Hillbillygirl

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A hillbilly girl correcting grammar?—now this puzzles me. Rintrah 14:43, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way, I checked your "User contributions" and noticed you mostly participated in copyediting. There is a band of editors dedicated to this task called the League of Copyeditors; you are welcome to enlist. Rintrah 14:46, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Rintrah

Thank you for your welcome - and your advice and tips. It is all greatly appreciated, while I learn how I can best help out the Wikipedia project. I may join in the copyediting project, but for now am just trying to get some experience using the system.

And - I was born a hillbilly and remain a hillbilly from West Virginia, US, but at this point I am an overeducated professor (of geography) hillbilly. Go figure.

Hillbillygirl 15:00, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask.

I do wonder, if hillbillies can become overeducated professors, can bogans too? The world is full of possibilities. Rintrah 15:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the League of Copyeditors!

Thanks for joining. Please see the project page for general instructions and announcements, including details of our February participation drive. Again, welcome! BuddingJournalist 04:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello

I have seen you editing Mansehra District, have you ever been to Mansehra, Batagram and around? Anyway very impressive. Take care. Haider 22:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Highly appreciated for checking grammer and spellings mistakes etc. Haider 22:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Haider -

Thanks! No, I have not been there - but would love to go, and hope to one day. (Because of that, I hope you can help me catch any mistakes made from ignorance in my editing.) I'm a geography professor in the US, and love to learn about interesting places all over the world. Hillbillygirl 11:38, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Help with Shahbag

The article is inching towards an FA status and is being reviewed for a second time by peers. But, it still needs much copyedit (especially with citation template and dating web citations). A wholesomely coherent style of English and a completely cohesive flow of the article is mightily required at this point. I have also tagged the article for sopyedit, and have posted a request with Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors. Please, help. Aditya Kabir 16:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

• Aditya Kabir - I'm on it, but a bit slow - things are busy right now. Hillbillygirl 13:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Askam and Ireleth

Hi Hillybilly, just want to say thanks for your comments about our village page, it's always good to see your work appreciated! Kijog 14:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Shahbag

Shahbag is an FAC now. Care to take a look? Cheers. Aditya Kabir 15:29, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Ananthabhadram needs copy edit

Please, could you take a look at the article Ananthabhadram? It needs quite some copy editing job. In case you are interested, do not begin before 10 June. I am making some improvements to the article. I hope to get the article to a GA status and eventually to an FA status. Aditya Kabir 08:25, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Gone to review

I have put myself for an editor review at Wikipedia:Editor review/Aditya Kabir. Check. Aditya Kabir 05:08, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors roll call

Greetings from the League of Copyeditors. Your name is listed on our members page, but we are unsure how many of the people listed there are still active contributors to the League's activities. If you are still interested in participating in the work of the League, please follow the instructions at the members page to add your name to the active members list. Once you have done that, you might want to familiarise yourself with the new requests system, which has replaced the old /proofreading subpage. As the old system is now deprecated, the main efforts of the League should be to clear the substantial backlog which still exists there. The League's services are in as high demand as ever, as evinced by the increasing backlog on our requests pages, both old and new. While FA and GA reviewers regularly praise the League's contributions to reviewed articles, we remain perennially understaffed. Fulfilling requests to polish the prose of Wikipedia's highest-profile articles is a way that editors can make a very noticeable difference to the appearance of the encyclopedia. On behalf of the League, if you do consider yourself to have left, I hope you will consider rejoining; if you consider yourself inactive, I hope you will consider returning to respond to just one request per week, or as many as you can manage. Merry Christmas and happy editing, The League of Copyeditors.

Melon‑Bot (STOP!) 18:00, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Hillbillygirl,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

• Each casebook will have a subpage.

• Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
• It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
• Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

• I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

• Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
• Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 20:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Education Program Fall 2012

Hi, Hillbillygirl!

I saw on your userpage that you're a professor at a midwestern university, and I thought you might be interested in participating in the Wikipedia Education Program for the coming term. If you're still teaching a class and would like your students to edit Wikipedia as an assignment, please email me at jmathewson@wikimedia.org to talk more about the program! Thanks! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC)