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Award of a Barnstar

  The Barnstar of Diligence
This barnstar is hereby awarded for extraordinary scrutiny, precision, and community service, especially in regard to cleaning up vandalism.

Awarded by PhilKnight (talk) 19:59, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

hehe. thx. --Blehfu (talk) 20:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

A small token

  The Broken Heart Barnstar
I hear buy award Blehfu with this Broken Heart Barnstar for being quick on the draw and for breaking my hearts. Rmnrmrnmrnmr (talk) 06:56, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

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Carrington, ND population

Hi Blehfu, Thank for sending me to Address at Grand Forks Public Library. This is User:Rossdegenstein. I made edit in Carrington, North Dakota Population Estimate 2009 is 1,955 You see to Carrington 2009 2 or 3 months ago User:Dcmacnut gave me. User:Dcmacnut/ND1910 You can edit in 1910 add. You can delete 1900 is Carrington Township. Have a great day! Ross Degenstein (talk) --165.234.184.69 (talk) 23:48, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Stefanie Gork

The hoax Stefanie Gork has become deleted. I think this was the best decision. 79.246.190.174 (talk) 16:22, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

new conversations go on the bottom, usually

So Blehfu, where do I put a conversation with you? Here? And thanks for the welcome. Editor since 2006? That overstates the case.

Now where the hell is the tilde? Joelthesecond (talk) 04:05, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Your welcome. Just let me know if you have any questions. Blehfu (talk) 04:14, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

An update from adopt a user

Hi there Blehfu! You may be wondering, what have I done to sound the alarm this time? Nothing. I'm messaging you in regards to the adopt-a-user program, which currently has a backlog of users wishing to be adopted. This doesn't make much sense, as we have a considerable list of users offer adoption, so there shouldn't be any backlog. I've begun to eliminate this backlog myself through a matching program, but I need your help to make it work. Of course, adoptees and adopters don't have to go through there, but I believe it helps eliminate the backlog because someone is actively matching pairs.

On the list of adopters, I have modified the middle column to say "Interests." It's easier working with other users that have similar interests, so if it's not too much to ask, could you add your interests in the middle column? For example, if I was interested in hurricanes, computers, business, and ... reptiles? I would place those in the middle column. Counter-vandalism and the like can also be included (maintenance should be used as the general term). The more interests, the better, since adoptees can learn more about you and choose the one they feel most comfortable working with. The information about when you're most active and other stuff can go into the "Notes" section to the right.

Finally, I've gone around and asked adoptees (and will in the future) to fill in a short survey so adopters can take the initiative and contact users they feel comfortable working with. We all know that most adoptees just place the adopt me template on their user page and leave it - so it's up to us to approach them and offer adoption. So, please take a look at the survey, adopt those that fit your interests, and maybe watchlist it so you can see the interests of adoptees and adopt one that fits your interests in the future.

Once again, thank you for participating in the adopt-a-user program! If you wish to respond to this post, please message me on my talk page.

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm (talk) at 05:12, 11 October 2010 (UTC).

Bonsoir Blehfu

I hope that your health is good and that you take advantage of beautiful autumn colors for your music. I know not enough your art. I like listening to the classical music and the jazz music but I am a layman.

I am a new member of wikipedia. I seeks for a bilingual wikimentor (English-French) to help me to understand better all the facets of Wikipedia. A Bilingual wikimentor because my English language is very summary and I am here on English wikipedia to learn better to write the English language.

I am a sporting passionate person. Especially the soccer and the Hockey. But more Women's sports this because of my 2 daughters.

I thank you for reading my demand of wikimentor.

je vous remercie de me lire. Prenez le temps de regarder mon profil personnel. J'ai fait quelques petits travaux sur le wikipedia depuis le 3 octobre dernier. Vous pourrez les lire sur ma page de discussion.

Bien à vous prenez soin de vous Take care

Charles --Charlesquebec (talk) 23:29, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you Blehfu for your honest answer. Good luck and pass a good day on Wikipedia --Charlesquebec (talk) 12:36, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of LegalMatch for deletion

A discussion has begun about whether the article LegalMatch, which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LegalMatch (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

You may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. --A. B. (talkcontribs) 02:57, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

GOCE copy edit drive

  Greetings, the Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue.

Sign-up has already begun at the November drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page.

Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

Awards and barnstars

A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants, some of which are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.

Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive!
The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

November 2010 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!
 

 
GOCE November 2010 backlog elimination drive progress graphs

We have reached the midway point in our backlog elimination drive, so here is an update.

Participation report — The November drive has 53 participants at this point. We had 77 participants in the September drive. In July, 95 people signed up for the drive, and in May we had 36. If you are not participating, it is not too late to join!

Progress report — The drive is quite successful so far, as we have already almost reached our target of a 10% reduction in the number of articles in the backlog. We are doing very well at keeping our Requests page clear, as those articles count double for word count for this drive.

Please keep in mind the possibility of removing other tags when you are finished with an article. If the article no longer needs {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, or other similar maintenance tags, please remove them, as this will make the tasks of other WikiProjects easier to complete. Thanks very much for participating in the Drive, and see you at the finish line!


Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor (talk) at 15:35, 14 November 2010 (UTC).

GOCE elections

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 01:28, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!
 

We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated.

Stats

 
GOCE November 2010 backlog elimination drive graphs
  • 58 people signed up for this drive. Of these, 48 people participated in the drive.
  • Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%.
  • 49 awards will go out to 33 of 48 participants. Check out the complete list of barnstar winners here.

Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Our next drive is scheduled for January 2011. In the meantime, please consider helping out at the Wikification drive or any of the other places where help with backlogs is needed.

Thank you for participating in the last 2010 backlog elimination drive! We look forward to seeing you in January!

Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 23:27, 2 December 2010 (UTC).

Ravel

Just curious about User:Blehfu/Maurice Ravel since it is turning up in category listings. Is this an active subpage? Thanks, Huw Powell (talk) 19:02, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

No.. I think I'm done ravaging the citations. 17:18, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Oh, great, thanks! Huw Powell (talk) 21:38, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

GOCE Year-end Report

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 06:09, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Adopt-A-User

It would be extraordinary to be adopted by such a long-term Wiki-user as youself. I would appreciate being adopted by you. I am also extremely interested in the classical music pages on Wikipedia, and also have downloaded Huggle: if and when I get Huggle rights it would be superb to then work with you and find out which page are crying out for speedy deletion, etc. Yours truly --Graythos1 (talk) 11:20, 5 January 2011 (UTC) .

GOCE drive news

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive
 

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats.

 
Participation
 
GOCE January 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs

So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. 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.

Progress report

We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal.

Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), The UtahraptorTalk to me, and Tea with toast (Talk)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 19:43, 16 January 2011 (UTC).

GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive
 

 

Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.

Statistics
  • 54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated.
  • One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%.
  • Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue.
  • Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here.
Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March.

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 14:53, 5 February 2011 (UTC).

Leksha Washington Vandalism

Hi there,

There must be some mistake, I don't even know who Leksha Washington is, and certainly have not vandalised her page.

Kind regards,

Sam Browne samjbrowne@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.92.21.196 (talk) 10:47, 24 March 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

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 07:08, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Adopt me for musical theatre articles?

Hi, I'm a brand new Wikipedia editor, but plan to make quite a few musical theatre contributions to existing and new articles. I'd love to have someone like you review my work as I get started and make sure I'm following proper guidelines.

For the past four years, I've edited a popular non-commercial website theBestArts.com that highlights rising musical theatre songwriters, singers and dancers. I'd like to use that experience to add and update articles about the most successful of these artists. My assumption is that I'll only need minor guidance when editing existing articles. However, I'll need some help in determining when it is appropriate to add a new article for a young artist - and how to best format it.

I'm sure there are other questions that I don't know yet to ask.

Thank you! Irelandkm (talk) 16:28, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Funny you should contact me; I've actually been pretty busy with musical theatre at the moment. Sadly, I'm not very active with Wikipedia at the moment, but I would gladly look over your entries. Just contact me like this with some of your edits and the site will contact me.
I would also urge you to be very careful in the case of copying content verbatim from the website you mentioned. Who owns the rights to the material? Does the website retain copyright of all materials on the website, even if they are contributed by other people, such as yourself? Furthermore, take a gander over at this page. I know it's a bit of a pain, but trust me, it will save you lots of trouble (warranted or unwarranted) down the road. Cheers. Blehfu (talk) 16:38, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

GOCE elections

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
 
 

Elections are currently underway for our Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days and ends on June 30, 23:59 UTC. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! There is also a referendum to appoint a Coordinator Emeritus. Cast your vote today.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:42, 19 June 2011 (UTC)