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• I noticed you might like This, Just a guess. Oh and I waited for the beep, your must be broken. Mlpearc pull my chain Trib's 04:21, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Of course! But that's not the original source. RAILS (talk) 21:41, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Post Move Request

Hi, I was renamed today to User:Prompt Critical from Rails (this page). Is it possible to have this talk page moved over to my new page, so all the history and such is preserved? The Prompt Critical talk page is currently a redirect to the usurped user's page. Or would it be ok/better/preferred to just redirect this page and start afresh there? Whatever the result, thanks! Rails (talk) 22:38, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

I'll move it for you, assuming the target page does not yet exist. If so, I'll have to wait on an admin to merge the pages. AndrewN ^talk 23:26, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Alright, just need to wait for an admin to move it over. Marking as helped. If you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask! AndrewN ^talk 23:29, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I tried to do so, but hit the same wall - have to move or delete the target page. I'm under the impression that you can't delete users' talk pages, hence the need for admin. Prompt Critical (talk) 23:36, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive update GOCE September 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation We have had 55 people sign up for this drive so far, and 31 have participated. If you have signed up but have not yet copy edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! It's not too late to join the drive if you have not already done so. Another great way to help out is to watch-list the Coordinators talk page and participate in the ongoing development of the Guild. Progress report So far, we have reduced the backlog by 75 articles, or about 19% of our goal. We have also cleared January 2010 off of the queue and are close to clearing off February and March. If each participant were to copy edit two articles from February and March 2010, they would be completely eliminated from the queue. Rollover words Several concerns have been brought up this drive about the usage of rollover words. Rollover words only count if they're from the previous drive. For example, if you received 1,000 rollover words in March and didn't participate in May, your rollover words return to zero. This is to encourage participation in multiple consecutive drives. Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

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September barnstar

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	This barnstar is awarded to Prompt Critical for copy editing articles totalling over 8000 words during the GOCE September copy edit drive. Thank you very much for your help! Dianna (talk)

GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive report GOCE September 2011 Backlog elimination drive progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We would like to thank all who participated in this drive. Here is the end-of-drive report. Participation There were 58 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 42 participated. This is a slight increase from the July 2011 drive participation, where 39 out of 50 people that signed up participated. Thank you to everyone! Progress report During the drive, we reduced the backlog by 146 articles, or by about 4%. Overall we did well, especially considering the exceptionally large number of articles that were tagged during September. Thus far we have reduced the copy edit backlog by 4854 articles, or by about 58%. If we keep up our current rate of copy editing, the backlog should be reduced by 65–70% by the end of this year. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. Barnstars will be handed out this week. Once again, thank you for participating in the Guild's September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Our next drive will be in November, and we hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

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GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive update Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 46 people sign up for this drive so far, and 28 have copy edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't joined, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We are making great progress in our goal of clearing out the oldest articles (April, May, and June 2010) from the queue. There are 122 articles left in those categories, which compares very favorably with the 281 that were present at the close of the September drive. We have reduced the 2010 backlog by 184 articles so far. Coordinator elections: The term of our second tranche of coordinators will be running out at the end of the year, and we will be accepting nominations for new coordinators early in December. The election will likely run in the last two weeks of December. Please consider helping out by nominating yourself or someone else in the Guild as one of our coordinators. The commitment is for a six-month term. Thanks. Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

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GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive report GOCE November 2011 Backlog elimination drive progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We would like to thank all who participated in this drive. Here is the end-of-drive report. Participation There were 48 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 35 participated. Thank you to everyone who helped reduce the size of the backlog! Progress report During the drive, we reduced the backlog by 232 articles, or by about 6%. This is a two percent increase from our September drive, when we copy edited 4% of the backlog. We were successful in our primary goal of clearing the oldest three months—March, April, and May 2010—from the queue. Thanks to all who helped copy edit these difficult articles. Thus far we have reduced the copy edit backlog by 5086 articles, or by about 61%. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. Coordinator election The term of our second tranche of coordinators has run out, and we will be accepting nominations from December 5, 00:01 UTC to December 15, 23:59 UTC. If you or any other member of the Guild of Copy Editors wishes to be a coordinator, add your name to this page along with a statement describing why you believe you should be a coordinator for the Guild. You must be able to commit to a six month term. Thanks! Once again, thank you for participating in the Guild's November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Our next drive will be in January, and we hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

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Rollback

Hello, following a review of your contributions, I have enabled rollback on your account. Please take note of the following:

• Rollback gives you access to certain scripts, including Huggle and Igloo, some of which can be very powerful, so exercise caution
• Rollback is only for blatant vandalism
• Having Rollback rights does not give you any special status or authority
• Misuse of Rollback can lead to its removal by any administrator
• Please read Help:Reverting and Wikipedia:Rollback feature to get to know the workings of the feature
• You can test Rollback at Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback
• You can display the {{User wikipedia/rollback}} userbox or the {{Rollback}} top icon on your user page

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:47, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report 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 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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GOCE rollover words

Hi, I'm helping with the drive closure and saw your note about the rollover count under your previous username. This is just to reassure you that it will certainly be counted. Best regards, --Stfg (talk) 18:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

GOCE drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE January 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation 45 people signed up for this drive this time; of these, 35 participated. This is similar to the number of editors who helped out in November. Thanks to all who participated! Barnstars will be distributed in the near future. Progress report Recent drives have been focusing on the oldest three months in the backlog. During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—July, August, and September 2010—from the queue, and there are less than 300 articles remaining from 2010. 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 January 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy edit drive will be in March. Your drive coordinators – The Utahraptor talk, S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), Stfg (Talk), Sp33dyphil (talk), and Dank (talk)

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• For the record, my edit to that page was to revert a spate of content removal that had been going on for several days. This revert apparently re-added the link in question: [1] Rails (talk) 19:28, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March barnstar

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Rails for copy editing articles totalling over 4,000 words during the GOCE March copy edit drive. Thanks for participating! Dianna (talk) 01:45, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Ownership of articles

Don't be a child and throw stuff like that about. You write bad stuff, it gets cleaned up. It's as simple as that and nothing to do with OWN. Throwing OWN out because you're all upset is tragic. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 01:08, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

• Nice ad hominem. I see that on just the first page of the article's history, you have reverted no fewer than 14 other editors. On the article's talk page in the "link to" section, you have 3 other editors opposing your (sole) refusal to let in those items. I'd be #4 if I cared to. I thought we used consensus here. So with all this, I'm just calling it as I see it. I'm not upset, I just saw the movie for the first time and thought that it would make sense to reference the tie in, since that is exactly what the director intended. I see that the article fails to mention all the other tie-ins that the director specifically included: the grenades, the 2-facey, the axe in the door, Colin's body... but its just not worth it. There's plenty for me to do here. Regards. Rails (talk) 01:18, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Fixing non-useful edits is not OWN, its fixing non-useful edits. Like for instance saying "He buries the axe in the door and they see this in the Thing 1982". That is trivia, Wikipedia articles don't do trivia and that would be reverted to. At which point you would point and yell "OWN" again I'm sure. Your link in the plot is broken btw, might wanna go fix that. And it doesn't "literally" do anything. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 01:25, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Nice ad hominem again - please don't presume to tell me what "I would do" in any given circumstance. You may note that I did not add such text, even on my first pass before I realized how things were, as there was no way to do so without destroying the flow of the article or creating a "trivia" section, neither of which would have been truly useful. And yes, OWN isn't about undoing non-useful edits. But it is about ignoring all voices supporting those edits when they all try to explain why they are useful. As far as my broken link, yes, my bad on that, I thought I had purged all my edits to that page. "Literally" would have made more sense in context to my reverted edits. I'll take care of that now. Further defense of your position is not necessary. I happen to disagree, and am not alone in that, by the looks of things, but I do not wish to pursue it. Regards. Rails (talk) 01:35, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

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