives! |
| "Here's hoping that the worst end of your trail is behind you That Dad Time be your friend from here to the end And sickness nor sorrow don't find you." —C.M. Russell, Christmas greeting 1926. Montanabw(talk) 23 December 2016 (UTC) |
- Thanks, Montanabw. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:56, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
Happy Holidays edit
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Season's greetings! |
| I hope this holiday season is festive and fulfilling and filled with love and kindness, and that 2017 will be successful and rewarding...Modernist (talk) 23:13, 24 December 2016 (UTC) |
- Many thanks, Modernist. Same to you! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:06, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Revolt of the Lash edit
The article Revolt of the Lash you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Revolt of the Lash for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nick-D -- Nick-D (talk) 06:41, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, Nick! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:06, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
- No worries, and sorry for the delays - your response coincided with a crazy busy period at work, and I must have been too zonked to have seen it when I got home. Nick-D (talk) 00:08, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
- No problem at all—I had honestly forgotten about it too, and you may have never seen it because I messed up the ping. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:17, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
- No worries, and sorry for the delays - your response coincided with a crazy busy period at work, and I must have been too zonked to have seen it when I got home. Nick-D (talk) 00:08, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Season's Greetings edit
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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all the best in 2017! Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:30, 26 December 2016 (UTC) |
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- Same to you, Ruhrfisch. Always happy to see your name pop up on my watchlist from time to time. :-) Hope life is treating you well! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 02:20, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Merry, merry! edit
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:40, 26 December 2016 (UTC) 
- Same to you, Bzuk! :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:58, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
Alc. poisoning edit
Another apparent methanol poisoning – 32 dead. Sca (talk) 16:34, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- Eek. 'Tis the season, apparently. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:58, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
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South American dreadnought race - Translation in French edit
Hello The ed17,
No, the only people to thanks is you, because you have made most of the work. Unfortunatly, in the French article there are a lot of red links, that is why I can not propose it to a label at the moment. Anyway, I have discovered on your page two gold mines (first one and the second one which include articles about French battleships that we do not have). I am going to finish a translation about a broken dam in America and I think I will have a look to Argentine–Chilean naval arms race. I wish you a happy new year. Skiff (talk) 10:16, 31 December 2016 (UTC)