Userbox and sandbox

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Hi. You're welcome to go into edit mode on my user page and just copy my userbox if you'd like. Just fill it with what you want. About the sandbox it seems like you've already got one: User:Asatya82/Sandbox. Usually what I use mine for is if I'm editing an article but its a large edit then I'll do it in the sandbox first. Plus, its great for experimentation. Hope that helps and welcome to Wikipedia! Ltwin (talk) 02:34, 28 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

P.S. You can sign your signature using four ~ (called tildes). It'll look like this in edit mode: ~~~~. And like this when saved: Ltwin (talk) 02:37, 28 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

GOCE Drive – Final push

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Greetings GOCE Backlog elimination drive participant, We are now coming up to the last few days of the drive, the last for 2010. Currently, it looks like we will achieve our target for reducing the backlog by 10%, however, we still have huge numbers for 2009. We have 55 participants in this drive. If everyone just clears 2 articles each, we will reduce the backlog by a further 110 articles. If everyone can just do 3 articles, we will hit 165. If you have yet to work on any articles and have rollover words, remember that you do need to copyedit at least a couple of articles in this drive for your previous rollover to be valid for the next drive. There are many very small articles that will take less than 5-10 minutes to copyedit. Use CatScan to find them. Let's all concentrate our firepower on the first three months of 2009 as we approach the end of this final drive for the year. Thank you once again for participating, and see you at the finish line! – SMasters (talk) 04:09, 25 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

GOCE elections

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
 
 

Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors via SMasters using AWB on 01:10, 1 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

List class

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What article is it? Are you trying to place an article in a particular list category or are you trying to categorize it as list-class on the article's talkpage? Ltwin (talk) 21:47, 13 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

You have to give it a project. This article would fall under both {{WikiProject Computing|class=|importance=|websites=|websites-importance=}} and {{WikiProject Internet culture|class=|importance=}}. In the "class" parameter just put "List" and then in "importance" put either "Top", "Mid", or "Low". Ltwin (talk) 13:32, 14 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Rewrite tags?

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You posted rewrite tags in the Sceptre (fusion reactor) and Perhapsatron article using an automated tool. Can you explain why? Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:32, 17 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ahhh, yes, well caught. My concern is that those takes are generally used when there's major problems that need a re-write, and I didn't think they were that bad. When you see specific examples like this, just go ahead and edit them, be bold! Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:19, 20 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

GOCE Year-end Report

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Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
 
 

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 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report.

Highlights
  • Membership grows to 503 editors
  • 2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives
  • Our encounter with Jimbo Wales
  • Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned
  • Report on our inaugural elections
  • Guild Plans for 2011
  • New barnstars introduced
  • Requests page improved
  • Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive!
Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011!
– Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 06:07, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

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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

You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:05, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive invitation

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting.

This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated.

We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. 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".

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 08:46, 3 July 2011 (UTC)