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International Monetary Fund

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I see that you reverted some of my edits to the IMF page. Among the things you removed, one of the sections was the "Functions" section. The main function of Wikipedia is to educate the public and yet you felt that adding a section about the function of the IMF was not a valid edit? I disagree with your edit on my page; a Functions section is very much needed on the current IMF page. Before I started my edits, it was not obvious what the IMF actually did. In order for the Wikipedia page to accurately give the IMF's definition, it needs to say what it does. — Preceding unsigned comment added by QuincyC (talk • contribs) 18:58, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Replied at talkpage.--Hallows Aktiengesellschaft (talk) 21:33, 4 April 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) 22:04, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Full Sail University

Hi Hallows AG. You may recall our previous conversation here. Thank you for your recent edits on the Full Sail University page. Would you be willing to review the other suggestions made for the Criticism section here? --Tylergarner (talk) 14:43, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

I should get to that in a couple of days, Cheers, Hallows Aktiengesellschaft (talk) 21:33, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, any assistance would be greatly appreciated. --Tylergarner (talk) 17:15, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

 Done If you require any assistance in the future, do not hesitate to ask. Cheers, Hallows Aktiengesellschaft (talk) 19:11, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Two

Hi! Welcome to the second edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Teahouse celebrates one month of being open! This first month has drawn a lot of community interest to the Teahouse. Hosts & community members have been working with the project team to improve the project in many ways including creating scripts to make inviting easier, exploring mediation processes for troubling guests, and best practices regarding mentoring for new editors who visit the Teahouse.

Springtime means fresh tea leaves...

• First month metrics report an average of 30 new editors visiting the Teahouse each week. Approximately 30 new editors participate in the Teahouse each week, by way of asking questions and making guest profiles. An average of six new questions and four new profiles are made each day. We'd love to hear your ideas about how we can spread the word about the Teahouse to more new editors.
• Teahouse has many regulars. Like any great teahouse, our Teahouse has a 61% return rate of guests, who come back to ask additional questions and to also help answer others' questions. Return guests cite the speedy response rate of hosts and the friendly, easy to understand responses by the hosts and other participants as the main reasons for coming back for another cup o' tea!
• Early metrics on retention. It's still too early to draw conclusions about the Teahouse's impact on new editor retention, but, early data shows that 38% of new editors who participate at the Teahouse are still actively editing Wikipedia 2-4 weeks later, this is compared with 7% from a control group of uninvited new editors who showed similar first day editing activity. Additional metrics can be found on the Teahouse metrics page.
• Nine new hosts welcomed to the Teahouse. Nine new hosts have been welcomed to the Teahouse during month one: Chicocvenancio, Cullen328, Hallows AG, Jeffwang, Mono, Tony1, Worm That Turned, Writ Keeper, and Nathan2055. Welcome to the Teahouse gang, folks!
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SPEARTIP

I don't think hoax applies - they say it's fiction at the bottom. I've prodded it as unpublished fiction, having declined a speedy for A7 as it isn't webcontent yet. Peridon (talk) 10:48, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

My mistake. I tagged the page earlier with G11 and was deleleted but was recreated. the content on the article's talk page gives me the idea that this user is wishes to promote the subject.--Hallows Aktiengesellschaft (talk) 10:52, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Gone as spam. Author blocked for spam and name. Peridon (talk) 11:23, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

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Your review at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Blues Orphans

I just re-submitted an entry for The Blues Orphans. Will you please let me know that you got it. Also, about how long before you let me know if it will be posted on Wikipedia? Thanks. -Todd — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spivakt (talk • contribs) 22:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

You need to place more sources to the article to establIsh the notability of the subject. the article currently has none. Feel free to contact me again once the article has been sourced. Cheers, Hallows Aktiengesellschaft (talk) 22:11, 10 April 2012 (UTC)