User talk:Dank/Archive 59

FAC reviewing barnstar

 * Thanks again. - Dank (push to talk) 14:25, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

TFA
Hey Dank, I made a small change to the TFA text. I hope that's alright! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:26, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks good, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 06:31, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

RSPB Minsmere
Dan, thanks for your edits to Minsmere, much appreciated. I might add a note to explain booming though, since there is nothing to link it too. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  17:18, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure, that works. - Dank (push to talk) 18:15, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Bodyline
Hi. Did you run into trouble? No worries either way... price of my ongoing lack of engagement. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 12:25, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Good to hear from you. We have two new coords, and I'm not scheduling, just writing blurbs and responding at WP:ERRORS. Yes, we ran into trouble, and (don't quote me) I think the coords decided to simplify their lives, at least for November and December. So far this month, things have gone well. - Dank (push to talk) 14:48, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * OK good stuff. Thanks for everything you do and have done round here. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 15:25, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/XVIII Tranche Project Audit
You are invited to join the discussion at WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/XVIII Tranche Project Audit. The Milhist project is undergoing an internal audit, as a former coordinator, I invite to join the process and enhance the Project. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk •&#32;mail) 10:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

 * Link is Requests for adminship/Dank55 ... that's a blast from the past, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 05:30, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
Dear ,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 06:30, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Looks like harmless fun! I'll think about it, I've got a lot on my plate today. - Dank (push to talk) 14:30, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting
As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Der 100. Psalm
Thank you for trimming a monster. Two concerns. We need to avoid a line break for D major. One option is to not link and say Dmajor. Also, it reads - with the cut - as if it was never performed in Jena, and I have no solution for that ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:45, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Added nbsp. There's no room to list additional performances, unless we get rid of something else, IIRC. - Dank (push to talk) 14:50, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Is there room for "Ein feste Burg" after cantus firmus, provided the article gets better? The Marseillaise of the Reformation by a Catholic composer is much more interesting than some of the conventional stuff ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * How's that? - Dank (push to talk) 15:41, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I simplified it a bit, and the end also. Happy, - it's on my mom's birthday, DYK ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:41, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks good. Please give her my birthday wishes. - Dank (push to talk) 17:11, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Copy editing
Hiya Dan, long time no talk! Hope you're keeping well. I was hoping I could hijack your talk page (or you can hijack mine if you prefer) for some general discussion of copy editing and prose reviewing at FAC and A class. I want to put together a page that lists some of the common prose flaws I see and I wondered if you already had one (in a sandbox, scribbled on a piece of paper, in your mind) so we can compare. I'm beginning to see your point on "however"; I like to think I use it carefully and sometimes nothing else will do but from reviewing it seems it's used much more widely than it needs to be. I've also come across a lot of uses of "with" to join two halves of a sentence ("with reviewers describing it as..." etc) and "subsequently", which can be read to imply a logical connection between two events where there isn't one. Any thoughts? Best, HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 13:01, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thinking deep thoughts, Harry, give me a day or two. - Dank (push to talk) 14:47, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
 * No worries. It's noting time critical! HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 15:16, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
 * All my time is going into another linguistics project ... which might possibly be of interested to A-class and FAC writers, but isn't aimed at them. It's still in the early stages, but I'll have something for you soon. - Dank (push to talk) 19:15, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy Saturnalia!

 * Heh, is that what they're doing? Best of the holidays! - Dank (push to talk) 14:07, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians
Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings
...to you and yours, from Canada's Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:03, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Your back yard? Nice. Best of the season. - Dank (push to talk) 21:26, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and All That
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and best wishes in all things! Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 14:17, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ling, best of the season! - Dank (push to talk) 14:37, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

I would like your input in a discussion
Hi,

I would appreciate it if you could give your input regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_naval_ship_classes_in_service#Split_this_article_into_multiple_articles Thanks in advance Dragnadh (talk) 14:33, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No opinion. - Dank (push to talk) 15:15, 2 January 2018 (UTC)