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		The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar
		For copy editing the following articles: 12700 words in Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger 14436 words in List of H2O: Just Add Water episodes 11113 words in Timeline of Serbian history during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 backlog elimination drive. The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 13:41, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Woohoo ! thanks for that :¬) straight on my prized awards page lol Chaosdruid (talk) 14:50, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody! Stats If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the May 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, your word totals are cumulative for barnstars (not the leaderboard). Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars. GOCE backlog elimination drive chart up to 31 July Eight people will receive The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Barnstar (100,000+ words): Chaosdruid, Diannaa, Ericleb01, Lfstevens, Shimeru, S Masters, The Utahraptor, and Torchiest. Bullock and Slon02 will receive The Order of the Superior Scribe (80,000+). The Barnstar of Diligence (60,000+) goes to Derild4921, GaryColemanFan, kojozone, and Mlpearc. The Modern Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar (40,000+) goes to A. Parrot, AirplanePro, Auntieruth55, Bejinhan, David Rush, and mono. Nobody will receive The Old School League of Copy Editors award (30,000+). The Tireless Contributor Barnstar (20,000+) goes to Backtable, Cindamuse, dtgriffith, Duff, e. ripley, Laurinavicius, NerdyScienceDude, and TEK. The Cleanup Barnstar (12,000+) goes to Brickie, Casliber, cymru lass, December21st2012Freak, Nolelover, TheTito, Whoosit, and YellowMonkey. The Working Man's Barnstar (8,000+) goes to Bsherr, Duchess of Bathwick, HELLKNOWZ, Mabeenot, noraft, Pyfan, and Richard asr. The Modest Barnstar (4,000+) goes to Adrian J. Hunter, Airplaneman, Annalise, Camerafiend, Cricket02, Fetchcomms, Gosox5555, LeonidasSpartan, Paulmnguyen, Piotrus, SuperHamster, Taelus, and TPW. Gold Star Award Gold Star Award Leaderboard Articles Words 5k+ Articles 1. Diannaa (248) Shimeru (200,392) Shimeru/Ericleb01 (13) 2. Slon02 (157) Diannaa (164,960) Chaosdruid (8) 3. GaryColemanFan (101) Chaosdruid (130,630) Derild4921 (7) 4. Torchiest (100) The Utahraptor (117,347) GaryColemanFan/Slon02 (6) 5. Shimeru (80) Ericleb01 (114,893) Bejinhan/The Utahraptor (5) Coordinator: ɳorɑfʈ Talk! Co-coordinators: Diannaa TALK and S Masters (talk) | Newsletter by: The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions

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Barnstars

	The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
	For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, 46 articles with a combined total of 130,360 words, Chaosdruid is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. --Diannaa (Talk) 17:22, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Yaay !!! Another gong for my collection :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 17:27, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award—5K Articles—2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Chaosdruid for copy editing 8 articles of 5,000 words or more during the WP:GOCE July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. --Diannaa (Talk) 16:53, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award—Word Count—3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Chaosdruid for copy editing articles totalling 130,630 words during the WP:GOCE July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. --Diannaa (Talk) 17:01, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Wow - I didn't realise those barnstars were going to be given out !! Thanks all that really was unexpected :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 18:10, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Regex questions

I noticed you left a question on Rj's page with some AWB help and I wasn't quite sure what you are trying to do. You mentioned citation errors but this is kind of a broad statement. Could you give a specific example of an error you are trying to fix? Just to clarify I am not nearly as good at regex as he is but this gives me a chance to learn it. :-)--Kumioko (talk) 16:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Futurama (album)

Hi. I've restored the article, but I think you'll see why I deleted it. It needs a lot of work, including a sentence or two about the album. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 05:17, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh yeah. That's great. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:09, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Golem

I have seen the Golem mentioned in a lot of books about the history of technology and the history of science fiction as being a story which inspired people to want to figure out how to build robots. It's usually mentioned as basically like a precursor to a robot. Keraunos (talk) 07:43, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

ECHR's phrase is "concrete and persisiting links"

ECHR uses just the phrase I used: "concrete and persisiting links" in its 2 decisions over Cyprus property issue (Ctrl + F, and write "concrete and persisiting links", you will see the phrase in the decision): http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?action=html&documentId=868631&portal=hbkm&source=externalbydocnumber&table=F69A27FD8FB86142BF01C1166DEA398649

http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?action=html&documentId=868633&portal=hbkm&source=externalbydocnumber&table=F69A27FD8FB86142BF01C1166DEA398649 Helenaworld (talk) 16:13, 9 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Helenaworld (talk • contribs)

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Kievan Rus'

Can you please explain your reasons for changing the map on the Kievan Rus' page?

There are a couple of differences I can see on there, the main one being that the map you have changed to is harder to read as it appears to be smaller in size.

The other matter you may already know of ?

Hi Chaosdruid, sure I can.

Technically, I can't work on the original maps because the files have not a "Edit" button. If I modify one on my desk, I can't save the new version with the same name, the system refuses. When I change the name, the size & resolution is smaller. Too bad !

Historically, I must to correct an anachronism in the south-west side of this map (and some others) since the "Westermann Grosser Atlas zur Weltgeschichte", 1985, Hans-Erich Stier (dir.) pp. ISBN 3-14-100919-8, the "DTV Atlas zur Weltgeschichte", 1987 translated in french by Perrin, ISBN 2-7242-3596-7, the "Putzger historischer Weltatlas Cornelsen" 1990, ISBN 3-464-00176-8, the l'"Atlas historique Georges Duby", Larousse 1987, ISBN 2-03-503009-9, the "Atlas des Peuples" of André & Jean Sellier, La Découverte : "Europe centrale" : 1992, ISBN 2-7071-2032-4, "Orient" : 1993, ISBN 2-7071-2222-X, the Történelmi atlasz of the Hungarian academy, 1991, ISBN 963-351-422-3 CM and the Atlas istorico-geografic of the Romanian academy, 1995, ISBN 973-27-0500-0. No one of this works mentionned a subordination to the Kievan Rus' of the territories later forming Moldavia (today Moldova, my country, & eastern Romania). This is in concordance with Nestor & the other primal sources. But the soviet academic predominant tradition is again present in more maps: they try to legitimate the belong of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire, and the belong of Soviet Moldova (Moldavian SSR) to USSR, by a non-proved anachronic influence of the Rus' into this territory, drawed on the historic maps. In fact, the future Moldova belongs in the early Middle-Age, before the Moldavian principality (1359), succesively to the Bulgarian first empire, to the Khazars, to the Magyars (Etelköz), the Pechenegs, the Cumans, the Iasses (Alans) and the Tatars. The Slavs were present, but this Slavs (Tiverzes and later Brodniks) were independent, and when the Rus' try to subdue them, the Tzars loose this wars & must to go back to Kiev...

Good wishes,--Mitica-Misha (talk) 17:28, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

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Copyedit of Multiple sclerosis signs and symptoms

Thanks so much-- that was speedy indeed ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:55, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Charnwood

Howdy,

Just wondering were you are in regards to material on the outcome of Charnwood? To note i have mentioned on the RFC talkpage that i will collate what i have over the next few days and post the information on the Charnwood talkpage so we can thrash out the outcome.

Kind regardsEnigmaMcmxc (talk) 16:09, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I have finally got around to finding some spare time and have posted the infomation i have, has been posted in the various discussions, and from google books, onto the Charnwood talkpage: 27 sources. Will await further information from yourself and others. RegardsEnigmaMcmxc (talk) 14:10, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Temple_Allen_Industries

Temple_Allen_Industries Created on 2nd August. Is this allowed? Can anyone come along and add a page for their company? Started by some guy in 2002. Is that all it takes? What do you think? I found it because they have also added a link in the industrial robot page. Robotics1 (talk) 22:57, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

I have replied on your page to the EMMA and TA articles - they say it is not a robot but I pointed out that as it is remotely controlled it falls under the purview of the robotics project. I think this may have misled them into thiking that it also means they can include it on industrial robots. It is more suited to sanding machine or industrial machinery than to the industrial robots page. I will let you decide on what you wish to do on that matter.

I will also copy this to your user talk page. Chaosdruid (talk) 00:44, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Anti-ukrainian propaganda

• If you think this statemant is correct then you dont know the historic facts: "But it did not include modern central, eastern, and southern Ukraine, which were inhabited by nomads and had a different history." Dont reverse the truth about Ukraine, nobody is stupid. Try to be honest next time! --SeikoEn (talk) 19:45, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

• • Take some time and learn something about Ukrainians and Ukraine because some of Wiki english articles about Ukraine are disgrace for your media. I am not important, but it is awful to read untruth and rubbish articles. Read and learn something new: http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/alphasearch.asp or http://www.ukrainians-world.org.ua/ or watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ll32qkeAI&feature=related, but please dont leave this rubbish on the net ... Sincerely, best regards! --SeikoEn (talk) 20:02, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

As I said - discuss on the article talk page please, not my talk page, before making those changes. There are many editors to the Ukrainian articles that would need to see this so I will copy it to there.

Also you have put the edits back in again without discussing on the talk page. Edits that are massively contraversial, such as yours, should be discussed first after another editor has challenged them before being replaced. I have already asked another editor to look and assess if my reversions were in fact correct and would appreciate it if you did not revert them again - until they have been discussed on the article talk page.

(copied to users talk page and Ukraine talk page )Chaosdruid (talk) 20:44, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

• • • My correction: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ukrainians_Ukraine_english_version.jpg (english version) ... --SeikoEn (talk) 07:08, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

• • • • • No problem. Is it posible to put this map on the site of Kievan Rus': http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kievan_Rus%27_historical_map_980_1054.jpg? This map has a source but thouse previous maps of Kievan Ruse doesn't have. --SeikoEn (talk) 18:23, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

For recognizing my effort.

It is pleasant to read a good word now and then, thanks. My small efforts suit my time and ability. Onward, Wikipedia! --Fartherred (talk) 18:13, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Android move concerns

Hi, I saw some of the notes you left concerning the Android move. You could always do a move request to put Android (robot) back to Android. I'm not certain it would succeed (if I had to guess I would say it would fail), but at least a proper discussion would occur. --JaGa^talk 12:38, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

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Sumerian stubs

I noticed your note on the Sumerian stubs, such as Gatumdag. I didn't create them. Nor are they new articles. Several were created back in 2007 and have been orphans since then.. I was just tagging them for a relative Wikiproject. In any case, where should they be merged? Dimadick (talk) 05:06, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Your return

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Genetic algorithms and KB

I'd like your opinion on the recent KB insertion/revert and my reverts. My take is that there was no consensus for the addition and therefore the addition should not be made. KB sought a consensus for the addition from us, the consensus was not reached, so KB decided to add the text anyway. I believe my reverts are justified.

As a side note, KB wants to continue the debate, but his argument is just going over the same ground. I see no reason to engage in repetition. I believe we understand each other's positions, but if there is something that you want clarified, let me know.

Thanks. Glrx (talk) 03:21, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

GOCE drive has begun

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Rescue

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Armageddon theology WritersCramp (talk) 12:55, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

GOCE newsletter

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Welcome back. Sounds like you had a bout of BT.Robotics1 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 07:59, 20 September 2010 (UTC).

Regarding your participation in the dispute on Genetic Algorithms

fyi, I've named you as a dispute participant in an informal request for mediation that I filed at WP:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2010-08-29/Genetic_algorithms.

You may also be interested in the wikiquette alert I filed against User:Glrx [[1]].

Thanks for your involvement. Keki Burjorjee (talk) 04:17, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage

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Merge question about proto-writing symbols of SE Europe

CD. Hey buddy! I thought you might be interested in the discussion going on about the possibility of merging two articles - the Symbols and proto-writing of the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture, and the Vinča symbols. The discussion is taking place here. Your opinion would be greatly appreciated on this, I believe, since the Ukrainian interest in this subject tends to get overlooked greatly by the academic community... --Saukkomies ^talk 02:50, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Cyprus operation naming dispute

Hello,

According to Talk:Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus#convenience_break I think it is safe to take this issue to dispute resolution. Can you help with that if you have time, I do not know the procedure very well.

Thanks in advance Tmhm (talk) 09:03, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion

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Sorry it took me months to respond to you...

I'm no longer involved in Wikipedia, so the Three Laws of Robotics article will need to wait until I have my next break, which should be around the end of this month or so. I'll try to get online some time on the Freenode IRC if you're on there, or you can email me via the userpage link. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs} 21:05, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-08-29/Genetic algorithms

I have offered to mediate this. Please indicate your acceptance or lack on the mediation page. Thanks. Hipocrite (talk) 14:27, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Seahenge

Sure thing. (Midnightblueowl (talk) 16:19, 6 October 2010 (UTC)) Okay, I can't actually identify the problem, it seems that what you are desrcibing certainly isn't a problem with my browser... (Midnightblueowl (talk) 16:24, 6 October 2010 (UTC))

Illness

Hi all

I have a bad case of Flu - spent last week shivering and looks as if it's turned into a chest infection so may well be off a little while longer

apologies to all who were expecting actions :¬(

Chaosdruid (talk) 09:48, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

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Wikify tags

I saw your kind words of wisdom on Bathhouse Row. Indeed I have done tons of such improvements and continue to do so.

Last month I came across some users removing tags often without even doing any improvements, and when they do it's just to do a few links - red as often as not. One of them a Veteran Editor who should know better! And I'm guessing that's just the tip of the iceberg.

All Spring and Summer I have used the Wikify List as my workhorse for most of my work here and it pisses me off that people are removing articles from the list that I might have liked to work on. I'm putting some of the tags back. Sometimes I clean it up some without re-tagging. Sometimes I tag and do some work. And sometimes, this - I'm not touching but somewhere out there is someone who would love to sink their teeth into it.

If you come across me tagging and you don't think it needs a tag then just take the tag back off. If you check my contribs you'll see that I usually don't like to waste edits and fill up storage space with diffs.

I haven't had the flu in years and almost forget how much fun those are. Slightsmile (talk) 16:11, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar! I'm still working on H of Norfolk, mostly reading up the nineteenth century and making notes. Watch this space... I've also downloaded Inkscape to learn how to draw maps on Wikipedia. Anna of East Anglia now has a new map! Amitchell125 (talk) 21:10, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

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Sich and Ukrainian Sich riflemen

Hi

I notice you are back onto those topics again :¬)

Can I just point out that you have changed the "battles" elements from Kiev Arsenal January Uprising|Struggle for Kiev 1918]], Ukrainian Civil War into World War I That is not a battle, it is a war. The battles were in fact correct before you deleted them and I am asking that you restore those.

Chaosdruid (talk) 03:44, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

The reason I change them is because the information was not correct. Ukrainian Sich Riflemen was a national legion in the army of Austria-Hungary. They, of course, did not part take in neither part of the Russian-Ukrainian War. On the other hand, in 1917 Alexander Kerensky, if you remember, announced an amnesty for all prisoners and, of course, including the prisoners of war. Among those prisoners of war in Russian jails and prisons were former members of the legion. Upon their return to Kiev they formed a new unit, battalion (kurin) at first, and called it Sich Riflemen Halych-Bukovyna Kurin. That new unit is not a direct descendant of the Austrian Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen although it does carry a part of their legacy. When the kurin was formed, the legion also was an active military formation in the armed forces of Austria-Hungary.

There is seemed to be a great confusion in that regard. However, claims that the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen was participating in the Kiev Uprising at time are way off. The legion also was formed not in 1917, but rather 1914(!) and not in Kiev or Chernivtsi, but in Stryi (today Lviv Oblast). There is a reason why those two military elements are set apart and it is not on an accident. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 10:32, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

The Thing (art project)

RE: The previous content of this page appears to infringe on the copyright of the text from the source(s) below and is now listed on Wikipedia:Copyright problems: http://post.thing.net/about http://www.wolfgangstaehle.info/pages.php?content=resume.php&navGallID=Resume

I wrote Wolfgang Staehle and received this back from him.

• On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Wolfgang Staehle w@thing.net wrote:

no it is not copyrighted. but we should put a cerative commons notice up on the web site. if they ask, you have my permission

greetings from berlin, Wolfgang Staehle

Valueyou (talk) 13:58, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

• • • permission given - please reverse your actions - thank you

From: w <w@thing.net> Date: November 10, 2010 12:15:44 PM CEST To: permissions-en@wikimedia.org Subject: copyright issues Reply-To: w@thing.net

dear wikimedia people,

just to let you know that the info text at

http://post.thing.net/about

and my resume on

http://www.wolfgangstaehle.info/pages.php?content=resume.php&navGallID=Resume

is NOT copyrighted.

in the future i will put up a creative commons notice.

the editors of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28art_project%29 have my explicit permission to use any material from both sites.

best regards, wolfgang staehle

Valueyou (talk) 12:26, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Reply:Cayman Islands.

Hello. I can see where you're coming from with England being used instead of the 'Kingdom of England' this is a simple overlooked error. I meant to put 'Kingdom of England' as the link but forgot. I'll add it now you've pointed it out.

Since the Islands were ceded before 1707, they will have been English to start with and ceded to the English nation (Kingdom of England), though Wales was a part it was not in a union. Cromwells army was also English, often from the Puritan eastern counties, so the islands will be largely Anglo-African. The article does only say the 'majority' of inhabitants are of English and African not all of them.

cheers --English Bobby (talk) 17:58, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

User:Wipeouting

User:Wipeouting is currently blocked for WP:COPYVIO, so the notice you left on the talk page about Iranganie Serasinghe probably won't be actioned. It might be worth dealing with it yourself, or whatever fun thing you do with copyvios. Happy copyvio hunting! Bigger digger (talk) 12:16, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Your editor review

Hello. In case you're interested, I have commented on your editor review. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs 03:13, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Ukraine aviation - reply

Many thanks for copying the information to the Transport in Ukraine page, you saved me a small job, which I appreciate! I didn't previously consider joining the Ukraine page but will certainly do so now. One final thing, I see you moved the image of the UIA 737 to the right side of the article, I was just wondering if maybe it should be on the left to make it more visible and not appear as part of a 'block', although to be honest, it's not such a huge problem really!

I know, I added the university image ;) haha. Anyway, it looks fine for sure. Thanks and all the best. Ps. I'd be happy to help any time if you require any info etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gnesener1900 (talk • contribs) 19:36, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Again, many thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gnesener1900 (talk • contribs) 18:38, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

A request for an AWB run

Hi Chaosdruid, I edit articles on (mostly Indian) natural history. I am a member of WP:LEPID and we have just one FA and only two GAs. I wonder if you could please do an AWB run on External morphology of Lepidoptera. Dont bother about the references, I'm converting them one by one. We would like to put it up for GA. AshLin (talk) 10:28, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

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Your review

Thank you for your kind words at Wikipedia:Editor review/Matthewrbowker. I will think about your ideas when I'm editing in the future.

Thanks! Matthewrbowker (talk) 15:51, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Your comments needed

Can you check the Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus#convenience_break section and comment whether an arbitration is needed or not? Thanks Karfiol (talk) 10:54, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Review requested

Hello. I've made a request for reviewing an article in the WikiProject Robotics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Robotics/Peer_review). Is the last article, ADL language, which I've further improved.Kikoso (talk) 12:30, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

As an amateur, I do enjoy the part concerning the artificial intelligence. But no professional dedication :-) Kikoso (talk) 20:23, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi! Just a reminder for the review of the ADL article :). Cheers.Kikoso (talk) 11:42, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello. Sorry for the delay, I've been very overloaded with unexpected work in the last weeks.

So, I've added just one more reference in the chapter of "Comparison between STRIPS and ADL". The references for the chapters of Syntax and Semantics are already in the article, and I don't know how to include them twice (I've tried to copy again the reference, but it appears twice in the reference section. Any help concerning this?

The idea of writing an article about ADL came into my mind after writing a paper for a Seminar in my university. So some of the references should link my paper, but I haven't submit yet to any journal or conference.

Cheers. Kikoso (talk) 13:34, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Deletion tagging

Please be sure to use an accurate edit summary when marking an article for deletion. You put an article up for speedy deletion here a few days ago with an edit summary of "cleanup using AWB" which, obviously, is inaccurate and would lead anyone who was watching the article to believe that it was an innocuous edit. If AWB won't let you change the edit summary, it might be worth opening another tab or window to place the deletion tag. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

apologies - i was under the impression that i had changed the default summary. Chaosdruid (talk) 04:21, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

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Robotics

I am stuck without a pc and using my smartphone for editing

it appears that there is a problem doing reverts as my revert to Robotics has truncated the page

can sommeone please undo my edit as I cannot trust that the phone will not make it worse Chaosdruid (talk) 14:29, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

I just did... before finding this message. I'm glad there's an explanation for that.  -- WikHead (talk) 14:36, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome! You're actually the second "well established" user who's recently left me scratching my head and saying "WTF?" after they've edited by phone. I guess that means that they're not such a good device for wiki-work. Have yourself a great day, and happy editing... once you get your PC back ;).  -- WikHead (talk) 14:57, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Wow, I know absolutely nothing about wireless phones. I've purposely refused to buy one because I don't like being that available, and would probably lose my temper with it pretty quickly if it kept ringing all the time. If you're interested in taking a look at the dif and talk page comments from the other phone-based editor I mentioned, click here. Judging from both your dif and his, I'm guessing that even basic edits might be a bit troublesome by phone. Anyway, best of luck with sorting that out and getting yourself back into edit-mode as soon as possible... and thank you for the kind words! :)  -- WikHead (talk) 16:31, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

GOCE elections

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Talk:Three Laws of Robotics/GA1

A GA review of Three Laws of Robotics is taking place and has been put on hold for an initial seven days to allow work to take place to address concerns mainly around referencing and original research. SilkTork *^YES! 23:14, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

There has been no reponse to the GA review by any of the people or projects contacted, and no work has been done on the article. I have closed it as a fail. When the OR issues have been dealt with the article can be submitted again for GA listing. SilkTork *^YES! 12:42, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

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Three laws of robotics

Hi

I am finally back after fixing my PC (new mboard cpu and memory) and find it a little surprising that I was the only person to have been interested in editing the article.

Anyway I will try and plough through all the suggestions and comments - one though was that the OR was mentioned in an earlier review - if possible can you tell me where that was mentioned as I must have missed it. I only saw the original FA and FA review.

Merry Christmas Chaosdruid (talk) 01:41, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

It looks like I made a mistake. Anyway, good luck with your ploughing! SilkTork *^YES! 09:26, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Year and comma

I'm confused now, I can't seem to find this in policy, so I guess I messed up. I thought there was supposed to be a comma when there is a break in the sentence. For example: In 1999 he was drafted by the New York Yankees. I thought that when the sentence was written this way, there was a comma after the date but not in the example sentence you left on my talk page. There must be alot of editors who also thought so, because most articles seem to have a comma after a date when it's written this way. I was not trying to be destructive here, I honestly thought I was following policy, but I was wrong. If anyone was to check my contributions, they would see that I only ever made edits that I thought were constructive. Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I won't make anymore similar edits. I just wish someone had pointed this out to me earlier, before I had made the edits to so many articles. Once again, thank you and sorry for the cunfusion I caused. Cmr08 (talk) 01:29, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Now I'm even more confused. The message you left stated "It seems to me that if MoS says we can write 14 December 2010 without commas then we should not be using the comma with just the year."

The policy WP:DATES isn't refering to commas after the year, it's refering to comma within the date. 14 December 2010 (no comma required), December 14, 2010 (comma required). I can't find any mention of comma after the year. I was editing under the belief that if there was a break in the sentence, a comma was used. For example: On June 5, 1978 he was arrested in Miami. I thought there was a comma after 1978 because of the break in the sentence, but reading through policy, I can't find anything that states one way or the other. I even did a search of the words "comma after year", and it wasn't much clearer. I edited that way because I seen others doing it, but I'll just leave them whatever way they are written. Reading through policy can be frustrating at times, as I find one policy often contradicts another. One thing I can say is that it doesn't look that good in articles when you see one sentence begin "In September 1967," and the next sentence "In July 1968" Anyways, like I said I'll just leave them alone and let other editors do as they wish with them. Cmr08 (talk) 03:48, 6 January 2011 (UTC)