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User page semied

I just semi-protected your userpage -- can't think of any reason an anon user should have to edit that.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:52, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, i don't know why they do it, boredom maybe?--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 17:54, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Civil?

I've just noticed your comment:

Thanks Bilcat, but they are edit warring over it, Pdfpdf claims to be in bed now, but the edit war as gone on sice as late as 1 pm today where I am--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 14:45, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I suppose that you realise that by saying "Pdfpdf claims to be in bed now" you are implying that I'm lying? You have zero evidence to support that assertion, particularly given it was the early hours of the morning where I live, and the next day was a work-day. Please choose your words more judiciously, and if you are going to make such claims, please provide supporting evidence. (And yes, it is 4am here, but "tomorrow" is Sunday.) Pdfpdf (talk) 17:36, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

sorry if that sounded rude, but it was a bit of a coincidence that logged off after I stepped in, the incident with Delta has been dealt with, those images you were trying to put into the article were NFCC violations. Sorry if it sounded like I didn't believe you--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 09:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Rollback

I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback correctly, and for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks.  —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 12:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 12:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Reviewer granted

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged revisions, underwent a two-month trial which ended on 15 August 2010. Its continued use is still being discussed by the community, you are free to participate in such discussions. Many articles still have pending changes protection applied, however, and the ability to review pending changes continues to be of use.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under level 1 pending changes and edits made by non-reviewers to level 2 pending changes protected articles (usually high traffic articles). Pending changes was applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

For the guideline on reviewing, see Wikipedia:Reviewing. Being granted reviewer rights doesn't grant you status nor change how you can edit articles even with pending changes. The general help page on pending changes can be found here, and the general policy for the trial can be found here.

If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:45, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Yay!! thanks Dabomb! --Lerdthenerd wiki defender 16:22, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Jonny "Jon" Keogh

This is not the proper tag for this type of problem. The author has copied material from the List of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps characters article. Rather than propose the new article for deletion to make way for a page move (which is not going to happen), it would be better to revert the deletion of material at the source article (which has been done) and to change this new page to a redirect to the original. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 18:58, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

ok thanks, I'll make sure to do that next time --Lerdthenerd wiki defender 19:11, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Avoidant Personality Disorder - YouTube External Link

Hello,

Just a quick question. You removed the external link I provided on the AvPD webpage to this youtube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ7qYH4ud4U asserting that it is under copyright. This seems highly unlikely to me?

You also said it can't be used anyway, presumably because it is not a source that represents an "authority" on the matter. However, the link specifically states that it provides a first-person, subjective or phenomenological account of AvPD. Inherently, an authority on such an experience is a person with that diagnosis. It's inclusion is merited due to the fact that subjective accounts of such conditions differ from objective categorial entries from diagnosticians. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FiachraByrne (talk • contribs) 13:37, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Edit: I've opened a discussion topic in the Talk:Avoidant personality disorder page if you'd prefer to answer there.FiachraByrne (talk) 13:55, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I've posted another reply to you in Talk:Avoidant personality disorder. Just to reiterate, there's no blanket ban on the use of YouTube as an external link. In this instance, there's no issue of copyright and not all YouTube videos are under copyright. In terms of authority, as I've stated above, this video, which I'd encourage you to watch, was specifically designated as providing a first-person narrative of the condition. No-one else but a sufferer could be an authority in that regard. It informs the objective and clinical information in the general article but is not a source for any of that information. FiachraByrne (talk) 12:47, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Wyatt Miller Deletion

Wyatt Miller is a character in star trek. google "wyatt miller star trek" is you dont believe me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr ArticleEditor (talk • contribs) 10:12, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

really? why is the article written as if its about a real person, i thought someone was having a laugh the way it was written--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 10:15, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

your right but he is a minor character not notable to have his own article--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 10:21, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Wyatt Mill

Please Therefore Move it to the page for minor characters. you have my permission — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr ArticleEditor (talk • contribs) 10:35, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

it has already been redirected by another user--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 10:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Lerd! :)

Thanks Lerd. Much Appreciated. All the best from Norway. Nunamiut Nunamiut (talk) 18:28, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

no problem! :) --Lerdthenerd wiki defender 12:13, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

What happened to the ANI thread?

About User:Dox1donny? --Shirt58 (talk) 08:07, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

I collapsed a large amount of text from Dox1donny because it was just a rehash of the content dispute. AFAIK it's still active. —Jeremy ^{(v^_^v Hyper Combo K.O.!)} 08:37, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Ah, thank you. User:Dox1donny has now been indef'ed. --Shirt58 (talk) 09:24, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

well that'll solve the edit war, shame to see him go though, thats what he deserved--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 10:04, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Adam-George Edward Gallant Farnell

Hi. Just to let you know I have deleted this as CSD A3 because it has a link in it. If you have a moment do check out WP:NPP an WP:CSD. You might like to consider using WP:Twinkle because it offers a dropdown menu of all the CSD types with description, and automatically notifies the creator. It saves a lot of work if used carefully. --Kudpung (talk) 11:35, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, by the way Kudpung that articles is being continually created, i dont think the author is getting the message.--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 11:36, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter. Participation GOCE March 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs So far, 79 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 64 have participated. Interest is high due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page, and many new and first-time copy editors have joined us for the drive. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. We have assisted in the promotion of seven articles to Good article status so far this month. Progress report We have already achieved our target of reducing the overall backlog by 10%; however, we have more work to do with the 2009 backlog. We have almost eliminated May 2009 and we only have some 700 articles left from 2009. It is excellent progress, so let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success! Utahraptor resigns The UtahraptorTalk to me has decided to step down from his position as project coordinator due to real-life issues. Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk) and Tea with toast (Talk)

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Zajdi zajdi sonce song edit

Pjesma Zajdi zajdi sonce, Local User don't revert my edits to this songs history, couse claims that Aleksandar Sarievski composed it are [false]!!!!!! Aleksandar was Macedonian traditional music - folk singer and thats it, he was not composer nor song writer and { Zajdi zajdi song } is ancient and at least 500 years old. Im guessing Mr. Sarievski lived 500+ years Please don't make Macedonian history based on lies and fiction. I lived in SFRJ long enough to know what is what and who is who.--70.130.144.54 (talk) 10:46, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

thank you for responding but explain your reasons on the article's talk page so the other users may take part in the discussion, there was no real need to edit war in the first place--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 10:48, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

song zajdi ajdi sonce

Song Zajdi zajdi sonce, please don't revert my edits to this songs history, couse claims that Aleksandar Sarievski composed it are [false]!!!!!! Aleksandar was Macedonian traditional music - folk singer and thats it, he was not composer nor song writer and { Zajdi zajdi song } is ancient and at least 500 years old. Im guessing Mr. Sarievski lived 500+ years Please don't make Macedonian history based on lies and fiction. I lived in SFRJ long enough to know what is what and who is who.--70.130.144.54 (talk) 10:53, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

you just reverted me for no reason! use the articles talk page and start using edit summaries, you've been warned already for edit warring but you continued to revert, and please stop posting the same message on my talk page its spamming--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 10:56, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

RE: Song zajdi zajdi

I explained in my message to you, Aleksandar Sarievski(1922-2002) was only Folk song singer and he can't compose or write something that is 500 years old {absurd} This is Macedonia root song, just like Chinese, Black American, Indian, Egypt etc. Root Song/folk song and it belongs to the people and not to Mr. Sarievski. Composer and writer is unknown--70.130.144.54 (talk) 11:04, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

thank you but you should have gained consensus on the talk page not edit warred--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 11:08, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Re song zajdi zajdi edit

You can LMAO or Not, but the thing is i can't allow teens to write history they don't know about.--70.130.144.54 (talk) 12:26, 8 April 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.130.144.54 (talk) 12:23, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

lol im not a teen, i just talk like that on wikipedia and sign you posts please!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 12:25, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

re:re: song zajdi zajdi

why don't we say that for example Lincoln was Black, or Hitler was from Uganda or B.B. king was in fact Elvis, Beatles Chinese Band and so on ......--70.130.144.54 (talk) 12:58, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

that has nothing to do with the argument, you insist on changing the author wrote and composed to the author recorded, when there is large consensus against you, gain consensus and stop edit warring--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 13:18, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Concensus

Concensus consists of 3 people who are against it (my edit) please give solid prof thet Aleksandar Sarievski composed and wrote this song, you cant because musical score/arrangements for this song made Orchestra of Radio Television Serbia (Yugoslavia) back in 1950's based on version played, sung on weddings, taverns, street...etc. song is tranfered from generation to genaration--70.130.144.54 (talk) 13:28, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

first off stop reverting and give sources stating why Alek did not compose the song, if you continue to revert people you will be blocked--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 16:30, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

R.e. my talk

It is probably a good idea not to get involved. Some bad things were said, and a ruckus ensued. With luck it will die down if no one else brings it back to the fore.

Unfortunately Blofeld did say some things which, while I am not sure were intended in quite the way the were taken, was inappropriate, childish and totally over the line. --Errant ^(chat!) 13:07, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

I found the 'bum chum' remark but nothing on calling people 'illiterate Spainards', its still partially lies, I know Blofield can occasionly lose it (i had to step in when he personal attacked another user), but Blofeld is like a mate on here and i wont have people upset him but i will step back for a moment--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 13:09, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Beat me to the punch

I was on my way to AIV when I realized the warnings were out of order. :P anyway, happy hunting :) . Mlpearc powwow 11:59, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

lol that was fast, normally people are able spot vandalism that obvious and revert before I get to--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 12:01, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

AFD

Can you please paraphrase my comment and re post it? consider it a lesson learned. Thanks in advance, B. Beresford 77 (talk) 13:56, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

only if you learn how to be civil and not be so rude to TreasuryTag, I read your comment there is no need to call him a f**%$£g jackass and the edit summary was rude aswell.--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 13:59, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

FYI

Block templates are optional, especially when blocking someone who knows what a block is. There's no good reason to ever use one on a bot's talk page, for instance. Courcelles 22:19, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

ok i suppose its because they can't appeal to being blocked, they're robots after all, feel free to remove the template--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 14:01, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

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Editwar on FPC

Im not trying to initiate an editwar. I just splited the voting and discussion section. Any reason to no do this, or why this should be forbidden? --Niabot (talk) 12:09, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

nothing wrong with that, but you are edit warring with multiple editors please stop--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 12:11, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Just some users that are sabotaging a fair voting. And now I'm the bad guy. Compliments and best wishes from --Niabot (talk) 12:14, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

your not the bad guy, but you should know not to edit war by now--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 12:16, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Does it change the fact that one or two guys try to sabotage a nomination with useless comments? In a comment section they could write what they want, without spamming the page with more or less unreleated comments, which have less to do with actual voting progress. --Niabot (talk) 12:23, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

discussions such as FPC's and AFD's aren't just for voting they are for commenting on the rational behind each contributors votes, this is not simply an election--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 12:26, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

I accept that. But i don't accept discussions which aren't related to image itself inside the consensus procedure, disturbing everyone with 100m of text with nothing closely related to the actual image anymore. --Niabot (talk) 12:28, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

well remind people not to soap box, if they continue then you may revert but use an edit summary like 'stick to the discussion please, no soap boxing'--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 12:30, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Template:Geographic refimprove

I know that the AfD message shouldn't normally go on a template, but the template places it on the 2500 articles which are up for AfD (check the AfD link to see what I am talking about). The red box on the template doesn't hurt anyone, and it is by far the easiest way of producing the AfD messages. Fram (talk) 09:06, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

ok I see. Wow 2500 articles thats a lot of work Fram, good luck!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 09:08, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Fram (talk) 09:12, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

On Sodabottle

This editor is playing a propaganda bully and tries to ban whoever who edits Chera Dynasty and Kongu Nadu. He is r Ravichaeal prof. is Ravichandar —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.206.107.58 (talk) 09:00, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

yes but you also reverted the Cluebot whose job it is to patroll for possible vandalism why did you revert it for no reason?--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 09:02, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting him .This is the indef blocked sockmaster and pov pusher PONDHEEPANKAR. per WP:DENY dont talk to him, just revert without pause. This ip range was blocked for a week and it expired yesterday. So he is back to his old activities. Just revert him and ignore him. i have asked for an extension of the range block and we will be rid of him a few more weeks--Sodabottle (talk) 09:02, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

ok--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 09:06, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

I have filed an AIV report too. I think that will be acted upon quicker--Sodabottle (talk) 09:17, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

ok thanks--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 09:18, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive update

Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive update Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter. Participation GOCE May 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs So far, 54 people have signed up for the drive, and 33 are actively participating. If you signed up for the drive but have not participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you have not signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. If you have questions about getting started, feel free to talk to us. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. We currently have 17 articles awaiting edit. Progress report We are making slow progress on achieving our target of reducing the overall backlog by 15%; in order to accomplish this goal we will need to complete about 400 more articles. However, we are making good progress on the 2009 backlog, as we have eliminated over half of the articles from 2009 that were present at the start of the drive. Let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009; leaderboard awards will be handed out for 2009 articles this drive. Thank you for participating in the May 2011 drive. We hope it will be another success! Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

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DaoTerrorist184

Thanks for taking care of the vandalism on my page. I guess he didn't appreciate my Mozi quote. PeRshGo (talk) 08:38, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

no problem :)--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 08:41, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive report Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Participation GOCE May 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs There were 63 signups for the drive; of these, 45 participated. Although we did not award a bonus for articles from the Requests page this drive, we are not experiencing lengthy delays in getting the articles processed. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog. Progress report During the month of May we reduced the backlog by approximately 10%, and made remarkable progress on eliminating articles tagged from 2009. There are now only 15 articles left, down from the 415 that were present when the drive started. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 54% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their June drive has started. Coodinator election The six-month term for our first tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the second tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. Your project coordinators are S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), Tea with toast (Talk), Chaosdruid (talk), and Torchiest (talk).

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User:Degen Earthfast

Thanks for cleaning up the vandalism on my page. --Degen Earthfast (talk) 12:34, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

no problem--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 17:41, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

problem

hello,

i am cyperus and i am writer on wikipedia since many time now. i am kickboxing writer, i update stats and events.

an user is laughing of my work, this is not possible. i will not write anymore on wikipedia because of him! :((

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperKombat_World_Grand_Prix_I (here is the article; viewed by many, sourced and notable, one of the biggest promotions or second from Europe after It's Showtime)

and this is the user: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bbb23

please help me! he doesnt respect my work! i am so sad... thank you! ps. sorry for writing here

your removing the AFD tag its against the rules!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 20:13, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank for you comment

thank for your comment. could you please not banned me because i am trying to say sorry to him ok. if him say forgive to me I will leave him alone from that a deal Archiveman2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Archiveman2011 (talk • contribs) 09:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

ok try to sort things out at the ANI thread and please sign your posts--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 09:13, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

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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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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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Your revert

Can you explain this? And a edit of a sysop has never had more value than a well sourced edit (in this case two sources). I see your behavior here as vandalism, and don´t want to use my tools here as there are more than enough sysops around, so would you please rollback it by your self? Thanks in advance. --WizardOfOz (talk) 17:33, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

that edit was spilling into an edit war, i politely asked why they were continually reverting kwagamki (is that how its spelt?) if you read the later history you'll see they were still reverting kwagamki, so therefore if anything im not a vandal the users persistanly arguing with an admin like kwagamki are!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 18:58, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March copy edit drive

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Kalitta routes

Why you are calling my edits Vandalism and Unconstructive??? I have updated their destinations with new reference. 119.155.38.131 (talk) 19:06, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

because you reverted the cluebot, sorry but if you're edits are sensible then complain to cluebots owner, its acting up again sorry--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 19:08, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months. Progress report During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot (talk) 22:08, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May copy edit drive

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140.254.227.179

FYI. Long-term pattern abuser. See this entry, just by way of example. Any help in dealing with him would be appreciated - JohnInDC (talk) 21:21, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, seems he has a problem with Jews based on his edits, I just reverted and warned him best not respond to his taunts--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 21:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Oh, the taunts are just silly. It's his edits. Several pages wound up semi-protected back in March as a result of his busy-ness; probably that's what will have to happen again. He appears to edit from public terminals at Ohio State, and there is surely a limitless supply of them! JohnInDC (talk) 21:25, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

they all appear to be 140.254, we should keep an eye out for those IPs and maybe a rangeblock is needed--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 21:27, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

I actually made a list of his IPs last time around - I may go fish it up. JohnInDC (talk) 21:29, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, John. The taunts are meant to be silly. Heck, most of my edits are meant to be silly. I don't believe all that anti-Semitic crap---my only abnormal belief about Jews is that they may have an easier time getting jobs in media and entertainment than the rest of us, due to connections, not any grand conspiracy. I certainly don't hate them. I'm more trolling than anything else---and as for the Rugrats-related stuff, go watch a "Drew Pickles goes to..." video on YouTube and you'll understand where I'm coming from. I'm trying to be entertaining and a little bit frustrating, but mostly entertaining. As such, I'm laying off the Jewish stuff. I'm sure you'll continue to revert my vandalism and block me, but at least try to see the humor in the edits' content. Don't let yourselves get stressed out over it---have a laugh at my expense! 140.254.227.55 (talk) 14:14, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

also you were socking 140.254, regardless if you were joking your behaviour cannot be condoned--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 14:28, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Ah, well, you also said on my Talk page that you were done with your vandalism so I am not sure I can credit even your "all in good fun" defense at this point - JohnInDC (talk) 14:34, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

hey, John he just vandalised Rugrats again and i reverted him--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 14:35, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

I visited AIV. JohnInDC (talk) 15:21, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks John--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 15:22, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Of course I'm sockpuppeting. Isn't that what public terminals are for? Besides, Lerd, I'm not arguing with your assertion that my "behaviour cannot be condoned" (per Wikipedia standards), although I'd appreciate if you'd make it sound less like a crime and more like...well, not a crime, just going against Wikipedia standards. I know it's not constructive, but it's at least a little bit humorous, and it helps me blow off a bit of steam. I'm trying to cut back because I'm aware it doesn't help me much---there are more constructive and less annoying ways of blowing off steam---and also because I want to put more focus on making useful edits on my legit account (that's right, I'm an editor). I'm really not a destructive person by nature, and I don't want this behavior to serve as a gateway to more overtly antisocial behavior. Old habits die hard, though. I would ask that you not do a blanket IP block, if only because hundreds or possibly thousands of other students use these same computers.140.254.227.197 (talk) 15:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

I don't care if you want to have a laugh, this is not the place, go to Uncyclopedia and goof off there!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 16:01, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Meh. Uncyclopedia isn't my thing. Cracked, maybe; I'd love to write for them. 140.254.227.197 (talk) 16:04, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

just stop mucking about on here ok, its annoying for me to revert you as it is for you when you get blocked--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 16:06, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Trial graphics

Hello Lerdthenerd. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Trial graphics, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to products. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 18:30, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

ok--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 19:24, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles. Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 14:33, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Just for you...

		A very special barnstar, worth twelve ordinary barnstars
		Because you deserve one far more than many people who get loads of them them. Yes, you really do. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:56, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

thanks! that means a lot to me--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 20:06, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

I second the above. You deserve it. Keep up the fantastic work you're doing :) MrLittleIrish ^(talk) 申 10:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

thank you too--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 20:45, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm not insulting anyone's religion.

It's a fact that Jewish editors are the ones who revert any reference toe the word "captured" in regards to Gilad Shalit. --68.45.180.34 (talk) 16:53, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

so what if they're Jewish it shouldn't matter try to remain civil--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 16:55, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Please try to use question marks and periods in sentences. Thank you.--68.45.180.34 (talk) 17:00, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

As you can see in the Republic of Kosovo page, I opened a talk page discussion which no one bothered responding to. The other two users are actually engaging in an 'edit war.' My new lead is in conformity with wikipedia standards. Please feel free to have a look at the previous version and compare it to mine. Ottomanist (talk) 19:42, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

you do realise this is a 1RR article neither of you should have gone past your first revert--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 19:44, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions. SwisterTwister talk 19:31, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Yay! thankyou!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 19:32, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

ANI

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:32, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

I know, I sent a report first Jasper XD!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 06:33, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

OE talk page vandalism

please read the comments and also please advise.PlanDenied (talk) 21:30, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

its a talk page people are allowed to talk there!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 21:31, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

so it's a page that doesn't follow normal wiki policy on page vandalism, libel and slander? PlanDenied (talk) 22:13, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 15:40, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive

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Username issue

User:Redknappslovechild, I believe refers to love child, not what you implied in the notice on their talk page - either way though, it's a policy violation. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 21:24, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

thanks--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 18:04, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 25 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—May, June, and July 2011—by about 40%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 264 articles so far, to around 2500 articles. Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, your best copy-editing work of the month will be eligible for fabulous prizes! See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:42, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July drive wrap-up

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Why, hello!

Hi, old friend! Haven't come across you in a long time! Nice to see you again. Drew Pickles' Enormous Member (talk) 19:41, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

hello who is that?? --Lerdthenerd wiki defender 19:41, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Um, yeah...

...what the name says. Stopcensoringme (talk) 20:18, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Drew leave my page alone! X( --Lerdthenerd wiki defender 20:24, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Username templates

Hi. I've noticed that you have templated some users with problematic usernames. It's appreciated, for real. The only thing I'd say is just to remember that the entire purpose of those templates is to inform people that there is a problem when they likely do not know the name is a problem. You tagged one name recently that was pretty offensive - the user no doubt knew the name was inappropriate so you didn't have to inform him that it was - next time, just report those directly to WP:UAA - but only if it's obvious, remember. The other thing I'd say again is to remember that the templates are about communicating things to people, so you've got to make the templates output things in complete sentences. For example, in this edit, you wrote "may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because unambigous advertising". You need a few more words in there to have it make sense. And I would add, in that particular case, unless I've missed something, that the name is not actually unambiguous advertising as you say it is because there are no edits or surrounding evidence to tie it to a company or anything promotional. That does not mean you can't use the template, because you may in the end have been right, but I would have avoided the word 'unambiguous' because it wasn't unambiguous at that point. Hope this helps. NTox · talk 20:31, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

thanks, i'll take your advise--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 14:42, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

GOCE mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 19 have copy-edited at least one article, about the same as the last drive. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—August, September, and October 2011—by about 44%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 58 articles so far, to around 2600 articles. The biggest difference between this drive and the previous one is a stronger focus on large articles, so total word counts are still comparable. Don't forget about the Copy Edit of the Month contests! Voting for the August contest has been extended through the end of the month. You don't have to make a submission to vote! August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight September 30 (UTC). September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight September 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:07, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

User:Otaxige

Just letting you know i have reported this user. He will be blocked very soon! --JetBlast (talk) 11:32, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Lol we warned at the same time! XD! thanks--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 11:32, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Cerebrum

So it means I am a vandal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luckydhaliwal (talk • contribs) 19:29, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

no, but dont call experienced users vandals please instead explain why you disagree--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 19:30, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

But why should he revert my work when it is correct. He often reverts my editing and earlier with great difficulty I explained him how he was wrong and then he accepted that he was wrong and reverted my edits. But i cannot explain him everytime. This does not mean that if he is a admin he is always right and other editors are wrong. Simply writing that earlier was better is not sufficient, he should explain why earlier was better.Luckydhaliwal (talk) 19:58, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

I agree but retorting 'No this is better' isn't helping--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 10:51, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

First, neither of us are a vandal. That word has an extremely specific meaning on Wikipedia. You can read the details at WP:VANDAL, but the summary is that vandalism means deliberately harming Wikipedia, like writing, "The cerebrum is made of dog crap. BOORRING!" However, even though neither of our edits are vandalism, it can still mean that edits are wrong. Your versions on those scientific articles are harder to understand at best, and, at worst, outright wrong. I can explain exactly why in each case they are wrong, if you would like. But, for instance, this edit at Cerebrum is flat out wrong. Your first statement, "consists of two approximately symmetric left and right cerebral hemispheres", means that there are two left and two right hemispheres. Second, that's not even the right definition--the correct definition is in the one before you changed it. Third, "cranial" means "of or pertaining to the cranium or skull," so you can't be "most cranial". This is the problem with most of your edits--I think that your knowledge of English is simply insufficient in most cases, because your changes just don't make sense. However, I am willing to give you point by point explanations of each of the changes if you like. Qwyrxian (talk) 00:23, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

hellllooo! your on my talk page! XD --Lerdthenerd wiki defender 11:06, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Roger Rae

Hi Lerdthenerd,

I changed the text back because the original version made better sense - the phrasing suggesting that the stories about Roger's youth may have just been stories. That was part of his character - he was renown for being a great storyteller.

As it is now, the punctuation isn't right and it loses the 'was it really true' quality. If your objective is to make the posting more factual that objective has not been met - it would have been better to cut that sentence out.

The other thing is, his family have read and approved of the original version, and it has been put together by someone who actually knew him.

I'm not quite sure why somebody who seems to not be particularly interested in jazz or having any personal connection would want to alter it - but your prompt removal of my alteration suggests that it's important to you - so I'll bow to your greater IT skill and let you get on with it.

Anyone with any personal knowledge of Roger Rae will know that as it stands it's wrong - but hey - what do we know...

Englishmajor45 (talk) 21:54, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

what was with the commentary afterwards, if you're gonna edit articles don't add commentary to article space--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 12:18, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

September 2012

Thank you for your report at Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention (UAA). However, your report was removed as UAA is for username policy infringements that are serious enough to warrant an immediate block. General name policy violations should first be discussed with the user on their talk page. A helpful template to do just that is {{subst:Uw-username}}. Note that a request for comment can be filed if the user disagrees that their name is against the username policy, or has continued to edit after you have expressed your concern. You may find the UAA instructions helpful, and I'd recommend reading them over prior to making future reports to UAA. Thank you. You may want to review the comments for your submissions at WP:UAA for clarification. Several of your submissions appear not to meet UAA guidelines. - Vianello (Talk) 02:21, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Gee thanks, I'm still getting my head round UAA--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 08:25, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

All the reports pages are kind of their own animal, with their own little fine points and technicalities. Everyone who regularly reports to any of 'em gets reports shot down sometimes. If you have any questions on any specific points, please feel free to ask! - Vianello (Talk) 00:53, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

thanks--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 07:49, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Ahem

That was quick—I'm very impressed. In case you hadn't noticed, however, that's a page for running tests, and I'm trying to run tests on it. Please don't revert the PC testing pages, at least not in the next hour or so, okay? Thanks much! Rivertorch (talk) 08:07, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

oh crud sorry--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 08:09, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

LOL. It's quite all right—I can do it over again. I was genuinely impressed at how quickly you got there and correctly identified the problem. Rivertorch (talk) 08:11, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! --Lerdthenerd wiki defender 08:12, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

GOCE September 2012 drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 41 people who signed up this drive, 28 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing July, August, September and October 2011 from the backlog. This means that, for the first time since the drives began, the backlog is less than a year. At least 677 tagged articles were copy edited, although 365 new ones were added during the month. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2341 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 54 requests outstanding before September 2012 as well as eight of those made in September. Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the August 2012 competition, and prizes will be issued soon. The September 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The October 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 23:42, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

GOCE fall newsletter

Fall Events from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events: The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best October copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC). Voting is in progress for the September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not. NEW!! In the week from Sunday 21 October to Saturday 27 October, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} belonging to selected project(s). For the first blitz, we'll start with WikiProject Olympics and WikiProject Albums and add more Projects to the blitz as we clear them. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded. November 2012 Backlog elimination drive is 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). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in 2011 and to complete all requests placed before the end of October. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Blitz sign-up <<<         >>> Drive sign-up <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 19:19, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

GOCE November 2012 copy edit drive update

Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 31 people signed up for this drive so far, 22 have copy-edited at least one article. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive. We have reduced our target group of articles—November and December 2011—by over 50%, and 34 of the the 56 requests made in September and October this year have already been fulfilled. However, the rate of tagging for copy edit has increased, and this month we are just keeping the size of the backlog stable. So, all you copy editors, please do come along and help us! The September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest was won by Baffle gab1978 for his copy edit of Expulsion of the Acadians. Runner up was Gareth Griffith-Jones for his edit of I Could Fall in Love. Congratulations to both. The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight November 30 (UTC). You don't have to make a submission to vote! November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight November 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin. Seasonal oversight: We had a slight fall from grace in the title of our last newletter, which mentioned the season in the northern hemisphere and thus got it wrong for the southern. Fortunately an observant GOCE member was ready to spring into action to advise us. Thanks! In future we'll stay meteorologically neutral. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 19:50, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Captain Underpants AFD

Because you participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People you might want to participate in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Adventures of Captain Underpants. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 01:09, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

GOCE November drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 38 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy-edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. All the barnstars have now been distributed. Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing November and December 2011 from the backlog. For the first time since the drives began, the backlog consists only of articles tagged in the current year. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2690 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 56 requests outstanding before November 2012 as well as eight of those made in November. Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the October 2012 competition, and prizes have been issued. The November 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The December 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our fourth tranche of Guild coordinators will expire at the end of December. Nominations are open for the fifth tranche of coordinators, who will serve from 1 January to 30 June 2013. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 20:44, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Read the Reference

...before you revert. Probably one of the most famous Sikh fictional charachters. Look here. BTW there is a huge white Sikh community in America. SH 17:22, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Wow didn't know Khan was sikh!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 17:24, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Just been watching a re-run today. It makes sense because Sikhs were formidable warriors. They're about 2% of the population and under the British made up 50% of the armed forces. Nowadays they make up around 30%. They disproportiately won a huge amount of bravery medals. I think 5 Victoria Crosses. All that for around 20 million people. SH 17:29, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

I heard its pretty good (among trekkies!) particuly the bit when Kirk screams 'KHHHHHAAAAAANN!'--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 17:32, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Hahaha, I prefer it when Sheldon does it on the Big Bang Theory. Classic SH 17:36, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

lulz, by the way mcGeddon seems to disgree that he's a sikh, sinse im not a trekkie I'll let the experts discuss it--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 17:38, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Fake warnings

Why was it that you gave a 3RR warning to me? Do you even know what 3RR means? And btw, where is the edit war in the first place? Go through the article history before you try to warn anyone, and yeah WP:DTTR of course. — Abhishek  ^Talk 18:09, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

And since you mentioned on your userpage, here it is:

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.

— Abhishek  ^Talk 18:12, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

And FYI, the issue was discussed on several talk pages and Superfast was asked not to add those images, but still continues to do so. So please do some homework before you warn any editor. — Abhishek  ^Talk 18:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

A longstanding edit war over a week is still an edit war, the history of the article you worked on yesterday just consists of reverts between you and superfast i think that makes an edit war regardless if he was the disruptive one. also thanks for the trout yum! (goes to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest)--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 18:41, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

GOCE mid-December newsletter

End of Year Events from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events: The December 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best December copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC). Voting is in progress for the November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not. From Sunday 16 December to Saturday 22 December, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} from January 2012. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded. January 2013 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on January 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in January, February, and March 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2012. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in January, February, and March 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. Coodinator election: Nominations are open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January to 30 June 2013. Nominations close on December 15 at 23:59 UTC, after which voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. >>> Blitz sign-up <<<         >>> Drive sign-up <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:08, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Abhishek191288

Hello, I understand that you are concerned about repeated editing by Abishek & myself. I have repeatedly tried to reason out with him & even discuss something else with him so that we can understand each other & work backwards but nothing has come out of it except his repeated threats. His contributions on the images has been close to ZERO. He adds nothing to the article but is 1st in line to remove images uploaded by me.

I have repeadtly tried to work it out with him but as nothing has come out of it & in view of his threats, i intend to move for blocking him from editing. Superfast1111 (talk) 04:30, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

He seems to think you're the disruptive one Super--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 18:43, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Its good to know that Abhishek is doing some thinking. He is making a sorry attempt to glorify himself as some sort of expert whereas the fact remains that he has little or no factual information and can't understand it if someone explains it to him. What he has completely omitted to say is that there are several others who have undone his edits of my work also. There is a line between opinions & facts. He does not seem to know what it is. He has no images to add but wants to go around removing what others have uploaded. One particular editor has even stated that perhaps Abhishek is jealous of the fact that others have been adding images & he has zero images to add.

I can hardly be blamed for travelling extensively on Indian Railways having made several trips & taking lots of images or being passionate about Indian Railways. I simply say that if he feels my images are not relevant, let us see him uploading images of relevance but nothing so far. And ofcourse his constant threats of blocking me from editing on wikipedia have not helped either. He continues to edit without thinking what he is doing.

Question for you: How does one go about preventing or blocking others from editing on wikipedia? There is another gentleman Tiderolls who i have been in touch with regarding Abhishek's disruptive editing. Maybe you can have a word with him. Superfast1111 (talk) 10:50, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

only admins can block, so you'll have to ask Tide, I'm not an admin--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 13:58, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

GOCE 2012 Annual Report

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