User talk:Adacore

Hi, welcome to my talk page, &c. I'm up for doing occasional copyedit work on request - I'll generally leave a note on the talk page of a requestee if I'm planning on taking up a request. Personally, I marginally prefer working on articles which are not GA or FA status, unless they cover a topic I'm interested in such as science or engineering (although I understand that if an article editor is actively looking for a copyedit, the article is likely to be GA, or close to it, already). Adacore (talk) 03:38, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

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 * Cheers! Totally forgot to sign my last talk post, didn't I! Adacore (talk) 12:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/London
Hi Adacore!

Hopefully all your comments and suggestions to improve the article currently going an FAC have been answered to for the FAC for London. I'm sending you this message to let you know this. Please feel free to make any more comments on the FAC page, at Featured article candidates/London. Your comments have been very useful to fix the minor errors with the article!

Thanks in advance,

The  Helpful   One  (Review) 22:08, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Copy edit request
Hi Adacore

I'm trying to get some copy edit help on the Solar energy page and was wondering if you could take a look at the page. Cheers Mrshaba (talk) 21:19, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I reviewed your changes and I agree with 80% of them. I only found one (heat gain to heat flux) where I think you changed the content. I think you trimmed a bit too much in the UHI section but I'd have to read the two versions again. You mentioned cutting deeper... I think you should be bold and follow your instinct. The page needs fresh eyes.


 * Hmmm... As far as the energy statistics go that was a lot of work on my part but I also realize the wording was tortuous. My goal with those statistics was to show specifically how and where solar energy can replace conventional energy. The US is a large country with many types of climates and they keep good energy statistics so they are an obvious choice of comparison. I'll see about condensing the info into to a table. Mrshaba (talk) 17:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Take a look at the pictures on the page as well. Which ones can we lose/replace? Mrshaba (talk) 18:08, 12 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I've finished my copyedit (apologies if it's a bit sloppy towards the end, I'm getting tired). My reasoning for changing to heat flux was that with an arbitrary area and timeframe flux is effectively equivalent to gain/loss. Feel free to change it back if you think it's inappropriate. Adacore (talk) 18:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * My mistake. After thinking about it, I realized heat flux is equivalent to heat gain/loss. You're edits look great. You streamlined the readable prose by about 10% which is something I could not have done. Your fine work is greatly appreciated. Mrshaba (talk) 00:37, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I take it you think the page needs a good deal more work to get up to FA standards. Any ideas on how to start a wikiproject? Oh... wait... Maybe I could follow the wikiproject link you provided... Hmmm... la la la... cheers Adacore... Happy Friday. Mrshaba (talk) 03:00, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd say the quality of the content is fine for trying for FA status. The main problem I'd have with it is that I personally feel that a lot of the content would be better placed in subarticles with only brief summaries on the Solar Energy page, however this would require very dramatic cuts to be made to the majority of the article, and that could only be done if the material removed could be suitable integrated into other articles (since the quality is so high it would be a shame to just delete it).
 * There's also a question of how far you should go with this - I can see valid arguments for leaving it almost the same length as it is now, but on the other hand there's a case to be made for stripping it down to only a couple of pages on technology at all, with all the detail in subarticles. I'm not sure which approach would be better. Others at an FAC may disagree with me completely, so I'd say you're not far away from a stage where you can submit it for FA and then work with the responses you get there.
 * On another note, I'm suitably impressed by the edits you've made since I did the ce. Looking at your revisions I kept thinking "that's a good idea - why didn't I think of that!" Adacore (talk) 16:59, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Your ce helped me look at the page freshly. I especially liked how you did the concentrating solar power section. I'll be trimming some more over the next few days. I know I've overdone the page with details and examples but one of the FA criteria is comprehensiveness eh. The longer I looked at the subject the more areas I realized should be included. I started thinking about why most of the houses in Riyadh and Santorini are white and how to put that on the page. For me, another issue is that there's a lopsided amount of attention on PV in the media and I don't want this to happen on the page. Thanks for your help with the page and I appreciate your assessment of its quality. Mrshaba (talk) 19:28, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to WP:FAC!
I noticed you're new to WP:FAC, so I took the liberty of peeking at your contributions to see if I could offer any suggestions. I think you're off to a great start here - and kudos for joining the woefully understaffed WP:LOCE, too. I couldn't help but notice your User:Adacore/FAC Checklist; it's impressively thorough, especially for someone so new to FAC. Would you mind a few tweaks to help fill it out? If you prefer, I could leave notes on the talk page. In any case, if you are checking for all those issues, your reviews will be excellent! Glad to have you aboard. Maralia (talk) 21:05, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the welcome. FAC reviewing is fun (although going through every point on that checklist properly takes hours, which I don't always have), and satisfying in that it seems to generate rapid and useful responses. Feel free to either tweak the page or leave notes here - any advice is welcome. Given the backlog in the WP:LOCE project I'm considering putting only marginal focus on WP:FAC in order to put more time into copyediting. Adacore (talk) 01:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, is there shortcode for the capping comments hide boxes that are used on FAC once comments are resolved? I can copy the hide code from others and edit it, but have a feeling that there's an easier way with a simpler shortcut code? Adacore (talk) 01:53, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * LOCE definitely needs the help; I end up copyediting nearly every article I review at FAC. Unfortunately, there's no magic trick to using the hide boxes at the moment. I'll take another look at your checklist and see what else comes to mind. Maralia (talk) 03:46, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Horrocks and solar energy
Thank you so much for the note and for editing Solar Energy. I seem to have gotten in over my head temporarily. Yes, please say that I edited Brian Horrocks and remove it from the pile. I liked being a member of LoCE, and I may come back some day. I left only because I was trying to do GA reviews, peer reviews, research and writing, and copyediting for people who sent me notes unrelated to LoCE, and I couldn't begin to keep up. Om, om, om. I will still try to cast a proofreading eye on Solar Energy when the fog lifts. Finetooth (talk) 04:20, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Lissa (1811)
Many thanks for you comments and suggestions on the above article that is now a Featured Article. Your assistance during the review process was much appreciated and helped make the article what it is today.--Jackyd101 (talk) 20:10, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Can you help?
I see you were listed as a participant in the League of Copy-Editors so it seems likely. The thing is the Military history wikiproject urgently needs prose pros to help with our best articles. Milhist covers a broad range of interesting and varied subjects from film to biography, battles to weaponry, and Roman emperors to twentieth-century dictators. In Milhist, A-Class has become the last port of call before FAC and we are looking for people to help identify prose and MoS issues at A-Class A-Class Reviews and help fix them prior to featured article candidacy. We also have a copy-editing section in our Logistics Dept and that can always use experienced copy-editors. For most of our articles, you don't need to be a specialist in the subject matter, just good with words.

If you think you can help, please do! Thanks for your time, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 03:42, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyedit request
Will you be able to perform a copyedit on the Frank Zappa article? (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 07:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC))

Articles Needing Copy Edit
Hello former LOCE member :)

This is an invitation for you to join a brand-new WikiProject that aims to improve the articles tagged for copy edit. This is pretty important to Wikipedia because there are now over 4,000 such articles, some of which need quite a bit of help. This is not a clone of the LOCE because we will not deal with requests for copy edits, but will happily make improvements to articles at our own pace. If you're interested, sign up at the project page!

Cheers,  Samuel  Tan  02:24, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

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Oil shale extraction
Hi, Adacore. I wonder if you are interested to assist bringing the Oil shale extraction article to the FA level. Your assistance for reviewing or copyediting and trimming this article is most welcome. I appreciate if you could assist with this. Thank you in advance. Beagel (talk) 18:51, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

International Space Station
Hey there Adacore - I was looking down the list of members at WP:GOCE, and you're listed there as being interested in science and engineering? I was wondering, therefore, if you wouldn't mind giving a thorough copyedit to International Space Station as, even after 3 FACs and 5 PRs (with one ongoing), we're still having considerable difficulty with our prose (as you can see from comments on the current PR page). We're still in a FA push, and would really like to see it pass, as the article content is sound. Please, be as bold as you like! :-D If you could help out we'd be very grateful, and if you could comment on the current PR page when you're done, that'd be great too. Many thanks in advance! Colds7ream (talk) 14:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Nobel Prize help
Hey! I found you on the "Guild of Copy Editors" page. I am currently working on the Nobel Prize article and I am going to nominate it for a GA soon, hopefully before the end of this week. However, it could need some more grammar/prose checks to make it better. I was wondering if you could give me a hand? Especially the parts after "History" needs some looking into. I would be very grateful for any help :)

Cheers --Esuzu 18:10, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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Solar Energy
Adacore, why do you have a copy of Solar energy in your user space? This is generally not permitted there. D O N D E groovily  Talk to me  18:04, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

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