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Hi DsgnWrte and welcome to Wikipedia! I would be happy to be your mentor and answer any questions you may have. Let me know when you have found the subject you would like to write about, and my talk page is open for any questions you have in the meantime. Dana boomer (talk) 21:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

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Ah, my apologies for not notifying you that I had responded on my talk page. I generally do that without thinking, and I hate the "talkback" templates that some people use, so I never use them myself. I'll respond on your talk page in the future - we can either conduct the whole conversation here (I'll watch your page, so I'll see when you respond), or you can leave your replies on my page and I'll reply here, or we can move the whole thing to the article talk page (I'm also watching that, and left part of my response there, if you haven't seen it yet).

As for the actual answer: The move looks good. I'm not really up on the criteria for speedy deletion, but it looks like a good rationale. I apologize for using a longer article as my example, perhaps Boulonnais horse might be an easier one to look at - it's about half the length, but includes both repeated refs and split (short/long) references. Repeated refs (which give refs the a, b, c at the beginning in the References section) and split (short/long version) refs are two separate things. What you described on my talk page, where a ref is given in full the first time and then just the named ref, (<ref name=xyz/>, for example) is used after, is a repeated ref, which makes the a, b, c designation in the references section. An example of this is ref #2 in the Boulonnais article linked above. Split references, which use a short version (generally author, page or author, title, page) in the references and then the full ref (including publisher, isbn, date, etc) is put in a separate section. An example of this is ref #7 in the Boulonnais article. Ref #1 is an example of a ref that combines the named reference feature with the split reference format. The split reference format makes it easier and shorter if you're going to be using the same reference, generally a book or an article, multiple times while citing different pages (see the multiple references to the Edwards book for an example of this). However, if you're going to be using many books but only citing one section of pages from each, sometimes its easier to just put all of the information in one section and not use a split references format. Different editors prefer different formats, and many editors (including myself) use different formats depending on the mix of sources that we're using in a particular article. I know this makes it a bit confusing when you're first starting to edit Wikipedia, but basically, as long as you include all of the information that you have on a reference (page numbers are important!), you'll be fine. I'll follow along and, if I see something that looks odd, I'll make an example edit or leave a note on the article talk page. I hope this answer helps, and I apologize for all of the horse breed example articles I'm giving you - it's my main editing area, and all of the non-breed articles I've written are rather long and have an even more confusing mix of sourcing; I'm trying to keep things rather simple to start out with :) Dana boomer (talk) 02:30, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. >>> Sign up now <<<

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GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their November 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles (and specifically will be targeting the oldest three months), as we want to copy edit as many of these as possible. 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: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. >>> Sign up now <<<

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GOCE drive newsletter

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Elections are currently underway for our third tranche of Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, 16 December – 23:59 UTC, 31 December. All GOCE members, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are five candidates vying for four positions. Your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report 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 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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